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ὡς — 1441x G5613 ὡς
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Occurrences: 1141 times in 965 verses
Speech: Conjunction
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:5 - For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:22 - Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:4 - The Nephilim[fn] were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:3 - Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:9 - He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:12 - and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.' Then they will kill me, but they will let you live.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10 - And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:16 - I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your servant is in your power; do to her as you please.” Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:23 - Then Abraham drew near and said, “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:25 - Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:33 - And the LORD went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:31 - And the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his[fn] enemies,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:4 - I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:4 - and prepare for me delicious food, such as I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:9 - Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, such as he loves.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:12 - Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:23 - And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands. So he blessed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:27 - So he came near and kissed him. And Isaac smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said,
“See, the smell of my son
is as the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:30 - As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:17 - And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - Now as soon as Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the well's mouth and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:13 - As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister's son, he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:20 - So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:25 - As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:38 - He set the sticks that he had peeled in front of the flocks in the troughs, that is, the watering places, where the flocks came to drink. And since they bred when they came to drink,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:2 - And Jacob saw that Laban did not regard him with favor as before.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:5 - and said to them, “I see that your father does not regard me with favor as he did before. But the God of my father has been with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:15 - Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has indeed devoured our money.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:26 - And Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have tricked me and driven away my daughters like captives of the sword?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:12 - But you said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:10 - Jacob said, “No, please, if I have found favor in your sight, then accept my present from my hand. For I have seen your face, which is like seeing the face of God, and you have accepted me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:7 - The sons of Jacob had come in from the field as soon as they heard of it, and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had done an outrageous thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing must not be done.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:15 - Only on this condition will we agree with you—that you will become as we are by every male among you being circumcised.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:16 - Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will dwell with you and become one people.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:29 - But as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out. And she said, “What a breach you have made for yourself!” Therefore his name was called Perez.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:13 - And as soon as she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled out of the house,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:18 - But as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment beside me and fled out of the house.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:19 - As soon as his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, “This is the way your servant treated me,” his anger was kindled.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:13 - In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office, and you shall place Pharaoh's cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his cupbearer.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:30 - “The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us and took us to be spies of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:10 - He said, “Let it be as you say: he who is found with it shall be my servant, and the rest of you shall be innocent.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:8 - So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:5 - And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:20 - So he blessed them that day, saying,
“By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying,
‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh.'” Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:4 - Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence,
because you went up to your father's bed;
then you defiled it—he went up to my couch!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:9 - Judah is a lion's cub;
from the prey, my son, you have gone up.
He stooped down; he crouched as a lion
and as a lioness; who dares rouse him?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:20 - As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people[fn] should be kept alive, as they are today.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:19 - The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:4 - When the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:12 - So Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the LORD about the frogs, as he had agreed with Pharaoh.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:14 - For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself,[fn] and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:27 - you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the LORD's Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.'” And the people bowed their heads and worshiped.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:8 - You shall tell your son on that day, ‘It is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.'
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:11 - “When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and your fathers, and shall give it to you,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:17 - When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, “Lest the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:7 - In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries;
you send out your fury; it consumes them like stubble.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:31 - Now the house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:32 - Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:18 - Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the LORD had descended on it in fire. The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled greatly.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:43 - and they shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they go into the tent of meeting or when they come near the altar to minister in the Holy Place, lest they bear guilt and die. This shall be a statute forever for him and for his offspring after him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:9 - When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the LORD[fn] would speak with Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:11 - Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:29 - When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:24 - On the hem of the robe they made pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:10 - Then he shall offer the second for a burnt offering according to the rule. And the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:13 - Thus the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed in any one of these things, and he shall be forgiven. And the remainder[fn] shall be for the priest, as in the grain offering.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:16 - And he presented the burnt offering and offered it according to the rule.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:43 - Then the priest shall examine him, and if the diseased swelling is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprous disease in the skin of the body,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:34 - “When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a case of leprous disease in a house in the land of your possession,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:24 - And he shall bathe his body in water in a holy place and put on his garments and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people and make atonement for himself and for the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:18 - You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:34 - You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:27 - “When an ox or sheep or goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as a food offering to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:19 - If anyone injures his neighbor, as he has done it shall be done to him,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:35 - “If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40 - he shall be with you as a hired worker and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - He shall calculate with his buyer from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall vary with the number of years. The time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired worker.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:53 - He shall treat him as a worker hired year by year. He shall not rule ruthlessly over him in your sight.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:36 - And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:14 - “When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the LORD, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:17 - “Then the tent of meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; as they camp, so shall they set out, each in position, standard by standard.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:15 - On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony. And at evening it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:25 - Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. And as soon as the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied. But they did not continue doing it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:15 - For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a statute forever throughout your generations. You and the sojourner shall be alike before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:20 - Of the first of your dough you shall present a loaf as a contribution; like a contribution from the threshing floor, so shall you present it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:31 - And as soon as he had finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split apart.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:27 - And your contribution shall be counted to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:30 - Therefore you shall say to them, ‘When you have offered from it the best of it, then the rest shall be counted to the Levites as produce of the threshing floor, and as produce of the winepress.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:4 - And Moab said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will now lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.” So Balak the son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:10 - Who can count the dust of Jacob
or number the fourth part[fn] of Israel?
Let me die the death of the upright,
and let my end be like his!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:19 - God is not man, that he should lie,
or a son of man, that he should change his mind.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:22 - God brings them out of Egypt
and is for them like the horns of the wild ox.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:24 - Behold, a people! As a lioness it rises up
and as a lion it lifts itself;
it does not lie down until it has devoured the prey
and drunk the blood of the slain.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:5 - How lovely are your tents, O Jacob,
your encampments, O Israel!
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:8 - God brings him out of Egypt
and is for him like the horns of the wild ox;
he shall eat up the nations, his adversaries,
and shall break their bones in pieces
and pierce them through with his arrows.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:9 - He crouched, he lay down like a lion
and like a lioness; who will rouse him up?
Blessed are those who bless you,
and cursed are those who curse you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:1 - These are the stages of the people of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their companies under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:11 - May the LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:31 - and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:44 - Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do and beat you down in Seir as far as Hormah.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:30 - But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as he is this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:7 - For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:20 - But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:23 - And as soon as you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:26 - For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire as we have, and has still lived?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:19 - the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out. So will the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:5 - Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:18 - You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:3 - So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:4 - and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, how he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:15 - “However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:16 - Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:22 - Just as the gazelle or the deer is eaten, so you may eat of it. The unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:24 - You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:22 - You shall eat it within your towns. The unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or a deer.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:23 - Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:15 - “The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen—
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:26 - But you shall do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no offense punishable by death. For this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:19 - and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:3 - And you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:4 - And when you have crossed over the Jordan, you shall set up these stones, concerning which I command you today, on Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:1 - “And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:16 - “You know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:1 - “And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:2 - May my teaching drop as the rain,
my speech distill as the dew,
like gentle rain upon the tender grass,
and like showers upon the herb.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:8 - When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
when he divided mankind,
he fixed the borders[fn] of the peoples
according to the number of the sons of God.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:10 - “He found him in a desert land,
and in the howling waste of the wilderness;
he encircled him, he cared for him,
he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:11 - Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,
that flutters over its young,
spreading out its wings, catching them,
bearing them on its pinions,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:31 - For their rock is not as our Rock;
our enemies are by themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:41 - if I sharpen my flashing sword[fn]
and my hand takes hold on judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
and will repay those who hate me.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:20 - And of Gad he said,
“Blessed be he who enlarges Gad!
Gad crouches like a lion;
he tears off arm and scalp.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:25 - Your bars shall be iron and bronze,
and as your days, so shall your strength be.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:10 - And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:5 - And when the gate was about to be closed at dark, the men went out. I do not know where the men went. Pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:7 - So the men pursued after them on the way to the Jordan as far as the fords. And the gate was shut as soon as the pursuers had gone out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:14 - And the men said to her, “Our life for yours even to death! If you do not tell this business of ours, then when the LORD gives us the land we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:8 - And as for you, command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, ‘When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:13 - And when the soles of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off from flowing, and the waters coming down from above shall stand in one heap.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:15 - and as soon as those bearing the ark had come as far as the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (now the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest),
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:7 - then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial forever.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:11 - And when all the people had finished passing over, the ark of the LORD and the priests passed over before the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:18 - And when the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up on dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks, as before.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:1 - As soon as all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of Israel until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and there was no longer any spirit in them because of the people of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:13 - When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:5 - And when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, then all the people shall shout with a great shout, and the wall of the city will fall down flat,[fn] and the people shall go up, everyone straight before him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:20 - So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they captured the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:3 - And they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not have all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are few.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:5 - And I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out against us just as before, we shall flee before them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:6 - And they will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city. For they will say, ‘They are fleeing from us, just as before.' So we will flee before them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:14 - And as soon as the king of Ai saw this, he and all his people, the men of the city, hurried and went out early to the appointed place[fn] toward the Arabah to meet Israel in battle. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:24 - When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it down with the edge of the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:1 - As soon as all the kings who were beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the lowland all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, heard of this,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:25 - And now, behold, we are in your hand. Whatever seems good and right in your sight to do to us, do it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:1 - As soon as Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, heard how Joshua had captured Ai and had devoted it to destruction,[fn] doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20 - When Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished striking them with a great blow until they were wiped out, and when the remnant that remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:1 - When Jabin, king of Hazor, heard of this, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:4 - As soon as the angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:19 - But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:18 - And when Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:8 - When new gods were chosen,
then war was in the gates.
Was shield or spear to be seen
among forty thousand in Israel?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:5 - For they would come up with their livestock and their tents; they would come like locusts in number—both they and their camels could not be counted—so that they laid waste the land as they came in.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:27 - So Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the LORD had told him. But because he was too afraid of his family and the men of the town to do it by day, he did it by night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:5 - So he brought the people down to the water. And the LORD said to Gideon, “Every one who laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself. Likewise, every one who kneels down to drink.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12 - And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts in abundance, and their camels were without number, as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15 - As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped. And he returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for the LORD has given the host of Midian into your hand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:17 - And he said to them, “Look at me, and do likewise. When I come to the outskirts of the camp, do as I do.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:18 - Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “Where are the men whom you killed at Tabor?” They answered, “As you are, so were they. Every one of them resembled the son of a king.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:21 - Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Rise yourself and fall upon us, for as the man is, so is his strength.” And Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments that were on the necks of their camels.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:33 - As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and whored after the Baals and made Baal-berith their god.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:17 - for my father fought for you and risked his life and delivered you from the hand of Midian,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:36 - And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the mountaintops!” And Zebul said to him, “You mistake[fn] the shadow of the mountains for men.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:48 - And Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him. And Abimelech took an axe in his hand and cut down a bundle of brushwood and took it up and laid it on his shoulder. And he said to the men who were with him, “What you have seen me do, hurry and do as I have done.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:6 - Then the woman came and told her husband, “A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:11 - And he said to her, “If they bind me with new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:12 - So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And the men lying in ambush were in an inner chamber. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like a thread.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:13 - Then Delilah said to Samson, “Until now you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me how you might be bound.” And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and fasten it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:11 - And the Levite was content to dwell with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:1 - Then all the people of Israel came out, from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled as one man to the LORD at Mizpah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:8 - And all the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, and none of us will return to his house.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:11 - So all the men of Israel gathered against the city, united as one man.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:21 - and watch. If the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and snatch each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:4 - These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years,
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:13 - Then she said, “I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not one of your servants.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:17 - So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah[fn] of barley.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:11 - Then all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem,
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:12 - and may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring that the LORD will give you by this young woman.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:2 - “There is none holy like the LORD:
for there is none besides you;
there is no rock like our God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:13 - The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant would come, while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:16 - And if the man said to him, “Let them burn the fat first, and then take as much as you wish,” he would say, “No, you must give it now, and if not, I will take it by force.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:10 - And the LORD came and stood, calling as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant hears.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:5 - As soon as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel gave a mighty shout, so that the earth resounded.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:18 - As soon as he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell over backward from his seat by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:10 - So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. But as soon as the ark of God came to Ekron, the people of Ekron cried out, “They have brought around to us the ark of the God of Israel to kill us and our people.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:11 - They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, that it may not kill us and our people.” For there was a deathly panic throughout the whole city. The hand of God was very heavy there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:6 - Why should you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? After he had dealt severely with them, did they not send the people away, and they departed?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:1 - When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:6 - But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:13 - As soon as you enter the city you will find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat till he comes, since he must bless the sacrifice; afterward those who are invited will eat. Now go up, for you will meet him immediately.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:16 - “Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince[fn] over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen[fn] my people, because their cry has come to me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:26 - Then at the break of dawn[fn] Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Up, that I may send you on your way.” So Saul arose, and both he and Samuel went out into the street.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:27 - As they were going down to the outskirts of the city, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to pass on before us, and when he has passed on, stop here yourself for a while, that I may make known to you the word of God.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:2 - When you depart from me today, you will meet two men by Rachel's tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you, ‘The donkeys that you went to seek are found, and now your father has ceased to care about the donkeys and is anxious about you, saying, “What shall I do about my son?”'
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:5 - After that you shall come to Gibeath-elohim,[fn] where there is a garrison of the Philistines. And there, as soon as you come to the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:1 - Then Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:6 - And the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:7 - He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of the messengers, saying, “Whoever does not come out after Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen!” Then the dread of the LORD fell upon the people, and they came out as one man.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:8 - When Jacob went into Egypt, and the Egyptians oppressed them,[fn] then your fathers cried out to the LORD and the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:5 - And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:8 - He waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:10 - As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him and greet him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:11 - Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:13 - And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the LORD your God, with which he commanded you. For then the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:15 - And Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal. The rest of the people went up after Saul to meet the army; they went up from Gilgal[fn] to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:2 - Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gibeah in the pomegranate cave[fn] at Migron. The people who were with him were about six hundred men,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:7 - And his armor-bearer said to him, “Do all that is in your heart. Do as you wish.[fn] Behold, I am with you heart and soul.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:14 - And that first strike, which Jonathan and his armor-bearer made, killed about twenty men within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre[fn] of land.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:19 - Now while Saul was talking to the priest, the tumult in the camp of the Philistines increased more and more. So Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:23 - So the LORD saved Israel that day. And the battle passed beyond Beth-aven.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:2 - Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:22 - And Samuel said,
“Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:29 - And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:7 - But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:36 - Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:15 - And when Saul saw that he had great success, he stood in fearful awe of him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:12 - And Jonathan said to David, “The LORD, the God of Israel, be witness![fn] When I have sounded out my father, about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if he is well disposed toward David, shall I not then send and disclose it to you?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:25 - The king sat on his seat, as at other times, on the seat by the wall. Jonathan sat opposite,[fn] and Abner sat by Saul's side, but David's place was empty.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:41 - And as soon as the boy had gone, David rose from beside the stone heap[fn] and fell on his face to the ground and bowed three times. And they kissed one another and wept with one another, David weeping the most.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:42 - Then Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘The LORD shall be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.'” And he rose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:2 - And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul,[fn] gathered to him. And he became commander over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:8 - that all of you have conspired against me? No one discloses to me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:13 - And Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword and have inquired of God for him, so that he has risen against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:14 - Then Ahimelech answered the king, “And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and captain over[fn] your bodyguard, and honored in your house?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:13 - Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the expedition.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:1 - [fn] When Saul returned from following the Philistines, he was told, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:4 - And the men of David said to him, “Here is the day of which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.'” Then David arose and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul's robe.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:10 - Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the LORD gave you today into my hand in the cave. And some told me to kill you, but I spared you.[fn] I said, ‘I will not put out my hand against my lord, for he is the LORD's anointed.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:16 - As soon as David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:18 - And you have declared this day how you have dealt well with me, in that you did not kill me when the LORD put me into your hands.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:13 - And David said to his men, “Every man strap on his sword!” And every man of them strapped on his sword. David also strapped on his sword. And about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:16 - They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:26 - Now then, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, because the LORD has restrained you from bloodguilt and from saving with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:36 - And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until the morning light.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:37 - In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:23 - The LORD rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness, for the LORD gave you into my hand today, and I would not put out my hand against the LORD's anointed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:9 - The woman said to him, “Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the necromancers from the land. Why then are you laying a trap for my life to bring about my death?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:34 - Your hands were not bound;
your feet were not fettered;
as one falls before the wicked
you have fallen.” And all the people wept again over him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:8 - and brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron. And they said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life. The LORD has avenged my lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:10 - when one told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,' and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and killed him at Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:20 - And David came to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there. And he said, “The LORD has broken through my enemies before me like a breaking flood.” Therefore the name of that place is called Baal-perazim.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:1 - David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:22 - Therefore you are great, O LORD God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:23 - And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them[fn] great and awesome things by driving out before your people,[fn] whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:3 - but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms,[fn] and it was like a daughter to him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:13 - As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the outrageous fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:28 - Then Absalom commanded his servants, “Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,' then kill him. Do not fear; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:2 - And Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman and said to her, “Pretend to be a mourner and put on mourning garments. Do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:13 - And the woman said, “Why then have you planned such a thing against the people of God? For in giving this decision the king convicts himself, inasmuch as the king does not bring his banished one home again.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:25 - Now in all Israel there was no one so much to be praised for his handsome appearance as Absalom. From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:26 - And when he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels[fn] by the king's weight.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:10 - But the king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the LORD has said to him, ‘Curse David,' who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:8 - Hushai said, “You know that your father and his men are mighty men, and that they are enraged,[fn] like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Besides, your father is expert in war; he will not spend the night with the people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:11 - But my counsel is that all Israel be gathered to you, from Dan to Beersheba, as the sand by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in person.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:12 - So we shall come upon him in some place where he is to be found, and we shall light upon him as the dew falls on the ground, and of him and all the men with him not one will be left.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:3 - But the men said, “You shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us. If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore it is better that you send us help from the city.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:27 - The watchman said, “I think the running of the first is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.” And the king said, “He is a good man and comes with good news.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:32 - The king said to the Cushite, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?” And the Cushite answered, “May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up against you for evil be like that young man.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:14 - And he swayed the heart of all the men of Judah as one man, so that they sent word to the king, “Return, both you and all your servants.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:27 - He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:36 - Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:19 - And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite, struck down Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:34 - He made my feet like the feet of a deer
and set me secure on the heights.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43 - I beat them fine as the dust of the earth;
I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:4 - he dawns on them like the morning light,
like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning,
like rain[fn] that makes grass to sprout from the earth.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:21 - And he struck down an Egyptian, a handsome man. The Egyptian had a spear in his hand, but Benaiah went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:21 - Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be counted offenders.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:32 - The LORD will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:6 - And Solomon said, “You have shown great and steadfast love to your servant David my father, because he walked before you in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward you. And you have kept for him this great and steadfast love and have given him a son to sit on his throne this day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:12 - behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:13 - I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that no other king shall compare with you, all your days.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:14 - And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:19 - And this woman's son died in the night, because she lay on him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:29 - And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and breadth of mind like the sand on the seashore,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:26 - Its thickness was a handbreadth,[fn] and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:10 - And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, a cloud filled the house of the LORD,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:23 - and said, “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:24 - you have kept with your servant David my father what you declared to him. You spoke with your mouth, and with your hand have fulfilled it this day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:38 - whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:53 - For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your heritage, as you declared through Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:54 - Now as Solomon finished offering all this prayer and plea to the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, where he had knelt with hands outstretched toward heaven.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:61 - Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the LORD our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:1 - As soon as Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the king's house and all that Solomon desired to build,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:27 - And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:6 - So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and did not wholly follow the LORD, as David his father had done.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:27 - And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king. Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of David his father.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33 - because they have[fn] forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:43 - And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:20 - And when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was none that followed the house of David but the tribe of Judah only.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:4 - And when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar at Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him.” And his hand, which he stretched out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:3 - And he walked in all the sins that his father did before him, and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:5 - because David did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:11 - And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as David his father had done.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:21 - And when Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and he lived in Tirzah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:29 - And as soon as he was king, he killed all the house of Jeroboam. He left to the house of Jeroboam not one that breathed, until he had destroyed it, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:30 - It was for the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned and that he made Israel to sin, and because of the anger to which he provoked the LORD, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:34 - He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he made Israel to sin.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:3 - behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:13 - for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and which they made Israel to sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:18 - And when Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the king's house and burned the king's house over him with fire and died,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:19 - because of his sins that he committed, doing evil in the sight of the LORD, walking in the way of Jeroboam, and for his sin which he committed, making Israel to sin.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:17 - When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is it you, you troubler of Israel?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:29 - And as midday passed, they raved on until the time of the offering of the oblation, but there was no voice. No one answered; no one paid attention.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:31 - Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD came, saying, “Israel shall be your name,”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:44 - And at the seventh time he said, “Behold, a little cloud like a man's hand is rising from the sea.” And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down, lest the rain stop you.'”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:13 - And when Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. And behold, there came a voice to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:11 - And the king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Let not him who straps on his armor boast himself as he who takes it off.'”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:39 - And as the king passed, he cried to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the midst of the battle, and behold, a soldier turned and brought a man to me and said, ‘Guard this man; if by any means he is missing, your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent[fn] of silver.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:15 - As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money, for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:16 - And as soon as Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:19 - And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”' And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD: “In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood.”'”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:22 - And I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the anger to which you have provoked me, and because you have made Israel to sin.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25 - (There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the LORD like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:27 - And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:29 - “Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; but in his son's days I will bring the disaster upon his house.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:6 - Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I refrain?” And they said, “Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:17 - And he said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.'”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:32 - And when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is surely the king of Israel.” So they turned to fight against him. And Jehoshaphat cried out.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:33 - And when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:18 - Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:1 - Now when the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:11 - And as they still went on and talked, behold, chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:2 - He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, though not like his father and mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:7 - And he went and sent word to Jehoshaphat king of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to battle against Moab?” And he said, “I will go. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:15 - But now bring me a musician.” And when the musician played, the hand of the LORD came upon him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:16 - And he said, “At this season, about this time next year, you shall embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, O man of God; do not lie to your servant.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:17 - But the woman conceived, and she bore a son about that time the following spring, as Elisha had said to her.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:25 - So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her coming, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Look, there is the Shunammite.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:6 - And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, “When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you Naaman my servant, that you may cure him of his leprosy.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:7 - And when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:8 - But when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, that he may know that there is a prophet in Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:14 - So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:20 - As soon as they entered Samaria, Elisha said, “O LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see.” So the LORD opened their eyes and they saw, and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:21 - As soon as the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, “My father, shall I strike them down? Shall I strike them down?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:30 - When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes—now he was passing by on the wall—and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneath on his body—
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:1 - But Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD: thus says the LORD, Tomorrow about this time a seah[fn] of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel,[fn] and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:7 - So they fled away in the twilight and abandoned their tents, their horses, and their donkeys, leaving the camp as it was, and fled for their lives.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:10 - So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, “We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied and the donkeys tied and the tents as they were.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:18 - For when the man of God had said to the king, “Two seahs of barley shall be sold for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria,”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:5 - And while he was telling the king how Elisha had restored the dead to life, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and her land. And Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom Elisha restored to life.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:9 - And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:22 - And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace can there be, so long as the whorings and the sorceries of your mother Jezebel are so many?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:37 - and the corpse of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jezebel.'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:2 - “Now then, as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, fortified cities also, and weapons,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:6 - Then he wrote to them a second letter, saying, “If you are on my side, and if you are ready to obey me, take the heads of your master's sons and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow at this time.” Now the king's sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were bringing them up.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:7 - And as soon as the letter came to them, they took the king's sons and slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:25 - So as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the officers, “Go in and strike them down; let not a man escape.” So when they put them to the sword, the guard and the officers cast them out and went into the inner room of the house of Baal,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:10 - And whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's secretary and the high priest came up and they bagged and counted the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:7 - For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:2 - And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:32 - until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live, and not die. And do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you by saying, “The LORD will deliver us.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:1 - As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:4 - And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem will I put my name.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:11 - When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his clothes.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19 - because your heart was penitent, and you humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:9 - Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:27 - Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers did not have many children, nor did all their clan multiply like the men of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:23 - And he struck down an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits[fn] tall. The Egyptian had in his hand a spear like a weaver's beam, but Benaiah went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:8 - From the Gadites there went over to David at the stronghold in the wilderness mighty and experienced warriors, expert with shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions and who were swift as gazelles upon the mountains:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:22 - For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like an army of God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:11 - And he went up to Baal-perazim, and David struck them down there. And David said, “God has broken through[fn] my enemies by my hand, like a bursting flood.” Therefore the name of that place is called Baal-perazim.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:15 - And the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:19 - When you were few in number,
of little account, and sojourners in it,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:1 - Now when David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:13 - I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from him who was before you,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:17 - And this was a small thing in your eyes, O God. You have also spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have shown me future generations,[fn] O LORD God!
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:21 - And who is like your people Israel, the one[fn] nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for yourself a name for great and awesome things, in driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:2 - And David said, “I will deal kindly with Hanun the son of Nahash, for his father dealt kindly with me.” So David sent messengers to console him concerning his father. And David's servants came to the land of the Ammonites to Hanun to console him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:5 - And there was again war with the Philistines, and Elhanan the son of Jair struck down Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:3 - But Joab said, “May the LORD add to his people a hundred times as many as they are! Are they not, my lord the king, all of them my lord's servants? Why then should my lord require this? Why should it be a cause of guilt for Israel?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:15 - And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was about to destroy it, the LORD saw, and he relented from the calamity. And he said to the angel who was working destruction, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:11 - “Now, my son, the LORD be with you, so that you may succeed in building the house of the LORD your God, as he has spoken concerning you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 24:19 - These had as their appointed duty in their service to come into the house of the LORD according to the procedure established for them by Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:23 - David did not count those below twenty years of age, for the LORD had promised to make Israel as many as the stars of heaven.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:7 - I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues strong in keeping my commandments and my rules, as he is today.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:15 - For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:13 - and it was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the LORD), and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the LORD,
“For he is good,
for his steadfast love endures forever,” the house, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:15 - who have kept with your servant David my father what you declared to him. You spoke with your mouth, and with your hand have fulfilled it this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:16 - Now therefore, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:30 - then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:33 - hear from heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:1 - As soon as Solomon finished his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:17 - And as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:18 - then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to rule Israel.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:27 - And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:2 - And as soon as Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), then Jeroboam returned from Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:12 - So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king said, “Come to me again the third day.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:1 - When the rule of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:7 - When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah: “They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:4 - but sought the God of his father and walked in his commandments, and not according to the practices of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:23 - For the men of Ammon and Moab rose against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction, and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they all helped to destroy one another.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:37 - Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have joined with Ahaziah, the LORD will destroy what you have made.” And the ships were wrecked and were not able to go to Tarshish.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:7 - Yet the LORD was not willing to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and since he had promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons forever.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:13 - but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel and have enticed Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into whoredom, as the house of Ahab led Israel into whoredom, and also you have killed your brothers, of your father's house, who were better than you,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:19 - In the course of time, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great agony. His people made no fire in his honor, like the fires made for his fathers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:8 - And when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he met the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's brothers, who attended Ahaziah, and he killed them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:11 - And whenever the chest was brought to the king's officers by the Levites, when they saw that there was much money in it, the king's secretary and the officer of the chief priest would come and empty the chest and take it and return it to its place. Thus they did day after day, and collected money in abundance.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:22 - Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah's father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, “May the LORD see and avenge!”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:3 - And as soon as the royal power was firmly his, he killed his servants who had struck down the king his father.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:4 - But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, “Fathers shall not die because of their children, nor children die because of their fathers, but each one shall die for his own sin.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:16 - But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the LORD his God and entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:3 - In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:8 - Therefore the wrath of the LORD came on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has made them an object of horror, of astonishment, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:29 - When the offering was finished, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:10 - So the couriers went from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1 - Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and broke down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned to their cities, every man to his possession.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:5 - As soon as the command was spread abroad, the people of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field. And they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:12 - And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:19 - And his prayer, and how God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:22 - And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as Manasseh his father had done. Amon sacrificed to all the images that Manasseh his father had made, and served them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:19 - And when the king heard the words of the Law, he tore his clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:64 - The whole assembly together was 42,360,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:69 - According to their ability they gave to the treasury of the work 61,000 darics[fn] of gold, 5,000 minas[fn] of silver, and 100 priests' garments.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:1 - When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:4 - And they kept the Feast of Booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the rule, as each day required,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:2 - they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers' houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria who brought us here.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:3 - But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers' houses in Israel said to them, “You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we alone will build to the LORD, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:18 - Whatever seems good to you and your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and gold, you may do, according to the will of your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:25 - “And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God. And those who do not know them, you shall teach.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:28 - and who extended to me his steadfast love before the king and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty officers. I took courage, for the hand of the LORD my God was on me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:18 - And by the good hand of our God on us, they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli the son of Levi, son of Israel, namely Sherebiah with his sons and kinsmen, 18;
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:1 - After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:3 - As soon as I heard this, I tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:7 - From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as it is today.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:13 - And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:15 - O LORD, the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:1 - While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:3 - Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord[fn] and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the Law.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:8 - and that if anyone did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:8 - and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress of the temple, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall occupy.” And the king granted me what I asked, for the good hand of my God was upon me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:12 - At that time the Jews who lived near them came from all directions and said to us ten times, “You must return to us.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:5 - Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:11 - Return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the percentage of money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:12 - Then they said, “We will restore these and require nothing from them. We will do as you say.” And I called the priests and made them swear to do as they had promised.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:3 - And I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:4 - And they sent to me four times in this way, and I answered them in the same manner.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:8 - Then I sent to him, saying, “No such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:14 - Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, O my God, according to these things that they did, and also the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who wanted to make me afraid.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:2 - I gave my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of the castle charge over Jerusalem, for he was a more faithful and God-fearing man than many.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:66 - The whole assembly together was 42,360,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:1 - And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the LORD had commanded Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:9 - And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the LORD your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:10 - and performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for you knew that they acted arrogantly against our fathers. And you made a name for yourself, as it is to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:23 - You multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:24 - So the descendants went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hand, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:28 - But after they had rest they did evil again before you, and you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them. Yet when they turned and cried to you, you heard from heaven, and many times you delivered them according to your mercies.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:37 - And its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. They rule over our bodies and over our livestock as they please, and we are in great distress.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:34 - We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, have likewise cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the Law.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:36 - also to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God, the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks;
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:45 - And they performed the service of their God and the service of purification, as did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the command of David and his son Solomon.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:3 - As soon as the people heard the law, they separated from Israel all those of foreign descent.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:30 - Thus I cleansed them from everything foreign, and I established the duties of the priests and Levites, each in his work;
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:15 - “According to the law, what is to be done to Queen Vashti, because she has not performed the command of King Ahasuerus delivered by the eunuchs?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:17 - For the queen's behavior will be made known to all women, causing them to look at their husbands with contempt,[fn] since they will say, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him, and she did not come.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:1 - After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus had abated, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:11 - And the king said to Haman, “The money is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:12 - Then the king's scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict, according to all that Haman commanded, was written to the king's satraps and to the governors over all the provinces and to the officials of all the peoples, to every province in its own script and every people in its own language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king's signet ring.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:8 - Mordecai also gave him a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for their destruction,[fn] that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her and command her to go to the king to beg his favor and plead with him[fn] on behalf of her people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:14 - For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:1 - On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king's palace, in front of the king's quarters, while the king was sitting on his royal throne inside the throne room opposite the entrance to the palace.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:2 - And when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she won favor in his sight, and he held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:11 - And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the servants of the king.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:2 - And it was found written how Mordecai had told about Bigthana[fn] and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, and who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:8 - But you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king's ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's ring cannot be revoked.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:11 - saying that the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to gather and defend their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, and to plunder their goods,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:25 - But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:5 - And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed[fn] God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:6 - Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan[fn] also came among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:13 - Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:21 - And he said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:1 - Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:3 - For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea;
therefore my words have been rash.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:25 - How forceful are upright words!
But what does reproof from you reprove?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:4 - When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?'
But the night is long,
and I am full of tossing till the dawn.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:8 - who alone stretched out the heavens
and trampled the waves of the sea;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:6 - The tents of robbers are at peace,
and those who provoke God are secure,
who bring their god in their hand.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:25 - Will you frighten a driven leaf
and pursue dry chaff?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:14 - What is man, that he can be pure?
Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:33 - He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine,
and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:11 - They send out their little boys like a flock,
and their children dance.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:24 - if you lay gold in the dust,
and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:14 - The murderer rises before it is light,
that he may kill the poor and needy,
and in the night he is like a thief.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:10 - Will he take delight in the Almighty?
Will he call upon God at all times?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:3 - when his lamp shone upon my head,
and by his light I walked through darkness,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:14 - As through a wide breach they come;
amid the crash they roll on.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:15 - Did not he who made me in the womb make him?
And did not one fashion us in the womb?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:18 - (for from my youth the fatherless[fn] grew up with me as with a father,
and from my mother's womb I guided the widow[fn]),
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:6 - Behold, I am toward God as you are;
I too was pinched off from a piece of clay.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:15 - In a dream, in a vision of the night,
when deep sleep falls on men,
while they slumber on their beds,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:5 - Look at the heavens, and see;
and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:14 - How much less when you say that you do not see him,
that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:10 - By the breath of God ice is given,
and the broad waters are frozen fast.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:18 - Can you, like him, spread out the skies,
hard as a cast metal mirror?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:17 - He makes his tail stiff like a cedar;
the sinews of his thighs are knit together.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:24 - His heart is hard as a stone,
hard as the lower millstone.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:29 - Clubs are counted as stubble;
he laughs at the rattle of javelins.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 1:3 - He is like a tree
planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 1:4 - The wicked are not so,
but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:9 - You shall break[fn] them with a rod of iron
and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:12 - For you bless the righteous, O LORD;
you cover him with favor as with a shield.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:2 - lest like a lion they tear my soul apart,
rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:1 - To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.[fn] A Psalm of David.
O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:9 - O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:9 - he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket;
he lurks that he may seize the poor;
he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 11:1 - To the choirmaster. Of David.
In the LORD I take refuge;
how can you say to my soul,
“Flee like a bird to your mountain,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:8 - Keep me as the apple of your eye;
hide me in the shadow of your wings,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:33 - He made my feet like the feet of a deer
and set me secure on the heights.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:42 - I beat them fine as dust before the wind;
I cast them out like the mire of the streets.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:5 - which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber,
and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:9 - You will make them as a blazing oven
when you appear.
The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath,
and fire will consume them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:13 - they open wide their mouths at me,
like a ravening and roaring lion.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:15 - my strength is dried up like a potsherd,
and my tongue sticks to my jaws;
you lay me in the dust of death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:5 - You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:6 - He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf,
and Sirion like a young wild ox.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:19 - Oh, how abundant is your goodness,
which you have stored up for those who fear you
and worked for those who take refuge in you,
in the sight of the children of mankind!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:9 - Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding,
which must be curbed with bit and bridle,
or it will not stay near you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:7 - He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap;
he puts the deeps in storehouses.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:14 - I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother;
as one who laments his mother,
I bowed down in mourning.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:7 - How precious is your steadfast love, O God!
The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:6 - He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,
and your justice as the noonday.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:35 - I have seen a wicked, ruthless man,
spreading himself like a green laurel tree.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:11 - When you discipline a man
with rebukes for sin,
you consume like a moth what is dear to him;
surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:11 - You have made us like sheep for slaughter
and have scattered us among the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:22 - Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:6 - Trembling took hold of them there,
anguish as of a woman in labor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:14 - Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
death shall be their shepherd,
and the upright shall rule over them in the morning.
Their form shall be consumed in Sheol, with no place to dwell.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:8 - You have kept count of my tossings;[fn]
put my tears in your bottle.
Are they not in your book?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:7 - Let them vanish like water that runs away;
when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:6 - Each evening they come back,
howling like dogs
and prowling about the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:14 - Each evening they come back,
howling like dogs
and prowling about the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:3 - How long will all of you attack a man
to batter him,
like a leaning wall, a tottering fence?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:3 - who whet their tongues like swords,
who aim bitter words like arrows,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:3 - Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds!
So great is your power that your enemies come cringing to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:10 - For you, O God, have tested us;
you have tried us as silver is tried.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:2 - As smoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away;
as wax melts before fire,
so the wicked shall perish before God!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:6 - May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass,
like showers that water the earth!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:1 - A Psalm of Asaph.
Truly God is good to Israel,
to those who are pure in heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:7 - Their eyes swell out through fatness;
their hearts overflow with follies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:5 - They were like those who swing axes
in a forest of trees.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:6 - And all its carved wood
they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:13 - Your way, O God, is holy.
What god is great like our God?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:20 - You led your people like a flock
by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:8 - and that they should not be like their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation whose heart was not steadfast,
whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:15 - He split rocks in the wilderness
and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:16 - He made streams come out of the rock
and caused waters to flow down like rivers.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:43 - when he performed his signs in Egypt
and his marvels in the fields of Zoan.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:52 - Then he led out his people like sheep
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:65 - Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
like a strong man shouting because of wine.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:69 - He built his sanctuary like the high heavens,
like the earth, which he has founded forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:3 - They have poured out their blood like water
all around Jerusalem,
and there was no one to bury them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:5 - How long, O LORD? Will you be angry forever?
Will your jealousy burn like fire?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 82:7 - nevertheless, like men you shall die,
and fall like any prince.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:9 - Do to them as you did to Midian,
as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:11 - Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:13 - O my God, make them like whirling dust,[fn]
like chaff before the wind.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:14 - As fire consumes the forest,
as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 84:1 - To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.[fn] A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.
How lovely is your dwelling place,
O LORD of hosts!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:7 - Singers and dancers alike say,
“All my springs are in you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:4 - I am counted among those who go down to the pit;
I am a man who has no strength,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:17 - They surround me like a flood all day long;
they close in on me together.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:10 - You crushed Rahab like a carcass;
you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:29 - I will establish his offspring forever
and his throne as the days of the heavens.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:36 - His offspring shall endure forever,
his throne as long as the sun before me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:37 - Like the moon it shall be established forever,
a faithful witness in the skies.” Selah
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:46 - How long, O LORD? Will you hide yourself forever?
How long will your wrath burn like fire?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:4 - For a thousand years in your sight
are but as yesterday when it is past,
or as a watch in the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:9 - For all our days pass away under your wrath;
we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:5 - How great are your works, O LORD!
Your thoughts are very deep!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:7 - that though the wicked sprout like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:10 - But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox;
you have poured over me[fn] fresh oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:12 - The righteous flourish like the palm tree
and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:8 - do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:11 - Therefore I swore in my wrath,
“They shall not enter my rest.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:97 - Mem
Oh how I love your law!
It is my meditation all the day.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 122:3 - Jerusalem—built as a city
that is bound firmly together,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 123:2 - Behold, as the eyes of servants
look to the hand of their master,
as the eyes of a maidservant
to the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes look to the LORD our God,
till he has mercy upon us.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:7 - We have escaped like a bird
from the snare of the fowlers;
the snare is broken,
and we have escaped!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 125:1 - A Song of Ascents.
Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion,
which cannot be moved, but abides forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 126:1 - A Song of Ascents.
When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion,
we were like those who dream.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 126:4 - Restore our fortunes, O LORD,
like streams in the Negeb!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 128:3 - Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
within your house;
your children will be like olive shoots
around your table.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:6 - Let them be like the grass on the housetops,
which withers before it grows up,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 131:2 - But I have calmed and quieted my soul,
like a weaned child with its mother;
like a weaned child is my soul within me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:2 - how he swore to the LORD
and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 133:2 - It is like the precious oil on the head,
running down on the beard,
on the beard of Aaron,
running down on the collar of his robes!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 133:3 - It is like the dew of Hermon,
which falls on the mountains of Zion!
For there the LORD has commanded the blessing,
life forevermore.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:12 - even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:2 - Let my prayer be counted as incense before you,
and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:3 - For the enemy has pursued my soul;
he has crushed my life to the ground;
he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:6 - I stretch out my hands to you;
my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:12 - May our sons in their youth
be like plants full grown,
our daughters like corner pillars
cut for the structure of a palace;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:4 - if you seek it like silver
and search for it as for hidden treasures,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:18 - She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her;
those who hold her fast are called blessed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:8 - she prepares her bread in summer
and gathers her food in harvest.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:22 - When you walk, they[fn] will lead you;
when you lie down, they will watch over you;
and when you awake, they will talk with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:18 - One who lacks sense gives a pledge
and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:17 - The one who states his case first seems right,
until the other comes and examines him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:19 - A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city,
and quarreling is like the bars of a castle.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:13 - Then I saw that there is more gain in wisdom than in folly, as there is more gain in light than in darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:15 - Then I said in my heart, “What happens to the fool will happen to me also. Why then have I been so very wise?” And I said in my heart that this also is vanity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:19 - For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:15 - As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:6 - For as the crackling of thorns under a pot,
so is the laughter of the fools;
this also is vanity.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:12 - For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money,
and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:14 - There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:1 - But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God. Whether it is love or hate, man does not know; both are before him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:2 - It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil,[fn] to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:10 - Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might,[fn] for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:12 - For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:5 - There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were an error proceeding from the ruler:
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:7 - I have seen slaves on horses, and princes walking on the ground like slaves.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:5 - As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb[fn] of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:7 - and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:11 - The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:5 - She
I am very dark, but lovely,
O daughters of Jerusalem,
like the tents of Kedar,
like the curtains of Solomon.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:7 - Tell me, you whom my soul loves,
where you pasture your flock,
where you make it lie down at noon;
for why should I be like one who veils herself
beside the flocks of your companions?
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:10 - Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments,
your neck with strings of jewels.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:2 - He
As a lily among brambles,
so is my love among the young women.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:3 - She
As an apple tree among the trees of the forest,
so is my beloved among the young men.
With great delight I sat in his shadow,
and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:4 - Scarcely had I passed them
when I found him whom my soul loves.
I held him, and would not let him go
until I had brought him into my mother's house,
and into the chamber of her who conceived me.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:6 - What is that coming up from the wilderness
like columns of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
with all the fragrant powders of a merchant?
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:1 - He
Behold, you are beautiful, my love,
behold, you are beautiful!
Your eyes are doves
behind your veil.
Your hair is like a flock of goats
leaping down the slopes of Gilead.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:2 - Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes
that have come up from the washing,
all of which bear twins,
and not one among them has lost its young.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:3 - Your lips are like a scarlet thread,
and your mouth is lovely.
Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate
behind your veil.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:4 - Your neck is like the tower of David,
built in rows of stone;[fn]
on it hang a thousand shields,
all of them shields of warriors.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:5 - Your two breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle,
that graze among the lilies.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:11 - Your lips drip nectar, my bride;
honey and milk are under your tongue;
the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:11 - His head is the finest gold;
his locks are wavy,
black as a raven.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:12 - His eyes are like doves
beside streams of water,
bathed in milk,
sitting beside a full pool.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:13 - His cheeks are like beds of spices,
mounds of sweet-smelling herbs.
His lips are lilies,
dripping liquid myrrh.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:15 - His legs are alabaster columns,
set on bases of gold.
His appearance is like Lebanon,
choice as the cedars.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:4 - He
You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love,
lovely as Jerusalem,
awesome as an army with banners.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:5 - Turn away your eyes from me,
for they overwhelm me—
Your hair is like a flock of goats
leaping down the slopes of Gilead.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:6 - Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
that have come up from the washing;
all of them bear twins;
not one among them has lost its young.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:7 - Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate
behind your veil.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:10 - “Who is this who looks down like the dawn,
beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun,
awesome as an army with banners?”
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:13 - Others
[fn] Return, return, O Shulammite,
return, return, that we may look upon you.

He
Why should you look upon the Shulammite,
as upon a dance before two armies?[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:3 - Your two breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:4 - Your neck is like an ivory tower.
Your eyes are pools in Heshbon,
by the gate of Bath-rabbim.
Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon,
which looks toward Damascus.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:5 - Your head crowns you like Carmel,
and your flowing locks are like purple;
a king is held captive in the tresses.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:8 - I say I will climb the palm tree
and lay hold of its fruit.
Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
and the scent of your breath like apples,
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:9 - and your mouth[fn] like the best wine.

She
It goes down smoothly for my beloved,
gliding over lips and teeth.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:6 - Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm,
for love is strong as death,
jealousy[fn] is fierce as the grave.[fn]
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
the very flame of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:10 - She
I was a wall,
and my breasts were like towers;
then I was in his eyes
as one who finds[fn] peace.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:16 - In that day the Egyptians will be like women, and tremble with fear before the hand that the LORD of hosts shakes over them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:1 - The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad;
the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:3 - I clothe the heavens with blackness
and make sackcloth their covering.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:7 - But the Lord GOD helps me;
therefore I have not been disgraced;
therefore I have set my face like a flint,
and I know that I shall not be put to shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:10 - “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
and do not return there but water the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:1 - The righteous man perishes,
and no one lays it to heart;
devout men are taken away,
while no one understands.
For the righteous man is taken away from calamity;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:10 - if you pour yourself out for the hungry
and satisfy the desire of the afflicted,
then shall your light rise in the darkness
and your gloom be as the noonday.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:18 - According to their deeds, so will he repay,
wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies;
to the coastlands he will render repayment.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:10 - I will greatly rejoice in the LORD;
my soul shall exult in my God,
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;
he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress,
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:16 - And I will declare my judgments against them, for all their evil in forsaking me. They have made offerings to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:18 - And I, behold, I make you this day a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:26 - “As a thief is shamed when caught,
so the house of Israel shall be shamed:
they, their kings, their officials,
their priests, and their prophets,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:30 - In vain have I struck your children;
they took no correction;
your own sword devoured your prophets
like a ravening lion.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:4 - Have you not just now called to me,
‘My father, you are the friend of my youth—
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:20 - Surely, as a treacherous wife leaves her husband,
so have you been treacherous to me, O house of Israel,
declares the LORD.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:4 - Circumcise yourselves to the LORD;
remove the foreskin of your hearts,
O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem;
lest my wrath go forth like fire,
and burn with none to quench it,
because of the evil of your deeds.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:13 - Behold, he comes up like clouds;
his chariots like the whirlwind;
his horses are swifter than eagles—
woe to us, for we are ruined!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:17 - Like keepers of a field are they against her all around,
because she has rebelled against me,
declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:31 - For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor,
anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,
the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath,
stretching out her hands,
“Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:27 - Like a cage full of birds,
their houses are full of deceit;
therefore they have become great and rich;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:7 - As a well keeps its water fresh,
so she keeps fresh her evil;
violence and destruction are heard within her;
sickness and wounds are ever before me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:9 - Thus says the LORD of hosts:
“They shall glean thoroughly as a vine
the remnant of Israel;
like a grape gatherer pass your hand again
over its branches.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:23 - They lay hold on bow and javelin;
they are cruel and have no mercy;
the sound of them is like the roaring sea;
they ride on horses,
set in array as a man for battle,
against you, O daughter of Zion!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:24 - We have heard the report of it;
our hands fall helpless;
anguish has taken hold of us,
pain as of a woman in labor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:6 - I have paid attention and listened,
but they have not spoken rightly;
no man relents of his evil,
saying, ‘What have I done?'
Everyone turns to his own course,
like a horse plunging headlong into battle.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:21 - For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded;
I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:3 - They bend their tongue like a bow;
falsehood and not truth has grown strong[fn] in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
and they do not know me, declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:12 - Who is the man so wise that he can understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:22 - Speak: “Thus declares the LORD,
‘The dead bodies of men shall fall
like dung upon the open field,
like sheaves after the reaper,
and none shall gather them.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:19 - But I was like a gentle lamb
led to the slaughter.
I did not know it was against me
they devised schemes, saying,
“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,
let us cut him off from the land of the living,
that his name be remembered no more.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:8 - My heritage has become to me
like a lion in the forest;
she has lifted up her voice against me;
therefore I hate her.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:24 - I will scatter you[fn] like chaff
driven by the wind from the desert.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:25 - This is your lot,
the portion I have measured out to you, declares the LORD,
because you have forgotten me
and trusted in lies.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:8 - O you hope of Israel,
its savior in time of trouble,
why should you be like a stranger in the land,
like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:9 - Why should you be like a man confused,
like a mighty warrior who cannot save?
Yet you, O LORD, are in the midst of us,
and we are called by your name;
do not leave us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:10 - Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:15 - O LORD, you know;
remember me and visit me,
and take vengeance for me on my persecutors.
In your forbearance take me not away;
know that for your sake I bear reproach.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:18 - Why is my pain unceasing,
my wound incurable,
refusing to be healed?
Will you be to me like a deceitful brook,
like waters that fail?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:19 - Therefore thus says the LORD:
“If you return, I will restore you,
and you shall stand before me.
If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless,
you shall be as my mouth.
They shall turn to you,
but you shall not turn to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:20 - And I will make you to this people
a fortified wall of bronze;
they will fight against you,
but they shall not prevail over you,
for I am with you
to save you and deliver you,
declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 - O LORD, my strength and my stronghold,
my refuge in the day of trouble,
to you shall the nations come
from the ends of the earth and say:
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies,
worthless things in which there is no profit.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:6 - He is like a shrub in the desert,
and shall not see any good come.
He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness,
in an uninhabited salt land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:8 - He is like a tree planted by water,
that sends out its roots by the stream,
and does not fear when heat comes,
for its leaves remain green,
and is not anxious in the year of drought,
for it does not cease to bear fruit.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6 - “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the LORD. Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:17 - Like the east wind I will scatter them
before the enemy.
I will show them my back, not my face,
in the day of their calamity.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:12 - Thus will I do to this place, declares the LORD, and to its inhabitants, making this city like Topheth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:9 - If I say, “I will not mention him,
or speak any more in his name,”
there is in my heart as it were a burning fire
shut up in my bones,
and I am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:16 - Let that man be like the cities
that the LORD overthrew without pity;
let him hear a cry in the morning
and an alarm at noon,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:12 - O house of David! Thus says the LORD:
“‘Execute justice in the morning,
and deliver from the hand of the oppressor
him who has been robbed,
lest my wrath go forth like fire,
and burn with none to quench it,
because of your evil deeds.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:23 - O inhabitant of Lebanon,
nested among the cedars,
how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you,
pain as of a woman in labor!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:28 - Is this man Coniah a despised, broken pot,
a vessel no one cares for?
Why are he and his children hurled and cast
into a land that they do not know?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:9 - Concerning the prophets:
My heart is broken within me;
all my bones shake;
I am like a drunken man,
like a man overcome by wine,
because of the LORD
and because of his holy words.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:14 - But in the prophets of Jerusalem
I have seen a horrible thing:
they commit adultery and walk in lies;
they strengthen the hands of evildoers,
so that no one turns from his evil;
all of them have become like Sodom to me,
and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:29 - Is not my word like fire, declares the LORD, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:2 - One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:5 - “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:8 - “But thus says the LORD: Like the bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat Zedekiah the king of Judah, his officials, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:14 - But as for me, behold, I am in your hands. Do with me as seems good and right to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:18 - “Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah: ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts,
“‘Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins,
and the mountain of the house a wooded height.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:22 - Because of them this curse shall be used by all the exiles from Judah in Babylon: “The LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:20 - Their children shall be as they were of old,
and their congregation shall be established before me,
and I will punish all who oppress them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:10 - “Hear the word of the LORD, O nations,
and declare it in the coastlands far away;
say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him,
and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:20 - You have shown signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and to this day in Israel and among all mankind, and have made a name for yourself, as at this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:24 - Behold, the siege mounds have come up to the city to take it, and because of sword and famine and pestilence the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What you spoke has come to pass, and behold, you see it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:5 - You shall die in peace. And as spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so people shall burn spices for you and lament for you, saying, “Alas, lord!”' For I have spoken the word, declares the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:16 - When they heard all the words, they turned one to another in fear. And they said to Baruch, “We must report all these words to the king.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:32 - Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:1 - When Jeremiah finished speaking to all the people all these words of the LORD their God, with which the LORD their God had sent him to them,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:6 - Therefore my wrath and my anger were poured out and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became a waste and a desolation, as at this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:13 - I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:18 - But since we left off making offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - The LORD could no longer bear your evil deeds and the abominations that you committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:7 - “Who is this, rising like the Nile,
like rivers whose waters surge?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:18 - “As I live, declares the King,
whose name is the LORD of hosts,
like Tabor among the mountains
and like Carmel by the sea, shall one come.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:22 - “She makes a sound like a serpent gliding away;
for her enemies march in force
and come against her with axes
like those who fell trees.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:28 - “Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock,
O inhabitants of Moab!
Be like the dove that nests
in the sides of the mouth of a gorge.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:32 - More than for Jazer I weep for you,
O vine of Sibmah!
Your branches passed over the sea,
reached to the Sea of Jazer;
on your summer fruits and your grapes
the destroyer has fallen.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:38 - On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation, for I have broken Moab like a vessel for which no one cares, declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:9 - If grape gatherers came to you,
would they not leave gleanings?
If thieves came by night,
would they not destroy only enough for themselves?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:22 - Behold, one shall mount up and fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against Bozrah, and the heart of the warriors of Edom shall be in that day like the heart of a woman in her birth pains.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:9 - For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a gathering of great nations, from the north country. And they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:11 - “Though you rejoice, though you exult,
O plunderers of my heritage,
though you frolic like a heifer in the pasture,
and neigh like stallions,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:26 - Come against her from every quarter;
open her granaries;
pile her up like heaps of grain, and devote her to destruction;
let nothing be left of her.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:42 - They lay hold of bow and spear;
they are cruel and have no mercy.
The sound of them is like the roaring of the sea;
they ride on horses,
arrayed as a man for battle
against you, O daughter of Babylon!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:43 - “The king of Babylon heard the report of them,
and his hands fell helpless;
anguish seized him,
pain as of a woman in labor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:25 - “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain,
declares the LORD,
which destroys the whole earth;
I will stretch out my hand against you,
and roll you down from the crags,
and make you a burnt mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:27 - “Set up a standard on the earth;
blow the trumpet among the nations;
prepare the nations for war against her;
summon against her the kingdoms,
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz;
appoint a marshal against her;
bring up horses like bristling locusts.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:33 - For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:
The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor
at the time when it is trodden;
yet a little while
and the time of her harvest will come.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:34 - “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me;
he has crushed me;
he has made me an empty vessel;
he has swallowed me like a monster;
he has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
he has rinsed me out.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:38 - “They shall roar together like lions;
they shall growl like lions' cubs.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:40 - I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams and male goats.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:53 - Though Babylon should mount up to heaven,
and though she should fortify her strong height,
yet destroyers would come from me against her,
declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:55 - For the LORD is laying Babylon waste
and stilling her mighty voice.
Their waves roar like many waters;
the noise of their voice is raised,
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1 - How lonely sits the city
that was full of people!
How like a widow has she become,
she who was great among the nations!
She who was a princess among the provinces
has become a slave.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:6 - From the daughter of Zion
all her majesty has departed.
Her princes have become like deer
that find no pasture;
they fled without strength
before the pursuer.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:3 - He has cut down in fierce anger
all the might of Israel;
he has withdrawn from them his right hand
in the face of the enemy;
he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob,
consuming all around.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:4 - He has bent his bow like an enemy,
with his right hand set like a foe;
and he has killed all who were delightful in our eyes
in the tent of the daughter of Zion;
he has poured out his fury like fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:5 - The Lord has become like an enemy;
he has swallowed up Israel;
he has swallowed up all its palaces;
he has laid in ruins its strongholds,
and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah
mourning and lamentation.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:6 - He has laid waste his booth like a garden,
laid in ruins his meeting place;
the LORD has made Zion forget
festival and Sabbath,
and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:7 - The Lord has scorned his altar,
disowned his sanctuary;
he has delivered into the hand of the enemy
the walls of her palaces;
they raised a clamor in the house of the LORD
as on the day of festival.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:12 - They cry to their mothers,
“Where is bread and wine?”
as they faint like a wounded man
in the streets of the city,
as their life is poured out
on their mothers' bosom.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:18 - Their heart cried to the Lord.
O wall of the daughter of Zion,
let tears stream down like a torrent
day and night!
Give yourself no rest,
your eyes no respite!
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:19 - “Arise, cry out in the night,
at the beginning of the night watches!
Pour out your heart like water
before the presence of the Lord!
Lift your hands to him
for the lives of your children,
who faint for hunger
at the head of every street.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:22 - You summoned as if to a festival day
my terrors on every side,
and on the day of the anger of the LORD
no one escaped or survived;
those whom I held and raised
my enemy destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:6 - he has made me dwell in darkness
like the dead of long ago.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:12 - he bent his bow and set me
as a target for his arrow.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:52 - “I have been hunted like a bird
by those who were my enemies without cause;
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:3 - Even jackals offer the breast;
they nurse their young;
but the daughter of my people has become cruel,
like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:3 - We have become orphans, fatherless;
our mothers are like widows.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:10 - Our skin is hot as an oven
with the burning heat of famine.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:4 - As I looked, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, and a great cloud, with brightness around it, and fire flashing forth continually, and in the midst of the fire, as it were gleaming metal.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:5 - And from the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had a human likeness,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:7 - Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the sole of a calf's foot. And they sparkled like burnished bronze.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:13 - As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches moving to and fro among the living creatures. And the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:16 - As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming of beryl. And the four had the same likeness, their appearance and construction being as it were a wheel within a wheel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:22 - Over the heads of the living creatures there was the likeness of an expanse, shining like awe-inspiring crystal, spread out above their heads.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:24 - And when they went, I heard the sound of their wings like the sound of many waters, like the sound of the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of an army. When they stood still, they let down their wings.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:26 - And above the expanse over their heads there was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like sapphire;[fn] and seated above the likeness of a throne was a likeness with a human appearance.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:27 - And upward from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were gleaming metal, like the appearance of fire enclosed all around. And downward from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:28 - Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:3 - And he said to me, “Son of man, feed your belly with this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it.” Then I ate it, and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:2 - Then I looked, and behold, a form that had the appearance of a man.[fn] Below what appeared to be his waist was fire, and above his waist was something like the appearance of brightness, like gleaming metal.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:16 - And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the east.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:17 - Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations that they commit here, that they should fill the land with violence and provoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their[fn] nose.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:1 - Then I looked, and behold, on the expanse that was over the heads of the cherubim there appeared above them something like a sapphire,[fn] in appearance like a throne.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:5 - And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:9 - And I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one beside each cherub, and the appearance of the wheels was like sparkling beryl.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:1 - The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the house of the LORD, which faces east. And behold, at the entrance of the gateway there were twenty-five men. And I saw among them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:21 - But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will[fn] bring their deeds upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:4 - You shall bring out your baggage by day in their sight, as baggage for exile, and you shall go out yourself at evening in their sight, as those do who must go into exile.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:7 - And I did as I was commanded. I brought out my baggage by day, as baggage for exile, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my own hands. I brought out my baggage at dusk, carrying it on my shoulder in their sight.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:4 - Your prophets have been like jackals among ruins, O Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:20 - And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:31 - building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:59 - “For thus says the Lord GOD: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:23 - Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord GOD, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:10 - Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard[fn]
planted by the water,
fruitful and full of branches
by reason of abundant water.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:32 - “What is in your mind shall never happen—the thought, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:23 - But to them it will seem like a false divination. They have sworn solemn oaths, but he brings their guilt to remembrance, that they may be taken.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:25 - The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:27 - Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:20 - and lusted after her lovers there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:3 - therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:10 - His horses will be so many that their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots, when he enters your gates as men enter a city that has been breached.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:19 - “For thus says the Lord GOD: When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you, and the great waters cover you,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:20 - then I will make you go down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you to dwell in the world below, among ruins from of old, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set beauty in the land of the living.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:2 - “Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD:
“Because your heart is proud,
and you have said, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of the gods,
in the heart of the seas,'
yet you are but a man, and no god,
though you make your heart like the heart of a god—
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:6 - therefore thus says the Lord GOD:
Because you make your heart
like the heart of a god,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:2 - “Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him:
“You consider yourself a lion of the nations,
but you are like a dragon in the seas;
you burst forth in your rivers,
trouble the waters with your feet,
and foul their rivers.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:14 - Then I will make their waters clear,
and cause their rivers to run like oil,
declares the Lord GOD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:11 - Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:31 - And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:32 - And behold, you are to them like one who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and plays[fn] well on an instrument, for they hear what you say, but they will not do it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:11 - And I will multiply on you man and beast, and they shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:35 - And they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:37 - “Thus says the Lord GOD: This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:38 - Like the flock for sacrifices,[fn] like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:9 - You will advance, coming on like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:16 - You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:12 - The building that was facing the separate yard on the west side was seventy cubits broad, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:21 - The doorposts of the nave were squared, and in front of the Holy Place was something resembling
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:12 - as were the entrances of the chambers on the south. There was an entrance at the beginning of the passage, the passage before the corresponding wall on the east as one enters them.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:2 - And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east. And the sound of his coming was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone with his glory.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:8 - by setting their threshold by my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with only a wall between me and them. They have defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed, so I have consumed them in my anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:7 - “And to the prince shall belong the land on both sides of the holy district and the property of the city, alongside the holy district and the property of the city, on the west and on the east, corresponding in length to one of the tribal portions, and extending from the western to the eastern boundary
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:5 - Again he measured a thousand, and it was a river that I could not pass through, for the water had risen. It was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be passed through.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:10 - Fishermen will stand beside the sea. From Engedi to Eneglaim it will be a place for the spreading of nets. Its fish will be of very many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:22 - You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the sojourners who reside among you and have had children among you. They shall be to you as native-born children of Israel. With you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:8 - But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:40 - And there shall be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron, because iron breaks to pieces and shatters all things. And like iron that crushes, it shall break and crush all these.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:15 - Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, well and good.[fn] But if you do not worship, you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:3 - How great are his signs,
how mighty his wonders!
His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and his dominion endures from generation to generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:25 - that you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:32 - and you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. And you shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:33 - Immediately the word was fulfilled against Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from among men and ate grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair grew as long as eagles' feathers, and his nails were like birds' claws.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:35 - all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
and he does according to his will among the host of heaven
and among the inhabitants of the earth;
and none can stay his hand
or say to him, “What have you done?”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:21 - He was driven from among the children of mankind, and his mind was made like that of a beast, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, until he knew that the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whom he will.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:14 - Then the king, when he heard these words, was much distressed and set his mind to deliver Daniel. And he labored till the sun went down to rescue him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:13 - “I saw in the night visions,
and behold, with the clouds of heaven
there came one like a son of man,
and he came to the Ancient of Days
and was presented before him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:15 - When I, Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it. And behold, there stood before me one having the appearance of a man.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:25 - By his cunning he shall make deceit prosper under his hand, and in his own mind he shall become great. Without warning he shall destroy many. And he shall even rise up against the Prince of princes, and he shall be broken—but by no human hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:7 - To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:15 - And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have made a name for yourself, as at this day, we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:6 - His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:16 - And behold, one in the likeness of the children of man touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke. I said to him who stood before me, “O my lord, by reason of the vision pains have come upon me, and I retain no strength.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:18 - Again one having the appearance of a man touched me and strengthened me.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:4 - And as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom shall be broken and divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to the authority with which he ruled, for his kingdom shall be plucked up and go to others besides these.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:29 - “At the time appointed he shall return and come into the south, but it shall not be this time as it was before.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:3 - And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above;[fn] and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:10 - [fn] Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children[fn] of the living God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:3 - lest I strip her naked
and make her as in the day she was born,
and make her like a wilderness,
and make her like a parched land,
and kill her with thirst.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:4 - Yet let no one contend,
and let none accuse,
for with you is my contention, O priest.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:6 - My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge;
because you have rejected knowledge,
I reject you from being a priest to me.
And since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:16 - Like a stubborn heifer,
Israel is stubborn;
can the LORD now feed them
like a lamb in a broad pasture?
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:1 - Hear this, O priests!
Pay attention, O house of Israel!
Give ear, O house of the king!
For the judgment is for you;
for you have been a snare at Mizpah
and a net spread upon Tabor.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:10 - The princes of Judah have become
like those who move the landmark;
upon them I will pour out
my wrath like water.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:12 - But I am like a moth to Ephraim,
and like dry rot to the house of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:14 - For I will be like a lion to Ephraim,
and like a young lion to the house of Judah.
I, even I, will tear and go away;
I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:3 - Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD;
his going out is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us as the showers,
as the spring rains that water the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:4 - What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O Judah?
Your love is like a morning cloud,
like the dew that goes early away.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:5 - Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets;
I have slain them by the words of my mouth,
and my judgment goes forth as the light.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:7 - But like Adam they transgressed the covenant;
there they dealt faithlessly with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:2 - But they do not consider
that I remember all their evil.
Now their deeds surround them;
they are before my face.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:4 - They are all adulterers;
they are like a heated oven
whose baker ceases to stir the fire,
from the kneading of the dough
until it is leavened.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:6 - For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue;
all night their anger smolders;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:7 - All of them are hot as an oven,
and they devour their rulers.
All their kings have fallen,
and none of them calls upon me.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:11 - Ephraim is like a dove,
silly and without sense,
calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:16 - They return, but not upward;[fn]
they are like a treacherous bow;
their princes shall fall by the sword
because of the insolence of their tongue.
This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:1 - Set the trumpet to your lips!
One like a vulture is over the house of the LORD,
because they have transgressed my covenant
and rebelled against my law.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:8 - Israel is swallowed up;
already they are among the nations
as a useless vessel.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:4 - They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the LORD,
and their sacrifices shall not please him.
It shall be like mourners' bread to them;
all who eat of it shall be defiled;
for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
it shall not come to the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:10 - Like grapes in the wilderness,
I found Israel.
Like the first fruit on the fig tree
in its first season,
I saw your fathers.
But they came to Baal-peor
and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame,
and became detestable like the thing they loved.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:11 - Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird—
no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:4 - They utter mere words;
with empty[fn] oaths they make covenants;
so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds
in the furrows of the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:7 - Samaria's king shall perish
like a twig on the face of the waters.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:14 - therefore the tumult of war shall arise among your people,
and all your fortresses shall be destroyed,
as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle;
mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:4 - I led them with cords of kindness,[fn]
with the bands of love,
and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws,
and I bent down to them and fed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:8 - How can I give you up, O Ephraim?
How can I hand you over, O Israel?
How can I make you like Admah?
How can I treat you like Zeboiim?
My heart recoils within me;
my compassion grows warm and tender.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:10 - They shall go after the LORD;
he will roar like a lion;
when he roars,
his children shall come trembling from the west;
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:11 - they shall come trembling like birds from Egypt,
and like doves from the land of Assyria,
and I will return them to their homes, declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:11 - If there is iniquity in Gilead,
they shall surely come to nothing:
in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls;
their altars also are like stone heaps
on the furrows of the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:3 - Therefore they shall be like the morning mist
or like the dew that goes early away,
like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor
or like smoke from a window.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:7 - So I am to them like a lion;
like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:8 - I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs;
I will tear open their breast,
and there I will devour them like a lion,
as a wild beast would rip them open.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:13 - The pangs of childbirth come for him,
but he is an unwise son,
for at the right time he does not present himself
at the opening of the womb.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:5 - I will be like the dew to Israel;
he shall blossom like the lily;
he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon;
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:6 - his shoots shall spread out;
his beauty shall be like the olive,
and his fragrance like Lebanon.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:7 - They shall return and dwell beneath my[fn] shadow;
they shall flourish like the grain;
they shall blossom like the vine;
their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:8 - O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols?
It is I who answer and look after you.[fn]
I am like an evergreen cypress;
from me comes your fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:15 - Alas for the day!
For the day of the LORD is near,
and as destruction from the Almighty[fn] it comes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:2 - a day of darkness and gloom,
a day of clouds and thick darkness!
Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains
a great and powerful people;
their like has never been before,
nor will be again after them
through the years of all generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:3 - Fire devours before them,
and behind them a flame burns.
The land is like the garden of Eden before them,
but behind them a desolate wilderness,
and nothing escapes them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:4 - Their appearance is like the appearance of horses,
and like war horses they run.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:5 - As with the rumbling of chariots,
they leap on the tops of the mountains,
like the crackling of a flame of fire
devouring the stubble,
like a powerful army
drawn up for battle.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:6 - Before them peoples are in anguish;
all faces grow pale.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:7 - Like warriors they charge;
like soldiers they scale the wall.
They march each on his way;
they do not swerve from their paths.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:9 - They leap upon the city,
they run upon the walls,
they climb up into the houses,
they enter through the windows like a thief.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:9 - “Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,
whose height was like the height of the cedars
and who was as strong as the oaks;
I destroyed his fruit above
and his roots beneath.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:11 - “I overthrew some of you,
as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
and you were as a brand[fn] plucked out of the burning;
yet you did not return to me,”
declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5 - but do not seek Bethel,
and do not enter into Gilgal
or cross over to Beersheba;
for Gilgal shall surely go into exile,
and Bethel shall come to nothing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:6 - Seek the LORD and live,
lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:24 - But let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:5 - who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp
and like David invent for themselves instruments of music,
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:8 - Shall not the land tremble on this account,
and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
and all of it rise like the Nile,
and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:10 - I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
I will bring sackcloth on every waist
and baldness on every head;
I will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:5 - The Lord GOD of hosts,
he who touches the earth and it melts,
and all who dwell in it mourn,
and all of it rises like the Nile,
and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:7 - “Are you not like the Cushites to me,
O people of Israel?” declares the LORD.
“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir?
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:4 - Though you soar aloft like the eagle,
though your nest is set among the stars,
from there I will bring you down,
declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:11 - On the day that you stood aloof,
on the day that strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
and cast lots for Jerusalem,
you were like one of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:4 - And the mountains will melt under him,
and the valleys will split open,
like wax before the fire,
like waters poured down a steep place.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:8 - For this I will lament and wail;
I will go stripped and naked;
I will make lamentation like the jackals,
and mourning like the ostriches.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:16 - Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair,
for the children of your delight;
make yourselves as bald as the eagle,
for they shall go from you into exile.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:12 - I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob;
I will gather the remnant of Israel;
I will set them together
like sheep in a fold,
like a flock in its pasture,
a noisy multitude of men.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:3 - who eat the flesh of my people,
and flay their skin from off them,
and break their bones in pieces
and chop them up like meat in a pot,
like flesh in a cauldron.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:12 - Therefore because of you
Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins,
and the mountain of the house a wooded height.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:9 - Now why do you cry aloud?
Is there no king in you?
Has your counselor perished,
that pain seized you like a woman in labor?
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:10 - Writhe and groan,[fn] O daughter of Zion,
like a woman in labor,
for now you shall go out from the city
and dwell in the open country;
you shall go to Babylon.
There you shall be rescued;
there the LORD will redeem you
from the hand of your enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:12 - But they do not know
the thoughts of the LORD;
they do not understand his plan,
that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:7 - Then the remnant of Jacob shall be
in the midst of many peoples
like dew from the LORD,
like showers on the grass,
which delay not for a man
nor wait for the children of man.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:8 - And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations,
in the midst of many peoples,
like a lion among the beasts of the forest,
like a young lion among the flocks of sheep,
which, when it goes through, treads down
and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:1 - Woe is me! For I have become
as when the summer fruit has been gathered,
as when the grapes have been gleaned:
there is no cluster to eat,
no first-ripe fig that my soul desires.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:4 - The best of them is like a brier,
the most upright of them a thorn hedge.
The day of your watchmen, of your punishment, has come;
now their confusion is at hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:10 - Then my enemy will see,
and shame will cover her who said to me,
“Where is the LORD your God?”
My eyes will look upon her;
now she will be trampled down
like the mire of the streets.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:17 - they shall lick the dust like a serpent,
like the crawling things of the earth;
they shall come trembling out of their strongholds;
they shall turn in dread to the LORD our God,
and they shall be in fear of you.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:10 - For they are like entangled thorns,
like drunkards as they drink;
they are consumed like stubble fully dried.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:4 - The chariots race madly through the streets;
they rush to and fro through the squares;
they gleam like torches;
they dart like lightning.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:8 - Nineveh is like a pool
whose waters run away.[fn]
“Halt! Halt!” they cry,
but none turns back.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:10 - Desolate! Desolation and ruin!
Hearts melt and knees tremble;
anguish is in all loins;
all faces grow pale!
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:13 - Behold, your troops
are women in your midst.
The gates of your land
are wide open to your enemies;
fire has devoured your bars.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:15 - There will the fire devour you;
the sword will cut you off.
It will devour you like the locust.
Multiply yourselves like the locust;
multiply like the grasshopper!
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:17 - Your princes are like grasshoppers,
your scribes[fn] like clouds of locusts
settling on the fences
in a day of cold—
when the sun rises, they fly away;
no one knows where they are.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:8 - Their horses are swifter than leopards,
more fierce than the evening wolves;
their horsemen press proudly on.
Their horsemen come from afar;
they fly like an eagle swift to devour.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:9 - They all come for violence,
all their faces forward.
They gather captives like sand.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:14 - You make mankind like the fish of the sea,
like crawling things that have no ruler.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:5 - “Moreover, wine[fn] is a traitor,
an arrogant man who is never at rest.[fn]
His greed is as wide as Sheol;
like death he has never enough.
He gathers for himself all nations
and collects as his own all peoples.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:14 - For the earth will be filled
with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD
as the waters cover the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:4 - His brightness was like the light;
rays flashed from his hand;
and there he veiled his power.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:14 - You pierced with his own arrows the heads of his warriors,
who came like a whirlwind to scatter me,
rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:17 - I will bring distress on mankind,
so that they shall walk like the blind,
because they have sinned against the LORD;
their blood shall be poured out like dust,
and their flesh like dung.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:2 - before the decree takes effect[fn]
—before the day passes away like chaff—
before there comes upon you
the burning anger of the LORD,
before there comes upon you
the day of the anger of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:9 - Therefore, as I live,” declares the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel,
“Moab shall become like Sodom,
and the Ammonites like Gomorrah,
a land possessed by nettles and salt pits,
and a waste forever.
The remnant of my people shall plunder them,
and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:13 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north
and destroy Assyria,
and he will make Nineveh a desolation,
a dry waste like the desert.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:3 - Her officials within her
are roaring lions;
her judges are evening wolves
that leave nothing till the morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:17 - The LORD your God is in your midst,
a mighty one who will save;
he will rejoice over you with gladness;
he will quiet you by his love;
he will exult over you with loud singing.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:23 - On that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel my servant, the son of Shealtiel, declares the LORD, and make you like a[fn] signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the LORD of hosts.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:8 - For thus said the LORD of hosts, after his glory sent me[fn] to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:2 - And the LORD said to Satan, “The LORD rebuke you, O Satan! The LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand[fn] plucked from the fire?”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:9 - Then I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, two women coming forward! The wind was in their wings. They had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:3 - Tyre has built herself a rampart
and heaped up silver like dust,
and fine gold like the mud of the streets.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:7 - I will take away its blood from its mouth,
and its abominations from between its teeth;
it too shall be a remnant for our God;
it shall be like a clan in Judah,
and Ekron shall be like the Jebusites.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:13 - For I have bent Judah as my bow;
I have made Ephraim its arrow.
I will stir up your sons, O Zion,
against your sons, O Greece,
and wield you like a warrior's sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:14 - Then the LORD will appear over them,
and his arrow will go forth like lightning;
the Lord GOD will sound the trumpet
and will march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:15 - The LORD of hosts will protect them,
and they shall devour, and tread down the sling stones,
and they shall drink and roar as if drunk with wine,
and be full like a bowl,
drenched like the corners of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:16 - On that day the LORD their God will save them,
as the flock of his people;
for like the jewels of a crown
they shall shine on his land.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:2 - For the household gods utter nonsense,
and the diviners see lies;
they tell false dreams
and give empty consolation.
Therefore the people wander like sheep;
they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:3 - “My anger is hot against the shepherds,
and I will punish the leaders;[fn]
for the LORD of hosts cares for his flock, the house of Judah,
and will make them like his majestic steed in battle.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:5 - They shall be like mighty men in battle,
trampling the foe in the mud of the streets;
they shall fight because the LORD is with them,
and they shall put to shame the riders on horses.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:7 - Then Ephraim shall become like a mighty warrior,
and their hearts shall be glad as with wine.
Their children shall see it and be glad;
their hearts shall rejoice in the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:2 - “Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem will also be against Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:6 - “On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves. And they shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:8 - On that day the LORD will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the angel of the LORD, going before them.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:10 - “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:11 - On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:9 - And I will put this third into the fire,
and refine them as one refines silver,
and test them as gold is tested.
They will call upon my name,
and I will answer them.
I will say, ‘They are my people';
and they will say, ‘The LORD is my God.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:20 - And on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “Holy to the LORD.” And the pots in the house of the LORD shall be as the bowls before the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:2 - But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:3 - He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the LORD.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 4:1 - [fn] “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 4:2 - But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.
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Speech: Adverb
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:10 - And he said, “Tomorrow.” Moses said, “Be it as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:29 - Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD's.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:1 - Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:32 - Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Now the king had dispatched a man from his presence, but before the messenger arrived Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent to take off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold the door fast against him. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:6 - But he did not put to death the children of the murderers, according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the LORD commanded, “Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. But each one shall die for his own sin.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:3 - And Solomon sent word to Hiram the king of Tyre: “As you dealt with David my father and sent him cedar to build himself a house to dwell in, so deal with me.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:6 - And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:4 - He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done. For after the death of his father they were his counselors, to his undoing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:14 - And when they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, and with it were made utensils for the house of the LORD, both for the service and for the burnt offerings, and dishes for incense and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD regularly all the days of Jehoiada.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:1 - Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as his father David had done,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:19 - And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem as they spoke of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:23 - And he did not humble himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred guilt more and more.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:12 - And they set aside the burnt offerings that they might distribute them according to the groupings of the fathers' houses of the lay people, to offer to the LORD, as it is written in the Book of Moses. And so they did with the bulls.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:18 - No Passover like it had been kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel had kept such a Passover as was kept by Josiah, and the priests and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:7 - [fn] But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:27 - when terror strikes you like a storm
and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
when distress and anguish come upon you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:23 - till an arrow pierces its liver;
as a bird rushes into a snare;
he does not know that it will cost him his life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:28 - when he made firm the skies above,
when he established[fn] the fountains of the deep,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:8 - And the daughter of Zion is left
like a booth in a vineyard,
like a lodge in a cucumber field,
like a besieged city.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:9 - If the LORD of hosts
had not left us a few survivors,
we should have been like Sodom,
and become like Gomorrah.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:18 - “Come now, let us reason[fn] together, says the LORD:
though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red like crimson,
they shall become like wool.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:26 - And I will restore your judges as at the first,
and your counselors as at the beginning.
Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness,
the faithful city.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:30 - For you shall be like an oak
whose leaf withers,
and like a garden without water.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:31 - And the strong shall become tinder,
and his work a spark,
and both of them shall burn together,
with none to quench them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:6 - For you have rejected your people,
the house of Jacob,
because they are full of things from the east
and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines,
and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:9 - For the look on their faces bears witness against them;
they proclaim their sin like Sodom;
they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
For they have brought evil on themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:5 - Then the LORD will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be a canopy.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:6 - I will make it a waste;
it shall not be pruned or hoed,
and briers and thorns shall grow up;
I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:17 - Then shall the lambs graze as in their pasture,
and nomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:18 - Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood,
who draw sin as with cart ropes,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:24 - Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so their root will be as rottenness,
and their blossom go up like dust;
for they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts,
and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:25 - Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against his people,
and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them,
and the mountains quaked;
and their corpses were as refuse
in the midst of the streets.
For all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:28 - their arrows are sharp,
all their bows bent,
their horses' hoofs seem like flint,
and their wheels like the whirlwind.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:29 - Their roaring is like a lion,
like young lions they roar;
they growl and seize their prey;
they carry it off, and none can rescue.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:30 - They will growl over it on that day,
like the growling of the sea.
And if one looks to the land,
behold, darkness and distress;
and the light is darkened by its clouds.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:13 - And though a tenth remain in it,
it will be burned[fn] again,
like a terebinth or an oak,
whose stump remains
when it is felled.”
The holy seed[fn] is its stump.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:14 - And he will become a sanctuary and a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:20 - To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:21 - They will pass through the land,[fn] greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against[fn] their king and their God, and turn their faces upward.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:3 - You have multiplied the nation;
you have increased its joy;
they rejoice before you
as with joy at the harvest,
as they are glad when they divide the spoil.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:4 - For the yoke of his burden,
and the staff for his shoulder,
the rod of his oppressor,
you have broken as on the day of Midian.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:18 - For wickedness burns like a fire;
it consumes briers and thorns;
it kindles the thickets of the forest,
and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:19 - Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts
the land is scorched,
and the people are like fuel for the fire;
no one spares another.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:14 - My hand has found like a nest
the wealth of the peoples;
and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken,
so I have gathered all the earth;
and there was none that moved a wing
or opened the mouth or chirped.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:18 - The glory of his forest and of his fruitful land
the LORD will destroy, both soul and body,
and it will be as when a sick man wastes away.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:22 - For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:9 - They shall not hurt or destroy
in all my holy mountain;
for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD
as the waters cover the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:16 - And there will be a highway from Assyria
for the remnant that remains of his people,
as there was for Israel
when they came up from the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:8 - They will be dismayed:
pangs and agony will seize them;
they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.
They will look aghast at one another;
their faces will be aflame.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:14 - And like a hunted gazelle,
or like sheep with none to gather them,
each will turn to his own people,
and each will flee to his own land.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:19 - but you are cast out, away from your grave,
like a loathed branch,
clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword,
who go down to the stones of the pit,
like a dead body trampled underfoot.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:9 - Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer
for the vine of Sibmah;
I drench you with my tears,
O Heshbon and Elealeh;
for over your summer fruit and your harvest
the shout has ceased.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:11 - Therefore my inner parts moan like a lyre for Moab,
and my inmost self for Kir-hareseth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:6 - Gleanings will be left in it,
as when an olive tree is beaten—
two or three berries
in the top of the highest bough,
four or five
on the branches of a fruit tree,
declares the LORD God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:11 - though you make them grow[fn] on the day that you plant them,
and make them blossom in the morning that you sow,
yet the harvest will flee away[fn]
in a day of grief and incurable pain.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:12 - Ah, the thunder of many peoples;
they thunder like the thundering of the sea!
Ah, the roar of nations;
they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:13 - The nations roar like the roaring of many waters,
but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away,
chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind
and whirling dust before the storm.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:3 - All you inhabitants of the world,
you who dwell on the earth,
when a signal is raised on the mountains, look!
When a trumpet is blown, hear!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:4 - For thus the LORD said to me:
“I will quietly look from my dwelling
like clear heat in sunshine,
like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:14 - The LORD has mingled within her a spirit of confusion,
and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds,
as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:1 - The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea.
As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on,
it comes from the wilderness,
from a terrible land.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:3 - Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;
pangs have seized me,
like the pangs of a woman in labor;
I am bowed down so that I cannot hear;
I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:16 - For thus the Lord said to me, “Within a year, according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:21 - and I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your sash on him, and will commit your authority to his hand. And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:3 - And on many waters
your revenue was the grain of Shihor,
the harvest of the Nile;
you were the merchant of the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:15 - In that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days[fn] of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:2 - And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest;
as with the slave, so with his master;
as with the maid, so with her mistress;
as with the buyer, so with the seller;
as with the lender, so with the borrower;
as with the creditor, so with the debtor.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:20 - The earth staggers like a drunken man;
it sways like a hut;
its transgression lies heavy upon it,
and it falls, and will not rise again.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:5 - like heat in a dry place.
You subdue the noise of the foreigners;
as heat by the shade of a cloud,
so the song of the ruthless is put down.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:17 - Like a pregnant woman
who writhes and cries out in her pangs
when she is near to giving birth,
so were we because of you, O LORD;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:7 - Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them?
Or have they been slain as their slayers were slain?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 - Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:[fn]
when he makes all the stones of the altars
like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:10 - For the fortified city is solitary,
a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
there the calf grazes;
there it lies down and strips its branches.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:2 - Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong;
like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest,
like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters,
he casts down to the earth with his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:4 - and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
which is on the head of the rich valley,
will be like a first-ripe fig[fn] before the summer:
when someone sees it, he swallows it
as soon as it is in his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:3 - And I will encamp against you all around,
and will besiege you with towers
and I will raise siegeworks against you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:4 - And you will be brought low; from the earth you shall speak,
and from the dust your speech will be bowed down;
your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost,
and from the dust your speech shall whisper.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:5 - But the multitude of your foreign foes shall be like small dust,
and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff.
And in an instant, suddenly,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:7 - And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel,
all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her,
shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:8 - As when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he is eating,
and awakes with his hunger not satisfied,
or as when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he is drinking,
and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched,
so shall the multitude of all the nations be
that fight against Mount Zion.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:11 - And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:16 - You turn things upside down!
