And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
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Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do that which is good in his sight.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraGrace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:
Exodus
LawNow Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
1 Samuel
HistoryI will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelNow king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
1 Kings
HistoryThou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Psalms
PoetryLest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsLet the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.
John
GospelsThese are the dukes that came of the Horites; duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah,
Genesis
Law / MosesFor who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahOne God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesYour lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
Exodus
Law / MosesSpeak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsThen Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhen men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
Job
WisdomBut Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAs they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsSo the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahFor the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.