And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
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For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeOne of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
Titus
Pauline EpistlesTo the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahOf the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThen the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.
1 Kings
History / Jeremiah(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownBy faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
Hebrews
General EpistlesHe shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:
Numbers
LawSpeak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.
Judges
HistoryNow there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.
Luke
GospelsAnd the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
Esther
HistoryAnd other of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the shewbread, to prepare it every sabbath.
1 Chronicles
HistoryI will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,
Ezra
HistoryFine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.