And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
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To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.
Acts
HistoryAnd the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Genesis
Law / MosesIn that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHe buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
Job
WisdomAnd they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Ezion-gaber.
Numbers
LawWe 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 Prophets / JeremiahThe voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahJesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
John
GospelsBeloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
3 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesSo Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.
2 Samuel
HistoryI may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
Psalms
PoetryHe that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAlso Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;
Ezra
HistoryAnd we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnLet that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
1 John
General EpistlesAnd the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.
1 Chronicles
HistoryHear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.