These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
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And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThrough desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNow the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
1 Chronicles
HistoryHave mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Psalms
PoetryAnd there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAll the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWhy hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIn the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.
Joshua
HistoryFor whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.
Mark
GospelsAnd they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelIncline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
Psalms
PoetryNow Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
2 Samuel
HistoryThus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsTo fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
Numbers
Law / MosesThe LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd these are the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.