And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
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And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaHe answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision.
1 Samuel
HistorySo they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.
Genesis
LawUntil I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
2 Kings
HistoryRemove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.
2 Kings
HistoryOr all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.
Leviticus
LawThus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIn that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
Matthew
GospelsHe turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:
Acts
History / LukeAnd the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
Genesis
LawAnd there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king.
1 Kings
HistoryThat ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.