And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.
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And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.
Acts
HistoryFor thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.
2 Kings
HistoryConsiderest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
2 Kings
HistoryAnd in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Luke
GospelsYour fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
John
GospelsBehold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
Joshua
HistoryOnce have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
Job
WisdomFor who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahEach charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
Numbers
Law / MosesFor the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
Numbers
LawGive ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.
Acts
HistoryRemember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThe Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterThere is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.
Exodus
Law / MosesIn Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihor-libnath;