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«And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before.»
«Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: expel, Israelites
«And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.»
«But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? / And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: fatness, fig, fig tree, olive tree
«And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: bullock, cast down, cut down, The Grove
«And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister: / And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us: / But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised; / Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.»
«And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.»
Author: Bible
«And Joshua said, Alas, O LORD God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan! / O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies! / For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name? / And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? / Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.»
«And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Ahiman, Anak, Caleb, Sheshai, Talmai
«And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house? / And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me? / And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons.»