And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.
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The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumAnd when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahTherefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsUse hospitality one to another without grudging.
1 Peter
General EpistlesYe are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiForbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulNotwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still.
Acts
HistoryAnd he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely.
Mark
GospelsHe that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
Proverbs
WisdomNow because we have maintenance from the king's palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king;
Ezra
HistoryAnd as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.
Matthew
GospelsWho will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersRejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSo Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHe that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
1 John
General EpistlesThe elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsHilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen.
1 Chronicles
HistoryTell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
2 Samuel
HistoryIt shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.
Leviticus
LawSo are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.