And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
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And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / Ezekiel(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
Job
Wisdom / JobHe that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
Psalms
PoetryThere was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.
Joshua
History / JoshuaI went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
Ruth
HistoryBut the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
Luke
GospelsWherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Genesis
LawAnd while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWithdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face.
2 Chronicles
HistoryNeither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they communed with him at the door of the house,
Genesis
Law / MosesWhosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThese be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
Genesis
LawBut he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulMany of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Acts
HistoryBut Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea,
Mark
Gospels / MarkThe LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.