All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
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And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males.
Ezra
HistoryDavid also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelTherefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
Job
WisdomAnd Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHe found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesOf a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
Deuteronomy
LawTake fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAs for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
Acts
HistoryThese things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
John
GospelsI beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNow therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAbove all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesIn whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.
Judges
History / SamuelThou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBehold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Leviticus
Law / MosesHappy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.