And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
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And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
John
Gospels / JohnTherefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsMoreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
2 Kings
HistoryHe that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
Psalms
PoetrySurely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
Job
WisdomThe face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Psalms
PoetryJesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
Matthew
GospelsWhen I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesI beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulI pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelTherefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
Job
WisdomAnd whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
1 Samuel
HistoryHe will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you: