So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
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Nehemiah
HistoryThen Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.
Haggai
Minor ProphetsO ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahO taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Matthew
GospelsAnd he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:
John
Gospels / JohnThough I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Job
Wisdom / JobThey reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThis is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
Numbers
LawAnd thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.
Exodus
LawThe LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
Matthew
GospelsThen Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelMoses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.
Judges
HistoryThen came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.
Acts
History / LukeAnd he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the officers which were over thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses:
Numbers
Law / MosesLet the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth.
1 Chronicles
HistoryA little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhat then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesAnd ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
Leviticus
LawAnd the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.