But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
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And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Genesis
LawAnd though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulRemember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsYe fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
Luke
GospelsThe earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraLet the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.
2 Kings
HistoryConsider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
Luke
GospelsHe hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThe light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMy lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Genesis
Law / MosesLest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Deuteronomy
LawMany pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and one.
Numbers
LawBut Absalom pressed him, that he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:
Genesis
Law / MosesFor the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Praetorium; and they call together the whole band.