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εἶπεν — 2519x G2036 εἶπον
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Occurrences: 2519 times in 2271 verses
Speech: Verb
Parsing: Aorist Active Indicative
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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:3 - And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:6 - And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:9 - And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:11 - Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:14 - And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:20 - And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:24 - And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:26 - Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[fn] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29 - Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:18 - The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:23 - The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,' for she was taken out of man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:1 - Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:2 - The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:3 - but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:4 - “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:9 - But the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:10 - He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:11 - And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:12 - The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:13 - Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:14 - So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:16 - To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:17 - To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,' “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:22 - And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:1 - Adam[fn] made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.[fn] She said, “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth[fn] a man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:6 - Then the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:8 - Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let's go out to the field.”[fn] While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:9 - Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I don't know,” he replied. “Am I my brother's keeper?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:10 - The LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:13 - Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is more than I can bear.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:15 - But the LORD said to him, “Not so[fn]; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:23 - Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, listen to me; wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for injuring me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:3 - Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with[fn] humans forever, for they are mortal[fn]; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:7 - So the LORD said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:13 - So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:1 - The LORD then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:15 - Then God said to Noah,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:21 - The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though[fn] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:1 - Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:8 - Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:12 - And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:17 - So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:25 - he said, “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:26 - He also said, “Praise be to the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:3 - They said to each other, “Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:6 - The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:1 - The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father's household to the land I will show you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:7 - The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring[fn] I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:11 - As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you are.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:18 - So Pharaoh summoned Abram. “What have you done to me?” he said. “Why didn't you tell me she was your wife?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:8 - So Abram said to Lot, “Let's not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:19 - and he blessed Abram, saying, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:21 - The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:22 - But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “With raised hand I have sworn an oath to the LORD, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:3 - And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:5 - He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring[fn] be.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:7 - He also said to him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:8 - But Abram said, “Sovereign LORD, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:9 - So the LORD said to him, “Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2 - so she said to Abram, “The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5 - Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the LORD judge between you and me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - “Your slave is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:8 - And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I'm running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:9 - Then the angel of the LORD told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:10 - The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:11 - The angel of the LORD also said to her: “You are now pregnant and you will give birth to a son. You shall name him Ishmael,[fn] for the LORD has heard of your misery.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:13 - She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen[fn] the One who sees me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:1 - When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty[fn]; walk before me faithfully and be blameless.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:9 - Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:15 - God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.
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 17:18 - And Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:19 - Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac.[fn] I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
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 18:6 - So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. “Quick,” he said, “get three seahs[fn] of the finest flour and knead it and bake some bread.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:9 - “Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked him. “There, in the tent,” he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:10 - Then one of them said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:13 - Then the LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:15 - Sarah was afraid, so she lied and said, “I did not laugh.” But he said, “Yes, you did laugh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:17 - Then the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:20 - Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:23 - Then Abraham approached him and said: “Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:26 - The LORD said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:27 - Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28 - what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?” “If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:29 - Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are found there?” He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:30 - Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?” He answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:31 - Abraham said, “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?” He said, “For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:32 - Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?” He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:2 - “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant's house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:7 - and said, “No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:14 - So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry[fn] his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:18 - But Lot said to them, “No, my lords,[fn] please!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:21 - He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:31 - One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as is the custom all over the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:34 - The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I slept with my father. Let's get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2 - and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” Then Abimelek king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:3 - But God came to Abimelek in a dream one night and said to him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:4 - Now Abimelek had not gone near her, so he said, “Lord, will you destroy an innocent nation?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:5 - Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister,' and didn't she also say, ‘He is my brother'? I have done this with a clear conscience and clean hands.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:6 - Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:9 - Then Abimelek called Abraham in and said, “What have you done to us? How have I wronged you that you have brought such great guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should never be done.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:10 - And Abimelek asked Abraham, “What was your reason for doing this?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:11 - Abraham replied, “I said to myself, ‘There is surely no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:15 - And Abimelek said, “My land is before you; live wherever you like.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:16 - To Sarah he said, “I am giving your brother a thousand shekels[fn] of silver. This is to cover the offense against you before all who are with you; you are completely vindicated.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:1 - Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:6 - Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:7 - And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:10 - and she said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that woman's son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:12 - But God said to him, “Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring[fn] will be reckoned.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:16 - Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, “I cannot watch the boy die.” And as she sat there, she[fn] began to sob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:17 - God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:22 - At that time Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:24 - Abraham said, “I swear it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:26 - But Abimelek said, “I don't know who has done this. You did not tell me, and I heard about it only today.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:29 - and Abimelek asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs you have set apart by themselves?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:30 - He replied, “Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:1 - Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:2 - Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:3 - Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:5 - He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:7 - Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:8 - Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:9 - When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:11 - But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:12 - “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:3 - Then Abraham rose from beside his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites.[fn] He said,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:10 - Ephron the Hittite was sitting among his people and he replied to Abraham in the hearing of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:13 - and he said to Ephron in their hearing, “Listen to me, if you will. I will pay the price of the field. Accept it from me so I can bury my dead there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:2 - He said to the senior servant in his household, the one in charge of all that he had, “Put your hand under my thigh.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:5 - The servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the country you came from?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:6 - “Make sure that you do not take my son back there,” Abraham said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:12 - Then he prayed, “LORD, God of my master Abraham, make me successful today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:17 - The servant hurried to meet her and said, “Please give me a little water from your jar.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:18 - “Drink, my lord,” she said, and quickly lowered the jar to her hands and gave him a drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:19 - After she had given him a drink, she said, “I'll draw water for your camels too, until they have had enough to drink.”
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 24:24 - She answered him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milkah bore to Nahor.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:25 - And she added, “We have plenty of straw and fodder, as well as room for you to spend the night.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:27 - saying, “Praise be to the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his kindness and faithfulness to my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master's relatives.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:31 - “Come, you who are blessed by the LORD,” he said. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:33 - Then food was set before him, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told you what I have to say.” “Then tell us,” Laban said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:34 - So he said, “I am Abraham's servant.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:46 - “She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I'll water your camels too.' So I drank, and she watered the camels also.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:54 - Then he and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, he said, “Send me on my way to my master.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:56 - But he said to them, “Do not detain me, now that the LORD has granted success to my journey. Send me on my way so I may go to my master.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:58 - So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man?” “I will go,” she said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:65 - and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?” “He is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.
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 25:23 - The LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:30 - He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I'm famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom.[fn])
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:31 - Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:32 - “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:33 - But Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:2 - The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:7 - When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:9 - So Abimelek summoned Isaac and said, “She is really your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister'?” Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:10 - Then Abimelek said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the men might well have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:16 - Then Abimelek said to Isaac, “Move away from us; you have become too powerful for us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:24 - That night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:27 - Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:1 - When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” he answered.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:2 - Isaac said, “I am now an old man and don't know the day of my death.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:6 - Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 - Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man while I have smooth skin.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:13 - His mother said to him, “My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:18 - He went to his father and said, “My father.” “Yes, my son,” he answered. “Who is it?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:19 - Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:20 - Isaac asked his son, “How did you find it so quickly, my son?” “The LORD your God gave me success,” he replied.
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 27:22 - Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:24 - “Are you really my son Esau?” he asked. “I am,” he replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:25 - Then he said, “My son, bring me some of your game to eat, so that I may give you my blessing.” Jacob brought it to him and he ate; and he brought some wine and he drank.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:26 - Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here, my son, and kiss me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:27 - So he went to him and kissed him. When Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he blessed him and said, “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:31 - He too prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Then he said to him, “My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:32 - His father Isaac asked him, “Who are you?” “I am your son,” he answered, “your firstborn, Esau.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:33 - Isaac trembled violently and said, “Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him—and indeed he will be blessed!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:34 - When Esau heard his father's words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me—me too, my father!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:35 - But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:36 - Esau said, “Isn't he rightly named Jacob[fn]? This is the second time he has taken advantage of me: He took my birthright, and now he's taken my blessing!” Then he asked, “Haven't you reserved any blessing for me?”
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 27:38 - Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:39 - His father Isaac answered him, “Your dwelling will be away from the earth's richness, away from the dew of heaven above.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41 - Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Your brother Esau is planning to avenge himself by killing you.
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 28:13 - There above it[fn] stood the LORD, and he said: “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:16 - When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:17 - He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:4 - Jacob asked the shepherds, “My brothers, where are you from?” “We're from Harran,” they replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:5 - He said to them, “Do you know Laban, Nahor's grandson?” “Yes, we know him,” they answered.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:6 - Then Jacob asked them, “Is he well?” “Yes, he is,” they said, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:7 - “Look,” he said, “the sun is still high; it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:14 - Then Laban said to him, “You are my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:15 - Laban said to him, “Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:18 - Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, “I'll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:19 - Laban said, “It's better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:21 - Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to make love to her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:25 - When morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn't I? Why have you deceived me?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:26 - Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:33 - She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “Because the LORD heard that I am not loved, he gave me this one too.” So she named him Simeon.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:34 - Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named Levi.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:35 - She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” So she named him Judah.[fn] Then she stopped having children.
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 30:2 - Jacob became angry with her and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:3 - Then she said, “Here is Bilhah, my servant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:6 - Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; he has listened to my plea and given me a son.” Because of this she named him Dan.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:8 - Then Rachel said, “I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won.” So she named him Naphtali.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:11 - Then Leah said, “What good fortune!”[fn] So she named him Gad.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:13 - Then Leah said, “How happy I am! The women will call me happy.” So she named him Asher.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:14 - During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son's mandrakes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:15 - But she said to her, “Wasn't it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son's mandrakes too?” “Very well,” Rachel said, “he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son's mandrakes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:16 - So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. “You must sleep with me,” she said. “I have hired you with my son's mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:18 - Then Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:20 - Then Leah said, “God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:23 - She became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said, “God has taken away my disgrace.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:25 - After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can go back to my own homeland.
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 30:29 - Jacob said to him, “You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:31 - “What shall I give you?” he asked. “Don't give me anything,” Jacob replied. “But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:34 - “Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:3 - Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:5 - He said to them, “I see that your father's attitude toward me is not what it was before, but the God of my father has been with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:12 - And he said, ‘Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled or spotted, for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:24 - Then God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:26 - Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You've deceived me, and you've carried off my daughters like captives in war.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:29 - I have the power to harm you; but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:31 - Jacob answered Laban, “I was afraid, because I thought you would take your daughters away from me by force.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:32 - But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether there is anything of yours here with me; and if so, take it.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:35 - Rachel said to her father, “Don't be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence; I'm having my period.” So he searched but could not find the household gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:36 - Jacob was angry and took Laban to task. “What is my crime?” he asked Laban. “How have I wronged you that you hunt me down?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:43 - Laban answered Jacob, “The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:44 - Come now, let's make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:46 - He said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and piled them in a heap, and they ate there by the heap.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:48 - Laban said, “This heap is a witness between you and me today.” That is why it was called Galeed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:49 - It was also called Mizpah,[fn] because he said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:2 - When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:8 - He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one group,[fn] the group[fn] that is left may escape.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:9 - Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, LORD, you who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:16 - He put them in the care of his servants, each herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Go ahead of me, and keep some space between the herds.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:20 - And be sure to say, ‘Your servant Jacob is coming behind us.' ” For he thought, “I will pacify him with these gifts I am sending on ahead; later, when I see him, perhaps he will receive me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:26 - Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:27 - The man asked him, “What is your name?” “Jacob,” he answered.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:28 - Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[fn] because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:29 - Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:5 - Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. “Who are these with you?” he asked. Jacob answered, “They are the children God has graciously given your servant.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:8 - Esau asked, “What's the meaning of all these flocks and herds I met?” “To find favor in your eyes, my lord,” he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:9 - But Esau said, “I already have plenty, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself.”
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 33:12 - Then Esau said, “Let us be on our way; I'll accompany you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:13 - But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender and that I must care for the ewes and cows that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard just one day, all the animals will die.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:15 - Esau said, “Then let me leave some of my men with you.” “But why do that?” Jacob asked. “Just let me find favor in the eyes of my lord.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:4 - And Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as my wife.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:11 - Then Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and I will give you whatever you ask.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:30 - Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me obnoxious to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land. We are few in number, and if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:1 - Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:2 - So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:10 - God said to him, “Your name is Jacob,[fn] but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel.[fn]” So he named him Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:11 - And God said to him, “I am God Almighty[fn]; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:17 - And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, “Don't despair, for you have another son.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:6 - He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:9 - Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:10 - When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:13 - and Israel said to Joseph, “As you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I am going to send you to them.” “Very well,” he replied.
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 37:16 - He replied, “I'm looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:17 - “They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let's go to Dothan.' ” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:21 - When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. “Let's not take his life,” he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:22 - “Don't shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the wilderness, but don't lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:26 - Judah said to his brothers, “What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:30 - He went back to his brothers and said, “The boy isn't there! Where can I turn now?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:33 - He recognized it and said, “It is my son's robe! Some ferocious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:8 - Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother's wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:11 - Judah then said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father's household until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, just like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father's household.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:16 - Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “And what will you give me to sleep with you?” she asked.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:17 - “I'll send you a young goat from my flock,” he said. “Will you give me something as a pledge until you send it?” she asked.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:18 - He said, “What pledge should I give you?” “Your seal and its cord, and the staff in your hand,” she answered. So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:22 - So he went back to Judah and said, “I didn't find her. Besides, the men who lived there said, ‘There hasn't been any shrine prostitute here.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:23 - Then Judah said, “Let her keep what she has, or we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you didn't find her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:24 - About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as a result she is now pregnant.” Judah said, “Bring her out and have her burned to death!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:25 - As she was being brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law. “I am pregnant by the man who owns these,” she said. And she added, “See if you recognize whose seal and cord and staff these are.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:26 - Judah recognized them and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I wouldn't give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not sleep with her again.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:29 - But when he drew back his hand, his brother came out, and she said, “So this is how you have broken out!” And he was named Perez.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:7 - and after a while his master's wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Come to bed with me!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:8 - 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 39:14 - she called her household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us! He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:8 - “We both had dreams,” they answered, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:9 - So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream. He said to him, “In my dream I saw a vine in front of me,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:12 - “This is what it means,” Joseph said to him. “The three branches are three days.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:16 - When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given a favorable interpretation, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: On my head were three baskets of bread.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:18 - “This is what it means,” Joseph said. “The three baskets are three days.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:15 - Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:16 - “I cannot do it,” Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:25 - Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:38 - So Pharaoh asked them, “Can we find anyone like this man, one in whom is the spirit of God[fn]?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:39 - Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one so discerning and wise as you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:41 - So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:44 - Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your word no one will lift hand or foot in all Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:54 - and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the other lands, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:55 - When all Egypt began to feel the famine, the people cried to Pharaoh for food. Then Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do what he tells you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:1 - When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you just keep looking at each other?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:4 - But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with the others, because he was afraid that harm might come to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:7 - As soon as Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger and spoke harshly to them. “Where do you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied, “to buy food.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:9 - Then he remembered his dreams about them and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see where our land is unprotected.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:12 - “No!” he said to them. “You have come to see where our land is unprotected.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:14 - Joseph said to them, “It is just as I told you: You are spies!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:18 - On the third day, Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:21 - They said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw how distressed he was when he pleaded with us for his life, but we would not listen; that's why this distress has come on us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:22 - Reuben replied, “Didn't I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you wouldn't listen! Now we must give an accounting for his blood.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:24 - He turned away from them and began to weep, but then came back and spoke to them again. He had Simeon taken from them and bound before their eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:28 - “My silver has been returned,” he said to his brothers. “Here it is in my sack.” Their hearts sank and they turned to each other trembling and said, “What is this that God has done to us?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:33 - “Then the man who is lord over the land said to us, ‘This is how I will know whether you are honest men: Leave one of your brothers here with me, and take food for your starving households and go.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:36 - Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my children. Joseph is no more and Simeon is no more, and now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:37 - Then Reuben said to his father, “You may put both of my sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him back.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:38 - But Jacob said, “My son will not go down there with you; his brother is dead and he is the only one left. If harm comes to him on the journey you are taking, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in sorrow.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:2 - So when they had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:3 - But Judah said to him, “The man warned us solemnly, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with 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 43:8 - Then Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the boy along with me and we will go at once, so that we and you and our children may live and not die.
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 43:16 - When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Take these men to my house, slaughter an animal and prepare a meal; they are to eat with me at noon.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:17 - The man did as Joseph told him and took the men to Joseph's house.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:23 - “It's all right,” he said. “Don't be afraid. Your God, the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks; I received your silver.” Then he brought Simeon out to them.
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 43:28 - They replied, “Your servant our father is still alive and well.” And they bowed down, prostrating themselves before him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:29 - As he looked about and saw his brother Benjamin, his own mother's son, he asked, “Is this your youngest brother, the one you told me about?” And he said, “God be gracious to you, my son.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:31 - After he had washed his face, he came out and, controlling himself, said, “Serve the food.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:2 - Then put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one's sack, along with the silver for his grain.” And he did as Joseph said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:4 - They had not gone far from the city when Joseph said to his steward, “Go after those men at once, and when you catch up with them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:6 - When he caught up with them, he repeated these words to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:10 - “Very well, then,” he said, “let it be as you say. Whoever is found to have it will become my slave; the rest of you will be free from blame.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:15 - Joseph said to them, “What is this you have done? Don't you know that a man like me can find things out by divination?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:16 - “What can we say to my lord?” Judah replied. “What can we say? How can we prove our innocence? God has uncovered your servants' guilt. We are now my lord's slaves—we ourselves and the one who was found to have the cup.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:17 - But Joseph said, “Far be it from me to do such a thing! Only the man who was found to have the cup will become my slave. The rest of you, go back to your father in peace.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:18 - Then Judah went up to him and said: “Pardon your servant, my lord, let me speak a word to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, though you are equal to Pharaoh himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:25 - “Then our father said, ‘Go back and buy a little more food.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:27 - “Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:1 - Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Have everyone leave my presence!” So there was no one with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:3 - Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still living?” But his brothers were not able to answer him, because they were terrified at his presence.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:4 - Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come close to me.” When they had done so, he said, “I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:17 - Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals and return to the land of Canaan,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:24 - Then he sent his brothers away, and as they were leaving he said to them, “Don't quarrel on the way!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:27 - But when they told him everything Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the carts Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob revived.
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 46:2 - And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, “Jacob! Jacob!” “Here I am,” he replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:30 - Israel said to Joseph, “Now I am ready to die, since I have seen for myself that you are still alive.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:31 - Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, “I will go up and speak to Pharaoh and will say to him, ‘My brothers and my father's household, who were living in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:3 - Pharaoh asked the brothers, “What is your occupation?” “Your servants are shepherds,” they replied to Pharaoh, “just as our fathers were.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:5 - Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:8 - Pharaoh asked him, “How old are you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:9 - And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.”
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 47:23 - Joseph said to the people, “Now that I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you so you can plant the ground.
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 47:30 - but when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me where they are buried.” “I will do as you say,” he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:31 - “Swear to me,” he said. Then Joseph swore to him, and Israel worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:3 - Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty[fn] appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there he blessed me
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:8 - When Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, “Who are these?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:9 - “They are the sons God has given me here,” Joseph said to his father. Then Israel said, “Bring them to me so I may bless them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:11 - Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see your face again, and now God has allowed me to see your children too.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:15 - Then he blessed Joseph and said, “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked faithfully, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:18 - Joseph said to him, “No, my father, this one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:19 - But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He too will become a people, and he too will become great. Nevertheless, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will become a group of nations.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:21 - Then Israel said to Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you[fn] and take you[fn] back to the land of your[fn] fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:1 - Then Jacob called for his sons and said: “Gather around so I can tell you what will happen to you in days to come.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:29 - Then he gave them these instructions: “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:6 - Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:19 - But Joseph said to them, “Don't be afraid. Am I in the place of God?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:21 - So then, don't be afraid. I will provide for you and your children.” And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:24 - Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:9 - “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:15 - The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:16 - “When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:18 - Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:7 - Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:8 - “Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby's mother.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:9 - Pharaoh's daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed 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 2:18 - When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:20 - “And where is he?” Reuel asked his daughters. “Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:3 - So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:4 - When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:5 - “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:6 - Then he said, “I am the God of your father,[fn] the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:7 - The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:11 - But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:12 - And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you[fn] will worship God on this mountain.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:13 - Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, ‘What is his name?' Then what shall I tell them?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:14 - God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.[fn] This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:15 - God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD,[fn] the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.' “This is my name forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:1 - Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The LORD did not appear to you'?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:2 - Then the LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:3 - The LORD said, “Throw it on the ground.” Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:4 - Then the LORD said to him, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.” So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:6 - Then the LORD said, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, the skin was leprous[fn]—it had become as white as snow.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:7 - “Now put it back into your cloak,” he said. So Moses put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his flesh.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:10 - Moses said to the LORD, “Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:11 - The LORD said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:13 - But Moses said, “Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:14 - Then the LORD's anger burned against Moses and he said, “What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and he will be glad to see you.
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 4:19 - Now the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill you are dead.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:21 - The LORD said to Moses, “When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:25 - But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses' feet with it.[fn] “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:26 - So the LORD let him alone. (At that time she said “bridegroom of blood,” referring to circumcision.)
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:27 - The LORD said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:2 - Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD and I will not let Israel go.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:4 - But the king of Egypt said, “Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people away from their labor? Get back to your work!”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:5 - Then Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you are stopping them from working.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:17 - Pharaoh said, “Lazy, that's what you are—lazy! That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.'
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:22 - Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Why, Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Is this why you sent me?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: Because of my mighty hand he will let them go; because of my mighty hand he will drive them out of his country.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:2 - God also said to Moses, “I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:10 - Then the LORD said to Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:13 - Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron about the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he commanded them to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:26 - It was this Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, “Bring the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:30 - But Moses said to the LORD, “Since I speak with faltering lips, why would Pharaoh listen to me?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:8 - The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:14 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh's heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:19 - The LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over the streams and canals, over the ponds and all the reservoirs—and they will turn to blood.' Blood will be everywhere in Egypt, even in vessels[fn] of wood and stone.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:22 - But the Egyptian magicians did the same things by their secret arts, and Pharaoh's heart became hard; he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:5 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the streams and canals and ponds, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:8 - Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the LORD to take the frogs away from me and my people, and I will let your people go to offer sacrifices to the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:9 - Moses said to Pharaoh, “I leave to you the honor of setting the time for me to pray for you and your officials and your people that you and your houses may be rid of the frogs, except for those that remain in the Nile.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:10 - “Tomorrow,” Pharaoh said. Moses replied, “It will be as you say, so that you may know there is no one like the LORD our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:13 - And the LORD did what Moses asked. The frogs died in the houses, in the courtyards and in the fields.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:16 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the ground,' and throughout the land of Egypt the dust will become gnats.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:20 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and confront Pharaoh as he goes to the river and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:26 - But Moses said, “That would not be right. The sacrifices we offer the LORD our God would be detestable to the Egyptians. And if we offer sacrifices that are detestable in their eyes, will they not stone us?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:27 - We must take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God, as he commands us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:28 - Pharaoh said, “I will let you go to offer sacrifices to the LORD your God in the wilderness, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:29 - Moses answered, “As soon as I leave you, I will pray to the LORD, and tomorrow the flies will leave Pharaoh and his officials and his people. Only let Pharaoh be sure that he does not act deceitfully again by not letting the people go to offer sacrifices to the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:31 - and the LORD did what Moses asked. The flies left Pharaoh and his officials and his people; not a fly remained.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, so that they may worship me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:8 - Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from a furnace and have Moses toss it into the air in the presence of Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:13 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, confront Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:22 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that hail will fall all over Egypt—on people and animals and on everything growing in the fields of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:27 - Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he said to them. “The LORD is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:29 - Moses replied, “When I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands in prayer to the LORD. The thunder will stop and there will be no more hail, so you may know that the earth is the LORD's.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so that I may perform these signs of mine among them
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:8 - Then Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. “Go, worship the LORD your God,” he said. “But tell me who will be going.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:10 - Pharaoh said, “The LORD be with you—if I let you go, along with your women and children! Clearly you are bent on evil.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:12 - And the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over Egypt so that locusts swarm over the land and devour everything growing in the fields, everything left by the hail.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:21 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness spreads over Egypt—darkness that can be felt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:25 - But Moses said, “You must allow us to have sacrifices and burnt offerings to present to the LORD our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:1 - Now the LORD had said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here, and when he does, he will drive you out completely.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:4 - So Moses said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:9 - The LORD had said to Moses, “Pharaoh will refuse to listen to you—so that my wonders may be multiplied in Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:1 - The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:21 - Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:31 - During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:43 - The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the regulations for the Passover meal: “No foreigner may eat it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:1 - The LORD said to Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:3 - Then Moses said to the people, “Commemorate this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery, because the LORD brought you out of it with a mighty hand. Eat nothing containing yeast.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:17 - When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, “If they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:11 - They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:13 - Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:15 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:26 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:9 - The enemy boasted, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake them. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword and my hand will destroy them.'
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:26 - He said, “If you listen carefully to the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, who heals you.”
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 16:6 - So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “In the evening you will know that it was the LORD who brought you out of Egypt,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:8 - Moses also said, “You will know that it was the LORD when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:9 - Then Moses told Aaron, “Say to the entire Israelite community, ‘Come before the LORD, for he has heard your grumbling.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:15 - When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread the LORD has given you to eat.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:19 - Then Moses said to them, “No one is to keep any of it until morning.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:23 - He said to them, “This is what the LORD commanded: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of sabbath rest, a holy sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:25 - “Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a sabbath to the LORD. You will not find any of it on the ground today.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:28 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you[fn] refuse to keep my commands and my instructions?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:32 - Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Take an omer of manna and keep it for the generations to come, so they can see the bread I gave you to eat in the wilderness when I brought you out of Egypt.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:33 - So Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar and put an omer of manna in it. Then place it before the LORD to be kept for the generations to come.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:2 - So they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses replied, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the LORD to the test?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:5 - The LORD answered Moses, “Go out in front of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:9 - Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:10 - So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:14 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:10 - He said, “Praise be to the LORD, who rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians and of Pharaoh, and who rescued the people from the hand of the Egyptians.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:17 - Moses' father-in-law replied, “What you are doing is not good.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:24 - Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:8 - The people all responded together, “We will do everything the LORD has said.” So Moses brought their answer back to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:9 - The LORD said to Moses, “I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear me speaking with you and will always put their trust in you.” Then Moses told the LORD what the people had said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:10 - And the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. Have them wash their clothes
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:15 - Then he said to the people, “Prepare yourselves for the third day. Abstain from sexual relations.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:21 - and the LORD said to him, “Go down and warn the people so they do not force their way through to see the LORD and many of them perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:23 - Moses said to the LORD, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, because you yourself warned us, ‘Put limits around the mountain and set it apart as holy.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:24 - The LORD replied, “Go down and bring Aaron up with you. But the priests and the people must not force their way through to come up to the LORD, or he will break out against them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:25 - So Moses went down to the people and told them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:22 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites this: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. You are to worship at a distance,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:8 - Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:12 - The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:34 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices—gum resin, onycha and galbanum—and pure frankincense, all in equal amounts,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:4 - He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods,[fn] Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:11 - But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God. “LORD,” he said, “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:14 - Then the LORD relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:21 - He said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you led them into such great sin?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:22 - “Do not be angry, my lord,” Aaron answered. “You know how prone these people are to evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:26 - So he stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come to me.” And all the Levites rallied to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:29 - Then Moses said, “You have been set apart to the LORD today, for you were against your own sons and brothers, and he has blessed you this day.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:30 - The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. But now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:31 - So Moses went back to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:33 - The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of Egypt, and go up to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.'
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:5 - For the LORD had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go with you even for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments and I will decide what to do with you.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:12 - Moses said to the LORD, “You have been telling me, ‘Lead these people,' but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, ‘I know you by name and you have found favor with me.'
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:17 - And the LORD said to Moses, “I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:19 - And the LORD said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the LORD, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:20 - But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:21 - Then the LORD said, “There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:1 - The LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
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 34:10 - Then the LORD said: “I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the LORD, will do for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:27 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:1 - Moses assembled the whole Israelite community and said to them, “These are the things the LORD has commanded you to do:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:4 - Moses said to the whole Israelite community, “This is what the LORD has commanded:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:30 - Then Moses said to the Israelites, “See, the LORD has chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:5 - Moses said to the assembly, “This is what the LORD has commanded to be done.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:31 - Moses then said to Aaron and his sons, “Cook the meat at the entrance to the tent of meeting and eat it there with the bread from the basket of ordination offerings, as I was commanded: ‘Aaron and his sons are to eat it.'
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:2 - He said to Aaron, “Take a bull calf for your sin offering[fn] and a ram for your burnt offering, both without defect, and present them before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:6 - Then Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded you to do, so that the glory of the LORD may appear to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:7 - Moses said to Aaron, “Come to the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering and make atonement for yourself and the people; sacrifice the offering that is for the people and make atonement for them, as the LORD has commanded.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:3 - Moses then said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD spoke of when he said: “ ‘Among those who approach me I will be proved holy; in the sight of all the people I will be honored.' ” Aaron remained silent.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:4 - Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron's uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come here; carry your cousins outside the camp, away from the front of the sanctuary.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:5 - So they came and carried them, still in their tunics, outside the camp, as Moses ordered.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:6 - Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair become unkempt[fn] and do not tear your clothes, or you will die and the LORD will be angry with the whole community. But your relatives, all the Israelites, may mourn for those the LORD has destroyed by fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:12 - Moses said to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take the grain offering left over from the food offerings prepared without yeast and presented to the LORD and eat it beside the altar, for it is most holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:2 - The LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron that he is not to come whenever he chooses into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain in front of the atonement cover on the ark, or else he will die. For I will appear in the cloud over the atonement cover.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:1 - The LORD said to Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:9 - “ ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death. Because they have cursed their father or mother, their blood will be on their own head.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:1 - The LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: ‘A priest must not make himself ceremonially unclean for any of his people who die,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:1 - The LORD said to Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:40 - The LORD said to Moses, “Count all the firstborn Israelite males who are a month old or more and make a list of their names.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:4 - The LORD said to Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:11 - For the LORD had said to Moses, “Each day one leader is to bring his offering for the dedication of the altar.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:8 - Moses answered them, “Wait until I find out what the LORD commands concerning you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:29 - Now Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, “We are setting out for the place about which the LORD said, ‘I will give it to you.' Come with us and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:30 - He answered, “No, I will not go; I am going back to my own land and my own people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:31 - But Moses said, “Please do not leave us. You know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:35 - Whenever the ark set out, Moses said, “Rise up, LORD! May your enemies be scattered; may your foes flee before you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:36 - Whenever it came to rest, he said, “Return, LORD, to the countless thousands of Israel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:11 - He asked the LORD, “Why have you brought this trouble on your servant? What have I done to displease you that you put the burden of all these people on me?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:16 - The LORD said to Moses: “Bring me seventy of Israel's elders who are known to you as leaders and officials among the people. Have them come to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:21 - But Moses said, “Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and you say, ‘I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!'
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 11:27 - A young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:28 - Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses' aide since youth, spoke up and said, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:29 - But Moses replied, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the LORD's people were prophets and that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:4 - At once the LORD said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, “Come out to the tent of meeting, all three of you.” So the three of them went out.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:6 - he said, “Listen to my words: “When there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:11 - and he said to Moses, “Please, my lord, I ask you not to hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed.
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 13:17 - When Moses sent them to explore Canaan, he said, “Go up through the Negev and on into the hill country.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:30 - Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:10 - But the whole assembly talked about stoning them. Then the glory of the LORD appeared at the tent of meeting to all the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:11 - The LORD said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the signs I have performed among them?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:13 - Moses said to the LORD, “Then the Egyptians will hear about it! By your power you brought these people up from among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:20 - The LORD replied, “I have forgiven them, as you asked.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:26 - The LORD said to Moses and Aaron:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:40 - Early the next morning they set out for the highest point in the hill country, saying, “Now we are ready to go up to the land the LORD promised. Surely we have sinned!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:41 - But Moses said, “Why are you disobeying the LORD's command? This will not succeed!
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:1 - The LORD said to Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:37 - The LORD said to Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:8 - Moses also said to Korah, “Now listen, you Levites!
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:15 - Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, “Do not accept their offering. I have not taken so much as a donkey from them, nor have I wronged any of them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:16 - Moses said to Korah, “You and all your followers are to appear before the LORD tomorrow—you and they and Aaron.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:28 - Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these things and that it was not my idea:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:36 - The LORD said to Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:46 - Then Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer and put incense in it, along with burning coals from the altar, and hurry to the assembly to make atonement for them. Wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has started.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:10 - The LORD said to Moses, “Put back Aaron's staff in front of the ark of the covenant law, to be kept as a sign to the rebellious. This will put an end to their grumbling against me, so that they will not die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:1 - The LORD said to Aaron, “You, your sons and your family are to bear the responsibility for offenses connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons alone are to bear the responsibility for offenses connected with the priesthood.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:10 - He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:12 - But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them.”
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 20:20 - Again they answered: “You may not pass through.” Then Edom came out against them with a large and powerful army.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:23 - At Mount Hor, near the border of Edom, the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:2 - Then Israel made this vow to the LORD: “If you will deliver these people into our hands, we will totally destroy[fn] their cities.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:8 - The LORD said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:16 - From there they continued on to Beer, the well where the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people together and I will give them water.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:34 - The LORD said to Moses, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your hands, along with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:4 - The Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde is going to lick up everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” So Balak son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:8 - “Spend the night here,” Balaam said to them, “and I will report back to you with the answer the LORD gives me.” So the Moabite officials stayed with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:9 - God came to Balaam and asked, “Who are these men with you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:10 - Balaam said to God, “Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent me this message:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:12 - But God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them. You must not put a curse on those people, because they are blessed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:13 - The next morning Balaam got up and said to Balak's officials, “Go back to your own country, for the LORD has refused to let me go with you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:18 - But Balaam answered them, “Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace, I could not do anything great or small to go beyond the command of the LORD my God.
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 22:30 - The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your own donkey, which you have always ridden, to this day? Have I been in the habit of doing this to you?” “No,” he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:32 - The angel of the LORD asked him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? I have come here to oppose you because your path is a reckless one before me.[fn]
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 22:35 - The angel of the LORD said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but speak only what I tell you.” So Balaam went with Balak's officials.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:37 - Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not send you an urgent summons? Why didn't you come to me? Am I really not able to reward you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:38 - “Well, I have come to you now,” Balaam replied. “But I can't say whatever I please. I must speak only what God puts in my mouth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:1 - Balaam said, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:2 - Balak did as Balaam said, and the two of them offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:3 - Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your offering while I go aside. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet with me. Whatever he reveals to me I will tell you.” Then he went off to a barren height.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:4 - God met with him, and Balaam said, “I have prepared seven altars, and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:5 - The LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth and said, “Go back to Balak and give him this word.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:7 - Then Balaam spoke his message: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains. ‘Come,' he said, ‘curse Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.'
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:11 - Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but you have done nothing but bless them!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:12 - He answered, “Must I not speak what the LORD puts in my mouth?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:13 - Then Balak said to him, “Come with me to another place where you can see them; you will not see them all but only the outskirts of their camp. And from there, curse them for me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:15 - Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your offering while I meet with him over there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:16 - The LORD met with Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, “Go back to Balak and give him this word.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:17 - So he went to him and found him standing beside his offering, with the Moabite officials. Balak asked him, “What did the LORD say?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:18 - Then he spoke his message: “Arise, Balak, and listen; hear me, son of Zippor.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:25 - Then Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:26 - Balaam answered, “Did I not tell you I must do whatever the LORD says?”
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 23:29 - Balaam said, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:30 - Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:3 - and he spoke his message: “The prophecy of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy of one whose eye sees clearly,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:10 - Then Balak's anger burned against Balaam. He struck his hands together and said to him, “I summoned you to curse my enemies, but you have blessed them these three times.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:12 - Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not tell the messengers you sent me,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:15 - Then he spoke his message: “The prophecy of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy of one whose eye sees clearly,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:20 - Then Balaam saw Amalek and spoke his message: “Amalek was first among the nations, but their end will be utter destruction.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:21 - Then he saw the Kenites and spoke his message: “Your dwelling place is secure, your nest is set in a rock;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:23 - Then he spoke his message: “Alas! Who can live when God does this?[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:4 - The LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the LORD's fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:5 - So Moses said to Israel's judges, “Each of you must put to death those of your people who have yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:65 - For the LORD had told those Israelites they would surely die in the wilderness, and not one of them was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:12 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain in the Abarim Range and see the land I have given the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:15 - Moses said to the LORD,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:15 - “Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:21 - Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, “This is what is required by the law that the LORD gave Moses:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:6 - Moses said to the Gadites and Reubenites, “Should your fellow Israelites go to war while you sit here?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:20 - Then Moses said to them, “If you will do this—if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for battle
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:29 - He said to them, “If the Gadites and Reubenites, every man armed for battle, cross over the Jordan with you before the LORD, then when the land is subdued before you, you must give them the land of Gilead as their possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:21 - See, the LORD your God has given you the land. Go up and take possession of it as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, told you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:42 - But the LORD said to me, “Tell them, ‘Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you. You will be defeated by your enemies.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:2 - Then the LORD said to me,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:9 - Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any part of their land. I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:31 - The LORD said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his country over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:2 - The LORD said to me, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your hands, along with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:26 - But because of you the LORD was angry with me and would not listen to me. “That is enough,” the LORD said. “Do not speak to me anymore about this matter.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:10 - Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when he said to me, “Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:1 - Moses summoned all Israel and said: Hear, Israel, the decrees and laws I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:28 - The LORD heard you when you spoke to me, and the LORD said to me, “I have heard what this people said to you. Everything they said was good.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:12 - Then the LORD told me, “Go down from here at once, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have become corrupt. They have turned away quickly from what I commanded them and have made an idol for themselves.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:13 - And the LORD said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are a stiff-necked people indeed!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:25 - I lay prostrate before the LORD those forty days and forty nights because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:28 - Otherwise, the country from which you brought us will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to take them into the land he had promised them, and because he hated them, he brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:1 - At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden ark.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:9 - That is why the Levites have no share or inheritance among their fellow Israelites; the LORD is their inheritance, as the LORD your God told them.)
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:11 - “Go,” the LORD said to me, “and lead the people on their way, so that they may enter and possess the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:16 - The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them, for the LORD has told you, “You are not to go back that way again.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:2 - They shall have no inheritance among their fellow Israelites; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:17 - The LORD said to me: “What they say is good.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:8 - If the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he promised on oath to your ancestors, and gives you the whole land he promised them,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:3 - Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, promised you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:2 - Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials and to all his land.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:2 - “I am now a hundred and twenty years old and I am no longer able to lead you. The LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:7 - Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you must go with this people into the land that the LORD swore to their ancestors to give them, and you must divide it among them as their inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:14 - The LORD said to Moses, “Now the day of your death is near. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the tent of meeting, where I will commission him.” So Moses and Joshua came and presented themselves at the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:16 - And the LORD said to Moses: “You are going to rest with your ancestors, and these people will soon prostitute themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake me and break the covenant I made with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:23 - The LORD gave this command to Joshua son of Nun: “Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the Israelites into the land I promised them on oath, and I myself will be with you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:20 - “I will hide my face from them,” he said, “and see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children who are unfaithful.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:37 - He will say: “Now where are their gods, the rock they took refuge in,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:46 - he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:2 - He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned over them from Seir; he shone forth from Mount Paran. He came with[fn] myriads of holy ones from the south, from his mountain slopes.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:8 - About Levi he said: “Your Thummim and Urim belong to your faithful servant. You tested him at Massah; you contended with him at the waters of Meribah.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:12 - About Benjamin he said: “Let the beloved of the LORD rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long, and the one the LORD loves rests between his shoulders.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:13 - About Joseph he said: “May the LORD bless his land with the precious dew from heaven above and with the deep waters that lie below;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:18 - About Zebulun he said: “Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and you, Issachar, in your tents.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:20 - About Gad he said: “Blessed is he who enlarges Gad's domain! Gad lives there like a lion, tearing at arm or head.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:22 - About Dan he said: “Dan is a lion's cub, springing out of Bashan.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:23 - About Naphtali he said: “Naphtali is abounding with the favor of the LORD and is full of his blessing; he will inherit southward to the lake.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:24 - About Asher he said: “Most blessed of sons is Asher; let him be favored by his brothers, and let him bathe his feet in oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:4 - Then the LORD said to him, “This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.' I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:1 - After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses' aide:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:12 - But to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:3 - So the king of Jericho sent this message to Rahab: “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, because they have come to spy out the whole land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:4 - But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. She said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they had come from.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:9 - and said to them, “I know that the LORD has given you this land and that a great fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who live in this country are melting in fear because of you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:14 - “Our lives for your lives!” the men assured her. “If you don't tell what we are doing, we will treat you kindly and faithfully when the LORD gives us the land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:16 - She said to them, “Go to the hills so the pursuers will not find you. Hide yourselves there three days until they return, and then go on your way.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:21 - “Agreed,” she replied. “Let it be as you say.” So she sent them away, and they departed. And she tied the scarlet cord in the window.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:5 - Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do amazing things among you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:6 - Joshua said to the priests, “Take up the ark of the covenant and pass on ahead of the people.” So they took it up and went ahead of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:7 - And the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to exalt you in the eyes of all Israel, so they may know that I am with you as I was with Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:9 - Joshua said to the Israelites, “Come here and listen to the words of the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:1 - When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:5 - and said to them, “Go over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:15 - Then the LORD said to Joshua,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:2 - At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites again.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:9 - Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” So the place has been called Gilgal[fn] to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:13 - Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:14 - “Neither,” he replied, “but as commander of the army of the LORD I have now come.” Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence, and asked him, “What message does my Lord[fn] have for his servant?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:2 - Then the LORD said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:7 - And he ordered the army, “Advance! March around the city, with an armed guard going ahead of the ark of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:16 - The seventh time around, when the priests sounded the trumpet blast, Joshua commanded the army, “Shout! For the LORD has given you the city!
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:22 - Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute's house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her.”
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 7:10 - The LORD said to Joshua, “Stand up! What are you doing down on your face?
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:19 - Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and honor him. Tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:20 - Achan replied, “It is true! I have sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel. This is what I have done:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:25 - Joshua said, “Why have you brought this trouble on us? The LORD will bring trouble on you today.” Then all Israel stoned him, and after they had stoned the rest, they burned them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:1 - Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. For I have delivered into your hands the king of Ai, his people, his city and his land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:18 - Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Hold out toward Ai the javelin that is in your hand, for into your hand I will deliver the city.” So Joshua held out toward the city the javelin that was in his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:8 - “We are your servants,” they said to Joshua. But Joshua asked, “Who are you and where do you come from?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:22 - Then Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said, “Why did you deceive us by saying, ‘We live a long way from you,' while actually you live near us?
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:8 - The LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them; I have given them into your hand. Not one of them will be able to withstand you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:12 - On the day the LORD gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “Sun, stand still over Gibeon, and you, moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:18 - he said, “Roll large rocks up to the mouth of the cave, and post some men there to guard it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:22 - Joshua said, “Open the mouth of the cave and bring those five kings out to me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:25 - Joshua said to them, “Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Be strong and courageous. This is what the LORD will do to all the enemies you are going to fight.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:6 - The LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, because by this time tomorrow I will hand all of them, slain, over to Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn their chariots.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:20 - For it was the LORD himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:1 - When Joshua had grown old, the LORD said to him, “You are now very old, and there are still very large areas of land to be taken over.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:14 - But to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance, since the food offerings presented to the LORD, the God of Israel, are their inheritance, as he promised them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:6 - Now the people of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea about you and me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:10 - “Now then, just as the LORD promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old!
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:12 - Now give me this hill country that the LORD promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there and their cities were large and fortified, but, the LORD helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:16 - And Caleb said, “I will give my daughter Aksah in marriage to the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:18 - One day when she came to Othniel, she urged him[fn] to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What can I do for you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:19 - She replied, “Do me a special favor. Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me also springs of water.” So Caleb gave her the upper and lower springs.
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 18:3 - So Joshua said to the Israelites: “How long will you wait before you begin to take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has given you?
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:2 - and said to them, “You have done all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and you have obeyed me in everything I commanded.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:4 - Now that the LORD your God has given them rest as he promised, return to your homes in the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side of the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:31 - And Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, said to Reuben, Gad and Manasseh, “Today we know that the LORD is with us, because you have not been unfaithful to the LORD in this matter. Now you have rescued the Israelites from the LORD's hand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:34 - And the Reubenites and the Gadites gave the altar this name: A Witness Between Us—that the LORD is God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:2 - summoned all Israel—their elders, leaders, judges and officials—and said to them: “I am very old.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:10 - One of you routs a thousand, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as he promised.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:14 - “Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the LORD your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:2 - Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your ancestors, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates River and worshiped other gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:16 - Then the people answered, “Far be it from us to forsake the LORD to serve other gods!
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:19 - Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD. He is a holy God; he is a jealous God. He will not forgive your rebellion and your sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:21 - But the people said to Joshua, “No! We will serve the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:22 - Then Joshua said, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD.” “Yes, we are witnesses,” they replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:24 - And the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God and obey him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:27 - “See!” he said to all the people. “This stone will be a witness against us. It has heard all the words the LORD has said to us. It will be a witness against you if you are untrue to your God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:2 - The LORD answered, “Judah shall go up; I have given the land into their hands.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:3 - The men of Judah then said to the Simeonites their fellow Israelites, “Come up with us into the territory allotted to us, to fight against the Canaanites. We in turn will go with you into yours.” So the Simeonites went with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:7 - Then Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have picked up scraps under my table. Now God has paid me back for what I did to them.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:12 - And Caleb said, “I will give my daughter Aksah in marriage to the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:14 - One day when she came to Othniel, she urged him[fn] to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What can I do for you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:15 - She replied, “Do me a special favor. Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me also springs of water.” So Caleb gave her the upper and lower springs.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:1 - The angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land I swore to give to your ancestors. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:20 - Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and said, “Because this nation has violated the covenant I ordained for their ancestors and has not listened to me,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:19 - But on reaching the stone images near Gilgal he himself went back to Eglon and said, “Your Majesty, I have a secret message for you.” The king said to his attendants, “Leave us!” And they all left.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:20 - Ehud then approached him while he was sitting alone in the upper room of his palace[fn] and said, “I have a message from God for you.” As the king rose from his seat,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:28 - “Follow me,” he ordered, “for the LORD has given Moab, your enemy, into your hands.” So they followed him down and took possession of the fords of the Jordan that led to Moab; they allowed no one to cross over.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:6 - She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “The LORD, the God of Israel, commands you: ‘Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead them up to Mount Tabor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:8 - Barak said to her, “If you go with me, I will go; but if you don't go with me, I won't go.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:9 - “Certainly I will go with you,” said Deborah. “But because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours, for the LORD will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman.” So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:14 - Then Deborah said to Barak, “Go! This is the day the LORD has given Sisera into your hands. Has not the LORD gone ahead of you?” So Barak went down Mount Tabor, with ten thousand men following him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:18 - Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Come, my lord, come right in. Don't be afraid.” So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:19 - “I'm thirsty,” he said. “Please give me some water.” She opened a skin of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him up.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:20 - “Stand in the doorway of the tent,” he told her. “If someone comes by and asks you, ‘Is anyone in there?' say ‘No.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:22 - Just then Barak came by in pursuit of Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him. “Come,” she said, “I will show you the man you're looking for.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera with the tent peg through his temple—dead.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:1 - On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this song:
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:23 - ‘Curse Meroz,' said the angel of the LORD. ‘Curse its people bitterly, because they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:8 - he sent them a prophet, who said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:12 - When the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon, he said, “The LORD is with you, mighty warrior.”
