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αὐτὸν — 1443x G846 αὐτός
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Occurrences: 1415 times in 1188 verses
Speech: Demonstrative Pronoun
Parsing: Accusative Masculine Singular
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:15 - The LORD God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:23 - So the LORD God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:24 - After sending them out, the LORD God stationed mighty cherubim to the east of the Garden of Eden. And he placed a flaming sword that flashed back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:15 - The LORD replied, “No, for I will give a sevenfold punishment to anyone who kills you.” Then the LORD put a mark on Cain to warn anyone who might try to kill him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:4 - After the birth of Seth, Adam lived another 800 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:7 - After the birth of[fn] Enosh, Seth lived another 807 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:10 - After the birth of Kenan, Enosh lived another 815 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:13 - After the birth of Mahalalel, Kenan lived another 840 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:16 - After the birth of Jared, Mahalalel lived another 830 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:19 - After the birth of Enoch, Jared lived another 800 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:22 - After the birth of Methuselah, Enoch lived in close fellowship with God for another 300 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:24 - walking in close fellowship with God. Then one day he disappeared, because God took him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:26 - After the birth of Lamech, Methuselah lived another 782 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:30 - After the birth of Noah, Lamech lived another 595 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:9 - But the dove could find no place to land because the water still covered the ground. So it returned to the boat, and Noah held out his hand and drew the dove back inside.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:11 - This time the dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the floodwaters were almost gone.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:12 - He waited another seven days and then released the dove again. This time it did not come back.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:11 - After the birth of[fn] Arphaxad, Shem lived another 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:13 - After the birth of Shelah, Arphaxad lived another 403 years and had other sons and daughters.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:15 - After the birth of Eber, Shelah lived another 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:17 - After the birth of Peleg, Eber lived another 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:19 - After the birth of Reu, Peleg lived another 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:21 - After the birth of Serug, Reu lived another 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:23 - After the birth of Nahor, Serug lived another 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:25 - After the birth of Terah, Nahor lived another 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:20 - Pharaoh ordered some of his men to escort them, and he sent Abram out of the country, along with his wife and all his possessions.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:17 - After Abram returned from his victory over Kedorlaomer and all his allies, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:4 - Then the LORD said to him, “No, your servant will not be your heir, for you will have a son of your own who will be your heir.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:5 - Then the LORD took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That's how many descendants you will have!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:19 - But God replied, “No—Sarah, your wife, will give birth to a son for you. You will name him Isaac,[fn] and I will confirm my covenant with him and his descendants as an everlasting covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:20 - As for Ishmael, I will bless him also, just as you have asked. I will make him extremely fruitful and multiply his descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:22 - When God had finished speaking, he left Abraham.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:29 - Then Abraham pressed his request further. “Suppose there are only forty?”
And the LORD replied, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the forty.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:3 - But Lot insisted, so at last they went home with him. Lot prepared a feast for them, complete with fresh bread made without yeast, and they ate.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:34 - The next morning the older daughter said to her younger sister, “I had sex with our father last night. Let's get him drunk with wine again tonight, and you go in and have sex with him. That way we will preserve our family line through our father.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2 - Abraham introduced his wife, Sarah, by saying, “She is my sister.” So King Abimelech of Gerar sent for Sarah and had her brought to him at his palace.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:2 - “Take your son, your only son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so much—and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:9 - When they arrived at the place where God had told him to go, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. Then he tied his son, Isaac, and laid him on the altar on top of the wood.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:11 - At that moment the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”
“Yes,” Abraham replied. “Here I am!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:13 - Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket. So he took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:5 - The servant asked, “But what if I can't find a young woman who is willing to travel so far from home? Should I then take Isaac there to live among your relatives in the land you came from?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:6 - “No!” Abraham responded. “Be careful never to take my son there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:15 - Before he had finished praying, he saw a young woman named Rebekah coming out with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, who was the son of Abraham's brother Nahor and his wife, Milcah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:9 - His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:7 - When the men who lived there asked Isaac about his wife, Rebekah, he said, “She is my sister.” He was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “They will kill me to get her, because she is so beautiful.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:12 - When Isaac planted his crops that year, he harvested a hundred times more grain than he planted, for the LORD blessed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:14 - He acquired so many flocks of sheep and goats, herds of cattle, and servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:26 - One day King Abimelech came from Gerar with his adviser, Ahuzzath, and also Phicol, his army commander.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:22 - So Jacob went closer to his father, and Isaac touched him. “The voice is Jacob's, but the hands are Esau's,” Isaac said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:27 - So Jacob went over and kissed him. And when Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he was finally convinced, and he blessed his son. He said, “Ah! The smell of my son is like the smell of the outdoors, which the LORD has blessed!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:37 - Isaac said to Esau, “I have made Jacob your master and have declared that all his brothers will be his servants. I have guaranteed him an abundance of grain and wine—what is left for me to give you, my son?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41 - From that time on, Esau hated Jacob because their father had given Jacob the blessing. And Esau began to scheme: “I will soon be mourning my father's death. Then I will kill my brother, Jacob.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:1 - So Isaac called for Jacob, blessed him, and said, “You must not marry any of these Canaanite women.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:6 - Esau knew that his father, Isaac, had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to find a wife, and that he had warned Jacob, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:18 - The next morning Jacob got up very early. He took the stone he had rested his head against, and he set it upright as a memorial pillar. Then he poured olive oil over it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:13 - As soon as Laban heard that his nephew Jacob had arrived, he ran out to meet him. He embraced and kissed him and brought him home. When Jacob had told him his story,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:20 - So Jacob worked seven years to pay for Rachel. But his love for her was so strong that it seemed to him but a few days.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:2 - And Jacob began to notice a change in Laban's attitude toward him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:23 - So he gathered a group of his relatives and set out in hot pursuit. He caught up with Jacob seven days later in the hill country of Gilead.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:45 - So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a monument.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:47 - To commemorate the event, Laban called the place Jegar-sahadutha (which means “witness pile” in Aramaic), and Jacob called it Galeed (which means “witness pile” in Hebrew).
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:19 - Jacob gave the same instructions to the second and third herdsmen and to all who followed behind the herds: “You must say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:25 - When the man saw that he would not win the match, he touched Jacob's hip and wrenched it out of its socket.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:29 - “Please tell me your name,” Jacob said.
“Why do you want to know my name?” the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:4 - Then Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:7 - Jacob built an altar there and named the place El-bethel (which means “God of Bethel”), because God had appeared to him there when he was fleeing from his brother, Esau.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:9 - Now that Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again at Bethel. God blessed him,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:18 - Rachel was about to die, but with her last breath she named the baby Ben-oni (which means “son of my sorrow”). The baby's father, however, called him Benjamin (which means “son of my right hand”).
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:29 - Then he breathed his last and died at a ripe old age, joining his ancestors in death. And his sons, Esau and Jacob, buried him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:4 - But his brothers hated Joseph because their father loved him more than the rest of them. They couldn't say a kind word to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:8 - His brothers responded, “So you think you will be our king, do you? Do you actually think you will reign over us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dreams and the way he talked about them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:11 - But while his brothers were jealous of Joseph, his father wondered what the dreams meant.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:14 - “Go and see how your brothers and the flocks are getting along,” Jacob said. “Then come back and bring me a report.” So Jacob sent him on his way, and Joseph traveled to Shechem from their home in the valley of Hebron.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:15 - When he arrived there, a man from the area noticed him wandering around the countryside. “What are you looking for?” he asked.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:18 - When Joseph's brothers saw him coming, they recognized him in the distance. As he approached, they made plans to kill him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:20 - “Come on, let's kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns. We can tell our father, ‘A wild animal has eaten him.' Then we'll see what becomes of his dreams!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:21 - But when Reuben heard of their scheme, he came to Joseph's rescue. “Let's not kill him,” he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:22 - “Why should we shed any blood? Let's just throw him into this empty cistern here in the wilderness. Then he'll die without our laying a hand on him.” Reuben was secretly planning to rescue Joseph and return him to his father.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:23 - So when Joseph arrived, his brothers ripped off the beautiful robe he was wearing.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:24 - Then they grabbed him and threw him into the cistern. Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:27 - Instead of hurting him, let's sell him to those Ishmaelite traders. After all, he is our brother—our own flesh and blood!” And his brothers agreed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:33 - Their father recognized it immediately. “Yes,” he said, “it is my son's robe. A wild animal must have eaten him. Joseph has clearly been torn to pieces!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:35 - His family all tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “I will go to my grave[fn] mourning for my son,” he would say, and then he would weep.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:7 - But Er was a wicked man in the LORD's sight, so the LORD took his life.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:1 - When Joseph was taken to Egypt by the Ishmaelite traders, he was purchased by Potiphar, an Egyptian officer. Potiphar was captain of the guard for Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:4 - This pleased Potiphar, so he soon made Joseph his personal attendant. He put him in charge of his entire household and everything he owned.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:5 - From the day Joseph was put in charge of his master's household and property, the LORD began to bless Potiphar's household for Joseph's sake. All his household affairs ran smoothly, and his crops and livestock flourished.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:12 - She came and grabbed him by his cloak, demanding, “Come on, sleep with me!” Joseph tore himself away, but he left his cloak in her hand as he ran from the house.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:15 - When he heard me scream, he ran outside and got away, but he left his cloak behind with me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:19 - Potiphar was furious when he heard his wife's story about how Joseph had treated her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:20 - So he took Joseph and threw him into the prison where the king's prisoners were held, and there he remained.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:23 - The warden had no more worries, because Joseph took care of everything. The LORD was with him and caused everything he did to succeed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:14 - Pharaoh sent for Joseph at once, and he was quickly brought from the prison. After he shaved and changed his clothes, he went in and stood before Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:33 - “Therefore, Pharaoh should find an intelligent and wise man and put him in charge of the entire land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:42 - Then Pharaoh removed his signet ring from his hand and placed it on Joseph's finger. He dressed him in fine linen clothing and hung a gold chain around his neck.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:43 - Then he had Joseph ride in the chariot reserved for his second-in-command. And wherever Joseph went, the command was shouted, “Kneel down!” So Pharaoh put Joseph in charge of all Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:24 - Now he turned away from them and began to weep. When he regained his composure, he spoke to them again. Then he chose Simeon from among them and had him tied up right before their eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:37 - Then Reuben said to his father, “You may kill my two sons if I don't bring Benjamin back to you. I'll be responsible for him, and I promise to bring him back.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:38 - But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down with you. His brother Joseph is dead, and he is all I have left. If anything should happen to him on your journey, you would send this grieving, white-haired man to his grave.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:9 - I personally guarantee his safety. You may hold me responsible if I don't bring him back to you. Then let me bear the blame forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:20 - And we responded, ‘Yes, my lord, we have a father who is an old man, and his youngest son is a child of his old age. His full brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him very much.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:21 - “And you said to us, ‘Bring him here so I can see him with my own eyes.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:28 - and one of them went away and never returned. Doubtless he was torn to pieces by some wild animal. I have never seen him since.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:31 - If he sees that the boy is not with us, our father will die. We, your servants, will indeed be responsible for sending that grieving, white-haired man to his grave.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:32 - My lord, I guaranteed to my father that I would take care of the boy. I told him, ‘If I don't bring him back to you, I will bear the blame forever.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:28 - Then Jacob exclaimed, “It must be true! My son Joseph is alive! I must go and see him before I die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:7 - Then Joseph brought in his father, Jacob, and presented him to Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:18 - But that year ended, and the next year they came again and said, “We cannot hide the truth from you, my lord. Our money is gone, and all our livestock and cattle are yours. We have nothing left to give but our bodies and our land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:1 - Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:3 - The embalming process took the usual forty days. And the Egyptians mourned his death for seventy days.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:10 - When they arrived at the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan River, they held a very great and solemn memorial service, with a seven-day period of mourning for Joseph's father.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:12 - So Jacob's sons did as he had commanded them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - They carried his body to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the cave that Abraham had bought as a permanent burial site from Ephron the Hittite.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:16 - So they sent this message to Joseph: “Before your father died, he instructed us
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:18 - Then his brothers came and threw themselves down before Joseph. “Look, we are your slaves!” they said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:26 - So Joseph died at the age of 110. The Egyptians embalmed him, and his body was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:10 - Later, when the boy was older, his mother brought him back to Pharaoh's daughter, who adopted him as her own son. The princess named him Moses,[fn] for she explained, “I lifted him out of the water.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:12 - After looking in all directions to make sure no one was watching, Moses killed the Egyptian and hid the body in the sand.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:4 - When the LORD saw Moses coming to take a closer look, God called to him from the middle of the bush, “Moses! Moses!”
“Here I am!” Moses replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:15 - Talk to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with both of you as you speak, and I will instruct you both in what to do.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:24 - On the way to Egypt, at a place where Moses and his family had stopped for the night, the LORD confronted him and was about to kill him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:25 - So Moses cried out to the LORD for help, and the LORD showed him a piece of wood. Moses threw it into the water, and this made the water good to drink.
It was there at Marah that the LORD set before them the following decree as a standard to test their faithfulness to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:33 - Moses said to Aaron, “Get a jar and fill it with two quarts of manna. Then put it in a sacred place before the LORD to preserve it for all future generations.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:7 - So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law. He bowed low and kissed him. They asked about each other's welfare and then went into Moses' tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:3 - Then Moses climbed the mountain to appear before God. The LORD called to him from the mountain and said, “Give these instructions to the family of Jacob; announce it to the descendants of Israel:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:6 - If he does this, his master must present him before God.[fn] Then his master must take him to the door or doorpost and publicly pierce his ear with an awl. After that, the slave will serve his master for life.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:14 - However, if someone deliberately kills another person, then the slayer must be dragged even from my altar and be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:16 - “Kidnappers must be put to death, whether they are caught in possession of their victims or have already sold them as slaves.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:11 - The neighbor must then take an oath in the presence of the LORD. If the LORD confirms that the neighbor did not steal the property, the owner must accept the verdict, and no payment will be required.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:13 - If it was torn to pieces by a wild animal, the remains of the carcass must be shown as evidence, and no compensation will be required.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:25 - “If you lend money to any of my people who are in need, do not charge interest as a money lender would.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:16 - Then slaughter the ram, and splatter its blood against all sides of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:20 - Then slaughter it, and apply some of its blood to the right earlobes of Aaron and his sons. Also put it on the thumbs of their right hands and the big toes of their right feet. Splatter the rest of the blood against all sides of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:18 - “Make a bronze washbasin with a bronze stand. Place it between the Tabernacle and the altar, and fill it with water.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:3 - I have filled him with the Spirit of God, giving him great wisdom, ability, and expertise in all kinds of crafts.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:6 - “And I have personally appointed Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, to be his assistant. Moreover, I have given special skill to all the gifted craftsmen so they can make all the things I have commanded you to make:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:20 - He took the calf they had made and burned it. Then he ground it into powder, threw it into the water, and forced the people to drink it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:26 - So he stood at the entrance to the camp and shouted, “All of you who are on the LORD's side, come here and join me.” And all the Levites gathered around him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:33 - But the LORD replied to Moses, “No, I will erase the name of everyone who has sinned against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:8 - Whenever Moses went out to the Tent of Meeting, all the people would get up and stand in the entrances of their own tents. They would all watch Moses until he disappeared inside.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:29 - When Moses came down Mount Sinai carrying the two stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant,[fn] he wasn't aware that his face had become radiant because he had spoken to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:31 - But Moses called out to them and asked Aaron and all the leaders of the community to come over, and he talked with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:32 - Then all the people of Israel approached him, and Moses gave them all the instructions the LORD had given him on Mount Sinai.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:31 - The LORD has filled Bezalel with the Spirit of God, giving him great wisdom, ability, and expertise in all kinds of crafts.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:13 - Dress Aaron with the sacred garments and anoint him, consecrating him to serve me as a priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:12 - and carry it away to a place outside the camp that is ceremonially clean, the place where the ashes are dumped. There, on the ash heap, he will burn it on a wood fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:14 - When they become aware of their sin, the people must bring a young bull as an offering for their sin and present it before the Tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:24 - He must lay his hand on the goat's head and slaughter it at the place where burnt offerings are slaughtered before the LORD. This is an offering for his sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4 - “Or suppose you make a foolish vow of any kind, whether its purpose is for good or for bad. When you realize its foolishness, you must admit your guilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:15 - “If one of you commits a sin by unintentionally defiling the LORD's sacred property, you must bring a guilt offering to the LORD. The offering must be your own ram with no defects, or you may buy one of equal value with silver, as measured by the weight of the sanctuary shekel.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:7 - He put the official tunic on Aaron and tied the sash around his waist. He dressed him in the robe, placed the ephod on him, and attached the ephod securely with its decorative sash.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:12 - Then he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head, anointing him and making him holy for his work.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:15 - and Moses slaughtered it. Moses took some of the blood, and with his finger he put it on the four horns of the altar to purify it. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. Through this process, he made the altar holy by purifying it.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:23 - and Moses slaughtered it. Then Moses took some of its blood and applied it to the lobe of Aaron's right ear, the thumb of his right hand, and the big toe of his right foot.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:5 - On the seventh day the priest will make another examination. If he finds the affected area has not changed and the problem has not spread on the skin, the priest will quarantine the person for seven more days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:6 - On the seventh day the priest will make another examination. If he finds the affected area has faded and has not spread, the priest will pronounce the person ceremonially clean. It was only a rash. The person's clothing must be washed, and the person will be ceremonially clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:7 - But if the rash continues to spread after the person has been examined by the priest and has been pronounced clean, the infected person must return to be examined again.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:8 - If the priest finds that the rash has spread, he must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean, for it is indeed a skin disease.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:11 - it is a chronic skin disease, and the priest must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean. In such cases the person need not be quarantined, for it is obvious that the skin is defiled by the disease.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:13 - When the priest examines the infected person and finds that the disease covers the entire body, he will pronounce the person ceremonially clean. Since the skin has turned completely white, the person is clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:15 - The priest must make this pronouncement as soon as he sees an open sore, since open sores indicate the presence of a skin disease.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:20 - If the priest examines it and finds it to be more than skin-deep, and if the hair in the affected area has turned white, the priest must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean. The boil has become a serious skin disease.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:21 - But if the priest finds no white hair on the affected area and the problem appears to be no more than skin-deep and has faded, the priest must quarantine the person for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:22 - If during that time the affected area spreads on the skin, the priest must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean, because it is a serious disease.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:23 - But if the area grows no larger and does not spread, it is merely the scar from the boil, and the priest will pronounce the person ceremonially clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:25 - the priest must examine it. If he finds that the hair in the affected area has turned white and the problem appears to be more than skin-deep, a skin disease has broken out in the burn. The priest must then pronounce the person ceremonially unclean, for it is clearly a serious skin disease.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:26 - But if the priest finds no white hair on the affected area and the problem appears to be no more than skin-deep and has faded, the priest must quarantine the infected person for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:27 - On the seventh day the priest must examine the person again. If the affected area has spread on the skin, the priest must pronounce that person ceremonially unclean, for it is clearly a serious skin disease.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:28 - But if the affected area has not changed or spread on the skin and has faded, it is simply a swelling from the burn. The priest will then pronounce the person ceremonially clean, for it is only the scar from the burn.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:30 - the priest must examine it. If he finds it is more than skin-deep and has fine yellow hair on it, the priest must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean. It is a scabby sore of the head or chin.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:34 - On the seventh day he will examine the sore again. If it has not spread and appears to be no more than skin-deep, the priest will pronounce the person ceremonially clean. The person's clothing must be washed, and the person will be ceremonially clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:37 - But if the color of the scabby sore does not change and black hair has grown on it, it has healed. The priest will then pronounce the person ceremonially clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:43 - The priest must examine him, and if he finds swelling around the reddish white sore anywhere on the man's head and it looks like a skin disease,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:44 - the man is indeed infected with a skin disease and is unclean. The priest must pronounce him ceremonially unclean because of the sore on his head.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:12 - The priest will take one of the male lambs and the olive oil and present them as a guilt offering, lifting them up as a special offering before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:23 - On the eighth day of the purification ceremony, the person being purified must bring the offerings to the priest in the LORD's presence at the entrance of the Tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:23 - This includes her bed or any other object she has sat on; you will be unclean until evening if you touch it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:9 - Aaron will then present as a sin offering the goat chosen by lot for the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:10 - The other goat, the scapegoat chosen by lot to be sent away, will be kept alive, standing before the LORD. When it is sent away to Azazel in the wilderness, the people will be purified and made right with the LORD.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:32 - In future generations, the purification[fn] ceremony will be performed by the priest who has been anointed and ordained to serve as high priest in place of his ancestor Aaron. He will put on the holy linen garments
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:17 - “Do not nurse hatred in your heart for any of your relatives.[fn] Confront people directly so you will not be held guilty for their sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:34 - Treat them like native-born Israelites, and love them as you love yourself. Remember that you were once foreigners living in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:2 - “Give the people of Israel these instructions, which apply both to native Israelites and to the foreigners living in Israel.
“If any of them offer their children as a sacrifice to Molech, they must be put to death. The people of the community must stone them to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:3 - I myself will turn against them and cut them off from the community, because they have defiled my sanctuary and brought shame on my holy name by offering their children to Molech.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:4 - And if the people of the community ignore those who offer their children to Molech and refuse to execute them,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:5 - I myself will turn against them and their families and will cut them off from the community. This will happen to all who commit spiritual prostitution by worshiping Molech.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:14 - “If a man marries both a woman and her mother, he has committed a wicked act. The man and both women must be burned to death to wipe out such wickedness from among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:5 - or by touching a small animal that is unclean, or by touching someone who is ceremonially unclean for any reason.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:8 - He may not eat an animal that has died a natural death or has been torn apart by wild animals, for this would defile him. I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:3 - This is the lampstand that stands in the Tabernacle, in front of the inner curtain that shields the Ark of the Covenant.[fn] Aaron must keep the lamps burning in the LORD's presence all night. This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation to generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:11 - During the fight, this son of an Israelite woman blasphemed the Name of the LORD[fn] with a curse. So the man was brought to Moses for judgment. His mother was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:12 - They kept the man in custody until the LORD's will in the matter should become clear to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:14 - “Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and tell all those who heard the curse to lay their hands on his head. Then let the entire community stone him to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:16 - Anyone who blasphemes the Name of the LORD must be stoned to death by the whole community of Israel. Any native-born Israelite or foreigner among you who blasphemes the Name of the LORD must be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:23 - After Moses gave all these instructions to the Israelites, they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him to death. The Israelites did just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:43 - Show your fear of God by not treating them harshly.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:46 - passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat them as slaves, but you must never treat your fellow Israelites this way.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:49 - an uncle, or a cousin. In fact, anyone from the extended family may buy them back. They may also redeem themselves if they have prospered.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - They will negotiate the price of their freedom with the person who bought them. The price will be based on the number of years from the time they were sold until the next Year of Jubilee—whatever it would cost to hire a worker for that period of time.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:53 - The foreigner must treat them as workers hired on a yearly basis. You must not allow a foreigner to treat any of your fellow Israelites harshly.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:8 - If you desire to make such a vow but cannot afford to pay the required amount, take the person to the priest. He will determine the amount for you to pay based on what you can afford.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:23 - the priest will assess its value based on the number of years left until the next Year of Jubilee. On that day he must give the assessed value of the land as a sacred donation to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:12 - “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel.
“Suppose a man's wife goes astray, and she is unfaithful to her husband
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:30 - or if a man becomes jealous and is suspicious that his wife has been unfaithful, the husband must present his wife before the LORD, and the priest will apply this entire ritual law to her.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:19 - After the Nazirite's head has been shaved, the priest will take for each of them the boiled shoulder of the ram, and he will take from the basket a cake and a wafer made without yeast. He will put them all into the Nazirite's hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:89 - Whenever Moses went into the Tabernacle to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the Ark's cover—the place of atonement—that rests on the Ark of the Covenant.[fn] The LORD spoke to him from there.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:12 - Did I give birth to them? Did I bring them into the world? Why did you tell me to carry them in my arms like a mother carries a nursing baby? How can I carry them to the land you swore to give their ancestors?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:23 - When they came to the valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes so large that it took two of them to carry it on a pole between them! They also brought back samples of the pomegranates and figs.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:24 - But my servant Caleb has a different attitude than the others have. He has remained loyal to me, so I will bring him into the land he explored. His descendants will possess their full share of that land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:6 - “If the sacrifice is a ram, give a grain offering of four quarts[fn] of choice flour mixed with a third of a gallon[fn] of olive oil,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:33 - The people who found him doing this took him before Moses, Aaron, and the rest of the community.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:34 - They held him in custody because they did not know what to do with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:35 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “The man must be put to death! The whole community must stone him outside the camp.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:36 - So the whole community took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:18 - But the king of Edom said, “Stay out of my land, or I will meet you with an army!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:27 - So Moses did as the LORD commanded. The three of them went up Mount Hor together as the whole community watched.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:2 - Then the people of Israel made this vow to the LORD: “If you will hand these people over to us, we will completely destroy[fn] all their towns.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:3 - The LORD heard the Israelites' request and gave them victory over the Canaanites. The Israelites completely destroyed them and their towns, and the place has been called Hormah[fn] ever since.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:8 - Then the LORD told him, “Make a replica of a poisonous snake and attach it to a pole. All who are bitten will live if they simply look at it!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:9 - So Moses made a snake out of bronze and attached it to a pole. Then anyone who was bitten by a snake could look at the bronze snake and be healed!
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:24 - But the Israelites slaughtered them with their swords and occupied their land from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River. They went only as far as the Ammonite border because the boundary of the Ammonites was fortified.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:34 - The LORD said to Moses, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have handed him over to you, along with all his people and his land. Do the same to him as you did to King Sihon of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:35 - And Israel killed King Og, his sons, and all his subjects; not a single survivor remained. Then Israel occupied their land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:5 - sent messengers to call Balaam son of Beor, who was living in his native land of Pethor[fn] near the Euphrates River.[fn] His message said: “Look, a vast horde of people has arrived from Egypt. They cover the face of the earth and are threatening me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:11 - ‘Look, a vast horde of people has arrived from Egypt, and they cover the face of the earth. Come and curse these people for me. Then perhaps I will be able to stand up to them and drive them from the land.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:41 - The next morning Balak took Balaam up to Bamoth-baal. From there he could see some of the people of Israel spread out below him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:4 - and God met him there. Balaam said to him, “I have prepared seven altars and have sacrificed a young bull and a ram on each altar.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:9 - I see them from the cliff tops;
I watch them from the hills.
I see a people who live by themselves,
set apart from other nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:13 - Then King Balak told him, “Come with me to another place. There you will see another part of the nation of Israel, but not all of them. Curse at least that many!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:14 - So Balak took Balaam to the plateau of Zophim on Pisgah Peak. He built seven altars there and offered a young bull and a ram on each altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:25 - Then Balak said to Balaam, “Fine, but if you won't curse them, at least don't bless them!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:27 - Then King Balak said to Balaam, “Come, I will take you to one more place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them from there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:8 - God brought them out of Egypt;
for them he is as strong as a wild ox.
He devours all the nations that oppose him,
breaking their bones in pieces,
shooting them with arrows.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:13 - In this covenant, I give him and his descendants a permanent right to the priesthood, for in his zeal for me, his God, he purified the people of Israel, making them right with me.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:18 - The LORD replied, “Take Joshua son of Nun, who has the Spirit in him, and lay your hands on him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:19 - Present him to Eleazar the priest before the whole community, and publicly commission him to lead the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:21 - When direction from the LORD is needed, Joshua will stand before Eleazar the priest, who will use the Urim—one of the sacred lots cast before the LORD—to determine his will. This is how Joshua and the rest of the community of Israel will determine everything they should do.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:22 - So Moses did as the LORD commanded. He presented Joshua to Eleazar the priest and the whole community.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:23 - Moses laid his hands on him and commissioned him to lead the people, just as the LORD had commanded through Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:15 - If you turn away from him like this and he abandons them again in the wilderness, you will be responsible for destroying this entire nation!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:20 - So if someone hates another person and pushes him or throws a dangerous object at him and he dies, it is murder.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:21 - Or if someone hates another person and hits him with a fist and he dies, it is murder. In such cases, the avenger must put the murderer to death when they meet.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:22 - “But suppose someone pushes another person without having shown previous hostility, or throws something that unintentionally hits another person,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:25 - The community must protect the slayer from the avenger and must escort the slayer back to live in the city of refuge to which he fled. There he must remain until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the sacred oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:27 - and the avenger finds him outside the city and kills him, it will not be considered murder.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:36 - except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see this land because he has followed the LORD completely. I will give to him and his descendants some of the very land he explored during his scouting mission.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:38 - Instead, your assistant, Joshua son of Nun, will lead the people into the land. Encourage him, for he will lead Israel as they take possession of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:24 - Moses continued, “Then the LORD said, ‘Now get moving! Cross the Arnon Gorge. Look, I will hand over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and I will give you his land. Attack him and begin to occupy the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:33 - But the LORD our God handed him over to us, and we crushed him, his sons, and all his people.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:2 - But the LORD told me, ‘Do not be afraid of him, for I have given you victory over Og and his entire army, and I will give you all his land. Treat him just as you treated King Sihon of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:3 - “So the LORD our God handed King Og and all his people over to us, and we killed them all. Not a single person survived.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:28 - Instead, commission Joshua and encourage and strengthen him, for he will lead the people across the Jordan. He will give them all the land you now see before you as their possession.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:3 - “You saw for yourself what the LORD did to you at Baal-peor. There the LORD your God destroyed everyone who had worshiped Baal, the god of Peor.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:7 - For what great nation has a god as near to them as the LORD our God is near to us whenever we call on him?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:29 - But from there you will search again for the LORD your God. And if you search for him with all your heart and soul, you will find him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:37 - Because he loved your ancestors, he chose to bless their descendants, and he personally brought you out of Egypt with a great display of power.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42 - Anyone who killed another person unintentionally, without previous hostility, could flee there to live in safety.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:13 - You must fear the LORD your God and serve him. When you take an oath, you must use only his name.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:9 - Understand, therefore, that the LORD your God is indeed God. He is the faithful God who keeps his covenant for a thousand generations and lavishes his unfailing love on those who love him and obey his commands.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:21 - I took your sin—the calf you had made—and I melted it down in the fire and ground it into fine dust. Then I threw the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:12 - “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you? He requires only that you fear the LORD your God, and live in a way that pleases him, and love him and serve him with all your heart and soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:20 - You must fear the LORD your God and worship him and cling to him. Your oaths must be in his name alone.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:14 - You may do so only at the place the LORD will choose within one of your tribal territories. There you must offer your burnt offerings and do everything I command you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:4 - Serve only the LORD your God and fear him alone. Obey his commands, listen to his voice, and cling to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:9 - You must put them to death! Strike the first blow yourself, and then all the people must join in.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:10 - Stone the guilty ones to death because they have tried to draw you away from the LORD your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of slavery.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:12 - “If a fellow Hebrew sells himself or herself to be your servant[fn] and serves you for six years, in the seventh year you must set that servant free.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:13 - “When you release a male servant, do not send him away empty-handed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:14 - Give him a generous farewell gift from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. Share with him some of the bounty with which the LORD your God has blessed you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:2 - Your Passover sacrifice may be from either the flock or the herd, and it must be sacrificed to the LORD your God at the designated place of worship—the place he chooses for his name to be honored.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:16 - “Each year every man in Israel must celebrate these three festivals: the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Harvest, and the Festival of Shelters. On each of these occasions, all men must appear before the LORD your God at the place he chooses, but they must not appear before the LORD without a gift for him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:5 - For the LORD your God chose the tribe of Levi out of all your tribes to minister in the LORD's name forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:4 - “If someone kills another person unintentionally, without previous hostility, the slayer may flee to any of these cities to live in safety.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:6 - “If the distance to the nearest city of refuge is too far, an enraged avenger might be able to chase down and kill the person who caused the death. Then the slayer would die unfairly, since he had never shown hostility toward the person who died.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:11 - “But suppose someone is hostile toward a neighbor and deliberately ambushes and murders him and then flees to one of the cities of refuge.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:12 - In that case, the elders of the murderer's hometown must send agents to the city of refuge to bring him back and hand him over to the dead person's avenger to be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:18 - “Suppose a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or mother, even though they discipline him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:19 - In such a case, the father and mother must take the son to the elders as they hold court at the town gate.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:21 - Then all the men of his town must stone him to death. In this way, you will purge this evil from among you, and all Israel will hear about it and be afraid.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:22 - “If someone has committed a crime worthy of death and is executed and hung on a tree,[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - the body must not remain hanging from the tree overnight. You must bury the body that same day, for anyone who is hung[fn] is cursed in the sight of God. In this way, you will prevent the defilement of the land the LORD your God is giving you as your special possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:18 - The elders must then take the man and punish him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:19 - They must also fine him 100 pieces of silver,[fn] which he must pay to the woman's father because he publicly accused a virgin of Israel of shameful conduct. The woman will then remain the man's wife, and he may never divorce her.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:7 - “If anyone kidnaps a fellow Israelite and treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. In this way, you will purge the evil from among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:21 - When you gather the grapes in your vineyard, don't glean the vines after they are picked. Leave the remaining grapes for the foreigners, orphans, and widows.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:2 - If the person in the wrong is sentenced to be flogged, the judge must command him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of lashes appropriate to the crime.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:3 - But never give more than forty lashes; more than forty lashes would publicly humiliate your neighbor.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:8 - The elders of the town will then summon him and talk with him. If he still refuses and says, ‘I don't want to marry her,'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:11 - “If two Israelite men get into a fight and the wife of one tries to rescue her husband by grabbing the testicles of the other man,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:4 - The priest will then take the basket from your hand and set it before the altar of the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:21 - The LORD will separate them from all the tribes of Israel, to pour out on them all the curses of the covenant recorded in this Book of Instruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:17 - Then my anger will blaze forth against them. I will abandon them, hiding my face from them, and they will be devoured. Terrible trouble will come down on them, and on that day they will say, ‘These disasters have come down on us because God is no longer among us!'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:29 - I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and will turn from the way I have commanded you to follow. In the days to come, disaster will come down on you, for you will do what is evil in the LORD's sight, making him very angry with your actions.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:10 - He found them in a desert land,
in an empty, howling wasteland.
He surrounded them and watched over them;
he guarded them as he would guard his own eyes.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:15 - “But Israel[fn] soon became fat and unruly;
the people grew heavy, plump, and stuffed!
Then they abandoned the God who had made them;
they made light of the Rock of their salvation.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:8 - Moses said this about the tribe of Levi:
“O LORD, you have given your Thummim and Urim—the sacred lots—
to your faithful servants the Levites.[fn]
You put them to the test at Massah
and struggled with them at the waters of Meribah.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:11 - Bless the ministry of the Levites, O LORD,
and accept all the work of their hands.
Hit their enemies where it hurts the most;
strike down their foes so they never rise again.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:6 - The LORD buried him[fn] in a valley near Beth-peor in Moab, but to this day no one knows the exact place.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:10 - There has never been another prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:11 - The LORD sent him to perform all the miraculous signs and wonders in the land of Egypt against Pharaoh, and all his servants, and his entire land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:14 - That day the LORD made Joshua a great leader in the eyes of all the Israelites, and for the rest of his life they revered him as much as they had revered Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:7 - Then Joshua cried out, “Oh, Sovereign LORD, why did you bring us across the Jordan River if you are going to let the Amorites kill us? If only we had been content to stay on the other side!
