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τοὺς — 2558x G3588 ὁ
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T-APM
Occurrences: 2558 times in 1940 verses
Speech: Definite article
Parsing: Accusative Plural Masculine
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:16 - God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:23 - Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, listen to me; wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for injuring me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:1 - Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:2 - The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:13 - Egypt was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:14 - Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:3 - I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10 - Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:5 - In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:6 - and the Horites in the hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran near the desert.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:7 - Then they turned back and went to En Mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who were living in Hazezon Tamar.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:9 - against Kedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goyim, Amraphel king of Shinar and Arioch king of Ellasar—four kings against five.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:14 - When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:20 - And praise be to God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:21 - The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:5 - He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring[fn] be.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:15 - You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:19 - the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:20 - Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:21 - Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:23 - On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:4 - Let a little water be brought, and then you may all wash your feet and rest under this tree.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:2 - “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant's house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:8 - Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:11 - Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:14 - So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry[fn] his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:25 - Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:8 - Early the next morning Abimelek summoned all his officials, and when he told them all that had happened, they were very much afraid.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:19 - Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19 - Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:59 - So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham's servant and his men.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:4 - I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring[fn] all nations on earth will be blessed,[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:16 - She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:17 - Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:37 - Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:1 - Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8 - “We can't,” they replied, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:13 - As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister's son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, and there Jacob told him all these things.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:22 - So Laban brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:15 - But she said to her, “Wasn't it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son's mandrakes too?” “Very well,” Rachel said, “he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son's mandrakes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:35 - That same day he removed all the male goats that were streaked or spotted, and all the speckled or spotted female goats (all that had white on them) and all the dark-colored lambs, and he placed them in the care of his sons.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:40 - Jacob set apart the young of the flock by themselves, but made the rest face the streaked and dark-colored animals that belonged to Laban. Thus he made separate flocks for himself and did not put them with Laban's animals.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:12 - And he said, ‘Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled or spotted, for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:23 - Taking his relatives with him, he pursued Jacob for seven days and caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:25 - Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there too.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:30 - Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father's household. But why did you steal my gods?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:32 - But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether there is anything of yours here with me; and if so, take it.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:54 - He offered a sacrifice there in the hill country and invited his relatives to a meal. After they had eaten, they spent the night there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:55 - Early the next morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then he left and returned home.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:7 - In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups,[fn] and the flocks and herds and camels as well.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:2 - He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in the rear.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:11 - Then Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and I will give you whatever you ask.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:20 - So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city to speak to the men of their city.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:27 - The sons of Jacob came upon the dead bodies and looted the city where[fn] their sister had been defiled.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:28 - They seized their flocks and herds and donkeys and everything else of theirs in the city and out in the fields.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:2 - So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:4 - So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:6 - Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the members of his household, as well as his livestock and all his other animals and all the goods he had acquired in Canaan, and moved to a land some distance from his brother Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:3 - Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate[fn] robe for him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:16 - He replied, “I'm looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:23 - So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the ornate robe he was wearing—
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:26 - Judah said to his brothers, “What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:30 - He went back to his brothers and said, “The boy isn't there! Where can I turn now?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:12 - After a long time Judah's wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had recovered from his grief, he went up to Timnah, to the men who were shearing his sheep, and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:21 - He asked the men who lived there, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “There hasn't been any shrine prostitute here,” they said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:7 - and after a while his master's wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Come to bed with me!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:14 - she called her household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us! He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:22 - So the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for all that was done there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:7 - So he asked Pharaoh's officials who were in custody with him in his master's house, “Why do you look so sad today?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:7 - The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy, full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up; it had been a dream.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:8 - In the morning his mind was troubled, so he sent for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:24 - The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads. I told this to the magicians, but none of them could explain it to me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:56 - When the famine had spread over the whole country, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe throughout Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:7 - As soon as Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger and spoke harshly to them. “Where do you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied, “to buy food.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:8 - Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:26 - they loaded their grain on their donkeys and left.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:35 - As they were emptying their sacks, there in each man's sack was his pouch of silver! When they and their father saw the money pouches, they were frightened.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:37 - Then Reuben said to his father, “You may put both of my sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him back.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:16 - When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Take these men to my house, slaughter an animal and prepare a meal; they are to eat with me at noon.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:17 - The man did as Joseph told him and took the men to Joseph's house.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:18 - Now the men were frightened when they were taken to his house. They thought, “We were brought here because of the silver that was put back into our sacks the first time. He wants to attack us and overpower us and seize us as slaves and take our donkeys.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:21 - But at the place where we stopped for the night we opened our sacks and each of us found his silver—the exact weight—in the mouth of his sack. So we have brought it back with us.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:22 - We have also brought additional silver with us to buy food. We don't know who put our silver in our sacks.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:24 - The steward took the men into Joseph's house, gave them water to wash their feet and provided fodder for their donkeys.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:1 - Now Joseph gave these instructions to the steward of his house: “Fill the men's sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each man's silver in the mouth of his sack.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:19 - My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:3 - Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still living?” But his brothers were not able to answer him, because they were terrified at his presence.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:4 - Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come close to me.” When they had done so, he said, “I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:15 - And he kissed all his brothers and wept over them. Afterward his brothers talked with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:24 - Then he sent his brothers away, and as they were leaving he said to them, “Don't quarrel on the way!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:4 - I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again. And Joseph's own hand will close your eyes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:31 - Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, “I will go up and speak to Pharaoh and will say to him, ‘My brothers and my father's household, who were living in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:32 - The men are shepherds; they tend livestock, and they have brought along their flocks and herds and everything they own.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:6 - and the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best part of the land. Let them live in Goshen. And if you know of any among them with special ability, put them in charge of my own livestock.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:11 - So Joseph settled his father and his brothers in Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh directed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:1 - Some time later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim along with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:8 - When Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, “Who are these?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:13 - And Joseph took both of them, Ephraim on his right toward Israel's left hand and Manasseh on his left toward Israel's right hand, and brought them close to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:22 - And to you I give one more ridge of land[fn] than to your brothers, the ridge I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:1 - Then Jacob called for his sons and said: “Gather around so I can tell you what will happen to you in days to come.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:33 - When Jacob had finished giving instructions to his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed, breathed his last and was gathered to his people.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:4 - When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh's court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:8 - besides all the members of Joseph's household and his brothers and those belonging to his father's household. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:25 - And Joseph made the Israelites swear an oath and said, “God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:10 - Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:13 - and worked them ruthlessly.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:11 - One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:25 - So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:10 - So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:11 - But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:13 - Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, ‘What is his name?' Then what shall I tell them?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:20 - So I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:22 - Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder the Egyptians.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:18 - Then Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Let me return to my own people in Egypt to see if any of them are still alive.” Jethro said, “Go, and I wish you well.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:25 - But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses' feet with it.[fn] “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:28 - Then Moses told Aaron everything the LORD had sent him to say, and also about all the signs he had commanded him to perform.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:31 - and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD was concerned about them and had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:2 - Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD and I will not let Israel go.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:11 - “Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his country.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:13 - Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron about the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he commanded them to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:26 - It was this Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, “Bring the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:27 - They were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing the Israelites out of Egypt—this same Moses and Aaron.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:2 - You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:4 - he will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment I will bring out my divisions, my people the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:5 - And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:11 - Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:19 - The LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over the streams and canals, over the ponds and all the reservoirs—and they will turn to blood.' Blood will be everywhere in Egypt, even in vessels[fn] of wood and stone.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:3 - The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:4 - The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your officials.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:5 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the streams and canals and ponds, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:6 - So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:7 - But the magicians did the same things by their secret arts; they also made frogs come up on the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:8 - Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the LORD to take the frogs away from me and my people, and I will let your people go to offer sacrifices to the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:9 - Moses said to Pharaoh, “I leave to you the honor of setting the time for me to pray for you and your officials and your people that you and your houses may be rid of the frogs, except for those that remain in the Nile.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:21 - If you do not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies on you and your officials, on your people and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies; even the ground will be covered with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:24 - And the LORD did this. Dense swarms of flies poured into Pharaoh's palace and into the houses of his officials; throughout Egypt the land was ruined by the flies.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:9 - It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on people and animals throughout the land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:20 - Those officials of Pharaoh who feared the word of the LORD hurried to bring their slaves and their livestock inside.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:22 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that hail will fall all over Egypt—on people and animals and on everything growing in the fields of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:35 - So Pharaoh's heart was hard and he would not let the Israelites go, just as the LORD had said through Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:7 - Pharaoh's officials said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is ruined?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:20 - But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let the Israelites go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:10 - Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his country.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:23 - When the LORD goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:27 - then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.' ” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:32 - Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:36 - The LORD had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:51 - And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:19 - Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the Israelites swear an oath. He had said, “God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up with you from this place.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:5 - When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services!”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:13 - Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:25 - He jammed[fn] the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians said, “Let's get away from the Israelites! The LORD is fighting for them against Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:26 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:27 - Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea went back to its place. The Egyptians were fleeing toward[fn] it, and the LORD swept them into the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:28 - The water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:30 - That day the LORD saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:7 - “In the greatness of your majesty you threw down those who opposed you. You unleashed your burning anger; it consumed them like stubble.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22 - Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the Desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:16 - This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Everyone is to gather as much as they need. Take an omer[fn] for each person you have in your tent.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:18 - And when they measured it by the omer, the one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little. Everyone had gathered just as much as they needed.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:29 - Bear in mind that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where they are on the seventh day; no one is to go out.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:3 - and her two sons. One son was named Gershom,[fn] for Moses said, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land”;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:11 - Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, for he did this to those who had treated Israel arrogantly.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:19 - Listen now to me and I will give you some advice, and may God be with you. You must be the people's representative before God and bring their disputes to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:7 - So Moses went back and summoned the elders of the people and set before them all the words the LORD had commanded him to speak.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:8 - The people all responded together, “We will do everything the LORD has said.” So Moses brought their answer back to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:1 - And God spoke all these words:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:24 - “ ‘Make an altar of earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your sheep and goats and your cattle. Wherever I cause my name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:27 - “I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:28 - I will send the hornet ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - “I will establish your borders from the Red Sea[fn] to the Mediterranean Sea,[fn] and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:3 - When Moses went and told the people all the LORD's words and laws, they responded with one voice, “Everything the LORD has said we will do.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:5 - Then he sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as fellowship offerings to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:10 - and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as bright blue as the sky.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:14 - Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:19 - Make one cherub on one end and the second cherub on the other; make the cherubim of one piece with the cover, at the two ends.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:22 - There, above the cover between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the covenant law, I will meet with you and give you all my commands for the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:26 - Make four gold rings for the table and fasten them to the four corners, where the four legs are.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:28 - Make the poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold and carry the table with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:29 - And make its plates and dishes of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls for the pouring out of offerings.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:35 - One bud shall be under the first pair of branches extending from the lampstand, a second bud under the second pair, and a third bud under the third pair—six branches in all.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:37 - “Then make its seven lamps and set them up on it so that they light the space in front of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:11 - Then make fifty bronze clasps and put them in the loops to fasten the tent together as a unit.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:29 - Overlay the frames with gold and make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Also overlay the crossbars with gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:33 - Hang the curtain from the clasps and place the ark of the covenant law behind the curtain. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:7 - The poles are to be inserted into the rings so they will be on two sides of the altar when it is carried.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:1 - “Have Aaron your brother brought to you from among the Israelites, along with his sons Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, so they may serve me as priests.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:9 - “Take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:11 - Engrave the names of the sons of Israel on the two stones the way a gem cutter engraves a seal. Then mount the stones in gold filigree settings
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:12 - and fasten them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel. Aaron is to bear the names on his shoulders as a memorial before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:23 - Make two gold rings for it and fasten them to two corners of the breastpiece.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:41 - After you put these clothes on your brother Aaron and his sons, anoint and ordain them. Consecrate them so they may serve me as priests.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:3 - Put them in a basket and present them along with the bull and the two rams.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:4 - Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:8 - Bring his sons and dress them in tunics
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:13 - Then take all the fat on the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat on them, and burn them on the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:17 - Cut the ram into pieces and wash the internal organs and the legs, putting them with the head and the other pieces.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:20 - Slaughter it, take some of its blood and put it on the lobes of the right ears of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Then splash blood against the sides of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:21 - And take some blood from the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. Then he and his sons and their garments will be consecrated.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:22 - “Take from this ram the fat, the fat tail, the fat on the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, both kidneys with the fat on them, and the right thigh. (This is the ram for the ordination.)
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:32 - At the entrance to the tent of meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:44 - “So I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar and will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:3 - Overlay the top and all the sides and the horns with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:7 - “Aaron must burn fragrant incense on the altar every morning when he tends the lamps.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:8 - He must burn incense again when he lights the lamps at twilight so incense will burn regularly before the LORD for the generations to come.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:19 - Aaron and his sons are to wash their hands and feet with water from it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:21 - they shall wash their hands and feet so that they will not die. This is to be a lasting ordinance for Aaron and his descendants for the generations to come.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:30 - “Anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them so they may serve me as priests.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:19 - When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:20 - And he took the calf the people had made and burned it in the fire; then he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:13 - Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:16 - And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:28 - Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:11 - the tabernacle with its tent and its covering, clasps, frames, crossbars, posts and bases;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:12 - the ark with its poles and the atonement cover and the curtain that shields it;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:17 - the curtains of the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:19 - the woven garments worn for ministering in the sanctuary—both the sacred garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons when they serve as priests.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:27 - The leaders brought onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:2 - Then Moses summoned Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person to whom the LORD had given ability and who was willing to come and do the work.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:34 - They overlaid the frames with gold and made gold rings to hold the crossbars. They also overlaid the crossbars with gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:38 - and they made five posts with hooks for them. They overlaid the tops of the posts and their bands with gold and made their five bases of bronze.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:7 - Then he made two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:15 - The poles for carrying the table were made of acacia wood and were overlaid with gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:16 - And they made from pure gold the articles for the table—its plates and dishes and bowls and its pitchers for the pouring out of drink offerings.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:18 - Six branches extended from the sides of the lampstand—three on one side and three on the other.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:20 - All the tent pegs of the tabernacle and of the surrounding courtyard were bronze.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:28 - They used the 1,775 shekels to make the hooks for the posts, to overlay the tops of the posts, and to make their bands.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:31 - the bases for the surrounding courtyard and those for its entrance and all the tent pegs for the tabernacle and those for the surrounding courtyard.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:6 - They mounted the onyx stones in gold filigree settings and engraved them like a seal with the names of the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:7 - Then they fastened them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:16 - They made two gold filigree settings and two gold rings, and fastened the rings to two of the corners of the breastpiece.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:17 - They fastened the two gold chains to the rings at the corners of the breastpiece,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:18 - and the other ends of the chains to the two settings, attaching them to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:20 - Then they made two more gold rings and attached them to the bottom of the shoulder pieces on the front of the ephod, close to the seam just above the waistband of the ephod.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:21 - They tied the rings of the breastpiece to the rings of the ephod with blue cord, connecting it to the waistband so that the breastpiece would not swing out from the ephod—as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:25 - And they made bells of pure gold and attached them around the hem between the pomegranates.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:33 - Then they brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent and all its furnishings, its clasps, frames, crossbars, posts and bases;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:36 - the table with all its articles and the bread of the Presence;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:37 - the pure gold lampstand with its row of lamps and all its accessories, and the olive oil for the light;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:40 - the curtains of the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard; the ropes and tent pegs for the courtyard; all the furnishings for the tabernacle, the tent of meeting;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:4 - Bring in the table and set out what belongs on it. Then bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:12 - “Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:14 - Bring his sons and dress them in tunics.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:18 - When Moses set up the tabernacle, he put the bases in place, erected the frames, inserted the crossbars and set up the posts.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:20 - He took the tablets of the covenant law and placed them in the ark, attached the poles to the ark and put the atonement cover over it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:25 - and set up the lamps before the LORD, as the LORD commanded him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:30 - He placed the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:9 - You are to wash the internal organs and the legs with water, and the priest is to burn all of it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:13 - You are to wash the internal organs and the legs with water, and the priest is to bring all of them and burn them on the altar. It is a burnt offering, a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:2 - and take it to Aaron's sons the priests. The priest shall take a handful of the flour and oil, together with all the incense, and burn this as a memorial[fn] portion on the altar, a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:4 - both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which you will remove with the kidneys.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:10 - both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which you will remove with the kidneys.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:15 - both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which you will remove with the kidneys.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:2 - “Say to the Israelites: ‘When anyone sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the LORD's commands—
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:9 - both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which he will remove with the kidneys—
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:4 - both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the long lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:2 - “Bring Aaron and his sons, their garments, the anointing oil, the bull for the sin offering,[fn] the two rams and the basket containing bread made without yeast,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:6 - Then Moses brought Aaron and his sons forward and washed them with water.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:13 - Then he brought Aaron's sons forward, put tunics on them, tied sashes around them and fastened caps on them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:16 - Moses also took all the fat around the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, and both kidneys and their fat, and burned it on the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:21 - He washed the internal organs and the legs with water and burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:24 - Moses also brought Aaron's sons forward and put some of the blood on the lobes of their right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet. Then he splashed blood against the sides of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:25 - After that, he took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat around the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, both kidneys and their fat and the right thigh.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:30 - Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood from the altar and sprinkled them on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his garments and his sons and their garments.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:31 - Moses then said to Aaron and his sons, “Cook the meat at the entrance to the tent of meeting and eat it there with the bread from the basket of ordination offerings, as I was commanded: ‘Aaron and his sons are to eat it.'
