And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law.
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And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsLet them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
2 Chronicles
HistoryHe hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.
Psalms
PoetrySo this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThe voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.
Luke
GospelsAnd he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd I charged Baruch before them, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
Acts
History / LukeUnto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
2 Kings
HistoryAnd I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd her parents were astonished: but he charged them that they should tell no man what was done.
Luke
GospelsAnd it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsShe sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Psalms
PoetryAnd this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?
John
Gospels / JohnLikewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king's princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest.