And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
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One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesIs 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?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewI know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
Job
WisdomWoe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
Psalms
PoetryFor of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites.
Numbers
LawTake the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThese are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
Leviticus
LawAnd many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way.
Mark
GospelsBehold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawThen opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
Luke
GospelsAnd he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
Genesis
LawThe Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.
Esther
HistorySo Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.
Judges
HistoryAnd Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
Revelation
ApocalypticIn the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.