And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
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But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.
Deuteronomy
LawThen the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewSo the chief captain then let the young man depart, and charged him, See thou tell no man that thou hast shewed these things to me.
Acts
HistoryThey are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua.
Nehemiah
HistoryBut Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelTherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war,
Numbers
LawAnd that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
Genesis
LawThe law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.
Exodus
LawAlso I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?
Mark
Gospels / MarkMy tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up first.
Judges
History / SamuelO righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
John
GospelsThat the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Job
Wisdom / JobThe inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.