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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These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,
Leviticus
Law / MosesIs there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
Job
WisdomAnd a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.
Matthew
GospelsFor the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much riches.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielBut out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryO thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahMoreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
Exodus
Law / MosesI am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
Exodus
Law / MosesI have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
John
GospelsBehold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
Psalms
PoetryAre not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewVerily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.