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:24 - Then Joshua and all the Israelites took Achan, the silver, the robe, the bar of gold, his sons, daughters, cattle, donkeys, sheep, goats, tent, and everything he had, and they brought them to the valley of Achor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:25 - Then Joshua said to Achan, “Why have you brought trouble on us? The LORD will now bring trouble on you.” And all the Israelites stoned Achan and his family and burned their bodies.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:23 - Only the king of Ai was taken alive and brought to Joshua.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - Joshua impaled the king of Ai on a sharpened pole and left him there until evening. At sunset the Israelites took down the body, as Joshua commanded, and threw it in front of the town gate. They piled a great heap of stones over him that can still be seen today.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:33 - During the attack on Lachish, King Horam of Gezer arrived with his army to help defend the town. But Joshua's men killed him and his army, leaving no survivors.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:12 - and all the territory of King Og of Bashan, who had reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei. King Og was the last of the Rephaites, for Moses had attacked them and driven them out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:21 - The land of Reuben also included all the towns of the plain and the entire kingdom of Sihon. Sihon was the Amorite king who had reigned in Heshbon and was killed by Moses along with the leaders of Midian—Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba—princes living in the region who were allied with Sihon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:6 - A delegation from the tribe of Judah, led by Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, came to Joshua at Gilgal. Caleb said to Joshua, “Remember what the LORD said to Moses, the man of God, about you and me when we were at Kadesh-barnea.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:13 - So Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave Hebron to him as his portion of land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:14 - Hebron still belongs to the descendants of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite because he wholeheartedly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:18 - The forests of the hill country will be yours as well. Clear as much of the land as you wish, and take possession of its farthest corners. And you will drive out the Canaanites from the valleys, too, even though they are strong and have iron chariots.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:23 - If we have built an altar for ourselves to turn away from the LORD or to offer burnt offerings or grain offerings or peace offerings, may the LORD himself punish us.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:3 - But I took your ancestor Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates and led him into the land of Canaan. I gave him many descendants through his son Isaac.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:26 - Joshua recorded these things in the Book of God's Instructions. As a reminder of their agreement, he took a huge stone and rolled it beneath the terebinth tree beside the Tabernacle of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:30 - They buried him in the land he had been allocated, at Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:6 - Adoni-bezek escaped, but the Israelites soon captured him and cut off his thumbs and big toes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:7 - Adoni-bezek said, “I once had seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off, eating scraps from under my table. Now God has paid me back for what I did to them.” They took him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:24 - They confronted a man coming out of the town and said to him, “Show us a way into the town, and we will have mercy on you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:34 - As for the tribe of Dan, the Amorites forced them back into the hill country and would not let them come down into the plains.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:9 - They buried him in the land he had been allocated, at Timnath-serah[fn] in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:10 - The Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he became Israel's judge. He went to war against King Cushan-rishathaim of Aram, and the LORD gave Othniel victory over him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:13 - Eglon enlisted the Ammonites and Amalekites as allies, and then he went out and defeated Israel, taking possession of Jericho, the city of palms.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:23 - Then Ehud closed and locked the doors of the room and escaped down the latrine.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:7 - And I will call out Sisera, commander of Jabin's army, along with his chariots and warriors, to the Kishon River. There I will give you victory over him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:9 - “Very well,” she replied, “I will go with you. But you will receive no honor in this venture, for the LORD's victory over Sisera will be at the hands of a woman.” So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:18 - Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Come into my tent, sir. Come in. Don't be afraid.” So he went into her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:19 - “Please give me some water,” he said. “I'm thirsty.” So she gave him some milk from a leather bag and covered him again.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:20 - “Stand at the door of the tent,” he told her. “If anybody comes and asks you if there is anyone here, say no.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:21 - But when Sisera fell asleep from exhaustion, Jael quietly crept up to him with a hammer and tent peg in her hand. Then she drove the tent peg through his temple and into the ground, and so he died.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:30 - ‘They must be dividing the captured plunder—
with a woman or two for every man.
There will be colorful robes for Sisera,
and colorful, embroidered robes for me.
Yes, the plunder will include
colorful robes embroidered on both sides.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:31 - “LORD, may all your enemies die like Sisera!
But may those who love you rise like the sun in all its power!” Then there was peace in the land for forty years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:13 - “Sir,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all the miracles our ancestors told us about? Didn't they say, ‘The LORD brought us up out of Egypt'? But now the LORD has abandoned us and handed us over to the Midianites.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:14 - Then the LORD turned to him and said, “Go with the strength you have, and rescue Israel from the Midianites. I am sending you!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:15 - “But Lord,” Gideon replied, “how can I rescue Israel? My clan is the weakest in the whole tribe of Manasseh, and I am the least in my entire family!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:16 - The LORD said to him, “I will be with you. And you will destroy the Midianites as if you were fighting against one man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:17 - Gideon replied, “If you are truly going to help me, show me a sign to prove that it is really the LORD speaking to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:19 - Gideon hurried home. He cooked a young goat, and with a basket[fn] of flour he baked some bread without yeast. Then, carrying the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, he brought them out and presented them to the angel, who was under the great tree.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:20 - The angel of God said to him, “Place the meat and the unleavened bread on this rock, and pour the broth over it.” And Gideon did as he was told.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:27 - So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD had commanded. But he did it at night because he was afraid of the other members of his father's household and the people of the town.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:5 - When Gideon took his warriors down to the water, the LORD told him, “Divide the men into two groups. In one group put all those who cup water in their hands and lap it up with their tongues like dogs. In the other group put all those who kneel down and drink with their mouths in the stream.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:9 - That night the LORD said, “Get up! Go down into the Midianite camp, for I have given you victory over them!
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:1 - Then the people of Ephraim asked Gideon, “Why have you treated us this way? Why didn't you send for us when you first went out to fight the Midianites?” And they argued heatedly with Gideon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:3 - God gave you victory over Oreb and Zeeb, the commanders of the Midianite army. What have I accomplished compared to that?” When the men of Ephraim heard Gideon's answer, their anger subsided.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:33 - As soon as Gideon died, the Israelites prostituted themselves by worshiping the images of Baal, making Baal-berith their god.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:36 - When Gaal saw them, he said to Zebul, “Look, there are people coming down from the hilltops!”
Zebul replied, “It's just the shadows on the hills that look like men.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:38 - Then Zebul turned on him and asked, “Now where is that big mouth of yours? Wasn't it you that said, ‘Who is Abimelech, and why should we be his servants?' The men you mocked are right outside the city! Go out and fight them!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:40 - But Abimelech chased him, and many of Shechem's men were wounded and fell along the road as they retreated to the city gate.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:43 - he divided his men into three groups and set an ambush in the fields. When Abimelech saw the people coming out of the city, he and his men jumped up from their hiding places and attacked them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:52 - Abimelech followed them to attack the tower. But as he prepared to set fire to the entrance,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:54 - He quickly said to his young armor bearer, “Draw your sword and kill me! Don't let it be said that a woman killed Abimelech!” So the young man ran him through with his sword, and he died.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:3 - After Tola died, Jair from Gilead judged Israel for twenty-two years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:11 - So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him their ruler and commander of the army. At Mizpah, in the presence of the LORD, Jephthah repeated what he had said to the elders.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:23 - “So you see, it was the LORD, the God of Israel, who took away the land from the Amorites and gave it to Israel. Why, then, should we give it back to you?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:31 - I will give to the LORD whatever comes out of my house to meet me when I return in triumph. I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:8 - After Jephthah died, Ibzan from Bethlehem judged Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:11 - After Ibzan died, Elon from the tribe of Zebulun judged Israel for ten years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:12 - When he died, he was buried at Aijalon in Zebulun.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:13 - After Elon died, Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, judged Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:24 - When her son was born, she named him Samson. And the LORD blessed him as he grew up.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:6 - At that moment the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him, and he ripped the lion's jaws apart with his bare hands. He did it as easily as if it were a young goat. But he didn't tell his father or mother about it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:11 - When the bride's parents[fn] saw him, they selected thirty young men from the town to be his companions.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:16 - So Samson's wife came to him in tears and said, “You don't love me; you hate me! You have given my people a riddle, but you haven't told me the answer.”
“I haven't even given the answer to my father or mother,” he replied. “Why should I tell you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:17 - So she cried whenever she was with him and kept it up for the rest of the celebration. At last, on the seventh day he told her the answer because she was tormenting him with her nagging. Then she explained the riddle to the young men.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:19 - Then the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him. He went down to the town of Ashkelon, killed thirty men, took their belongings, and gave their clothing to the men who had solved his riddle. But Samson was furious about what had happened, and he went back home to live with his father and mother.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:1 - Later on, during the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat as a present to his wife. He said, “I'm going into my wife's room to sleep with her,” but her father wouldn't let him in.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:13 - “We will only tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines,” they replied. “We won't kill you.” So they tied him up with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:14 - As Samson arrived at Lehi, the Philistines came shouting in triumph. But the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon Samson, and he snapped the ropes on his arms as if they were burnt strands of flax, and they fell from his wrists.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:2 - Word soon spread[fn] that Samson was there, so the men of Gaza gathered together and waited all night at the town gates. They kept quiet during the night, saying to themselves, “When the light of morning comes, we will kill him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:5 - The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice Samson to tell you what makes him so strong and how he can be overpowered and tied up securely. Then each of us will give you 1,100 pieces[fn] of silver.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:8 - So the Philistine rulers brought Delilah seven new bowstrings, and she tied Samson up with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:12 - So Delilah took new ropes and tied him up with them. The men were hiding in the inner room as before, and again Delilah cried out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” But again Samson snapped the ropes from his arms as if they were thread.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:14 - Then she tightened it with the loom shuttle.[fn] Again she cried out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” But Samson woke up, pulled back the loom shuttle, and yanked his hair away from the loom and the fabric.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:15 - Then Delilah pouted, “How can you tell me, ‘I love you,' when you don't share your secrets with me? You've made fun of me three times now, and you still haven't told me what makes you so strong!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:16 - She tormented him with her nagging day after day until he was sick to death of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:19 - Delilah lulled Samson to sleep with his head in her lap, and then she called in a man to shave off the seven locks of his hair. In this way she began to bring him down,[fn] and his strength left him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:21 - So the Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They took him to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze chains and forced to grind grain in the prison.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:24 - When the people saw him, they praised their god, saying, “Our god has delivered our enemy to us! The one who killed so many of us is now in our power!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:25 - Half drunk by now, the people demanded, “Bring out Samson so he can amuse us!” So he was brought from the prison to amuse them, and they had him stand between the pillars supporting the roof.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:31 - Later his brothers and other relatives went down to get his body. They took him back home and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol, where his father, Manoah, was buried. Samson had judged Israel for twenty years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:25 - The men of Dan said, “Watch what you say! There are some short-tempered men around here who might get angry and kill you and your family.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:3 - her husband set out for Bethlehem to speak personally to her and persuade her to come back. He took with him a servant and a pair of donkeys. When he arrived at[fn] her father's house, her father saw him and welcomed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:4 - Her father urged him to stay awhile, so he stayed three days, eating, drinking, and sleeping there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:7 - The man got up to leave, but his father-in-law kept urging him to stay, so he finally gave in and stayed the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:21 - So he took them home with him and fed the donkeys. After they washed their feet, they ate and drank together.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:28 - and Phinehas son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron was the priest.) The Israelites asked the LORD, “Should we fight against our relatives from Benjamin again, or should we stop?”
The LORD said, “Go! Tomorrow I will hand them over to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:42 - So they turned around and fled before the Israelites toward the wilderness. But they couldn't escape the battle, and the people who came out of the nearby towns were also killed.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:43 - The Israelites surrounded the men of Benjamin and chased them relentlessly, finally overtaking them east of Gibeah.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:3 - Now do as I tell you—take a bath and put on perfume and dress in your nicest clothes. Then go to the threshing floor, but don't let Boaz see you until he has finished eating and drinking.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:1 - Boaz went to the town gate and took a seat there. Just then the family redeemer he had mentioned came by, so Boaz called out to him, “Come over here and sit down, friend. I want to talk to you.” So they sat down together.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:11 - And she made this vow: “O LORD of Heaven's Armies, if you will look upon my sorrow and answer my prayer and give me a son, then I will give him back to you. He will be yours for his entire lifetime, and as a sign that he has been dedicated to the LORD, his hair will never be cut.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:28 - Now I am giving him to the LORD, and he will belong to the LORD his whole life.” And they[fn] worshiped the LORD there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:11 - Then Elkanah returned home to Ramah without Samuel. And the boy served the LORD by assisting Eli the priest.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:10 - And the LORD came and called as before, “Samuel! Samuel!”
And Samuel replied, “Speak, your servant is listening.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:9 - So Samuel took a young lamb and offered it to the LORD as a whole burnt offering. He pleaded with the LORD to help Israel, and the LORD answered him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:12 - Samuel then took a large stone and placed it between the towns of Mizpah and Jeshanah.[fn] He named it Ebenezer (which means “the stone of help”), for he said, “Up to this point the LORD has helped us!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:13 - Hurry and catch him before he goes up there to eat. The guests won't begin eating until he arrives to bless the food.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:15 - Now the LORD had told Samuel the previous day,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:16 - “About this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin. Anoint him to be the leader of my people, Israel. He will rescue them from the Philistines, for I have looked down on my people in mercy and have heard their cry.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:1 - Then Samuel took a flask of olive oil and poured it over Saul's head. He kissed Saul and said, “I am doing this because the LORD has appointed you to be the ruler over Israel, his special possession.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:10 - When Saul and his servant arrived at Gibeah, they saw a group of prophets coming toward them. Then the Spirit of God came powerfully upon Saul, and he, too, began to prophesy.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:11 - When those who knew Saul heard about it, they exclaimed, “What? Is even Saul a prophet? How did the son of Kish become a prophet?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:14 - “Where have you been?” Saul's uncle asked him and his servant.
“We were looking for the donkeys,” Saul replied, “but we couldn't find them. So we went to Samuel to ask him where they were.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:23 - So they found him and brought him out, and he stood head and shoulders above anyone else.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:27 - But there were some scoundrels who complained, “How can this man save us?” And they scorned him and refused to bring him gifts. But Saul ignored them.
[Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had been grievously oppressing the people of Gad and Reuben who lived east of the Jordan River. He gouged out the right eye of each of the Israelites living there, and he didn't allow anyone to come and rescue them. In fact, of all the Israelites east of the Jordan, there wasn't a single one whose right eye Nahash had not gouged out. But there were 7,000 men who had escaped from the Ammonites, and they had settled in Jabesh-gilead.][fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3 - Now go and completely destroy[fn] the entire Amalekite nation—men, women, children, babies, cattle, sheep, goats, camels, and donkeys.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:28 - And Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to someone else—one who is better than you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:32 - Then Samuel said, “Bring King Agag to me.” Agag arrived full of hope, for he thought, “Surely the worst is over, and I have been spared!”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:1 - Now the LORD said to Samuel, “You have mourned long enough for Saul. I have rejected him as king of Israel, so fill your flask with olive oil and go to Bethlehem. Find a man named Jesse who lives there, for I have selected one of his sons to be my king.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:13 - So as David stood there among his brothers, Samuel took the flask of olive oil he had brought and anointed David with the oil. And the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon David from that day on. Then Samuel returned to Ramah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:14 - Now the Spirit of the LORD had left Saul, and the LORD sent a tormenting spirit[fn] that filled him with depression and fear.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:17 - “All right,” Saul said. “Find me someone who plays well, and bring him here.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:18 - One of the servants said to Saul, “One of Jesse's sons from Bethlehem is a talented harp player. Not only that—he is a brave warrior, a man of war, and has good judgment. He is also a fine-looking young man, and the LORD is with him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:21 - So David went to Saul and began serving him. Saul loved David very much, and David became his armor bearer.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:35 - I go after it with a club and rescue the lamb from its mouth. If the animal turns on me, I catch it by the jaw and club it to death.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:36 - I have done this to both lions and bears, and I'll do it to this pagan Philistine, too, for he has defied the armies of the living God!
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:51 - Then David ran over and pulled Goliath's sword from its sheath. David used it to kill him and cut off his head. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they turned and ran.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:13 - Finally, Saul sent him away and appointed him commander over 1,000 men, and David faithfully led his troops into battle.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:25 - he told them, “Tell David that all I want for the bride price is 100 Philistine foreskins! Vengeance on my enemies is all I really want.” But what Saul had in mind was that David would be killed in the fight.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:11 - Then Saul sent troops to watch David's house. They were told to kill David when he came out the next morning. But Michal, David's wife, warned him, “If you don't escape tonight, you will be dead by morning.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:15 - But Saul sent the troops back to get David. He ordered, “Bring him to me in his bed so I can kill him!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:23 - But on the way to Naioth in Ramah the Spirit of God came even upon Saul, and he, too, began to prophesy all the way to Naioth!
