And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
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These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least was over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;
Numbers
LawTo deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewTo execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
2 John
General Epistles / JohnThe border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.
Joshua
History / JoshuaOut of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
James
General EpistlesAnd the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
Ezra
HistoryThe sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
Acts
HistoryAnd Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him;
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelSeest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
James
General Epistles / JamesBut Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
Judges
HistoryThree years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThere brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThat your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.