For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
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I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.
Acts
History / LukeAnd he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThat strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosHe shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.
Genesis
Law / MosesAfter these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.
Esther
HistoryAnd passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah:
Joshua
HistoryI sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Psalms
PoetryO thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
Psalms
PoetryI am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonHe made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThese are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
Exodus
Law / MosesJesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
John
Gospels / JohnThen Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;