And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
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Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out.
Numbers
LawHe hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
Psalms
PoetryAll the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulI am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.
Revelation
ApocalypticBut think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:
Genesis
Law / MosesTo turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
Matthew
GospelsThy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBut Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
Acts
History / LukeEven as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThe children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
Ezra
HistoryFor that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonBeside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.
Nehemiah
HistoryI will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThey also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.