And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
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Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHe cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.
2 Samuel
HistorySo he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsTake ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:
Genesis
LawAnd his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
Job
Wisdom / JobThey wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBlessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;
2 Kings
HistoryBut he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
Matthew
GospelsFor the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterThen ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
Matthew
GospelsHe causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.
Psalms
PoetryBy this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
Psalms
PoetryBut Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.