And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
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And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAccording to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnath-serah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.
Joshua
History / JoshuaOn the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
Esther
History / MordecaiShe looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Proverbs
WisdomThou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
Psalms
PoetryNot forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Hebrews
General EpistlesBe of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do that which is good in his sight.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
Genesis
LawHe that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
Genesis
LawBut who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhich leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAs for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.
Joshua
HistoryAnd Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThat they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.
Joshua
HistoryFear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahPraise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
Psalms
PoetryBut in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.