For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
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For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.
1 Kings
HistoryThe voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.
Luke
GospelsFrom thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,
Numbers
LawThat thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.
Psalms
PoetryHe divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahNow 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
History / SamuelThe vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
Joel
Minor ProphetsFor they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAs for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanI would they were even cut off which trouble you.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulOf the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSeven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.
Psalms
PoetryThere is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
Genesis
LawAnd they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few.
Joshua
HistoryAnd there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFrom thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.