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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Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewSo Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThen Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNow when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Ezra
History / EzraWherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
Exodus
LawChrist is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThe fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAll her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahChildren's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Proverbs
WisdomLet them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
Job
WisdomThen the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;
Leviticus
LawAnd into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:
Luke
Gospels / LukeThere shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Joshua
History / JoshuaOf the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAlso the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.