And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
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And Bath-sheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king.
1 Kings
HistoryThen the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:
Judges
HistoryThus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
Numbers
LawSix days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
Exodus
Law / MosesHe went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryTherefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Job
WisdomAnd Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
Esther
History / MordecaiShake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHe hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
Job
WisdomThey shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAll sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
Psalms
PoetryNow when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.
Acts
HistoryWhen I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsI cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
Psalms
PoetryAnd passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah:
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThese are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the LORD shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.
Numbers
LawThere is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.