And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
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Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahAnd the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThey gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
Job
WisdomAnd they brought the head of Ish-bosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
2 Samuel
HistoryPharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker:
Genesis
Law / MosesThe fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWho hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahYe shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,
John
Gospels / JohnSurely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.
Ruth
History / SamuelThou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Exodus
LawAnd the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
Mark
GospelsWhen Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelMoreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.
Nehemiah
HistoryThen said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
Judges
HistoryAnd the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
Judges
HistoryAnd the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.