For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.
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It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.
Esther
HistoryAnd again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Psalms
PoetryThen he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
1 Kings
HistoryMany sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
Psalms
PoetryNow, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
Acts
History / LukeSeek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWhen he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
Judges
HistoryAgain the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
Matthew
GospelsAnd they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahYe shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.
Numbers
LawWhat man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahYe have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
Joshua
HistoryAnd Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
Joshua
HistoryAnd David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelI charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
Solomon's Song
PoetryThe LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.