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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There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
Genesis
LawThat I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulHowbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Genesis
LawAnd straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
Luke
GospelsAnd Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
Revelation
ApocalypticWho shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSaying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
Matthew
GospelsThen went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsNevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.
Luke
GospelsLet your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;