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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And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
Genesis
LawAnd he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
Matthew
GospelsAnd of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye have for refuge.
Numbers
LawAnd there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
2 Kings
HistoryWhosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnThus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
1 Kings
HistorySend to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAs one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut of all clean fowls ye may eat.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;
Luke
GospelsI am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBy me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
Proverbs
WisdomEven the weight for the candlesticks of gold, and for their lamps of gold, by weight for every candlestick, and for the lamps thereof: and for the candlesticks of silver by weight, both for the candlestick, and also for the lamps thereof, according to the use of every candlestick.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.