And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.
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When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
Luke
GospelsAs I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNow when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsOnly by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonI have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
Psalms
PoetryThe LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahFor the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.
Matthew
GospelsAnd they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain.
2 Kings
HistoryDid not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king's son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him an house to dwell therein, even so deal with me.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHow many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
Psalms
PoetryThese things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
Proverbs
WisdomJesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.
John
GospelsRiches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs
WisdomBrethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesThat he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.