But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
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What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
Judges
HistoryAnd say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
2 Chronicles
HistoryI put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
Job
Wisdom / JobDo ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
Job
Wisdom / JobTherefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.
Matthew
GospelsAnd they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.
Joshua
HistoryAnd Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesFathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsFor this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.
Deuteronomy
LawFor some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.
Numbers
Law / MosesWherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAll these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThis is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.