It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
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In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWe then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Mark
GospelsBut if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBehold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan.
Numbers
LawThe LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
Genesis
LawAnd the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHer children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Proverbs
WisdomIsrael also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
Psalms
PoetryThen ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
Numbers
LawThou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTake also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;
Numbers
Law / MosesHow are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for he hath heard your murmurings.
Exodus
LawThou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahNow therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands;