And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?
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He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
Job
WisdomAnd he said unto him, We are passing from Beth-lehem-judah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence am I: and I went to Beth-lehem-judah, but I am now going to the house of the LORD; and there is no man that receiveth me to house.
Judges
HistoryAnd the residue of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
Psalms
PoetryBlessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
Mark
GospelsSo Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.
Esther
History / MordecaiWhom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThe ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
Nehemiah
HistoryKeep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSo they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Micah
Minor ProphetsThis charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Genesis
LawAccording to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelI said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonWherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
Psalms
PoetryIf when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsKnowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: