And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
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And Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua.
Nehemiah
HistoryShe dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.
Job
Wisdom / JobTheir throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhen I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew
GospelsAll we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.
Mark
Gospels / MarkWherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
Acts
HistoryBut now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBut when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWhen pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Proverbs
WisdomThe length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.
Exodus
Law / MosesDost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
Job
WisdomThen the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBecause ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
Mark
Gospels / MarkSo David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnSix days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.