My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.
2 Samuel
HistoryThe remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThat thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
Isaiah
Major ProphetsLet us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWhen pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.
Judges
HistoryAnd if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Revelation
ApocalypticEphraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsGive, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Luke
GospelsPaul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer,
Philemon
Pauline EpistlesAnd the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.
Luke
GospelsFor evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMoreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.
2 Chronicles
HistoryPour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Revelation
ApocalypticOn that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
Joshua
HistoryAnd they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
1 Kings
HistoryDoubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Amos
Minor ProphetsWhy saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Pharaoh-nechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.