But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
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For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Deuteronomy
LawBut I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:
Judges
HistoryAccording to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
Matthew
GospelsFor thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
2 Kings
HistoryWhat then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel:
Joshua
HistoryAnd for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.
Numbers
LawAnd Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
Esther
HistoryThou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
Exodus
LawAnd all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
Esther
HistoryMoreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHe setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
Job
WisdomAnd the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.