Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.
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But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
Ezra
History / EzraThe LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.
Psalms
PoetryThe LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahYe shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.
Exodus
Law / MosesHe hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThey shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelMy soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
Deuteronomy
LawBlessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
Mark
GospelsThe Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour.
Esther
HistoryBut the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Psalms
PoetryJesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
John
Gospels / JohnThen the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:
Leviticus
Law / MosesThat, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahFurthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.