And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
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Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
Numbers
Law / MosesBecause thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
Job
WisdomWhy dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
John
GospelsAnd he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.
Genesis
LawSo Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahOf Gershom; Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go;
Luke
Gospels / LukeThou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsTherefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.
Judges
History / SamuelLet us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThat which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
1 John
General EpistlesAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd thirty and six thousand beeves,
Numbers
Law / MosesWe have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBuried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulGo ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraCry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHe hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.