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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And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhen Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they went out, and preached that men should repent.
Mark
Gospels / MarkHe also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.
Acts
HistoryAnd the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraYea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAgain the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanLet not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
Psalms
PoetryThe LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
Psalms
PoetryThe righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
Proverbs
WisdomFor the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
2 Peter
General EpistlesAnd take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
1 Kings
HistoryJesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
John
Gospels / JohnThen said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
Jonah
Minor ProphetsThe voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
Exodus
LawI got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonNow gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahPray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples.