For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
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O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.
1 Samuel
HistoryNow therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead: for Amnon only is dead.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Leviticus
LawAnd the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
Judges
HistoryThe children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Thamah,
Ezra
History / EzraWe have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
2 Peter
General EpistlesAll his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonFor as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesNow there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Psalms
PoetryThey sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about thither.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
Matthew
GospelsAfter him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired the other piece, from the turning of the wall unto the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahMoreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields:
1 Samuel
HistoryMoreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsSaying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Magdala.