And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
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Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIn those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahWhen I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Psalms
PoetryMake thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Genesis
Law / MosesLeave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhat is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
Job
Wisdom / JobLord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
Psalms
PoetryWherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
Proverbs
WisdomI saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;
Daniel
Major ProphetsNevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNow, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judaea beyond Jordan;
Matthew
GospelsAnd it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
Judges
History / SamuelBut go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThe sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite,
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
Numbers
LawThe children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
Deuteronomy
LawBut Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.