And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee.
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1 Chronicles
HistoryNo man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd of the sons of Bani; Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth.
Ezra
History / EzraUse hospitality one to another without grudging.
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.
Luke
Gospels / LukeGo ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?
Mark
GospelsHowbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.
2 Samuel
HistoryEven three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWho are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
Leviticus
LawAnd they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWoe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
Luke
GospelsAnd he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Matthew
GospelsThat thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite,
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahMy heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
Psalms
PoetryThen they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.