And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
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And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth.
Genesis
Law / MosesWherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?
Mark
GospelsAnd he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraGive me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
Psalms
PoetryRemember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which pertained to Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.
Luke
GospelsThe husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesBut the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahWho is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
Numbers
LawFor then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
Job
WisdomSo I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThe wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
Psalms
PoetryMoreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.