And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee.
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And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanDoth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAll the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.
Luke
GospelsThey feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
Psalms
PoetryThe hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Jonathan said unto David, O LORD God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and, behold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and shew it thee;
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThere shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
Psalms
PoetryHe saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Job
WisdomThen went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
Judges
History / SamuelI will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBreak thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
Psalms
PoetryKnow ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
Matthew
GospelsMoreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWhat man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Psalms
PoetryBut was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.