And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.
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And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
Genesis
Law / MosesThere the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
Job
WisdomYea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
Psalms
PoetryTo the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNow when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
Genesis
LawAnd on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
Numbers
LawLet this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that ye have heard.
1 Kings
HistoryFrom thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.
Job
WisdomHe was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThey have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis
LawShemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,
Nehemiah
HistoryHe saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.
Acts
HistoryIf so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.
Numbers
LawNevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Genesis
LawBut with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.