And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:
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The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
Genesis
Law / MosesNone eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
Mark
GospelsShall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:
Joshua
HistoryAlso in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.
Genesis
Law / MosesTheir knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
Exodus
Law / MosesAll things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesHis archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
Matthew
GospelsThen the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.
Judges
HistoryFor he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name.
Luke
GospelsIn the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWoe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.
1 Kings
HistoryThen cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
John
GospelsGo ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.