And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.
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And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
Numbers
LawFor it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
1 Kings
HistoryO LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahMoreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the sons of Pedaiah were, Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd I said unto you, I am the LORD your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice.
Judges
HistoryAnd the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
Ezra
History / EzraMy soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.
Joshua
HistoryDestroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersYea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielMiamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahProviding for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
Genesis
LawVerily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
John
Gospels / JohnJesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIn the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
Exodus
LawAnd when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
Exodus
LawAnd Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
Genesis
LawAnd his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.