Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)
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And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.
2 Chronicles
HistoryHe made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsOf this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:
Acts
HistoryAnd the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
2 Kings
HistoryThen the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel
Major ProphetsSo they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsAnd they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
Psalms
PoetryHear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them out from before you, and gave you their land;
Judges
History / SamuelAnd Abraham said, I will swear.
Genesis
Law / MosesTahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.
Nehemiah
HistoryMy soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalms
PoetryFor John was not yet cast into prison.
John
GospelsLord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulYet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.