Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;
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Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
Judges
History / SamuelWe will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
Numbers
Law / MosesTherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,
Ezra
History / EzraAnd returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.
Genesis
LawMoreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which were in the house of God.
2 Chronicles
HistoryNow the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.
1 Samuel
HistoryNotwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielTheir priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
Psalms
PoetryNow therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelIs not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.
Nehemiah
HistoryTheir idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psalms
PoetryAbraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not unto him, nor consent.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;
Psalms
PoetryBut thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.