Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
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And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.
Genesis
LawThen came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesSo they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
Esther
History / MordecaiMake thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Selahammahlekoth.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
Exodus
LawAnd the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
1 Kings
HistoryWhat is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come.
Acts
HistoryThe desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
Nehemiah
HistoryNeither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.
Mark
GospelsOf every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
Numbers
LawAnd when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
Acts
History / LukeWherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
Judges
History / SamuelBehold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBehold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers: