And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
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Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
Genesis
Law / MosesBehold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
Job
WisdomGlory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.
Mark
GospelsAnd testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
Nehemiah
HistoryMaon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What will ye that I shall do unto you?
Matthew
GospelsAlso in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
Deuteronomy
LawBut will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahNow therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;
Genesis
LawThen Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:
Esther
History / MordecaiIf he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
Job
Wisdom / JobHe shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd they answered, that they could not tell whence it was.
Luke
GospelsThe king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
Psalms
PoetrySaying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWhile we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.