And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus
Law / MosesHearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
John
GospelsTruly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
Luke
GospelsAnd he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
Exodus
LawAnd these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
Genesis
Law / MosesHe removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.
Ruth
HistoryIt stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
2 Chronicles
HistoryI thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king's matter.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
1 Kings
HistoryEven the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded.
1 Kings
HistoryFor as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHe teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
Job
WisdomI sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
John
GospelsThen said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahBehold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAshdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border thereof: