For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
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Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBecause of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThese were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect.
2 Chronicles
HistoryIf the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
Deuteronomy
LawBut the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThen began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus
LawAnd a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs:
Numbers
LawHear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosLORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the LORD?
1 Kings
HistoryAnd they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?
Mark
GospelsAnd I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.