The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
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And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
Genesis
LawThen the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.
Luke
GospelsAnd Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThey sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace.
Ezra
History / EzraThere was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahTherefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThese are the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.
Numbers
LawThen Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they that heard it said, Who then can be saved?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe fifteenth to Jeremoth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.