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εἰ — 586x G1487 εἰ
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Occurrences: 563 times in 483 verses
Speech: Conjunction
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:14 - Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:7 - and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:8 - Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:9 - Is not the whole land before you? Let's part company. If you go to the left, I'll go to the right; if you go to the right, I'll go to the left.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:16 - I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:23 - that I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, ‘I made Abram rich.'
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 17:17 - Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, “Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:3 - He said, “If I have found favor in your eyes, my lord,[fn] do not pass your servant by.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:21 - that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:7 - Now return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, you may be sure that you and all who belong to you will die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:8 - He said to them, “If you are willing to let me bury my dead, then listen to me and intercede with Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:21 - Without saying a word, the man watched her closely to learn whether or not the LORD had made his journey successful.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:23 - Then he asked, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:42 - “When I came to the spring today, I said, ‘LORD, God of my master Abraham, if you will, please grant success to the journey on which I have come.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:49 - Now if you will show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me; and if not, tell me, so I may know which way to turn.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:22 - The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:21 - Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.”
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 27:46 - Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I'm disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:1 - When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I'll die!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:27 - But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:27 - Why did you run off secretly and deceive me? Why didn't you tell me, so I could send you away with joy and singing to the music of timbrels and harps?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:42 - If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:50 - If you mistreat my daughters or if you take any wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:10 - “No, please!” said Jacob. “If I have found favor in your eyes, accept this gift from me. For to see your face is like seeing the face of God, now that you have received me favorably.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:14 - So he said to him, “Go and see if all is well with your brothers and with the flocks, and bring word back to me.” Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. When Joseph arrived at Shechem,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:32 - They took the ornate robe back to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son's robe.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:8 - But he refused. “With me in charge,” he told her, “my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:16 - Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If you are not, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:19 - If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, while the rest of you go and take grain back for your starving households.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:20 - But you must bring your youngest brother to me, so that your words may be verified and that you may not die.” This they proceeded to do.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:4 - If you will send our brother along with us, we will go down and buy food for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:5 - But if you will not send him, we will not go down, because the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:6 - Israel asked, “Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man you had another brother?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:7 - They replied, “The man questioned us closely about ourselves and our family. ‘Is your father still living?' he asked us. ‘Do you have another brother?' We simply answered his questions. How were we to know he would say, ‘Bring your brother down here'?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:10 - As it is, if we had not delayed, we could have gone and returned twice.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:11 - Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your bags and take them down to the man as a gift—a little balm and a little honey, some spices and myrrh, some pistachio nuts and almonds.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:27 - He asked them how they were, and then he said, “How is your aged father you told me about? Is he still living?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:8 - We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found inside the mouths of our sacks. So why would we steal silver or gold from your master's house?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:19 - My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:26 - But we said, ‘We cannot go down. Only if our youngest brother is with us will we go. We cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:28 - And Israel said, “I'm convinced! My son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:5 - Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:16 - “Then bring your livestock,” said Joseph. “I will sell you food in exchange for your livestock, since your money is gone.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:18 - When that year was over, they came to him the following year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord the fact that since our money is gone and our livestock belongs to you, there is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:29 - When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called for his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise that you will show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,
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 BoxExo 2:14 - The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”
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 4:23 - and I told you, “Let my son go, so he may worship me.” But you refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:2 - If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:2 - If you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them back,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:4 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:7 - And he called the place Massah[fn] and Meribah[fn] because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the LORD saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:32 - But now, please forgive their sin—but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:13 - If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:15 - Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:9 - “Lord,” he said, “if I have found favor in your eyes, then let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wickedness and our sin, and take us as your inheritance.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:37 - but if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out—until the day it lifted.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:19 - Aaron replied to Moses, “Today they sacrificed their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD, but such things as this have happened to me. Would the LORD have been pleased if I had eaten the sin offering today?”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:44 - the priest is to go and examine it and, if the mold has spread in the house, it is a persistent defiling mold; the house is unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19 - Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:20 - But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”—
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:15 - If this is how you are going to treat me, please go ahead and kill me—if I have found favor in your eyes—and do not let me face my own ruin.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:23 - The LORD answered Moses, “Is the LORD's arm too short? Now you will see whether or not what I say will come true for you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:14 - The LORD replied to Moses, “If her father had spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Confine her outside the camp for seven days; after that she can be brought back.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:18 - See what the land is like and whether the people who live there are strong or weak, few or many.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:19 - What kind of land do they live in? Is it good or bad? What kind of towns do they live in? Are they unwalled or fortified?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:20 - How is the soil? Is it fertile or poor? Are there trees in it or not? Do your best to bring back some of the fruit of the land.” (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.)
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:2 - All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, “If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this wilderness!
