And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.
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And Joab drew nigh, and the people that were with him, unto the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
Genesis
Law / MosesGo in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
Exodus
Law / MosesBehold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
Joshua
History / JoshuaBoth male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.
Numbers
Law / MosesIn whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesBut they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.
Mark
GospelsFor this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsCast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
Joshua
HistoryAnd one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
2 Kings
HistoryFor if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
Numbers
Law / MosesBlessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahMoreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThere is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
Genesis
LawThe like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
1 Peter
General EpistlesDid not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Job
Wisdom / JobBy the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.