For thou, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.
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Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThey that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
Job
Wisdom / JobEvery wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
Proverbs
WisdomDo good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
Psalms
PoetryFor now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahOne that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAfter the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
Numbers
LawAnd she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
Judges
History / SamuelBut if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.
Judges
HistoryAnd he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:
2 Chronicles
HistorySo that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.
Judges
History / SamuelLet them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.
Esther
HistoryAnd these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them an hundred chariots.