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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Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
Genesis
LawThese were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWhen thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
Acts
History / LukeThus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
Ezra
History / EzraHear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThen I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSo Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
1 Kings
HistoryTherefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukAnd Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis
LawThe one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even:
Exodus
Law / MosesI will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.
Nehemiah
HistorySurely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Job
Wisdom / JobNebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
Daniel
Major ProphetsThen said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
John
GospelsBehold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahLet my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
Ruth
History / SamuelMoab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.