When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
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Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.
Luke
GospelsFor ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsAnd he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSo we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
Nehemiah
HistoryAll the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and four.
Nehemiah
HistoryCurse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
Exodus
LawFor ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
Hebrews
General EpistlesIt shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.
Exodus
Law / MosesHis lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
Matthew
GospelsBut to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWith trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.