When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
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And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
2 Samuel
HistoryI indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
Esther
History / MordecaiThou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNow ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
John
GospelsThy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
Acts
HistoryFor it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,
1 Kings
HistoryAnd they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.
Ezra
HistoryMoreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWhen Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
John
GospelsFor when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.