For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
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And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Genesis
Law / MosesHow is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
Job
Wisdom / JobIt may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumHear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahI will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
Psalms
PoetryIf one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
Haggai
Minor ProphetsWhen mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
John
GospelsAnd they gave unto them, of the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her suburbs,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
Numbers
LawFor we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThey say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
John
GospelsAnd thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
1 Kings
HistoryNow it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
Revelation
ApocalypticIn those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
Nehemiah
HistoryHow oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!