Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
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And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed on to Timnah:
Joshua
HistoryAnd the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAll these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.
1 Chronicles
HistoryI will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people,
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThat which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonTurn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
1 Kings
HistoryIsh-bosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.
Exodus
LawHis roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielYe shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Genesis
LawI beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed.
Numbers
Law / MosesWhen Joab and all the host that was with him were come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.