And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
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When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd 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.
Judges
History / SamuelHe asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
Judges
History / SamuelFor, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahHell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonI applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThen the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.
Acts
HistoryThe righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
Job
WisdomAnd there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
Exodus
LawBut if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Judges
History / SamuelThe men of Beth-el and Ai, an hundred twenty and three.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahNow the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNow the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
Judges
HistoryAnd after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea to salute Festus.
Acts
HistoryAnd he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus
LawI the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?
Mark
GospelsAnd the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.