Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
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The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd she said unto her, All that thou sayest unto me I will do.
Ruth
History / SamuelTherefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
John
GospelsAnd David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesNow there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.
Judges
HistoryThou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
Genesis
LawIn thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielTwenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;
Leviticus
LawNow the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
Judges
History / SamuelSo they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBut if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulIn the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:
Esther
HistoryTherefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahYe also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
Matthew
GospelsBecause for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAll these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.