So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
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Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy garments:
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
Revelation
ApocalypticFor thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.
Leviticus
LawThus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBlessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
1 Kings
HistoryNebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
Daniel
Major ProphetsThen came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBlessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
Psalms
PoetryAvenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
Numbers
LawThe woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,
John
GospelsAnd he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBaalah, and Iim, and Azem,
Joshua
HistoryBut shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.
Numbers
LawOf the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraO my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.
Judges
HistoryAccording to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.