With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
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The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.
2 Samuel
HistoryWho shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahO let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?
Judges
HistoryHe shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Job
Wisdom / JobEven men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIf thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
Proverbs
WisdomNow it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSo shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
Joel
Minor ProphetsAfter these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;
Acts
History / LukeFor this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThat I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
Psalms
PoetryI marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
Genesis
Law / MosesBehold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesBut if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNow it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father.