Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
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For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThey all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:
Numbers
LawBut the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,
Esther
HistoryAnd the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
Genesis
LawAnd when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraNow king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
1 Kings
HistoryJesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd these are the sons of Aaron; Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelWhat can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.
1 Chronicles
HistoryYe shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
LawThis is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time.
Ezra
History / EzraFor I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
Deuteronomy
LawNevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
Genesis
Law / MosesTruly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
Leviticus
LawFor their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.