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For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
2 Chronicles
HistoryIf he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonI said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonHe draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAll things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
Acts
History / LukeHe looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
Job
WisdomAnd it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThat I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIf a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.
Judges
HistoryWas returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.
Acts
HistoryThe depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
Exodus
LawAnd I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
Job
WisdomAnd when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
Genesis
LawFor this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownNeither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?