And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
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Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
1 Kings
HistoryThen was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men with him, over Jordan?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
Job
WisdomWhen they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.
Exodus
LawAnd Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraDestroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
Psalms
PoetryBetter is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonPraise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
Psalms
PoetrySo there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThat the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawAnd they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
Leviticus
LawFor she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
Psalms
PoetryIf an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThen released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWho hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
Job
WisdomAnd if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin;
Leviticus
LawBut God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.