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 6:14 - The LORD turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian's hand. Am I not sending you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:15 - “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:16 - The LORD answered, “I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.”
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 6:18 - Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you.” And the LORD said, “I will wait until you return.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:20 - The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:22 - When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the LORD, he exclaimed, “Alas, Sovereign LORD! I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:23 - But the LORD said to him, “Peace! Do not be afraid. You are not going to die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:25 - That same night the LORD said to him, “Take the second bull from your father's herd, the one seven years old.[fn] Tear down your father's altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah pole[fn] beside it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:29 - They asked each other, “Who did this?” When they carefully investigated, they were told, “Gideon son of Joash did it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 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 6:39 - Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me. Let me make just one more request. Allow me one more test with the fleece, but this time make the fleece dry and let the ground be covered with dew.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:2 - The LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, ‘My own strength has saved me.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:3 - Now announce to the army, ‘Anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.' ” So twenty-two thousand men left, while ten thousand remained.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:4 - But the LORD said to Gideon, “There are still too many men. Take them down to the water, and I will thin them out for you there. If I say, ‘This one shall go with you,' he shall go; but if I say, ‘This one shall not go with you,' he shall not go.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:5 - So Gideon took the men down to the water. There the LORD told him, “Separate those who lap the water with their tongues as a dog laps from those who kneel down to drink.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:7 - The LORD said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men that lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hands. Let all the others go home.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:9 - During that night the LORD said to Gideon, “Get up, go down against the camp, because I am going to give it into your hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 - Gideon arrived just as a man was telling a friend his dream. “I had a dream,” he was saying. “A round loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent with such force that the tent overturned and collapsed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:14 - His friend responded, “This can be nothing other than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has given the Midianites and the whole camp into his hands.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15 - When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down and worshiped. He returned to the camp of Israel and called out, “Get up! The LORD has given the Midianite camp into your hands.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:17 - “Watch me,” he told them. “Follow my lead. When I get to the edge of the camp, do exactly as I do.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:1 - Now the Ephraimites asked Gideon, “Why have you treated us like this? Why didn't you call us when you went to fight Midian?” And they challenged him vigorously.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:2 - But he answered them, “What have I accomplished compared to you? Aren't the gleanings of Ephraim's grapes better than the full grape harvest of Abiezer?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:5 - He said to the men of Sukkoth, “Give my troops some bread; they are worn out, and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:7 - Then Gideon replied, “Just for that, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with desert thorns and briers.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:9 - So he said to the men of Peniel, “When I return in triumph, I will tear down this tower.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:15 - Then Gideon came and said to the men of Sukkoth, “Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me by saying, ‘Do you already have the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna in your possession? Why should we give bread to your exhausted men?' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:18 - Then he asked Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men did you kill at Tabor?” “Men like you,” they answered, “each one with the bearing of a prince.”
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 8:20 - Turning to Jether, his oldest son, he said, “Kill them!” But Jether did not draw his sword, because he was only a boy and was afraid.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:21 - Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Come, do it yourself. ‘As is the man, so is his strength.' ” So Gideon stepped forward and killed them, and took the ornaments off their camels' necks.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:22 - The Israelites said to Gideon, “Rule over us—you, your son and your grandson—because you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:23 - But Gideon told them, “I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you. The LORD will rule over you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:24 - And he said, “I do have one request, that each of you give me an earring from your share of the plunder.” (It was the custom of the Ishmaelites to wear gold earrings.)
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:7 - When Jotham was told about this, he climbed up on the top of Mount Gerizim and shouted to them, “Listen to me, citizens of Shechem, so that God may listen to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:9 - “But the olive tree answered, ‘Should I give up my oil, by which both gods and humans are honored, to hold sway over the trees?'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:11 - “But the fig tree replied, ‘Should I give up my fruit, so good and sweet, to hold sway over the trees?'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:13 - “But the vine answered, ‘Should I give up my wine, which cheers both gods and humans, to hold sway over the trees?'
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 9:28 - Then Gaal son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelek, and why should we Shechemites be subject to him? Isn't he Jerub-Baal's son, and isn't Zebul his deputy? Serve the family of Hamor, Shechem's father! Why should we serve Abimelek?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:36 - When Gaal saw them, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains!” Zebul replied, “You mistake the shadows of the mountains for men.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:37 - But Gaal spoke up again: “Look, people are coming down from the central hill,[fn] and a company is coming from the direction of the diviners' tree.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:38 - Then Zebul said to him, “Where is your big talk now, you who said, ‘Who is Abimelek that we should be subject to him?' Aren't these the men you ridiculed? Go out and fight them!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:48 - he and all his men went up Mount Zalmon. He took an ax and cut off some branches, which he lifted to his shoulders. He ordered the men with him, “Quick! Do what you have seen me do!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:54 - Hurriedly he called to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and kill me, so that they can't say, ‘A woman killed him.' ” So his servant ran him through, and he died.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:11 - The LORD replied, “When the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:7 - Jephthah said to them, “Didn't you hate me and drive me from my father's house? Why do you come to me now, when you're in trouble?”
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 11:13 - The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah's messengers, “When Israel came up out of Egypt, they took away my land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, all the way to the Jordan. Now give it back peaceably.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:19 - “Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, ‘Let us pass through your country to our own place.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:30 - And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD: “If you give the Ammonites into my hands,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:35 - When he saw her, he tore his clothes and cried, “Oh no, my daughter! You have brought me down and I am devastated. I have made a vow to the LORD that I cannot break.”
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 11:37 - But grant me this one request,” she said. “Give me two months to roam the hills and weep with my friends, because I will never marry.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:38 - “You may go,” he said. And he let her go for two months. She and her friends went into the hills and wept because she would never marry.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:2 - Jephthah answered, “I and my people were engaged in a great struggle with the Ammonites, and although I called, you didn't save me out of their hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:3 - The angel of the LORD appeared to her and said, “You are barren and childless, but you are going to become pregnant and give birth to a son.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:6 - Then the woman went to her husband and told him, “A man of God came to me. He looked like an angel of God, very awesome. I didn't ask him where he came from, and he didn't tell me his name.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:8 - Then Manoah prayed to the LORD: “Pardon your servant, Lord. I beg you to let the man of God you sent to us come again to teach us how to bring up the boy who is to be born.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:10 - The woman hurried to tell her husband, “He's here! The man who appeared to me the other day!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:11 - Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he said, “Are you the man who talked to my wife?” “I am,” he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:12 - So Manoah asked him, “When your words are fulfilled, what is to be the rule that governs the boy's life and work?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:13 - The angel of the LORD answered, “Your wife must do all that I have told her.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:15 - Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “We would like you to stay until we prepare a young goat for you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:16 - The angel of the LORD replied, “Even though you detain me, I will not eat any of your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” (Manoah did not realize that it was the angel of the LORD.)
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:17 - Then Manoah inquired of the angel of the LORD, “What is your name, so that we may honor you when your word comes true?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:18 - He replied, “Why do you ask my name? It is beyond understanding.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:22 - “We are doomed to die!” he said to his wife. “We have seen God!”
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 14:2 - When he returned, he said to his father and mother, “I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3 - His father and mother replied, “Isn't there an acceptable woman among your relatives or among all our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me. She's the right one for me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:12 - “Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can give me the answer within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:14 - He replied, “Out of the eater, something to eat; out of the strong, something sweet.” For three days they could not give the answer.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:16 - Then Samson's wife threw herself on him, sobbing, “You hate me! You don't really love me. You've given my people a riddle, but you haven't told me the answer.” “I haven't even explained it to my father or mother,” he replied, “so why should I explain it to you?”
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 15:1 - Later on, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. He said, “I'm going to my wife's room.” But her father would not let him go in.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:2 - “I was so sure you hated her,” he said, “that I gave her to your companion. Isn't her younger sister more attractive? Take her instead.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:3 - Samson said to them, “This time I have a right to get even with the Philistines; I will really harm them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:7 - Samson said to them, “Since you've acted like this, I swear that I won't stop until I get my revenge on you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cave in the rock of Etam and said to Samson, “Don't you realize that the Philistines are rulers over us? What have you done to us?” He answered, “I merely did to them what they did to me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:12 - They said to him, “We've come to tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson said, “Swear to me that you won't kill me yourselves.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:16 - Then Samson said, “With a donkey's jawbone I have made donkeys of them.[fn] With a donkey's jawbone I have killed a thousand men.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:18 - Because he was very thirsty, he cried out to the LORD, “You have given your servant this great victory. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:6 - So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - Samson answered her, “If anyone ties me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I'll become as weak as any other man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:9 - With men hidden in the room, she called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” But he snapped the bowstrings as easily as a piece of string snaps when it comes close to a flame. So the secret of his strength was not discovered.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:10 - Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have made a fool of me; you lied to me. Come now, tell me how you can be tied.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:11 - He said, “If anyone ties me securely with new ropes that have never been used, I'll become as weak as any other man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:12 - So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them. Then, with men hidden in the room, she called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” But he snapped the ropes off his arms as if they were threads.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:13 - Delilah then said to Samson, “All this time you have been making a fool of me and lying to me. Tell me how you can be tied.” He replied, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the fabric on the loom and tighten it with the pin, I'll become as weak as any other man.” So while he was sleeping, Delilah took the seven braids of his head, wove them into the fabric
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:14 - and[fn] tightened it with the pin. Again she called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” He awoke from his sleep and pulled up the pin and the loom, with the fabric.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:15 - Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,' when you won't confide in me? This is the third time you have made a fool of me and haven't told me the secret of your great strength.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:17 - So he told her everything. “No razor has ever been used on my head,” he said, “because I have been a Nazirite dedicated to God from my mother's womb. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:20 - Then she called, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” He awoke from his sleep and thought, “I'll go out as before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had left him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26 - Samson said to the servant who held his hand, “Put me where I can feel the pillars that support the temple, so that I may lean against them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:28 - Then Samson prayed to the LORD, “Sovereign LORD, remember me. Please, God, strengthen me just once more, and let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:30 - Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:2 - said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels[fn] of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse—I have that silver with me; I took it.” Then his mother said, “The LORD bless you, my son!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:3 - When he returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I solemnly consecrate my silver to the LORD for my son to make an image overlaid with silver. I will give it back to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:9 - Micah asked him, “Where are you from?” “I'm a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah,” he said, “and I'm looking for a place to stay.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:10 - Then Micah said to him, “Live with me and be my father and priest, and I'll give you ten shekels[fn] of silver a year, your clothes and your food.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:13 - And Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, since this Levite has become my priest.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:4 - He told them what Micah had done for him, and said, “He has hired me and I am his priest.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:6 - The priest answered them, “Go in peace. Your journey has the LORD's approval.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:18 - When the five men went into Micah's house and took the idol, the ephod and the household gods, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:24 - He replied, “You took the gods I made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you ask, ‘What's the matter with you?' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:5 - On the fourth day they got up early and he prepared to leave, but the woman's father said to his son-in-law, “Refresh yourself with something to eat; then you can go.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:6 - So the two of them sat down to eat and drink together. Afterward the woman's father said, “Please stay tonight and enjoy yourself.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:8 - On the morning of the fifth day, when he rose to go, the woman's father said, “Refresh yourself. Wait till afternoon!” So the two of them ate together.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9 - Then when the man, with his concubine and his servant, got up to leave, his father-in-law, the woman's father, said, “Now look, it's almost evening. Spend the night here; the day is nearly over. Stay and enjoy yourself. Early tomorrow morning you can get up and be on your way home.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:11 - When they were near Jebus and the day was almost gone, the servant said to his master, “Come, let's stop at this city of the Jebusites and spend the night.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:12 - His master replied, “No. We won't go into any city whose people are not Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:13 - He added, “Come, let's try to reach Gibeah or Ramah and spend the night in one of those places.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:17 - When he looked and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going? Where did you come from?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:18 - He answered, “We are on our way from Bethlehem in Judah to a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim where I live. I have been to Bethlehem in Judah and now I am going to the house of the LORD.[fn] No one has taken me in for the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:20 - “You are welcome at my house,” the old man said. “Let me supply whatever you need. Only don't spend the night in the square.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:23 - The owner of the house went outside and said to them, “No, my friends, don't be so vile. Since this man is my guest, don't do this outrageous thing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:28 - He said to her, “Get up; let's go.” But there was no answer. Then the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:4 - So the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, said, “I and my concubine came to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:18 - The Israelites went up to Bethel[fn] and inquired of God. They said, “Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Benjamites?” The LORD replied, “Judah shall go first.”
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 1:8 - Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you, to your mother's home. May the LORD show you kindness, as you have shown kindness to your dead husbands and to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:11 - But Naomi said, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands?
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:15 - “Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:16 - But Ruth replied, “Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:20 - “Don't call me Naomi,[fn]” she told them. “Call me Mara,[fn] because the Almighty[fn] has made my life very bitter.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:2 - And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.” Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:4 - Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters, “The LORD be with you!” “The LORD bless you!” they answered.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:5 - Boaz asked the overseer of his harvesters, “Who does that young woman belong to?”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:6 - The overseer replied, “She is the Moabite who came back from Moab with Naomi.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:7 - She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves behind the harvesters.' She came into the field and has remained here from morning till now, except for a short rest in the shelter.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:8 - So Boaz said to Ruth, “My daughter, listen to me. Don't go and glean in another field and don't go away from here. Stay here with the women who work for me.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:10 - At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me—a foreigner?”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:11 - Boaz replied, “I've been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband—how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:13 - “May I continue to find favor in your eyes, my lord,” she said. “You have put me at ease by speaking kindly to your servant—though I do not have the standing of one of your servants.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:14 - At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here. Have some bread and dip it in the wine vinegar.” When she sat down with the harvesters, he offered her some roasted grain. She ate all she wanted and had some left over.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:19 - Her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!” Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:20 - “The LORD bless him!” Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. “He has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead.” She added, “That man is our close relative; he is one of our guardian-redeemers.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:21 - Then Ruth the Moabite said, “He even said to me, ‘Stay with my workers until they finish harvesting all my grain.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:22 - Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It will be good for you, my daughter, to go with the women who work for him, because in someone else's field you might be harmed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:1 - One day Ruth's mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, I must find a home[fn] for you, where you will be well provided for.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:5 - “I will do whatever you say,” Ruth answered.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:9 - “Who are you?” he asked. “I am your servant Ruth,” she said. “Spread the corner of your garment over me, since you are a guardian-redeemer[fn] of our family.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:10 - “The LORD bless you, my daughter,” he replied. “This kindness is greater than that which you showed earlier: You have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:14 - So she lay at his feet until morning, but got up before anyone could be recognized; and he said, “No one must know that a woman came to the threshing floor.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:15 - He also said, “Bring me the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.” When she did so, he poured into it six measures of barley and placed the bundle on her. Then he[fn] went back to town.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:16 - When Ruth came to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, “How did it go, my daughter?” Then she told her everything Boaz had done for her
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:17 - and added, “He gave me these six measures of barley, saying, ‘Don't go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:18 - Then Naomi said, “Wait, my daughter, until you find out what happens. For the man will not rest until the matter is settled today.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:1 - Meanwhile Boaz went up to the town gate and sat down there just as the guardian-redeemer[fn] he had mentioned came along. Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:2 - Boaz took ten of the elders of the town and said, “Sit here,” and they did so.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:3 - Then he said to the guardian-redeemer, “Naomi, who has come back from Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our relative Elimelek.
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 BoxRth 4:5 - Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the[fn] dead man's widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:6 - At this, the guardian-redeemer said, “Then I cannot redeem it because I might endanger my own estate. You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:8 - So the guardian-redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it yourself.” And he removed his sandal.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:9 - Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, “Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:8 - Her husband Elkanah would say to her, “Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don't you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don't I mean more to you than ten sons?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:14 - and said to her, “How long are you going to stay drunk? Put away your wine.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:15 - “Not so, my lord,” Hannah replied, “I am a woman who is deeply troubled. I have not been drinking wine or beer; I was pouring out my soul to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:17 - Eli answered, “Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:18 - She said, “May your servant find favor in your eyes.” Then she went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:20 - So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel,[fn] saying, “Because I asked the LORD for him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:22 - Hannah did not go. She said to her husband, “After the boy is weaned, I will take him and present him before the LORD, and he will live there always.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:23 - “Do what seems best to you,” her husband Elkanah told her. “Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the LORD make good his[fn] word.” So the woman stayed at home and nursed her son until she had weaned him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:26 - and she said to him, “Pardon me, my lord. As surely as you live, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:1 - Then Hannah prayed and said: “My heart rejoices in the LORD; in the LORD my horn[fn] is lifted high. My mouth boasts over my enemies, for I delight in your deliverance.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:16 - If the person said to him, “Let the fat be burned first, and then take whatever you want,” the servant would answer, “No, hand it over now; if you don't, I'll take it by force.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:23 - So he said to them, “Why do you do such things? I hear from all the people about these wicked deeds of yours.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:27 - Now a man of God came to Eli and said to him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Did I not clearly reveal myself to your ancestor's family when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:30 - “Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that members of your family would minister before me forever.' But now the LORD declares: ‘Far be it from me! Those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me will be disdained.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:4 - Then the LORD called Samuel. Samuel answered, “Here I am.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:5 - And he ran to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.” But Eli said, “I did not call; go back and lie down.” So he went and lay down.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:6 - Again the LORD called, “Samuel!” And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.” “My son,” Eli said, “I did not call; go back and lie down.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:8 - A third time the LORD called, “Samuel!” And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.” Then Eli realized that the LORD was calling the boy.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:9 - So Eli told Samuel, “Go and lie down, and if he calls you, say, ‘Speak, LORD, for your servant is listening.' ” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:10 - The LORD came and stood there, calling as at the other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” Then Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant is listening.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:11 - And the LORD said to Samuel: “See, I am about to do something in Israel that will make the ears of everyone who hears about it tingle.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:16 - but Eli called him and said, “Samuel, my son.” Samuel answered, “Here I am.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:17 - “What was it he said to you?” Eli asked. “Do not hide it from me. May God deal with you, be it ever so severely, if you hide from me anything he told you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:18 - So Samuel told him everything, hiding nothing from him. Then Eli said, “He is the LORD; let him do what is good in his eyes.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:14 - Eli heard the outcry and asked, “What is the meaning of this uproar?” The man hurried over to Eli,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:15 - who was ninety-eight years old and whose eyes had failed so that he could not see.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:16 - He told Eli, “I have just come from the battle line; I fled from it this very day.” Eli asked, “What happened, my son?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:17 - The man who brought the news replied, “Israel fled before the Philistines, and the army has suffered heavy losses. Also your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:3 - So Samuel said to all the Israelites, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths and commit yourselves to the LORD and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:5 - Then Samuel said, “Assemble all Israel at Mizpah, and I will intercede with the LORD for you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:12 - Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer,[fn] saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:7 - And the LORD told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:10 - Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:11 - He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:22 - The LORD answered, “Listen to them and give them a king.” Then Samuel said to the Israelites, “Everyone go back to your own town.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:3 - Now the donkeys belonging to Saul's father Kish were lost, and Kish said to his son Saul, “Take one of the servants with you and go and look for the donkeys.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:5 - When they reached the district of Zuph, Saul said to the servant who was with him, “Come, let's go back, or my father will stop thinking about the donkeys and start worrying about us.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:6 - But the servant replied, “Look, in this town there is a man of God; he is highly respected, and everything he says comes true. Let's go there now. Perhaps he will tell us what way to take.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:7 - Saul said to his servant, “If we go, what can we give the man? The food in our sacks is gone. We have no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:8 - The servant answered him again. “Look,” he said, “I have a quarter of a shekel[fn] of silver. I will give it to the man of God so that he will tell us what way to take.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:10 - “Good,” Saul said to his servant. “Come, let's go.” So they set out for the town where the man of God was.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:18 - Saul approached Samuel in the gateway and asked, “Would you please tell me where the seer's house is?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:19 - “I am the seer,” Samuel replied. “Go up ahead of me to the high place, for today you are to eat with me, and in the morning I will send you on your way and will tell you all that is in your heart.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:21 - Saul answered, “But am I not a Benjamite, from the smallest tribe of Israel, and is not my clan the least of all the clans of the tribe of Benjamin? Why do you say such a thing to me?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:23 - Samuel said to the cook, “Bring the piece of meat I gave you, the one I told you to lay aside.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:24 - So the cook took up the thigh with what was on it and set it in front of Saul. Samuel said, “Here is what has been kept for you. Eat, because it was set aside for you for this occasion from the time I said, ‘I have invited guests.' ” And Saul dined with Samuel that day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:27 - As they were going down to the edge of the town, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to go on ahead of us”—and the servant did so—“but you stay here for a while, so that I may give you a message from God.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:1 - Then Samuel took a flask of olive oil and poured it on Saul's head and kissed him, saying, “Has not the LORD anointed you ruler over his inheritance?[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:11 - When all those who had formerly known him saw him prophesying with the prophets, they asked each other, “What is this that has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:12 - A man who lived there answered, “And who is their father?” So it became a saying: “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:14 - Now Saul's uncle asked him and his servant, “Where have you been?” “Looking for the donkeys,” he said. “But when we saw they were not to be found, we went to Samuel.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:15 - Saul's uncle said, “Tell me what Samuel said to you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:16 - Saul replied, “He assured us that the donkeys had been found.” But he did not tell his uncle what Samuel had said about the kingship.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:18 - and said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the power of Egypt and all the kingdoms that oppressed you.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 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 10:25 - Samuel explained to the people the rights and duties of kingship. He wrote them down on a scroll and deposited it before the LORD. Then Samuel dismissed the people to go to their own homes.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:2 - But Nahash the Ammonite replied, “I will make a treaty with you only on the condition that I gouge out the right eye of every one of you and so bring disgrace on all Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:5 - Just then Saul was returning from the fields, behind his oxen, and he asked, “What is wrong with everyone? Why are they weeping?” Then they repeated to him what the men of Jabesh had said.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:9 - They told the messengers who had come, “Say to the men of Jabesh Gilead, ‘By the time the sun is hot tomorrow, you will be rescued.' ” When the messengers went and reported this to the men of Jabesh, they were elated.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:12 - The people then said to Samuel, “Who was it that asked, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?' Turn these men over to us so that we may put them to death.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:13 - But Saul said, “No one will be put to death today, for this day the LORD has rescued Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:14 - Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingship.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:1 - Samuel said to all Israel, “I have listened to everything you said to me and have set a king over you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:5 - Samuel said to them, “The LORD is witness against you, and also his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand.” “He is witness,” they said.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:6 - Then Samuel said to the people, “It is the LORD who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your ancestors up out of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:20 - “Do not be afraid,” Samuel replied. “You have done all this evil; yet do not turn away from the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:8 - He waited seven days, the time set by Samuel; but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and Saul's men began to scatter.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:9 - So he said, “Bring me the burnt offering and the fellowship offerings.” And Saul offered up the burnt offering.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:11 - “What have you done?” asked Samuel. Saul replied, “When I saw that the men were scattering, and that you did not come at the set time, and that the Philistines were assembling at Mikmash,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:13 - “You have done a foolish thing,” Samuel said. “You have not kept the command the LORD your God gave you; if you had, he would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:1 - One day Jonathan son of Saul said to his young armor-bearer, “Come, let's go over to the Philistine outpost on the other side.” But he did not tell his father.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:6 - Jonathan said to his young armor-bearer, “Come, let's go over to the outpost of those uncircumcised men. Perhaps the LORD will act in our behalf. Nothing can hinder the LORD from saving, whether by many or by few.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:7 - “Do all that you have in mind,” his armor-bearer said. “Go ahead; I am with you heart and soul.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:8 - Jonathan said, “Come on, then; we will cross over toward them and let them see us.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:12 - The men of the outpost shouted to Jonathan and his armor-bearer, “Come up to us and we'll teach you a lesson.” So Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, “Climb up after me; the LORD has given them into the hand of Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:17 - Then Saul said to the men who were with him, “Muster the forces and see who has left us.” When they did, it was Jonathan and his armor-bearer who were not there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:18 - Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring the ark of God.” (At that time it was with the Israelites.)[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:19 - While Saul was talking to the priest, the tumult in the Philistine camp increased more and more. So Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:28 - Then one of the soldiers told him, “Your father bound the army under a strict oath, saying, ‘Cursed be anyone who eats food today!' That is why the men are faint.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:29 - Jonathan said, “My father has made trouble for the country. See how my eyes brightened when I tasted a little of this honey.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:33 - Then someone said to Saul, “Look, the men are sinning against the LORD by eating meat that has blood in it.” “You have broken faith,” he said. “Roll a large stone over here at once.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:34 - Then he said, “Go out among the men and tell them, ‘Each of you bring me your cattle and sheep, and slaughter them here and eat them. Do not sin against the LORD by eating meat with blood still in it.' ” So everyone brought his ox that night and slaughtered it there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:36 - Saul said, “Let us go down and pursue the Philistines by night and plunder them till dawn, and let us not leave one of them alive.” “Do whatever seems best to you,” they replied. But the priest said, “Let us inquire of God here.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:38 - Saul therefore said, “Come here, all you who are leaders of the army, and let us find out what sin has been committed today.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:40 - Saul then said to all the Israelites, “You stand over there; I and Jonathan my son will stand over here.” “Do what seems best to you,” they replied.
