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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And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.
Judges
HistoryBut when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
Deuteronomy
LawIs it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
Job
WisdomThe words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Psalms
PoetryYet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawThough these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged him of his enemies.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
Deuteronomy
LawFor there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude
General EpistlesSo Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.
Judges
HistoryIf ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?
Luke
Gospels / LukeNow when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
Esther
History / MordecaiMoreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHe shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersA wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.