I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHe loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
Psalms
PoetryAnd in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.
Esther
HistoryA foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd they departed from before Pi-hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.
Numbers
LawThe ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
Proverbs
WisdomWhy is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
Job
WisdomAnd it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.
Ezra
History / EzraThe LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahShem, Arphaxad, Shelah,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAs in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTo bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean; then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying,
Acts
History / LukeThe LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.