Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.
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The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.
Psalms
PoetryThis thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
Solomon's Song
PoetryA gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
Genesis
LawWhen I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
Psalms
PoetryThen David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the land be subdued before the LORD: then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesO that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaBut the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.
1 Kings
HistoryThou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThough wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
Job
Wisdom / JobThou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
Job
WisdomAnd as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
Acts
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWho knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh;
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.