Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
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And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.
Genesis
LawAccept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.
Judges
HistoryThen he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahIt is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Luke
GospelsAnd I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesYet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
Job
WisdomBut when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
Matthew
GospelsHe putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
Judges
HistoryHow say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSurely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonTheir visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsNone of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
Judges
History / SamuelNow therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahAnd Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.
Esther
HistoryWhy gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBackbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah: