For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
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And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
2 Samuel
HistoryThe way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNeither shalt thou commit adultery.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSo now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
Genesis
LawAppoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWhen thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:
1 Kings
HistoryThe children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.
Ezra
HistoryAnd they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSo Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonForsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAs coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were made in the pans.
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor, as the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelMoreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them: and Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the horsemen.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHowbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD:
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?