When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.

PROVERB

The man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, lifted his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, times, and half a time.”

APOCALYPTIC

When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest….

LAW

He who conceals his hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.

PROVERB

If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love, …

LAW

Now the Israelites went out to fight against the Philistines. The Israelites camped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines at Aphek.

NARRATIVE

When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise.

PROVERBS

The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.

PROVERB

During the night I had a vision—and there before me was a man riding a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in a ravine. Behind him were red, brown, and white horses. I asked, “What are these, my lord?”

APOCALYPTIC

The LORD Almighty has declared in my hearing: “Surely the great houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left without occupants.”

PROPHECY

A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’

PARABLE

One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer—at three in the afternoon.

NARRATIVE

Therefore, say, “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: ‘The days are coming,’ declares the LORD, ‘when this city will be rebuilt for me.’”

PROPHECY

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls.

PARABLE

The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise authority for forty- two months.

APOCALYPTIC

A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.

PARABLE

There was a certain man from Ramathaim, a Zuphite from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah.

NARRATIVE

In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land.

NARRATIVE

If a man is found slain, lying in a field in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him, …

LAW

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest— and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man.

PROVERB

If a fellow Hebrew, man or woman, sells himself to you and serves you six years, in the seventh year you must let him go free.

LAW

Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, so is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

PROVERB

The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.

APOCALYPTIC