Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
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So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
Proverbs
WisdomDavid said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.
Judges
History / SamuelThese are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them; who were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesIt is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
Exodus
LawFor he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhat is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd there was great joy in that city.
Acts
HistoryAnd I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThat there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd they answered and said unto Jesus, We cannot tell. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.
Mark
Gospels / MarkNow it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
Ruth
HistoryThat the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Job
Wisdom / JobIf iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
Job
WisdomThen Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.
1 Samuel
HistoryTell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
Matthew
GospelsThen said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewTherefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsAnd when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?
Mark
GospelsThen David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works.