Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
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But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
Acts
HistoryAnd when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
Mark
GospelsAnd he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:
Genesis
LawSo they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
Job
WisdomBoth the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.
Genesis
Law / MosesAfter these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonLook not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonSing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesThe whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
Genesis
LawA man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
Luke
GospelsIn the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
Genesis
LawAnd Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.