When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
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After him repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz another piece, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.
Luke
Gospels / LukeOf a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.
Mark
Gospels / MarkJehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahUnto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
Psalms
PoetryAnd all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?
Exodus
LawAnd he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
Deuteronomy
LawWhat shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThen I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahI will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.
Judges
History / SamuelHe gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
Genesis
Law / MosesWhosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them,