Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
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And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnNeither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
Acts
HistoryAnd she said unto him, There is no cause: this evil in sending me away is greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But he would not hearken unto her.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
Judges
History / SamuelFor John was not yet cast into prison.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
Joshua
History / JoshuaNow Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.
2 Samuel
HistoryRemove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD'S house; and said to all the people,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
Deuteronomy
LawFor thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd slew famous kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms
PoetryThou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThat thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMy face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Job
WisdomNow it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
Acts
History / LukeThe neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
John
GospelsAnd Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
Exodus
Law / MosesGive us this day our daily bread.