Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
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We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kings
HistoryThou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahSo the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
2 Samuel
HistoryBear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesFor who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
Proverbs
WisdomStrength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSimeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHowbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.
2 Chronicles
HistoryLet my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.
Psalms
PoetryA slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonOne of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?
John
Gospels / JohnTherefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsRemember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Revelation
ApocalypticBabylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahEven all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.