And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.
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And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
Esther
HistoryIt is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Psalms
PoetryNow therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahNow the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsOut of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
Judges
History / SamuelThen Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.
Genesis
LawFor I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.
Acts
History / LukeAre they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesHe keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
Job
Wisdom / JobHe shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsCursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy
LawPraise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThis poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Psalms
PoetryAnd another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:
Luke
GospelsAnd when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
Judges
HistoryThe LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHe saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.
Acts
History / LukeFor, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFrom Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
2 Kings
HistoryThen Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?