Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
Mark
Gospels / MarkIf I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Job
Wisdom / JobSyria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
Judges
HistoryFor thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the LORD was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
Leviticus
LawAnd he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?
Judges
HistorySpeak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,
Haggai
Minor ProphetsWoe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Matthew
GospelsAnd they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaO my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
Genesis
LawHow thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,
Genesis
LawThese are the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
Numbers
Law / MosesLet this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesFeed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.
Numbers
LawDo not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?