Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:
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The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNotwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahTo the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThe LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Kedesh, and Edrei, and En-hazor,
Joshua
History / JoshuaSo they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.
Matthew
GospelsWherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBenaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSo and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth from him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the vulture, and the kite after his kind;
Leviticus
LawThus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.
Luke
Gospels / LukeGod hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersDavid also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
John
GospelsNevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
Psalms
PoetryWherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?