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ἀνὴρ — 377x G435 ἀνήρ
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Occurrences: 377 times in 345 verses
Speech: Noun
Parsing: Nominative Singular Masculine
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:16 - The woman was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had ever slept with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar and came up again.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 - Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man while I have smooth skin.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:1 - Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh's officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:2 - The LORD was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:15 - When he sees how good is his resting place and how pleasant is his land, he will bend his shoulder to the burden and submit to forced labor.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:22 - “If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely[fn] but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:29 - All the Israelite men and women who were willing brought to the LORD freewill offerings for all the work the LORD through Moses had commanded them to do.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:6 - Then Moses gave an order and they sent this word throughout the camp: “No man or woman is to make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.” And so the people were restrained from bringing more,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:18 - When a man has sexual relations with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both of them must bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:27 - “ ‘A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death. You are to stone them; their blood will be on their own heads.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:44 - These were the men counted by Moses and Aaron and the twelve leaders of Israel, each one representing his family.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:52 - The Israelites are to set up their tents by divisions, each of them in their own camp under their standard.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:6 - “Say to the Israelites: ‘Any man or woman who wrongs another in any way[fn] and so is unfaithful to the LORD is guilty
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:10 - Sacred things belong to their owners, but what they give to the priest will belong to the priest.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:2 - “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man or woman wants to make a special vow, a vow of dedication to the LORD as a Nazirite,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:18 - Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water and sprinkle the tent and all the furnishings and the people who were there. He must also sprinkle anyone who has touched a human bone or a grave or anyone who has been killed or anyone who has died a natural death.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:7 - and her husband hears about it but says nothing to her, then her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:8 - But if her husband forbids her when he hears about it, he nullifies the vow that obligates her or the rash promise by which she obligates herself, and the LORD will release her.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:11 - and her husband hears about it but says nothing to her and does not forbid her, then all her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand.
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 30:13 - Her husband may confirm or nullify any vow she makes or any sworn pledge to deny herself.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:50 - So we have brought as an offering to the LORD the gold articles each of us acquired—armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:2 - If a man or woman living among you in one of the towns the LORD gives you is found doing evil in the eyes of the LORD your God in violation of his covenant,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:5 - A woman must not wear men's clothing, nor a man wear women's clothing, for the LORD your God detests anyone who does this.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:3 - and her second husband dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, or if he dies,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:4 - then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled. That would be detestable in the eyes of the LORD. Do not bring sin upon the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:30 - You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:10 - All of you are standing today in the presence of the LORD your God—your leaders and chief men, your elders and officials, and all the other men of Israel,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18 - Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:1 - This was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph's firstborn, that is, for Makir, Manasseh's firstborn. Makir was the ancestor of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because the Makirites were great soldiers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:26 - He then went to the land of the Hittites, where he built a city and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:17 - He presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab, who was a very fat man.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:3 - Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples invaded the country.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:29 - They asked each other, “Who did this?” When they carefully investigated, they were told, “Gideon son of Joash did it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:7 - The LORD said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men that lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hands. Let all the others go home.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 - Gideon arrived just as a man was telling a friend his dream. “I had a dream,” he was saying. “A round loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent with such force that the tent overturned and collapsed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:23 - Israelites from Naphtali, Asher and all Manasseh were called out, and they pursued the Midianites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:24 - Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against the Midianites and seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth Barah.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out and they seized the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth Barah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:1 - Now the Ephraimites asked Gideon, “Why have you treated us like this? Why didn't you call us when you went to fight Midian?” And they challenged him vigorously.
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 8:22 - The Israelites said to Gideon, “Rule over us—you, your son and your grandson—because you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:24 - And he said, “I do have one request, that each of you give me an earring from your share of the plunder.” (It was the custom of the Ishmaelites to wear gold earrings.)
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:25 - They answered, “We'll be glad to give them.” So they spread out a garment, and each of them threw a ring from his plunder onto it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:55 - When the Israelites saw that Abimelek was dead, they went home.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:1 - After the time of Abimelek, a man of Issachar named Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:18 - The leaders of the people of Gilead said to each other, “Whoever will take the lead in attacking the Ammonites will be head over all who live in Gilead.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:2 - Jephthah answered, “I and my people were engaged in a great struggle with the Ammonites, and although I called, you didn't save me out of their hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:2 - A certain man of Zorah, named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, had a wife who was childless, unable to give birth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:9 - God heard Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman while she was out in the field; but her husband Manoah was not with her.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:10 - The woman hurried to tell her husband, “He's here! The man who appeared to me the other day!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:11 - Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he said, “Are you the man who talked to my wife?” “I am,” he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:10 - The people of Judah asked, “Why have you come to fight us?” “We have come to take Samson prisoner,” they answered, “to do to him as he did to us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:5 - The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, “See if you can lure him into showing you the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him so we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels[fn] of silver.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:1 - Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:5 - Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household gods and installed one of his sons as his priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:6 - In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:8 - left that town in search of some other place to stay. On his way[fn] he came to Micah's house in the hill country of Ephraim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:1 - In those days Israel had no king. Now a Levite who lived in a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim took a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:3 - her husband went to her to persuade her to return. He had with him his servant and two donkeys. She took him into her parents' home, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:7 - And when the man got up to go, his father-in-law persuaded him, so he stayed there that night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9 - Then when the man, with his concubine and his servant, got up to leave, his father-in-law, the woman's father, said, “Now look, it's almost evening. Spend the night here; the day is nearly over. Stay and enjoy yourself. Early tomorrow morning you can get up and be on your way home.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:10 - But, unwilling to stay another night, the man left and went toward Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), with his two saddled donkeys and his concubine.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:15 - There they stopped to spend the night. They went and sat in the city square, but no one took them in for the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:16 - That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was living in Gibeah (the inhabitants of the place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the fields.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:17 - When he looked and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going? Where did you come from?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:18 - He answered, “We are on our way from Bethlehem in Judah to a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim where I live. I have been to Bethlehem in Judah and now I am going to the house of the LORD.[fn] No one has taken me in for the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:20 - “You are welcome at my house,” the old man said. “Let me supply whatever you need. Only don't spend the night in the square.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:23 - The owner of the house went outside and said to them, “No, my friends, don't be so vile. Since this man is my guest, don't do this outrageous thing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:25 - But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:28 - He said to her, “Get up; let's go.” But there was no answer. Then the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:1 - Then all Israel from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came together as one and assembled before the LORD in Mizpah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:4 - So the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, said, “I and my concubine came to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:8 - All the men rose up together as one, saying, “None of us will go home. No, not one of us will return to his house.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:11 - So all the Israelites got together and united as one against the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:17 - Israel, apart from Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand swordsmen, all of them fit for battle.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:20 - The Israelites went out to fight the Benjamites and took up battle positions against them at Gibeah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:22 - But the Israelites encouraged one another and again took up their positions where they had stationed themselves the first day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:33 - All the men of Israel moved from their places and took up positions at Baal Tamar, and the Israelite ambush charged out of its place on the west[fn] of Gibeah.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:36 - Then the Benjamites saw that they were beaten. Now the men of Israel had given way before Benjamin, because they relied on the ambush they had set near Gibeah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:39 - and then the Israelites would counterattack. The Benjamites had begun to inflict casualties on the Israelites (about thirty), and they said, “We are defeating them as in the first battle.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:41 - Then the Israelites counterattacked, and the Benjamites were terrified, because they realized that disaster had come on them.
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 21:1 - The men of Israel had taken an oath at Mizpah: “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:8 - Then they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to assemble before the LORD at Mizpah?” They discovered that no one from Jabesh Gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:9 - For when they counted the people, they found that none of the people of Jabesh Gilead were there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:21 - and watch. When the young women of Shiloh come out to join in the dancing, rush from the vineyards and each of you seize one of them to be your wife. Then return to the land of Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:22 - When their fathers or brothers complain to us, we will say to them, ‘Do us the favor of helping them, because we did not get wives for them during the war. You will not be guilty of breaking your oath because you did not give your daughters to them.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:24 - At that time the Israelites left that place and went home to their tribes and clans, each to his own inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:25 - In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.
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 1:3 - Now Elimelek, Naomi's husband, died, and she was left with her two sons.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:1 - Now Naomi had a relative on her husband's side, a man of standing from the clan of Elimelek, whose name was Boaz.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:20 - “The LORD bless him!” Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. “He has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead.” She added, “That man is our close relative; he is one of our guardian-redeemers.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:8 - In the middle of the night something startled the man; he turned—and there was a woman lying at his feet!
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:7 - (Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel.)
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:8 - Her husband Elkanah would say to her, “Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don't you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don't I mean more to you than ten sons?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:23 - “Do what seems best to you,” her husband Elkanah told her. “Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the LORD make good his[fn] word.” So the woman stayed at home and nursed her son until she had weaned him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:16 - If the person said to him, “Let the fat be burned first, and then take whatever you want,” the servant would answer, “No, hand it over now; if you don't, I'll take it by force.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:25 - If one person sins against another, God[fn] may mediate for the offender; but if anyone sins against the LORD, who will intercede for them?” His sons, however, did not listen to their father's rebuke, for it was the LORD's will to put them to death.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:2 - The Philistines deployed their forces to meet Israel, and as the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand of them on the battlefield.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:10 - So the Philistines fought, and the Israelites were defeated and every man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great; Israel lost thirty thousand foot soldiers.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:12 - That same day a Benjamite ran from the battle line and went to Shiloh with his clothes torn and dust on his head.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:16 - He told Eli, “I have just come from the battle line; I fled from it this very day.” Eli asked, “What happened, my son?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:17 - The man who brought the news replied, “Israel fled before the Philistines, and the army has suffered heavy losses. Also your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:19 - His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and near the time of delivery. When she heard the news that the ark of God had been captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she went into labor and gave birth, but was overcome by her labor pains.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:1 - There was a Benjamite, a man of standing, whose name was Kish son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bekorath, the son of Aphiah of Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:2 - Kish had a son named Saul, as handsome a young man as could be found anywhere in Israel, and he was a head taller than anyone else.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:22 - So they inquired further of the LORD, “Has the man come here yet?” And the LORD said, “Yes, he has hidden himself among the supplies.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:7 - He took a pair of oxen, cut them into pieces, and sent the pieces by messengers throughout Israel, proclaiming, “This is what will be done to the oxen of anyone who does not follow Saul and Samuel.” Then the terror of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out together as one.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:6 - When the Israelites saw that their situation was critical and that their army was hard pressed, they hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in pits and cisterns.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:18 - One of the servants answered, “I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the lyre. He is a brave man and a warrior. He speaks well and is a fine-looking man. And the LORD is with him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:4 - A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. His height was six cubits and a span.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:33 - Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:23 - They repeated these words to David. But David said, “Do you think it is a small matter to become the king's son-in-law? I'm only a poor man and little known.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:15 - David said, “You're a man, aren't you? And who is like you in Israel? Why didn't you guard your lord the king? Someone came to destroy your lord the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:17 - David fought them from dusk until the evening of the next day, and none of them got away, except four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:22 - But all the evil men and troublemakers among David's followers said, “Because they did not go out with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered. However, each man may take his wife and children and go.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:12 - all their valiant men marched through the night to Beth Shan. They took down the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth Shan and went to Jabesh, where they burned them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:2 - On the third day a man arrived from Saul's camp with his clothes torn and dust on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the ground to pay him honor.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:16 - Her husband, however, went with her, weeping behind her all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go back home!” So he went back.
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 11:26 - When Uriah's wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:5 - David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this must die!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:7 - Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:3 - Now Amnon had an adviser named Jonadab son of Shimeah, David's brother. Jonadab was a very shrewd man.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:29 - So Absalom's men did to Amnon what Absalom had ordered. Then all the king's sons got up, mounted their mules and fled.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:25 - In all Israel there was not a man so highly praised for his handsome appearance as Absalom. From the top of his head to the sole of his foot there was no blemish in him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:30 - But David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went; his head was covered and he was barefoot. All the people with him covered their heads too and were weeping as they went up.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:5 - As King David approached Bahurim, a man from the same clan as Saul's family came out from there. His name was Shimei son of Gera, and he cursed as he came out.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:7 - As he cursed, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you murderer, you scoundrel!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:8 - The LORD has repaid you for all the blood you shed in the household of Saul, in whose place you have reigned. The LORD has given the kingdom into the hands of your son Absalom. You have come to ruin because you are a murderer!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:15 - Meanwhile, Absalom and all the men of Israel came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:18 - Hushai said to Absalom, “No, the one chosen by the LORD, by these people, and by all the men of Israel—his I will be, and I will remain with him.
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 17:14 - Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Arkite is better than that of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had determined to frustrate the good advice of Ahithophel in order to bring disaster on Absalom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:24 - David went to Mahanaim, and Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:10 - When one of the men saw what had happened, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:12 - But the man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels[fn] were weighed out into my hands, I would not lay a hand on the king's son. In our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.[fn]'
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:17 - They took Absalom, threw him into a big pit in the forest and piled up a large heap of rocks over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled to their homes.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:20 - “You are not the one to take the news today,” Joab told him. “You may take the news another time, but you must not do so today, because the king's son is dead.”
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 18:26 - Then the watchman saw another runner, and he called down to the gatekeeper, “Look, another man running alone!” The king said, “He must be bringing good news, too.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:27 - The watchman said, “It seems to me that the first one runs like Ahimaaz son of Zadok.” “He's a good man,” the king said. “He comes with good news.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:7 - Now go out and encourage your men. I swear by the LORD that if you don't go out, not a man will be left with you by nightfall. This will be worse for you than all the calamities that have come on you from your youth till now.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:8 - So the king got up and took his seat in the gateway. When the men were told, “The king is sitting in the gateway,” they all came before him. Meanwhile, the Israelites had fled to their homes.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:22 - David replied, “What does this have to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? What right do you have to interfere? Should anyone be put to death in Israel today? Don't I know that today I am king over Israel?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:32 - Now Barzillai was very old, eighty years of age. He had provided for the king during his stay in Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:41 - Soon all the men of Israel were coming to the king and saying to him, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, steal the king away and bring him and his household across the Jordan, together with all his men?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:42 - All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “We did this because the king is closely related to us. Why are you angry about it? Have we eaten any of the king's provisions? Have we taken anything for ourselves?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:43 - Then the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, “We have ten shares in the king; so we have a greater claim on David than you have. Why then do you treat us with contempt? Weren't we the first to speak of bringing back our king?” But the men of Judah pressed their claims even more forcefully than the men of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:1 - Now a troublemaker named Sheba son of Bikri, a Benjamite, happened to be there. He sounded the trumpet and shouted, “We have no share in David, no part in Jesse's son! Every man to his tent, Israel!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:2 - So all the men of Israel deserted David to follow Sheba son of Bikri. But the men of Judah stayed by their king all the way from the Jordan to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:11 - One of Joab's men stood beside Amasa and said, “Whoever favors Joab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:12 - Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the road, and the man saw that all the troops came to a halt there. When he realized that everyone who came up to Amasa stopped, he dragged him from the road into a field and threw a garment over him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:13 - After Amasa had been removed from the road, everyone went on with Joab to pursue Sheba son of Bikri.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:21 - That is not the case. A man named Sheba son of Bikri, from the hill country of Ephraim, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Hand over this one man, and I'll withdraw from the city.” The woman said to Joab, “His head will be thrown to you from the wall.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:22 - Then the woman went to all the people with her wise advice, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bikri and threw it to Joab. So he sounded the trumpet, and his men dispersed from the city, each returning to his home. And Joab went back to the king in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:4 - The Gibeonites answered him, “We have no right to demand silver or gold from Saul or his family, nor do we have the right to put anyone in Israel to death.” “What do you want me to do for you?” David asked.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:5 - They answered the king, “As for the man who destroyed us and plotted against us so that we have been decimated and have no place anywhere in Israel,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:20 - In still another battle, which took place at Gath, there was a huge man with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He also was descended from Rapha.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:7 - Whoever touches thorns uses a tool of iron or the shaft of a spear; they are burned up where they lie.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:9 - Next to him was Eleazar son of Dodai the Ahohite. As one of the three mighty warriors, he was with David when they taunted the Philistines gathered at Pas Dammim[fn] for battle. Then the Israelites retreated,
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 24:9 - Joab reported the number of the fighting men to the king: In Israel there were eight hundred thousand able-bodied men who could handle a sword, and in Judah five hundred thousand.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:42 - Even as he was speaking, Jonathan son of Abiathar the priest arrived. Adonijah said, “Come in. A worthy man like you must be bringing good news.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:49 - At this, all Adonijah's guests rose in alarm and dispersed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:4 - and that the LORD may keep his promise to me: ‘If your descendants watch how they live, and if they walk faithfully before me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:9 - But now, do not consider him innocent. You are a man of wisdom; you will know what to do to him. Bring his gray head down to the grave in blood.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:26 - To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but I will not put you to death now, because you carried the ark of the Sovereign LORD before my father David and shared all my father's hardships.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:13 - Moreover, I will give you what you have not asked for—both wealth and honor—so that in your lifetime you will have no equal among kings.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:11 - Ben-Abinadab—in Naphoth Dor (he was married to Taphath daughter of Solomon);
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:14 - whose mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali and whose father was from Tyre and a skilled craftsman in bronze. Huram was filled with wisdom, with understanding and with knowledge to do all kinds of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and did all the work assigned to him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:25 - “Now LORD, the God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father the promises you made to him when you said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants are careful in all they do to walk before me faithfully as you have done.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:5 - I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:28 - Now Jeroboam was a man of standing, and when Solomon saw how well the young man did his work, he put him in charge of the whole labor force of the tribes of Joseph.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:39 - As the king passed by, the prophet called out to him, “Your servant went into the thick of the battle, and someone came to me with a captive and said, ‘Guard this man. If he is missing, it will be your life for his life, or you must pay a talent[fn] of silver.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:8 - The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one prophet through whom we can inquire of the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, but always bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” “The king should not say such a thing,” Jehoshaphat replied.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:10 - Dressed in their royal robes, the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting on their thrones at the threshing floor by the entrance of the gate of Samaria, with all the prophets prophesying before them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:6 - “A man came to meet us,” they replied. “And he said to us, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, “This is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending messengers to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!” ' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:8 - They replied, “He had a garment of hair[fn] and had a leather belt around his waist.” The king said, “That was Elijah the Tishbite.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:23 - “That's blood!” they said. “Those kings must have fought and slaughtered each other. Now to the plunder, 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 4:14 - “What can be done for her?” Elisha asked. Gehazi said, “She has no son, and her husband is old.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:42 - A man came from Baal Shalishah, bringing the man of God twenty loaves of barley bread baked from the first ripe grain, along with some heads of new grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” Elisha said.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:1 - Now Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:26 - But Elisha said to him, “Was not my spirit with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to take money or to accept clothes—or olive groves and vineyards, or flocks and herds, or male and female slaves?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:2 - Let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a pole; and let us build a place there for us to meet.” And he said, “Go.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:3 - Now there were four men with leprosy[fn] at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, “Why stay here until we die?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:5 - At dusk they got up and went to the camp of the Arameans. When they reached the edge of the camp, no one was there,
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 7:9 - Then they said to each other, “What we're doing is not right. This is a day of good news and we are keeping it to ourselves. If we wait until daylight, punishment will overtake us. Let's go at once and report this to the royal palace.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:10 - So they went and called out to the city gatekeepers and told them, “We went into the Aramean camp and no one was there—not a sound of anyone—only tethered horses and donkeys, and the tents left just as they were.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:16 - Then he got into his chariot and rode to Jezreel, because Joram was resting there and Ahaziah king of Judah had gone down to see him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:21 - “Hitch up my chariot,” Joram ordered. And when it was hitched up, Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah rode out, each in his own chariot, to meet Jehu. They met him at the plot of ground that had belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite.
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 10:25 - As soon as Jehu had finished making the burnt offering, he ordered the guards and officers: “Go in and kill them; let no one escape.” So they cut them down with the sword. The guards and officers threw the bodies out and then entered the inner shrine of the temple of Baal.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:8 - Station yourselves around the king, each of you with weapon in hand. Anyone who approaches your ranks[fn] is to be put to death. Stay close to the king wherever he goes.”
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 11:11 - The guards, each with weapon in hand, stationed themselves around the king—near the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.
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 12:5 - Let every priest receive the money from one of the treasurers, then use it to repair whatever damage is found in the temple.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:12 - Judah was routed by Israel, and every man fled to his home.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:21 - Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:31 - “Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree and drink water from your own cistern,
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 23:18 - “Leave it alone,” he said. “Don't let anyone disturb his bones.” So they spared his bones and those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:35 - Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh Necho the silver and gold he demanded. In order to do so, he taxed the land and exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land according to their assessments.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:7 - When all the Israelites in the valley saw that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their towns and fled. And the Philistines came and occupied them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:12 - all their valiant men went and took the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. Then they buried their bones under the great tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:10 - he sent his son Hadoram to King David to greet him and congratulate him on his victory in battle over Hadadezer, who had been at war with Tou. Hadoram brought all kinds of articles of gold, of silver and of bronze.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:6 - In still another battle, which took place at Gath, there was a huge man with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He also was descended from Rapha.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:9 - But you will have a son who will be a man of peace and rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. His name will be Solomon,[fn] and I will grant Israel peace and quiet during his reign.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:31 - As for the Hebronites, Jeriah was their chief according to the genealogical records of their families. In the fortieth year of David's reign a search was made in the records, and capable men among the Hebronites were found at Jazer in Gilead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:14 - whose mother was from Dan and whose father was from Tyre. He is trained to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, and with purple and blue and crimson yarn and fine linen. He is experienced in all kinds of engraving and can execute any design given to him. He will work with your skilled workers and with those of my lord, David your father.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:3 - And all the Israelites came together to the king at the time of the festival in the seventh month.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:16 - “Now, LORD, the God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father the promises you made to him when you said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants are careful in all they do to walk before me according to my law, as you have done.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:22 - “When anyone wrongs their neighbor and is required to take an oath and they come and swear the oath before your altar in this temple,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:18 - I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor to rule over Israel.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:7 - The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one prophet through whom we can inquire of the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, but always bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” “The king should not say such a thing,” Jehoshaphat replied.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:33 - But someone drew his bow at random and hit the king of Israel between the breastplate and the scale armor. The king told the chariot driver, “Wheel around and get me out of the fighting. I've been wounded.”
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 20:27 - Then, led by Jehoshaphat, all the men of Judah and Jerusalem returned joyfully to Jerusalem, for the LORD had given them cause to rejoice over their enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:1 - Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken captive to Babylon (they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to their own town,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:1 - When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns, the people assembled together as one in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:18 - Because the gracious hand of our God was on us, they brought us Sherebiah, a capable man, from the descendants of Mahli son of Levi, the son of Israel, and Sherebiah's sons and brothers, 18 in all;
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:28 - Above the Horse Gate, the priests made repairs, each in front of his own house.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:15 - When our enemies heard that we were aware of their plot and that God had frustrated it, we all returned to the wall, each to our own work.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:18 - and each of the builders wore his sword at his side as he worked. But the man who sounded the trumpet stayed with me.
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 4:23 - Neither I nor my brothers nor my men nor the guards with me took off our clothes; each had his weapon, even when he went for water.[fn]
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 7:2 - I put in charge of Jerusalem my brother Hanani, along with Hananiah the commander of the citadel, because he was a man of integrity and feared God more than most people do.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:3 - I said to them, “The gates of Jerusalem are not to be opened until the sun is hot. While the gatekeepers are still on duty, have them shut the doors and bar them. Also appoint residents of Jerusalem as guards, some at their posts and some near their own houses.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:6 - These are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken captive (they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:1 - all the people came together as one in the square before the Water Gate. They told Ezra the teacher of the Law to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:16 - So the people went out and brought back branches and built themselves temporary shelters on their own roofs, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God and in the square by the Water Gate and the one by the Gate of Ephraim.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:3 - These are the provincial leaders who settled in Jerusalem (now some Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants and descendants of Solomon's servants lived in the towns of Judah, each on their own property in the various towns,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:10 - I also learned that the portions assigned to the Levites had not been given to them, and that all the Levites and musicians responsible for the service had gone back to their own fields.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:30 - So I purified the priests and the Levites of everything foreign, and assigned them duties, each to his own task.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:4 - “I have become a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God and he answered— a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:10 - But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and is no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:16 - how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt, who drink up evil like water!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:7 - Is there anyone like Job, who drinks scorn like water?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:34 - “Men of understanding declare, wise men who hear me say to me,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:3 - Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:7 - “Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:17 - They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:6 - Senseless people do not know, fools do not understand,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:1 - [fn]Praise the LORD.[fn] Blessed are those who fear the LORD, who find great delight in his commands.
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 140:11 - May slanderers not be established in the land; may disaster hunt down the violent.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:12 - A troublemaker and a villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:12 - Whoever derides their neighbor has no sense, but the one who has understanding holds their tongue.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:13 - A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy person keeps a secret.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:17 - Those who are kind benefit themselves, but the cruel bring ruin on themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:25 - A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:2 - Good people obtain favor from the LORD, but he condemns those who devise wicked schemes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:9 - Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant than pretend to be somebody and have no food.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:23 - The prudent keep their knowledge to themselves, but a fool's heart blurts out folly.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:27 - The lazy do not roast[fn] any game, but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:22 - A good person leaves an inheritance for their children's children, but a sinner's wealth is stored up for the righteous.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:14 - The faithless will be fully repaid for their ways, and the good rewarded for theirs.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:17 - A quick-tempered person does foolish things, and the one who devises evil schemes is hated.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:29 - Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:30 - A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:18 - A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict, but the one who is patient calms a quarrel.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:21 - Folly brings joy to one who has no sense, but whoever has understanding keeps a straight course.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:14 - A king's wrath is a messenger of death, but the wise will appease it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:26 - The appetite of laborers works for them; their hunger drives them on.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:27 - A scoundrel plots evil, and on their lips it is like a scorching fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:28 - A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:29 - A violent person entices their neighbor and leads them down a path that is not good.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:32 - Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:18 - One who has no sense shakes hands in pledge and puts up security for a neighbor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:20 - One whose heart is corrupt does not prosper; one whose tongue is perverse falls into trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:27 - The one who has knowledge uses words with restraint, and whoever has understanding is even-tempered.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:1 - An unfriendly person pursues selfish ends and against all sound judgment starts quarrels.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:20 - From the fruit of their mouth a person's stomach is filled; with the harvest of their lips they are satisfied.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:7 - The poor are shunned by all their relatives— how much more do their friends avoid them! Though the poor pursue them with pleading, they are nowhere to be found.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:11 - A person's wisdom yields patience; it is to one's glory to overlook an offense.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:19 - A hot-tempered person must pay the penalty; rescue them, and you will have to do it again.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:5 - The purposes of a person's heart are deep waters, but one who has insight draws them out.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:6 - Many claim to have unfailing love, but a faithful person who can find?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:2 - A person may think their own ways are right, but the LORD weighs the heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:16 - Whoever strays from the path of prudence comes to rest in the company of the dead.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:17 - Whoever loves pleasure will become poor; whoever loves wine and olive oil will never be rich.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:28 - A false witness will perish, but a careful listener will testify successfully.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:29 - The wicked put up a bold front, but the upright give thought to their ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:5 - The wise prevail through great power, and those who have knowledge muster their strength.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:30 - I went past the field of a sluggard, past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:18 - Like a club or a sword or a sharp arrow is one who gives false testimony against a neighbor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:28 - Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:21 - As charcoal to embers and as wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:21 - The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but people are tested by their praise.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:2 - When a country is rebellious, it has many rulers, but a ruler with discernment and knowledge maintains order.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:11 - The rich are wise in their own eyes; one who is poor and discerning sees how deluded they are.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:20 - A faithful person will be richly blessed, but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:22 - The stingy are eager to get rich and are unaware that poverty awaits them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:25 - The greedy stir up conflict, but those who trust in the LORD will prosper.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:1 - Whoever remains stiff-necked after many rebukes will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:4 - By justice a king gives a country stability, but those who are greedy for[fn] bribes tear it down.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:9 - If a wise person goes to court with a fool, the fool rages and scoffs, and there is no peace.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:22 - An angry person stirs up conflict, and a hot-tempered person commits many sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:27 - The righteous detest the dishonest; the wicked detest the upright.
