And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
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How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
2 Samuel
HistorySeek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThen the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: it is all turned white: he is clean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
Genesis
LawYea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
Luke
GospelsHe that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelUnto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
1 Peter
General EpistlesWhich was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech,
Luke
Gospels / LukeCarry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
Luke
Gospels / LukeDeliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents.
Joshua
HistoryTell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?
Mark
GospelsThe Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, to the reign of Darius the Persian.
Nehemiah
HistoryThat he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.
Genesis
LawMoreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThat they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.
Joshua
HistoryBy the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:
Numbers
Law / MosesOr, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?