And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
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The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
Proverbs
WisdomBecause the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
1 Kings
HistorySo David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house of Obed-edom with joy.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraGive us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Psalms
PoetryWhat thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Deuteronomy
LawOf Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosYe shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahYet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
Matthew
GospelsIf there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
Deuteronomy
LawMoreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThen all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThat in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
Luke
Gospels / LukeI say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
Genesis
LawAnd it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Acts
History / LukeFor the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.