For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
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And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Genesis
LawTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThere are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Matthew
GospelsHe is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shewbread,
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,
Luke
Gospels / LukeWherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
Job
Wisdom / JobFor whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
Mark
GospelsAnd threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
Numbers
LawWhen Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThere shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
Exodus
Law / MosesThat I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesA good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonTherefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom's servants set the field on fire.
2 Samuel
History(For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahYe shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;
Numbers
LawAnd the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem.