For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
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And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.
Judges
HistoryBut the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielI am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
Solomon's Song
PoetryThese are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
LawHowbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
John
GospelsAnd the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraOf Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.
Genesis
LawThe wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor, as the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.
1 Samuel
HistoryBehold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Janum, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah,
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
Luke
GospelsYe looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
Haggai
Minor ProphetsHe made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe children of Jorah, an hundred and twelve.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
Genesis
Law / MosesHowbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
John
GospelsTherefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsGreatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAshkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.