How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
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And of the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hasenuah,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThen wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites,
Ezra
History / EzraThey shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSo Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAs the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
Esther
HistoryYe stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThey say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.
John
Gospels / JohnCan a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Proverbs
WisdomAnd when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.
Acts
History / LukeAnd he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.
Judges
HistoryAnd of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males.
Ezra
HistoryO my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
Solomon's Song
PoetryEvery way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHis prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWhen the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
Deuteronomy
LawAs the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it.
Leviticus
LawAnd upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Revelation
ApocalypticThou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.