There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
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The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.
Exodus
LawBe ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFolly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomSanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
John
GospelsAnd Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
Genesis
LawVerily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
John
GospelsAnd weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:
Ezra
HistoryKeep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
Psalms
PoetryThe changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.
1 Kings
HistoryThe eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
Genesis
Law / MosesSo he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahTwo men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Luke
GospelsAnd now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
John
GospelsAnd, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
Matthew
GospelsI cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd some of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the spices.