And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
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Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsWho hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHaving a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesWho found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelNevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD.
2 Samuel
HistoryIf I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's:
Ruth
HistoryAnd all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
Leviticus
LawAgain I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewA slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
Proverbs
WisdomMoreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD'S house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
Genesis
LawLet the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
Exodus
Law / MosesSee, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHave ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulI looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
Genesis
Law / MosesThou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.