Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
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The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan,
1 Chronicles
HistorySo they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.
Numbers
LawAnd Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
Numbers
Law / MosesDeclare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahMake thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Genesis
Law / MosesYet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
Psalms
PoetryAnd all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
Acts
HistoryAnd two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.
Exodus
LawIf thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
Job
WisdomAnd Obed-edom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obed-edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters:
1 Chronicles
HistoryCursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesMoreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
Deuteronomy
LawThen came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewMy brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBecause of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.