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 14:42 - Saul said, “Cast the lot between me and Jonathan my son.” And Jonathan was taken.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:43 - Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.” So Jonathan told him, “I tasted a little honey with the end of my staff. And now I must die!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:44 - Saul said, “May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if you do not die, Jonathan.”
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 15:1 - Samuel said to Saul, “I am the one the LORD sent to anoint you king over his people Israel; so listen now to the message from the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:2 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:6 - Then he said to the Kenites, “Go away, leave the Amalekites so that I do not destroy you along with them; for you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:13 - When Samuel reached him, Saul said, “The LORD bless you! I have carried out the LORD's instructions.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:14 - But Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of sheep in my ears? What is this lowing of cattle that I hear?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:15 - Saul answered, “The soldiers brought them from the Amalekites; they spared the best of the sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD your God, but we totally destroyed the rest.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:16 - “Enough!” Samuel said to Saul. “Let me tell you what the LORD said to me last night.” “Tell me,” Saul replied.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:17 - Samuel said, “Although you were once small in your own eyes, did you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:20 - “But I did obey the LORD,” Saul said. “I went on the mission the LORD assigned me. I completely destroyed the Amalekites and brought back Agag their king.
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 15:24 - Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned. I violated the LORD's command and your instructions. I was afraid of the men and so I gave in to them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:26 - But Samuel said to him, “I will not go back with you. You have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you as king over Israel!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:28 - Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to one of your neighbors—to one better than you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:30 - Saul replied, “I have sinned. But please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel; come back with me, so that I may worship the LORD your God.”
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 Box1Sa 15:33 - But Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so will your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel put Agag to death before the LORD at Gilgal.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:1 - The LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have chosen one of his sons to be king.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:2 - But Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears about it, he will kill me.” The LORD said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:5 - Samuel replied, “Yes, in peace; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come to the sacrifice with me.” Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:6 - When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and thought, “Surely the LORD's anointed stands here before the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:7 - But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:8 - Then Jesse called Abinadab and had him pass in front of Samuel. But Samuel said, “The LORD has not chosen this one either.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:9 - Jesse then had Shammah pass by, but Samuel said, “Nor has the LORD chosen this one.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:10 - Jesse had seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel said to him, “The LORD has not chosen these.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:11 - So he asked Jesse, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse answered. “He is tending the sheep.” Samuel said, “Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:12 - So he sent for him and had him brought in. He was glowing with health and had a fine appearance and handsome features. Then the LORD said, “Rise and anoint him; this is the one.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:17 - So Saul said to his attendants, “Find someone who plays well and bring him to me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:18 - One of the servants answered, “I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the lyre. He is a brave man and a warrior. He speaks well and is a fine-looking man. And the LORD is with him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:8 - Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why do you come out and line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose a man and have him come down to me.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:10 - Then the Philistine said, “This day I defy the armies of Israel! Give me a man and let us fight each other.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:32 - David said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:33 - Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:34 - But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:37 - The LORD who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said to David, “Go, and the LORD be with you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:39 - David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them. “I cannot go in these,” he said to Saul, “because I am not used to them.” So he took them off.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:43 - He said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:44 - “Come here,” he said, “and I'll give your flesh to the birds and the wild animals!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:8 - Saul was very angry; this refrain displeased him greatly. “They have credited David with tens of thousands,” he thought, “but me with only thousands. What more can he get but the kingdom?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:21 - “I will give her to him,” he thought, “so that she may be a snare to him and so that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “Now you have a second opportunity to become my son-in-law.”
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 18:25 - Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king wants no other price for the bride than a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies.' ” Saul's plan was to have David fall by the hands of the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:4 - Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, “Let not the king do wrong to his servant David; he has not wronged you, and what he has done has benefited you greatly.
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 19:22 - Finally, he himself left for Ramah and went to the great cistern at Seku. And he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” “Over in Naioth at Ramah,” they said.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:1 - Then David fled from Naioth at Ramah and went to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my crime? How have I wronged your father, that he is trying to kill me?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:2 - “Never!” Jonathan replied. “You are not going to die! Look, my father doesn't do anything, great or small, without letting me know. Why would he hide this from me? It isn't so!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:3 - But David took an oath and said, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said to himself, ‘Jonathan must not know this or he will be grieved.' Yet as surely as the LORD lives and as you live, there is only a step between me and death.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:4 - Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you want me to do, I'll do for you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:5 - So David said, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon feast, and I am supposed to dine with the king; but let me go and hide in the field until the evening of the day after tomorrow.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:9 - “Never!” Jonathan said. “If I had the least inkling that my father was determined to harm you, wouldn't I tell you?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:10 - David asked, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:11 - “Come,” Jonathan said, “let's go out into the field.” So they went there together.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:12 - Then Jonathan said to David, “I swear by the LORD, the God of Israel, that I will surely sound out my father by this time the day after tomorrow! If he is favorably disposed toward you, will I not send you word and let you know?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:18 - Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon feast. You will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:26 - Saul said nothing that day, for he thought, “Something must have happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:27 - But the next day, the second day of the month, David's place was empty again. Then Saul said to his son Jonathan, “Why hasn't the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:28 - Jonathan answered, “David earnestly asked me for permission to go to Bethlehem.
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 20:30 - Saul's anger flared up at Jonathan and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don't I know that you have sided with the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:36 - and he said to the boy, “Run and find the arrows I shoot.” As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:37 - When the boy came to the place where Jonathan's arrow had fallen, Jonathan called out after him, “Isn't the arrow beyond you?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:40 - Then Jonathan gave his weapons to the boy and said, “Go, carry them back to town.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:42 - Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for we have sworn friendship with each other in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘The LORD is witness between you and me, and between your descendants and my descendants forever.' ” Then David left, and Jonathan went back to the town.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:1 - David went to Nob, to Ahimelek the priest. Ahimelek trembled when he met him, and asked, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:2 - David answered Ahimelek the priest, “The king sent me on a mission and said to me, ‘No one is to know anything about the mission I am sending you on.' As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place.
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 21:5 - David replied, “Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual whenever[fn] I set out. The men's bodies are holy even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!”
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 21:14 - Achish said to his servants, “Look at the man! He is insane! Why bring him to me?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:3 - From there David went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the king of Moab, “Would you let my father and mother come and stay with you until I learn what God will do for me?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:5 - But the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold. Go into the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:7 - He said to them, “Listen, men of Benjamin! Will the son of Jesse give all of you fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:9 - But Doeg the Edomite, who was standing with Saul's officials, said, “I saw the son of Jesse come to Ahimelek son of Ahitub at Nob.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:12 - Saul said, “Listen now, son of Ahitub.” “Yes, my lord,” he answered.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:13 - Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, giving him bread and a sword and inquiring of God for him, so that he has rebelled against me and lies in wait for me, as he does today?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:14 - Ahimelek answered the king, “Who of all your servants is as loyal as David, the king's son-in-law, captain of your bodyguard and highly respected in your household?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:16 - But the king said, “You will surely die, Ahimelek, you and your whole family.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:17 - Then the king ordered the guards at his side: “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because they too have sided with David. They knew he was fleeing, yet they did not tell me.” But the king's officials were unwilling to raise a hand to strike the priests of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:18 - The king then ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests.” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck them down. That day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:22 - Then David said to Abiathar, “That day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, I knew he would be sure to tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of your whole family.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:2 - he inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?” The LORD answered him, “Go, attack the Philistines and save Keilah.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:4 - Once again David inquired of the LORD, and the LORD answered him, “Go down to Keilah, for I am going to give the Philistines into your hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:7 - Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, and he said, “God has delivered him into my hands, for David has imprisoned himself by entering a town with gates and bars.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:9 - When David learned that Saul was plotting against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:10 - David said, “LORD, God of Israel, your servant has heard definitely that Saul plans to come to Keilah and destroy the town on account of me.
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 23:17 - “Don't be afraid,” he said. “My father Saul will not lay a hand on you. You will be king over Israel, and I will be second to you. Even my father Saul knows this.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:21 - Saul replied, “The LORD bless you for your concern for me.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:4 - The men said, “This is the day the LORD spoke of when he said[fn] to you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hands for you to deal with as you wish.' ” Then David crept up unnoticed and cut off a corner of Saul's robe.
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 24:9 - He said to Saul, “Why do you listen when men say, ‘David is bent on harming you'?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:16 - When David finished saying this, Saul asked, “Is that your voice, David my son?” And he wept aloud.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:17 - “You are more righteous than I,” he said. “You have treated me well, but I have treated you badly.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:5 - So he sent ten young men and said to them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel and greet him in my name.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:10 - Nabal answered David's servants, “Who is this David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants are breaking away from their masters these days.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:13 - David said to his men, “Each of you strap on your sword!” So they did, and David strapped his on as well. About four hundred men went up with David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:19 - Then she told her servants, “Go on ahead; I'll follow you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:21 - David had just said, “It's been useless—all my watching over this fellow's property in the wilderness so that nothing of his was missing. He has paid me back evil for good.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:24 - She fell at his feet and said: “Pardon your servant, my lord, and let me speak to you; hear what your servant has to say.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:32 - David said to Abigail, “Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:35 - Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him and said, “Go home in peace. I have heard your words and granted your request.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:39 - When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Praise be to the LORD, who has upheld my cause against Nabal for treating me with contempt. He has kept his servant from doing wrong and has brought Nabal's wrongdoing down on his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:41 - She bowed down with her face to the ground and said, “I am your servant and am ready to serve you and wash the feet of my lord's servants.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:6 - David then asked Ahimelek the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, “Who will go down into the camp with me to Saul?” “I'll go with you,” said Abishai.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:8 - Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hands. Now let me pin him to the ground with one thrust of the spear; I won't strike him twice.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:9 - But David said to Abishai, “Don't destroy him! Who can lay a hand on the LORD's anointed and be guiltless?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:10 - As surely as the LORD lives,” he said, “the LORD himself will strike him, or his time will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:14 - He called out to the army and to Abner son of Ner, “Aren't you going to answer me, Abner?” Abner replied, “Who are you who calls to the king?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:15 - David said, “You're a man, aren't you? And who is like you in Israel? Why didn't you guard your lord the king? Someone came to destroy your lord the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:17 - Saul recognized David's voice and said, “Is that your voice, David my son?” David replied, “Yes it is, my lord the king.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:18 - And he added, “Why is my lord pursuing his servant? What have I done, and what wrong am I guilty of?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:21 - Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Come back, David my son. Because you considered my life precious today, I will not try to harm you again. Surely I have acted like a fool and have been terribly wrong.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:22 - “Here is the king's spear,” David answered. “Let one of your young men come over and get it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:25 - Then Saul said to David, “May you be blessed, David my son; you will do great things and surely triumph.” So David went on his way, and Saul returned home.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:1 - But David thought to himself, “One of these days I will be destroyed by the hand of Saul. The best thing I can do is to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will give up searching for me anywhere in Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”
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 27:10 - When Achish asked, “Where did you go raiding today?” David would say, “Against the Negev of Judah” or “Against the Negev of Jerahmeel” or “Against the Negev of the Kenites.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:1 - In those days the Philistines gathered their forces to fight against Israel. Achish said to David, “You must understand that you and your men will accompany me in the army.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:2 - David said, “Then you will see for yourself what your servant can do.” Achish replied, “Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:7 - Saul then said to his attendants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, so I may go and inquire of her.” “There is one in Endor,” they said.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:8 - So Saul disguised himself, putting on other clothes, and at night he and two men went to the woman. “Consult a spirit for me,” he said, “and bring up for me the one I name.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:9 - But the woman said to him, “Surely you know what Saul has done. He has cut off the mediums and spiritists from the land. Why have you set a trap for my life to bring about my death?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:11 - Then the woman asked, “Whom shall I bring up for you?” “Bring up Samuel,” he said.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:12 - When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out at the top of her voice and said to Saul, “Why have you deceived me? You are Saul!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:13 - The king said to her, “Don't be afraid. What do you see?” The woman said, “I see a ghostly figure[fn] coming up out of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:14 - “What does he look like?” he asked. “An old man wearing a robe is coming up,” she said. Then Saul knew it was Samuel, and he bowed down and prostrated himself with his face to the ground.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:15 - Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” “I am in great distress,” Saul said. “The Philistines are fighting against me, and God has departed from me. He no longer answers me, either by prophets or by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what to do.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:16 - Samuel said, “Why do you consult me, now that the LORD has departed from you and become your enemy?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:21 - When the woman came to Saul and saw that he was greatly shaken, she said, “Look, your servant has obeyed you. I took my life in my hands and did what you told me to do.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:3 - The commanders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish replied, “Is this not David, who was an officer of Saul king of Israel? He has already been with me for over a year, and from the day he left Saul until now, I have found no fault in him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:6 - So Achish called David and said to him, “As surely as the LORD lives, you have been reliable, and I would be pleased to have you serve with me in the army. From the day you came to me until today, I have found no fault in you, but the rulers don't approve of you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:8 - “But what have I done?” asked David. “What have you found against your servant from the day I came to you until now? Why can't I go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:6 - David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:7 - Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelek, “Bring me the ephod.” Abiathar brought it to him,
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 30:13 - David asked him, “Who do you belong to? Where do you come from?” He said, “I am an Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me when I became ill three days ago.
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 Box1Sa 30:23 - David replied, “No, my brothers, you must not do that with what the LORD has given us. He has protected us and delivered into our hands the raiding party that came against us.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:4 - Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through, or these uncircumcised fellows will come and run me through and abuse me.” But his armor-bearer was terrified and would not do it; so Saul took his own sword and fell on it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:3 - “Where have you come from?” David asked him. He answered, “I have escaped from the Israelite camp.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:4 - “What happened?” David asked. “Tell me.” “The men fled from the battle,” he replied. “Many of them fell and died. And Saul and his son Jonathan are dead.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:5 - Then David said to the young man who brought him the report, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:6 - “I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,” the young man said, “and there was Saul, leaning on his spear, with the chariots and their drivers in hot pursuit.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:9 - “Then he said to me, ‘Stand here by me and kill me! I'm in the throes of death, but I'm still alive.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:13 - David said to the young man who brought him the report, “Where are you from?” “I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite,” he answered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:14 - David asked him, “Why weren't you afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:15 - Then David called one of his men and said, “Go, strike him down!” So he struck him down, and he died.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:16 - For David had said to him, “Your blood be on your own head. Your own mouth testified against you when you said, ‘I killed the LORD's anointed.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:18 - and he ordered that the people of Judah be taught this lament of the bow (it is written in the Book of Jashar):
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:1 - 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 2:5 - he sent messengers to them to say to them, “The LORD bless you for showing this kindness to Saul your master by burying him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:14 - Then Abner said to Joab, “Let's have some of the young men get up and fight hand to hand in front of us.” “All right, let them do it,” Joab said.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:20 - Abner looked behind him and asked, “Is that you, Asahel?” “It is,” he answered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:21 - Then Abner said to him, “Turn aside to the right or to the left; take on one of the young men and strip him of his weapons.” But Asahel would not stop chasing him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:26 - Abner called out to Joab, “Must the sword devour forever? Don't you realize that this will end in bitterness? How long before you order your men to stop pursuing their fellow Israelites?”
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 3:7 - Now Saul had had a concubine named Rizpah daughter of Aiah. And Ish-Bosheth said to Abner, “Why did you sleep with my father's concubine?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:8 - Abner was very angry because of what Ish-Bosheth said. So he answered, “Am I a dog's head—on Judah's side? This very day I am loyal to the house of your father Saul and to his family and friends. I haven't handed you over to David. Yet now you accuse me of an offense involving this woman!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:13 - “Good,” said David. “I will make an agreement with you. But I demand one thing of you: Do not come into my presence unless you bring Michal daughter of Saul when you come to see me.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:16 - Her husband, however, went with her, weeping behind her all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go back home!” So he went back.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:17 - Abner conferred with the elders of Israel and said, “For some time you have wanted to make David your king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:21 - Then Abner said to David, “Let me go at once and assemble all Israel for my lord the king, so that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may rule over all that your heart desires.” So David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:24 - So Joab went to the king and said, “What have you done? Look, Abner came to you. Why did you let him go? Now he is gone!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:28 - Later, when David heard about this, he said, “I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the LORD concerning the blood of Abner son of Ner.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:31 - Then David said to Joab and all the people with him, “Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth and walk in mourning in front of Abner.” King David himself walked behind the bier.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:33 - The king sang this lament for Abner: “Should Abner have died as the lawless die?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:38 - Then the king said to his men, “Do you not realize that a commander and a great man has fallen in Israel this day?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:9 - David answered Rekab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has delivered me out of every trouble,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:2 - In the past, while Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel on their military campaigns. And the LORD said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel, and you will become their ruler.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:8 - On that day David had said, “Anyone who conquers the Jebusites will have to use the water shaft to reach those ‘lame and blind' who are David's enemies.[fn]” That is why they say, “The ‘blind and lame' will not enter the palace.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:19 - so David inquired of the LORD, “Shall I go and attack the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hands?” The LORD answered him, “Go, for I will surely deliver the Philistines into your hands.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:20 - So David went to Baal Perazim, and there he defeated them. He said, “As waters break out, the LORD has broken out against my enemies before me.” So that place was called Baal Perazim.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:23 - so David inquired of the LORD, and he answered, “Do not go straight up, but circle around behind them and attack them in front of the poplar trees.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:20 - When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, going around half-naked in full view of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:21 - David said to Michal, “It was before the LORD, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over the LORD's people Israel—I will celebrate before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:2 - he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:3 - Nathan replied to the king, “Whatever you have in mind, go ahead and do it, for the LORD is with you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:18 - Then King David went in and sat before the LORD, and he said: “Who am I, Sovereign LORD, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far?
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 9:4 - “Where is he?” the king asked. Ziba answered, “He is at the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:6 - When Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he bowed down to pay him honor. David said, “Mephibosheth!” “At your service,” he replied.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:7 - “Don't be afraid,” David said to him, “for I will surely show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:8 - Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should notice a dead dog like me?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:9 - Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul's steward, and said to him, “I have given your master's grandson everything that belonged to Saul and his family.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:11 - Then Ziba said to the king, “Your servant will do whatever my lord the king commands his servant to do.” So Mephibosheth ate at David's[fn] table like one of the king's sons.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:2 - David thought, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father. When David's men came to the land of the Ammonites,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:5 - When David was told about this, he sent messengers to meet the men, for they were greatly humiliated. The king said, “Stay at Jericho till your beards have grown, and then come back.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:11 - Joab said, “If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you are to come to my rescue; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come to rescue you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:3 - and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:5 - The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:8 - Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:10 - David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” So he asked Uriah, “Haven't you just come from a military campaign? Why didn't you go home?”
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 11:12 - Then David said to him, “Stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:22 - The messenger set out, and when he arrived he told David everything Joab had sent him to say.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:23 - The messenger said to David, “The men overpowered us and came out against us in the open, but we drove them back to the entrance of the city gate.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:25 - David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Don't let this upset you; the sword devours one as well as another. Press the attack against the city and destroy it.' Say this to encourage Joab.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:1 - The LORD sent Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said, “There were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:5 - David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this must die!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:7 - Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:13 - Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” Nathan replied, “The LORD has taken away your sin. You are not going to die.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:19 - David noticed that his attendants were whispering among themselves, and he realized the child was dead. “Is the child dead?” he asked. “Yes,” they replied, “he is dead.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 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 12:27 - Joab then sent messengers to David, saying, “I have fought against Rabbah and taken its water supply.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:4 - He asked Amnon, “Why do you, the king's son, look so haggard morning after morning? Won't you tell me?” Amnon said to him, “I'm in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:5 - “Go to bed and pretend to be ill,” Jonadab said. “When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘I would like my sister Tamar to come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare the food in my sight so I may watch her and then eat it from her hand.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:6 - So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to him, “I would like my sister Tamar to come and make some special bread in my sight, so I may eat from her hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:9 - Then she took the pan and served him the bread, but he refused to eat. “Send everyone out of here,” Amnon said. So everyone left him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:10 - Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food here into my bedroom so I may eat from your hand.” And Tamar took the bread she had prepared and brought it to her brother Amnon in his bedroom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:11 - But when she took it to him to eat, he grabbed her and said, “Come to bed with me, my sister.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:12 - “No, my brother!” she said to him. “Don't force me! Such a thing should not be done in Israel! Don't do this wicked thing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:15 - Then Amnon hated her with intense hatred. In fact, he hated her more than he had loved her. Amnon said to her, “Get up and get out!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:16 - “No!” she said to him. “Sending me away would be a greater wrong than what you have already done to me.” But he refused to listen to her.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:17 - He called his personal servant and said, “Get this woman out of my sight and bolt the door after her.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:20 - Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has that Amnon, your brother, been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister; he is your brother. Don't take this thing to heart.” And Tamar lived in her brother Absalom's house, a desolate woman.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:24 - Absalom went to the king and said, “Your servant has had shearers come. Will the king and his attendants please join me?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:25 - “No, my son,” the king replied. “All of us should not go; we would only be a burden to you.” Although Absalom urged him, he still refused to go but gave him his blessing.
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 13:32 - But Jonadab son of Shimeah, David's brother, said, “My lord should not think that they killed all the princes; only Amnon is dead. This has been Absalom's express intention ever since the day Amnon raped his sister Tamar.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:34 - Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. Now the man standing watch looked up and saw many people on the road west of him, coming down the side of the hill. The watchman went and told the king, “I see men in the direction of Horonaim, on the side of the hill.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:35 - Jonadab said to the king, “See, the king's sons have come; it has happened just as your servant said.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:2 - So Joab sent someone to Tekoa and had a wise woman brought from there. He said to her, “Pretend you are in mourning. Dress in mourning clothes, and don't use any cosmetic lotions. Act like a woman who has spent many days grieving for the dead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:4 - When the woman from Tekoa went[fn] to the king, she fell with her face to the ground to pay him honor, and she said, “Help me, Your Majesty!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:5 - The king asked her, “What is troubling you?” She said, “I am a widow; my husband is dead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:8 - The king said to the woman, “Go home, and I will issue an order in your behalf.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:9 - But the woman from Tekoa said to him, “Let my lord the king pardon me and my family, and let the king and his throne be without guilt.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:10 - The king replied, “If anyone says anything to you, bring them to me, and they will not bother you again.”
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 14:12 - Then the woman said, “Let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.” “Speak,” he replied.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:13 - The woman said, “Why then have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, for the king has not brought back his banished son?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:17 - “And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king secure my inheritance, for my lord the king is like an angel of God in discerning good and evil. May the LORD your God be with you.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:18 - Then the king said to the woman, “Don't keep from me the answer to what I am going to ask you.” “Let my lord the king speak,” the woman said.
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 14:21 - The king said to Joab, “Very well, I will do it. Go, bring back the young man Absalom.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:22 - Joab fell with his face to the ground to pay him honor, and he blessed the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that he has found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his servant's request.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:24 - But the king said, “He must go to his own house; he must not see my face.” So Absalom went to his own house and did not see the face of the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:30 - Then he said to his servants, “Look, Joab's field is next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire.” So Absalom's servants set the field on fire.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:31 - Then Joab did go to Absalom's house, and he said to him, “Why have your servants set my field on fire?”
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 15:2 - He would get up early and stand by the side of the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone came with a complaint to be placed before the king for a decision, Absalom would call out to him, “What town are you from?” He would answer, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:3 - Then Absalom would say to him, “Look, your claims are valid and proper, but there is no representative of the king to hear you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:4 - And Absalom would add, “If only I were appointed judge in the land! Then everyone who has a complaint or case could come to me and I would see that they receive justice.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:7 - At the end of four[fn] years, Absalom said to the king, “Let me go to Hebron and fulfill a vow I made to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:9 - The king said to him, “Go in peace.” So he went to Hebron.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:14 - Then David said to all his officials who were with him in Jerusalem, “Come! We must flee, or none of us will escape from Absalom. We must leave immediately, or he will move quickly to overtake us and bring ruin on us and put the city to the sword.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:19 - The king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why should you come along with us? Go back and stay with King Absalom. You are a foreigner, an exile from your homeland.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:21 - But Ittai replied to the king, “As surely as the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king may be, whether it means life or death, there will your servant be.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:22 - David said to Ittai, “Go ahead, march on.” So Ittai the Gittite marched on with all his men and the families that were with him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:25 - Then the king said to Zadok, “Take the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the LORD's eyes, he will bring me back and let me see it and his dwelling place again.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:27 - The king also said to Zadok the priest, “Do you understand? Go back to the city with my blessing. Take your son Ahimaaz with you, and also Abiathar's son Jonathan. You and Abiathar return with your two sons.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:31 - Now David had been told, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David prayed, “LORD, turn Ahithophel's counsel into foolishness.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:33 - David said to him, “If you go with me, you will be a burden to me.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:2 - The king asked Ziba, “Why have you brought these?” Ziba answered, “The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on, the bread and fruit are for the men to eat, and the wine is to refresh those who become exhausted in the wilderness.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:3 - The king then asked, “Where is your master's grandson?” Ziba said to him, “He is staying in Jerusalem, because he thinks, ‘Today the Israelites will restore to me my grandfather's kingdom.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:4 - Then the king said to Ziba, “All that belonged to Mephibosheth is now yours.” “I humbly bow,” Ziba said. “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:9 - Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and cut off his head.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:10 - But the king said, “What does this have to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the LORD said to him, ‘Curse David,' who can ask, ‘Why do you do this?' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:11 - David then said to Abishai and all his officials, “My son, my own flesh and blood, is trying to kill me. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone; let him curse, for the LORD has told him to.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:16 - Then Hushai the Arkite, David's confidant, went to Absalom and said to him, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:17 - Absalom said to Hushai, “So this is the love you show your friend? If he's your friend, why didn't you go with him?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:18 - Hushai said to Absalom, “No, the one chosen by the LORD, by these people, and by all the men of Israel—his I will be, and I will remain with him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:20 - Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give us your advice. What should we do?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:21 - Ahithophel answered, “Sleep with your father's concubines whom he left to take care of the palace. Then all Israel will hear that you have made yourself obnoxious to your father, and the hands of everyone with you will be more resolute.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:1 - Ahithophel said to Absalom, “I would[fn] choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:5 - But Absalom said, “Summon also Hushai the Arkite, so we can hear what he has to say as well.”
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 17:7 - Hushai replied to Absalom, “The advice Ahithophel has given is not good this time.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:8 - You know your father and his men; they are fighters, and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Besides, your father is an experienced fighter; he will not spend the night with the troops.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:14 - Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Arkite is better than that of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had determined to frustrate the good advice of Ahithophel in order to bring disaster on Absalom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:15 - Hushai told Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, “Ahithophel has advised Absalom and the elders of Israel to do such and such, but I have advised them to do so and so.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:20 - When Absalom's men came to the woman at the house, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman answered them, “They crossed over the brook.”[fn] The men searched but found no one, so they returned to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:2 - David sent out his troops, a third under the command of Joab, a third under Joab's brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. The king told the troops, “I myself will surely march out with you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:4 - The king answered, “I will do whatever seems best to you.” So the king stood beside the gate while all his men marched out in units of hundreds and of thousands.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:10 - When one of the men saw what had happened, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:11 - Joab said to the man who had told him this, “What! You saw him? Why didn't you strike him to the ground right there? Then I would have had to give you ten shekels[fn] of silver and a warrior's belt.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:12 - But the man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels[fn] were weighed out into my hands, I would not lay a hand on the king's son. In our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.[fn]'
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:14 - Joab said, “I'm not going to wait like this for you.” So he took three javelins in his hand and plunged them into Absalom's heart while Absalom was still alive in the oak tree.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:18 - During his lifetime Absalom had taken a pillar and erected it in the King's Valley as a monument to himself, for he thought, “I have no son to carry on the memory of my name.” He named the pillar after himself, and it is called Absalom's Monument to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:19 - Now Ahimaaz son of Zadok said, “Let me run and take the news to the king that the LORD has vindicated him by delivering him from the hand of his enemies.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:20 - “You are not the one to take the news today,” Joab told him. “You may take the news another time, but you must not do so today, because the king's son is dead.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:21 - Then Joab said to a Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen.” The Cushite bowed down before Joab and ran off.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:22 - Ahimaaz son of Zadok again said to Joab, “Come what may, please let me run behind the Cushite.” But Joab replied, “My son, why do you want to go? You don't have any news that will bring you a reward.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:23 - He said, “Come what may, I want to run.” So Joab said, “Run!” Then Ahimaaz ran by way of the plain[fn] and outran the Cushite.
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 18:26 - Then the watchman saw another runner, and he called down to the gatekeeper, “Look, another man running alone!” The king said, “He must be bringing good news, too.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:27 - The watchman said, “It seems to me that the first one runs like Ahimaaz son of Zadok.” “He's a good man,” the king said. “He comes with good news.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:28 - Then Ahimaaz called out to the king, “All is well!” He bowed down before the king with his face to the ground and said, “Praise be to the LORD your God! He has delivered up those who lifted their hands against my lord the king.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:29 - The king asked, “Is the young man Absalom safe?” Ahimaaz answered, “I saw great confusion just as Joab was about to send the king's servant and me, your servant, but I don't know what it was.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:30 - The king said, “Stand aside and wait here.” So he stepped aside and stood there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:31 - Then the Cushite arrived and said, “My lord the king, hear the good news! The LORD has vindicated you today by delivering you from the hand of all who rose up against you.”
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 18:33 - The king was shaken. He went up to the room over the gateway and wept. As he went, he said: “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you—O Absalom, my son, my son!”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:5 - Then Joab went into the house to the king and said, “Today you have humiliated all your men, who have just saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters and the lives of your wives and concubines.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:19 - and said to him, “May my lord not hold me guilty. Do not remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king put it out of his mind.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:21 - Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said, “Shouldn't Shimei be put to death for this? He cursed the LORD's anointed.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:22 - David replied, “What does this have to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? What right do you have to interfere? Should anyone be put to death in Israel today? Don't I know that today I am king over Israel?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:23 - So the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And the king promised him on oath.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:25 - When he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, the king asked him, “Why didn't you go with me, Mephibosheth?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:26 - He said, “My lord the king, since I your servant am lame, I said, ‘I will have my donkey saddled and will ride on it, so I can go with the king.' But Ziba my servant betrayed me.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:29 - The king said to him, “Why say more? I order you and Ziba to divide the land.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:30 - Mephibosheth said to the king, “Let him take everything, now that my lord the king has returned home safely.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:33 - The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me and stay with me in Jerusalem, and I will provide for you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:34 - But Barzillai answered the king, “How many more years will I live, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:38 - The king said, “Kimham shall cross over with me, and I will do for him whatever you wish. And anything you desire from me I will do for you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:43 - Then the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, “We have ten shares in the king; so we have a greater claim on David than you have. Why then do you treat us with contempt? Weren't we the first to speak of bringing back our king?” But the men of Judah pressed their claims even more forcefully than the men of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:1 - Now a troublemaker named Sheba son of Bikri, a Benjamite, happened to be there. He sounded the trumpet and shouted, “We have no share in David, no part in Jesse's son! Every man to his tent, Israel!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:4 - Then the king said to Amasa, “Summon the men of Judah to come to me within three days, and be here yourself.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:6 - David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba son of Bikri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your master's men and pursue him, or he will find fortified cities and escape from us.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:9 - 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 20:11 - One of Joab's men stood beside Amasa and said, “Whoever favors Joab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:16 - a wise woman called from the city, “Listen! Listen! Tell Joab to come here so I can speak to 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 20:21 - That is not the case. A man named Sheba son of Bikri, from the hill country of Ephraim, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Hand over this one man, and I'll withdraw from the city.” The woman said to Joab, “His head will be thrown to you from the wall.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:1 - During the reign of David, there was a famine for three successive years; so David sought the face of the LORD. The LORD said, “It is on account of Saul and his blood-stained house; it is because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:2 - The king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not a part of Israel but were survivors of the Amorites; the Israelites had sworn to spare them, but Saul in his zeal for Israel and Judah had tried to annihilate them.)
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:3 - David asked the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? How shall I make atonement so that you will bless the LORD's inheritance?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:4 - The Gibeonites answered him, “We have no right to demand silver or gold from Saul or his family, nor do we have the right to put anyone in Israel to death.” “What do you want me to do for you?” David asked.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:6 - let seven of his male descendants be given to us to be killed and their bodies exposed before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul—the LORD's chosen one.” So the king said, “I will give them to you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:2 - He said: “The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:15 - David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”
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 24:2 - So the king said to Joab and the army commanders[fn] with him, “Go throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and enroll the fighting men, so that I may know how many there are.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:3 - But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:10 - David was conscience-stricken after he had counted the fighting men, and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, LORD, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing.”
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 Box2Sa 24:14 - David said to Gad, “I am in deep distress. Let us fall into the hands of the LORD, for his mercy is great; but do not let me fall into human hands.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:16 - When the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was afflicting the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the LORD was then at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:17 - When David saw the angel who was striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “I have sinned; I, the shepherd,[fn] have done wrong. These are but sheep. What have they done? Let your hand fall on me and my family.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:18 - On that day Gad went to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:21 - Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” “To buy your threshing floor,” David answered, “so I can build an altar to the LORD, that the plague on the people may be stopped.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:22 - Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take whatever he wishes and offer it up. Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and here are threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:23 - Your Majesty, Araunah[fn] gives all this to the king.” Araunah also said to him, “May the LORD your God accept you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:24 - But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels[fn] of silver for them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:11 - Then Nathan asked Bathsheba, Solomon's mother, “Have you not heard that Adonijah, the son of Haggith, has become king, and our lord David knows nothing about it?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:16 - Bathsheba bowed down, prostrating herself before the king. “What is it you want?” the king asked.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:17 - She said to him, “My lord, you yourself swore to me your servant by the LORD your God: ‘Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:24 - Nathan said, “Have you, my lord the king, declared that Adonijah shall be king after you, and that he will sit on your throne?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:28 - Then King David said, “Call in Bathsheba.” So she came into the king's presence and stood before him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:29 - The king then took an oath: “As surely as the LORD lives, who has delivered me out of every trouble,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:31 - Then Bathsheba bowed down with her face to the ground, prostrating herself before the king, and said, “May my lord King David live forever!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:32 - King David said, “Call in Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet and Benaiah son of Jehoiada.” When they came before the king,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:33 - he said to them: “Take your lord's servants with you and have Solomon my son mount my own mule and take him down to Gihon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:36 - Benaiah son of Jehoiada answered the king, “Amen! May the LORD, the God of my lord the king, so declare it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:39 - Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the sacred tent and anointed Solomon. Then they sounded the trumpet and all the people shouted, “Long live King Solomon!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:41 - Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they were finishing their feast. On hearing the sound of the trumpet, Joab asked, “What's the meaning of all the noise in the city?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:42 - Even as he was speaking, Jonathan son of Abiathar the priest arrived. Adonijah said, “Come in. A worthy man like you must be bringing good news.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:43 - “Not at all!” Jonathan answered. “Our lord King David has made Solomon king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:48 - and said, ‘Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who has allowed my eyes to see a successor on my throne today.' ”
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 1:53 - Then King Solomon sent men, and they brought him down from the altar. And Adonijah came and bowed down to King Solomon, and Solomon said, “Go to your home.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:13 - Now Adonijah, the son of Haggith, went to Bathsheba, Solomon's mother. Bathsheba asked him, “Do you come peacefully?” He answered, “Yes, peacefully.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:14 - Then he added, “I have something to say to you.” “You may say it,” she replied.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:15 - “As you know,” he said, “the kingdom was mine. All Israel looked to me as their king. But things changed, and the kingdom has gone to my brother; for it has come to him from the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:16 - Now I have one request to make of you. Do not refuse me.” “You may make it,” she said.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:17 - So he continued, “Please ask King Solomon—he will not refuse you—to give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:18 - “Very well,” Bathsheba replied, “I will speak to the king for you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:20 - “I have one small request to make of you,” she said. “Do not refuse me.” The king replied, “Make it, my mother; I will not refuse you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:21 - So she said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given in marriage to your brother Adonijah.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:22 - King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you request Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? You might as well request the kingdom for him—after all, he is my older brother—yes, for him and for Abiathar the priest and Joab son of Zeruiah!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:26 - To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but I will not put you to death now, because you carried the ark of the Sovereign LORD before my father David and shared all my father's hardships.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:29 - King Solomon was told that Joab had fled to the tent of the LORD and was beside the altar. Then Solomon ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, “Go, strike him down!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:30 - So Benaiah entered the tent of the LORD and said to Joab, “The king says, ‘Come out!' ” But he answered, “No, I will die here.” Benaiah reported to the king, “This is how Joab answered me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:31 - Then the king commanded Benaiah, “Do as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so clear me and my whole family of the guilt of the innocent blood that Joab shed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:36 - Then the king sent for Shimei and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and live there, but do not go anywhere else.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:38 - Shimei answered the king, “What you say is good. Your servant will do as my lord the king has said.” And Shimei stayed in Jerusalem for a long time.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:42 - the king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by the LORD and warn you, ‘On the day you leave to go anywhere else, you can be sure you will die'? At that time you said to me, ‘What you say is good. I will obey.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:44 - The king also said to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wrong you did to my father David. Now the LORD will repay you for your wrongdoing.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:5 - At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said, “Ask for whatever you want me to give you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:6 - Solomon answered, “You have shown great kindness to your servant, my father David, because he was faithful to you and righteous and upright in heart. You have continued this great kindness to him and have given him a son to sit on his throne this very day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:11 - So God said to him, “Since you have asked for this and not for long life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the death of your enemies but for discernment in administering justice,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:17 - One of them said, “Pardon me, my lord. This woman and I live in the same house, and I had a baby while she was there with me.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:22 - The other woman said, “No! The living one is my son; the dead one is yours.” But the first one insisted, “No! The dead one is yours; the living one is mine.” And so they argued before the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:23 - The king said, “This one says, ‘My son is alive and your son is dead,' while that one says, ‘No! Your son is dead and mine is alive.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:24 - Then the king said, “Bring me a sword.” So they brought a sword for the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:25 - He then gave an order: “Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:26 - The woman whose son was alive was deeply moved out of love for her son and said to the king, “Please, my lord, give her the living baby! Don't kill him!” But the other said, “Neither I nor you shall have him. Cut him in two!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:27 - Then the king gave his ruling: “Give the living baby to the first woman. Do not kill him; she is his mother.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:7 - When Hiram heard Solomon's message, he was greatly pleased and said, “Praise be to the LORD today, for he has given David a wise son to rule over this great nation.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:15 - Then he said: “Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who with his own hand has fulfilled what he promised with his own mouth to my father David. For he said,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:18 - But the LORD said to my father David, ‘You did well to have it in your heart to build a temple for my Name.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:23 - and said: “LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above or on earth below—you who keep your covenant of love with your servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:53 - For you singled them out from all the nations of the world to be your own inheritance, just as you declared through your servant Moses when you, Sovereign LORD, brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:3 - The LORD said to him: “I have heard the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:13 - “What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother?” he asked. And he called them the Land of Kabul,[fn] a name they have to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:6 - She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your achievements and your wisdom is true.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:11 - So the LORD said to Solomon, “Since this is your attitude and you have not kept my covenant and my decrees, which I commanded you, I will most certainly tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your subordinates.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:21 - While he was in Egypt, Hadad heard that David rested with his ancestors and that Joab the commander of the army was also dead. Then Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me go, that I may return to my own country.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:22 - “What have you lacked here that you want to go back to your own country?” Pharaoh asked. “Nothing,” Hadad replied, “but do let me go!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:31 - Then he said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘See, I am going to tear the kingdom out of Solomon's hand and give you ten tribes.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:5 - Rehoboam answered, “Go away for three days and then come back to me.” So the people went away.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:9 - He asked them, “What is your advice? How should we answer these people who say to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us'?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:26 - Jeroboam thought to himself, “The kingdom will now likely revert to the house of David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:28 - After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves. He said to the people, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2 - By the word of the LORD he cried out against the altar: “Altar, altar! This is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who make offerings here, and human bones will be burned on you.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:6 - Then the king said to the man of God, “Intercede with the LORD your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king's hand was restored and became as it was before.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:8 - But the man of God answered the king, “Even if you were to give me half your possessions, I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water here.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:13 - So he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” And when they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it
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 13:15 - So the prophet said to him, “Come home with me and eat.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:16 - The man of God said, “I cannot turn back and go with you, nor can I eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:18 - The old prophet answered, “I too am a prophet, as you are. And an angel said to me by the word of the LORD: ‘Bring him back with you to your house so that he may eat bread and drink water.' ” (But he was lying to him.)
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:21 - He cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the command the LORD your God gave you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:26 - When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard of it, he said, “It is the man of God who defied the word of the LORD. The LORD has given him over to the lion, which has mauled him and killed him, as the word of the LORD had warned him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:31 - After burying him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:28 - Omri rested with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria. And Ahab his son succeeded him as king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 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 17:10 - So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, “Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:11 - As she was going to get it, he called, “And bring me, please, a piece of bread.”
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 17:13 - Elijah said to her, “Don't be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:18 - She said to Elijah, “What do you have against me, man of God? Did you come to remind me of my sin and kill my son?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:19 - “Give me your son,” Elijah replied. He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:20 - Then he cried out to the LORD, “LORD my God, have you brought tragedy even on this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:21 - Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried out to the LORD, “LORD my God, let this boy's life return to him!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:23 - Elijah picked up the child and carried him down from the room into the house. He gave him to his mother and said, “Look, your son is alive!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:24 - Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD from your mouth is the truth.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:5 - Ahab had said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs and valleys. Maybe we can find some grass to keep the horses and mules alive so we will not have to kill any of our animals.”
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 18:8 - “Yes,” he replied. “Go tell your master, ‘Elijah is here.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:9 - “What have I done wrong,” asked Obadiah, “that you are handing your servant over to Ahab to be put to death?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:15 - Elijah said, “As the LORD Almighty lives, whom I serve, I will surely present myself to Ahab today.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:17 - When he saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:18 - “I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you and your father's family have. You have abandoned the LORD's commands and have followed the Baals.
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 18:22 - Then Elijah said to them, “I am the only one of the LORD's prophets left, but Baal has four hundred and fifty prophets.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:25 - Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one of the bulls and prepare it first, since there are so many of you. Call on the name of your god, but do not light the fire.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:27 - At noon Elijah began to taunt them. “Shout louder!” he said. “Surely he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or busy, or traveling. Maybe he is sleeping and must be awakened.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:30 - Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come here to me.” They came to him, and he repaired the altar of the LORD, which had been torn down.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:34 - “Do it again,” he said, and they did it again. “Do it a third time,” he ordered, and they did it the third time.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:36 - At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: “LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:40 - Then Elijah commanded them, “Seize the prophets of Baal. Don't let anyone get away!” They seized them, and Elijah had them brought down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:41 - And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:43 - “Go and look toward the sea,” he told his servant. And he went up and looked. “There is nothing there,” he said. Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:44 - The seventh time the servant reported, “A cloud as small as a man's hand is rising from the sea.” So Elijah said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.' ”
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 19:4 - while he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:5 - Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep. All at once an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:7 - The angel of the LORD came back a second time and touched him and said, “Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:9 - There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the LORD came to him: “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:10 - He replied, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:11 - The LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:13 - When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:14 - He replied, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:15 - The LORD said to him, “Go back the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you get there, anoint Hazael king over Aram.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:20 - Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. “Let me kiss my father and mother goodbye,” he said, “and then I will come with you.” “Go back,” Elijah replied. “What have I done to you?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:3 - ‘Your silver and gold are mine, and the best of your wives and children are mine.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:4 - The king of Israel answered, “Just as you say, my lord the king. I and all I have are yours.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:7 - The king of Israel summoned all the elders of the land and said to them, “See how this man is looking for trouble! When he sent for my wives and my children, my silver and my gold, I did not refuse him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:9 - So he replied to Ben-Hadad's messengers, “Tell my lord the king, ‘Your servant will do all you demanded the first time, but this demand I cannot meet.' ” They left and took the answer back to Ben-Hadad.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:11 - The king of Israel answered, “Tell him: ‘One who puts on his armor should not boast like one who takes it off.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:12 - Ben-Hadad heard this message while he and the kings were drinking in their tents,[fn] and he ordered his men: “Prepare to attack.” So they prepared to attack the city.
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 20:14 - “But who will do this?” asked Ahab. The prophet replied, “This is what the LORD says: ‘The junior officers under the provincial commanders will do it.' ” “And who will start the battle?” he asked. The prophet answered, “You will.”
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 20:22 - Afterward, the prophet came to the king of Israel and said, “Strengthen your position and see what must be done, because next spring the king of Aram will attack you again.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:28 - The man of God came up and told the king of Israel, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because the Arameans think the LORD is a god of the hills and not a god of the valleys, I will deliver this vast army into your hands, and you will know that I am the LORD.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:31 - His officials said to him, “Look, we have heard that the kings of Israel are merciful. Let us go to the king of Israel with sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads. Perhaps he will spare your life.”