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:36 - So Aaron and his sons did everything the LORD commanded through Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:1 - On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:10 - On the altar he burned the fat, the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver from the sin offering, as the LORD commanded Moses;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:14 - He washed the internal organs and the legs and burned them on top of the burnt offering on the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:19 - But the fat portions of the ox and the ram—the fat tail, the layer of fat, the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver—
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:4 - Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron's uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come here; carry your cousins outside the camp, away from the front of the sanctuary.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:6 - Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair become unkempt[fn] and do not tear your clothes, or you will die and the LORD will be angry with the whole community. But your relatives, all the Israelites, may mourn for those the LORD has destroyed by fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:11 - and so you can teach the Israelites all the decrees the LORD has given them through Moses.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:12 - Moses said to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take the grain offering left over from the food offerings prepared without yeast and presented to the LORD and eat it beside the altar, for it is most holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:16 - When Moses inquired about the goat of the sin offering[fn] and found that it had been burned up, he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's remaining sons, and asked,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:40 - he is to order that the contaminated stones be torn out and thrown into an unclean place outside the town.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:43 - “If the defiling mold reappears in the house after the stones have been torn out and the house scraped and plastered,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45 - It must be torn down—its stones, timbers and all the plaster—and taken out of the town to an unclean place.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:31 - “ ‘You must keep the Israelites separate from things that make them unclean, so they will not die in their uncleanness for defiling my dwelling place,[fn] which is among them.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:1 - The LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron who died when they approached the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:7 - Then he is to take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:8 - He is to cast lots for the two goats—one lot for the LORD and the other for the scapegoat.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:2 - “Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them: ‘This is what the LORD has commanded:
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:10 - Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:5 - I myself will set my face against him and his family and will cut them off from their people together with all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molek.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:20 - or who is a hunchback or a dwarf, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:24 - So Moses told this to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:43 - so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:4 - The lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD must be tended continually.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:7 - You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:16 - then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and sap your strength. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:26 - When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:34 - These are the commands the LORD gave Moses at Mount Sinai for the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:17 - Moses and Aaron took these men whose names had been specified,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:50 - Instead, appoint the Levites to be in charge of the tabernacle of the covenant law—over all its furnishings and everything belonging to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; they are to take care of it and encamp around it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:9 - Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are the Israelites who are to be given wholly to him.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:10 - Appoint Aaron and his sons to serve as priests; anyone else who approaches the sanctuary is to be put to death.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:12 - “I have taken the Levites from among the Israelites in place of the first male offspring of every Israelite woman. The Levites are mine,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:15 - “Count the Levites by their families and clans. Count every male a month old or more.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:36 - The Merarites were appointed to take care of the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, posts, bases, all its equipment, and everything related to their use,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:37 - as well as the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs and ropes.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:41 - Take the Levites for me in place of all the firstborn of the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites in place of all the firstborn of the livestock of the Israelites. I am the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:45 - “Take the Levites in place of all the firstborn of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites in place of their livestock. The Levites are to be mine. I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:46 - To redeem the 273 firstborn Israelites who exceed the number of the Levites,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:6 - Then they are to cover the curtain with a durable leather,[fn] spread a cloth of solid blue over that and put the poles in place.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:7 - “Over the table of the Presence they are to spread a blue cloth and put on it the plates, dishes and bowls, and the jars for drink offerings; the bread that is continually there is to remain on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:8 - They are to spread a scarlet cloth over them, cover that with the durable leather and put the poles in place.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:9 - “They are to take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand that is for light, together with its lamps, its wick trimmers and trays, and all its jars for the olive oil used to supply it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:11 - “Over the gold altar they are to spread a blue cloth and cover that with the durable leather and put the poles in place.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:14 - Then they are to place on it all the utensils used for ministering at the altar, including the firepans, meat forks, shovels and sprinkling bowls. Over it they are to spread a covering of the durable leather and put the poles in place.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:31 - As part of all their service at the tent, they are to carry the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, posts and bases,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:32 - as well as the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, ropes, all their equipment and everything related to their use. Assign to each man the specific things he is to carry.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:34 - Moses, Aaron and the leaders of the community counted the Kohathites by their clans and families.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:46 - So Moses, Aaron and the leaders of Israel counted all the Levites by their clans and families.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:23 - “Tell Aaron and his sons, ‘This is how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:6 - So Moses took the carts and oxen and gave them to the Levites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:7 - He gave two carts and four oxen to the Gershonites, as their work required,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:8 - and he gave four carts and eight oxen to the Merarites, as their work required. They were all under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:2 - “Speak to Aaron and say to him, ‘When you set up the lamps, see that all seven light up the area in front of the lampstand.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:3 - Aaron did so; he set up the lamps so that they faced forward on the lampstand, just as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:6 - “Take the Levites from among all the Israelites and make them ceremonially clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:9 - Bring the Levites to the front of the tent of meeting and assemble the whole Israelite community.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:10 - You are to bring the Levites before the LORD, and the Israelites are to lay their hands on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:11 - Aaron is to present the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the Israelites, so that they may be ready to do the work of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:13 - Have the Levites stand in front of Aaron and his sons and then present them as a wave offering to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:14 - In this way you are to set the Levites apart from the other Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:18 - And I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn sons in Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:19 - From among all the Israelites, I have given the Levites as gifts to Aaron and his sons to do the work at the tent of meeting on behalf of the Israelites and to make atonement for them so that no plague will strike the Israelites when they go near the sanctuary.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:9 - When you go into battle in your own land against an enemy who is oppressing you, sound a blast on the trumpets. Then you will be remembered by the LORD your God and rescued from your enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:5 - We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost—also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:25 - Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took some of the power of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but did not do so again.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:3 - (Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:32 - And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:33 - We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:5 - Then he said to Korah and all his followers: “In the morning the LORD will show who belongs to him and who is holy, and he will have that person come near him. The man he chooses he will cause to come near him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:10 - He has brought you and all your fellow Levites near himself, but now you are trying to get the priesthood too.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:14 - Moreover, you haven't brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you want to treat these men like slaves[fn]? No, we will not come!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:30 - But if the LORD brings about something totally new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the realm of the dead, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:31 - As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:32 - and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, and all those associated with Korah, together with their possessions.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:35 - And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:2 - Bring your fellow Levites from your ancestral tribe to join you and assist you when you and your sons minister before the tent of the covenant law.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:6 - I myself have selected your fellow Levites from among the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to the LORD to do the work at the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:15 - Our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived there many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:6 - Then the LORD sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:14 - That is why the Book of the Wars of the LORD says: “. . . Zahab[fn] in Suphah and the ravines, the Arnon
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:15 - and[fn] the slopes of the ravines that lead to the settlement of Ar and lie along the border of Moab.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:35 - So they struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army, leaving them no survivors. And they took possession of his land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:4 - The Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde is going to lick up everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” So Balak son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:31 - Then the LORD opened Balaam's eyes, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with his sword drawn. So he bowed low and fell facedown.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:4 - God met with him, and Balaam said, “I have prepared seven altars, and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:2 - When Balaam looked out and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God came on him
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:17 - “I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob; a scepter will rise out of Israel. He will crush the foreheads of Moab, the skulls[fn] of[fn] all the people of Sheth.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:4 - The LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the LORD's fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:11 - “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites. Since he was as zealous for my honor among them as I am, I did not put an end to them in my zeal.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:10 - The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them along with Korah, whose followers died when the fire devoured the 250 men. And they served as a warning sign.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:63 - These are the ones counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest when they counted the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:64 - Not one of them was among those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Desert of Sinai.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:14 - With each bull there is to be a drink offering of half a hin[fn] of wine; with the ram, a third of a hin[fn]; and with each lamb, a quarter of a hin. This is the monthly burnt offering to be made at each new moon during the year.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:10 - and with each of the seven lambs, one-tenth.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:14 - With each of the thirteen bulls offer a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil; with each of the two rams, two-tenths;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:15 - and with each of the fourteen lambs, one-tenth.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:1 - Moses said to the heads of the tribes of Israel: “This is what the LORD commands:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:4 - and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all her vows and every pledge by which she obligated herself will stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:5 - But if her father forbids her when he hears about it, none of her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand; the LORD will release her because her father has forbidden her.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:12 - But if her husband nullifies them when he hears about them, then none of the vows or pledges that came from her lips will stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the LORD will release her.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:14 - But if her husband says nothing to her about it from day to day, then he confirms all her vows or the pledges binding on her. He confirms them by saying nothing to her when he hears about them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:8 - Among their victims were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:21 - Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, “This is what is required by the law that the LORD gave Moses:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:2 - So they came to Moses and Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the community, and said,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:17 - But we will arm ourselves for battle[fn] and go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them to their place. Meanwhile our women and children will live in fortified cities, for protection from the inhabitants of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:19 - We will not receive any inheritance with them on the other side of the Jordan, because our inheritance has come to us on the east side of the Jordan.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:28 - Then Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun and to the family heads of the Israelite tribes.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:2 - At the LORD's command Moses recorded the stages in their journey. This is their journey by stages:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:4 - who were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck down among them; for the LORD had brought judgment on their gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52 - drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:53 - Take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:55 - “ ‘But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:14 - because the families of the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:15 - These two-and-a-half tribes have received their inheritance east of the Jordan across from Jericho, toward the sunrise.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7 - Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:18 - And at that time I told you everything you were to do.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:8 - So we went on past our relatives the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion Geber, and traveled along the desert road of Moab.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:33 - the LORD our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:20 - until the LORD gives rest to your fellow Israelites as he has to you, and they too have taken over the land that the LORD your God is giving them across the Jordan. After that, each of you may go back to the possession I have given you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:9 - Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:10 - Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when he said to me, “Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:19 - And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars—all the heavenly array—do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:37 - Because he loved your ancestors and chose their descendants after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence and his great strength,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:30 - “Go, tell them to return to their tents.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:7 - Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:19 - thrusting out all your enemies before you, as the LORD said.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:5 - This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles[fn] and burn their idols in the fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:15 - The LORD will keep you free from every disease. He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all who hate you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:19 - You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm, with which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:24 - He will give their kings into your hand, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you; you will destroy them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:4 - The LORD wrote on these tablets what he had written before, the Ten Commandments he had proclaimed to you on the mountain, out of the fire, on the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:15 - Yet the LORD set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:6 - and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth right in the middle of all Israel and swallowed them up with their households, their tents and every living thing that belonged to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:2 - Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains, on the hills and under every spreading tree, where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:3 - Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:28 - Be careful to obey all these regulations I am giving you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:30 - and after they have been destroyed before you, be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:31 - You must not worship the LORD your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:13 - that troublemakers have arisen among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods you have not known),
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:15 - you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. You must destroy it completely,[fn] both its people and its livestock.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:7 - Roast it and eat it at the place the LORD your God will choose. Then in the morning return to your tents.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:9 - Go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office at that time. Inquire of them and they will give you the verdict.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:11 - or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:1 - When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:3 - He shall say: “Hear, Israel: Today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not panic or be terrified by them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:4 - For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:10 - When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:9 - When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:18 - When you were weary and worn out, they met you on your journey and attacked all who were lagging behind; they had no fear of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:3 - Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, promised you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:4 - And when you have crossed the Jordan, set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I command you today, and coat them with plaster.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:7 - The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:33 - A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:36 - The LORD will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:2 - Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials and to all his land.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:3 - With your own eyes you saw those great trials, those signs and great wonders.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:9 - Carefully follow the terms of this covenant, so that you may prosper in everything you do.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:5 - He will bring you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:7 - The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:1 - Then Moses went out and spoke these words to all Israel:
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:12 - Assemble the people—men, women and children, and the foreigners residing in your towns—so they can listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and follow carefully all the words of this law.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:19 - “Now write down this song and teach it to the Israelites and have them sing it, so that it may be a witness for me against them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:22 - So Moses wrote down this song that day and taught it to the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:23 - The LORD gave this command to Joshua son of Nun: “Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the Israelites into the land I promised them on oath, and I myself will be with you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:24 - After Moses finished writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:28 - Assemble before me all the elders of your tribes and all your officials, so that I can speak these words in their hearing and call the heavens and the earth to testify against them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:7 - Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:44 - Moses came with Joshua[fn] son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:46 - he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:1 - This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced on the Israelites before his death.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:9 - He said of his father and mother, ‘I have no regard for them.' He did not recognize his brothers or acknowledge his own children, but he watched over your word and guarded your covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:15 - until the LORD gives them rest, as he has done for you, and until they too have taken possession of the land the LORD your God is giving them. After that, you may go back and occupy your own land, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you east of the Jordan toward the sunrise.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:3 - So the king of Jericho sent this message to Rahab: “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, because they have come to spy out the whole land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:4 - But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. She said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they had come from.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:13 - that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them—and that you will save us from death.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:18 - unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother, your brothers and all your family into your house.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:20 - But if you tell what we are doing, we will be released from the oath you made us swear.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:3 - giving orders to the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the Levitical priests carrying it, you are to move out from your positions and follow it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:9 - Joshua set up the twelve stones that had been[fn] in the middle of the Jordan at the spot where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant had stood. And they are there to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:18 - And the priests came up out of the river carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD. No sooner had they set their feet on the dry ground than the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and ran at flood stage as before.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:20 - And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:2 - At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites again.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:3 - So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites at Gibeath Haaraloth.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:4 - Now this is why he did so: All those who came out of Egypt—all the men of military age—died in the wilderness on the way after leaving Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:7 - So he raised up their sons in their place, and these were the ones Joshua circumcised. They were still uncircumcised because they had not been circumcised on the way.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:3 - March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:6 - So Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant of the LORD and have seven priests carry trumpets in front of it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:23 - So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother, her brothers and sisters and all who belonged to her. They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:25 - But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her family and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho—and she lives among the Israelites to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:23 - They took the things from the tent, brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites and spread them out before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:24 - Then Joshua, together with all Israel, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the gold bar, his sons and daughters, his cattle, donkeys and sheep, his tent and all that he had, to the Valley of Achor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:1 - Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. For I have delivered into your hands the king of Ai, his people, his city and his land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:21 - For when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that smoke was going up from it, they turned around and attacked the men of Ai.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:24 - When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai in the fields and in the wilderness where they had chased them, and when every one of them had been put to the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and killed those who were in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:25 - Twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:24 - They answered Joshua, “Your servants were clearly told how the LORD your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you the whole land and to wipe out all its inhabitants from before you. So we feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we did this.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:4 - “Come up and help me attack Gibeon,” he said, “because it has made peace with Joshua and the Israelites.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:11 - As they fled before Israel on the road down from Beth Horon to Azekah, the LORD hurled large hailstones down on them, and more of them died from the hail than were killed by the swords of the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:13 - So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on[fn] its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar. The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:22 - Joshua said, “Open the mouth of the cave and bring those five kings out to me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:23 - So they brought the five kings out of the cave—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish and Eglon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:24 - When they had brought these kings to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the army commanders who had come with him, “Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So they came forward and placed their feet on their necks.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:40 - So Joshua subdued the whole region, including the hill country, the Negev, the western foothills and the mountain slopes, together with all their kings. He left no survivors. He totally destroyed all who breathed, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:42 - All these kings and their lands Joshua conquered in one campaign, because the LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:2 - and to the northern kings who were in the mountains, in the Arabah south of Kinnereth, in the western foothills and in Naphoth Dor on the west;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:3 - to the Canaanites in the east and west; to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites and Jebusites in the hill country; and to the Hivites below Hermon in the region of Mizpah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:6 - The LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, because by this time tomorrow I will hand all of them, slain, over to Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn their chariots.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:9 - Joshua did to them as the LORD had directed: He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:12 - Joshua took all these royal cities and their kings and put them to the sword. He totally destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:17 - from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, to Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and put them to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:18 - Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long time.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:21 - At that time Joshua went and destroyed the Anakites from the hill country: from Hebron, Debir and Anab, from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua totally destroyed them and their towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:6 - “As for all the inhabitants of the mountain regions from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, that is, all the Sidonians, I myself will drive them out before the Israelites. Be sure to allocate this land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have instructed you,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:21 - all the towns on the plateau and the entire realm of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled at Heshbon. Moses had defeated him and the Midianite chiefs, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba—princes allied with Sihon—who lived in that country.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:14 - From Hebron Caleb drove out the three Anakites—Sheshai, Ahiman and Talmai, the sons of Anak.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:15 - From there he marched against the people living in Debir (formerly called Kiriath Sepher).
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:10 - They did not dislodge the Canaanites living in Gezer; to this day the Canaanites live among the people of Ephraim but are required to do forced labor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:11 - Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh also had Beth Shan, Ibleam and the people of Dor, Endor, Taanach and Megiddo, together with their surrounding settlements (the third in the list is Naphoth[fn]).
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:13 - However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they subjected the Canaanites to forced labor but did not drive them out completely.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:1 - Now the family heads of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the other tribal families of Israel
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:12 - But the fields and villages around the city they had given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:42 - Each of these towns had pasturelands surrounding it; this was true for all these towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:44 - The LORD gave them rest on every side, just as he had sworn to their ancestors. Not one of their enemies withstood them; the LORD gave all their enemies into their hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:1 - Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:3 - For a long time now—to this very day—you have not deserted your fellow Israelites but have carried out the mission the LORD your God gave you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:4 - Now that the LORD your God has given them rest as he promised, return to your homes in the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side of the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:6 - Then Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their homes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:7 - (To the half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given land in Bashan, and to the other half of the tribe Joshua gave land on the west side of the Jordan along with their fellow Israelites.) When Joshua sent them home, he blessed them,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:8 - saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth—with large herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze and iron, and a great quantity of clothing—and divide the plunder from your enemies with your fellow Israelites.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:13 - So the Israelites sent Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, to the land of Gilead—to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:15 - When they went to Gilead—to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh—they said to them:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:25 - The LORD has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you—you Reubenites and Gadites! You have no share in the LORD.' So your descendants might cause ours to stop fearing the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:30 - When Phinehas the priest and the leaders of the community—the heads of the clans of the Israelites—heard what Reuben, Gad and Manasseh had to say, they were pleased.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:31 - And Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, said to Reuben, Gad and Manasseh, “Today we know that the LORD is with us, because you have not been unfaithful to the LORD in this matter. Now you have rescued the Israelites from the LORD's hand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:32 - Then Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, and the leaders returned to Canaan from their meeting with the Reubenites and Gadites in Gilead and reported to the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:33 - They were glad to hear the report and praised God. And they talked no more about going to war against them to devastate the country where the Reubenites and the Gadites lived.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:2 - summoned all Israel—their elders, leaders, judges and officials—and said to them: “I am very old.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:5 - The LORD your God himself will push them out for your sake. He will drive them out before you, and you will take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:1 - Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges and officials of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:14 - “Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:17 - It was the LORD our God himself who brought us and our parents up out of Egypt, from that land of slavery, and performed those great signs before our eyes. He protected us on our entire journey and among all the nations through which we traveled.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:23 - “Now then,” said Joshua, “throw away the foreign gods that are among you and yield your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:30 - And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath Serah[fn] in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:33 - And Eleazar son of Aaron died and was buried at Gibeah, which had been allotted to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:11 - From there they advanced against the people living in Debir (formerly called Kiriath Sepher).
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:16 - The descendants of Moses' father-in-law, the Kenite, went up from the City of Palms[fn] with the people of Judah to live among the inhabitants of the Desert of Judah in the Negev near Arad.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:19 - The LORD was with the men of Judah. They took possession of the hill country, but they were unable to drive the people from the plains, because they had chariots fitted with iron.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:20 - As Moses had promised, Hebron was given to Caleb, who drove from it the three sons of Anak.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:27 - But Manasseh did not drive out the people of Beth Shan or Taanach or Dor or Ibleam or Megiddo and their surrounding settlements, for the Canaanites were determined to live in that land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:30 - Neither did Zebulun drive out the Canaanites living in Kitron or Nahalol, so these Canaanites lived among them, but Zebulun did subject them to forced labor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:31 - Nor did Asher drive out those living in Akko or Sidon or Ahlab or Akzib or Helbah or Aphek or Rehob.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:33 - Neither did Naphtali drive out those living in Beth Shemesh or Beth Anath; but the Naphtalites too lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, and those living in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath became forced laborers for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:34 - The Amorites confined the Danites to the hill country, not allowing them to come down into the plain.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:4 - When the angel of the LORD had spoken these things to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:10 - After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the LORD nor what he had done for Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:19 - But when the judge died, the people returned to ways even more corrupt than those of their ancestors, following other gods and serving and worshiping them. They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:1 - These are the nations the LORD left to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:13 - Getting the Ammonites and Amalekites to join him, Eglon came and attacked Israel, and they took possession of the City of Palms.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:18 - After Ehud had presented the tribute, he sent on their way those who had carried it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:28 - “Follow me,” he ordered, “for the LORD has given Moab, your enemy, into your hands.” So they followed him down and took possession of the fords of the Jordan that led to Moab; they allowed no one to cross over.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:29 - At that time they struck down about ten thousand Moabites, all vigorous and strong; not one escaped.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:31 - After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath, who struck down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad. He too saved Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:13 - “The remnant of the nobles came down; the people of the LORD came down to me against the mighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:23 - ‘Curse Meroz,' said the angel of the LORD. ‘Curse its people bitterly, because they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:28 - “Through the window peered Sisera's mother; behind the lattice she cried out, ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why is the clatter of his chariots delayed?'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:8 - he sent them a prophet, who said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:10 - I said to you, ‘I am the LORD your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live.' But you have not listened to me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:20 - The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:21 - Then the angel of the LORD touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of the staff that was in his hand. Fire flared from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread. And the angel of the LORD disappeared.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:27 - So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD told him. But because he was afraid of his family and the townspeople, he did it at night rather than in the daytime.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:31 - But Joash replied to the hostile crowd around him, “Are you going to plead Baal's cause? Are you trying to save him? Whoever fights for him shall be put to death by morning! If Baal really is a god, he can defend himself when someone breaks down his altar.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:16 - Dividing the three hundred men into three companies, he placed trumpets and empty jars in the hands of all of them, with torches inside.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:19 - Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guard. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars that were in their hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:25 - They also captured two of the Midianite leaders, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was by the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:3 - God gave Oreb and Zeeb, the Midianite leaders, into your hands. What was I able to do compared to you?” At this, their resentment against him subsided.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:12 - Zebah and Zalmunna, the two kings of Midian, fled, but he pursued them and captured them, routing their entire army.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:14 - He caught a young man of Sukkoth and questioned him, and the young man wrote down for him the names of the seventy-seven officials of Sukkoth, the elders of the town.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:15 - Then Gideon came and said to the men of Sukkoth, “Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me by saying, ‘Do you already have the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna in your possession? Why should we give bread to your exhausted men?' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:16 - He took the elders of the town and taught the men of Sukkoth a lesson by punishing them with desert thorns and briers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:17 - He also pulled down the tower of Peniel and killed the men of the town.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:21 - Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Come, do it yourself. ‘As is the man, so is his strength.' ” So Gideon stepped forward and killed them, and took the ornaments off their camels' necks.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:1 - Abimelek son of Jerub-Baal went to his mother's brothers in Shechem and said to them and to all his mother's clan,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:3 - When the brothers repeated all this to the citizens of Shechem, they were inclined to follow Abimelek, for they said, “He is related to us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:5 - He went to his father's home in Ophrah and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerub-Baal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerub-Baal, escaped by hiding.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:18 - But today you have revolted against my father's family. You have murdered his seventy sons on a single stone and have made Abimelek, the son of his female slave, king over the citizens of Shechem because he is related to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:20 - But if you have not, let fire come out from Abimelek and consume you, the citizens of Shechem and Beth Millo, and let fire come out from you, the citizens of Shechem and Beth Millo, and consume Abimelek!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:24 - God did this in order that the crime against Jerub-Baal's seventy sons, the shedding of their blood, might be avenged on their brother Abimelek and on the citizens of Shechem, who had helped him murder his brothers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:25 - In opposition to him these citizens of Shechem set men on the hilltops to ambush and rob everyone who passed by, and this was reported to Abimelek.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:27 - After they had gone out into the fields and gathered the grapes and trodden them, they held a festival in the temple of their god. While they were eating and drinking, they cursed Abimelek.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:30 - When Zebul the governor of the city heard what Gaal son of Ebed said, he was very angry.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:41 - Then Abimelek stayed in Arumah, and Zebul drove Gaal and his clan out of Shechem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:44 - Abimelek and the companies with him rushed forward to a position at the entrance of the city gate. Then two companies attacked those in the fields and struck them down.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:48 - he and all his men went up Mount Zalmon. He took an ax and cut off some branches, which he lifted to his shoulders. He ordered the men with him, “Quick! Do what you have seen me do!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:56 - Thus God repaid the wickedness that Abimelek had done to his father by murdering his seventy brothers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:8 - who that year shattered and crushed them. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites on the east side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:11 - The LORD replied, “When the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:14 - Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you when you are in trouble!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:16 - Then they got rid of the foreign gods among them and served the LORD. And he could bear Israel's misery no longer.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:9 - Jephthah answered, “Suppose you take me back to fight the Ammonites and the LORD gives them to me—will I really be your head?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:11 - So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and commander over them. And he repeated all his words before the LORD in Mizpah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:13 - The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah's messengers, “When Israel came up out of Egypt, they took away my land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, all the way to the Jordan. Now give it back peaceably.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:30 - And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD: “If you give the Ammonites into my hands,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:32 - Then Jephthah went over to fight the Ammonites, and the LORD gave them into his hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:3 - When I saw that you wouldn't help, I took my life in my hands and crossed over to fight the Ammonites, and the LORD gave me the victory over them. Now why have you come up today to fight me?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:4 - Jephthah then called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, “You Gileadites are renegades from Ephraim and Manasseh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:5 - lit the torches and let the foxes loose in the standing grain of the Philistines. He burned up the shocks and standing grain, together with the vineyards and olive groves.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:14 - and[fn] tightened it with the pin. Again she called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” He awoke from his sleep and pulled up the pin and the loom, with the fabric.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:17 - So he told her everything. “No razor has ever been used on my head,” he said, “because I have been a Nazirite dedicated to God from my mother's womb. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:18 - When Delilah saw that he had told her everything, she sent word to the rulers of the Philistines, “Come back once more; he has told me everything.” So the rulers of the Philistines returned with the silver in their hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:19 - After putting him to sleep on her lap, she called for someone to shave off the seven braids of his hair, and so began to subdue him.[fn] And his strength left him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:21 - Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain in the prison.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:24 - When the people saw him, they praised their god, saying, “Our god has delivered our enemy into our hands, the one who laid waste our land and multiplied our slain.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26 - Samson said to the servant who held his hand, “Put me where I can feel the pillars that support the temple, so that I may lean against them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:29 - Then Samson reached toward the two central pillars on which the temple stood. Bracing himself against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:30 - Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:2 - said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels[fn] of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse—I have that silver with me; I took it.” Then his mother said, “The LORD bless you, my son!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:3 - When he returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I solemnly consecrate my silver to the LORD for my son to make an image overlaid with silver. I will give it back to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:8 - When they returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their fellow Danites asked them, “How did you find things?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:14 - Then the five men who had spied out the land of Laish said to their fellow Danites, “Do you know that one of these houses has an ephod, some household gods and an image overlaid with silver? Now you know what to do.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:21 - So he took him into his house and fed his donkeys. After they had washed their feet, they had something to eat and drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:13 - Now turn those wicked men of Gibeah over to us so that we may put them to death and purge the evil from Israel.” But the Benjamites would not listen to their fellow Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:48 - The men of Israel went back to Benjamin and put all the towns to the sword, including the animals and everything else they found. All the towns they came across they set on fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:10 - So the assembly sent twelve thousand fighting men with instructions to go to Jabesh Gilead and put to the sword those living there, including the women and children.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:14 - So the Benjamites returned at that time and were given the women of Jabesh Gilead who had been spared. But there were not enough for all of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 - In the days when the judges ruled,[fn] there was a famine in the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:15 - “Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:5 - Boaz asked the overseer of his harvesters, “Who does that young woman belong to?”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:6 - The overseer replied, “She is the Moabite who came back from Moab with Naomi.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:29 - Why do you[fn] scorn my sacrifice and offering that I prescribed for my dwelling? Why do you honor your sons more than me by fattening yourselves on the choice parts of every offering made by my people Israel?'
