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ὑπὲρ — 291x G5228 ὑπέρ
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Occurrences: 291 times in 250 verses
Speech: Preposition
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:22 - And to you I give one more ridge of land[fn] than to your brothers, the ridge I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:9 - “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:16 - Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:3 - but the judge must not impose more than forty lashes. If the guilty party is flogged more than that, your fellow Israelite will be degraded in your eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:23 - The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:5 - He will bring you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:19 - But when the judge died, the people returned to ways even more corrupt than those of their ancestors, following other gods and serving and worshiping them. They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:17 - Remember that my father fought for you and risked his life to rescue you from the hand of Midian.
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 BoxRth 1:13 - would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the LORD's hand has turned against me!”
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 3:12 - Although it is true that I am a guardian-redeemer of our family, there is another who is more closely related than I.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:15 - He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:5 - But to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her, and the LORD had closed her womb.
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 1:27 - I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:25 - If one person sins against another, God[fn] may mediate for the offender; but if anyone sins against the LORD, who will intercede for them?” His sons, however, did not listen to their father's rebuke, for it was the LORD's will to put them to death.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:29 - Why do you[fn] scorn my sacrifice and offering that I prescribed for my dwelling? Why do you honor your sons more than me by fattening yourselves on the choice parts of every offering made by my people Israel?'
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:21 - She named the boy Ichabod,[fn] saying, “The Glory has departed from Israel”—because of the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:2 - Kish had a son named Saul, as handsome a young man as could be found anywhere in Israel, and he was a head taller than anyone else.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:2 - When you leave me today, you will meet two men near Rachel's tomb, at Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you set out to look for have been found. And now your father has stopped thinking about them and is worried about you. He is asking, “What shall I do about my son?” '
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:23 - They ran and brought him out, and as he stood among the people he was a head taller than any of the others.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:19 - The people all said to Samuel, “Pray to the LORD your God for your servants so that we will not die, for we have added to all our other sins the evil of asking for a 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 15:28 - 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 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 24:17 - “You are more righteous than I,” he said. “You have treated me well, but I have treated you badly.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:19 - “A gazelle[fn] lies slain on your heights, Israel. How the mighty have fallen!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:23 - Saul and Jonathan— in life they were loved and admired, and in death they were not parted. They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:26 - I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother; you were very dear to me. Your love for me was wonderful, more wonderful than that of women.
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 6:8 - Then David was angry because the LORD's wrath had broken out against Uzzah, and to this day that place is called Perez Uzzah.[fn]
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 7:19 - And as if this were not enough in your sight, Sovereign LORD, you have also spoken about the future of the house of your servant—and this decree, Sovereign LORD, is for a mere human![fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:28 - Sovereign LORD, you are God! Your covenant is trustworthy, and you have promised these good things to your servant.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:10 - he sent his son Joram[fn] to King David to greet him and congratulate him on his victory in battle over Hadadezer, who had been at war with Tou. Joram brought with him articles of silver, of gold and of bronze.
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 10:12 - Be strong, and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God. The LORD will do what is good in his sight.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:14 - But he refused to listen to her, and since he was stronger than she, he raped her.
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 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 18:5 - The king commanded Joab, Abishai and Ittai, “Be gentle with the young man Absalom for my sake.” And all the troops heard the king giving orders concerning Absalom to each of the commanders.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:8 - The battle spread out over the whole countryside, and the forest swallowed up more men that day than the sword.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:7 - Now go out and encourage your men. I swear by the LORD that if you don't go out, not a man will be left with you by nightfall. This will be worse for you than all the calamities that have come on you from your youth till now.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:43 - 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 20:6 - 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 22:18 - He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:37 - As the LORD was with my lord the king, so may he be with Solomon to make his throne even greater than the throne of my lord King David!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:47 - Also, the royal officials have come to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make Solomon's name more famous than yours and his throne greater than yours!' And the king bowed in worship on his bed
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 2:32 - The LORD will repay him for the blood he shed, because without my father David knowing it he attacked two men and killed them with the sword. Both of them—Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel's army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah's army—were better men and more upright than he.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:30 - Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East, and greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:31 - He was wiser than anyone else, including Ethan the Ezrahite—wiser than Heman, Kalkol and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread to all the surrounding nations.
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 9:26 - King Solomon also built ships at Ezion Geber, which is near Elath in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:23 - King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:10 - Although he had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD's command.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:7 - Moreover, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani to Baasha and his house, because of all the evil he had done in the eyes of the LORD, arousing his anger by the things he did, becoming like the house of Jeroboam—and also because he destroyed it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:19 - because of the sins he had committed, doing evil in the eyes of the LORD and following the ways of Jeroboam and committing the same sin Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:25 - But Omri did evil in the eyes of the LORD and sinned more than all those before him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:30 - Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the LORD than any of those before him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:33 - Ahab also made an Asherah pole and did more to arouse the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, than did all the kings of Israel before him.
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 20:23 - Meanwhile, the officials of the king of Aram advised him, “Their gods are gods of the hills. That is why they were too strong for us. But if we fight them on the plains, surely we will be stronger than they.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:25 - You must also raise an army like the one you lost—horse for horse and chariot for chariot—so we can fight Israel on the plains. Then surely we will be stronger than they.” He agreed with them and acted accordingly.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:2 - Ahab said to Naboth, “Let me have your vineyard to use for a vegetable garden, since it is close to my palace. In exchange I will give you a better vineyard or, if you prefer, I will pay you whatever it is worth.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:27 - When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted. He lay in sackcloth and went around meekly.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:26 - When the king of Moab saw that the battle had gone against him, he took with him seven hundred swordsmen to break through to the king of Edom, but they failed.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:12 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn't I wash in them and be cleansed?” So he turned and went off in a rage.
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 10:3 - choose the best and most worthy of your master's sons and set him on his father's throne. Then fight for your master's house.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:6 - Yet he did not put the children of the assassins to death, in accordance with what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses where the LORD commanded: “Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:14 - But they would not listen and were as stiff-necked as their ancestors, who did not trust in the LORD their God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:34 - I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:6 - I will add fifteen years to your life. And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:9 - But the people did not listen. Manasseh led them astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:13 - “Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for the people and for all Judah about what is written in this book that has been found. Great is the LORD's anger that burns against us because those who have gone before us have not obeyed the words of this book; they have not acted in accordance with all that is written there concerning us.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:9 - Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez,[fn] saying, “I gave birth to him in pain.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:21 - He was doubly honored above the Three and became their commander, even though he was not included among them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:22 - Benaiah son of Jehoiada, a valiant fighter from Kabzeel, performed great exploits. He struck down Moab's two mightiest warriors. He also went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:25 - He was held in greater honor than any of the Thirty, but he was not included among the Three. And David put him in charge of his bodyguard.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:10 - he sent his son Hadoram to King David to greet him and congratulate him on his victory in battle over Hadadezer, who had been at war with Tou. Hadoram brought all kinds of articles of gold, of silver and of bronze.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 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 29:9 - The people rejoiced at the willing response of their leaders, for they had given freely and wholeheartedly to the LORD. David the king also rejoiced greatly.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:22 - King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:21 - Rehoboam loved Maakah daughter of Absalom more than any of his other wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:13 - But you have followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and you have led Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab did. You have also murdered your own brothers, members of your own family, men who were better than you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:4 - Yet he did not put their children to death, but acted in accordance with what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor children be put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:18 - Although most of the many people who came from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover, contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May the LORD, who is good, pardon everyone
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:9 - Hezekiah asked the priests and Levites about the heaps;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:9 - But Manasseh led Judah and the people of Jerusalem astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:5 - But the eye of their God was watching over the elders of the Jews, and they were not stopped until a report could go to Darius and his written reply be received.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:17 - For the dedication of this house of God they offered a hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred male lambs and, as a sin offering[fn] for all Israel, twelve male goats, one for each of the tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:6 - and prayed: “I am too ashamed and disgraced, my God, to lift up my face to you, because our sins are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:23 - And when the report was investigated and found to be true, the two officials were impaled on poles. All this was recorded in the book of the annals in the presence of the king.
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 BoxJob 2:4 - “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give all he has for his own life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:5 - Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:18 - Coral and jasper are not worthy of mention; the price of wisdom is beyond rubies.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:3 - when his lamp shone on my head and by his light I walked through darkness!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:1 - [fn]For the director of music. For pipes. A psalm of David. Listen to my words, LORD, consider my lament.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:1 - [fn]For the director of music. With stringed instruments. According to sheminith.[fn] A psalm of David. LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:1 - [fn]A shiggaion[fn] of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, a Benjamite. LORD my God, I take refuge in you; save and deliver me from all who pursue me,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:7 - Let the assembled peoples gather around you, while you sit enthroned over them on high.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:1 - [fn]For the director of music. According to gittith.[fn] A psalm of David. LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:1 - [fn][fn]For the director of music. To the tune of “The Death of the Son.” A psalm of David. I will give thanks to you, LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:1 - [fn]For the director of music. According to sheminith.[fn] A psalm of David. Help, LORD, for no one is faithful anymore; those who are loyal have vanished from the human race.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:17 - He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:10 - They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the honeycomb.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:1 - [fn]For the director of music. To the tune of “The Doe of the Morning.” A psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:6 - Therefore let all the faithful pray to you while you may be found; surely the rising of the mighty waters will not reach them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:16 - Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:18 - I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:19 - Many have become my enemies without cause[fn]; those who hate me without reason are numerous.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:11 - When you rebuke and discipline anyone for their sin, you consume their wealth like a moth— surely everyone is but a breath.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:5 - Many, LORD my God, are the wonders you have done, the things you planned for us. None can compare with you; were I to speak and tell of your deeds, they would be too many to declare.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:12 - For troubles without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails within me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:1 - [fn]For the director of music. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil.[fn] A wedding song. My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses for the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:1 - [fn]For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. According to alamoth.[fn] A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 47:1 - [fn]For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:7 - Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:3 - You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking the truth.[fn]
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 55:21 - His talk is smooth as butter, yet war is in his heart; his words are more soothing than oil, yet they are drawn swords.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:1 - [fn]For the director of music. To the tune of “A Dove on Distant Oaks.” Of David. A miktam.[fn] When the Philistines had seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, my God, for my enemies are in hot pursuit; all day long they press their attack.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:7 - Because of their wickedness do not[fn] let them escape; in your anger, God, bring the nations down.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:1 - [fn]For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David. Truly my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:3 - Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:5 - Come and see what God has done, his awesome deeds for mankind!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:1 - [fn]For the director of music. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of David. Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:4 - Those who hate me without reason outnumber the hairs of my head; many are my enemies without cause, those who seek to destroy me. I am forced to restore what I did not steal.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:31 - This will please the LORD more than an ox, more than a bull with its horns and hooves.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:16 - May grain abound throughout the land; on the tops of the hills may it sway. May the crops flourish like Lebanon and thrive[fn] like the grass of the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:1 - [fn]For the director of music. For Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A psalm. I cried out to God for help; I cried out to God to hear me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:1 - [fn]For the director of music. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” Of Asaph. A psalm. Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:1 - [fn]For the director of music. According to gittith.[fn] Of Asaph. Sing for joy to God our strength; shout aloud to the God of Jacob!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 84:1 - [fn]For the director of music. According to gittith.[fn] Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. How lovely is your dwelling place, LORD Almighty!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 84:10 - Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:2 - The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the other dwellings of Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:1 - [fn]A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. For the director of music. According to mahalath leannoth.[fn] A maskil[fn] of Heman the Ezrahite. LORD, you are the God who saves me; day and night I cry out to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:9 - For you, LORD, are the Most High over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:14 - He allowed no one to oppress them; for their sake he rebuked kings:
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:24 - The LORD made his people very fruitful; he made them too numerous for their foes,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:72 - The law from your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of silver and gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:98 - Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:99 - I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:100 - I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:103 - How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:127 - Because I love your commands more than gold, more than pure gold,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 131:1 - A song of ascents. Of David. My heart is not proud, LORD, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 138:8 - The LORD will vindicate me; your love, LORD, endures forever— do not abandon the works of your hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:18 - Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 142:6 - Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need; rescue me from those who pursue me, for they are too strong for me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:10 - Choose my instruction instead of silver, knowledge rather than choice gold,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:19 - My fruit is better than fine gold; what I yield surpasses choice silver.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:16 - How much better to get wisdom than gold, to get insight rather than silver!
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:1 - A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:7 - I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:13 - I saw that wisdom is better than folly, just as light is better than darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:2 - And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:3 - But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:6 - Better one handful with tranquillity than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:9 - Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor:
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:13 - Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:1 - Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:3 - A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:5 - Though it never saw the sun or knew anything, it has more rest than does that man—
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:8 - What advantage have the wise over fools? What do the poor gain by knowing how to conduct themselves before others?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:9 - Better what the eye sees than the roving of the appetite. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:10 - Whatever exists has already been named, and what humanity is has been known; no one can contend with someone who is stronger.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:1 - A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of death better than the day of birth.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:3 - Frustration is better than laughter, because a sad face is good for the heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:5 - It is better to heed the rebuke of a wise person than to listen to the song of fools.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:8 - The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:10 - Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:19 - Wisdom makes one wise person more powerful than ten rulers in a city.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:24 - Whatever exists is far off and most profound— who can discover it?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:26 - I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:4 - Anyone who is among the living has hope[fn]—even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:16 - So I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” But the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are no longer heeded.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:17 - The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler of fools.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:18 - Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:1 - As dead flies give perfume a bad smell, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:2 - She[fn]: Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth— for your love is more delightful than wine.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:3 - Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the young women love you!
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:4 - Take me away with you—let us hurry! Let the king bring me into his chambers. Friends: We rejoice and delight in you[fn]; we will praise your love more than wine. She: How right they are to adore you!
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:10 - How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much more pleasing is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume more than any spice!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:5 - Like birds hovering overhead, the LORD Almighty will shield Jerusalem; he will shield it and deliver it, he will ‘pass over' it and will rescue it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:10 - and those the LORD has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:35 - “I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:6 - And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:3 - For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush[fn] and Seba in your stead.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:4 - Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give people in exchange for you, nations in exchange for your life.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:9 - You went to Molek[fn] with olive oil and increased your perfumes. You sent your ambassadors[fn] far away; you descended to the very realm of the dead!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:7 - Instead of your shame you will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace you will rejoice in your inheritance. And so you will inherit a double portion in your land, and everlasting joy will be yours.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:3 - LORD, do not your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; you crushed them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:1 - “Flee for safety, people of Benjamin! Flee from Jerusalem! Sound the trumpet in Tekoa! Raise the signal over Beth Hakkerem! For disaster looms out of the north, even terrible destruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:26 - But they did not listen to me or pay attention. They were stiff-necked and did more evil than their ancestors.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:8 - I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. At midday I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men; suddenly I will bring down on them anguish and terror.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:12 - But you have behaved more wickedly than your ancestors. See how all of you are following the stubbornness of your evil hearts instead of obeying me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:23 - Yet they did not listen or pay attention; they were stiff-necked and would not listen or respond to discipline.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:20 - Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember that I stood before you and spoke in their behalf to turn your wrath away from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8 - I will devastate this city and make it an object of horror and scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:23 - They will chop down her forest,”

declares the LORD,

“dense though it be. They are more numerous than locusts, they cannot be counted.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:6 - The punishment of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment without a hand turned to help her.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:7 - Their princes were brighter than snow and whiter than milk, their bodies more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like lapis lazuli.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:8 - But now they are blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:19 - Our pursuers were swifter than eagles in the sky; they chased us over the mountains and lay in wait for us in the desert.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:22 - Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was what looked something like a vault, sparkling like crystal, and awesome.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:25 - Then there came a voice from above the vault over their heads as they stood with lowered wings.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:1 - “Now, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber's razor to shave your head and your beard. Then take a set of scales and divide up the hair.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:1 - I looked, and I saw the likeness of a throne of lapis lazuli above the vault that was over the heads of the cherubim.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:51 - Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have done more detestable things than they, and have made your sisters seem righteous by all these things you have done.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:52 - Bear your disgrace, for you have furnished some justification for your sisters. Because your sins were more vile than theirs, they appear more righteous than you. So then, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:11 - “Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:21 - Say to the people of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am about to desecrate my sanctuary—the stronghold in which you take pride, the delight of your eyes, the object of your affection. The sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:39 - In the portico of the gateway were two tables on each side, on which the burnt offerings, sin offerings[fn] and guilt offerings were slaughtered.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:22 - “On the second day you are to offer a male goat without defect for a sin offering, and the altar is to be purified as it was purified with the bull.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:25 - “For seven days you are to provide a male goat daily for a sin offering; you are also to provide a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without defect.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:29 - They will eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings and the guilt offerings; and everything in Israel devoted[fn] to the LORD will belong to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:17 - It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings and drink offerings at the festivals, the New Moons and the Sabbaths—at all the appointed festivals of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings,[fn] grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:22 - On that day the prince is to provide a bull as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:23 - Every day during the seven days of the festival he is to provide seven bulls and seven rams without defect as a burnt offering to the LORD, and a male goat for a sin offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:25 - “ ‘During the seven days of the festival, which begins in the seventh month on the fifteenth day, he is to make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings and oil.
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 BoxDan 1:15 - At the end of the ten days they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:18 - He urged them to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that he and his friends might not be executed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:3 - Now Daniel so distinguished himself among the administrators and the satraps by his exceptional qualities that the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:8 - He will also seize their gods, their metal images and their valuable articles of silver and gold and carry them off to Egypt. For some years he will leave the king of the North alone.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:13 - For the king of the North will muster another army, larger than the first; and after several years, he will advance with a huge army fully equipped.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:3 - Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:8 - Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth grieving for the betrothed of her youth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:11 - Despair, you farmers, wail, you vine growers; grieve for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field is destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:2 - I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.[fn] There I will put them on trial for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:1 - The words of Amos, one of the shepherds of Tekoa—the vision he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash[fn] was king of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:6 - Then the LORD God provided a leafy plant[fn] and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was very happy about the plant.
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 BoxJon 4:11 - And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:1 - The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah—the vision he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:7 - Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of olive oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:14 - The LORD has given a command concerning you, Nineveh: “You will have no descendants to bear your name. I will destroy the images and idols that are in the temple of your gods. I will prepare your grave, for you are vile.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:9 - Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! The supply is endless, the wealth from all its treasures!
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14 - Draw water for the siege, strengthen your defenses! Work the clay, tread the mortar, repair the brickwork!
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:16 - You have increased the number of your merchants till they are more numerous than the stars in the sky, but like locusts they strip the land and then fly away.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:8 - Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at dusk. Their cavalry gallops headlong; their horsemen come from afar. They fly like an eagle swooping to devour;
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:9 - ‘The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,' says the LORD Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant peace,' declares 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 12:8 - On that day the LORD will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD going before them.
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