If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
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Of the sons of Uzziel; Michah the first, and Jesiah the second.
1 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis
LawFor my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.
Luke
GospelsAnd the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
Acts
HistoryIs it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahMine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIs not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAll this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying,
Matthew
GospelsWheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
Acts
History / LukeAnd I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
2 Samuel
HistoryEliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielEnter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonLo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
Job
WisdomAnd Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever.