Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
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And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSo Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahTo whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesConsider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
Psalms
PoetryFor Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Kings
HistoryThen said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
Acts
HistoryPraise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThen Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
Genesis
LawAnd this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
Deuteronomy
LawThen Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
Acts
HistoryThen it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
Numbers
LawI will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesHe answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
John
Gospels / JohnFor in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Matthew
GospelsI will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.
Matthew
GospelsThey were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)