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:8 - If the LORD is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:30 - Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:3 - and you present to the LORD food offerings from the herd or the flock, as an aroma pleasing to the LORD—whether burnt offerings or sacrifices, for special vows or freewill offerings or festival offerings—
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 16:22 - But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and cried out, “O God, the God who gives breath to all living things, will you be angry with the entire assembly when only one man sins?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:29 - If these men die a natural death and suffer the fate of all mankind, then the LORD has not sent me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:18 - But Edom answered: “You may not pass through here; if you try, we will march out and attack you with the sword.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:11 - ‘A people that has come out of Egypt covers the face of the land. Now come and put a curse on them for me. Perhaps then I will be able to fight them and drive them away.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:20 - That night God came to Balaam and said, “Since these men have come to summon you, go with them, but do only what I tell you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:29 - Balaam answered the donkey, “You have made a fool of me! If only I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:33 - The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If it had not turned away, I would certainly have killed you by now, but I would have spared it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:34 - Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, “I have sinned. I did not realize you were standing in the road to oppose me. Now if you are displeased, I will go back.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:27 - Then Balak said to Balaam, “Come, let me take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:5 - If we have found favor in your eyes,” they said, “let this land be given to your servants as our possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:11 - ‘Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of those who were twenty years old or more when they came up out of Egypt will see the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:35 - “No one from this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your ancestors,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:44 - The Amorites who lived in those hills came out against you; they chased you like a swarm of bees and beat you down from Seir all the way to Hormah.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32 - Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:33 - Has any other people heard the voice of God[fn] speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:34 - Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by great and awesome deeds, like all the things the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2 - Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:3 - you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:27 - but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest the adversary misunderstand and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed; the LORD has not done all this.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30 - How could one man chase a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:5 - At dusk, when it was time to close the city gate, they left. I don't know which way they went. Go after them quickly. You may catch up with them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:7 - And Joshua said, “Alas, Sovereign LORD, why did you ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:15 - “If you are so numerous,” Joshua answered, “and if the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go up into the forest and clear land for yourselves there in the land of the Perizzites and Rephaites.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:17 - But Joshua said to the tribes of Joseph—to Ephraim and Manasseh—“You are numerous and very powerful. You will have not only one allotment
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:19 - If the land you possess is defiled, come over to the LORD's land, where the LORD's tabernacle stands, and share the land with us. But do not rebel against the LORD or against us by building an altar for yourselves, other than the altar of the LORD our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:22 - “The Mighty One, God, the LORD! The Mighty One, God, the LORD! He knows! And let Israel know! If this has been in rebellion or disobedience to the LORD, do not spare us this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:23 - If we have built our own altar to turn away from the LORD and to offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, or to sacrifice fellowship offerings on it, may the LORD himself call us to account.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:15 - But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:22 - I will use them to test Israel and see whether they will keep the way of the LORD and walk in it as their ancestors did.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:4 - They were left to test the Israelites to see whether they would obey the LORD's commands, which he had given their ancestors through Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:13 - “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up out of Egypt?' But now the LORD has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:17 - Gideon replied, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me.
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 6:36 - Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand as you have promised—
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:10 - If you are afraid to attack, go down to the camp with your servant Purah
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:19 - Gideon replied, “Those were my brothers, the sons of my own mother. As surely as the LORD lives, if you had spared their lives, I would not kill you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:15 - “The thornbush said to the trees, ‘If you really want to anoint me king over you, come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, then let fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:16 - “Have you acted honorably and in good faith by making Abimelek king? Have you been fair to Jerub-Baal and his family? Have you treated him as he deserves?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:19 - So have you acted honorably and in good faith toward Jerub-Baal and his family today? If you have, may Abimelek be your joy, and may you be his, too!
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 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 11:10 - The elders of Gilead replied, “The LORD is our witness; we will certainly do as you say.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:36 - “My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me just as you promised, now that the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.
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 13:23 - But his wife answered, “If the LORD had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and grain offering from our hands, nor shown us all these things or now told us this.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:18 - Before sunset on the seventh day the men of the town said to him, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” Samson said to them, “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:5 - Then they said to him, “Please inquire of God to learn whether our journey will be successful.”
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 19:30 - Everyone who saw it was saying to one another, “Such a thing has never been seen or done, not since the day the Israelites came up out of Egypt. Just imagine! We must do something! So speak up!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:23 - The Israelites went up and wept before the LORD until evening, and they inquired of the LORD. They said, “Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites?” The LORD answered, “Go up against them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:28 - with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, ministering before it.) They asked, “Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites, or not?” The LORD responded, “Go, for tomorrow I will give them into your hands.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:4 - I thought I should bring the matter to your attention and suggest that you buy it in the presence of these seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, do so. But if you[fn] will not, tell me, so I will know. For no one has the right to do it except you, and I am next in line.” “I will redeem it,” he said.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:35 - I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it.
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 19:6 - Saul listened to Jonathan and took this oath: “As surely as the LORD lives, David will not be put to death.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:17 - Saul said to Michal, “Why did you deceive me like this and send my enemy away so that he escaped?” Michal told him, “He said to me, ‘Let me get away. Why should I kill you?' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:24 - He stripped off his garments, and he too prophesied in Samuel's presence. He lay naked all that day and all that night. This is why people say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:8 - As for you, show kindness to your servant, for you have brought him into a covenant with you before the LORD. If I am guilty, then kill me yourself! Why hand me over to your father?”
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 21:3 - Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:4 - But the priest answered David, “I don't have any ordinary bread on hand; however, there is some consecrated bread here—provided the men have kept themselves from women.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:8 - David asked Ahimelek, “Don't you have a spear or a sword here? I haven't brought my sword or any other weapon, because the king's mission was urgent.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:9 - The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want it, take it; there is no sword here but that one.” David said, “There is none like it; give it 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 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 23:11 - Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me to him? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? LORD, God of Israel, tell your servant.” And the LORD said, “He will.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:23 - Find out about all the hiding places he uses and come back to me with definite information. Then I will go with you; if he is in the area, I will track him down among all the clans of Judah.”
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 24:19 - When a man finds his enemy, does he let him get away unharmed? May the LORD reward you well for the way you treated me today.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:22 - May God deal with David,[fn] be it ever so severely, if by morning I leave alive one male of all who belong to him!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:34 - Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by daybreak.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:19 - Now let my lord the king listen to his servant's words. If the LORD has incited you against me, then may he accept an offering. If, however, people have done it, may they be cursed before the LORD! They have driven me today from my share in the LORD's inheritance and have said, ‘Go, serve other gods.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:5 - Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let a place be assigned to me in one of the country towns, that I may live there. Why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:10 - Saul swore to her by the LORD, “As surely as the LORD lives, you will not be punished for this.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:8 - and David inquired of the LORD, “Shall I pursue this raiding party? Will I overtake them?” “Pursue them,” he answered. “You will certainly overtake them and succeed in the rescue.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:15 - David asked him, “Can you lead me down to this raiding party?” He answered, “Swear to me before God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will take you down to them.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:1 - In the course of time, David inquired of the LORD. “Shall I go up to one of the towns of Judah?” he asked. The LORD said, “Go up.” David asked, “Where shall I go?” “To Hebron,” the LORD answered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:27 - Joab answered, “As surely as God lives, if you had not spoken, the men would have continued pursuing them until morning.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:33 - The king sang this lament for Abner: “Should Abner have died as the lawless die?
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 7:7 - Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their rulers whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?” '
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:1 - David asked, “Is there anyone still left of the house of Saul to whom I can show kindness for Jonathan's sake?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:2 - Now there was a servant of Saul's household named Ziba. They summoned him to appear before David, and the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?” “At your service,” he replied.
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 11:11 - Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents,[fn] and my commander Joab and my lord's men are camped in the open country. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and make love to my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:8 - I gave your master's house to you, and your master's wives into your arms. I gave you all Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:22 - He answered, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. I thought, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let the child live.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:26 - Then Absalom said, “If not, please let my brother Amnon come with us.” The king asked him, “Why should he go with you?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:11 - She said, “Then let the king invoke the LORD his God to prevent the avenger of blood from adding to the destruction, so that my son will not be destroyed.” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he said, “not one hair of your son's head will fall to the ground.”
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 14:32 - Absalom said to Joab, “Look, I sent word to you and said, ‘Come here so I can send you to the king to ask, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there!” ' Now then, I want to see the king's face, and if I am guilty of anything, let him put me to death.”
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 17:6 - When Hushai came to him, Absalom said, “Ahithophel has given this advice. Should we do what he says? If not, give us your opinion.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:25 - The watchman called out to the king and reported it. The king said, “If he is alone, he must have good news.” And the runner came closer and closer.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:32 - The king asked the Cushite, “Is the young man Absalom safe?” The Cushite replied, “May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up to harm you be like that young man.”
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 19:7 - 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 19:13 - And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my own flesh and blood? May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if you are not the commander of my army for life in place of Joab.' ”
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 20:9 - Joab said to Amasa, “How are you, my brother?” Then Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
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 20:18 - She continued, “Long ago they used to say, ‘Get your answer at Abel,' and that settled it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:20 - “Far be it from me!” Joab replied, “Far be it from me to swallow up or destroy!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:17 - “Far be it from me, LORD, to do this!” he said. “Is it not the blood of men who went at the risk of their lives?” And David would not drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty warriors.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:13 - So Gad went to David and said to him, “Shall there come on you three[fn] years of famine in your land? Or three months of fleeing from your enemies while they pursue you? Or three days of plague in your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should answer the one who sent me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:27 - Is this something my lord the king has done without letting his servants know who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:51 - Then Solomon was told, “Adonijah is afraid of King Solomon and is clinging to the horns of the altar. He says, ‘Let King Solomon swear to me today that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:52 - Solomon replied, “If he shows himself to be worthy, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground; but if evil is found in him, he will die.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:8 - “And remember, you have with you Shimei son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim, who called down bitter curses on me the day I went to Mahanaim. When he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD: ‘I will not put you to death by the sword.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:27 - “But will God really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:7 - They replied, “If today you will be a servant to these people and serve them and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your servants.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:14 - and rode after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” “I am,” he replied.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:1 - Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe[fn] in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:12 - “As surely as the LORD your God lives,” she replied, “I don't have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:7 - As Obadiah was walking along, Elijah met him. Obadiah recognized him, bowed down to the ground, and said, “Is it really you, my lord Elijah?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:10 - As surely as the LORD your God lives, there is not a nation or kingdom where my master has not sent someone to look for you. And whenever a nation or kingdom claimed you were not there, he made them swear they could not find you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:17 - When he saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:21 - Elijah went before the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.” But the people said nothing.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:2 - So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:10 - Then Ben-Hadad sent another message to Ahab: “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if enough dust remains in Samaria to give each of my men a handful.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:13 - Meanwhile a prophet came to Ahab king of Israel and announced, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Do you see this vast army? I will give it into your hand today, and then you will know that I am the LORD.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:18 - He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; if they have come out for war, take them alive.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:23 - Meanwhile, the officials of the king of Aram advised him, “Their gods are gods of the hills. That is why they were too strong for us. But if we fight them on the plains, surely we will be stronger than they.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:32 - Wearing sackcloth around their waists and ropes around their heads, they went to the king of Israel and said, “Your servant Ben-Hadad says: ‘Please let me live.' ” The king answered, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:2 - Ahab said to Naboth, “Let me have your vineyard to use for a vegetable garden, since it is close to my palace. In exchange I will give you a better vineyard or, if you prefer, I will pay you whatever it is worth.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:6 - He answered her, “Because I said to Naboth the Jezreelite, ‘Sell me your vineyard; or if you prefer, I will give you another vineyard in its place.' But he said, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:20 - Ahab said to Elijah, “So you have found me, my enemy!” “I have found you,” he answered, “because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of the LORD.
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 22:15 - When he arrived, the king asked him, “Micaiah, shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or not?” “Attack and be victorious,” he answered, “for the LORD will give it into the king's hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:2 - Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers, saying to them, “Go and consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, to see if I will recover from this injury.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:3 - But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going off to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?'
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 1:12 - “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 2:2 - Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here; the LORD has sent me to Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:3 - The company of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and asked, “Do you know that the LORD is going to take your master from you today?” “Yes, I know,” Elisha replied, “so be quiet.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:4 - Then Elijah said to him, “Stay here, Elisha; the LORD has sent me to Jericho.” And he replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:5 - The company of the prophets at Jericho went up to Elisha and asked him, “Do you know that the LORD is going to take your master from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied, “so be quiet.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:6 - Then Elijah said to him, “Stay here; the LORD has sent me to the Jordan.” And he replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them walked on.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:7 - He also sent this message to Jehoshaphat king of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to fight against Moab?” “I will go with you,” he replied. “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:14 - Elisha said, “As surely as the LORD Almighty lives, whom I serve, if I did not have respect for the presence of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would not pay any attention to you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:13 - Elisha said to him, “Tell her, ‘You have gone to all this trouble for us. Now what can be done for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?' ” She replied, “I have a home among my own people.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:26 - Run to meet her and ask her, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?' ” “Everything is all right,” she said.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:30 - But the child's mother said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:16 - The prophet answered, “As surely as the LORD lives, whom I serve, I will not accept a thing.” And even though Naaman urged him, he refused.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:17 - “If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much earth as a pair of mules can carry, for your servant will never again make burnt offerings and sacrifices to any other god but the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:20 - Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, “My master was too easy on Naaman, this Aramean, by not accepting from him what he brought. As surely as the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:21 - When the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, “Shall I kill them, my father? Shall I kill them?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:22 - “Do not kill them,” he answered. “Would you kill those you have captured with your own sword or bow? Set food and water before them so that they may eat and drink and then go back to their master.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:31 - He said, “May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today!”