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 20:33 - The men took this as a good sign and were quick to pick up his word. “Yes, your brother Ben-Hadad!” they said. “Go and get him,” the king said. When Ben-Hadad came out, Ahab had him come up into his chariot.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:34 - “I will return the cities my father took from your father,” Ben-Hadad offered. “You may set up your own market areas in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” Ahab said, “On the basis of a treaty I will set you free.” So he made a treaty with him, and let him go.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:35 - By the word of the LORD one of the company of the prophets said to his companion, “Strike me with your weapon,” but he refused.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:36 - So the prophet said, “Because you have not obeyed the LORD, as soon as you leave me a lion will kill you.” And after the man went away, a lion found him and killed him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:37 - The prophet found another man and said, “Strike me, please.” So the man struck him and wounded him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:39 - As the king passed by, the prophet called out to him, “Your servant went into the thick of the battle, and someone came to me with a captive and said, ‘Guard this man. If he is missing, it will be your life for his life, or you must pay a talent[fn] of silver.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:40 - While your servant was busy here and there, the man disappeared.” “That is your sentence,” the king of Israel said. “You have pronounced it yourself.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:42 - He said to the king, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You have set free a man I had determined should die.[fn] Therefore it is your life for his life, your people for his people.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:3 - But Naboth replied, “The LORD forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my ancestors.”
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 21:7 - Jezebel his wife said, “Is this how you act as king over Israel? Get up and eat! Cheer up. I'll get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:15 - As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she said to Ahab, “Get up and take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite that he refused to sell you. He is no longer alive, but dead.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:17 - Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite:
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 21:28 - Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite:
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 22:4 - So he asked Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to fight against Ramoth Gilead?” Jehoshaphat replied to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:5 - But Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, “First seek the counsel of the LORD.”
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 22:7 - But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no longer a prophet of the LORD here whom we can inquire of?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:8 - The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one prophet through whom we can inquire of the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, but always bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” “The king should not say such a thing,” Jehoshaphat replied.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:9 - So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, “Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:11 - Now Zedekiah son of Kenaanah had made iron horns and he declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you will gore the Arameans until they are destroyed.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:14 - But Micaiah said, “As surely as the LORD lives, I can tell him only what the LORD tells me.”
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 Box1Ki 22:16 - The king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear to tell me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:17 - Then Micaiah answered, “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd, and the LORD said, ‘These people have no master. Let each one go home in peace.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:18 - The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn't I tell you that he never prophesies anything good about me, but only bad?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:19 - Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne with all the multitudes of heaven standing around him on his right and on his left.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:20 - And the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab into attacking Ramoth Gilead and going to his death there?' “One suggested this, and another that.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:21 - Finally, a spirit came forward, stood before the LORD and said, ‘I will entice him.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:22 - “ ‘By what means?' the LORD asked. “ ‘I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,' he said. “ ‘You will succeed in enticing him,' said the LORD. ‘Go and do it.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:24 - Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah went up and slapped Micaiah in the face. “Which way did the spirit from[fn] the LORD go when he went from me to speak to you?” he asked.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:25 - Micaiah replied, “You will find out on the day you go to hide in an inner room.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:26 - The king of Israel then ordered, “Take Micaiah and send him back to Amon the ruler of the city and to Joash the king's son
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:28 - Micaiah declared, “If you ever return safely, the LORD has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Mark my words, all you people!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:30 - The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will enter the battle in disguise, but you wear your royal robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:34 - But someone drew his bow at random and hit the king of Israel between the sections of his armor. The king told his chariot driver, “Wheel around and get me out of the fighting. I've been wounded.”
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 1:4 - Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘You will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!' ” So Elijah went.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:5 - When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, “Why have you come back?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:6 - “A man came to meet us,” they replied. “And he said to us, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, “This is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending messengers to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!” ' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:8 - They replied, “He had a garment of hair[fn] and had a leather belt around his waist.” The king said, “That was Elijah the Tishbite.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:9 - Then he sent to Elijah a captain with his company of fifty men. The captain went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, “Man of God, the king says, ‘Come down!' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:10 - Elijah answered the captain, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!” Then fire fell from heaven and consumed the captain and his men.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:11 - At this the king sent to Elijah another captain with his fifty men. The captain said to him, “Man of God, this is what the king says, ‘Come down at once!' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:12 - “If I am a man of God,” Elijah replied, “may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!” Then the fire of God fell from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:13 - So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. “Man of God,” he begged, “please have respect for my life and the lives of these fifty men, your servants!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:15 - The angel of the LORD said to Elijah, “Go down with him; do not be afraid of him.” So Elijah got up and went down with him to the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:16 - He told the king, “This is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel for you to consult that you have sent messengers to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Because you have done this, you will never leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!”
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 2:9 - When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?” “Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” Elisha replied.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:10 - “You have asked a difficult thing,” Elijah said, “yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours—otherwise, it will not.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:14 - He took the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and struck the water with it. “Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” he asked. When he struck the water, it divided to the right and to the left, and he crossed over.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:16 - “Look,” they said, “we your servants have fifty able men. Let them go and look for your master. Perhaps the Spirit of the LORD has picked him up and set him down on some mountain or in some valley.” “No,” Elisha replied, “do not send them.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:17 - But they persisted until he was too embarrassed to refuse. So he said, “Send them.” And they sent fifty men, who searched for three days but did not find him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:18 - When they returned to Elisha, who was staying in Jericho, he said to them, “Didn't I tell you not to go?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:20 - “Bring me a new bowl,” he said, “and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:21 - Then he went out to the spring and threw the salt into it, saying, “This is what the LORD says: ‘I have healed this water. Never again will it cause death or make the land unproductive.' ”
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 3:8 - “By what route shall we attack?” he asked. “Through the Desert of Edom,” he answered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:10 - “What!” exclaimed the king of Israel. “Has the LORD called us three kings together only to deliver us into the hands of Moab?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:11 - But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no prophet of the LORD here, through whom we may inquire of the LORD?” An officer of the king of Israel answered, “Elisha son of Shaphat is here. He used to pour water on the hands of Elijah.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:12 - Jehoshaphat said, “The word of the LORD is with him.” So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:13 - Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why do you want to involve me? Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother.” “No,” the king of Israel answered, “because it was the LORD who called us three kings together to deliver us into the hands of Moab.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:14 - 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 3:16 - and he said, “This is what the LORD says: I will fill this valley with pools of water.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:2 - Elisha replied to her, “How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?” “Your servant has nothing there at all,” she said, “except a small jar of olive oil.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:3 - Elisha said, “Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don't ask for just a few.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:6 - When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another one.” But he replied, “There is not a jar left.” Then the oil stopped flowing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:7 - She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:9 - She said to her husband, “I know that this man who often comes our way is a holy man of God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:12 - He said to his servant Gehazi, “Call the Shunammite.” So he called her, and she stood before him.
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 4:14 - “What can be done for her?” Elisha asked. Gehazi said, “She has no son, and her husband is old.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:16 - “About this time next year,” Elisha said, “you will hold a son in your arms.” “No, my lord!” she objected. “Please, man of God, don't mislead your servant!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:19 - He said to his father, “My head! My head!” His father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:22 - She called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and a donkey so I can go to the man of God quickly and return.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:23 - “Why go to him today?” he asked. “It's not the New Moon or the Sabbath.” “That's all right,” she said.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:24 - She saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Lead on; don't slow down for me unless I tell you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:25 - So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When he saw her in the distance, the man of God said to his servant Gehazi, “Look! There's the Shunammite!
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 4:27 - When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she took hold of his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone! She is in bitter distress, but the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me why.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:28 - “Did I ask you for a son, my lord?” she said. “Didn't I tell you, ‘Don't raise my hopes'?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:29 - Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand and run. Don't greet anyone you meet, and if anyone greets you, do not answer. Lay my staff on the boy's face.”
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 4:36 - Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite.” And he did. When she came, he said, “Take your son.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:38 - Elisha returned to Gilgal and there was a famine in that region. While the company of the prophets was meeting with him, he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot and cook some stew for these prophets.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:41 - Elisha said, “Get some flour.” He put it into the pot and said, “Serve it to the people to eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:42 - A man came from Baal Shalishah, bringing the man of God twenty loaves of barley bread baked from the first ripe grain, along with some heads of new grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” Elisha said.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:43 - “How can I set this before a hundred men?” his servant asked. But Elisha answered, “Give it to the people to eat. For this is what the LORD says: ‘They will eat and have some left over.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:3 - She said to her mistress, “If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:4 - Naaman went to his master and told him what the girl from Israel had said.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:5 - “By all means, go,” the king of Aram replied. “I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman left, taking with him ten talents[fn] of silver, six thousand shekels[fn] of gold and ten sets of clothing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:7 - As soon as the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his robes and said, “Am I God? Can I kill and bring back to life? Why does this fellow send someone to me to be cured of his leprosy? See how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:11 - But Naaman went away angry and said, “I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:13 - Naaman's servants went to him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed'!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:15 - Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God. He stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the world except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.”
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 5:19 - “Go in peace,” Elisha said. After Naaman had traveled some distance,
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 5:22 - “Everything is all right,” Gehazi answered. “My master sent me to say, ‘Two young men from the company of the prophets have just come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent[fn] of silver and two sets of clothing.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:23 - “By all means, take two talents,” said Naaman. He urged Gehazi to accept them, and then tied up the two talents of silver in two bags, with two sets of clothing. He gave them to two of his servants, and they carried them ahead of Gehazi.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:25 - When he went in and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” “Your servant didn't go anywhere,” Gehazi answered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:26 - But Elisha said to him, “Was not my spirit with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to take money or to accept clothes—or olive groves and vineyards, or flocks and herds, or male and female slaves?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:2 - Let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a pole; and let us build a place there for us to meet.” And he said, “Go.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:3 - Then one of them said, “Won't you please come with your servants?” “I will,” Elisha replied.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:6 - The man of God asked, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw it there, and made the iron float.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:7 - “Lift it out,” he said. Then the man reached out his hand and took it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:10 - So the king of Israel checked on the place indicated by the man of God. Time and again Elisha warned the king, so that he was on his guard in such places.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:11 - This enraged the king of Aram. He summoned his officers and demanded of them, “Tell me! Which of us is on the side of the king of Israel?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:12 - “None of us, my lord the king,” said one of his officers, “but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:13 - “Go, find out where he is,” the king ordered, “so I can send men and capture him.” The report came back: “He is in Dothan.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:15 - When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early the next morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. “Oh no, my lord! What shall we do?” the servant asked.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:16 - “Don't be afraid,” the prophet answered. “Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:17 - And Elisha prayed, “Open his eyes, LORD, so that he may see.” Then the LORD opened the servant's eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:18 - As the enemy came down toward him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, “Strike this army with blindness.” So he struck them with blindness, as Elisha had asked.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:19 - Elisha told them, “This is not the road and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you are looking for.” And he led them to Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:20 - After they entered the city, Elisha said, “LORD, open the eyes of these men so they can see.” Then the LORD opened their eyes and they looked, and there they were, inside Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:21 - 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 6:27 - The king replied, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor? From the winepress?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:28 - Then he asked her, “What's the matter?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we'll eat my son.'
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 6:33 - While he was still talking to them, the messenger came down to him. The king said, “This disaster is from the LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:1 - Elisha replied, “Hear the word of the LORD. This is what the LORD says: About this time tomorrow, a seah[fn] of the finest flour will sell for a shekel[fn] and two seahs[fn] of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:2 - The officer on whose arm the king was leaning said to the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” answered Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:3 - Now there were four men with leprosy[fn] at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, “Why stay here until we die?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:6 - for the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired the Hittite and Egyptian kings to attack us!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:9 - Then they said to each other, “What we're doing is not right. This is a day of good news and we are keeping it to ourselves. If we wait until daylight, punishment will overtake us. Let's go at once and report this to the royal palace.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:12 - The king got up in the night and said to his officers, “I will tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving; so they have left the camp to hide in the countryside, thinking, ‘They will surely come out, and then we will take them alive and get into the city.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:13 - One of his officers answered, “Have some men take five of the horses that are left in the city. Their plight will be like that of all the Israelites left here—yes, they will only be like all these Israelites who are doomed. So let us send them to find out what happened.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:19 - The officer had said to the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?” The man of God had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:5 - Just as Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had restored the dead to life, the woman whose son Elisha had brought back to life came to appeal to the king for her house and land. Gehazi said, “This is the woman, my lord the king, and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life.”
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 8:10 - Elisha answered, “Go and say to him, ‘You will certainly recover.' Nevertheless,[fn] the LORD has revealed to me that he will in fact die.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - “Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the harm you will do to the Israelites,” he answered. “You will set fire to their fortified places, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little children to the ground, and rip open their pregnant women.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:13 - Hazael said, “How could your servant, a mere dog, accomplish such a feat?” “The LORD has shown me that you will become king of Aram,” answered Elisha.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:14 - Then Hazael left Elisha and returned to his master. When Ben-Hadad asked, “What did Elisha say to you?” Hazael replied, “He told me that you would certainly recover.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:19 - Nevertheless, for the sake of his servant David, the LORD was not willing to destroy Judah. He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:1 - The prophet Elisha summoned a man from the company of the prophets and said to him, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take this flask of olive oil with you and go to Ramoth Gilead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:5 - When he arrived, he found the army officers sitting together. “I have a message for you, commander,” he said. “For which of us?” asked Jehu. “For you, commander,” he replied.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:6 - Jehu got up and went into the house. Then the prophet poured the oil on Jehu's head and declared, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anoint you king over the LORD's people Israel.
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 9:12 - “That's not true!” they said. “Tell us.” Jehu said, “Here is what he told me: ‘This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.' ”
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 9:21 - “Hitch up my chariot,” Joram ordered. And when it was hitched up, Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah rode out, each in his own chariot, to meet Jehu. They met him at the plot of ground that had belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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 9:23 - Joram turned about and fled, calling out to Ahaziah, “Treachery, Ahaziah!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:25 - Jehu said to Bidkar, his chariot officer, “Pick him up and throw him on the field that belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite. Remember how you and I were riding together in chariots behind Ahab his father when the LORD spoke this prophecy against him:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:27 - When Ahaziah king of Judah saw what had happened, he fled up the road to Beth Haggan.[fn] Jehu chased him, shouting, “Kill him too!” They wounded him in his chariot on the way up to Gur near Ibleam, but he escaped to Megiddo and died there.
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 9:32 - He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked down at him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:33 - “Throw her down!” Jehu said. So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered the wall and the horses as they trampled her underfoot.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:34 - Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of that cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was a king's daughter.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:36 - They went back and told Jehu, who said, “This is the word of the LORD that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite: On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs will devour Jezebel's flesh.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:8 - When the messenger arrived, he told Jehu, “They have brought the heads of the princes.” Then Jehu ordered, “Put them in two piles at the entrance of the city gate until morning.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:9 - The next morning Jehu went out. He stood before all the people and said, “You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master and killed him, but who killed all these?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:13 - he met some relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and asked, “Who are you?” They said, “We are relatives of Ahaziah, and we have come down to greet the families of the king and of the queen mother.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:14 - “Take them alive!” he ordered. So they took them alive and slaughtered them by the well of Beth Eked—forty-two of them. He left no survivor.
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 10:16 - Jehu said, “Come with me and see my zeal for the LORD.” Then he had him ride along in his chariot.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:18 - Then Jehu brought all the people together and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little; Jehu will serve him much.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:20 - Jehu said, “Call an assembly in honor of Baal.” So they proclaimed it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:22 - And Jehu said to the keeper of the wardrobe, “Bring robes for all the servants of Baal.” So he brought out robes for them.
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 10:24 - So they went in to make sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had posted eighty men outside with this warning: “If one of you lets any of the men I am placing in your hands escape, it will be your life for his life.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:25 - As soon as Jehu had finished making the burnt offering, he ordered the guards and officers: “Go in and kill them; let no one escape.” So they cut them down with the sword. The guards and officers threw the bodies out and then entered the inner shrine of the temple of Baal.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:30 - The LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in accomplishing what is right in my eyes and have done to the house of Ahab all I had in mind to do, your descendants will sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:15 - Jehoiada the priest ordered the commanders of units of a hundred, who were in charge of the troops: “Bring her out between the ranks[fn] and put to the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest had said, “She must not be put to death in the temple of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:4 - Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money that is brought as sacred offerings to the temple of the LORD—the money collected in the census, the money received from personal vows and the money brought voluntarily to the temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:7 - Therefore King Joash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and asked them, “Why aren't you repairing the damage done to the temple? Take no more money from your treasurers, but hand it over for repairing the temple.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:14 - Now Elisha had been suffering from the illness from which he died. Jehoash king of Israel went down to see him and wept over him. “My father! My father!” he cried. “The chariots and horsemen of Israel!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:15 - Elisha said, “Get a bow and some arrows,” and he did so.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:16 - “Take the bow in your hands,” he said to the king of Israel. When he had taken it, Elisha put his hands on the king's hands.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:17 - “Open the east window,” he said, and he opened it. “Shoot!” Elisha said, and he shot. “The LORD's arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram!” Elisha declared. “You will completely destroy the Arameans at Aphek.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:18 - Then he said, “Take the arrows,” and the king took them. Elisha told him, “Strike the ground.” He struck it three times and stopped.
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 17:12 - They worshiped idols, though the LORD had said, “You shall not do this.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:19 - The field commander said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: “ ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:22 - 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 in Jerusalem”?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:25 - Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this place without word from the LORD? The LORD himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:26 - Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:27 - But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:28 - Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:6 - Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘This is what the LORD says: Do not be afraid of what you have heard—those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:15 - And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD: “LORD, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:1 - In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:7 - Then Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” They did so and applied it to the boil, and he recovered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:8 - Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the temple of the LORD on the third day from now?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:9 - Isaiah answered, “This is the LORD's sign to you that the LORD will do what he has promised: Shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or shall it go back ten steps?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:10 - “It is a simple matter for the shadow to go forward ten steps,” said Hezekiah. “Rather, have it go back ten steps.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:14 - Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked, “What did those men say, and where did they come from?” “From a distant land,” Hezekiah replied. “They came from Babylon.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:15 - The prophet asked, “What did they see in your palace?” “They saw everything in my palace,” Hezekiah said. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:16 - Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:17 - The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:19 - “The word of the LORD you have spoken is good,” Hezekiah replied. For he thought, “Will there not be peace and security in my lifetime?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:4 - He built altars in the temple of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my Name.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:7 - He took the carved Asherah pole he had made and put it in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name forever.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:8 - Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the temple of the LORD.” He gave it to Shaphan, who read it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:9 - Then Shaphan the secretary went to the king and reported to him: “Your officials have paid out the money that was in the temple of the LORD and have entrusted it to the workers and supervisors at the temple.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:10 - Then Shaphan the secretary informed the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read from it in the presence of the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:15 - She said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Tell the man who sent you to me,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:17 - The king asked, “What is that tombstone I see?” The people of the city said, “It marks the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and pronounced against the altar of Bethel the very things you have done to it.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:18 - “Leave it alone,” he said. “Don't let anyone disturb his bones.” So they spared his bones and those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:27 - So the LORD said, “I will remove Judah also from my presence as I removed Israel, and I will reject Jerusalem, the city I chose, and this temple, about which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.'[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:24 - Gedaliah took an oath to reassure them and their men. “Do not be afraid of the Babylonian officials,” he said. “Settle down in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:4 - Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through, or these uncircumcised fellows will come and abuse me.” But his armor-bearer was terrified and would not do it; so Saul took his own sword and fell on it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:2 - In the past, even while Saul was king, you were the one who led Israel on their military campaigns. And the LORD your God said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel, and you will become their ruler.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:6 - David had said, “Whoever leads the attack on the Jebusites will become commander-in-chief.” Joab son of Zeruiah went up first, and so he received the command.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:17 - David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”
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 12:18 - Then the Spirit came on Amasai, chief of the Thirty, and he said: “We are yours, David! We are with you, son of Jesse! Success, success to you, and success to those who help you, for your God will help you.” So David received them and made them leaders of his raiding bands.
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 13:4 - The whole assembly agreed to do this, because it seemed right to all the people.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:10 - so David inquired of God: “Shall I go and attack the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hands?” The LORD answered him, “Go, I will deliver them into your hands.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:11 - So David and his men went up to Baal Perazim, and there he defeated them. He said, “As waters break out, God has broken out against my enemies by my hand.” So that place was called Baal Perazim.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:12 - The Philistines had abandoned their gods there, and David gave orders to burn them in the fire.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:14 - so David inquired of God again, and God answered him, “Do not go directly after them, but circle around them and attack them in front of the poplar trees.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:2 - Then David said, “No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, because the LORD chose them to carry the ark of the LORD and to minister before him forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:12 - He said to them, “You are the heads of the Levitical families; you and your fellow Levites are to consecrate yourselves and bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:16 - David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their fellow Levites as musicians to make a joyful sound with musical instruments: lyres, harps and cymbals.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:1 - After David was settled in his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:2 - Nathan replied to David, “Whatever you have in mind, do it, for God is with you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:4 - “Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:16 - Then King David went in and sat before the LORD, and he said: “Who am I, LORD God, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:2 - David thought, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father. When David's envoys came to Hanun in the land of the Ammonites to express sympathy to him,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:5 - When someone came and told David about the men, he sent messengers to meet them, for they were greatly humiliated. The king said, “Stay at Jericho till your beards have grown, and then come back.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:12 - Joab said, “If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you are to rescue me; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will rescue you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:2 - So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan. Then report back to me so that I may know how many there are.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:3 - But Joab replied, “May the LORD multiply his troops a hundred times over. My lord the king, are they not all my lord's subjects? Why does my lord want to do this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:8 - Then David said to God, “I have sinned greatly by doing this. Now, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:11 - So Gad went to David and said to him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Take your choice:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:13 - David said to Gad, “I am in deep distress. Let me fall into the hands of the LORD, for his mercy is very great; but do not let me fall into human hands.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:15 - And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the LORD was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah[fn] the Jebusite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:17 - David said to God, “Was it not I who ordered the fighting men to be counted? I, the shepherd,[fn] have sinned and done wrong. These are but sheep. What have they done? LORD my God, let your hand fall on me and my family, but do not let this plague remain on your people.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:18 - Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:22 - David said to him, “Let me have the site of your threshing floor so I can build an altar to the LORD, that the plague on the people may be stopped. Sell it to me at the full price.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:23 - Araunah said to David, “Take it! Let my lord the king do whatever pleases him. Look, I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering. I will give all this.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:24 - But King David replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying the full price. I will not take for the LORD what is yours, or sacrifice a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:27 - Then the LORD spoke to the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:1 - Then David said, “The house of the LORD God is to be here, and also the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:2 - So David gave orders to assemble the foreigners residing in Israel, and from among them he appointed stonecutters to prepare dressed stone for building the house of God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:5 - David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the LORD should be of great magnificence and fame and splendor in the sight of all the nations. Therefore I will make preparations for it.” So David made extensive preparations before his death.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:7 - David said to Solomon: “My son, I had it in my heart to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:25 - For David had said, “Since the LORD, the God of Israel, has granted rest to his people and has come to dwell in Jerusalem forever,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:23 - David did not take the number of the men twenty years old or less, because the LORD had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:2 - King David rose to his feet and said: “Listen to me, my fellow Israelites, my people. I had it in my heart to build a house as a place of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, for the footstool of our God, and I made plans to build it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:3 - But God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for my Name, because you are a warrior and have shed blood.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:20 - David also said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you until all the work for the service of the temple of the LORD is finished.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:1 - Then King David said to the whole assembly: “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great, because this palatial structure is not for man but for the LORD God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:20 - Then David said to the whole assembly, “Praise the LORD your God.” So they all praised the LORD, the God of their fathers; they bowed down, prostrating themselves before the LORD and the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:2 - Then Solomon spoke to all Israel—to the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, to the judges and to all the leaders in Israel, the heads of families—
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:7 - That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask for whatever you want me to give you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:8 - Solomon answered God, “You have shown great kindness to David my father and have made me king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:11 - God said to Solomon, “Since this is your heart's desire and you have not asked for wealth, possessions or honor, nor for the death of your enemies, and since you have not asked for a long life but for wisdom and knowledge to govern my people over whom I have made you king,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:1 - Solomon gave orders to build a temple for the Name of the LORD and a royal palace for himself.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:11 - Hiram king of Tyre replied by letter to Solomon: “Because the LORD loves his people, he has made you their king.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:12 - And Hiram added: “Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth! He has given King David a wise son, endowed with intelligence and discernment, who will build a temple for the LORD and a palace for himself.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:15 - “Now let my lord send his servants the wheat and barley and the olive oil and wine he promised,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:1 - Then Solomon said, “The LORD has said that he would dwell in a dark cloud;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:4 - Then he said: “Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who with his hands has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to my father David. For he said,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:8 - But the LORD said to my father David, ‘You did well to have it in your heart to build a temple for my Name.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:14 - He said: “LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth—you who keep your covenant of love with your servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:12 - the LORD appeared to him at night and said: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple for sacrifices.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:11 - Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said, “My wife must not live in the palace of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:5 - She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your achievements and your wisdom is true.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:5 - Rehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” So the people went away.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:9 - He asked them, “What is your advice? How should we answer these people who say to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us'?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:5 - Then the prophet Shemaiah came to Rehoboam and to the leaders of Judah who had assembled in Jerusalem for fear of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the LORD says, ‘You have abandoned me; therefore, I now abandon you to Shishak.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:4 - Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim, in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, “Jeroboam and all Israel, listen to me!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:4 - He commanded Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their ancestors, and to obey his laws and commands.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:7 - “Let us build up these towns,” he said to Judah, “and put walls around them, with towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours, because we have sought the LORD our God; we sought him and he has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:11 - Then Asa called to the LORD his God and said, “LORD, there is no one like you to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us, LORD our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this vast army. LORD, you are our God; do not let mere mortals prevail against you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:2 - He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:7 - At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him: “Because you relied on the king of Aram and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:3 - Ahab king of Israel asked Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me against Ramoth Gilead?” Jehoshaphat replied, “I am as you are, and my people as your people; we will join you in the war.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:4 - But Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, “First seek the counsel of the LORD.”