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 31:21 - When it snows, she has no fear for her household; for all of them are clothed in scarlet.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:23 - Her husband is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:28 - Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:31 - Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:8 - All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:2 - God gives some people wealth, possessions and honor, so that they lack nothing their hearts desire, but God does not grant them the ability to enjoy them, and strangers enjoy them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:3 - A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:8 - all of them wearing the sword, all experienced in battle, each with his sword at his side, prepared for the terrors of the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:7 - Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If one were to give all the wealth of one's house for love, it[fn] would be utterly scorned.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:11 - Solomon had a vineyard in Baal Hamon; he let out his vineyard to tenants. Each was to bring for its fruit a thousand shekels[fn] of silver.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:7 - The metalworker encourages the goldsmith, and the one who smooths with the hammer spurs on the one who strikes the anvil. One says of the welding, “It is good.” The other nails down the idol so it will not topple.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:7 - Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:2 - Blessed is the one who does this— the person who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it, and keeps their hands from doing any evil.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:3 - “I have trodden the winepress alone; from the nations no one was with me. I trampled them in my anger and trod them down in my wrath; their blood spattered my garments, and I stained all my clothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:1 - “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, should he return to her again? Would not the land be completely defiled? But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers— would you now return to me?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:11 - But I am full of the wrath of the LORD, and I cannot hold it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street and on the young men gathered together; both husband and wife will be caught in it, and the old, those weighed down with years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:23 - LORD, I know that people's lives are not their own; it is not for them to direct their steps.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:11 - It will be made a wasteland, parched and desolate before me; the whole land will be laid waste because there is no one who cares.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:9 - Why are you like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? You are among us, LORD, and we bear your name; do not forsake us!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:30 - This is what the LORD says: “Record this man as if childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offspring will prosper, none will sit on the throne of David or rule anymore in Judah.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:9 - Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me; all my bones tremble. I am like a drunken man, like a strong man overcome by wine, because of the LORD and his holy words.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:19 - Therefore this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘Jehonadab son of Rekab will never fail to have a descendant to serve me.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:1 - I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of the LORD's wrath.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:39 - Why should the living complain when punished for their sins?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:2 - And I saw six men coming from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with a deadly weapon in his hand. With them was a man clothed in linen who had a writing kit at his side. They came in and stood beside the bronze altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:11 - Then the man in linen with the writing kit at his side brought back word, saying, “I have done as you commanded.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:6 - While the man was standing beside me, I heard someone speaking to me from inside the temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:11 - There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. In the time of your father he was found to have insight and intelligence and wisdom like that of the gods. Your father, King Nebuchadnezzar, appointed him chief of the magicians, enchanters, astrologers and diviners.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:21 - while I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:23 - As soon as you began to pray, a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision:
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 10:11 - He said, “Daniel, you who are highly esteemed, consider carefully the words I am about to speak to you, and stand up, for I have now been sent to you.” And when he said this to me, I stood up trembling.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:19 - “Do not be afraid, you who are highly esteemed,” he said. “Peace! Be strong now; be strong.” When he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, “Speak, my lord, since you have given me strength.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:2 - “Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adulterous look from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:7 - This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb,[fn] with a plumb line[fn] in his hand.
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 BoxZec 1:8 - During the night I had a vision, and there before me was a man mounted on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in a ravine. Behind him were red, brown and white horses.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:10 - Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, “They are the ones the LORD has sent to go throughout the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:1 - Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
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