And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Psalms
PoetryThen shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAs the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonHe hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.
Ezra
HistoryAnd Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahLo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAs the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Job
WisdomAnd David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's house.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,
Deuteronomy
LawFor I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
2 Samuel
HistoryNow Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
2 Kings
HistoryDavid therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?
Mark
Gospels / MarkBut the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.
Judges
HistoryYea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIf after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThen the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.