But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
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Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
Exodus
LawAnd all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the LORD:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahTo execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
Psalms
PoetryAnd Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee.
John
GospelsAnd Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
Luke
GospelsLet us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielEber, Peleg, Reu,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraHe is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
Leviticus
Law / MosesSpeak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
Ezra
HistoryAnd lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Deuteronomy
LawHe shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
Psalms
PoetryI cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?
Exodus
LawYe shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: