Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
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For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
Leviticus
LawBless the LORD, O house of Levi: ye that fear the LORD, bless the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAll the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.
Esther
HistoryAnd I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Ben-hadad,
1 Kings
HistoryWherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesWise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBe it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.
Acts
History / LukeThe children of Azmaveth, forty and two.
Ezra
HistoryAnd Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.
Exodus
LawFor the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
Exodus
LawThe memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Proverbs
WisdomFor their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
2 Samuel
HistoryFor this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
Luke
GospelsBut also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever: no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden.