And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
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Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsWhen I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
Psalms
PoetryHave ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have not spoken?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterHe giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnIf a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.
John
GospelsFor then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsEven all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiMany times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahTo such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
Psalms
PoetryAnd if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.
Leviticus
LawAlso day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.