And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
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And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThat seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
Mark
GospelsAnd as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?
Acts
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
Genesis
LawAnd I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these things.
Genesis
LawJesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Matthew
GospelsBut what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.
Luke
GospelsThen said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIf I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Job
Wisdom / JobGive ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
Psalms
PoetryBut it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.
Deuteronomy
LawSpeak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesYea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsThere went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Psalms
PoetryNevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Judges
HistoryAnd because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.
Acts
History / LukeIt is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.