For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
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And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
2 Chronicles
HistoryOn the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
Numbers
Law / MosesOne kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesFor, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahTherefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil;
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
2 Chronicles
HistorySo Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
Esther
HistoryAnd if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Genesis
LawSo likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
Luke
Gospels / LukeTherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIf he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
Job
WisdomWhile as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
Ezra
HistoryAnd them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahThen Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNow the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings
HistoryFor God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulPeter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.