Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:
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Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,
Philemon
Pauline EpistlesThat they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielMany sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers
LawBut this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
Hebrews
General EpistlesBut when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
Acts
HistoryYe shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
Leviticus
LawSaying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
Acts
HistoryTherefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThey shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
Numbers
Law / MosesWith my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
Psalms
PoetryAnd all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
1 Kings
HistoryIn whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Genesis
LawAnd make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
Genesis
Law / MosesBehold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.
1 Chronicles
HistoryWhen I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.