Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
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Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Exodus
LawLet, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.
Psalms
PoetryFor it came to pass, that, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back again from pursuing him.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSpeak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesIs any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
James
General EpistlesYet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumAnd he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
2 Kings
HistoryThen I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Job
WisdomThe righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the king said, And where is thy master's son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHow much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonCommand the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.
Leviticus
LawAnd of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him an hundred and threescore males.
Ezra
History / EzraThe sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.
Numbers
Law / MosesAfter these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.
Luke
GospelsAs a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: