And 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.
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Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Job
WisdomI have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSo the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
Esther
HistoryBetter is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomHave respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAll this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulVaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
Ezra
History / EzraAnd now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.
Acts
HistoryCast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized:
Mark
GospelsThou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
Exodus
Law / MosesWoe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahBut if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd they removed from Almon-diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
Numbers
LawFor his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.