And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?
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And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace.
Acts
History / LukeI am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHe must increase, but I must decrease.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
1 Kings
HistoryThere was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.
Joshua
HistoryBut Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.
Luke
GospelsAnd the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.
Judges
History / SamuelThen I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
Ezra
HistoryAnd as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewSo the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryTheir enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
Genesis
LawAt the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,
1 Chronicles
HistoryI am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThat they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Proverbs
WisdomThen shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.