Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
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And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance:
Numbers
Law / MosesO daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
Psalms
PoetryFor thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying,
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,
Luke
GospelsThe seventeenth to Joshbekashah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSo they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
Numbers
Law / MosesWhen Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
John
GospelsThus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.
1 Chronicles
HistoryI prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Deuteronomy
LawWhen thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
Proverbs
WisdomThou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe men of Beth-azmaveth, forty and two.
Nehemiah
HistoryI have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
Job
Wisdom / JobSo the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAgainst Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh-necho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.