And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
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Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Matthew
GospelsAnd when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ish-tob twelve thousand men.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
Hebrews
General EpistlesWhy will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.
Deuteronomy
LawThen Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThat every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
Exodus
Law / MosesAs for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.
Exodus
Law / MosesWith whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahOf the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
Revelation
ApocalypticThey made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the two edges was it coupled together.
Exodus
Law / MosesUntil I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
Genesis
LawThey say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFrom the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazon-tamar, which is En-gedi.