And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
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The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsLet them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHe shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Leviticus
LawAnd Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.
2 Chronicles
HistoryIf he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew
GospelsThou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesLest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.
Proverbs
WisdomAll the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhen therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
John
Gospels / JohnHe openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
Job
WisdomThen will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece,
Acts
History / LukeMy substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.