And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
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So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.
Mark
GospelsSpeak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.
Exodus
LawAnd they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.
Acts
HistoryAnd the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
Numbers
Law / MosesSeemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
John
GospelsIf thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulMoreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he cried, saying, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.
Luke
Gospels / LukeNow this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesI am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
Genesis
LawI have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHow many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
Psalms
PoetryFrom thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.
Deuteronomy
LawThat lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
Amos
Minor ProphetsBut the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
1 Samuel
HistoryCome, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.