In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.
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And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
Exodus
LawDead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonIf a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they answered, that they could not tell whence it was.
Luke
Gospels / LukeLORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
Genesis
LawI have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, another piece over against the going up to the armoury at the turning of the wall.
Nehemiah
HistoryThou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraShall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
Job
WisdomServe the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour, archers, and had many sons, and sons' sons, an hundred and fifty. All these are of the sons of Benjamin.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him.
2 Samuel
HistoryIn that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThat which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
John
GospelsAnd said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great.
Luke
GospelsI was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahLod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.
Nehemiah
HistoryFor he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.