And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
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That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIn this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people.
John
GospelsBut the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth.
Genesis
Law / MosesEphraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsSaying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNotwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnWhen I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
Mark
Gospels / MarkFor I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.
John
GospelsOh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSpeak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty;
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd I will give him the morning star.