I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
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Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahSet thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their villages.
Joshua
HistoryAnd he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;
Acts
HistoryAnd Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
Genesis
LawCast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBehold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
2 Kings
HistoryTo the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Jude
General Epistles / JudeAnd it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
2 Kings
HistoryWhen I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAlso I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.
Exodus
LawThen there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraOnly rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWhose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.
John
GospelsAnd according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.