When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
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Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
Judges
HistoryAnd Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryWho hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?
Job
WisdomAnd he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
Genesis
LawAnd he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThen hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.
Joshua
HistorySo then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Revelation
ApocalypticFor they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion-geber.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
Leviticus
LawYe have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
John
Gospels / JohnThese are the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
Numbers
Law / MosesNow the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and the valley of Keziz,
Joshua
HistoryAnd when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither?
John
GospelsJesus answered, I have told you that I am he: if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way:
John
GospelsThy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNeither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.
Numbers
LawAnd Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBehold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.