And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
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He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
Genesis
LawHe is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
Mark
GospelsTell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
Psalms
PoetryWhen he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.
Esther
History / MordecaiThen sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding.
Ezra
HistoryBut I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahSihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
Joshua
History / JoshuaKeep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
Psalms
PoetryAnd the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a trespass offering.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily, and told Eli.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea.
Acts
History / LukeBecause he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
Numbers
LawAnd in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielI will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
Psalms
PoetryBehold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
Joshua
HistoryAnd Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.