The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
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And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
1 Kings
HistoryHave the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd this was done three times: and all were drawn up again into heaven.
Acts
History / LukeDelivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
Acts
HistoryThen said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way.
Judges
HistoryAnd out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbs, Abdon with her suburbs,
Joshua
History / JoshuaWhose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesMen, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.
Acts
History / LukeAnd we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.
Genesis
Law / MosesTo deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Luke
GospelsAnd it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havoth-jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
Judges
History / SamuelDesiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraA wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
Proverbs
WisdomHear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraNow the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings
HistoryBlessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
Psalms
PoetryThen said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.