And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
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My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew
GospelsAnd then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Matthew
GospelsFor John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.
Matthew
GospelsAnd ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;
1 Samuel
History / SamuelTo give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Luke
GospelsFor he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.
Mark
GospelsAnd at Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah; Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalaleel, of the children of Perez;
Nehemiah
HistoryThe Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
Hebrews
General EpistlesHear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaSo I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonIbhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Hebrews
General EpistlesYe are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
2 Kings
HistoryConsider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Luke
GospelsAnd there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
Genesis
LawGod forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our God that is before his tabernacle.
Joshua
History / JoshuaHe that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.