And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
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Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
John
GospelsAnd the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulHow oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
Mark
GospelsThese are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
Genesis
LawAnd when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.
Numbers
LawThine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli:
Acts
HistoryAnd the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis
Law / MosesSo shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersKnow ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsJesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these.