And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
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Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBut the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.
Luke
GospelsNow will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.
Nehemiah
HistoryBehold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes;
Daniel
Major ProphetsThey also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
Joshua
History / JoshuaIn those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
Job
Wisdom / JobAccording to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.
Haggai
Minor ProphetsHappy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
Exodus
LawJesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?