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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For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
2 Peter
General EpistlesIf thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.
Job
WisdomAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
LawSo will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
Exodus
LawWherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhich indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Matthew
GospelsWherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
Acts
HistoryTherefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
John
GospelsAnd one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
Mark
GospelsAnd Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
Genesis
LawFor they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
Nehemiah
HistoryYet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesHe shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAs soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Proverbs
WisdomAfterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
Mark
GospelsLikewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,
Matthew
GospelsAnd Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
Judges
History / SamuelHe that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
Ruth
History / SamuelThe sons of Moses were, Gershom, and Eliezer.