Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
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It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAll things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonCursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army?
Judges
History / SamuelA man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAbove when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd 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
GospelsNumber the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
Numbers
Law / MosesHe trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLet them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
Psalms
PoetryO inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSo all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying,
2 Chronicles
HistoryThey, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Genesis
LawFor the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
Genesis
LawNohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThat in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Beth-el: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.
Amos
Minor ProphetsThe men of Kirjath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahPreserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
Psalms
PoetryAnd goeth out from Beth-el to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth,
Joshua
History / JoshuaSo Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.