Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
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Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.
Matthew
GospelsFor thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot.
Exodus
Law / MosesSurely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.
Exodus
LawFor the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsDeliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
Genesis
LawAnd all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThat it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
Genesis
Law / MosesZedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
Exodus
LawSo Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSo Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.
Judges
HistoryThen thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.
Deuteronomy
LawFor thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBehold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
Genesis
LawFor now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
Job
WisdomThe king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;