And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
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That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.
Judges
HistoryBut I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them.
2 Kings
HistoryBut all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.
Joshua
HistoryI indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAs a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Proverbs
WisdomAn inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
Judges
History / SamuelNeither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAin, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:
Joshua
HistoryAnd Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for David in times past to be king over you:
2 Samuel
HistoryMoses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBut the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.
Joshua
HistoryBut the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus
Law / MosesJesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise.
John
GospelsThou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
Psalms
PoetryNot according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day: