And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
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O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
Proverbs
WisdomTherefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense,
Exodus
LawAnd Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
1 Samuel
HistoryI have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAgain, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
Acts
History / LukeAnd all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
Genesis
LawVow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
Psalms
PoetryThe sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
Revelation
ApocalypticLabour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
Acts
HistoryFor though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Genesis
LawAnd he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.