And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
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A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
Proverbs
WisdomWhen they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them:
Joshua
HistoryTo them which were in Beth-el, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,
1 Samuel
HistoryMine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahOn the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.
Acts
HistoryAnd the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSo I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramoth-gilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bare him Ahban, and Molid.
1 Chronicles
HistoryPurge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Psalms
PoetryThus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThey said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?
John
GospelsAnd Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
Genesis
LawAnd the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:
2 Samuel
HistoryWhat is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job
WisdomWhile the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.