Shall the potter be regarded as the clay,
that the thing made should say of its maker,
“He did not make me”;
or the thing formed say of him who formed it,
“He has no understanding”?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:17 - Is it not yet a very little while
until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:13 - therefore this iniquity shall be to you
like a breach in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse,
whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:14 - and its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel
that is smashed so ruthlessly
that among its fragments not a shard is found
with which to take fire from the hearth,
or to dip up water out of the cistern.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:17 - A thousand shall flee at the threat of one;
at the threat of five you shall flee,
till you are left
like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain,
like a signal on a hill.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:22 - Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images. You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, “Be gone!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:26 - Moreover, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when the LORD binds up the brokenness of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:27 - Behold, the name of the LORD comes from afar,
burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke;[fn]
his lips are full of fury,
and his tongue is like a devouring fire;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:28 - his breath is like an overflowing stream
that reaches up to the neck;
to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction,
and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:30 - And the LORD will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and storm and hailstones.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:33 - For a burning place[fn] has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:5 - Like birds hovering, so the LORD of hosts
will protect Jerusalem;
he will protect and deliver it;
he will spare and rescue it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:9 - His rock shall pass away in terror,
and his officers desert the standard in panic,”
declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion,
and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:2 - Each will be like a hiding place from the wind,
a shelter from the storm,
like streams of water in a dry place,
like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:19 - And it will hail when the forest falls down,
and the city will be utterly laid low.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:1 - Ah, you destroyer,
who yourself have not been destroyed,
you traitor,
whom none has betrayed!
When you have ceased to destroy,
you will be destroyed;
and when you have finished betraying,
they will betray you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:12 - And the peoples will be as if burned to lime,
like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:4 - All the host of heaven shall rot away,
and the skies roll up like a scroll.
All their host shall fall,
as leaves fall from the vine,
like leaves falling from the fig tree.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:9 - And the streams of Edom[fn] shall be turned into pitch,
and her soil into sulfur;
her land shall become burning pitch.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:6 - then shall the lame man leap like a deer,
and the tongue of the mute sing for joy.
For waters break forth in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:17 - until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:11 - Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:27 - while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
are dismayed and confounded,
and have become like plants of the field
and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
blighted[fn] before it is grown.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:3 - and said, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:12 - My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me
like a shepherd's tent;
like a weaver I have rolled up my life;
he cuts me off from the loom;
from day to night you bring me to an end;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:13 - I calmed myself[fn] until morning;
like a lion he breaks all my bones;
from day to night you bring me to an end.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:14 - Like a swallow or a crane I chirp;
I moan like a dove.
My eyes are weary with looking upward.
O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:6 - A voice says, “Cry!”
And I said,[fn] “What shall I cry?”
All flesh is grass,
and all its beauty[fn] is like the flower of the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:11 - He will tend his flock like a shepherd;
he will gather the lambs in his arms;
he will carry them in his bosom,
and gently lead those that are with young.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:15 - Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,
and are accounted as the dust on the scales;
behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:17 - All the nations are as nothing before him,
they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:22 - It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:23 - who brings princes to nothing,
and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:24 - Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,
scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,
when he blows on them, and they wither,
and the tempest carries them off like stubble.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:31 - but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:2 - Who stirred up one from the east
whom victory meets at every step?[fn]
He gives up nations before him,
so that he tramples kings underfoot;
he makes them like dust with his sword,
like driven stubble with his bow.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:11 - Behold, all who are incensed against you
shall be put to shame and confounded;
those who strive against you
shall be as nothing and shall perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:12 - You shall seek those who contend with you,
but you shall not find them;
those who war against you
shall be as nothing at all.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:15 - Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge,
new, sharp, and having teeth;
you shall thresh the mountains and crush them,
and you shall make the hills like chaff;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25 - I stirred up one from the north, and he has come,
from the rising of the sun, and he shall call upon my name;
he shall trample on rulers as on mortar,
as the potter treads clay.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:14 - For a long time I have held my peace;
I have kept still and restrained myself;
now I will cry out like a woman in labor;
I will gasp and pant.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:17 - who brings forth chariot and horse,
army and warrior;
they lie down, they cannot rise,
they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:4 - They shall spring up among the grass
like willows by flowing streams.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:13 - The carpenter stretches a line; he marks it out with a pencil.[fn] He shapes it with planes and marks it with a compass. He shapes it into the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:22 - I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud
and your sins like mist;
return to me, for I have redeemed you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9 - “Woe to him who strives with him who formed him,
a pot among earthen pots!
Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?'
or ‘Your work has no handles'?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:20 - “Assemble yourselves and come;
draw near together,
you survivors of the nations!
They have no knowledge
who carry about their wooden idols,
and keep on praying to a god
that cannot save.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:1 - Bel bows down; Nebo stoops;
their idols are on beasts and livestock;
these things you carry are borne
as burdens on weary beasts.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:14 - Behold, they are like stubble;
the fire consumes them;
they cannot deliver themselves
from the power of the flame.
No coal for warming oneself is this,
no fire to sit before!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:2 - He made my mouth like a sharp sword;
in the shadow of his hand he hid me;
he made me a polished arrow;
in his quiver he hid me away.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:18 - Lift up your eyes around and see;
they all gather, they come to you.
As I live, declares the LORD,
you shall put them all on as an ornament;
you shall bind them on as a bride does.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:26 - I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh,
and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine.
Then all flesh shall know
that I am the LORD your Savior,
and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:9 - Behold, the Lord GOD helps me;
who will declare me guilty?
Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment;
the moth will eat them up.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:3 - For the LORD comforts Zion;
he comforts all her waste places
and makes her wilderness like Eden,
her desert like the garden of the LORD;
joy and gladness will be found in her,
thanksgiving and the voice of song.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:5 - My righteousness draws near,
my salvation has gone out,
and my arms will judge the peoples;
the coastlands hope for me,
and for my arm they wait.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:6 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
and look at the earth beneath;
for the heavens vanish like smoke,
the earth will wear out like a garment,
and they who dwell in it will die in like manner;[fn]
but my salvation will be forever,
and my righteousness will never be dismayed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:8 - For the moth will eat them up like a garment,
and the worm will eat them like wool,
but my righteousness will be forever,
and my salvation to all generations.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:9 - Awake, awake, put on strength,
O arm of the LORD;
awake, as in days of old,
the generations of long ago.
Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces,
who pierced the dragon?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:20 - Your sons have fainted;
they lie at the head of every street
like an antelope in a net;
they are full of the wrath of the LORD,
the rebuke of your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:2 - Why is your apparel red,
and your garments like his who treads in the winepress?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:3 - “I have trodden the winepress alone,
and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
and trampled them in my wrath;
their lifeblood[fn] spattered on my garments,
and stained all my apparel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:13 - who led them through the depths?
Like a horse in the desert,
they did not stumble.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:14 - Like livestock that go down into the valley,
the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest.
So you led your people,
to make for yourself a glorious name.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:19 - We have become like those over whom you have never ruled,
like those who are not called by your name.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:2 - [fn] as when fire kindles brushwood
and the fire causes water to boil—
to make your name known to your adversaries,
and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:6 - We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
We all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:10 - Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:25 - The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
and dust shall be the serpent's food.
They shall not hurt or destroy
in all my holy mountain,”
says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:3 - “He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man;
he who sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog's neck;
he who presents a grain offering, like one who offers pig's blood;
he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol.
These have chosen their own ways,
and their soul delights in their abominations;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:12 - For thus says the LORD:
“Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,
and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;
and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip,
and bounced upon her knees.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:13 - As one whom his mother comforts,
so I will comfort you;
you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:14 - You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice;
your bones shall flourish like the grass;
and the hand of the LORD shall be known to his servants,
and he shall show his indignation against his enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:15 - “For behold, the LORD will come in fire,
and his chariots like the whirlwind,
to render his anger in fury,
and his rebuke with flames of fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:20 - And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as an offering to the LORD, on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.
PRT
Occurrences: 79 times in 61 verses
Speech: Particle, Disjunctive Particle
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:15 - And David said to Abner, “Are you not a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:3 - And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, yet not like David his father. He did in all things as Joash his father had done.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:2 - Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God, as his father David had done,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:9 - O LORD God, let your word to David my father be now fulfilled, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:12 - wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. I will also give you riches, possessions, and honor, such as none of the kings had who were before you, and none after you shall have the like.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:15 - And the king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:8 - Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. And my servants will be with your servants,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:5 - Its thickness was a handbreadth.[fn] And its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held 3,000 baths.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:10 - And he set the sea at the southeast corner of the house.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:3 - Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead?” He answered him, “I am as you are, my people as your people. We will be with you in the war.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:12 - And the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Behold, the words of the prophets with one accord are favorable to the king. Let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:16 - And he said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:31 - As soon as the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is the king of Israel.” So they turned to fight against him. And Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; God drew them away from him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:32 - For as soon as the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:17 - And he wrote letters to cast contempt on the LORD, the God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, “Like the gods of the nations of the lands who have not delivered their people from my hands, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver his people from my hand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:26 - They will perish, but you will remain;
they will all wear out like a garment.
You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:5 - who satisfies you with good
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:2 - covering yourself with light as with a garment,
stretching out the heavens like a tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:6 - You covered it with the deep as with a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:24 - O LORD, how manifold are your works!
In wisdom have you made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:22 - to bind[fn] his princes at his pleasure
and to teach his elders wisdom.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:9 - He rebuked the Red Sea, and it became dry,
and he led them through the deep as through a desert.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:27 - they reeled and staggered like drunken men
and were at their wits' end.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:41 - but he raises up the needy out of affliction
and makes their families like flocks.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:18 - He clothed himself with cursing as his coat;
may it soak[fn] into his body like water,
like oil into his bones!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:19 - May it be like a garment that he wraps around him,
like a belt that he puts on every day!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 113:5 - Who is like the LORD our God,
who is seated on high,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 114:4 - The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 114:6 - O mountains, that you skip like rams?
O hills, like lambs?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:14 - In the way of your testimonies I delight
as much as in all riches.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:70 - their heart is unfeeling like fat,
but I delight in your law.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:83 - For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke,
yet I have not forgotten your statutes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:85 - The insolent have dug pitfalls for me;
they do not live according to your law.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:103 - How sweet are your words to my taste,
sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:162 - I rejoice at your word
like one who finds great spoil.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:176 - I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant,
for I do not forget your commandments.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:1 - Send the lamb to the ruler of the land,
from Sela, by way of the desert,
to the mount of the daughter of Zion.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:2 - Like fleeing birds,
like a scattered nest,
so are the daughters of Moab
at the fords of the Arnon.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:18 - Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments!
Then your peace would have been like a river,
and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:19 - your offspring would have been like the sand,
and your descendants like its grains;
their name would never be cut off
or destroyed from before me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:7 - How beautiful upon the mountains
are the feet of him who brings good news,
who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness,
who publishes salvation,
who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:2 - For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:6 - All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:7 - He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he opened not his mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:6 - For the LORD has called you
like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit,
like a wife of youth when she is cast off,
says your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:16 - Behold, I have created the smith
who blows the fire of coals
and produces a weapon for its purpose.
I have also created the ravager to destroy;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:9 - For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:1 - “Cry aloud; do not hold back;
lift up your voice like a trumpet;
declare to my people their transgression,
to the house of Jacob their sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:2 - Yet they seek me daily
and delight to know my ways,
as if they were a nation that did righteousness
and did not forsake the judgment of their God;
they ask of me righteous judgments;
they delight to draw near to God.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:4 - Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight
and to hit with a wicked fist.
Fasting like yours this day
will not make your voice to be heard on high.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:5 - Is such the fast that I choose,
a day for a person to humble himself?
Is it to bow down his head like a reed,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
Will you call this a fast,
and a day acceptable to the LORD?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:11 - And the LORD will guide you continually
and satisfy your desire in scorched places
and make your bones strong;
and you shall be like a watered garden,
like a spring of water,
whose waters do not fail.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:10 - We grope for the wall like the blind;
we grope like those who have no eyes;
we stumble at noon as in the twilight,
among those in full vigor we are like dead men.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:11 - We all growl like bears;
we moan and moan like doves;
we hope for justice, but there is none;
for salvation, but it is far from us.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:17 - He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
and a helmet of salvation on his head;
he put on garments of vengeance for clothing,
and wrapped himself in zeal as a cloak.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:19 - So they shall fear the name of the LORD from the west,
and his glory from the rising of the sun;
for he will come like a rushing stream,[fn]
which the wind of the LORD drives.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:8 - Who are these that fly like a cloud,
and like doves to their windows?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:10 - I will greatly rejoice in the LORD;
my soul shall exult in my God,
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;
he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress,
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:11 - For as the earth brings forth its sprouts,
and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up,
so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise
to sprout up before all the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:1 - For Zion's sake I will not keep silent,
and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet,
until her righteousness goes forth as brightness,
and her salvation as a burning torch.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:5 - For as a young man marries a young woman,
so shall your sons marry you,
and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
so shall your God rejoice over you.
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