And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
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Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd by weight he gave gold for the tables of shewbread, for every table; and likewise silver for the tables of silver:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWhich the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
Job
WisdomAnd it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
Exodus
LawAnd shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.
Acts
History / LukeThen saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
John
GospelsRejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhich was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos, which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which was the son of Nagge,
Luke
GospelsAnd Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
Genesis
Law / MosesAll the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBehold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnFor he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesLet me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders.
Numbers
LawBehold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe sons also of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after the house of their fathers.