And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to be ruler among his brethren: for he thought to make him king.
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The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
Psalms
PoetryThey return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd Jaresiah, and Eliah, and Zichri, the sons of Jeroham.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:
Judges
HistoryYe have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia;
Acts
HistoryThey said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
John
GospelsGomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHaving land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
Acts
HistoryAnd the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,
1 Kings
HistoryYea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.
Philemon
Pauline EpistlesFor first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Mark
GospelsAnd the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it: it is a statute for ever unto the LORD; it shall be wholly burnt.
Leviticus
LawNevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
Numbers
LawThat thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesPour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the fat of the bullock and of the ram, the rump, and that which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver: