Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
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The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThe vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,
Luke
Gospels / LukeIthai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that pertained to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraA merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Proverbs
WisdomThe nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ish-tob twelve thousand men.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanIn God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word.
Psalms
PoetryThen I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
1 Kings
HistoryAccording as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulSo David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and justice among all his people.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:
1 Kings
HistoryOtherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
1 Kings
HistoryOne cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
Exodus
Law / MosesAs for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side, Benjamin shall have a portion.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAccording to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.
Luke
GospelsBut, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosFor they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.
Numbers
Law / MosesHorror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
Psalms
PoetryThere the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.