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 18:6 - But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no longer a prophet of the LORD here whom we can inquire of?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:7 - The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one prophet through whom we can inquire of the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, but always bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” “The king should not say such a thing,” Jehoshaphat replied.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:8 - So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, “Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:10 - Now Zedekiah son of Kenaanah had made iron horns, and he declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you will gore the Arameans until they are destroyed.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:13 - But Micaiah said, “As surely as the LORD lives, I can tell him only what my God says.”
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 18:15 - The king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear to tell me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:16 - Then Micaiah answered, “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd, and the LORD said, ‘These people have no master. Let each one go home in peace.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:17 - The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn't I tell you that he never prophesies anything good about me, but only bad?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:18 - Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne with all the multitudes of heaven standing on his right and on his left.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:19 - And the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab king of Israel into attacking Ramoth Gilead and going to his death there?' “One suggested this, and another that.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:20 - Finally, a spirit came forward, stood before the LORD and said, ‘I will entice him.' “ ‘By what means?' the LORD asked.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:21 - “ ‘I will go and be a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,' he said. “ ‘You will succeed in enticing him,' said the LORD. ‘Go and do it.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:23 - Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah went up and slapped Micaiah in the face. “Which way did the spirit from[fn] the LORD go when he went from me to speak to you?” he asked.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:24 - Micaiah replied, “You will find out on the day you go to hide in an inner room.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:25 - The king of Israel then ordered, “Take Micaiah and send him back to Amon the ruler of the city and to Joash the king's son,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:26 - and say, ‘This is what the king says: Put this fellow in prison and give him nothing but bread and water until I return safely.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:27 - Micaiah declared, “If you ever return safely, the LORD has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Mark my words, all you people!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:29 - The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will enter the battle in disguise, but you wear your royal robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:33 - But someone drew his bow at random and hit the king of Israel between the breastplate and the scale armor. The king told the chariot driver, “Wheel around and get me out of the fighting. I've been wounded.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:2 - 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 Box2Ch 19:6 - He told them, “Consider carefully what you do, because you are not judging for mere mortals but for the LORD, who is with you whenever you give a verdict.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:6 - and said: “LORD, the God of our ancestors, are you not the God who is in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. Power and might are in your hand, and no one can withstand you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:15 - He said: “Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah and Jerusalem! This is what the LORD says to you: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God's.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:20 - Early in the morning they left for the Desert of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah and people of Jerusalem! Have faith in the LORD your God and you will be upheld; have faith in his prophets and you will be successful.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:7 - Nevertheless, because of the covenant the LORD had made with David, the LORD was not willing to destroy the house of David. He had promised to maintain a lamp for him and his descendants forever.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:9 - He then went in search of Ahaziah, and his men captured him while he was hiding in Samaria. He was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “He was a son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.” So there was no one in the house of Ahaziah powerful enough to retain the kingdom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:3 - the whole assembly made a covenant with the king at the temple of God. Jehoiada said to them, “The king's son shall reign, as the LORD promised concerning the descendants of David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:13 - She looked, and there was the king, standing by his pillar at the entrance. The officers and the trumpeters were beside the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets, and musicians with their instruments were leading the praises. Then Athaliah tore her robes and shouted, “Treason! Treason!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:14 - Jehoiada the priest sent out the commanders of units of a hundred, who were in charge of the troops, and said to them: “Bring her out between the ranks[fn] and put to the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest had said, “Do not put her to death at the temple of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:5 - He called together the priests and Levites and said to them, “Go to the towns of Judah and collect the money due annually from all Israel, to repair the temple of your God. Do it now.” But the Levites did not act at once.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:6 - Therefore the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest and said to him, “Why haven't you required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax imposed by Moses the servant of the LORD and by the assembly of Israel for the tent of the covenant law?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:8 - At the king's command, a chest was made and placed outside, at the gate of the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:9 - A proclamation was then issued in Judah and Jerusalem that they should bring to the LORD the tax that Moses the servant of God had required of Israel in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:20 - Then the Spirit of God came on Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood before the people and said, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you disobey the LORD's commands? You will not prosper. Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has forsaken you.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:22 - King Joash did not remember the kindness Zechariah's father Jehoiada had shown him but killed his son, who said as he lay dying, “May the LORD see this and call you to account.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:9 - Amaziah asked the man of God, “But what about the hundred talents I paid for these Israelite troops?” The man of God replied, “The LORD can give you much more than that.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:16 - While he was still speaking, the king said to him, “Have we appointed you an adviser to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?” So the prophet stopped but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:9 - But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army when it returned to Samaria. He said to them, “Because the LORD, the God of your ancestors, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches to heaven.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:22 - In his time of trouble King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:23 - He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus, who had defeated him; for he thought, “Since the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them so they will help me.” But they were his downfall and the downfall of all Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:5 - and said: “Listen to me, Levites! Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the temple of the LORD, the God of your ancestors. Remove all defilement from the sanctuary.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:21 - They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven male lambs and seven male goats as a sin offering[fn] for the kingdom, for the sanctuary and for Judah. The king commanded the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer these on the altar of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:24 - The priests then slaughtered the goats and presented their blood on the altar for a sin offering to atone for all Israel, because the king had ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:27 - Hezekiah gave the order to sacrifice the burnt offering on the altar. As the offering began, singing to the LORD began also, accompanied by trumpets and the instruments of David king of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:30 - King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the Levites to praise the LORD with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with gladness and bowed down and worshiped.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:31 - Then Hezekiah said, “You have now dedicated yourselves to the LORD. Come and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the temple of the LORD.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:4 - He ordered the people living in Jerusalem to give the portion due the priests and Levites so they could devote themselves to the Law of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:10 - and Azariah the chief priest, from the family of Zadok, answered, “Since the people began to bring their contributions to the temple of the LORD, we have had enough to eat and plenty to spare, because the LORD has blessed his people, and this great amount is left over.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:11 - Hezekiah gave orders to prepare storerooms in the temple of the LORD, and this was done.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:1 - After all that Hezekiah had so faithfully done, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities, thinking to conquer them for himself.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:12 - Did not Hezekiah himself remove this god's high places and altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar and burn sacrifices on it'?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:17 - The king also wrote letters ridiculing the LORD, the God of Israel, and saying this against him: “Just as the gods of the peoples of the other lands did not rescue their people from my hand, so the god of Hezekiah will not rescue his people from my hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:4 - He built altars in the temple of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:7 - He took the image he had made and put it in God's temple, of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name forever.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:16 - Then he restored the altar of the LORD and sacrificed fellowship offerings and thank offerings on it, and told Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:15 - Hilkiah said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the temple of the LORD.” He gave it to Shaphan.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:22 - Hilkiah and those the king had sent with him[fn] went to speak to the prophet Huldah, who was the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath,[fn] the son of Hasrah,[fn] keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the New Quarter.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:23 - She said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Tell the man who sent you to me,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:3 - He said to the Levites, who instructed all Israel and who had been consecrated to the LORD: “Put the sacred ark in the temple that Solomon son of David king of Israel built. It is not to be carried about on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - This Passover was celebrated in the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:21 - But Necho sent messengers to him, saying, “What quarrel is there, king of Judah, between you and me? It is not you I am attacking at this time, but the house with which I am at war. God has told me to hurry; so stop opposing God, who is with me, or he will destroy you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:23 - Archers shot King Josiah, and he told his officers, “Take me away; I am badly wounded.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:2 - “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: “ ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:63 - The governor ordered them not to eat any of the most sacred food until there was a priest ministering with the Urim and Thummim.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:3 - But Zerubbabel, Joshua and the rest of the heads of the families of Israel answered, “You have no part with us in building a temple to our God. We alone will build it for the LORD, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, commanded us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:15 - and he told him, ‘Take these articles and go and deposit them in the temple in Jerusalem. And rebuild the house of God on its site.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:2 - Then Shekaniah son of Jehiel, one of the descendants of Elam, said to Ezra, “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the peoples around us. But in spite of this, there is still hope for Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:10 - Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful; you have married foreign women, adding to Israel's guilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:2 - and in the presence of his associates and the army of Samaria, he said, “What are those feeble Jews doing? Will they restore their wall? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Can they bring the stones back to life from those heaps of rubble—burned as they are?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:10 - Meanwhile, the people in Judah said, “The strength of the laborers is giving out, and there is so much rubble that we cannot rebuild the wall.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:13 - I also shook out the folds of my robe and said, “In this way may God shake out of their house and possessions anyone who does not keep this promise. So may such a person be shaken out and emptied!” At this the whole assembly said, “Amen,” and praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:10 - One day I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home. He said, “Let us meet in the house of God, inside the temple, and let us close the temple doors, because men are coming to kill you—by night they are coming to kill you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:65 - The governor, therefore, ordered them not to eat any of the most sacred food until there should be a priest ministering with the Urim and Thummim.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:9 - Then Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and teacher of the Law, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to them all, “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people had been weeping as they listened to the words of the Law.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:10 - Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:15 - and that they should proclaim this word and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem: “Go out into the hill country and bring back branches from olive and wild olive trees, and from myrtles, palms and shade trees, to make temporary shelters”—as it is written.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:6 - You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:10 - On the seventh day, when King Xerxes was in high spirits from wine, he commanded the seven eunuchs who served him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar and Karkas—
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:13 - Since it was customary for the king to consult experts in matters of law and justice, he spoke with the wise men who understood the times
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:16 - Then Memukan replied in the presence of the king and the nobles, “Queen Vashti has done wrong, not only against the king but also against all the nobles and the peoples of all the provinces of King Xerxes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:11 - “Keep the money,” the king said to Haman, “and do with the people as you please.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:8 - He also gave him a copy of the text of the edict for their annihilation, which had been published in Susa, to show to Esther and explain it to her, and he told him to instruct her to go into the king's presence to beg for mercy and plead with him for her people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:10 - Then she instructed him to say to Mordecai,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:13 - he sent back this answer: “Do not think that because you are in the king's house you alone of all the Jews will escape.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:1 - On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the palace, in front of the king's hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the hall, facing the entrance.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:2 - When he saw Queen Esther standing in the court, he was pleased with her and held out to her the gold scepter that was in his hand. So Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:3 - Then the king asked, “What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be given you.”
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 5:5 - “Bring Haman at once,” the king said, “so that we may do what Esther asks.” So the king and Haman went to the banquet Esther had prepared.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:6 - As they were drinking wine, the king again asked Esther, “Now what is your petition? It will be given you. And what is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be granted.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:7 - Esther replied, “My petition and my request is this:
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:12 - “And that's not all,” Haman added. “I'm the only person Queen Esther invited to accompany the king to the banquet she gave. And she has invited me along with the king tomorrow.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:14 - His wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Have a pole set up, reaching to a height of fifty cubits,[fn] and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai impaled on it. Then go with the king to the banquet and enjoy yourself.” This suggestion delighted Haman, and he had the pole set up.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:1 - That night the king could not sleep; so he ordered the book of the chronicles, the record of his reign, to be brought in and read to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:3 - “What honor and recognition has Mordecai received for this?” the king asked. “Nothing has been done for him,” his attendants answered.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:4 - The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the palace to speak to the king about impaling Mordecai on the pole he had set up for him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:5 - His attendants answered, “Haman is standing in the court.” “Bring him in,” the king ordered.
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 6:7 - So he answered the king, “For the man the king delights to honor,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:10 - “Go at once,” the king commanded Haman. “Get the robe and the horse and do just as you have suggested for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate. Do not neglect anything you have recommended.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:2 - and as they were drinking wine on the second day, the king again asked, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be granted.”
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 7:5 - King Xerxes asked Queen Esther, “Who is he? Where is he—the man who has dared to do such a thing?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:6 - Esther said, “An adversary and enemy! This vile Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and queen.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:8 - Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Will he even molest the queen while she is with me in the house?” As soon as the word left the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:9 - Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said, “A pole reaching to a height of fifty cubits[fn] stands by Haman's house. He had it set up for Mordecai, who spoke up to help the king.” The king said, “Impale him on it!”
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 BoxEst 9:12 - The king said to Queen Esther, “The Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman in the citadel of Susa. What have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given you. What is your request? It will also be granted.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:13 - “If it pleases the king,” Esther answered, “give the Jews in Susa permission to carry out this day's edict tomorrow also, and let Haman's ten sons be impaled on poles.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:7 - The LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the LORD, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:8 - Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:9 - “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:12 - The LORD said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:14 - a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:16 - While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The fire of God fell from the heavens and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:17 - While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:20 - At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:2 - And the LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the LORD, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:3 - Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:4 - “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give all he has for his own life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:6 - The LORD said to Satan, “Very well, then, he is in your hands; but you must spare his life.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:9 - His wife said to him, “Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!”
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 27:1 - And Job continued his discourse:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:14 - The deep says, “It is not in me”; the sea says, “It is not with me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:28 - And he said to the human race, “The fear of the Lord—that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:1 - Job continued his discourse:
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 32:6 - So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite said: “I am young in years, and you are old; that is why I was fearful, not daring to tell you what I know.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:10 - But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:10 - He makes them listen to correction and commands them to repent of their evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:1 - Then the LORD spoke to Job out of the storm. He said:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:1 - The LORD said to Job:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:6 - Then the LORD spoke to Job out of the storm:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:7 - After the LORD had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:7 - I will proclaim the LORD's decree: He said to me, “You are my son; today I have become your father.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:6 - He says to himself, “Nothing will ever shake me.” He swears, “No one will ever do me harm.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:11 - He says to himself, “God will never notice; he covers his face and never sees.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:13 - Why does the wicked man revile God? Why does he say to himself, “He won't call me to account”?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:1 - For the director of music. Of David. The fool[fn] says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:1 - [fn]For the director of music. Of David the servant of the LORD. He sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love you, LORD, my strength.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:8 - My heart says of you, “Seek his face!” Your face, LORD, I will seek.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:9 - For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:16 - But to the wicked person, God says: “What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:1 - [fn]For the director of music. According to mahalath.[fn] A maskil[fn] of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and their ways are vile; there is no one who does good.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:22 - The Lord says, “I will bring them from Bashan; I will bring them from the depths of the sea,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:31 - He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats throughout their country.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:34 - He spoke, and the locusts came, grasshoppers without number;
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 106:34 - They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:25 - For he spoke and stirred up a tempest that lifted high the waves.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 110:1 - Of David. A psalm. The LORD says to my lord:[fn] “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:5 - Let them praise the name of the LORD, for at his command they were created,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:4 - “Let all who are simple come to my house!” To those who have no sense she says,
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:2 - “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:27 - “Look,” says the Teacher,[fn] “this is what I have discovered: “Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:8 - “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher.[fn] “Everything is meaningless!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:7 - With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:9 - He said, “Go and tell this people: “ ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 - Then I said, “For how long, Lord?” And he answered: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:3 - Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out, you and your son Shear-Jashub,[fn] to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer's Field.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:12 - But Ahaz said, “I will not ask; I will not put the LORD to the test.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:13 - Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of humans? Will you try the patience of my God also?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:1 - The LORD said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:3 - Then I made love to the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. And the LORD said to me, “Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:13 - For he says: “ ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, because I have understanding. I removed the boundaries of nations, I plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued[fn] their kings.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:3 - Then the LORD said, “Just as my servant Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years, as a sign and portent against Egypt and Cush,[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:6 - This is what the Lord says to me: “Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:8 - And the lookout[fn] shouted, “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; every night I stay at my post.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:9 - Look, here comes a man in a chariot with a team of horses. And he gives back the answer: ‘Babylon has fallen, has fallen! All the images of its gods lie shattered on the ground!' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:4 - Be ashamed, Sidon, and you fortress of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have neither been in labor nor given birth; I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:13 - The Lord says: “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:4 - The field commander said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: “ ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:11 - Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:12 - But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:13 - Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:6 - Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘This is what the LORD says: Do not be afraid of what you have heard—those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:21 - Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:1 - In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:21 - Isaiah had said, “Prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:22 - Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the temple of the LORD?”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:3 - Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked, “What did those men say, and where did they come from?” “From a distant land,” Hezekiah replied. “They came to me from Babylon.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:4 - The prophet asked, “What did they see in your palace?” “They saw everything in my palace,” Hezekiah said. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:5 - Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD Almighty:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:6 - The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:8 - “The word of the LORD you have spoken is good,” Hezekiah replied. For he thought, “There will be peace and security in my lifetime.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:25 - “To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:16 - Half of the wood he burns in the fire; over it he prepares his meal, he roasts his meat and eats his fill. He also warms himself and says, “Ah! I am warm; I see the fire.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:13 - I will raise up Cyrus[fn] in my righteousness: I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild my city and set my exiles free, but not for a price or reward, says the LORD Almighty.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:4 - Our Redeemer—the LORD Almighty is his name— is the Holy One of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:14 - But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me.”
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 54:1 - “Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,”

says the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:6 - The LORD will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit— a wife who married young, only to be rejected,” says your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:8 - In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:10 - Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:8 - The Sovereign LORD declares— he who gathers the exiles of Israel: “I will gather still others to them besides those already gathered.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:19 - creating praise on their lips. Peace, peace, to those far and near,” says the LORD. “And I will heal them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:21 - “There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:21 - “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever,” says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:8 - He said, “Surely they are my people, children who will be true to me”; and so he became their Savior.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:9 - Do I bring to the moment of birth and not give delivery?” says the LORD. “Do I close up the womb when I bring to delivery?” says your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:17 - “Those who consecrate and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one who is among those who eat the flesh of pigs, rats and other unclean things—they will meet their end together with the one they follow,” declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:20 - And they will bring all your people, from all the nations, to my holy mountain in Jerusalem as an offering to the LORD—on horses, in chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,” says the LORD. “They will bring them, as the Israelites bring their grain offerings, to the temple of the LORD in ceremonially clean vessels.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:21 - And I will select some of them also to be priests and Levites,” says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:23 - From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me,” says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:7 - But the LORD said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am too young.' You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:9 - Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “I have put my words in your mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:12 - The LORD said to me, “You have seen correctly, for I am watching[fn] to see that my word is fulfilled.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:14 - The LORD said to me, “From the north disaster will be poured out on all who live in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:19 - They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:2 - “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: “This is what the LORD says: “ ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the wilderness, through a land not sown.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:25 - Do not run until your feet are bare and your throat is dry. But you said, ‘It's no use! I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:31 - “You of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a desert to Israel or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to you no more'?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:6 - During the reign of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:11 - The LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:15 - Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when I punish them,”

says the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:13 - The LORD said, “It is because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:6 - The LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: ‘Listen to the terms of this covenant and follow them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:9 - Then the LORD said to me, “There is a conspiracy among the people of Judah and those who live in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:6 - Many days later the LORD said to me, “Go now to Perath and get the belt I told you to hide there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:11 - Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:14 - Then the LORD said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries[fn] and the delusions of their own minds.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:1 - Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my heart would not go out to this people. Send them away from my presence! Let them go!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:1 - This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take along some of the elders of the people and of the priests
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:3 - The next day, when Pashhur released him from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD's name for you is not Pashhur, but Terror on Every Side.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:3 - But Jeremiah answered them, “Tell Zedekiah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:3 - Then the LORD asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” “Figs,” I answered. “The good ones are very good, but the bad ones are so bad they cannot be eaten.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:15 - This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:27 - “Then tell them, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk and vomit, and fall to rise no more because of the sword I will send among you.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:28 - But if they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink, tell them, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty says: You must drink it!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:32 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Look! Disaster is spreading from nation to nation; a mighty storm is rising from the ends of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:2 - “This is what the LORD says: Stand in the courtyard of the LORD's house and speak to all the people of the towns of Judah who come to worship in the house of the LORD. Tell them everything I command you; do not omit a word.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:4 - Say to them, ‘This is what the LORD says: If you do not listen to me and follow my law, which I have set before you,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:12 - Then Jeremiah said to all the officials and all the people: “The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and this city all the things you have heard.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:18 - “Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. He told all the people of Judah, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty says: “ ‘Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.'[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:2 - This is what the LORD said to me: “Make a yoke out of straps and crossbars and put it on your neck.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:4 - Give them a message for their masters and say, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “Tell this to your masters:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:8 - “ ‘ “If, however, any nation or kingdom will not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon or bow its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation with the sword, famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I destroy it by his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:16 - Then I said to the priests and all these people, “This is what the LORD says: Do not listen to the prophets who say, ‘Very soon now the articles from the LORD's house will be brought back from Babylon.' They are prophesying lies to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:19 - For this is what the LORD Almighty says about the pillars, the bronze Sea, the movable stands and the other articles that are left in this city,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:2 - “This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:5 - Then the prophet Jeremiah replied to the prophet Hananiah before the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:6 - He said, “Amen! May the LORD do so! May the LORD fulfill the words you have prophesied by bringing the articles of the LORD's house and all the exiles back to this place from Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:11 - and he said before all the people, “This is what the LORD says: ‘In the same way I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon off the neck of all the nations within two years.' ” At this, the prophet Jeremiah went on his way.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:13 - “Go and tell Hananiah, ‘This is what the LORD says: You have broken a wooden yoke, but in its place you will get a yoke of iron.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:14 - This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I will put an iron yoke on the necks of all these nations to make them serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they will serve him. I will even give him control over the wild animals.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:15 - Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, “Listen, Hananiah! The LORD has not sent you, yet you have persuaded this nation to trust in lies.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:16 - Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to remove you from the face of the earth. This very year you are going to die, because you have preached rebellion against the LORD.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:4 - This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:8 - Yes, this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:10 - This is what the LORD says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:21 - This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying lies to you in my name: “I will deliver them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will put them to death before your very eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:31 - “Send this message to all the exiles: ‘This is what the LORD says about Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, even though I did not send him, and has persuaded you to trust in lies,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:32 - this is what the LORD says: I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good things I will do for my people, declares the LORD, because he has preached rebellion against me.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:2 - “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words I have spoken to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:3 - The days are coming,' declares the LORD, ‘when I will bring my people Israel and Judah back from captivity[fn] and restore them to the land I gave their ancestors to possess,' says the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:5 - “This is what the LORD says: “ ‘Cries of fear are heard— terror, not peace.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:8 - “ ‘In that day,' declares the LORD Almighty, ‘I will break the yoke off their necks and will tear off their bonds; no longer will foreigners enslave them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:12 - “This is what the LORD says: “ ‘Your wound is incurable, your injury beyond healing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:18 - “This is what the LORD says: “ ‘I will restore the fortunes of Jacob's tents and have compassion on his dwellings; the city will be rebuilt on her ruins, and the palace will stand in its proper place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:1 - “At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:2 - This is what the LORD says: “The people who survive the sword will find favor in the wilderness; I will come to give rest to Israel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:7 - This is what the LORD says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations. Make your praises heard, and say, ‘LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:15 - This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:16 - This is what the LORD says: “Restrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for your work will be rewarded,”

declares the LORD.

