And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.
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Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
Acts
History / LukeAnd he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.
2 Kings
HistoryEgypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
Psalms
PoetryWhosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
1 John
General EpistlesBut without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
Mark
GospelsAnd they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle.
Numbers
LawFor whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWill the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.
2 Samuel
HistoryThen I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.
Exodus
LawSaying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.
Luke
GospelsRighteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Proverbs
WisdomAs a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonTherefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahGo and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahGo up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiAnd in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall: and, behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin, nor be in sight deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
Leviticus
LawAnd said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
Acts
History / LukeThat we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD himself require it;
Joshua
History / JoshuaYea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.