He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
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And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.
Genesis
LawAnd when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
Acts
History / LukeIn the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahNow the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThey shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
2 Kings
HistoryFor a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownBut put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
1 Samuel
HistoryThen answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd 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
History / JeremiahCircumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.
Genesis
Law / MosesThus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHer cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsJesus wept.
John
GospelsThe former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
Acts
History / LukeThen Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh-gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.