For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
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Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAs for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBefore she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut godliness with contentment is great gain.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhen the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelSo Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelTell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHappy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Psalms
PoetrySaying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAlso twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
Ezra
HistoryEvery one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSurely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonBut he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsAnd all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him.