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 LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesWhen he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonA false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
Job
Wisdom / JobSaying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:
Acts
History / LukeFor these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahLet no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesFor the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
John
GospelsNow Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd turneth toward the sunrising to Beth-dagon, and reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthah-el toward the north side of Beth-emek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand,
Joshua
History / JoshuaThen these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.
Revelation
ApocalypticSo David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThe trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests'.
2 Kings
HistoryBut he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.
Leviticus
LawAnd Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.