And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
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Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.
Psalms
PoetryFor this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesA dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
Daniel
Major Prophets(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulTo turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the king said, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, and me thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
Luke
GospelsAnd Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
Joshua
HistoryThat we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulVerily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
John
Gospels / JohnO LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
Psalms
PoetryThen the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
Job
Wisdom / JobThat sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahLike as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Psalms
PoetryAnd now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.