Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!
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But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?
1 Chronicles
History / EzraA reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
Proverbs
WisdomDost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
Job
WisdomSo do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD hath sworn to David, even so I do to him;
2 Samuel
HistoryI will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ish-bosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThough I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
Mark
Gospels / MarkNeither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThey shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
1 Kings
HistoryBut if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
Numbers
LawAnd they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
Judges
History / SamuelBut ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Luke
GospelsThen spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Joshua
HistorySave only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.
Genesis
Law / MosesThey provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying.
Acts
HistoryAlso day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land.
2 Kings
HistoryDeliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalms
PoetryBrethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.