For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
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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.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
Job
WisdomAnd Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThen I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonFor they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
Genesis
LawO the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBecause ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTherefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:
Luke
GospelsAnd he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.
Mark
GospelsNow the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,
1 Kings
HistoryBe it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
Acts
HistoryAnd the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsTherefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWho also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.
Acts
HistoryTherefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahA righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.