LXX Concordance for ἤρξατο

God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it he rested from all his work of creation.

Noah, as a man of the soil, began by planting[fn] a vineyard.

Cush fathered Nimrod, who began to be powerful in the land.

Across the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying:

At that time Manasseh failed to take possession of Beth-shean and Taanach and their surrounding villages, or the residents of Dor, Ibleam, and Megiddo and their surrounding villages; the Canaanites were determined to stay in this land.

The Amorites were determined to stay in Har-heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim. When the house of Joseph got the upper hand, the Amorites were made to serve as forced labor.

Then the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him in the Camp of Dan,[fn] between Zorah and Eshtaol.

Then she let him fall asleep on her lap and called a man to shave off the seven braids on his head. In this way, she made him helpless, and his strength left him.

But his hair began to grow back after it had been shaved.

and agreed to stay with the man, and the young man became like one of his sons.

But when the column of smoke began to go up from the city, Benjamin looked behind them, and the whole city was going up in smoke.[fn]

Then Saul built an altar to the LORD; it was the first time he had built an altar to the LORD.

So the LORD sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and from Dan to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men died.

In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory

In those days the LORD began sending Aram's King Rezin and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah.

Cush fathered Nimrod, who was the first to become a great warrior on earth.

Joab son of Zeruiah began to count them, but he didn't complete it. There was wrath against Israel because of this census, and the number was not entered in the Historical Record[fn] of King David.

Then Solomon began to build the LORD's temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah where the LORD[fn] had appeared to his father David, at the site David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan[fn] the Jebusite.

He was diligent in every deed that he began in the service of God's temple, in the instruction and the commands, in order to seek his God, and he prospered.

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, Josiah began to seek the God of his ancestor David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images.

Then King Neco of Egypt made Jehoahaz's brother Eliakim king over Judah and Jerusalem and changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took his brother Jehoahaz and brought him to Egypt.

In the second month of the second year after they arrived at God's house in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers, including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began to build. They appointed the Levites who were twenty years old or more to supervise the work on the LORD's house.

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,

for he is determined to follow what is worthless.[fn]

Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed, “In forty days Nineveh will be demolished! ”

Though the residents of Maroth

anxiously wait for something good,

disaster has come from the LORD

to the gate of Jerusalem.