And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:
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For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLet the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
Job
WisdomFor want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
Job
WisdomAnd it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
Deuteronomy
LawHast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe children of Bigvai, two thousand threescore and seven.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahI intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
2 Kings
HistoryWhen Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
John
GospelsFor I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesBut I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosBut if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
Numbers
LawAnd Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!
Genesis
Law / MosesGo thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomHe that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.
Luke
Gospels / LukeGive not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Matthew
GospelsGive therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
1 Kings
HistoryI say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,