And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.
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Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
Proverbs
WisdomFor whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSo the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
Esther
HistoryThere the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
Psalms
PoetryMattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd they removed from Dibon-gad, and encamped in Almon-diblathaim.
Numbers
Law / MosesThey set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHe said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIf we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIf there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Genesis
LawAnd he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
1 Kings
HistoryBut this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBehold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIf thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryBlessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:
Judges
HistoryAnd if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.