I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
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Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
Psalms
PoetryThen his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
Judges
HistoryNow the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.
1 Samuel
HistoryJesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.
John
GospelsThe priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
Nehemiah
HistoryAlso twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
Ezra
History / EzraThere were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Genesis
LawAnd she named the child I-chabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.
Exodus
LawAnd the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh;
1 Chronicles
HistoryThus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersEvery bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.
Leviticus
LawAnd Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Luke
GospelsBut if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWho hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?
Job
Wisdom / JobIf my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.