And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
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And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Exodus
LawAnd he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
Numbers
LawAnd one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSo they came up to Baal-perazim; and David smote them there. Then David said, God hath broken in upon mine enemies by mine hand like the breaking forth of waters: therefore they called the name of that place Baal-perazim.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
Numbers
LawSo Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles
HistoryZion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.
Judges
History / SamuelThe burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTherefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahA devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
Acts
HistoryFor I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
1 Kings
HistoryIf any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulSaying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThey that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass, when Ben-hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.
Exodus
LawAnd the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)
Esther
History / MordecaiYea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.