“They will return from the land of the enemy.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:23 - This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “When I bring them back from captivity,[fn] the people in the land of Judah and in its towns will once again use these words: ‘The LORD bless you, you prosperous city, you sacred mountain.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:35 - This is what the LORD says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the LORD Almighty is his name:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:3 - Now Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him there, saying, “Why do you prophesy as you do? You say, ‘This is what the LORD says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:14 - ‘This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Take these documents, both the sealed and unsealed copies of the deed of purchase, and put them in a clay jar so they will last a long time.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:15 - For this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:28 - Therefore this is what the LORD says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the Babylonians and to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will capture it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:36 - “You are saying about this city, ‘By the sword, famine and plague it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon'; but this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:42 - “This is what the LORD says: As I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will give them all the prosperity I have promised them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:2 - “This is what the LORD says, he who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it—the LORD is his name:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:4 - For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the houses in this city and the royal palaces of Judah that have been torn down to be used against the siege ramps and the sword
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:10 - “This is what the LORD says: ‘You say about this place, “It is a desolate waste, without people or animals.” Yet in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted, inhabited by neither people nor animals, there will be heard once more
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:11 - the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those who bring thank offerings to the house of the LORD, saying, “Give thanks to the LORD Almighty, for the LORD is good; his love endures forever.” For I will restore the fortunes of the land as they were before,' says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:12 - “This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘In this place, desolate and without people or animals—in all its towns there will again be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:13 - In the towns of the hill country, of the western foothills and of the Negev, in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah, flocks will again pass under the hand of the one who counts them,' says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:2 - “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Go to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him, ‘This is what the LORD says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:5 - you will die peacefully. As people made a funeral fire in honor of your predecessors, the kings who ruled before you, so they will make a fire in your honor and lament, “Alas, master!” I myself make this promise, declares the LORD.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:13 - “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. I said,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17 - “Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed me; you have not proclaimed freedom to your own people. So I now proclaim ‘freedom' for you, declares the LORD—‘freedom' to fall by the sword, plague and famine. I will make you abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:17 - “Therefore this is what the LORD God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘Listen! I am going to bring on Judah and on everyone living in Jerusalem every disaster I pronounced against them. I spoke to them, but they did not listen; I called to them, but they did not answer.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:18 - Then Jeremiah said to the family of the Rekabites, “This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘You have obeyed the command of your forefather Jehonadab and have followed all his instructions and have done everything he ordered.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:18 - “Yes,” Baruch replied, “he dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them in ink on the scroll.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:29 - Also tell Jehoiakim king of Judah, ‘This is what the LORD says: You burned that scroll and said, “Why did you write on it that the king of Babylon would certainly come and destroy this land and wipe from it both man and beast?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:30 - Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on the throne of David; his body will be thrown out and exposed to the heat by day and the frost by night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:7 - “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of me, ‘Pharaoh's army, which has marched out to support you, will go back to its own land, to Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:9 - “This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves, thinking, ‘The Babylonians will surely leave us.' They will not!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:14 - “That's not true!” Jeremiah said. “I am not deserting to the Babylonians.” But Irijah would not listen to him; instead, he arrested Jeremiah and brought him to the officials.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:17 - 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 37:18 - Then Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “What crime have I committed against you or your attendants or this people, that you have put me in prison?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:2 - “This is what the LORD says: ‘Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine or plague, but whoever goes over to the Babylonians[fn] will live. They will escape with their lives; they will live.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:3 - And this is what the LORD says: ‘This city will certainly be given into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon, who will capture it.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:5 - “He is in your hands,” King Zedekiah answered. “The king can do nothing to oppose you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:8 - Ebed-Melek went out of the palace and said to him,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:12 - Ebed-Melek the Cushite said to Jeremiah, “Put these old rags and worn-out clothes under your arms to pad the ropes.” Jeremiah did so,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:14 - Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and had him brought to the third entrance to the temple of the LORD. “I am going to ask you something,” the king said to Jeremiah. “Do not hide anything from me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:15 - Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I give you an answer, will you not kill me? Even if I did give you counsel, you would not listen to me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:17 - Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, your life will be spared and this city will not be burned down; you and your family will live.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:19 - King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have gone over to the Babylonians, for the Babylonians may hand me over to them and they will mistreat me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:20 - “They will not hand you over,” Jeremiah replied. “Obey the LORD by doing what I tell you. Then it will go well with you, and your life will be spared.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:24 - Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Do not let anyone know about this conversation, or you may die.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:16 - “Go and tell Ebed-Melek the Cushite, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am about to fulfill my words against this city—words concerning disaster, not prosperity. At that time they will be fulfilled before your eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:2 - When the commander of the guard found Jeremiah, he said to him, “The LORD your God decreed this disaster for this place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:15 - Then Johanan son of Kareah said privately to Gedaliah in Mizpah, “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it. Why should he take your life and cause all the Jews who are gathered around you to be scattered and the remnant of Judah to perish?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:16 - But Gedaliah son of Ahikam said to Johanan son of Kareah, “Don't do such a thing! What you are saying about Ishmael is not true.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:6 - Ishmael son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he went. When he met them, he said, “Come to Gedaliah son of Ahikam.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:4 - “I have heard you,” replied Jeremiah the prophet. “I will certainly pray to the LORD your God as you have requested; I will tell you everything the LORD says and will keep nothing back from you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:9 - He said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition, says:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:15 - then hear the word of the LORD, you remnant of Judah. This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you are determined to go to Egypt and you do go to settle there,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 - This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and wrath have been poured out on those who lived in Jerusalem, so will my wrath be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You will be a curse[fn] and an object of horror, a curse[fn] and an object of reproach; you will never see this place again.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:2 - Azariah son of Hoshaiah and Johanan son of Kareah and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to settle there.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:10 - Then say to them, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I will send for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones I have buried here; he will spread his royal canopy above them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:2 - “This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You saw the great disaster I brought on Jerusalem and on all the towns of Judah. Today they lie deserted and in ruins
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:7 - “Now this is what the LORD God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Why bring such great disaster on yourselves by cutting off from Judah the men and women, the children and infants, and so leave yourselves without a remnant?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:11 - “Therefore this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am determined to bring disaster on you and to destroy all Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:20 - Then Jeremiah said to all the people, both men and women, who were answering him,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:24 - Then Jeremiah said to all the people, including the women, “Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:25 - This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You and your wives have done what you said you would do when you promised, ‘We will certainly carry out the vows we made to burn incense and pour out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven.' “Go ahead then, do what you promised! Keep your vows!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:26 - But hear the word of the LORD, all you Jews living in Egypt: ‘I swear by my great name,' says the LORD, ‘that no one from Judah living anywhere in Egypt will ever again invoke my name or swear, “As surely as the Sovereign LORD lives.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:30 - This is what the LORD says: ‘I am going to deliver Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hands of his enemies who want to kill him, just as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the enemy who wanted to kill him.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:2 - “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:4 - But the LORD has told me to say to you, ‘This is what the LORD says: I will overthrow what I have built and uproot what I have planted, throughout the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:8 - Egypt rises like the Nile, like rivers of surging waters. She says, ‘I will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy cities and their people.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:1 - Concerning Moab: This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo, for it will be ruined. Kiriathaim will be disgraced and captured; the stronghold[fn] will be disgraced and shattered.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:8 - The destroyer will come against every town, and not a town will escape. The valley will be ruined and the plateau destroyed, because the LORD has spoken.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:40 - This is what the LORD says: “Look! An eagle is swooping down, spreading its wings over Moab.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:1 - Concerning the Ammonites: This is what the LORD says: “Has Israel no sons? Has Israel no heir? Why then has Molek[fn] taken possession of Gad? Why do his people live in its towns?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:5 - I will bring terror on you from all those around you,”

declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty.

“Every one of you will be driven away, and no one will gather the fugitives.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:12 - This is what the LORD says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, why should you go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, but must drink it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:18 - As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown, along with their neighboring towns,”

says the LORD,

“so no one will live there; no people will dwell in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:28 - Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon attacked: This is what the LORD says: “Arise, and attack Kedar and destroy the people of the East.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:32 - Their camels will become plunder, and their large herds will be spoils of war. I will scatter to the winds those who are in distant places[fn] and will bring disaster on them from every side,”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:30 - Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets; all her soldiers will be silenced in that day,”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:40 - As I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighboring towns,”

declares the LORD,

“so no one will live there; no people will dwell in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:61 - He said to Seraiah, “When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1 - How deserted lies the city, once so full of people! How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations! She who was queen among the provinces has now become a slave.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:36 - to deprive them of justice— would not the Lord see such things?
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:37 - Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:1 - He said to me, “Son of man,[fn] stand up on your feet and I will speak to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:3 - He said: “Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me; they and their ancestors have been in revolt against me to this very day.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:1 - And he said to me, “Son of man, eat what is before you, eat this scroll; then go and speak to the people of Israel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:3 - Then he said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it.” So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:4 - He then said to me: “Son of man, go now to the people of Israel and speak my words to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:10 - And he said to me, “Son of man, listen carefully and take to heart all the words I speak to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:22 - The hand of the LORD was on me there, and he said to me, “Get up and go out to the plain, and there I will speak to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:15 - “Very well,” he said, “I will let you bake your bread over cow dung instead of human excrement.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:16 - He then said to me: “Son of man, I am about to cut off the food supply in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:5 - Then he said to me, “Son of man, look toward the north.” So I looked, and in the entrance north of the gate of the altar I saw this idol of jealousy.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:6 - And he said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing—the utterly detestable things the Israelites are doing here, things that will drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see things that are even more detestable.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:8 - He said to me, “Son of man, now dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and saw a doorway there.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:9 - And he said to me, “Go in and see the wicked and detestable things they are doing here.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:12 - He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? They say, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:13 - Again, he said, “You will see them doing things that are even more detestable.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:15 - He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? You will see things that are even more detestable than this.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:17 - He said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a trivial matter for the people of Judah to do the detestable things they are doing here? Must they also fill the land with violence and continually arouse my anger? Look at them putting the branch to their nose!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:4 - and said to him, “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things that are done in it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:5 - As I listened, he said to the others, “Follow him through the city and kill, without showing pity or compassion.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:7 - Then he said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go!” So they went out and began killing throughout the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:9 - He answered me, “The sin of the people of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of injustice. They say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:2 - The LORD said to the man clothed in linen, “Go in among the wheels beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And as I watched, he went in.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:2 - The LORD said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who are plotting evil and giving wicked advice in this city.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:5 - Then the Spirit of the LORD came on me, and he told me to say: “This is what the LORD says: That is what you are saying, you leaders in Israel, but I know what is going through your mind.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:36 - The LORD said to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then confront them with their detestable practices,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:19 - Then the people asked me, “Won't you tell us what these things have to do with us? Why are you acting like this?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:8 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: ‘Because Moab and Seir said, “Look, Judah has become like all the other nations,”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:2 - “Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken, and its doors have swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will prosper,'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:2 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The enemy said of you, “Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession.” '
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 37:4 - Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:9 - Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:4 - The man said to me, “Son of man, look carefully and listen closely and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for that is why you have been brought here. Tell the people of Israel everything you see.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:45 - He said to me, “The room facing south is for the priests who guard the temple,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:4 - And he measured the length of the inner sanctuary; it was twenty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits across the end of the main hall. He said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:22 - There was a wooden altar three cubits[fn] high and two cubits square[fn]; its corners, its base[fn] and its sides were of wood. The man said to me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:13 - Then he said to me, “The north and south rooms facing the temple courtyard are the priests' rooms, where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will put the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings[fn] and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:7 - He said: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live among the Israelites forever. The people of Israel will never again defile my holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and the funeral offerings[fn] for their kings at their death.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:18 - Then he said to me, “Son of man, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: These will be the regulations for sacrificing burnt offerings and splashing blood against the altar when it is built:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:2 - The LORD said to me, “This gate is to remain shut. It must not be opened; no one may enter through it. It is to remain shut because the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered through it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:5 - The LORD said to me, “Son of man, look carefully, listen closely and give attention to everything I tell you concerning all the regulations and instructions regarding the temple of the LORD. Give attention to the entrance to the temple and all the exits of the sanctuary.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:20 - He said to me, “This is the place where the priests are to cook the guilt offering and the sin offering[fn] and bake the grain offering, to avoid bringing them into the outer court and consecrating the people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:24 - He said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple are to cook the sacrifices of the people.”
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 BoxEze 47:8 - He said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah,[fn] where it enters the Dead Sea. When it empties into the sea, the salty water there becomes fresh.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:3 - Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of his court officials, to bring into the king's service some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility—
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:10 - but the official told Daniel, “I am afraid of my lord the king, who has assigned your[fn] food and drink. Why should he see you looking worse than the other young men your age? The king would then have my head because of you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:11 - Daniel then said to the guard whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah,
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:18 - At the end of the time set by the king to bring them into his service, the chief official presented them to Nebuchadnezzar.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:2 - So the king summoned the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers and astrologers[fn] to tell him what he had dreamed. When they came in and stood before the king,
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:3 - he said to them, “I have had a dream that troubles me and I want to know what it means.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:5 - The king replied to the astrologers, “This is what I have firmly decided: If you do not tell me what my dream was and interpret it, I will have you cut into pieces and your houses turned into piles of rubble.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:8 - Then the king answered, “I am certain that you are trying to gain time, because you realize that this is what I have firmly decided:
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:12 - This made the king so angry and furious that he ordered the execution of all the wise men of Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:20 - and said: “Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are his.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:24 - Then Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to execute the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, “Do not execute the wise men of Babylon. Take me to the king, and I will interpret his dream for him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:25 - Arioch took Daniel to the king at once and said, “I have found a man among the exiles from Judah who can tell the king what his dream means.”
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 2:46 - Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell prostrate before Daniel and paid him honor and ordered that an offering and incense be presented to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:47 - The king said to Daniel, “Surely your God is the God of gods and the Lord of kings and a revealer of mysteries, for you were able to reveal this mystery.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:13 - Furious with rage, Nebuchadnezzar summoned Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. So these men were brought before the king,
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 3:19 - Then Nebuchadnezzar was furious with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, and his attitude toward them changed. He ordered the furnace heated seven times hotter than usual
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:20 - and commanded some of the strongest soldiers in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and throw them into the blazing furnace.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:24 - Then King Nebuchadnezzar leaped to his feet in amazement and asked his advisers, “Weren't there three men that we tied up and threw into the fire?” They replied, “Certainly, Your Majesty.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:25 - He said, “Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:26 - Nebuchadnezzar then approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, “Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!” So Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego came out of the fire,
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:28 - Then Nebuchadnezzar said, “Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who has sent his angel and rescued his servants! They trusted in him and defied the king's command and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:14 - He called in a loud voice: ‘Cut down the tree and trim off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the animals flee from under it and the birds from its branches.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:19 - Then Daniel (also called Belteshazzar) was greatly perplexed for a time, and his thoughts terrified him. So the king said, “Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or its meaning alarm you.” Belteshazzar answered, “My lord, if only the dream applied to your enemies and its meaning to your adversaries!
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:23 - “Your Majesty saw a holy one, a messenger, coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump, bound with iron and bronze, in the grass of the field, while its roots remain in the ground. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven; let him live with the wild animals, until seven times pass by for him.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:30 - he said, “Is not this the great Babylon I have built as the royal residence, by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty?”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:2 - While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar his father[fn] had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:7 - The king summoned the enchanters, astrologers[fn] and diviners. Then he said to these wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing and tells me what it means will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:10 - The queen,[fn] hearing the voices of the king and his nobles, came into the banquet hall. “May the king live forever!” she said. “Don't be alarmed! Don't look so pale!
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:13 - So Daniel was brought before the king, and the king said to him, “Are you Daniel, one of the exiles my father the king brought from Judah?
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:17 - Then Daniel answered the king, “You may keep your gifts for yourself and give your rewards to someone else. Nevertheless, I will read the writing for the king and tell him what it means.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:29 - Then at Belshazzar's command, Daniel was clothed in purple, a gold chain was placed around his neck, and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:12 - So they went to the king and spoke to him about his royal decree: “Did you not publish a decree that during the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human being except to you, Your Majesty, would be thrown into the lions' den?” The king answered, “The decree stands—in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:16 - So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the lions' den. The king said to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, rescue you!”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:21 - Daniel answered, “May the king live forever!
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:23 - The king was overjoyed and gave orders to lift Daniel out of the den. And when Daniel was lifted from the den, no wound was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:24 - At the king's command, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought in and thrown into the lions' den, along with their wives and children. And before they reached the floor of the den, the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:23 - “He gave me this explanation: ‘The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on earth. It will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:13 - Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, “How long will it take for the vision to be fulfilled—the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, the surrender of the sanctuary and the trampling underfoot of the LORD's people?”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:14 - He said to me, “It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be reconsecrated.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:16 - And I heard a man's voice from the Ulai calling, “Gabriel, tell this man the meaning of the vision.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:17 - As he came near the place where I was standing, I was terrified and fell prostrate. “Son of man,”[fn] he said to me, “understand that the vision concerns the time of the end.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:19 - He said: “I am going to tell you what will happen later in the time of wrath, because the vision concerns the appointed time of the end.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:22 - He instructed me and said to me, “Daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:11 - He said, “Daniel, you who are highly esteemed, consider carefully the words I am about to speak to you, and stand up, for I have now been sent to you.” And when he said this to me, I stood up trembling.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:12 - Then he continued, “Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them.
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 BoxDan 12:6 - One of them said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long will it be before these astonishing things are fulfilled?”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:9 - He replied, “Go your way, Daniel, because the words are rolled up and sealed until the time of the end.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:2 - When the LORD began to speak through Hosea, the LORD said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:4 - Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Call him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:6 - Gomer conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Call her Lo-Ruhamah (which means “not loved”), for I will no longer show love to Israel, that I should at all forgive them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:9 - Then the LORD said, “Call him Lo-Ammi (which means “not my people”), for you are not my people, and I am not your God.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:5 - Their mother has been unfaithful and has conceived them in disgrace. She said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my food and my water, my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.'
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:12 - I will ruin her vines and her fig trees, which she said were her pay from her lovers; I will make them a thicket, and wild animals will devour them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 3:1 - The LORD said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:8 - Ephraim boasts, “I am very rich; I have become wealthy. With all my wealth they will not find in me any iniquity or sin.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:19 - The LORD replied[fn] to them: “I am sending you grain, new wine and olive oil, enough to satisfy you fully; never again will I make you an object of scorn to the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:32 - And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has said, even among the survivors whom the LORD calls.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:2 - He said: “The LORD roars from Zion and thunders from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds dry up, and the top of Carmel withers.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:3 - This is what the LORD says: “For three sins of Damascus, even for four, I will not relent. Because she threshed Gilead with sledges having iron teeth,
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:17 - There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,”

says the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:8 - And the LORD asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” “A plumb line,” I replied. Then the Lord said, “Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:12 - Then Amaziah said to Amos, “Get out, you seer! Go back to the land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:14 - Amos answered Amaziah, “I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:15 - But the LORD took me from tending the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:2 - “What do you see, Amos?” he asked. “A basket of ripe fruit,” I answered. Then the LORD said to me, “The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:1 - I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Bring them down on the heads of all the people; those who are left I will kill with the sword. Not one will get away, none will escape.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:6 - The captain went to him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call on your god! Maybe he will take notice of us so that we will not perish.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:7 - Then the sailors said to each other, “Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity.” They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:9 - He answered, “I am a Hebrew and I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:12 - “Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” he replied, “and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:2 - He said: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me. From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help, and you listened to my cry.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:4 - Jonah began by going a day's journey into the city, proclaiming, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:2 - He prayed to the LORD, “Isn't this what I said, LORD, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:4 - But the LORD replied, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:8 - When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah's head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die, and said, “It would be better for me to die than to live.”
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 BoxJon 4:10 - But the LORD said, “You have been concerned about this plant, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:1 - Listen to what the LORD says: “Stand up, plead my case before the mountains; let the hills hear what you have to say.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:2 - Then the LORD replied: “Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald[fn] may run with it.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:8 - Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build my house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored,” says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:13 - Then Haggai, the LORD's messenger, gave this message of the LORD to the people: “I am with you,” declares the LORD.
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 2:14 - Then Haggai said, “ ‘So it is with this people and this nation in my sight,' declares the LORD. ‘Whatever they do and whatever they offer there is defiled.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:9 - I asked, “What are these, my lord?” The angel who was talking with me answered, “I will show you what they are.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:10 - Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, “They are the ones the LORD has sent to go throughout the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:12 - Then the angel of the LORD said, “LORD Almighty, how long will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and from the towns of Judah, which you have been angry with these seventy years?”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:14 - Then the angel who was speaking to me said, “Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion,
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:17 - “Proclaim further: This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘My towns will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:19 - I asked the angel who was speaking to me, “What are these?” He answered me, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:21 - I asked, “What are these coming to do?” He answered, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise their head, but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter its people.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:2 - I asked, “Where are you going?” He answered me, “To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:4 - and said to him: “Run, tell that young man, ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the great number of people and animals in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:2 - The LORD said to Satan, “The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:4 - The angel said to those who were standing before him, “Take off his filthy clothes.” Then he said to Joshua, “See, I have taken away your sin, and I will put fine garments on you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:2 - He asked me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a solid gold lampstand with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it, with seven channels to the lamps.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:5 - He answered, “Do you not know what these are?” “No, my lord,” I replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:6 - So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the LORD Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:13 - He replied, “Do you not know what these are?” “No, my lord,” I said.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:14 - So he said, “These are the two who are anointed to[fn] serve the Lord of all the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:2 - He asked me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:3 - And he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely will be banished.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:5 - Then the angel who was speaking to me came forward and said to me, “Look up and see what is appearing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:6 - I asked, “What is it?” He replied, “It is a basket.” And he added, “This is the iniquity[fn] of the people throughout the land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:8 - He said, “This is wickedness,” and he pushed her back into the basket and pushed its lead cover down on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:11 - He replied, “To the country of Babylonia[fn] to build a house for it. When the house is ready, the basket will be set there in its place.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:5 - The angel answered me, “These are the four spirits[fn] of heaven, going out from standing in the presence of the Lord of the whole world.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:7 - When the powerful horses went out, they were straining to go throughout the earth. And he said, “Go throughout the earth!” So they went throughout the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:13 - “ ‘When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,' says the LORD Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:13 - And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the handsome price at which they valued me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:15 - Then the LORD said to me, “Take again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
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