Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
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Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
2 Kings
HistoryThe son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
Deuteronomy
LawShall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:
Judges
History / SamuelAnd Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.
Joshua
History / JoshuaTo overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:
Ezra
HistoryLet them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
Psalms
PoetryHodijah, Hashum, Bezai,
Nehemiah
HistoryWhen thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Deuteronomy
LawSpeak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesNevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThis I had, because I kept thy precepts.
Psalms
PoetryFor this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.
Acts
HistoryBut if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.