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 7:10 - 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 8:8 - he said to Hazael, “Take a gift with you and go to meet the man of God. Consult the LORD through him; ask him, ‘Will I recover from this illness?' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:9 - Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him as a gift forty camel-loads of all the finest wares of Damascus. He went in and stood before him, and said, “Your son Ben-Hadad king of Aram has sent me to ask, ‘Will I recover from this illness?' ”
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 9:15 - but King Joram[fn] had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds the Arameans had inflicted on him in the battle with Hazael king of Aram.) Jehu said, “If you desire to make me king, don't let anyone slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:17 - When the lookout standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu's troops approaching, he called out, “I see some troops coming.” “Get a horseman,” Joram ordered. “Send him to meet them and ask, ‘Do you come in peace?' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:18 - The horseman rode off to meet Jehu and said, “This is what the king says: ‘Do you come in peace?' ” “What do you have to do with peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.” The lookout reported, “The messenger has reached them, but he isn't coming back.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:19 - So the king sent out a second horseman. When he came to them he said, “This is what the king says: ‘Do you come in peace?' ” Jehu replied, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:22 - When Joram saw Jehu he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” “How can there be peace,” Jehu replied, “as long as all the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:26 - ‘Yesterday I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons, declares the LORD, and I will surely make you pay for it on this plot of ground, declares the LORD.'[fn] Now then, pick him up and throw him on that plot, in accordance with the word of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:31 - As Jehu entered the gate, she asked, “Have you come in peace, you Zimri, you murderer of your master?”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:6 - Then Jehu wrote them a second letter, saying, “If you are on my side and will obey me, take the heads of your master's sons and come to me in Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the royal princes, seventy of them, were with the leading men of the city, who were rearing them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:15 - After he left there, he came upon Jehonadab son of Rekab, who was on his way to meet him. Jehu greeted him and said, “Are you in accord with me, as I am with you?” “I am,” Jehonadab answered. “If so,” said Jehu, “give me your hand.” So he did, and Jehu helped him up into the chariot.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:23 - Then Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rekab went into the temple of Baal. Jehu said to the servants of Baal, “Look around and see that no one who serves the LORD is here with you—only servants of Baal.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:19 - The man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck the ground five or six times; then you would have defeated Aram and completely destroyed it. But now you will defeat it only three times.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:23 - “ ‘Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:9 - Although the priests of the high places did not serve at the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:19 - “God forbid that I should do this!” he said. “Should I drink the blood of these men who went at the risk of their lives?” Because they risked their lives to bring it back, David would not drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty warriors.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:17 - David went out to meet them and said to them, “If you have come to me in peace to help me, I am ready for you to join me. But if you have come to betray me to my enemies when my hands are free from violence, may the God of our ancestors see it and judge you.”
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 17:6 - Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their leaders[fn] whom I commanded to shepherd my people, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?” '
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:18 - “But will God really dwell on earth with humans? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!
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 18:14 - When he arrived, the king asked him, “Micaiah, shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I not?” “Attack and be victorious,” he answered, “for they will be given into your hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:2 - Jehu the seer, the son of Hanani, went out to meet him and said to the king, “Should you help the wicked and love[fn] those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is on you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:59 - The following came up from the towns of Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon and Immer, but they could not show that their families were descended from Israel:
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:17 - Now if it pleases the king, let a search be made in the royal archives of Babylon to see if King Cyrus did in fact issue a decree to rebuild this house of God in Jerusalem. Then let the king send us his decision in this matter.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:2 - so the king asked me, “Why does your face look so sad when you are not ill? This can be nothing but sadness of heart.” I was very much afraid,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:5 - and I answered the king, “If it pleases the king and if your servant has found favor in his sight, let him send me to the city in Judah where my ancestors are buried so that I can rebuild it.”
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 2:12 - I set out during the night with a few others. I had not told anyone what my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem. There were no mounts with me except the one I was riding on.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:61 - The following came up from the towns of Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon and Immer, but they could not show that their families were descended from Israel:
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 3:9 - If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will give ten thousand talents[fn] of silver to the king's administrators for the royal treasury.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:14 - For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:4 - “If it pleases the king,” replied Esther, “let the king, together with Haman, come today to a banquet I have prepared for him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:8 - If the king regards me with favor and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king's question.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:6 - When Haman entered, the king asked him, “What should be done for the man the king delights to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Who is there that the king would rather honor than me?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:13 - and told Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has started, is of Jewish origin, you cannot stand against him—you will surely come to ruin!”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:3 - Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor with you, Your Majesty, and if it pleases you, grant me my life—this is my petition. And spare my people—this is my request.
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 8:7 - King Xerxes replied to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Because Haman attacked the Jews, I have given his estate to Esther, and they have impaled him on the pole he set up.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:11 - But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:5 - But now stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:10 - He replied, “You are talking like a foolish[fn] woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:3 - Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:12 - “A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:18 - If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:2 - “If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:5 - Does a wild donkey bray when it has grass, or an ox bellow when it has fodder?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:6 - Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the sap of the mallow[fn]?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:8 - “Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant what I hope for,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:20 - If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:4 - When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:6 - if you are pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself on your behalf and restore you to your prosperous state.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:24 - When a land falls into the hands of the wicked, he blindfolds its judges. If it is not he, then who is it?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:13 - “Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:14 - if you put away the sin that is in your hand and allow no evil to dwell in your tent,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:10 - In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:9 - Would it turn out well if he examined you? Could you deceive him as you might deceive a mortal?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:10 - He would surely call you to account if you secretly showed partiality.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:13 - “If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set me a time and then remember me!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:15 - If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:4 - I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:28 - “If you say, ‘How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him,[fn]'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:20 - ‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire devours their wealth.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:6 - Would he vigorously oppose me? No, he would not press charges against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:13 - “But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? He does whatever he pleases.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:25 - “If this is not so, who can prove me false and reduce my words to nothing?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 25:5 - If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:24 - “Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:5 - “If I have walked with falsehood or my foot has hurried after deceit—
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:7 - if my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has been led by my eyes, or if my hands have been defiled,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:9 - “If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbor's door,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:13 - “If I have denied justice to any of my servants, whether male or female, when they had a grievance against me,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:17 - if I have kept my bread to myself, not sharing it with the fatherless—
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:19 - if I have seen anyone perishing for lack of clothing, or the needy without garments,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:20 - and their hearts did not bless me for warming them with the fleece from my sheep,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:21 - if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, knowing that I had influence in court,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:24 - “If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:25 - if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:27 - so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand offered them a kiss of homage,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:29 - “If I have rejoiced at my enemy's misfortune or gloated over the trouble that came to him—
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:31 - if those of my household have never said, ‘Who has not been filled with Job's meat?'—
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:33 - if I have concealed my sin as people do,[fn] by hiding my guilt in my heart
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:34 - because I so feared the crowd and so dreaded the contempt of the clans that I kept silent and would not go outside—
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:35 - (“Oh, that I had someone to hear me! I sign now my defense—let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser put his indictment in writing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:37 - I would give him an account of my every step; I would present it to him as to a ruler.)—
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:38 - “if my land cries out against me and all its furrows are wet with tears,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:39 - if I have devoured its yield without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:22 - for if I were skilled in flattery, my Maker would soon take me away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:32 - If you have anything to say, answer me; speak up, for I want to vindicate you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:33 - But if not, then listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:14 - If it were his intention and he withdrew his spirit[fn] and breath,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:16 - “If you have understanding, hear this; listen to what I say.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:32 - Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do so again.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:6 - If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:14 - How much less, then, will he listen when you say that you do not see him, that your case is before him and you must wait for him,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:8 - But if people are bound in chains, held fast by cords of affliction,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:4 - “Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:5 - Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:20 - Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their dwellings?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:1 - “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:2 - Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:11 - Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:8 - So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:3 - LORD my God, if I have done this and there is guilt on my hands—
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:4 - if I have repaid my ally with evil or without cause have robbed my foe—
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 41:6 - When one of them comes to see me, he speaks falsely, while his heart gathers slander; then he goes out and spreads it around.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:20 - If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:18 - When you see a thief, you join with him; you throw in your lot with adulterers.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:16 - You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.
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 55:12 - If an enemy were insulting me, I could endure it; if a foe were rising against me, I could hide.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:1 - [fn]For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” Of David. A miktam.[fn] Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge people with equity?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:11 - Then people will say, “Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:6 - On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:18 - If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:11 - They say, “How would God know? Does the Most High know anything?”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:15 - If I had spoken out like that, I would have betrayed your children.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:13 - “If my people would only listen to me, if Israel would only follow my ways,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:14 - As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:35 - Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness— and I will not lie to David—
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:17 - Unless the LORD had given me help, I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:18 - When I said, “My foot is slipping,” your unfailing love, LORD, supported me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:11 - So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:23 - So he said he would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him to keep his wrath from destroying them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:92 - If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:1 - A song of ascents. Of David. If the LORD had not been on our side— let Israel say—
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:2 - if the LORD had not been on our side when people attacked us,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 131:2 - But I have calmed and quieted myself, I am like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child I am content.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:3 - “I will not enter my house or go to my bed,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:4 - I will allow no sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:24 - See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:20 - Thus you will walk in the ways of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:31 - If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:3 - Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:19 - And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:12 - I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:21 - Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:22 - So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:12 - The sleep of a laborer is sweet, whether they eat little or much, but as for the rich, their abundance permits them no sleep.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:6 - even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:15 - So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.
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 BoxSng 8:9 - If she is a wall, we will build towers of silver on her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:9 - Unless the LORD Almighty had left us some survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:5 - Every warrior's boot used in battle and every garment rolled in blood will be destined for burning, will be fuel for the fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:7 - But if you say to me, “We are depending on the LORD our God”—isn't he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before this altar”?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:8 - “ ‘Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:15 - Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales; he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:28 - Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:8 - Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:18 - If only you had paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river, your well-being like the waves of the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:15 - “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:4 - Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:8 - The LORD has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain as food for your enemies, and never again will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:10 - Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and look, send to Kedar[fn] and observe closely; see if there has ever been anything like this:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:11 - Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:28 - Where then are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them come if they can save you when you are in trouble! For you, Judah, have as many gods as you have towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:1 - “Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem, look around and consider, search through her squares. If you can find but one person who deals honestly and seeks the truth, I will forgive this city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:8 - But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless.
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 13:23 - Can an Ethiopian[fn] change his skin or a leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:7 - Although our sins testify against us, do something, LORD, for the sake of your name. For we have often rebelled; we have sinned against you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:22 - Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies themselves send down showers? No, it is you, LORD our God. Therefore our hope is in you, for you are the one who does all this.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:11 - The LORD said, “Surely I will deliver you for a good purpose; surely I will make your enemies plead with you in times of disaster and times of distress.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:12 - “Can a man break iron— iron from the north—or bronze?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:20 - Do people make their own gods? Yes, but they are not gods!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6 - He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the LORD. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:10 - I hear many whispering, “Terror on every side! Denounce him! Let's denounce him!” All my friends are waiting for me to slip, saying, “Perhaps he will be deceived; then we will prevail over him and take our revenge on him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:2 - “Inquire now of the LORD for us because Nebuchadnezzar[fn] king of Babylon is attacking us. Perhaps the LORD will perform wonders for us as in times past so that he will withdraw from us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:22 - But if they had stood in my council, they would have proclaimed my words to my people and would have turned them from their evil ways and from their evil deeds.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:24 - Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?”

declares the LORD.

“Do not I fill heaven and earth?”

declares the LORD.

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 27:18 - If they are prophets and have the word of the LORD, let them plead with the LORD Almighty that the articles remaining in the house of the LORD and in the palace of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem not be taken to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:6 - Ask and see: Can a man bear children? Then why do I see every strong man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor, every face turned deathly pale?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:17 - Then King Zedekiah sent for him and had him brought to the palace, where he asked him privately, “Is there any word from the LORD?” “Yes,” Jeremiah replied, “you will be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:16 - But King Zedekiah swore this oath secretly to Jeremiah: “As surely as the LORD lives, who has given us breath, I will neither kill you nor hand you over to those who want to kill you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:21 - But if you refuse to surrender, this is what the LORD has revealed to me:
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 40:5 - However, before Jeremiah turned to go,[fn] Nebuzaradan added, “Go back to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the towns of Judah, and live with him among the people, or go anywhere else you please.” Then the commander gave him provisions and a present and let him go.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:14 - and said to him, “Don't you know that Baalis king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah son of Ahikam did not believe them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:5 - Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act in accordance with everything the LORD your God sends you to tell us.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:13 - “However, if you say, ‘We will not stay in this land,' and so disobey the LORD your God,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:27 - Was not Israel the object of your ridicule? Was she caught among thieves, that you shake your head in scorn whenever you speak of her?
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:12 - “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see. Is any suffering like my suffering that was inflicted on me, that the LORD brought on me in the day of his fierce anger?
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:20 - “Look, LORD, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the children they have cared for? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
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 5:11 - Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your vile images and detestable practices, I myself will shave you; I will not look on you with pity or spare you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:10 - “ ‘See, the day! See, it comes! Doom has burst forth, the rod has budded, arrogance has blossomed!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:10 - “ ‘Because they lead my people astray, saying, “Peace,” when there is no peace, and because, when a flimsy wall is built, they cover it with whitewash,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:3 - “Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and put wicked stumbling blocks before their faces. Should I let them inquire of me at all?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:16 - as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, even if these three men were in it, they could not save their own sons or daughters. They alone would be saved, but the land would be desolate.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:3 - Is wood ever taken from it to make anything useful? Do they make pegs from it to hang things on?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:5 - If it was not useful for anything when it was whole, how much less can it be made into something useful when the fire has burned it and it is charred?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:48 - As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:56 - You would not even mention your sister Sodom in the day of your pride,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:9 - “Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Will it thrive? Will it not be uprooted and stripped of its fruit so that it withers? All its new growth will wither. It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it up by the roots.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:15 - But the king rebelled against him by sending his envoys to Egypt to get horses and a large army. Will he succeed? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the treaty and yet escape?
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 20:4 - “Will you judge them? Will you judge them, son of man? Then confront them with the detestable practices of their ancestors
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:30 - “Therefore say to the Israelites: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your ancestors did and lust after their vile images?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:31 - When you offer your gifts—the sacrifice of your children in the fire—you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. Am I to let you inquire of me, you Israelites? As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will not let you inquire of me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:39 - “ ‘As for you, people of Israel, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you! But afterward you will surely listen to me and no longer profane my holy name with your gifts and idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:13 - “ ‘Testing will surely come. And what if even the scepter, which the sword despises, does not continue? declares the Sovereign LORD.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:2 - “Son of man, will you judge her? Will you judge this city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her detestable practices
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:14 - Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.
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 34:8 - As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, because my flock lacks a shepherd and so has been plundered and has become food for all the wild animals, and because my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for themselves rather than for my flock,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:6 - therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:5 - this is what the Sovereign LORD says: In my burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, for with glee and with malice in their hearts they made my land their own possession so that they might plunder its pastureland.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:3 - He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I said, “Sovereign LORD, you alone know.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:19 - In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare that at that time there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:6 - He asked me, “Son of man, do you see this?” Then he led me back to the bank of the river.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:26 - The king asked Daniel (also called Belteshazzar), “Are you able to tell me what I saw in my dream and interpret it?”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:14 - and Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the image of gold I have set up?
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:15 - Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall down and worship the image I made, very good. But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately into a blazing furnace. Then what god will be able to rescue you from my hand?”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:5 - Finally these men said, “We will never find any basis for charges against this man Daniel unless it has something to do with the law of his God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:20 - When he came near the den, he called to Daniel in an anguished voice, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to rescue you from the lions?”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:20 - So he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? Soon I will return to fight against the prince of Persia, and when I go, the prince of Greece will come;
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:11 - Is Gilead wicked? Its people are worthless! Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Their altars will be like piles of stones on a plowed field.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:2 - Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors?
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:14 - Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave behind a blessing— grain offerings and drink offerings for the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:3 - Do two walk together unless they have agreed to do so?
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:4 - Does a lion roar in the thicket when it has no prey? Does it growl in its den when it has caught nothing?
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:5 - Does a bird swoop down to a trap on the ground when no bait is there? Does a trap spring up from the ground if it has not caught anything?
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:6 - When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble? When disaster comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:2 - Go to Kalneh and look at it; go from there to great Hamath, and then go down to Gath in Philistia. Are they better off than your two kingdoms? Is their land larger than yours?
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:10 - And if the relative who comes to carry the bodies out of the house to burn them[fn] asks anyone who might be hiding there, “Is anyone else with you?” and he says, “No,” then he will go on to say, “Hush! We must not mention the name of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:12 - Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow the sea[fn] with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness—
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:7 - The LORD has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget anything they have done.
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:5 - “If thieves came to you, if robbers in the night— oh, what a disaster awaits you!— would they not steal only as much as they wanted? If grape pickers came to you, would they not leave a few grapes?
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:9 - Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:4 - But the LORD replied, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:9 - But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?” “It is,” he said. “And I'm so angry I wish I were dead.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:7 - You descendants of Jacob, should it be said, “Does the LORD become[fn] impatient? Does he do such things?” “Do not my words do good to the one whose ways are upright?
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:6 - With what shall I come before the LORD and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:7 - Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of olive oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:8 - He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly[fn] with your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:11 - Shall I acquit someone with dishonest scales, with a bag of false weights?
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:4 - “Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?”
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:12 - If someone carries consecrated meat in the fold of their garment, and that fold touches some bread or stew, some wine, olive oil or other food, does it become consecrated?' ” The priests answered, “No.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:13 - Then Haggai said, “If a person defiled by contact with a dead body touches one of these things, does it become defiled?” “Yes,” the priests replied, “it becomes defiled.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:19 - Is there yet any seed left in the barn? Until now, the vine and the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree have not borne fruit. “ ‘From this day on I will bless you.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:6 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: “It may seem marvelous to the remnant of this people at that time, but will it seem marvelous to me?” declares the LORD Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:12 - I told them, “If you think it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it.” So they paid me thirty pieces of silver.
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 BoxMal 1:6 - “A son honors his father, and a slave his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the LORD Almighty. “It is you priests who show contempt for my name. “But you ask, ‘How have we shown contempt for your name?'
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:8 - When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice lame or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you?” says the LORD Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:9 - “Now plead with God to be gracious to us. With such offerings from your hands, will he accept you?”—says the LORD Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:13 - And you say, ‘What a burden!' and you sniff at it contemptuously,” says the LORD Almighty. “When you bring injured, lame or diseased animals and offer them as sacrifices, should I accept them from your hands?” says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:8 - “Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?' “In tithes and offerings.
PRT
Occurrences: 22 times in 20 verses
Speech: Particle, Disjunctive Particle
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:14 - Therefore I swore to the house of Eli, ‘The guilt of Eli's house will never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:3 - They answered, “If you return the ark of the god of Israel, do not send it back to him without a gift; by all means send a guilt offering to him. Then you will be healed, and you will know why his hand has not been lifted from you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:9 - but keep watching it. If it goes up to its own territory, toward Beth Shemesh, then the LORD has brought this great disaster on us. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us but that it happened to us by chance.”
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 9:11 - As they were going up the hill to the town, they met some young women coming out to draw water, and they asked them, “Is the seer here?”
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 10:24 - Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the man the LORD has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people.” Then the people shouted, “Long live the king!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:30 - How much better it would have been if the men had eaten today some of the plunder they took from their enemies. Would not the slaughter of the Philistines have been even greater?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:37 - So Saul asked God, “Shall I go down and pursue the Philistines? Will you give them into Israel's hand?” But God did not answer him that day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:41 - Then Saul prayed to the LORD, the God of Israel, “Why have you not answered your servant today? If the fault is in me or my son Jonathan, respond with Urim, but if the men of Israel are at fault,[fn] respond with Thummim.” Jonathan and Saul were taken by lot, and the men were cleared.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:45 - But the men said to Saul, “Should Jonathan die—he who has brought about this great deliverance in Israel? Never! As surely as the LORD lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for he did this today with God's help.” So the men rescued Jonathan, and he was not put to death.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:22 - But Samuel replied: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the LORD? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:32 - Then Samuel said, “Bring me Agag king of the Amalekites.” Agag came to him in chains.[fn] And he thought, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:20 - Abner looked behind him and asked, “Is that you, Asahel?” “It is,” he answered.
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 17:6 - When Hushai came to him, Absalom said, “Ahithophel has given this advice. Should we do what he says? If not, give us your opinion.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:16 - “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 BoxIsa 45:21 - Declare what is to be, present it— let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago, who declared it from the distant past? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no God apart from me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none but me.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:12 - “Keep on, then, with your magic spells and with your many sorceries, which you have labored at since childhood. Perhaps you will succeed, perhaps you will cause terror.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:20 - Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember that I stood before you and spoke in their behalf to turn your wrath away from them.
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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!” ' ”
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