Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
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And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.
Genesis
LawAnd the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
1 Kings
HistoryThe men of Netophah, fifty and six.
Ezra
HistoryAnd all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesMischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsI verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Acts
History / LukeTo reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesWho provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.
Numbers
LawAnd the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
2 Samuel
HistoryI hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAfter many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
Ezra
HistoryAnd when he had declared all these things unto them, he sent them to Joppa.
Acts
History / LukeThe men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob;
Matthew
GospelsBut now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesBut he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsA prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Proverbs
WisdomCursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.