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:30 - “Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that members of your family would minister before me forever.' But now the LORD declares: ‘Far be it from me! Those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me will be disdained.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:33 - Every one of you that I do not cut off from serving at my altar I will spare only to destroy your sight and sap your strength, and all your descendants will die in the prime of life.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:34 - “ ‘And what happens to your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will be a sign to you—they will both die on the same day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:18 - So Samuel told him everything, hiding nothing from him. Then Eli said, “He is the LORD; let him do what is good in his eyes.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:3 - When the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, there was Dagon, fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the LORD! They took Dagon and put him back in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:8 - So they called together all the rulers of the Philistines and asked them, “What shall we do with the ark of the god of Israel?” They answered, “Have the ark of the god of Israel moved to Gath.” So they moved the ark of the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:9 - But after they had moved it, the LORD's hand was against that city, throwing it into a great panic. He afflicted the people of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:11 - So they called together all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send the ark of the god of Israel away; let it go back to its own place, or it[fn] will kill us and our people.” For death had filled the city with panic; God's hand was very heavy on it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:2 - the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the LORD? Tell us how we should send it back to its place.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:11 - They placed the ark of the LORD on the cart and along with it the chest containing the gold rats and the models of the tumors.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:21 - Then they sent messengers to the people of Kiriath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the LORD. Come down and take it up to your town.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:3 - So Samuel said to all the Israelites, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths and commit yourselves to the LORD and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:6 - When they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the LORD.” Now Samuel was serving as leader[fn] of Israel at Mizpah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:10 - While Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to engage Israel in battle. But that day the LORD thundered with loud thunder against the Philistines and threw them into such a panic that they were routed before the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:11 - The men of Israel rushed out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, slaughtering them along the way to a point below Beth Kar.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:13 - So the Philistines were subdued and they stopped invading Israel's territory. Throughout Samuel's lifetime, the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:1 - When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as Israel's leaders.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:10 - Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:11 - He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:14 - He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:15 - He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:16 - Your male and female servants and the best of your cattle[fn] and donkeys he will take for his own use.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:21 - When Samuel heard all that the people said, he repeated it before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:24 - So the cook took up the thigh with what was on it and set it in front of Saul. Samuel said, “Here is what has been kept for you. Eat, because it was set aside for you for this occasion from the time I said, ‘I have invited guests.' ” And Saul dined with Samuel that day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:18 - and said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the power of Egypt and all the kingdoms that oppressed you.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:4 - When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and reported these terms to the people, they all wept aloud.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:11 - The next day Saul separated his men into three divisions; during the last watch of the night they broke into the camp of the Ammonites and slaughtered them until the heat of the day. Those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:12 - The people then said to Samuel, “Who was it that asked, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?' Turn these men over to us so that we may put them to death.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:6 - Then Samuel said to the people, “It is the LORD who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your ancestors up out of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:8 - “After Jacob entered Egypt, they cried to the LORD for help, and the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:8 - Jonathan said, “Come on, then; we will cross over toward them and let them see us.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:13 - Jonathan climbed up, using his hands and feet, with his armor-bearer right behind him. The Philistines fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer followed and killed behind him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:47 - After Saul had assumed rule over Israel, he fought against their enemies on every side: Moab, the Ammonites, Edom, the kings[fn] of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he inflicted punishment on them.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:52 - All the days of Saul there was bitter war with the Philistines, and whenever Saul saw a mighty or brave man, he took him into his service.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:11 - “I regret that I have made Saul king, because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions.” Samuel was angry, and he cried out to the LORD all that night.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:18 - And he sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and completely destroy those wicked people, the Amalekites; wage war against them until you have wiped them out.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:5 - Samuel replied, “Yes, in peace; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come to the sacrifice with me.” Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:10 - Jesse had seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel said to him, “The LORD has not chosen these.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:17 - So Saul said to his attendants, “Find someone who plays well and bring him to me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:1 - Saul told his son Jonathan and all the attendants to kill David. But Jonathan had taken a great liking to David
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:8 - Once more war broke out, and David went out and fought the Philistines. He struck them with such force that they fled before him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:20 - so he sent men to capture him. But when they saw a group of prophets prophesying, with Samuel standing there as their leader, the Spirit of God came on Saul's men, and they also prophesied.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:15 - and do not ever cut off your kindness from my family—not even when the LORD has cut off every one of David's enemies from the face of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:29 - He said, ‘Let me go, because our family is observing a sacrifice in the town and my brother has ordered me to be there. If I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away to see my brothers.' That is why he has not come to the king's table.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:6 - So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the LORD and replaced by hot bread on the day it was taken away.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:14 - Achish said to his servants, “Look at the man! He is insane! Why bring him to me?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:7 - He said to them, “Listen, men of Benjamin! Will the son of Jesse give all of you fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:11 - Then the king sent for the priest Ahimelek son of Ahitub and all the men of his family, who were the priests at Nob, and they all came to the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:17 - Then the king ordered the guards at his side: “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because they too have sided with David. They knew he was fleeing, yet they did not tell me.” But the king's officials were unwilling to raise a hand to strike the priests of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:18 - The king then ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests.” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck them down. That day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:21 - He told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:1 - When David was told, “Look, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and are looting the threshing floors,”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:2 - he inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?” The LORD answered him, “Go, attack the Philistines and save Keilah.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:4 - Once again David inquired of the LORD, and the LORD answered him, “Go down to Keilah, for I am going to give the Philistines into your hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:5 - So David and his men went to Keilah, fought the Philistines and carried off their livestock. He inflicted heavy losses on the Philistines and saved the people of Keilah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:8 - And Saul called up all his forces for battle, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:26 - Saul was going along one side of the mountain, and David and his men were on the other side, hurrying to get away from Saul. As Saul and his forces were closing in on David and his men to capture them,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:2 - So Saul took three thousand able young men from all Israel and set out to look for David and his men near the Crags of the Wild Goats.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:6 - He said to his men, “The LORD forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the LORD's anointed, or lay my hand on him; for he is the anointed of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:7 - With these words David sharply rebuked his men and did not allow them to attack Saul. And Saul left the cave and went his way.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:9 - When David's men arrived, they gave Nabal this message in David's name. Then they waited.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:11 - Why should I take my bread and water, and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men coming from who knows where?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:18 - Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs[fn] of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:24 - She fell at his feet and said: “Pardon your servant, my lord, and let me speak to you; hear what your servant has to say.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:3 - Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in his own town of Ramah. Saul had expelled the mediums and spiritists from the land.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:9 - But the woman said to him, “Surely you know what Saul has done. He has cut off the mediums and spiritists from the land. Why have you set a trap for my life to bring about my death?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:21 - When the woman came to Saul and saw that he was greatly shaken, she said, “Look, your servant has obeyed you. I took my life in my hands and did what you told me to do.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:3 - The commanders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish replied, “Is this not David, who was an officer of Saul king of Israel? He has already been with me for over a year, and from the day he left Saul until now, I have found no fault in him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:8 - “But what have I done?” asked David. “What have you found against your servant from the day I came to you until now? Why can't I go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:6 - David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:21 - Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him and who were left behind at the Besor Valley. They came out to meet David and the men with him. As David and his men approached, he asked them how they were.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:31 - and Hebron; and to those in all the other places where he and his men had roamed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:8 - The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:18 - and he ordered that the people of Judah be taught this lament of the bow (it is written in the Book of Jashar):
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:5 - he sent messengers to them to say to them, “The LORD bless you for showing this kindness to Saul your master by burying him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:17 - Abner conferred with the elders of Israel and said, “For some time you have wanted to make David your king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:38 - Then the king said to his men, “Do you not realize that a commander and a great man has fallen in Israel this day?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:4 - (Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in both feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she hurried to leave, he fell and became disabled. His name was Mephibosheth.)
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:12 - So David gave an order to his men, and they killed them. They cut off their hands and feet and hung the bodies by the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-Bosheth and buried it in Abner's tomb at Hebron.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:8 - On that day David had said, “Anyone who conquers the Jebusites will have to use the water shaft to reach those ‘lame and blind' who are David's enemies.[fn]” That is why they say, “The ‘blind and lame' will not enter the palace.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:19 - so David inquired of the LORD, “Shall I go and attack the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hands?” The LORD answered him, “Go, for I will surely deliver the Philistines into your hands.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:20 - So David went to Baal Perazim, and there he defeated them. He said, “As waters break out, the LORD has broken out against my enemies before me.” So that place was called Baal Perazim.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:21 - The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men carried them off.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:25 - So David did as the LORD commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines all the way from Gibeon[fn] to Gezer.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:6 - I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought the Israelites up out of Egypt to this day. I have been moving from place to place with a tent as my dwelling.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:9 - I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make your name great, like the names of the greatest men on earth.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:17 - Nathan reported to David all the words of this entire revelation.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:1 - In the course of time, David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Metheg Ammah from the control of the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:7 - David took the gold shields that belonged to the officers of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:8 - From Tebah[fn] and Berothai, towns that belonged to Hadadezer, King David took a great quantity of bronze.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:3 - The king asked, “Is there no one still alive from the house of Saul to whom I can show God's kindness?” Ziba answered the king, “There is still a son of Jonathan; he is lame in both feet.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:3 - the Ammonite commanders said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think David is honoring your father by sending envoys to you to express sympathy? Hasn't David sent them to you only to explore the city and spy it out and overthrow it?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:4 - So Hanun seized David's envoys, shaved off half of each man's beard, cut off their garments at the buttocks, and sent them away.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:5 - When David was told about this, he sent messengers to meet the men, for they were greatly humiliated. The king said, “Stay at Jericho till your beards have grown, and then come back.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:7 - On hearing this, David sent Joab out with the entire army of fighting men.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:19 - When all the kings who were vassals of Hadadezer saw that they had been routed by Israel, they made peace with the Israelites and became subject to them. So the Arameans were afraid to help the Ammonites anymore.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:1 - In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king's men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:8 - Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:18 - Joab sent David a full account of the battle.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:19 - He instructed the messenger: “When you have finished giving the king this account of the battle,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:24 - Then the archers shot arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of the king's men died. Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:14 - But because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for[fn] the LORD, the son born to you will die.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:19 - David noticed that his attendants were whispering among themselves, and he realized the child was dead. “Is the child dead?” he asked. “Yes,” they replied, “he is dead.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:18 - So his servant put her out and bolted the door after her. She was wearing an ornate[fn] robe, for this was the kind of garment the virgin daughters of the king wore.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:21 - When King David heard all this, he was furious.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:23 - Two years later, when Absalom's sheepshearers were at Baal Hazor near the border of Ephraim, he invited all the king's sons to come there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:27 - But Absalom urged him, so he sent with him Amnon and the rest of the king's sons.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:30 - While they were on their way, the report came to David: “Absalom has struck down all the king's sons; not one of them is left.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:32 - But Jonadab son of Shimeah, David's brother, said, “My lord should not think that they killed all the princes; only Amnon is dead. This has been Absalom's express intention ever since the day Amnon raped his sister Tamar.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:34 - Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. Now the man standing watch looked up and saw many people on the road west of him, coming down the side of the hill. The watchman went and told the king, “I see men in the direction of Horonaim, on the side of the hill.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:3 - Then go to the king and speak these words to him.” And Joab put the words in her mouth.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:19 - The king asked, “Isn't the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything my lord the king says. Yes, it was your servant Joab who instructed me to do this and who put all these words into the mouth of your servant.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:30 - Then he said to his servants, “Look, Joab's field is next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire.” So Absalom's servants set the field on fire.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:20 - You came only yesterday. And today shall I make you wander about with us, when I do not know where I am going? Go back, and take your people with you. May the LORD show you kindness and faithfulness.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:6 - He pelted David and all the king's officials with stones, though all the troops and the special guard were on David's right and left.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:11 - David then said to Abishai and all his officials, “My son, my own flesh and blood, is trying to kill me. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone; let him curse, for the LORD has told him to.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:8 - You know your father and his men; they are fighters, and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Besides, your father is an experienced fighter; he will not spend the night with the troops.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:15 - Hushai told Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, “Ahithophel has advised Absalom and the elders of Israel to do such and such, but I have advised them to do so and so.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:24 - While David was sitting between the inner and outer gates, the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall. As he looked out, he saw a man running alone.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:28 - Then Ahimaaz called out to the king, “All is well!” He bowed down before the king with his face to the ground and said, “Praise be to the LORD your God! He has delivered up those who lifted their hands against my lord the king.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:6 - You love those who hate you and hate those who love you. You have made it clear today that the commanders and their men mean nothing to you. I see that you would be pleased if Absalom were alive today and all of us were dead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:11 - King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests: “Ask the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his palace, since what is being said throughout Israel has reached the king at his quarters?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:24 - Mephibosheth, Saul's grandson, also went down to meet the king. He had not taken care of his feet or trimmed his mustache or washed his clothes from the day the king left until the day he returned safely.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:29 - The king said to him, “Why say more? I order you and Ziba to divide the land.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:6 - David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba son of Bikri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your master's men and pursue him, or he will find fortified cities and escape from us.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:17 - He went toward her, and she asked, “Are you Joab?” “I am,” he answered. She said, “Listen to what your servant has to say.” “I'm listening,” he said.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:1 - During the reign of David, there was a famine for three successive years; so David sought the face of the LORD. The LORD said, “It is on account of Saul and his blood-stained house; it is because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:2 - The king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not a part of Israel but were survivors of the Amorites; the Israelites had sworn to spare them, but Saul in his zeal for Israel and Judah had tried to annihilate them.)
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:3 - David asked the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? How shall I make atonement so that you will bless the LORD's inheritance?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:8 - But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Aiah's daughter Rizpah, whom she had borne to Saul, together with the five sons of Saul's daughter Merab,[fn] whom she had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:1 - David sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:34 - He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he causes me to stand on the heights.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:39 - I crushed them completely, and they could not rise; they fell beneath my feet.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:40 - You armed me with strength for battle; you humbled my adversaries before me.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:41 - You made my enemies turn their backs in flight, and I destroyed my foes.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:12 - But Shammah took his stand in the middle of the field. He defended it and struck the Philistines down, and the LORD brought about a great victory.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:20 - Benaiah son of Jehoiada, a valiant fighter from Kabzeel, performed great exploits. He struck down Moab's two mightiest warriors. He also went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:23 - He was held in greater honor than any of the Thirty, but he was not included among the Three. And David put him in charge of his bodyguard.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:4 - The king's word, however, overruled Joab and the army commanders; so they left the presence of the king to enroll the fighting men of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:20 - When Araunah looked and saw the king and his officials coming toward him, he went out and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:24 - But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels[fn] of silver for them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:9 - Adonijah then sacrificed sheep, cattle and fattened calves at the Stone of Zoheleth near En Rogel. He invited all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the royal officials of Judah,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:10 - but he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the special guard or his brother Solomon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:14 - While you are still there talking to the king, I will come in and add my word to what you have said.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:19 - He has sacrificed great numbers of cattle, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the king's sons, Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of the army, but he has not invited Solomon your servant.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:25 - Today he has gone down and sacrificed great numbers of cattle, fattened calves, and sheep. He has invited all the king's sons, the commanders of the army and Abiathar the priest. Right now they are eating and drinking with him and saying, ‘Long live King Adonijah!'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:33 - he said to them: “Take your lord's servants with you and have Solomon my son mount my own mule and take him down to Gihon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:40 - At this, he saddled his donkey and went to Achish at Gath in search of his slaves. So Shimei went away and brought the slaves back from Gath.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:41 - When Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had returned,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:31 - He was wiser than anyone else, including Ethan the Ezrahite—wiser than Heman, Kalkol and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread to all the surrounding nations.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:1 - When Hiram king of Tyre heard that Solomon had been anointed king to succeed his father David, he sent his envoys to Solomon, because he had always been on friendly terms with David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:18 - The craftsmen of Solomon and Hiram and workers from Byblos cut and prepared the timber and stone for the building of the temple.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:10 - And he built the side rooms all along the temple. The height of each was five cubits, and they were attached to the temple by beams of cedar.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:15 - He lined its interior walls with cedar boards, paneling them from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and covered the floor of the temple with planks of juniper.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:16 - He partitioned off twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:29 - On the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:32 - And on the two olive-wood doors he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:15 - He cast two bronze pillars, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:21 - He erected the pillars at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jakin[fn] and the one to the north Boaz.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:40 - He also made the pots[fn] and shovels and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished all the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of the LORD:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:43 - the ten stands with their ten basins;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:44 - the Sea and the twelve bulls under it;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:45 - the pots, shovels and sprinkling bowls. All these objects that Huram made for King Solomon for the temple of the LORD were of burnished bronze.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:49 - the lampstands of pure gold (five on the right and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary); the gold floral work and lamps and tongs;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:51 - When all the work King Solomon had done for the temple of the LORD was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated—the silver and gold and the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of the LORD's temple.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:1 - Then King Solomon summoned into his presence at Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the LORD's covenant from Zion, the City of David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:44 - “When your people go to war against their enemies, wherever you send them, and when they pray to the LORD toward the city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:53 - For you singled them out from all the nations of the world to be your own inheritance, just as you declared through your servant Moses when you, Sovereign LORD, brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:7 - then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. Israel will then become a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:9 - People will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—that is why the LORD brought all this disaster on them.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:10 - At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built these two buildings—the temple of the LORD and the royal palace—
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:3 - Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too hard for the king to explain to her.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:5 - the food on his table, the seating of his officials, the attending servants in their robes, his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he made at[fn] the temple of the LORD, she was overwhelmed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:23 - King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:15 - Earlier when David was fighting with Edom, Joab the commander of the army, who had gone up to bury the dead, had struck down all the men in Edom.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:32 - He instituted a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival held in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. This he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves he had made. And at Bethel he also installed priests at the high places he had made.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2 - By the word of the LORD he cried out against the altar: “Altar, altar! This is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who make offerings here, and human bones will be burned on you.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:11 - Now there was a certain old prophet living in Bethel, whose sons came and told him all that the man of God had done there that day. They also told their father what he had said to the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:32 - For the message he declared by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the towns of Samaria will certainly come true.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:26 - He carried off the treasures of the temple of the LORD and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:15 - He brought into the temple of the LORD the silver and gold and the articles that he and his father had dedicated.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:20 - Ben-Hadad agreed with King Asa and sent the commanders of his forces against the towns of Israel. He conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel Beth Maakah and all Kinnereth in addition to Naphtali.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:22 - Then King Asa issued an order to all Judah—no one was exempt—and they carried away from Ramah the stones and timber Baasha had been using there. With them King Asa built up Geba in Benjamin, and also Mizpah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:23 - As for all the other events of Asa's reign, all his achievements, all he did and the cities he built, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? In his old age, however, his feet became diseased.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:25 - But Omri did evil in the eyes of the LORD and sinned more than all those before him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:28 - Omri rested with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria. And Ahab his son succeeded him as king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:30 - Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the LORD than any of those before him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:33 - Ahab also made an Asherah pole and did more to arouse the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, than did all the kings of Israel before him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:4 - While Jezebel was killing off the LORD's prophets, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them in two caves, fifty in each, and had supplied them with food and water.)
