For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.
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And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelI have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.
Judges
History / SamuelFor in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
Mark
GospelsThen said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
Genesis
Law / MosesI have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Job
WisdomBut when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
Luke
GospelsNow this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.
Exodus
LawAnd when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.
Luke
GospelsThen fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
Acts
History / LukeSurely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
Numbers
LawAnd he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged him: therefore he lodged there again.
Judges
History / SamuelThen Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
Joshua
HistoryAnother parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThey sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaNow the LORD hath brought it, and done according as he hath said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.