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:34 - Jonathan left the table in fierce anger and refused to eat on that second day of the festival, for he was crushed by his father's shameful behavior toward David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:14 - Finally, King Achish said to his men, “Must you bring me a madman?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:15 - We already have enough of them around here! Why should I let someone like this be my guest?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:1 - So David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam. Soon his brothers and all his other relatives joined him there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:2 - Then others began coming—men who were in trouble or in debt or who were just discontented—until David was the captain of about 400 men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:13 - “Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me?” Saul demanded. “Why did you give him food and a sword? Why have you consulted God for him? Why have you encouraged him to kill me, as he is trying to do this very day?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:7 - Saul soon learned that David was at Keilah. “Good!” he exclaimed. “We've got him now! God has handed him over to me, for he has trapped himself in a walled town!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:14 - David now stayed in the strongholds of the wilderness and in the hill country of Ziph. Saul hunted him day after day, but God didn't let Saul find him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:20 - Come down whenever you're ready, O king, and we will catch him and hand him over to you!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:23 - Discover his hiding places, and come back when you are sure. Then I'll go with you. And if he is in the area at all, I'll track him down, even if I have to search every hiding place in Judah!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:19 - Who else would let his enemy get away when he had him in his power? May the LORD reward you well for the kindness you have shown me today.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:1 - Now Samuel died, and all Israel gathered for his funeral. They buried him at his house in Ramah. Then David moved down to the wilderness of Maon.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:5 - he sent ten of his young men to Carmel with this message for Nabal:
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:8 - “God has surely handed your enemy over to you this time!” Abishai whispered to David. “Let me pin him to the ground with one thrust of the spear; I won't need to strike twice!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:3 - Meanwhile, Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him. He was buried in Ramah, his hometown. And Saul had banned from the land of Israel all mediums and those who consult the spirits of the dead.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:23 - But Saul refused to eat anything. Then his advisers joined the woman in urging him to eat, so he finally yielded and got up from the ground and sat on the couch.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:4 - But the Philistine commanders were angry. “Send him back to the town you've given him!” they demanded. “He can't go into the battle with us. What if he turns against us in battle and becomes our adversary? Is there any better way for him to reconcile himself with his master than by handing our heads over to him?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:11 - Along the way they found an Egyptian man in a field and brought him to David. They gave him some bread to eat and water to drink.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:15 - “Will you lead me to this band of raiders?” David asked.
The young man replied, “If you take an oath in God's name that you will not kill me or give me back to my master, then I will guide you to them.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:16 - So he led David to them, and they found the Amalekites spread out across the fields, eating and drinking and dancing with joy because of the vast amount of plunder they had taken from the Philistines and the land of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:21 - Then David returned to the brook Besor and met up with the 200 men who had been left behind because they were too exhausted to go with him. They went out to meet David and his men, and David greeted them joyfully.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:3 - The fighting grew very fierce around Saul, and the Philistine archers caught up with him and wounded him severely.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:9 - So they cut off Saul's head and stripped off his armor. Then they proclaimed the good news of Saul's death in their pagan temple and to the people throughout the land of Philistia.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:2 - On the third day a man arrived from Saul's army camp. He had torn his clothes and put dirt on his head to show that he was in mourning. He fell to the ground before David in deep respect.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:10 - “So I killed him,” the Amalekite told David, “for I knew he couldn't live. Then I took his crown and his armband, and I have brought them here to you, my lord.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:5 - he sent them this message: “May the LORD bless you for being so loyal to your master Saul and giving him a decent burial.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:8 - But Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul's army, had already gone to Mahanaim with Saul's son Ishbosheth.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:9 - There he proclaimed Ishbosheth king over Gilead, Jezreel, Ephraim, Benjamin, the land of the Ashurites, and all the rest of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:23 - But Asahel refused to turn back, so Abner thrust the butt end of his spear through Asahel's stomach, and the spear came out through his back. He stumbled to the ground and died there. And everyone who came by that spot stopped and stood still when they saw Asahel lying there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:32 - Joab and his men took Asahel's body to Bethlehem and buried him there in his father's tomb. Then they traveled all night and reached Hebron at daybreak.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:16 - Palti followed along behind her as far as Bahurim, weeping as he went. Then Abner told him, “Go back home!” So Palti returned.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:22 - But just after David had sent Abner away in safety, Joab and some of David's troops returned from a raid, bringing much plunder with them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:23 - When Joab arrived, he was told that Abner had just been there visiting the king and had been sent away in safety.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:24 - Joab rushed to the king and demanded, “What have you done? What do you mean by letting Abner get away?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:26 - Joab then left David and sent messengers to catch up with Abner, asking him to return. They found him at the well of Sirah and brought him back, though David knew nothing about it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:27 - When Abner arrived back at Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gateway as if to speak with him privately. But then he stabbed Abner in the stomach and killed him in revenge for killing his brother Asahel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:4 - (Saul's son Jonathan had a son named Mephibosheth,[fn] who was crippled as a child. He was five years old when the report came from Jezreel that Saul and Jonathan had been killed in battle. When the child's nurse heard the news, she picked him up and fled. But as she hurried away, she dropped him, and he became crippled.)
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:7 - They went into the house and found Ishbosheth sleeping on his bed. They struck and killed him and cut off his head. Then, taking his head with them, they fled across the Jordan Valley[fn] through the night.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:10 - Someone once told me, ‘Saul is dead,' thinking he was bringing me good news. But I seized him and killed him at Ziklag. That's the reward I gave him for his news!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:4 - David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in all.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:12 - And David realized that the LORD had confirmed him as king over Israel and had blessed his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:13 - After moving from Hebron to Jerusalem, David married more concubines and wives, and they had more sons and daughters.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:7 - Then the LORD's anger was aroused against Uzzah, and God struck him dead because of this.[fn] So Uzzah died right there beside the Ark of God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:16 - But as the Ark of the LORD entered the City of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, looked down from her window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, she was filled with contempt for him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:20 - When David returned home to bless his own family, Michal, the daughter of Saul, came out to meet him. She said in disgust, “How distinguished the king of Israel looked today, shamelessly exposing himself to the servant girls like any vulgar person might do!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:1 - When King David was settled in his palace and the LORD had given him rest from all the surrounding enemies,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:10 - And I will provide a homeland for my people Israel, planting them in a secure place where they will never be disturbed. Evil nations won't oppress them as they've done in the past,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:14 - I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he sins, I will correct and discipline him with the rod, like any father would do.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:23 - What other nation on earth is like your people Israel? What other nation, O God, have you redeemed from slavery to be your own people? You made a great name for yourself when you redeemed your people from Egypt. You performed awesome miracles and drove out the nations and gods that stood in their way.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:7 - David brought the gold shields of Hadadezer's officers to Jerusalem,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:10 - he sent his son Joram to congratulate King David for his successful campaign. Hadadezer and Toi had been enemies and were often at war. Joram presented David with many gifts of silver, gold, and bronze.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:13 - So David became even more famous when he returned from destroying 18,000 Edomites[fn] in the Valley of Salt.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:2 - He summoned a man named Ziba, who had been one of Saul's servants. “Are you Ziba?” the king asked.
“Yes sir, I am,” Ziba replied.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:5 - So David sent for him and brought him from Makir's home.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:2 - David said, “I am going to show loyalty to Hanun just as his father, Nahash, was always loyal to me.” So David sent ambassadors to express sympathy to Hanun about his father's death.
But when David's ambassadors arrived in the land of Ammon,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:9 - When Joab saw that he would have to fight on both the front and the rear, he chose some of Israel's elite troops and placed them under his personal command to fight the Arameans in the fields.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:13 - Then David invited him to dinner and got him drunk. But even then he couldn't get Uriah to go home to his wife. Again he slept at the palace entrance with the king's palace guard.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:21 - Wasn't Abimelech son of Gideon[fn] killed at Thebez by a woman who threw a millstone down on him from the wall? Why would you get so close to the wall?' Then tell him, ‘Uriah the Hittite was killed, too.'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:22 - So the messenger went to Jerusalem and gave a complete report to David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:1 - So the LORD sent Nathan the prophet to tell David this story: “There were two men in a certain town. One was rich, and one was poor.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:4 - One day a guest arrived at the home of the rich man. But instead of killing an animal from his own flock or herd, he took the poor man's lamb and killed it and prepared it for his guest.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:9 - Why, then, have you despised the word of the LORD and done this horrible deed? For you have murdered Uriah the Hittite with the sword of the Ammonites and stolen his wife.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:17 - The elders of his household pleaded with him to get up and eat with them, but he refused.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:18 - Then on the seventh day the child died. David's advisers were afraid to tell him. “He wouldn't listen to reason while the child was ill,” they said. “What drastic thing will he do when we tell him the child is dead?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:27 - But Absalom kept on pressing the king until he finally agreed to let all his sons attend, including Amnon. So Absalom prepared a feast fit for a king.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:3 - Then go to the king and tell him the story I am about to tell you.” Then Joab told her what to say.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:7 - Now the rest of the family is demanding, ‘Let us have your son. We will execute him for murdering his brother. He doesn't deserve to inherit his family's property.' They want to extinguish the only coal I have left, and my husband's name and family will disappear from the face of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:10 - “If anyone objects,” the king said, “bring him to me. I can assure you he will never complain again!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:26 - He cut his hair only once a year, and then only because it was so heavy. When he weighed it out, it came to five pounds![fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:29 - Then Absalom sent for Joab to ask him to intercede for him, but Joab refused to come. Absalom sent for him a second time, but again Joab refused to come.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:30 - So Absalom said to his servants, “Go and set fire to Joab's barley field, the field next to mine.” So they set his field on fire, as Absalom had commanded.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:2 - He got up early every morning and went out to the gate of the city. When people brought a case to the king for judgment, Absalom would ask where in Israel they were from, and they would tell him their tribe.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:3 - Then Absalom would say, “You've really got a strong case here! It's too bad the king doesn't have anyone to hear it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:18 - to let all the king's men move past to lead the way. There were 600 men from Gath who had come with David, along with the king's bodyguard.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:10 - “No!” the king said. “Who asked your opinion, you sons of Zeruiah! If the LORD has told him to curse me, who are you to stop him?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:11 - Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “My own son is trying to kill me. Doesn't this relative of Saul[fn] have even more reason to do so? Leave him alone and let him curse, for the LORD has told him to do it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:6 - When Hushai arrived, Absalom told him what Ahithophel had said. Then he asked, “What is your opinion? Should we follow Ahithophel's advice? If not, what do you suggest?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:12 - When we find David, we'll fall on him like dew that falls on the ground. Then neither he nor any of his men will be left alive.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:11 - “What?” Joab demanded. “You saw him there and didn't kill him? I would have rewarded you with ten pieces of silver[fn] and a hero's belt!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:17 - They threw Absalom's body into a deep pit in the forest and piled a great heap of stones over it. And all Israel fled to their homes.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:32 - “What about young Absalom?” the king demanded. “Is he all right?”
