And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
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And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
Exodus
LawBehold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee.
Joshua
History / JoshuaYe shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Matthew
GospelsAnd Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBut as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesHear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAgain, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.
Judges
HistoryIt is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThere is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Proverbs
WisdomWhen thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
Deuteronomy
LawElse, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.
Exodus
Law / MosesHell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
Deuteronomy
LawFor Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.