And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.
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Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
Psalms
PoetryBut Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahLest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulTherefore came I unto you without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?
Acts
HistoryAnd she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.
Mark
GospelsOthers mocking said, These men are full of new wine.
Acts
HistoryFor we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
Esther
History / MordecaiThen spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
Genesis
LawAnd she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that night.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims.
2 Samuel
HistoryNow from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIf the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesWith arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh;
1 Samuel
HistoryHow shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?
Numbers
Law / MosesEven of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.
Micah
Minor ProphetsFor their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
Deuteronomy
LawBut David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThey have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
Psalms
PoetryThis is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister unto the LORD in the priest's office;
Leviticus
Law / MosesThus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all other, and guided them on every side.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.