When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
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Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
2 Kings
HistoryStir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Psalms
PoetryI say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
Romans
Pauline EpistlesLet us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulReward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnBehold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
Numbers
Law / MosesWhen wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Acts
HistoryThen said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.
John
GospelsIt was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages thereof.
Joshua
HistoryThe crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.
2 Kings
HistoryBehold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnBring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsTo Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
Genesis
Law / MosesI called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahI called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.