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:13 - Haven't you heard, my lord, what I did while Jezebel was killing the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred of the LORD's prophets in two caves, fifty in each, and supplied them with food and water.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:19 - Now summon the people from all over Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel. And bring the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:20 - So Ahab sent word throughout all Israel and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:29 - Midday passed, and they continued their frantic prophesying until the time for the evening sacrifice. But there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:32 - With the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD, and he dug a trench around it large enough to hold two seahs[fn] of seed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:38 - Then the fire of the LORD fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:40 - Then Elijah commanded them, “Seize the prophets of Baal. Don't let anyone get away!” They seized them, and Elijah had them brought down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:1 - Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:4 - while he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:10 - He replied, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:14 - He replied, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:6 - But about this time tomorrow I am going to send my officials to search your palace and the houses of your officials. They will seize everything you value and carry it away.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:7 - The king of Israel summoned all the elders of the land and said to them, “See how this man is looking for trouble! When he sent for my wives and my children, my silver and my gold, I did not refuse him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:21 - The king of Israel advanced and overpowered the horses and chariots and inflicted heavy losses on the Arameans.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:24 - Do this: Remove all the kings from their commands and replace them with other officers.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:38 - Then the prophet went and stood by the road waiting for the king. He disguised himself with his headband down over his eyes.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:8 - So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, placed his seal on them, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth's city with him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:3 - The king of Israel had said to his officials, “Don't you know that Ramoth Gilead belongs to us and yet we are doing nothing to retake it from the king of Aram?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:6 - So the king of Israel brought together the prophets—about four hundred men—and asked them, “Shall I go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I refrain?” “Go,” they answered, “for the Lord will give it into the king's hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:13 - The messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the other prophets without exception are predicting success for the king. Let your word agree with theirs, and speak favorably.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:7 - The king asked them, “What kind of man was it who came to meet you and told you this?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:9 - Then he sent to Elijah a captain with his company of fifty men. The captain went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, “Man of God, the king says, ‘Come down!' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:10 - Elijah answered the captain, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!” Then fire fell from heaven and consumed the captain and his men.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:11 - At this the king sent to Elijah another captain with his fifty men. The captain said to him, “Man of God, this is what the king says, ‘Come down at once!' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:12 - “If I am a man of God,” Elijah replied, “may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!” Then the fire of God fell from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:13 - So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. “Man of God,” he begged, “please have respect for my life and the lives of these fifty men, your servants!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:14 - See, fire has fallen from heaven and consumed the first two captains and all their men. But now have respect for my life!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:10 - “What!” exclaimed the king of Israel. “Has the LORD called us three kings together only to deliver us into the hands of Moab?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:13 - Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why do you want to involve me? Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother.” “No,” the king of Israel answered, “because it was the LORD who called us three kings together to deliver us into the hands of Moab.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:25 - They destroyed the towns, and each man threw a stone on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up all the springs and cut down every good tree. Only Kir Hareseth was left with its stones in place, but men armed with slings surrounded it and attacked it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:1 - The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the LORD. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:6 - When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another one.” But he replied, “There is not a jar left.” Then the oil stopped flowing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:7 - She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:18 - The child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the reapers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:34 - Then he got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched himself out on him, the boy's body grew warm.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:35 - Elisha turned away and walked back and forth in the room and then got on the bed and stretched out on him once more. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:37 - She came in, fell at his feet and bowed to the ground. Then she took her son and went out.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:24 - When Gehazi came to the hill, he took the things from the servants and put them away in the house. He sent the men away and they left.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:8 - Now the king of Aram was at war with Israel. After conferring with his officers, he said, “I will set up my camp in such and such a place.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:11 - This enraged the king of Aram. He summoned his officers and demanded of them, “Tell me! Which of us is on the side of the king of Israel?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:12 - “None of us, my lord the king,” said one of his officers, “but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:16 - “Don't be afraid,” the prophet answered. “Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:17 - And Elisha prayed, “Open his eyes, LORD, so that he may see.” Then the LORD opened the servant's eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:20 - After they entered the city, Elisha said, “LORD, open the eyes of these men so they can see.” Then the LORD opened their eyes and they looked, and there they were, inside Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:30 - When the king heard the woman's words, he tore his robes. As he went along the wall, the people looked, and they saw that, under his robes, he had sackcloth on his body.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:32 - Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Don't you see how this murderer is sending someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold it shut against him. Is not the sound of his master's footsteps behind him?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:6 - for the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired the Hittite and Egyptian kings to attack us!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:7 - So they got up and fled in the dusk and abandoned their tents and their horses and donkeys. They left the camp as it was and ran for their lives.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:12 - The king got up in the night and said to his officers, “I will tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving; so they have left the camp to hide in the countryside, thinking, ‘They will surely come out, and then we will take them alive and get into the city.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - “Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the harm you will do to the Israelites,” he answered. “You will set fire to their fortified places, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little children to the ground, and rip open their pregnant women.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:21 - So Jehoram[fn] went to Zair with all his chariots. The Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, but he rose up and broke through by night; his army, however, fled back home.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:11 - When Jehu went out to his fellow officers, one of them asked him, “Is everything all right? Why did this maniac come to you?” “You know the man and the sort of things he says,” Jehu replied.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:30 - Then Jehu went to Jezreel. When Jezebel heard about it, she put on eye makeup, arranged her hair and looked out of a window.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:33 - “Throw her down!” Jehu said. So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered the wall and the horses as they trampled her underfoot.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:1 - Now there were in Samaria seventy sons of the house of Ahab. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria: to the officials of Jezreel,[fn] to the elders and to the guardians of Ahab's children. He said,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:7 - When the letter arrived, these men took the princes and slaughtered all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu in Jezreel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:11 - So Jehu killed everyone in Jezreel who remained of the house of Ahab, as well as all his chief men, his close friends and his priests, leaving him no survivor.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:13 - he met some relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and asked, “Who are you?” They said, “We are relatives of Ahaziah, and we have come down to greet the families of the king and of the queen mother.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:17 - When Jehu came to Samaria, he killed all who were left there of Ahab's family; he destroyed them, according to the word of the LORD spoken to Elijah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:19 - Now summon all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests. See that no one is missing, because I am going to hold a great sacrifice for Baal. Anyone who fails to come will no longer live.” But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to destroy the servants of Baal.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:4 - In the seventh year Jehoiada sent for the commanders of units of a hundred, the Carites and the guards and had them brought to him at the temple of the LORD. He made a covenant with them and put them under oath at the temple of the LORD. Then he showed them the king's son.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:9 - The commanders of units of a hundred did just as Jehoiada the priest ordered. Each one took his men—those who were going on duty on the Sabbath and those who were going off duty—and came to Jehoiada the priest.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:10 - Then he gave the commanders the spears and shields that had belonged to King David and that were in the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:19 - He took with him the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, the guards and all the people of the land, and together they brought the king down from the temple of the LORD and went into the palace, entering by way of the gate of the guards. The king then took his place on the royal throne.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:4 - Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money that is brought as sacred offerings to the temple of the LORD—the money collected in the census, the money received from personal vows and the money brought voluntarily to the temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:7 - Therefore King Joash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and asked them, “Why aren't you repairing the damage done to the temple? Take no more money from your treasurers, but hand it over for repairing the temple.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:15 - They did not require an accounting from those to whom they gave the money to pay the workers, because they acted with complete honesty.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:21 - Once while some Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders; so they threw the man's body into Elisha's tomb. When the body touched Elisha's bones, the man came to life and stood up on his feet.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:5 - After the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:6 - Yet he did not put the children of the assassins to death, in accordance with what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses where the LORD commanded: “Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:14 - He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the temple of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace. He also took hostages and returned to Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:6 - At that time, Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram by driving out the people of Judah. Edomites then moved into Elath and have lived there to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:17 - They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire. They practiced divination and sought omens and sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of the LORD, arousing his anger.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:25 - When they first lived there, they did not worship the LORD; so he sent lions among them and they killed some of the people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:26 - It was reported to the king of Assyria: “The people you deported and resettled in the towns of Samaria do not know what the god of that country requires. He has sent lions among them, which are killing them off, because the people do not know what he requires.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:31 - the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire as sacrifices to Adrammelek and Anammelek, the gods of Sepharvaim.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:8 - From watchtower to fortified city, he defeated the Philistines, as far as Gaza and its territory.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:26 - Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:27 - But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:28 - Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:37 - Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and told him what the field commander had said.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:2 - He sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:4 - It may be that the LORD your God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the LORD your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant that still survives.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:12 - Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors deliver them—the gods of Gozan, Harran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:16 - Give ear, LORD, and hear; open your eyes, LORD, and see; listen to the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:18 - They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:22 - Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:6 - He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced divination, sought omens, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the LORD, arousing his anger.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:15 - they have done evil in my eyes and have aroused my anger from the day their ancestors came out of Egypt until this day.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:24 - Then the people of the land killed all who had plotted against King Amon, and they made Josiah his son king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:11 - When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his robes.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:16 - ‘This is what the LORD says: I am going to bring disaster on this place and its people, according to everything written in the book the king of Judah has read.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19 - Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I have spoken against this place and its people—that they would become a curse[fn] and be laid waste—and because you tore your robes and wept in my presence, I also have heard you, declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:20 - Therefore I will gather you to your ancestors, and you will be buried in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster I am going to bring on this place.' ” So they took her answer back to the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:1 - Then the king called together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:2 - He went up to the temple of the LORD with the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the prophets—all the people from the least to the greatest. He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant, which had been found in the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:3 - The king stood by the pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the LORD—to follow the LORD and keep his commands, statutes and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, thus confirming the words of the covenant written in this book. Then all the people pledged themselves to the covenant.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:5 - He did away with the idolatrous priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem—those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations and to all the starry hosts.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:8 - Josiah brought all the priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He broke down the gateway at the entrance of the Gate of Joshua, the city governor, which was on the left of the city gate.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:11 - He removed from the entrance to the temple of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court[fn] near the room of an official named Nathan-Melek. Josiah then burned the chariots dedicated to the sun.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:14 - Josiah smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles and covered the sites with human bones.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15 - Even the altar at Bethel, the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin—even that altar and high place he demolished. He burned the high place and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole also.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16 - Then Josiah looked around, and when he saw the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to defile it, in accordance with the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who foretold these things.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:17 - The king asked, “What is that tombstone I see?” The people of the city said, “It marks the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and pronounced against the altar of Bethel the very things you have done to it.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19 - Just as he had done at Bethel, Josiah removed all the shrines at the high places that the kings of Israel had built in the towns of Samaria and that had aroused the LORD's anger.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:20 - Josiah slaughtered all the priests of those high places on the altars and burned human bones on them. Then he went back to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Furthermore, Josiah got rid of the mediums and spiritists, the household gods, the idols and all the other detestable things seen in Judah and Jerusalem. This he did to fulfill the requirements of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:26 - Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the heat of his fierce anger, which burned against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to arouse his anger.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:2 - The LORD sent Babylonian,[fn] Aramean, Moabite and Ammonite raiders against him to destroy Judah, in accordance with the word of the LORD proclaimed by his servants the prophets.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:13 - As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar removed the treasures from the temple of the LORD and from the royal palace, and cut up the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made for the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:14 - He carried all Jerusalem into exile: all the officers and fighting men, and all the skilled workers and artisans—a total of ten thousand. Only the poorest people of the land were left.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15 - Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. He also took from Jerusalem to Babylon the king's mother, his wives, his officials and the prominent people of the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:16 - The king of Babylon also deported to Babylon the entire force of seven thousand fighting men, strong and fit for war, and a thousand skilled workers and artisans.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:7 - They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:9 - He set fire to the temple of the LORD, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:11 - Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the rest of the populace and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:13 - The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea that were at the temple of the LORD and they carried the bronze to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:14 - They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, dishes and all the bronze articles used in the temple service.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:18 - The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank and the three doorkeepers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:19 - Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men, and five royal advisers. He also took the secretary who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land and sixty of the conscripts who were found in the city.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:25 - In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was of royal blood, came with ten men and assassinated Gedaliah and also the men of Judah and the Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:9 - Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez,[fn] saying, “I gave birth to him in pain.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:41 - The men whose names were listed came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the Hamites in their dwellings and also the Meunites who were there and completely destroyed[fn] them, as is evident to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:43 - They killed the remaining Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:10 - During Saul's reign they waged war against the Hagrites, who were defeated at their hands; they occupied the dwellings of the Hagrites throughout the entire region east of Gilead.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:13 - and Beriah and Shema, who were heads of families of those living in Aijalon and who drove out the inhabitants of Gath.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:24 - The gatekeepers were on the four sides: east, west, north and south.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:8 - The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:14 - But they took their stand in the middle of the field. They defended it and struck the Philistines down, and the LORD brought about a great victory.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:21 - He was doubly honored above the Three and became their commander, even though he was not included among them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:22 - Benaiah son of Jehoiada, a valiant fighter from Kabzeel, performed great exploits. He struck down Moab's two mightiest warriors. He also went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:25 - He was held in greater honor than any of the Thirty, but he was not included among the Three. And David put him in charge of his bodyguard.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:15 - It was they who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks, and they put to flight everyone living in the valleys, to the east and to the west.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:19 - Some of the tribe of Manasseh defected to David when he went with the Philistines to fight against Saul. (He and his men did not help the Philistines because, after consultation, their rulers sent him away. They said, “It will cost us our heads if he deserts to his master Saul.”)
