David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
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We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.
Judges
HistoryAnd David did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.
2 Samuel
HistoryLove worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
John
GospelsAnd the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:
Judges
History / SamuelTrust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
2 Samuel
HistoryO inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kings
HistoryThese are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
Leviticus
LawAnd when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewMine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
Psalms
PoetryFor I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsDepart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
Psalms
PoetrySeek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
Proverbs
WisdomBehold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.
Job
WisdomTo him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Matthew
GospelsAnd came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.