But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood.
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In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsI will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.
Psalms
PoetryBy faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThen the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBlessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
Psalms
PoetryAnd a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNow three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
Esther
HistoryTherefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThis is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulSo the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
Joshua
HistoryIn four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.
Deuteronomy
LawFor on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBecause thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsMadmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
Genesis
LawAnd Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Shavsha was scribe;
1 Chronicles
History / EzraLet it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMan is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Psalms
PoetryBut there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.