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:32 - from Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do—200 chiefs, with all their relatives under their command;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:2 - He then said to the whole assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you and if it is the will of the LORD our God, let us send word far and wide to the rest of our people throughout the territories of Israel, and also to the priests and Levites who are with them in their towns and pasturelands, to come and join us.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:10 - so David inquired of God: “Shall I go and attack the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hands?” The LORD answered him, “Go, I will deliver them into your hands.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:11 - So David and his men went up to Baal Perazim, and there he defeated them. He said, “As waters break out, God has broken out against my enemies by my hand.” So that place was called Baal Perazim.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:12 - The Philistines had abandoned their gods there, and David gave orders to burn them in the fire.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:2 - Then David said, “No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, because the LORD chose them to carry the ark of the LORD and to minister before him forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:4 - He called together the descendants of Aaron and the Levites:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:11 - Then David summoned Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel and Amminadab the Levites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:16 - David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their fellow Levites as musicians to make a joyful sound with musical instruments: lyres, harps and cymbals.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:26 - Because God had helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD, seven bulls and seven rams were sacrificed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:25 - For great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; he is to be feared above all gods.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:37 - David left Asaph and his associates before the ark of the covenant of the LORD to minister there regularly, according to each day's requirements.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:39 - David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:8 - I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make your name like the names of the greatest men on earth.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:10 - and have done ever since the time I appointed leaders over my people Israel. I will also subdue all your enemies. “ ‘I declare to you that the LORD will build a house for you:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:15 - Nathan reported to David all the words of this entire revelation.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:1 - In the course of time, David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Gath and its surrounding villages from the control of the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:7 - David took the gold shields carried by the officers of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:8 - From Tebah[fn] and Kun, towns that belonged to Hadadezer, David took a great quantity of bronze, which Solomon used to make the bronze Sea, the pillars and various bronze articles.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:4 - So Hanun seized David's envoys, shaved them, cut off their garments at the buttocks, and sent them away.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:5 - When someone came and told David about the men, he sent messengers to meet them, for they were greatly humiliated. The king said, “Stay at Jericho till your beards have grown, and then come back.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:2 - So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan. Then report back to me so that I may know how many there are.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:16 - David looked up and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand extended over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:23 - Araunah said to David, “Take it! Let my lord the king do whatever pleases him. Look, I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering. I will give all this.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:2 - So David gave orders to assemble the foreigners residing in Israel, and from among them he appointed stonecutters to prepare dressed stone for building the house of God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:3 - He provided a large amount of iron to make nails for the doors of the gateways and for the fittings, and more bronze than could be weighed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:18 - He said to them, “Is not the LORD your God with you? And has he not granted you rest on every side? For he has given the inhabitants of the land into my hands, and the land is subject to the LORD and to his people.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:2 - He also gathered together all the leaders of Israel, as well as the priests and Levites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:29 - They were in charge of the bread set out on the table, the special flour for the grain offerings, the thin loaves made without yeast, the baking and the mixing, and all measurements of quantity and size.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:4 - A larger number of leaders were found among Eleazar's descendants than among Ithamar's, and they were divided accordingly: sixteen heads of families from Eleazar's descendants and eight heads of families from Ithamar's descendants.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:1 - David, together with the commanders of the army, set apart some of the sons of Asaph, Heman and Jeduthun for the ministry of prophesying, accompanied by harps, lyres and cymbals. Here is the list of the men who performed this service:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:7 - Along with their relatives—all of them trained and skilled in music for the LORD—they numbered 288.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:1 - This is the list of the Israelites—heads of families, commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, and their officers, who served the king in all that concerned the army divisions that were on duty month by month throughout the year. Each division consisted of 24,000 men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:23 - David did not take the number of the men twenty years old or less, because the LORD had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:1 - David summoned all the officials of Israel to assemble at Jerusalem: the officers over the tribes, the commanders of the divisions in the service of the king, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, and the officials in charge of all the property and livestock belonging to the king and his sons, together with the palace officials, the warriors and all the brave fighting men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:21 - The divisions of the priests and Levites are ready for all the work on the temple of God, and every willing person skilled in any craft will help you in all the work. The officials and all the people will obey your every command.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:4 - three thousand talents[fn] of gold (gold of Ophir) and seven thousand talents[fn] of refined silver, for the overlaying of the walls of the buildings,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:5 - “The temple I am going to build will be great, because our God is greater than all other gods.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:17 - Solomon took a census of all the foreigners residing in Israel, after the census his father David had taken; and they were found to be 153,600.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:7 - He overlaid the ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:13 - The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main hall.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:17 - He erected the pillars in the front of the temple, one to the south and one to the north. The one to the south he named Jakin[fn] and the one to the north Boaz.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:3 - Below the rim, figures of bulls encircled it—ten to a cubit.[fn] The bulls were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:6 - He then made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. In them the things to be used for the burnt offerings were rinsed, but the Sea was to be used by the priests for washing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:14 - the stands with their basins;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:15 - the Sea and the twelve bulls under it;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:16 - the pots, shovels, meat forks and all related articles. All the objects that Huram-Abi made for King Solomon for the temple of the LORD were of polished bronze.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:20 - the lampstands of pure gold with their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:2 - Then Solomon summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the LORD's covenant from Zion, the City of David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:8 - The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and covered the ark and its carrying poles.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:11 - The priests then withdrew from the Holy Place. All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:2 - I have built a magnificent temple for you, a place for you to dwell forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:23 - then hear from heaven and act. Judge between your servants, condemning the guilty and bringing down on their heads what they have done, and vindicating the innocent by treating them in accordance with their innocence.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:34 - “When your people go to war against their enemies, wherever you send them, and when they pray to you toward this city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:2 - Solomon rebuilt the villages that Hiram[fn] had given him, and settled Israelites in them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:15 - They did not deviate from the king's commands to the priests or to the Levites in any matter, including that of the treasuries.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:2 - Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too hard for him to explain to her.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:18 - The throne had six steps, and a footstool of gold was attached to it. On both sides of the seat were armrests, with a lion standing beside each of them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:22 - King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:6 - Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How would you advise me to answer these people?” he asked.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:4 - ‘This is what the LORD says: Do not go up to fight against your fellow Israelites. Go home, every one of you, for this is my doing.' ” So they obeyed the words of the LORD and turned back from marching against Jeroboam.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:23 - He acted wisely, dispersing some of his sons throughout the districts of Judah and Benjamin, and to all the fortified cities. He gave them abundant provisions and took many wives for them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:5 - Then the prophet Shemaiah came to Rehoboam and to the leaders of Judah who had assembled in Jerusalem for fear of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the LORD says, ‘You have abandoned me; therefore, I now abandon you to Shishak.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:9 - When Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem, he carried off the treasures of the temple of the LORD and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields Solomon had made.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:10 - So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned these to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:9 - But didn't you drive out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and make priests of your own as the peoples of other lands do? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams may become a priest of what are not gods.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:12 - The LORD struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah. The Cushites fled,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:15 - They also attacked the camps of the herders and carried off droves of sheep and goats and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:5 - In those days it was not safe to travel about, for all the inhabitants of the lands were in great turmoil.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:8 - When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of[fn] Oded the prophet, he took courage. He removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the towns he had captured in the hills of Ephraim. He repaired the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD's temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:9 - Then he assembled all Judah and Benjamin and the people from Ephraim, Manasseh and Simeon who had settled among them, for large numbers had come over to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:4 - Ben-Hadad agreed with King Asa and sent the commanders of his forces against the towns of Israel. They conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim[fn] and all the store cities of Naphtali.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:6 - Then King Asa brought all the men of Judah, and they carried away from Ramah the stones and timber Baasha had been using. With them he built up Geba and Mizpah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:12 - In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was afflicted with a disease in his feet. Though his disease was severe, even in his illness he did not seek help from the LORD, but only from the physicians.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:7 - In the third year of his reign he sent his officials Ben-Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel and Micaiah to teach in the towns of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:5 - So the king of Israel brought together the prophets—four hundred men—and asked them, “Shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I not?” “Go,” they answered, “for God will give it into the king's hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:8 - In Jerusalem also, Jehoshaphat appointed some of the Levites, priests and heads of Israelite families to administer the law of the LORD and to settle disputes. And they lived in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:10 - In every case that comes before you from your people who live in the cities—whether bloodshed or other concerns of the law, commands, decrees or regulations—you are to warn them not to sin against the LORD; otherwise his wrath will come on you and your people. Do this, and you will not sin.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:7 - Our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:22 - As they began to sing and praise, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:23 - The Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the men from Mount Seir to destroy and annihilate them. After they finished slaughtering the men from Seir, they helped to destroy one another.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:29 - The fear of God came on all the surrounding kingdoms when they heard how the LORD had fought against the enemies of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:4 - When Jehoram established himself firmly over his father's kingdom, he put all his brothers to the sword along with some of the officials of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:9 - So Jehoram went there with his officers and all his chariots. The Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, but he rose up and broke through by night.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:11 - He had also built high places on the hills of Judah and had caused the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves and had led Judah astray.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:13 - But you have followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and you have led Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab did. You have also murdered your own brothers, members of your own family, men who were better than you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:16 - The LORD aroused against Jehoram the hostility of the Philistines and of the Arabs who lived near the Cushites.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:17 - They attacked Judah, invaded it and carried off all the goods found in the king's palace, together with his sons and wives. Not a son was left to him except Ahaziah,[fn] the youngest.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:1 - The people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, Jehoram's youngest son, king in his place, since the raiders, who came with the Arabs into the camp, had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:8 - While Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he found the officials of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's relatives, who had been attending Ahaziah, and he killed them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:1 - In the seventh year Jehoiada showed his strength. He made a covenant with the commanders of units of a hundred: Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zikri.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:2 - They went throughout Judah and gathered the Levites and the heads of Israelite families from all the towns. When they came to Jerusalem,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:8 - The Levites and all the men of Judah did just as Jehoiada the priest ordered. Each one took his men—those who were going on duty on the Sabbath and those who were going off duty—for Jehoiada the priest had not released any of the divisions.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:9 - Then he gave the commanders of units of a hundred the spears and the large and small shields that had belonged to King David and that were in the temple of God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:20 - He took with him the commanders of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people and all the people of the land and brought the king down from the temple of the LORD. They went into the palace through the Upper Gate and seated the king on the royal throne.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:5 - He called together the priests and Levites and said to them, “Go to the towns of Judah and collect the money due annually from all Israel, to repair the temple of your God. Do it now.” But the Levites did not act at once.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:11 - Whenever the chest was brought in by the Levites to the king's officials and they saw that there was a large amount of money, the royal secretary and the officer of the chief priest would come and empty the chest and carry it back to its place. They did this regularly and collected a great amount of money.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:23 - At the turn of the year,[fn] the army of Aram marched against Joash; it invaded Judah and Jerusalem and killed all the leaders of the people. They sent all the plunder to their king in Damascus.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:3 - After the kingdom was firmly in his control, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:4 - Yet he did not put their children to death, but acted in accordance with what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor children be put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:11 - Amaziah then marshaled his strength and led his army to the Valley of Salt, where he killed ten thousand men of Seir.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:14 - When Amaziah returned from slaughtering the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the people of Seir. He set them up as his own gods, bowed down to them and burned sacrifices to them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:15 - The anger of the LORD burned against Amaziah, and he sent a prophet to him, who said, “Why do you consult this people's gods, which could not save their own people from your hand?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:20 - Amaziah, however, would not listen, for God so worked that he might deliver them into the hands of Jehoash, because they sought the gods of Edom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:24 - He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the temple of God that had been in the care of Obed-Edom, together with the palace treasures and the hostages, and returned to Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:6 - He went to war against the Philistines and broke down the walls of Gath, Jabneh and Ashdod. He then rebuilt towns near Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:7 - God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabs who lived in Gur Baal and against the Meunites.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:13 - Under their command was an army of 307,500 men trained for war, a powerful force to support the king against his enemies.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:19 - Uzziah, who had a censer in his hand ready to burn incense, became angry. While he was raging at the priests in their presence before the incense altar in the LORD's temple, leprosy[fn] broke out on his forehead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:12 - Then some of the leaders in Ephraim—Azariah son of Jehohanan, Berekiah son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai—confronted those who were arriving from the war.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:15 - The men designated by name took the prisoners, and from the plunder they clothed all who were naked. They provided them with clothes and sandals, food and drink, and healing balm. All those who were weak they put on donkeys. So they took them back to their fellow Israelites at Jericho, the City of Palms, and returned to Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:23 - He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus, who had defeated him; for he thought, “Since the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them so they will help me.” But they were his downfall and the downfall of all Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:27 - Ahaz rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of Jerusalem, but he was not placed in the tombs of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son succeeded him as king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:4 - He brought in the priests and the Levites, assembled them in the square on the east side
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:7 - They also shut the doors of the portico and put out the lamps. They did not burn incense or present any burnt offerings at the sanctuary to the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:15 - When they had assembled their fellow Levites and consecrated themselves, they went in to purify the temple of the LORD, as the king had ordered, following the word of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:20 - Early the next morning King Hezekiah gathered the city officials together and went up to the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:22 - So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests took the blood and splashed it against the altar; next they slaughtered the rams and splashed their blood against the altar; then they slaughtered the lambs and splashed their blood against the altar.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:23 - The goats for the sin offering were brought before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:25 - He stationed the Levites in the temple of the LORD with cymbals, harps and lyres in the way prescribed by David and Gad the king's seer and Nathan the prophet; this was commanded by the LORD through his prophets.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:34 - The priests, however, were too few to skin all the burnt offerings; so their relatives the Levites helped them until the task was finished and until other priests had been consecrated, for the Levites had been more conscientious in consecrating themselves than the priests had been.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:6 - At the king's command, couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and from his officials, which read: “People of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that he may return to you who are left, who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:8 - Do not be stiff-necked, as your ancestors were; submit to the LORD. Come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that his fierce anger will turn away from you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1 - When all this had ended, the Israelites who were there went out to the towns of Judah, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. They destroyed the high places and the altars throughout Judah and Benjamin and in Ephraim and Manasseh. After they had destroyed all of them, the Israelites returned to their own towns and to their own property.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:8 - When Hezekiah and his officials came and saw the heaps, they praised the LORD and blessed his people Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:1 - After all that Hezekiah had so faithfully done, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities, thinking to conquer them for himself.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:9 - Later, when Sennacherib king of Assyria and all his forces were laying siege to Lachish, he sent his officers to Jerusalem with this message for Hezekiah king of Judah and for all the people of Judah who were there:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:17 - The king also wrote letters ridiculing the LORD, the God of Israel, and saying this against him: “Just as the gods of the peoples of the other lands did not rescue their people from my hand, so the god of Hezekiah will not rescue his people from my hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:22 - So the LORD saved Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib king of Assyria and from the hand of all others. He took care of them[fn] on every side.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:9 - But Manasseh led Judah and the people of Jerusalem astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:11 - So the LORD brought against them the army commanders of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh prisoner, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:15 - He got rid of the foreign gods and removed the image from the temple of the LORD, as well as all the altars he had built on the temple hill and in Jerusalem; and he threw them out of the city.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:25 - Then the people of the land killed all who had plotted against King Amon, and they made Josiah his son king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:11 - They also gave money to the carpenters and builders to purchase dressed stone, and timber for joists and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to fall into ruin.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:19 - When the king heard the words of the Law, he tore his robes.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:24 - ‘This is what the LORD says: I am going to bring disaster on this place and its people—all the curses written in the book that has been read in the presence of the king of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:26 - Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says concerning the words you heard:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:27 - Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before God when you heard what he spoke against this place and its people, and because you humbled yourself before me and tore your robes and wept in my presence, I have heard you, declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:28 - Now I will gather you to your ancestors, and you will be buried in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster I am going to bring on this place and on those who live here.' ” So they took her answer back to the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:29 - Then the king called together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:30 - He went up to the temple of the LORD with the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the Levites—all the people from the least to the greatest. He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant, which had been found in the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:31 - The king stood by his pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the LORD—to follow the LORD and keep his commands, statutes and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, and to obey the words of the covenant written in this book.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:32 - Then he had everyone in Jerusalem and Benjamin pledge themselves to it; the people of Jerusalem did this in accordance with the covenant of God, the God of their ancestors.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33 - Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the territory belonging to the Israelites, and he had all who were present in Israel serve the LORD their God. As long as he lived, they did not fail to follow the LORD, the God of their ancestors.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:2 - He appointed the priests to their duties and encouraged them in the service of the LORD's temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7 - Josiah provided for all the lay people who were there a total of thirty thousand lambs and goats for the Passover offerings, and also three thousand cattle—all from the king's own possessions.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:13 - They roasted the Passover animals over the fire as prescribed, and boiled the holy offerings in pots, caldrons and pans and served them quickly to all the people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - This Passover was celebrated in the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:5 - Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. He did evil in the eyes of the LORD his God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:15 - The LORD, the God of their ancestors, sent word to them through his messengers again and again, because he had pity on his people and on his dwelling place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:16 - But they mocked God's messengers, despised his words and scoffed at his prophets until the wrath of the LORD was aroused against his people and there was no remedy.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:17 - He brought up against them the king of the Babylonians,[fn] who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and did not spare young men or young women, the elderly or the infirm. God gave them all into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:18 - He carried to Babylon all the articles from the temple of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the LORD's temple and the treasures of the king and his officials.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:20 - He carried into exile to Babylon the remnant, who escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and his successors until the kingdom of Persia came to power.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:8 - In the second month of the second year after their arrival at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak and the rest of the people (the priests and the Levites and all who had returned from the captivity to Jerusalem) began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years old and older to supervise the building of the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:9 - Joshua and his sons and brothers and Kadmiel and his sons (descendants of Hodaviah[fn]) and the sons of Henadad and their sons and brothers—all Levites—joined together in supervising those working on the house of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:2 - they came to Zerubbabel and to the heads of the families and said, “Let us help you build because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to him since the time of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us here.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:17 - The king sent this reply: To Rehum the commanding officer, Shimshai the secretary and the rest of their associates living in Samaria and elsewhere in Trans-Euphrates: Greetings.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:21 - Now issue an order to these men to stop work, so that this city will not be rebuilt until I so order.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:1 - Now Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the prophet, a descendant of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:9 - We questioned the elders and asked them, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and to finish it?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:18 - And they installed the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their groups for the service of God at Jerusalem, according to what is written in the Book of Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:18 - You and your fellow Israelites may then do whatever seems best with the rest of the silver and gold, in accordance with the will of your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:17 - and I ordered them to go to Iddo, the leader in Kasiphia. I told them what to say to Iddo and his fellow Levites, the temple servants in Kasiphia, so that they might bring attendants to us for the house of our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:22 - I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers and horsemen to protect us from enemies on the road, because we had told the king, “The gracious hand of our God is on everyone who looks to him, but his great anger is against all who forsake him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:5 - So Ezra rose up and put the leading priests and Levites and all Israel under oath to do what had been suggested. And they took the oath.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:4 - When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:7 - I also said to him, “If it pleases the king, may I have letters to the governors of Trans-Euphrates, so that they will provide me safe-conduct until I arrive in Judah?
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:9 - So I went to the governors of Trans-Euphrates and gave them the king's letters. The king had also sent army officers and cavalry with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:18 - I also told them about the gracious hand of my God on me and what the king had said to me. They replied, “Let us start rebuilding.” So they began this good work.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:14 - After I looked things over, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, “Don't be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your families, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:19 - Then I said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, “The work is extensive and spread out, and we are widely separated from each other along the wall.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:1 - Now the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their fellow Jews.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:5 - Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our fellow Jews and though our children are as good as theirs, yet we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but we are powerless, because our fields and our vineyards belong to others.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:6 - When I heard their outcry and these charges, I was very angry.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:7 - I pondered them in my mind and then accused the nobles and officials. I told them, “You are charging your own people interest!” So I called together a large meeting to deal with them
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:8 - and said: “As far as possible, we have bought back our fellow Jews who were sold to the Gentiles. Now you are selling your own people, only for them to be sold back to us!” They kept quiet, because they could find nothing to say.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:12 - “We will give it back,” they said. “And we will not demand anything more from them. We will do as you say.” Then I summoned the priests and made the nobles and officials take an oath to do what they had promised.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:19 - Moreover, they kept reporting to me his good deeds and then telling him what I said. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:5 - So my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials and the common people for registration by families. I found the genealogical record of those who had been the first to return. This is what I found written there:
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:9 - Then Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and teacher of the Law, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to them all, “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people had been weeping as they listened to the words of the Law.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:13 - On the second day of the month, the heads of all the families, along with the priests and the Levites, gathered around Ezra the teacher to give attention to the words of the Law.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:8 - You found his heart faithful to you, and you made a covenant with him to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites and Girgashites. You have kept your promise because you are righteous.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:11 - You divided the sea before them, so that they passed through it on dry ground, but you hurled their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into mighty waters.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:23 - You made their children as numerous as the stars in the sky, and you brought them into the land that you told their parents to enter and possess.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:24 - Their children went in and took possession of the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites, who lived in the land; you gave the Canaanites into their hands, along with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with them as they pleased.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:26 - “But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they turned their backs on your law. They killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:32 - “Now therefore, our God, the great God, mighty and awesome, who keeps his covenant of love, do not let all this hardship seem trifling in your eyes—the hardship that has come on us, on our kings and leaders, on our priests and prophets, on our ancestors and all your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29 - all these now join their fellow Israelites the nobles, and bind themselves with a curse and an oath to follow the Law of God given through Moses the servant of God and to obey carefully all the commands, regulations and decrees of the LORD our Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:31 - “When the neighboring peoples bring merchandise or grain to sell on the Sabbath, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on any holy day. Every seventh year we will forgo working the land and will cancel all debts.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:39 - The people of Israel, including the Levites, are to bring their contributions of grain, new wine and olive oil to the storerooms, where the articles for the sanctuary and for the ministering priests, the gatekeepers and the musicians are also kept. “We will not neglect the house of our God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:2 - The people commended all who volunteered to live in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:25 - Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon and Akkub were gatekeepers who guarded the storerooms at the gates.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:27 - At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from where they lived and were brought to Jerusalem to celebrate joyfully the dedication with songs of thanksgiving and with the music of cymbals, harps and lyres.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:30 - When the priests and Levites had purified themselves ceremonially, they purified the people, the gates and the wall.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:31 - I had the leaders of Judah go up on top of[fn] the wall. I also assigned two large choirs to give thanks. One was to proceed on top of[fn] the wall to the right, toward the Dung Gate.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:44 - At that time men were appointed to be in charge of the storerooms for the contributions, firstfruits and tithes. From the fields around the towns they were to bring into the storerooms the portions required by the Law for the priests and the Levites, for Judah was pleased with the ministering priests and Levites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:45 - They performed the service of their God and the service of purification, as did also the musicians and gatekeepers, according to the commands of David and his son Solomon.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:12 - All Judah brought the tithes of grain, new wine and olive oil into the storerooms.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:15 - In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, together with wine, grapes, figs and all other kinds of loads. And they were bringing all this into Jerusalem on the Sabbath. Therefore I warned them against selling food on that day.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:23 - Moreover, in those days I saw men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:29 - Remember them, my God, because they defiled the priestly office and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:1 - This is what happened during the time of Xerxes,[fn] the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush[fn]:
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:15 - “According to law, what must be done to Queen Vashti?” he asked. “She has not obeyed the command of King Xerxes that the eunuchs have taken to her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:16 - Then Memukan replied in the presence of the king and the nobles, “Queen Vashti has done wrong, not only against the king but also against all the nobles and the peoples of all the provinces of King Xerxes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:18 - This very day the Persian and Median women of the nobility who have heard about the queen's conduct will respond to all the king's nobles in the same way. There will be no end of disrespect and discord.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:19 - “Therefore, if it pleases the king, let him issue a royal decree and let it be written in the laws of Persia and Media, which cannot be repealed, that Vashti is never again to enter the presence of King Xerxes. Also let the king give her royal position to someone else who is better than she.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:1 - Later when King Xerxes' fury had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what he had decreed about her.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:7 - Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This young woman, who was also known as Esther, had a lovely figure and was beautiful. Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:18 - And the king gave a great banquet, Esther's banquet, for all his nobles and officials. He proclaimed a holiday throughout the provinces and distributed gifts with royal liberality.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:23 - And when the report was investigated and found to be true, the two officials were impaled on poles. All this was recorded in the book of the annals in the presence of the king.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:6 - Yet having learned who Mordecai's people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai's people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:7 - Mordecai told him everything that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury for the destruction of the Jews.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:9 - Hathak went back and reported to Esther what Mordecai had said.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:12 - When Esther's words were reported to Mordecai,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:13 - he sent back this answer: “Do not think that because you are in the king's house you alone of all the Jews will escape.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:16 - “Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:10 - Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home. Calling together his friends and Zeresh, his wife,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:3 - Esther again pleaded with the king, falling at his feet and weeping. She begged him to put an end to the evil plan of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:5 - “If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if he regards me with favor and thinks it the right thing to do, and if he is pleased with me, let an order be written overruling the dispatches that Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, devised and wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king's provinces.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:13 - A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued as law in every province and made known to the people of every nationality so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:3 - And all the nobles of the provinces, the satraps, the governors and the king's administrators helped the Jews, because fear of Mordecai had seized them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:10 - the ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews. But they did not lay their hands on the plunder.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:13 - “If it pleases the king,” Esther answered, “give the Jews in Susa permission to carry out this day's edict tomorrow also, and let Haman's ten sons be impaled on poles.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:20 - Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews throughout the provinces of King Xerxes, near and far,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:25 - But when the plot came to the king's attention,[fn] he issued written orders that the evil scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back onto his own head, and that he and his sons should be impaled on poles.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:26 - (Therefore these days were called Purim, from the word pur.) Because of everything written in this letter and because of what they had seen and what had happened to them,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:15 - and the Sabeans attacked and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:16 - While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The fire of God fell from the heavens and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:17 - While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:15 - with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:8 - As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:19 - how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:9 - God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:10 - His children must make amends to the poor; his own hands must give back his wealth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:6 - You demanded security from your relatives for no reason; you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:8 - though you were a powerful man, owning land— an honored man, living on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:12 - “Is not God in the heights of heaven? And see how lofty are the highest stars!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:18 - Yet it was he who filled their houses with good things, so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:17 - Can someone who hates justice govern? Will you condemn the just and mighty One?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:22 - There is no deep shadow, no utter darkness, where evildoers can hide.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:19 - Would your wealth or even all your mighty efforts sustain you so you would not be in distress?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:16 - After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:3 - “Let us break their chains and throw off their shackles.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 3:7 - Arise, LORD! Deliver me, my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:5 - The arrogant cannot stand in your presence. You hate all who do wrong;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:6 - you destroy those who tell lies. The bloodthirsty and deceitful you, LORD, detest.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:10 - My shield[fn] is God Most High, who saves the upright in heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:3 - When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:8 - the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:10 - Those who know your name trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 11:2 - For look, the wicked bend their bows; they set their arrows against the strings to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 11:4 - The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD is on his heavenly throne. He observes everyone on earth; his eyes examine them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:4 - those who say, “By our tongues we will prevail; our own lips will defend us—who is lord over us?”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:8 - who freely strut about when what is vile is honored by the human race.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 13:3 - Look on me and answer, LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:2 - The LORD looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 15:3 - whose tongue utters no slander, who does no wrong to a neighbor, and casts no slur on others;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 15:4 - who despises a vile person but honors those who fear the LORD; who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and does not change their mind;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:4 - Though people tried to bribe me, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent through what your lips have commanded.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:7 - Show me the wonders of your great love, you who save by your right hand those who take refuge in you from their foes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:11 - They have tracked me down, they now surround me, with eyes alert, to throw me to the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:1 - [fn]For the director of music. Of David the servant of the LORD. He sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love you, LORD, my strength.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:9 - He parted the heavens and came down; dark clouds were under his feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:33 - He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he causes me to stand on the heights.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:34 - He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:37 - I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back till they were destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:38 - I crushed them so that they could not rise; they fell beneath my feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:39 - You armed me with strength for battle; you humbled my adversaries before me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:40 - You made my enemies turn their backs in flight, and I destroyed my foes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:8 - Your hand will lay hold on all your enemies; your right hand will seize your foes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:15 - My eyes are ever on the LORD, for only he will release my feet from the snare.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:19 - See how numerous are my enemies and how fiercely they hate me!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:2 - Test me, LORD, and try me, examine my heart and my mind;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:1 - [fn]A psalm. A song. For the dedication of the temple.[fn] Of David. I will exalt you, LORD, for you lifted me out of the depths and did not let my enemies gloat over me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:6 - I hate those who cling to worthless idols; as for me, I trust in the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:8 - You have not given me into the hands of the enemy but have set my feet in a spacious place.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:11 - Because of all my enemies, I am the utter contempt of my neighbors and an object of dread to my closest friends— those who see me on the street flee from me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:8 - I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:13 - From heaven the LORD looks down and sees all mankind;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:14 - from his dwelling place he watches all who live on earth—
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:18 - But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:18 - The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:1 - Of David. Contend, LORD, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:16 - Like the ungodly they maliciously mocked;[fn] they gnashed their teeth at me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:1 - [fn]Of David. Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:12 - The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:14 - The wicked draw the sword and bend the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:17 - for the power of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:28 - For the LORD loves the just and will not forsake his faithful ones. Wrongdoers will be completely destroyed[fn]; the offspring of the wicked will perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:2 - He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:11 - Do not withhold your mercy from me, LORD; may your love and faithfulness always protect me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:5 - Through you we push back our enemies; through your name we trample our foes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:7 - but you give us victory over our enemies, you put our adversaries to shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:10 - You made us retreat before the enemy, and our adversaries have plundered us.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:2 - You are the most excellent of men and your lips have been anointed with grace, since God has blessed you forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:7 - You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 47:3 - He subdued nations under us, peoples under our feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:14 - For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:5 - “Gather to me this consecrated people, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:17 - You hate my instruction and cast my words behind you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:2 - God looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 54:1 - [fn]For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A maskil[fn] of David. When the Ziphites had gone to Saul and said, “Is not David hiding among us?” Save me, O God, by your name; vindicate me by your might.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:4 - In God, whose word I praise— in God I trust and am not afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:5 - All day long they twist my words; all their schemes are for my ruin.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:13 - For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:3 - He sends from heaven and saves me, rebuking those who hotly pursue me—[fn] God sends forth his love and his faithfulness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:5 - Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:11 - Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:6 - Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; LORD, tear out the fangs of those lions!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:5 - You, LORD God Almighty, you who are the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish all the nations; show no mercy to wicked traitors.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:12 - With God we will gain the victory, and he will trample down our enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:4 - I long to dwell in your tent forever and take refuge in the shelter of your wings.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:10 - You drench its furrows and level its ridges; you soften it with showers and bless its crops.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:5 - Come and see what God has done, his awesome deeds for mankind!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:9 - he has preserved our lives and kept our feet from slipping.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:6 - God sets the lonely in families,[fn] he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:30 - Rebuke the beast among the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations. Humbled, may the beast bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:33 - The LORD hears the needy and does not despise his captive people.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:2 - May he judge your people in righteousness, your afflicted ones with justice.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:4 - May he defend the afflicted among the people and save the children of the needy; may he crush the oppressor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:17 - May his name endure forever; may it continue as long as the sun. Then all nations will be blessed through him,[fn] and they will call him blessed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 75:3 - When the earth and all its people quake, it is I who hold its pillars firm.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 76:6 - At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both horse and chariot lie still.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 76:9 - when you, God, rose up to judge, to save all the afflicted of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:7 - “Will the Lord reject forever? Will he never show his favor again?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:9 - Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:15 - With your mighty arm you redeemed your people, the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:31 - God's anger rose against them; he put to death the sturdiest among them, cutting down the young men of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:44 - He turned their river into blood; they could not drink from their streams.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:46 - He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:53 - He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:63 - Fire consumed their young men, and their young women had no wedding songs;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:66 - He beat back his enemies; he put them to everlasting shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:11 - May the groans of the prisoners come before you; with your strong arm preserve those condemned to die.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:14 - how quickly I would subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:11 - Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 84:4 - Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever praising you.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 84:11 - For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 85:8 - I will listen to what God the LORD says; he promises peace to his people, his faithful servants— but let them not turn to folly.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:7 - Your wrath lies heavily on me; you have overwhelmed me with all your waves.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:8 - You have taken from me my closest friends and have made me repulsive to them. I am confined and cannot escape;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:18 - You have taken from me friend and neighbor— darkness is my closest friend.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:7 - In the council of the holy ones God is greatly feared; he is more awesome than all who surround him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:10 - You crushed Rahab like one of the slain; with your strong arm you scattered your enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:23 - I will crush his foes before him and strike down his adversaries.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:40 - You have broken through all his walls and reduced his strongholds to ruins.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:42 - You have exalted the right hand of his foes; you have made all his enemies rejoice.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:47 - Remember how fleeting is my life. For what futility you have created all humanity!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:12 - Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:16 - May your deeds be shown to your servants, your splendor to their children.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:7 - that though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:11 - The LORD knows all human plans; he knows that they are futile.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:3 - For the LORD is the great God, the great King above all gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 96:4 - For great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; he is to be feared above all gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 96:5 - For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:3 - Fire goes before him and consumes his foes on every side.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:9 - For you, LORD, are the Most High over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 99:2 - Great is the LORD in Zion; he is exalted over all the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:6 - My eyes will be on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me; the one whose walk is blameless will minister to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:8 - Every morning I will put to silence all the wicked in the land; I will cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:14 - For her stones are dear to your servants; her very dust moves them to pity.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:20 - to hear the groans of the prisoners and release those condemned to death.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:11 - For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:13 - As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:17 - But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD's love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children's children—
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:4 - He makes winds his messengers,[fn] flames of fire his servants.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:18 - They bruised his feet with shackles, his neck was put in irons,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:22 - to instruct his princes as he pleased and teach his elders wisdom.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:24 - The LORD made his people very fruitful; he made them too numerous for their foes,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:27 - They performed his signs among them, his wonders in the land of Ham.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:28 - He sent darkness and made the land dark— for had they not rebelled against his words?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:29 - He turned their waters into blood, causing their fish to die.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:43 - He brought out his people with rejoicing, his chosen ones with shouts of joy;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:11 - The waters covered their adversaries; not one of them survived.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:37 - They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to false gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:14 - He brought them out of darkness, the utter darkness, and broke away their chains.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:5 - Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:13 - With God we will gain the victory, and he will trample down our enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:11 - May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 110:1 - Of David. A psalm. The LORD says to my lord:[fn] “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:5 - Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely, who conduct their affairs with justice.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:8 - Their hearts are secure, they will have no fear; in the end they will look in triumph on their foes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:10 - The wicked will see and be vexed, they will gnash their teeth and waste away; the longings of the wicked will come to nothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 113:4 - The LORD is exalted over all the nations, his glory above the heavens.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:13 - he will bless those who fear the LORD— small and great alike.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:14 - May the LORD cause you to flourish, both you and your children.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:8 - For you, LORD, have delivered me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:16 - Truly I am your servant, LORD; I serve you just as my mother did; you have freed me from my chains.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:7 - The LORD is with me; he is my helper. I look in triumph on my enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:9 - Beth How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:17 - Gimel Be good to your servant while I live, that I may obey your word.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:18 - Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:37 - Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:42 - then I can answer anyone who taunts me, for I trust in your word.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:59 - I have considered my ways and have turned my steps to your statutes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:74 - May those who fear you rejoice when they see me, for I have put my hope in your word.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:98 - Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:99 - I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:101 - I have kept my feet from every evil path so that I might obey your word.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:118 - You reject all who stray from your decrees, for their delusions come to nothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:119 - All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross; therefore I love your statutes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:147 - I rise before dawn and cry for help; I have put my hope in your word.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 121:1 - A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 123:1 - A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to you, to you who sit enthroned in heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 125:5 - But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be on Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 128:2 - You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:15 - I will bless her with abundant provisions; her poor I will satisfy with food.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:16 - I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her faithful people will ever sing for joy.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:18 - I will clothe his enemies with shame, but his head will be adorned with a radiant crown.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:5 - I know that the LORD is great, that our Lord is greater than all gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:5 - who by his understanding made the heavens,

His love endures forever.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:2 - You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:13 - For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:21 - Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:12 - In your unfailing love, silence my enemies; destroy all my foes, for I am your servant.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:1 - Of David. Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 145:14 - The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 145:20 - The LORD watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 146:9 - The LORD watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:3 - He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:13 - He strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses your people within you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:8 - to bind their kings with fetters, their nobles with shackles of iron,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:31 - they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:18 - Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:5 - Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:8 - yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:28 - Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:2 - Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:17 - I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:21 - bestowing a rich inheritance on those who love me and making their treasuries full.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:3 - She has sent out her servants, and she calls from the highest point of the city,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:12 - If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:15 - calling out to those who pass by, who go straight on their way,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:12 - Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:6 - Righteousness guards the person of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:21 - Trouble pursues the sinner, but the righteous are rewarded with good things.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:12 - Mockers resent correction, so they avoid the wise.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:21 - The wise in heart are called discerning, and gracious words promote instruction.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:21 - The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:7 - The righteous lead blameless lives; blessed are their children after them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:13 - Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:8 - The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:8 - You will vomit up the little you have eaten and will have wasted your compliments.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:9 - Do not speak to fools, for they will scorn your prudent words.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:31 - Do not gaze at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly!
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:22 - for those two will send sudden destruction on them, and who knows what calamities they can bring?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:13 - Like a snow-cooled drink at harvest time is a trustworthy messenger to the one who sends him; he refreshes the spirit of his master.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:19 - is one who deceives their neighbor and says, “I was only joking!”
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:18 - The one who guards a fig tree will eat its fruit, and whoever protects their master will be honored.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:23 - Pride brings a person low, but the lowly in spirit gain honor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:1 - The sayings of Agur son of Jakeh—an inspired utterance. This man's utterance to Ithiel: “I am weary, God, but I can prevail.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:14 - those whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are set with knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among mankind.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:26 - hyraxes are creatures of little power, yet they make their home in the crags;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:5 - lest they drink and forget what has been decreed, and deprive all the oppressed of their rights.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:17 - She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:19 - In her hand she holds the distaff and grasps the spindle with her fingers.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:7 - I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:9 - I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before me. In all this my wisdom stayed with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:2 - And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:3 - But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:15 - I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed the youth, the king's successor.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:19 - Wisdom makes one wise person more powerful than ten rulers in a city.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:21 - Do not pay attention to every word people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you—
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:3 - This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:4 - Anyone who is among the living has hope[fn]—even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:8 - Listen! My beloved! Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:3 - I have taken off my robe— must I put it on again? I have washed my feet— must I soil them again?
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:11 - He: I went down to the grove of nut trees to look at the new growth in the valley, to see if the vines had budded or the pomegranates were in bloom.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:12 - Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vines have budded, if their blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates are in bloom— there I will give you my love.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:15 - When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:25 - I will turn my hand against you;[fn] I will thoroughly purge away your dross and remove all your impurities.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:26 - I will restore your leaders as in days of old, your rulers as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:16 - The LORD says, “The women of Zion are haughty, walking along with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, strutting along with swaying hips, with ornaments jingling on their ankles.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:18 - In that day the Lord will snatch away their finery: the bangles and headbands and crescent necklaces,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:20 - the headdresses and anklets and sashes, the perfume bottles and charms,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:2 - Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:10 - Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes.[fn] Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:12 - until the LORD has sent everyone far away and the land is utterly forsaken.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:19 - When someone tells you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:6 - For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:11 - But the LORD has strengthened Rezin's foes against them and has spurred their enemies on.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:12 - Arameans from the east and Philistines from the west have devoured Israel with open mouth. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:15 - the elders and dignitaries are the head, the prophets who teach lies are the tail.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:17 - Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men, nor will he pity the fatherless and widows, for everyone is ungodly and wicked, every mouth speaks folly. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:20 - In that day the remnant of Israel, the survivors of Jacob, will no longer rely on him who struck them down but will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:33 - See, the Lord, the LORD Almighty, will lop off the boughs with great power. The lofty trees will be felled, the tall ones will be brought low.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:4 - but with righteousness he will judge the needy, with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:12 - He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:14 - They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia to the west; together they will plunder the people to the east. They will subdue Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:9 - See, the day of the LORD is coming —a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger— to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:17 - See, I will stir up against them the Medes, who do not care for silver and have no delight in gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:17 - the man who made the world a wilderness, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home?”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:25 - I will crush the Assyrian in my land; on my mountains I will trample him down. His yoke will be taken from my people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:3 - The Egyptians will lose heart, and I will bring their plans to nothing; they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead, the mediums and the spiritists.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:9 - Those who work with combed flax will despair, the weavers of fine linen will lose hope.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:20 - It will be a sign and witness to the LORD Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:22 - The LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; he will strike them and heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:8 - The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah, and you looked in that day to the weapons in the Palace of the Forest.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:10 - You counted the buildings in Jerusalem and tore down houses to strengthen the wall.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:1 - See, the LORD is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it; he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants—
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:5 - The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:17 - Terror and pit and snare await you, people of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:21 - In that day the LORD will punish the powers in the heavens above and the kings on the earth below.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:5 - He humbles those who dwell on high, he lays the lofty city low; he levels it to the ground and casts it down to the dust.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:11 - LORD, your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame; let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:21 - See, the LORD is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose the blood shed on it; the earth will conceal its slain no longer.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 - By this, then, will Jacob's guilt be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones to be like limestone crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles[fn] or incense altars will be left standing.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:12 - In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:23 - Listen and hear my voice; pay attention and hear what I say.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:10 - The LORD has brought over you a deep sleep: He has sealed your eyes (the prophets); he has covered your heads (the seers).
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:21 - those who with a word make someone out to be guilty, who ensnare the defender in court and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:20 - Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:21 - Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:2 - Each one will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:9 - You women who are so complacent, rise up and listen to me; you daughters who feel secure, hear what I have to say!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:14 - The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling grips the godless: “Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:15 - Those who walk righteously and speak what is right, who reject gain from extortion and keep their hands from accepting bribes, who stop their ears against plots of murder and shut their eyes against contemplating evil—
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:18 - In your thoughts you will ponder the former terror: “Where is that chief officer? Where is the one who took the revenue? Where is the officer in charge of the towers?”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:11 - Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:12 - But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:13 - Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:22 - Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and told him what the field commander had said.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:2 - He sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:4 - It may be that the LORD your God will hear the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the LORD your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant that still survives.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:17 - Give ear, LORD, and hear; open your eyes, LORD, and see; listen to all the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:23 - Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:8 - I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.' ” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:2 - Hezekiah received the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his storehouses—the silver, the gold, the spices, the fine olive oil—his entire armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:26 - Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:12 - Though you search for your enemies, you will not find them. Those who wage war against you will be as nothing at all.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:26 - Who told of this from the beginning, so we could know, or beforehand, so we could say, ‘He was right'? No one told of this, no one foretold it, no one heard any words from you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:13 - The LORD will march out like a champion, like a warrior he will stir up his zeal; with a shout he will raise the battle cry and will triumph over his enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:6 - I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!' and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.' Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth—
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:9 - All the nations gather together and the peoples assemble. Which of their gods foretold this and proclaimed to us the former things? Let them bring in their witnesses to prove they were right, so that others may hear and say, “It is true.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:27 - who says to the watery deep, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your streams,'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:13 - All the counsel you have received has only worn you out! Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:13 - Shout for joy, you heavens; rejoice, you earth; burst into song, you mountains! For the LORD comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:18 - Lift up your eyes and look around; all your children gather and come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as ornaments; you will put them on, like a bride.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:22 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “See, I will beckon to the nations, I will lift up my banner to the peoples; they will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their hips.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:25 - But this is what the LORD says: “Yes, captives will be taken from warriors, and plunder retrieved from the fierce; I will contend with those who contend with you, and your children I will save.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:6 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies. But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:16 - I have put my words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of my hand— I who set the heavens in place, who laid the foundations of the earth, and who say to Zion, ‘You are my people.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:9 - He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:2 - “Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:13 - All your children will be taught by the LORD, and great will be their peace.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:6 - And foreigners who bind themselves to the LORD to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be his servants, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant—
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:8 - The Sovereign LORD declares— he who gathers the exiles of Israel: “I will gather still others to them besides those already gathered.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:8 - Behind your doors and your doorposts you have put your pagan symbols. Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed, you climbed into it and opened it wide; you made a pact with those whose beds you love, and you looked with lust on their naked bodies.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:9 - You went to Molek[fn] with olive oil and increased your perfumes. You sent your ambassadors[fn] far away; you descended to the very realm of the dead!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:3 - ‘Why have we fasted,' they say, ‘and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?' “Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:12 - Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:4 - “Lift up your eyes and look about you: All assemble and come to you; your sons come from afar, and your daughters are carried on the hip.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:17 - Instead of bronze I will bring you gold, and silver in place of iron. Instead of wood I will bring you bronze, and iron in place of stones. I will make peace your governor and well-being your ruler.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:1 - The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:2 - to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:10 - Pass through, pass through the gates! Prepare the way for the people. Build up, build up the highway! Remove the stones. Raise a banner for the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:17 - Why, LORD, do you make us wander from your ways and harden our hearts so we do not revere you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes that are your inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:2 - As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:2 - Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?”

declares the LORD.

“These are the ones I look on with favor: those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:17 - “Those who consecrate and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one who is among those who eat the flesh of pigs, rats and other unclean things—they will meet their end together with the one they follow,” declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:20 - And they will bring all your people, from all the nations, to my holy mountain in Jerusalem as an offering to the LORD—on horses, in chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,” says the LORD. “They will bring them, as the Israelites bring their grain offerings, to the temple of the LORD in ceremonially clean vessels.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:9 - Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “I have put my words in your mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:12 - The LORD said to me, “You have seen correctly, for I am watching[fn] to see that my word is fulfilled.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:14 - The LORD said to me, “From the north disaster will be poured out on all who live in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:7 - I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and rich produce. But you came and defiled my land and made my inheritance detestable.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:9 - “Therefore I bring charges against you again,”

declares the LORD.

“And I will bring charges against your children's children.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:20 - “Long ago you broke off your yoke and tore off your bonds; you said, ‘I will not serve you!' Indeed, on every high hill and under every spreading tree you lay down as a prostitute.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:30 - “In vain I punished your people; they did not respond to correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravenous lion.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:2 - “Look up to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been ravished? By the roadside you sat waiting for lovers, sat like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:12 - Go, proclaim this message toward the north: “ ‘Return, faithless Israel,' declares the LORD, ‘I will frown on you no longer, for I am faithful,' declares the LORD, ‘I will not be angry forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:18 - In those days the people of Judah will join the people of Israel, and together they will come from a northern land to the land I gave your ancestors as an inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:24 - From our youth shameful gods have consumed the fruits of our ancestors' labor— their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:24 - I looked at the mountains, and they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:30 - What are you doing, you devastated one? Why dress yourself in scarlet and put on jewels of gold? Why highlight your eyes with makeup? You adorn yourself in vain. Your lovers despise you; they want to kill you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:5 - So I will go to the leaders and speak to them; surely they know the way of the LORD, the requirements of their God.” But with one accord they too had broken off the yoke and torn off the bonds.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:10 - “Go through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not destroy them completely. Strip off her branches, for these people do not belong to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:14 - Therefore this is what the LORD God Almighty says: “Because the people have spoken these words, I will make my words in your mouth a fire and these people the wood it consumes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:17 - They will devour your harvests and food, devour your sons and daughters; they will devour your flocks and herds, devour your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:12 - Their houses will be turned over to others, together with their fields and their wives, when I stretch out my hand against those who live in the land,”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:15 - I will thrust you from my presence, just as I did all your fellow Israelites, the people of Ephraim.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:20 - “ ‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: My anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place—on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the crops of your land—and it will burn and not be quenched.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:22 - For when I brought your ancestors out of Egypt and spoke to them, I did not just give them commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:25 - From the time your ancestors left Egypt until now, day after day, again and again I sent you my servants the prophets.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:26 - But they did not listen to me or pay attention. They were stiff-necked and did more evil than their ancestors.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:31 - They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:2 - They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped. They will not be gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:10 - Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:16 - The snorting of the enemy's horses is heard from Dan; at the neighing of their stallions the whole land trembles. They have come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who live there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:1 - Oh, that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night for the slain of my people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:26 - Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab and all who live in the wilderness in distant places.[fn] For all these nations are really uncircumcised, and even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:18 - For this is what the LORD says: “At this time I will hurl out those who live in this land; I will bring distress on them so that they may be captured.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:2 - “Listen to the terms of this covenant and tell them to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:6 - The LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: ‘Listen to the terms of this covenant and follow them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:10 - They have returned to the sins of their ancestors, who refused to listen to my words. They have followed other gods to serve them. Both Israel and Judah have broken the covenant I made with their ancestors.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:12 - The towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they will not help them at all when disaster strikes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:21 - Therefore this is what the LORD says about the people of Anathoth who are threatening to kill you, saying, “Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD or you will die by our hands”—
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:23 - Not even a remnant will be left to them, because I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:10 - These wicked people, who refuse to listen to my words, who follow the stubbornness of their hearts and go after other gods to serve and worship them, will be like this belt—completely useless!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:13 - then tell them, ‘This is what the LORD says: I am going to fill with drunkenness all who live in this land, including the kings who sit on David's throne, the priests, the prophets and all those living in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:14 - I will smash them one against the other, parents and children alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no pity or mercy or compassion to keep me from destroying them.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:20 - Look up and see those who are coming from the north. Where is the flock that was entrusted to you, the sheep of which you boasted?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:3 - The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns but find no water. They return with their jars unfilled; dismayed and despairing, they cover their heads.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:3 - “I will send four kinds of destroyers against them,” declares the LORD, “the sword to kill and the dogs to drag away and the birds and the wild animals to devour and destroy.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:9 - The mother of seven will grow faint and breathe her last. Her sun will set while it is still day; she will be disgraced and humiliated. I will put the survivors to the sword before their enemies,”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:13 - “Your wealth and your treasures I will give as plunder, without charge, because of all your sins throughout your country.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:16 - When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart's delight, for I bear your name, LORD God Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:12 - But you have behaved more wickedly than your ancestors. See how all of you are following the stubbornness of your evil hearts instead of obeying me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:14 - “However, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when it will no longer be said, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:16 - “But now I will send for many fishermen,” declares the LORD, “and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:10 - “I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:23 - Yet they did not listen or pay attention; they were stiff-necked and would not listen or respond to discipline.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:2 - “Go down to the potter's house, and there I will give you my message.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:11 - “Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, ‘This is what the LORD says: Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:18 - They said, “Come, let's make plans against Jeremiah; for the teaching of the law by the priest will not cease, nor will counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets. So come, let's attack him with our tongues and pay no attention to anything he says.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:21 - So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives be made childless and widows; let their men be put to death, their young men slain by the sword in battle.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:2 - and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. There proclaim the words I tell you,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:5 - They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:7 - “ ‘In this place I will ruin[fn] the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hands of those who want to kill them, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds and the wild animals.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:1 - When the priest Pashhur son of Immer, the official in charge of the temple of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:5 - I will deliver all the wealth of this city into the hands of their enemies—all its products, all its valuables and all the treasures of the kings of Judah. They will take it away as plunder and carry it off to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:4 - ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I am about to turn against you the weapons of war that are in your hands, which you are using to fight the king of Babylon and the Babylonians[fn] who are outside the wall besieging you. And I will gather them inside this city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:6 - I will strike down those who live in this city—both man and beast—and they will die of a terrible plague.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:7 - After that, declares the LORD, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials and the people in this city who survive the plague, sword and famine, into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who want to kill them. He will put them to the sword; he will show them no mercy or pity or compassion.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:9 - Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine or plague. But whoever goes out and surrenders to the Babylonians who are besieging you will live; they will escape with their lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:13 - I am against you, Jerusalem, you who live above this valley on the rocky plateau, declares the LORD— you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our refuge?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:5 - But if you do not obey these commands, declares the LORD, I swear by myself that this palace will become a ruin.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:22 - The wind will drive all your shepherds away, and your allies will go into exile. Then you will be ashamed and disgraced because of all your wickedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:2 - Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to the shepherds who tend my people: “Because you have scattered my flock and driven them away and have not bestowed care on them, I will bestow punishment on you for the evil you have done,” declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:3 - “I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and will bring them back to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and increase in number.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:16 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:19 - See, the storm of the LORD will burst out in wrath, a whirlwind swirling down on the heads of the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:21 - I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:30 - “Therefore,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who steal from one another words supposedly from me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:31 - Yes,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who wag their own tongues and yet declare, ‘The LORD declares.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:32 - Indeed, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” declares the LORD. “They tell them and lead my people astray with their reckless lies, yet I did not send or appoint them. They do not benefit these people in the least,” declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:1 - After Jehoiachin[fn] son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and the officials, the skilled workers and the artisans of Judah were carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:5 - “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I sent away from this place to the land of the Babylonians.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:6 - My eyes will watch over them for their good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:8 - “ ‘But like the bad figs, which are so bad they cannot be eaten,' says the LORD, ‘so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials and the survivors from Jerusalem, whether they remain in this land or live in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:2 - So Jeremiah the prophet said to all the people of Judah and to all those living in Jerusalem:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:4 - And though the LORD has sent all his servants the prophets to you again and again, you have not listened or paid any attention.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - I will summon all the peoples of the north and my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,” declares the LORD, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy[fn] them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting ruin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:13 - I will bring on that land all the things I have spoken against it, all that are written in this book and prophesied by Jeremiah against all the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:19 - Pharaoh king of Egypt, his attendants, his officials and all his people,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:20 - and all the foreign people there; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines (those of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the people left at Ashdod);
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:21 - Edom, Moab and Ammon;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:22 - all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:24 - all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the foreign people who live in the wilderness;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:26 - and all the kings of the north, near and far, one after the other—all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshak[fn] will drink it too.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:29 - See, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears my Name, and will you indeed go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword on all who live on the earth, declares the LORD Almighty.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:30 - “Now prophesy all these words against them and say to them: “ ‘The LORD will roar from on high; he will thunder from his holy dwelling and roar mightily against his land. He will shout like those who tread the grapes, shout against all who live on the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:2 - “This is what the LORD says: Stand in the courtyard of the LORD's house and speak to all the people of the towns of Judah who come to worship in the house of the LORD. Tell them everything I command you; do not omit a word.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:7 - The priests, the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speak these words in the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:11 - Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and all the people, “This man should be sentenced to death because he has prophesied against this city. You have heard it with your own ears!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:12 - Then Jeremiah said to all the officials and all the people: “The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and this city all the things you have heard.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:15 - Be assured, however, that if you put me to death, you will bring the guilt of innocent blood on yourselves and on this city and on those who live in it, for in truth the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:16 - Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, “This man should not be sentenced to death! He has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:20 - (Now Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath Jearim was another man who prophesied in the name of the LORD; he prophesied the same things against this city and this land as Jeremiah did.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:21 - When King Jehoiakim and all his officers and officials heard his words, the king was determined to put him to death. But Uriah heard of it and fled in fear to Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:4 - Give them a message for their masters and say, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “Tell this to your masters:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:12 - I gave the same message to Zedekiah king of Judah. I said, “Bow your neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and you will live.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:10 - Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and broke it,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:12 - After the prophet Hananiah had broken the yoke off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:1 - This is the text of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets and all the other people Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:5 - “Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:10 - This is what the LORD says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:2 - “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words I have spoken to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:8 - “ ‘In that day,' declares the LORD Almighty, ‘I will break the yoke off their necks and will tear off their bonds; no longer will foreigners enslave them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:16 - “ ‘But all who devour you will be devoured; all your enemies will go into exile. Those who plunder you will be plundered; all who make spoil of you I will despoil.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:20 - Their children will be as in days of old, and their community will be established before me; I will punish all who oppress them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:21 - “Set up road signs; put up guideposts. Take note of the highway, the road that you take. Return, Virgin Israel, return to your towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:4 - Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape the Babylonians[fn] but will certainly be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him face to face and see him with his own eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:35 - They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molek, though I never commanded—nor did it enter my mind—that they should do such a detestable thing and so make Judah sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5 - in the fight with the Babylonians[fn]: ‘They will be filled with the dead bodies of the people I will slay in my anger and wrath. I will hide my face from this city because of all its wickedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:3 - You will not escape from his grasp but will surely be captured and given into his hands. You will see the king of Babylon with your own eyes, and he will speak with you face to face. And you will go to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:5 - you will die peacefully. As people made a funeral fire in honor of your predecessors, the kings who ruled before you, so they will make a fire in your honor and lament, “Alas, master!” I myself make this promise, declares the LORD.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:6 - Then Jeremiah the prophet told all this to Zedekiah king of Judah, in Jerusalem,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:13 - “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. I said,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:18 - Those who have violated my covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two and then walked between its pieces.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:19 - The leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests and all the people of the land who walked between the pieces of the calf,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:21 - “I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials into the hands of their enemies who want to kill them, to the army of the king of Babylon, which has withdrawn from you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:3 - So I went to get Jaazaniah son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons—the whole family of the Rekabites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:13 - “This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Go and tell the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, ‘Will you not learn a lesson and obey my words?' declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:15 - Again and again I sent all my servants the prophets to you. They said, “Each of you must turn from your wicked ways and reform your actions; do not follow other gods to serve them. Then you will live in the land I have given to you and your ancestors.” But you have not paid attention or listened to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:17 - “Therefore this is what the LORD God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘Listen! I am going to bring on Judah and on everyone living in Jerusalem every disaster I pronounced against them. I spoke to them, but they did not listen; I called to them, but they did not answer.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:2 - “Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah and all the other nations from the time I began speaking to you in the reign of Josiah till now.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:4 - So Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and while Jeremiah dictated all the words the LORD had spoken to him, Baruch wrote them on the scroll.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:10 - From the room of Gemariah son of Shaphan the secretary, which was in the upper courtyard at the entrance of the New Gate of the temple, Baruch read to all the people at the LORD's temple the words of Jeremiah from the scroll.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:11 - When Micaiah son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the LORD from the scroll,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:13 - After Micaiah told them everything he had heard Baruch read to the people from the scroll,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:16 - When they heard all these words, they looked at each other in fear and said to Baruch, “We must report all these words to the king.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:17 - Then they asked Baruch, “Tell us, how did you come to write all this? Did Jeremiah dictate it?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:18 - “Yes,” Baruch replied, “he dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them in ink on the scroll.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:20 - After they put the scroll in the room of Elishama the secretary, they went to the king in the courtyard and reported everything to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:24 - The king and all his attendants who heard all these words showed no fear, nor did they tear their clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:27 - After the king burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah's dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:28 - “Take another scroll and write on it all the words that were on the first scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah burned up.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:31 - I will punish him and his children and his attendants for their wickedness; I will bring on them and those living in Jerusalem and the people of Judah every disaster I pronounced against them, because they have not listened.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:32 - So Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and as Jeremiah dictated, Baruch wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:2 - Neither he nor his attendants nor the people of the land paid any attention to the words the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:10 - Even if you were to defeat the entire Babylonian[fn] army that is attacking you and only wounded men were left in their tents, they would come out and burn this city down.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:13 - But when he reached the Benjamin Gate, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, arrested him and said, “You are deserting to the Babylonians!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:14 - “That's not true!” Jeremiah said. “I am not deserting to the Babylonians.” But Irijah would not listen to him; instead, he arrested Jeremiah and brought him to the officials.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:18 - Then Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “What crime have I committed against you or your attendants or this people, that you have put me in prison?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:1 - Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jehukal[fn] son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malkijah heard what Jeremiah was telling all the people when he said,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:2 - “This is what the LORD says: ‘Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine or plague, but whoever goes over to the Babylonians[fn] will live. They will escape with their lives; they will live.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:4 - Then the officials said to the king, “This man should be put to death. He is discouraging the soldiers who are left in this city, as well as all the people, by the things he is saying to them. This man is not seeking the good of these people but their ruin.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:11 - So Ebed-Melek took the men with him and went to a room under the treasury in the palace. He took some old rags and worn-out clothes from there and let them down with ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:19 - King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have gone over to the Babylonians, for the Babylonians may hand me over to them and they will mistreat me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:23 - “All your wives and children will be brought out to the Babylonians. You yourself will not escape from their hands but will be captured by the king of Babylon; and this city will[fn] be burned down.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:27 - All the officials did come to Jeremiah and question him, and he told them everything the king had ordered him to say. So they said no more to him, for no one had heard his conversation with the king.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:16 - “Go and tell Ebed-Melek the Cushite, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am about to fulfill my words against this city—words concerning disaster, not prosperity. At that time they will be fulfilled before your eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:4 - But today I am freeing you from the chains on your wrists. Come with me to Babylon, if you like, and I will look after you; but if you do not want to, then don't come. Look, the whole country lies before you; go wherever you please.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:3 - Ishmael also killed all the men of Judah who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, as well as the Babylonian[fn] soldiers who were there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:13 - When all the people Ishmael had with him saw Johanan son of Kareah and the army officers who were with him, they were glad.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:15 - But Ishmael son of Nethaniah and eight of his men escaped from Johanan and fled to the Ammonites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:16 - Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers who were with him led away all the people of Mizpah who had survived, whom Johanan had recovered from Ishmael son of Nethaniah after Ishmael had assassinated Gedaliah son of Ahikam—the soldiers, women, children and court officials he had recovered from Gibeon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:4 - “I have heard you,” replied Jeremiah the prophet. “I will certainly pray to the LORD your God as you have requested; I will tell you everything the LORD says and will keep nothing back from you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:8 - So he called together Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers who were with him and all the people from the least to the greatest.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 - This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and wrath have been poured out on those who lived in Jerusalem, so will my wrath be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You will be a curse[fn] and an object of horror, a curse[fn] and an object of reproach; you will never see this place again.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:19 - “Remnant of Judah, the LORD has told you, ‘Do not go to Egypt.' Be sure of this: I warn you today
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:1 - When Jeremiah had finished telling the people all the words of the LORD their God—everything the LORD had sent him to tell them—
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:5 - Instead, Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers led away all the remnant of Judah who had come back to live in the land of Judah from all the nations where they had been scattered.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:6 - They also led away all those whom Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard had left with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan—the men, the women, the children and the king's daughters. And they took Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah along with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:13 - There in the temple of the sun[fn] in Egypt he will demolish the sacred pillars and will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:4 - Again and again I sent my servants the prophets, who said, ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate!'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - I will take away the remnant of Judah who were determined to go to Egypt to settle there. They will all perish in Egypt; they will fall by the sword or die from famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine. They will become a curse and an object of horror, a curse and an object of reproach.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:13 - I will punish those who live in Egypt with the sword, famine and plague, as I punished Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:1 - When Baruch son of Neriah wrote on a scroll the words Jeremiah the prophet dictated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, Jeremiah said this to Baruch:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:4 - Harness the horses, mount the steeds! Take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears, put on your armor!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:9 - Charge, you horses! Drive furiously, you charioteers! March on, you warriors—men of Cush[fn] and Put who carry shields, men of Lydia who draw the bow.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:10 - But that day belongs to the Lord, the LORD Almighty— a day of vengeance, for vengeance on his foes. The sword will devour till it is satisfied, till it has quenched its thirst with blood. For the Lord, the LORD Almighty, will offer sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:25 - The LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “I am about to bring punishment on Amon god of Thebes, on Pharaoh, on Egypt and her gods and her kings, and on those who rely on Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:1 - This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines before Pharaoh attacked Gaza:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:2 - This is what the LORD says: “See how the waters are rising in the north; they will become an overflowing torrent. They will overflow the land and everything in it, the towns and those who live in them. The people will cry out; all who dwell in the land will wail
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:4 - For the day has come to destroy all the Philistines and to remove all survivors who could help Tyre and Sidon. The LORD is about to destroy the Philistines, the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:19 - “Like a lion coming up from Jordan's thickets to a rich pastureland, I will chase Edom from its land in an instant. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? Who is like me and who can challenge me? And what shepherd can stand against me?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:20 - Therefore, hear what the LORD has planned against Edom, what he has purposed against those who live in Teman: The young of the flock will be dragged away; their pasture will be appalled at their fate.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:28 - Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon attacked: This is what the LORD says: “Arise, and attack Kedar and destroy the people of the East.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:7 - Whoever found them devoured them; their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they sinned against the LORD, their verdant pasture, the LORD, the hope of their ancestors.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:21 - “Attack the land of Merathaim and those who live in Pekod. Pursue, kill and completely destroy[fn] them,”

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“Do everything I have commanded you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:27 - Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter! Woe to them! For their day has come, the time for them to be punished.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:34 - Yet their Redeemer is strong; the LORD Almighty is his name. He will vigorously defend their cause so that he may bring rest to their land, but unrest to those who live in Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:35 - “A sword against the Babylonians!” declares the LORD— “against those who live in Babylon and against her officials and wise men!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:36 - A sword against her false prophets! They will become fools. A sword against her warriors! They will be filled with terror.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:37 - A sword against her horses and chariots and all the foreigners in her ranks! They will become weaklings. A sword against her treasures! They will be plundered.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:45 - Therefore, hear what the LORD has planned against Babylon, what he has purposed against the land of the Babylonians: The young of the flock will be dragged away; their pasture will be appalled at their fate.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:1 - This is what the LORD says: “See, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon and the people of Leb Kamai.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:12 - Lift up a banner against the walls of Babylon! Reinforce the guard, station the watchmen, prepare an ambush! The LORD will carry out his purpose, his decree against the people of Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:28 - Prepare the nations for battle against her— the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the countries they rule.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:35 - May the violence done to our flesh[fn] be on Babylon,” say the inhabitants of Zion. “May our blood be on those who live in Babylonia,” says Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:57 - I will make her officials and wise men drunk, her governors, officers and warriors as well; they will sleep forever and not awake,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:60 - Jeremiah had written on a scroll about all the disasters that would come upon Babylon—all that had been recorded concerning Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:61 - He said to Seraiah, “When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:10 - There at Riblah the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; he also killed all the officials of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:11 - Then he put out Zedekiah's eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon, where he put him in prison till the day of his death.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:16 - But Nebuzaradan left behind the rest of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and fields.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:17 - The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea that were at the temple of the LORD and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:19 - The commander of the imperial guard took away the basins, censers, sprinkling bowls, pots, lampstands, dishes and bowls used for drink offerings—all that were made of pure gold or silver.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:24 - The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank and the three doorkeepers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:25 - Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men, and seven royal advisers. He also took the secretary who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land, sixty of whom were found in the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:15 - “The Lord has rejected all the warriors in my midst; he has summoned an army against me to[fn] crush my young men. In his winepress the Lord has trampled Virgin Daughter Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:19 - “I called to my allies but they betrayed me. My priests and my elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:34 - To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land,
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:61 - LORD, you have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:63 - Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:1 - He said to me, “Son of man,[fn] stand up on your feet and I will speak to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:2 - As he spoke, the Spirit came into me and raised me to my feet, and I heard him speaking to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:3 - He said: “Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me; they and their ancestors have been in revolt against me to this very day.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:6 - And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns are all around you and you live among scorpions. Do not be afraid of what they say or be terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:7 - You must speak my words to them, whether they listen or fail to listen, for they are rebellious.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:4 - He then said to me: “Son of man, go now to the people of Israel and speak my words to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:6 - not to many peoples of obscure speech and strange language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:10 - And he said to me, “Son of man, listen carefully and take to heart all the words I speak to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:11 - Go now to your people in exile and speak to them. Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says,' whether they listen or fail to listen.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:15 - I came to the exiles who lived at Tel Aviv near the Kebar River. And there, where they were living, I sat among them for seven days—deeply distressed.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:15 - “Very well,” he said, “I will let you bake your bread over cow dung instead of human excrement.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:10 - Therefore in your midst parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your survivors to the winds.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13 - And they will know that I am the LORD, when their people lie slain among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak—places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:15 - Outside is the sword; inside are plague and famine. Those in the country will die by the sword; those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:8 - While they were killing and I was left alone, I fell facedown, crying out, “Alas, Sovereign LORD! Are you going to destroy the entire remnant of Israel in this outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:1 - Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. There at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men, and I saw among them Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, leaders of the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:7 - “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: The bodies you have thrown there are the meat and this city is the pot, but I will drive you out of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:13 - Now as I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out in a loud voice, “Alas, Sovereign LORD! Will you completely destroy the remnant of Israel?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:25 - and I told the exiles everything the LORD had shown me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:14 - I will scatter to the winds all those around him—his staff and all his troops—and I will pursue them with drawn sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:19 - Say to the people of the land: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: They will eat their food in anxiety and drink their water in despair, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who live there.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:25 - But I the LORD will speak what I will, and it shall be fulfilled without delay. For in your days, you rebellious people, I will fulfill whatever I say, declares the Sovereign LORD.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:2 - “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are now prophesying. Say to those who prophesy out of their own imagination: ‘Hear the word of the LORD!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:9 - My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of my people or be listed in the records of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:11 - therefore tell those who cover it with whitewash that it is going to fall. Rain will come in torrents, and I will send hailstones hurtling down, and violent winds will burst forth.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:13 - “ ‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: In my wrath I will unleash a violent wind, and in my anger hailstones and torrents of rain will fall with destructive fury.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:15 - So I will pour out my wrath against the wall and against those who covered it with whitewash. I will say to you, “The wall is gone and so are those who whitewashed it,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:6 - “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: As I have given the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest as fuel for the fire, so will I treat the people living in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:4 - On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:19 - Also the food I provided for you—the flour, olive oil and honey I gave you to eat—you offered as fragrant incense before them. That is what happened, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:20 - “ ‘And you took your sons and daughters whom you bore to me and sacrificed them as food to the idols. Was your prostitution not enough?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:26 - You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your neighbors with large genitals, and aroused my anger with your increasing promiscuity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:36 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you poured out your lust and exposed your naked body in your promiscuity with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because you gave them your children's blood,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:37 - therefore I am going to gather all your lovers, with whom you found pleasure, those you loved as well as those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and will strip you in front of them, and they will see you stark naked.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:41 - They will burn down your houses and inflict punishment on you in the sight of many women. I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer pay your lovers.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:45 - You are a true daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and her children; and you are a true sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:12 - “Say to this rebellious people, ‘Do you not know what these things mean?' Say to them: ‘The king of Babylon went to Jerusalem and carried off her king and her nobles, bringing them back with him to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:13 - Then he took a member of the royal family and made a treaty with him, putting him under oath. He also carried away the leading men of the land,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:21 - All his choice troops will fall by the sword, and the survivors will be scattered to the winds. Then you will know that I the LORD have spoken.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:6 - He does not eat at the mountain shrines or look to the idols of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor's wife or have sexual relations with a woman during her period.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:12 - He oppresses the poor and needy. He commits robbery. He does not return what he took in pledge. He looks to the idols. He does detestable things.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:15 - “He does not eat at the mountain shrines or look to the idols of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor's wife.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:3 - “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Have you come to inquire of me? As surely as I live, I will not let you inquire of me, declares the Sovereign LORD.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:36 - As I judged your ancestors in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will judge you, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:38 - I will purge you of those who revolt and rebel against me. Although I will bring them out of the land where they are living, yet they will not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:28 - “And you, son of man, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says about the Ammonites and their insults: “ ‘A sword, a sword, drawn for the slaughter, polished to consume and to flash like lightning!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:6 - “ ‘See how each of the princes of Israel who are in you uses his power to shed blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:26 - Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean; and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:5 - “Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was still mine; and she lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:12 - She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors in full dress, mounted horsemen, all handsome young men.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:20 - There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:22 - “Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will stir up your lovers against you, those you turned away from in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side—
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:23 - the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, the men of Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, handsome young men, all of them governors and commanders, chariot officers and men of high rank, all mounted on horses.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:25 - I will direct my jealous anger against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will cut off your noses and your ears, and those of you who are left will fall by the sword. They will take away your sons and daughters, and those of you who are left will be consumed by fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:27 - So I will put a stop to the lewdness and prostitution you began in Egypt. You will not look on these things with longing or remember Egypt anymore.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:29 - They will deal with you in hatred and take away everything you have worked for. They will leave you stark naked, and the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your lewdness and promiscuity
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:40 - “They even sent messengers for men who came from far away, and when they arrived you bathed yourself for them, applied eye makeup and put on your jewelry.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:47 - The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:11 - Then set the empty pot on the coals till it becomes hot and its copper glows, so that its impurities may be melted and its deposit burned away.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:2 - “Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:4 - therefore I am going to give you to the people of the East as a possession. They will set up their camps and pitch their tents among you; they will eat your fruit and drink your milk.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:5 - I will turn Rabbah into a pasture for camels and Ammon into a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:10 - I will give Moab along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, so that the Ammonites will not be remembered among the nations;
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:16 - therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will wipe out the Kerethites and destroy those remaining along the coast.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:4 - They will destroy the walls of Tyre and pull down her towers; I will scrape away her rubble and make her a bare rock.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:9 - He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and demolish your towers with his weapons.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:12 - They will plunder your wealth and loot your merchandise; they will break down your walls and demolish your fine houses and throw your stones, timber and rubble into the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:20 - then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of long ago. I will make you dwell in the earth below, as in ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, and you will not return or take your place[fn] in the land of the living.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:15 - “ ‘The men of Rhodes[fn] traded with you, and many coastlands were your customers; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:13 - You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: carnelian, chrysolite and emerald, topaz, onyx and jasper, lapis lazuli, turquoise and beryl.[fn] Your settings and mountings[fn] were made of gold; on the day you were created they were prepared.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:4 - But I will put hooks in your jaws and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales. I will pull you out from among your streams, with all the fish sticking to your scales.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:5 - I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and not be gathered or picked up. I will give you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the sky.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10 - therefore I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt a ruin and a desolate waste from Migdol to Aswan, as far as the border of Cush.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:13 - “ ‘Yet this is what the Sovereign LORD says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations where they were scattered.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:12 - I will dry up the waters of the Nile and sell the land to an evil nation; by the hand of foreigners I will lay waste the land and everything in it. I the LORD have spoken.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:21 - “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. It has not been bound up to be healed or put in a splint so that it may become strong enough to hold a sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:22 - Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break both his arms, the good arm as well as the broken one, and make the sword fall from his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:24 - I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before him like a mortally wounded man.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:25 - I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall limp. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he brandishes it against Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:4 - The waters nourished it, deep springs made it grow tall; their streams flowed all around its base and sent their channels to all the trees of the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:15 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On the day it was brought down to the realm of the dead I covered the deep springs with mourning for it; I held back its streams, and its abundant waters were restrained. Because of it I clothed Lebanon with gloom, and all the trees of the field withered away.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:2 - “Son of man, take up a lament concerning Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: “ ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas thrashing about in your streams, churning the water with your feet and muddying the streams.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:15 - When I make Egypt desolate and strip the land of everything in it, when I strike down all who live there, then they will know that I am the LORD.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:18 - “Son of man, wail for the hordes of Egypt and consign to the earth below both her and the daughters of mighty nations, along with those who go down to the pit.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:12 - “Therefore, son of man, say to your people, ‘If someone who is righteous disobeys, that person's former righteousness will count for nothing. And if someone who is wicked repents, that person's former wickedness will not bring condemnation. The righteous person who sins will not be allowed to live even though they were formerly righteous.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:27 - “Say this to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: As surely as I live, those who are left in the ruins will fall by the sword, those out in the country I will give to the wild animals to be devoured, and those in strongholds and caves will die of a plague.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:2 - “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to you shepherds of Israel who only take care of yourselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:10 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:8 - I will fill your mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:9 - Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:13 - Then you, my people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:16 - “Son of man, take a stick of wood and write on it, ‘Belonging to Judah and the Israelites associated with him.' Then take another stick of wood, and write on it, ‘Belonging to Joseph (that is, to Ephraim) and all the Israelites associated with him.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:22 - I will execute judgment on him with plague and bloodshed; I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones and burning sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:10 - They will not need to gather wood from the fields or cut it from the forests, because they will use the weapons for fuel. And they will plunder those who plundered them and loot those who looted them, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:14 - People will be continually employed in cleansing the land. They will spread out across the land and, along with others, they will bury any bodies that are lying on the ground. “ ‘After the seven months they will carry out a more detailed search.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:21 - Its alcoves—three on each side—its projecting walls and its portico had the same measurements as those of the first gateway. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:9 - Now let them put away from me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will live among them forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:30 - The best of all the firstfruits and of all your special gifts will belong to the priests. You are to give them the first portion of your ground meal so that a blessing may rest on your household.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:12 - “Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:20 - In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king questioned them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:2 - So the king summoned the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers and astrologers[fn] to tell him what he had dreamed. When they came in and stood before the king,
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:4 - Then the astrologers answered the king,[fn] “May the king live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will interpret it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:12 - This made the king so angry and furious that he ordered the execution of all the wise men of Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:13 - So the decree was issued to put the wise men to death, and men were sent to look for Daniel and his friends to put them to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:14 - When Arioch, the commander of the king's guard, had gone out to put to death the wise men of Babylon, Daniel spoke to him with wisdom and tact.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:24 - Then Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to execute the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, “Do not execute the wise men of Babylon. Take me to the king, and I will interpret his dream for him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:30 - As for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because I have greater wisdom than anyone else alive, but so that Your Majesty may know the interpretation and that you may understand what went through your mind.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:34 - While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:41 - Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:44 - “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:48 - Then the king placed Daniel in a high position and lavished many gifts on him. He made him ruler over the entire province of Babylon and placed him in charge of all its wise men.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:2 - He then summoned the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates and all the other provincial officials to come to the dedication of the image he had set up.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:8 - At this time some astrologers[fn] came forward and denounced the Jews.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:9 - They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, “May the king live forever!
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:27 - and the satraps, prefects, governors and royal advisers crowded around them. They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:28 - Then Nebuchadnezzar said, “Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who has sent his angel and rescued his servants! They trusted in him and defied the king's command and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:6 - So I commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be brought before me to interpret the dream for me.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:14 - He called in a loud voice: ‘Cut down the tree and trim off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the animals flee from under it and the birds from its branches.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:34 - At the end of that time, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven, and my sanity was restored. Then I praised the Most High; I honored and glorified him who lives forever. His dominion is an eternal dominion; his kingdom endures from generation to generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:37 - Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because everything he does is right and all his ways are just. And those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:4 - As they drank the wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:5 - Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:10 - The queen,[fn] hearing the voices of the king and his nobles, came into the banquet hall. “May the king live forever!” she said. “Don't be alarmed! Don't look so pale!
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:23 - Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:2 - with three administrators over them, one of whom was Daniel. The satraps were made accountable to them so that the king might not suffer loss.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:6 - So these administrators and satraps went as a group to the king and said: “May King Darius live forever!
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:21 - Daniel answered, “May the king live forever!
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:24 - At the king's command, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought in and thrown into the lions' den, along with their wives and children. And before they reached the floor of the den, the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:26 - “I issue a decree that in every part of my kingdom people must fear and reverence the God of Daniel. “For he is the living God and he endures forever; his kingdom will not be destroyed, his dominion will never end.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:24 - The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom. After them another king will arise, different from the earlier ones; he will subdue three kings.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:25 - He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws. The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:3 - I looked up, and there before me was a ram with two horns, standing beside the canal, and the horns were long. One of the horns was longer than the other but grew up later.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:8 - The goat became very great, but at the height of its power the large horn was broken off, and in its place four prominent horns grew up toward the four winds of heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:6 - We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes and our ancestors, and to all the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:12 - You have fulfilled the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing on us great disaster. Under the whole heaven nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:18 - Give ear, our God, and hear; open your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears your Name. We do not make requests of you because we are righteous, but because of your great mercy.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:5 - I looked up and there before me was a man dressed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:15 - While he was saying this to me, I bowed with my face toward the ground and was speechless.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:4 - After he has arisen, his empire will be broken up and parceled out toward the four winds of heaven. It will not go to his descendants, nor will it have the power he exercised, because his empire will be uprooted and given to others.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:8 - He will also seize their gods, their metal images and their valuable articles of silver and gold and carry them off to Egypt. For some years he will leave the king of the North alone.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:30 - Ships of the western coastlands will oppose him, and he will lose heart. Then he will turn back and vent his fury against the holy covenant. He will return and show favor to those who forsake the holy covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:1 - “At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:3 - Those who are wise[fn] will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:4 - But you, Daniel, roll up and seal the words of the scroll until the time of the end. Many will go here and there to increase knowledge.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:7 - Yet I will show love to Judah; and I will save them—not by bow, sword or battle, or by horses and horsemen, but I, the LORD their God, will save them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:5 - Their mother has been unfaithful and has conceived them in disgrace. She said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my food and my water, my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.'
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:7 - She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my husband as at first, for then I was better off than now.'
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 3:1 - The LORD said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:1 - Hear the word of the LORD, you Israelites, because the LORD has a charge to bring against you who live in the land: “There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:13 - They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar and terebinth, where the shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:7 - They are unfaithful to the LORD; they give birth to illegitimate children. When they celebrate their New Moon feasts, he will devour[fn] their fields.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:8 - “Sound the trumpet in Gibeah, the horn in Ramah. Raise the battle cry in Beth Aven[fn]; lead on, Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:5 - Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets, I killed you with the words of my mouth— then my judgments go forth like the sun.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:7 - All of them are hot as an oven; they devour their rulers. All their kings fall, and none of them calls on me.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:15 - I trained them and strengthened their arms, but they plot evil against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:11 - They will come from Egypt, trembling like sparrows, from Assyria, fluttering like doves. I will settle them in their homes,” declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:29 - Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:5 - For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:6 - You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:8 - I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away.” The LORD has spoken.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:9 - Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Rouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men draw near and attack.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:16 - The LORD will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem; the earth and the heavens will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:3 - I will destroy her ruler and kill all her officials with him,”

says the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:12 - “But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:7 - Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:2 - The Sovereign LORD has sworn by his holiness: “The time will surely come when you will be taken away with hooks, the last of you with fishhooks.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:10 - “I sent plagues among you as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps, yet you have not returned to me,”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:15 - Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the LORD God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:26 - You have lifted up the shrine of your king, the pedestal of your idols, the star of your god[fn]— which you made for yourselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:10 - Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel: “Amos is raising a conspiracy against you in the very heart of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:10 - I will turn your religious festivals into mourning and all your singing into weeping. I will make all of you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:1 - I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Bring them down on the heads of all the people; those who are left I will kill with the sword. Not one will get away, none will escape.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:4 - Though they are driven into exile by their enemies, there I will command the sword to slay them. “I will keep my eye on them for harm and not for good.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:7 - “Are not you Israelites the same to me as the Cushites[fn]?”

declares the LORD.

“Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor[fn] and the Arameans from Kir?
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:12 - You should not gloat over your brother in the day of his misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast so much in the day of their trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:14 - You should not wait at the crossroads to cut down their fugitives, nor hand over their survivors in the day of their trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:17 - But on Mount Zion will be deliverance; it will be holy, and Jacob will possess his inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:19 - People from the Negev will occupy the mountains of Esau, and people from the foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:6 - “Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble, a place for planting vineyards. I will pour her stones into the valley and lay bare her foundations.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:15 - I will bring a conqueror against you who live in Mareshah.[fn] The nobles of Israel will flee to Adullam.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:3 - Therefore, the LORD says: “I am planning disaster against this people, from which you cannot save yourselves. You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:12 - “I will surely gather all of you, Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture; the place will throng with people.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:5 - This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead my people astray, they proclaim ‘peace' if they have something to eat, but prepare to wage war against anyone who refuses to feed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:6 - Therefore night will come over you, without visions, and darkness, without divination. The sun will set for the prophets, and the day will go dark for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:3 - Therefore Israel will be abandoned until the time when she who is in labor bears a son, and the rest of his brothers return to join the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:9 - Your hand will be lifted up in triumph over your enemies, and all your foes will be destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:10 - “In that day,” declares the LORD, “I will destroy your horses from among you and demolish your chariots.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:16 - You have observed the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab's house; you have followed their traditions. Therefore I will give you over to ruin and your people to derision; you will bear the scorn of the nations.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:2 - The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD takes vengeance and is filled with wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on his foes and vents his wrath against his enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:4 - He rebukes the sea and dries it up; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither and the blossoms of Lebanon fade.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:7 - The LORD is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him,
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:8 - but with an overwhelming flood he will make an end of Nineveh; he will pursue his foes into the realm of darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:13 - Now I will break their yoke from your neck and tear your shackles away.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:13 - “I am against you,” declares the LORD Almighty. “I will burn up your chariots in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will leave you no prey on the earth. The voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:13 - Look at your troops— they are all weaklings. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has consumed the bars of your gates.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:18 - King of Assyria, your shepherds[fn] slumber; your nobles lie down to rest. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:6 - I am raising up the Babylonians,[fn] that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings not their own.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:8 - Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at dusk. Their cavalry gallops headlong; their horsemen come from afar. They fly like an eagle swooping to devour;
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:14 - You have made people like the fish in the sea, like the sea creatures that have no ruler.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:5 - indeed, wine betrays him; he is arrogant and never at rest. Because he is as greedy as the grave and like death is never satisfied, he gathers to himself all the nations and takes captive all the peoples.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:8 - Were you angry with the rivers, LORD? Was your wrath against the streams? Did you rage against the sea when you rode your horses and your chariots to victory?
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:13 - You came out to deliver your people, to save your anointed one. You crushed the leader of the land of wickedness, you stripped him from head to foot.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:15 - You trampled the sea with your horses, churning the great waters.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:19 - The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:3 - “I will sweep away both man and beast; I will sweep away the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea— and the idols that cause the wicked to stumble.”[fn] “When I destroy all mankind on the face of the earth,”

declares the LORD,

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:4 - “I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all who live in Jerusalem. I will destroy every remnant of Baal worship in this place, the very names of the idolatrous priests—
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:5 - those who bow down on the roofs to worship the starry host, those who bow down and swear by the LORD and who also swear by Molek,[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:6 - those who turn back from following the LORD and neither seek the LORD nor inquire of him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:7 - Be silent before the Sovereign LORD, for the day of the LORD is near. The LORD has prepared a sacrifice; he has consecrated those he has invited.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:8 - “On the day of the LORD's sacrifice I will punish the officials and the king's sons and all those clad in foreign clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:9 - On that day I will punish all who avoid stepping on the threshold,[fn] who fill the temple of their gods with violence and deceit.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:12 - At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish those who are complacent, who are like wine left on its dregs, who think, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.'
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:17 - “I will bring such distress on all people that they will grope about like those who are blind, because they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their entrails like dung.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:18 - Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the LORD's wrath.” In the fire of his jealousy the whole earth will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live on the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:11 - The LORD will be awesome to them when he destroys all the gods of the earth. Distant nations will bow down to him, all of them in their own lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:18 - “I will remove from you all who mourn over the loss of your appointed festivals, which is a burden and reproach for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:6 - You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:11 - I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:2 - “Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, to Joshua son of Jozadak,[fn] the high priest, and to the remnant of the people. Ask them,
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:11 - “This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘Ask the priests what the law says:
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:2 - “The LORD was very angry with your ancestors.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:6 - But did not my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your ancestors? “Then they repented and said, ‘The LORD Almighty has done to us what our ways and practices deserve, just as he determined to do.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:18 - Then I looked up, and there before me were four horns.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:1 - Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:4 - The angel said to those who were standing before him, “Take off his filthy clothes.” Then he said to Joshua, “See, I have taken away your sin, and I will put fine garments on you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:1 - I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:4 - The LORD Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:9 - Then I looked up—and there before me were two women, with the wind in their wings! They had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:1 - I looked up again, and there before me were four chariots coming out from between two mountains—mountains of bronze.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:3 - by asking the priests of the house of the LORD Almighty and the prophets, “Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:5 - “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted?
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:12 - They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the LORD Almighty was very angry.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:9 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Now hear these words, ‘Let your hands be strong so that the temple may be built.' This is also what the prophets said who were present when the foundation was laid for the house of the LORD Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:10 - Before that time there were no wages for people or hire for animals. No one could go about their business safely because of their enemies, since I had turned everyone against their neighbor.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:14 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Just as I had determined to bring disaster on you and showed no pity when your ancestors angered me,” says the LORD Almighty,
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:3 - “My anger burns against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; for the LORD Almighty will care for his flock, the people of Judah, and make them like a proud horse in battle.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:6 - For I will no longer have pity on the people of the land,” declares the LORD. “I will give everyone into the hands of their neighbors and their king. They will devastate the land, and I will not rescue anyone from their hands.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:8 - In one month I got rid of the three shepherds. The flock detested me, and I grew weary of them
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:10 - Then I took my staff called Favor and broke it, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:13 - And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the handsome price at which they valued me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:16 - For I am going to raise up a shepherd over the land who will not care for the lost, or seek the young, or heal the injured, or feed the healthy, but will eat the meat of the choice sheep, tearing off their hooves.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:17 - “Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered, his right eye totally blinded!”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:4 - On that day I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness,” declares the LORD. “I will keep a watchful eye over Judah, but I will blind all the horses of the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:5 - Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the LORD Almighty is their God.'
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:6 - “On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume all the surrounding peoples right and left, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:10 - “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit[fn] of grace and supplication. They will look on[fn] me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:2 - “On that day, I will banish the names of the idols from the land, and they will be remembered no more,” declares the LORD Almighty. “I will remove both the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:7 - “Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is close to me!” declares the LORD Almighty. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:12 - This is the plague with which the LORD will strike all the nations that fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:4 - And you will know that I have sent you this warning so that my covenant with Levi may continue,” says the LORD Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:3 - He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then the LORD will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness,
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:5 - “So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the LORD Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:10 - Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:13 - “You have spoken arrogantly against me,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we said against you?'
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