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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Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Genesis
Law / MosesHold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
Psalms
PoetryHow are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
2 Samuel
HistoryBut they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.
Luke
GospelsPut me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelA slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
Genesis
LawFor the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him,
John
GospelsAnd the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesWherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
Exodus
Law / MosesThou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he is unclean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesHe that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThen Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
Joshua
HistoryAnd judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsYea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.