I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
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While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.
Acts
HistoryMake bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.
Judges
HistoryAnd in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
1 Kings
HistoryThis is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAmon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHarden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Psalms
PoetryNow it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWhen Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.
John
GospelsWhen a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Deuteronomy
LawThe fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThen said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
Luke
Gospels / LukeTherefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the king; but he would not come to him: and when he sent again the second time, he would not come.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Genesis
LawAnd seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
1 Kings
HistoryThen your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
Numbers
LawAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,
Acts
History / LukeWhen therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.