For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.
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Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
Job
WisdomYe sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.
John
Gospels / JohnTo confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
Esther
HistoryFor had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
John
Gospels / JohnIf a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
Job
WisdomAnd when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewOintment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.
Matthew
GospelsThen fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
Acts
HistoryAnd the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,
Judges
HistoryAnd he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
Exodus
LawAnd Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWhen Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd their brethren the sons of Merari stood on the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.