And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
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And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.
Joshua
HistoryAnd when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
Luke
GospelsThe carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
Job
WisdomAfter this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.
John
GospelsFor the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
Psalms
PoetryWhere wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
Job
WisdomThese are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahNow there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
Mark
GospelsThus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIt is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielKnow that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,
Acts
History / LukeThey that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?
Numbers
Law / MosesMy son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
Proverbs
WisdomFor, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he put them all together into ward three days.