That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
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Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
Genesis
Law / MosesThus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they began to enquire among themselves, which of them it was that should do this thing.
Luke
GospelsTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesShammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNow the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownOf the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twenty:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryMine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah,
1 Chronicles
HistoryA man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNow when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesHis branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaIn these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielShout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, that were called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any thing.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
1 Kings
HistoryI will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.