Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
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Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
Job
WisdomThat sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThen shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsMoreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBefore I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulSeeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power.
Luke
GospelsAnd Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
Genesis
LawAnd the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.
Leviticus
Law / MosesLet it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.
2 Samuel
HistoryConaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersStrangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
Joshua
HistoryAnd thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: