LXX Concordance for ἐγένοντο

Now the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.

Now two sons were born to Joseph before the years of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.

When the seven years of plenty came to an end in the land of Egypt,

The sons of Reuben, Israel's (Jacob's) firstborn, their generations, by their families (clans), by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:

When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him mightily, and the ropes on his arms were like flax (linen) that had been burned, and his bonds [fn]dropped off his hands.

Three sons of Zeruiah [the half sister of David] were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was as light and swift-footed as one of the [wild] gazelles in the field.

David took more [fn]concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to him.

‘Therefore their inhabitants were powerless,

They were shattered [in spirit] and put to shame;

They were like plants of the field, the green herb,

As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.

Some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their [allotted] territory from the tribe of Ephraim.

Solomon acquired chariots and horsemen; he had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, and he stationed them in the cities [suited for the use] of chariots and with the king at Jerusalem.

So the runners (couriers) passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, as far as Zebulun; but the people laughed at them with scorn and mocked them.

Who rejoice exceedingly,

And rejoice when they find the grave?

How they are destroyed in a moment!

They are completely swept away by sudden terrors!

“If you will turn and pay attention to my rebuke,

Behold, I [Wisdom] will pour out my spirit on you;

I will make my words known to you.

I spoke with my heart, saying, “Behold, I have acquired great [human] wisdom and experience, more than all who were over Jerusalem before me; and my mind has observed a wealth of [moral] wisdom and [scientific] knowledge.”

“Therefore their inhabitants had little power,

They were terrorized and shamed;

They were like the grass of the field and the green vegetation,

Like grass on the housetops and like a field [of grain] scorched before it is grown.

But this is a people despoiled and plundered;

All of them are trapped in holes,

Or are hidden away in prisons.

They have become a prey with no one to rescue them,

And a spoil, with no one to say, “Give them back!”

‘Like watchmen of a field they are against her on all sides,

Because she has rebelled against Me,' says the LORD.

She weeps bitterly in the night

And her tears are [constantly] on her cheeks;

Among all her lovers (political allies)

She has no one to comfort her.

All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;

They have become her enemies.

Her adversaries have become her masters,

Her enemies prosper;

For the LORD has caused her grief

Because of the multitude of her transgressions;

Her young children have gone

Into captivity before the enemy.

“I weep for these things;

My eyes overflow with tears,

Because a comforter,

One who could restore my soul, is far away from me.

My children are desolate and perishing,

For the enemy has prevailed.”

“People have heard that I groan,

That I have no comforter [in You].

All my enemies have heard of my desperation;

They are delighted [O LORD] that You have done it.

Oh, that You would bring the day [of judgment] which You have proclaimed

So that they will become like me.

You [LORD] called as in the day of an appointed feast

My terrors (dangers) on every side;

And there was no one who escaped or survived

In the day of the LORD'S anger.

Those I have cared for and brought up with tenderness,

My enemy annihilated them.

Our pursuers were swifter

Than the eagles of the sky;

They pursued us on the mountains,

They waited in ambush for us in the wilderness.

“The inhabitants of Sidon and [the island] of Arvad were your oarsmen;

Your skilled and wise men, O Tyre, were with you; they were your pilots.

‘The cedars in the garden of God could not hide or rival it;

The cypress trees did not have boughs like it,

And the [fn]plane trees did not have branches like it.

No tree in the garden of God was like it in its beauty.

The princes of Judah are like those who [fn]move a boundary marker;

I will pour out My wrath on them like [an unrestrained flood of] water.

But they do not consider in their hearts (minds)

That I remember [always] all their wickedness.

Now their deeds surround and entangle them;

They are before My face.

They turn, but they do not turn upward to the Most High.

They are like a poorly crafted bow [that misses the mark];

Their princes shall fall by the sword

Because of the insolence of their tongue.

This will be cause for their mockery and disdain in the land of Egypt.

For Ephraim has constructed many altars for sin;

They are altars intended for sinning [which multiply his guilt].

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness [an unexpected and refreshing delight];

I saw your fathers (ancestors) as the first ripe fruit on the fig tree in its first season,

But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to shamefulness [the worship of Baal],

And [because of their spiritual and physical adultery] they became as detestable and loathsome as the thing they loved.

The words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of [fn]Tekoa, which he saw [in a divine revelation] concerning [fn]Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

Woe (judgment is coming) to those who devise wickedness

And plot evil on their beds!

When morning comes, they practice evil

Because it is in the power of their hands.

Ethiopia was her strength,

And Egypt too, without limits.

[fn]Put and Lubim were among her helpers.