And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.
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But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThey are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHow precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahYet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
Joshua
History / JoshuaA land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
Job
Wisdom / JobPharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
Exodus
Law / MosesBless the LORD, O house of Levi: ye that fear the LORD, bless the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryThen king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother's name was Joktan.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesThen were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.
Esther
HistoryTheir knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.
Exodus
LawWith clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
Job
Wisdom / JobThese are the countries which Moses did distribute for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, by Jericho, eastward.
Joshua
HistoryMake ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsOffer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
Job
WisdomFor we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.