Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
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But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.
Genesis
LawNow the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsAnd the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
Judges
HistoryThough wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSalute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahCome ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so.
1 Kings
HistoryThen Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHappy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelYe yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
John
GospelsAnd the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesGive ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIsrael shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsIn thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.