He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
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Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.
Genesis
Law / MosesBehold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
Job
WisdomThey remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
Psalms
PoetryFor I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHe said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
Luke
GospelsAnd Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son in law.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThough I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Job
WisdomBut the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.
Mark
GospelsHer former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
Genesis
LawAnd Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
Joshua
HistoryAnd hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
Ezra
HistoryAnd they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThose that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesThis is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:
Daniel
Major ProphetsAccording to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
Judges
HistoryFor all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
Psalms
PoetryAnd there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;