And the Ethiopian replied, “May all of your enemies, my lord the king, both now and in the future, share the fate of that young man!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:26 - Mephibosheth replied, “My lord the king, my servant Ziba deceived me. I told him, ‘Saddle my donkey[fn] so I can go with the king.' For as you know I am crippled.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:31 - Barzillai of Gilead had come down from Rogelim to escort the king across the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:32 - He was very old, about eighty, and very wealthy. He was the one who had provided food for the king during his stay in Mahanaim.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:10 - Amasa didn't notice the dagger in his left hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach with it so that his insides gushed out onto the ground. Joab did not need to strike again, and Amasa soon died. Joab and his brother Abishai left him lying there and continued after Sheba.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:11 - One of Joab's young men shouted to Amasa's troops, “If you are for Joab and David, come and follow Joab.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:12 - But Amasa lay in his blood in the middle of the road, and Joab's man saw that everyone was stopping to stare at him. So he pulled him off the road into a field and threw a cloak over him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:15 - When Joab's forces arrived, they attacked Abel-beth-maacah. They built a siege ramp against the town's fortifications and began battering down the wall.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:1 - There was a famine during David's reign that lasted for three years, so David asked the LORD about it. And the LORD said, “The famine has come because Saul and his family are guilty of murdering the Gibeonites.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:2 - So the king summoned the Gibeonites. They were not part of Israel but were all that was left of the nation of the Amorites. The people of Israel had sworn not to kill them, but Saul, in his zeal for Israel and Judah, had tried to wipe them out.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:5 - Then they replied, “It was Saul who planned to destroy us, to keep us from having any place at all in the territory of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:21 - But when he defied and taunted Israel, he was killed by Jonathan, the son of David's brother Shimea.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:1 - David sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD rescued him from all his enemies and from Saul.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:9 - Next in rank among the Three was Eleazar son of Dodai, a descendant of Ahoah. Once Eleazar and David stood together against the Philistines when the entire Israelite army had fled.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:11 - Next in rank was Shammah son of Agee from Harar. One time the Philistines gathered at Lehi and attacked the Israelites in a field full of lentils. The Israelite army fled,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:21 - Once, armed only with a club, he killed a great Egyptian warrior who was armed with a spear. Benaiah wrenched the spear from the Egyptian's hand and killed him with it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:23 - He was more honored than the other members of the Thirty, though he was not one of the Three. And David made him captain of his bodyguard.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:10 - But after he had taken the census, David's conscience began to bother him. And he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly by taking this census. Please forgive my guilt, LORD, for doing this foolish thing.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:17 - When David saw the angel, he said to the LORD, “I am the one who has sinned and done wrong! But these people are as innocent as sheep—what have they done? Let your anger fall against me and my family.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:1 - King David was now very old, and no matter how many blankets covered him, he could not keep warm.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:2 - So his advisers told him, “Let us find a young virgin to wait on you and look after you, my lord. She will lie in your arms and keep you warm.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:6 - Now his father, King David, had never disciplined him at any time, even by asking, “Why are you doing that?” Adonijah had been born next after Absalom, and he was very handsome.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:13 - Go at once to King David and say to him, ‘My lord the king, didn't you make a vow and say to me, “Your son Solomon will surely be the next king and will sit on my throne”? Why then has Adonijah become king?'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:26 - But he did not invite me or Zadok the priest or Benaiah or your servant Solomon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:33 - the king said to them, “Take Solomon and my officials down to Gihon Spring. Solomon is to ride on my own mule.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:34 - There Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet are to anoint him king over Israel. Blow the ram's horn and shout, ‘Long live King Solomon!'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:38 - So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and the king's bodyguard[fn] took Solomon down to Gihon Spring, with Solomon riding on King David's own mule.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:44 - The king sent him down to Gihon Spring with Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, protected by the king's bodyguard. They had him ride on the king's own mule,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:45 - and Zadok and Nathan have anointed him at Gihon Spring as the new king. They have just returned, and the whole city is celebrating and rejoicing. That's what all the noise is about.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:53 - So King Solomon summoned Adonijah, and they brought him down from the altar. He came and bowed respectfully before King Solomon, who dismissed him, saying, “Go on home.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:29 - When this was reported to King Solomon, he sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada to execute him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:31 - “Do as he said,” the king replied. “Kill him there beside the altar and bury him. This will remove the guilt of Joab's senseless murders from me and from my father's family.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:32 - The LORD will repay him[fn] for the murders of two men who were more righteous and better than he. For my father knew nothing about the deaths of Abner son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and of Amasa son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:34 - So Benaiah son of Jehoiada returned to the sacred tent and killed Joab, and he was buried at his home in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:37 - On the day you so much as cross the Kidron Valley, you will surely die; and your blood will be on your own head.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:20 - Then she got up in the night and took my son from beside me while I was asleep. She laid her dead child in my arms and took mine to sleep beside her.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:21 - And in the morning when I tried to nurse my son, he was dead! But when I looked more closely in the morning light, I saw that it wasn't my son at all.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:34 - And kings from every nation sent their ambassadors to listen to the wisdom of Solomon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:3 - “You know that my father, David, was not able to build a Temple to honor the name of the LORD his God because of the many wars waged against him by surrounding nations. He could not build until the LORD gave him victory over all his enemies.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:7 - The stones used in the construction of the Temple were finished at the quarry, so there was no sound of hammer, ax, or any other iron tool at the building site.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:20 - This inner sanctuary was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. He overlaid the inside with solid gold. He also overlaid the altar made of cedar.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:21 - And I have prepared a place there for the Ark, which contains the covenant that the LORD made with our ancestors when he brought them out of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:31 - “If someone wrongs another person and is required to take an oath of innocence in front of your altar in this Temple,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:37 - “If there is a famine in the land or a plague or crop disease or attacks of locusts or caterpillars, or if your people's enemies are in the land besieging their towns—whatever disaster or disease there is—
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:58 - May he give us the desire to do his will in everything and to obey all the commands, decrees, and regulations that he gave our ancestors.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:3 - The LORD said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your petition. I have set this Temple apart to be holy—this place you have built where my name will be honored forever. I will always watch over it, for it is dear to my heart.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:1 - When the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame, which brought honor to the name of the LORD,[fn] she came to test him with hard questions.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:18 - Then the king made a huge throne, decorated with ivory and overlaid with fine gold.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:14 - Then the LORD raised up Hadad the Edomite, a member of Edom's royal family, to be Solomon's adversary.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:20 - She bore him a son named Genubath. Tahpenes raised him[fn] in Pharaoh's palace among Pharaoh's own sons.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:28 - Jeroboam was a very capable young man, and when Solomon saw how industrious he was, he put him in charge of the labor force from the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, the descendants of Joseph.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:29 - One day as Jeroboam was leaving Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah from Shiloh met him along the way. Ahijah was wearing a new cloak. The two of them were alone in a field,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:43 - When he died, he was buried in the City of David, named for his father. Then his son Rehoboam became the next king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:7 - The older counselors replied, “If you are willing to be a servant to these people today and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your loyal subjects.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:10 - The young men replied, “This is what you should tell those complainers who want a lighter burden: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father's waist!
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:18 - King Rehoboam sent Adoniram,[fn] who was in charge of the labor force, to restore order, but the people of Israel stoned him to death. When this news reached King Rehoboam, he quickly jumped into his chariot and fled to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:20 - When the people of Israel learned of Jeroboam's return from Egypt, they called an assembly and made him king over all Israel. So only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the family of David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:14 - Then he rode after the man of God and found him sitting under a great tree. The old prophet asked him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?”
“Yes, I am,” he replied.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:18 - But the old prophet answered, “I am a prophet, too, just as you are. And an angel gave me this command from the LORD: ‘Bring him home with you so he can have something to eat and drink.'” But the old man was lying to him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:20 - Then while they were sitting at the table, a command from the LORD came to the old prophet.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:24 - and the man of God started off again. But as he was traveling along, a lion came out and killed him. His body lay there on the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:26 - When the prophet heard the report, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the LORD's command. The LORD has fulfilled his word by causing the lion to attack and kill him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:29 - So the prophet laid the body of the man of God on the donkey and took it back to the town to mourn over him and bury him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:31 - Afterward the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:21 - Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from among all the tribes of Israel as the place to honor his name. Rehoboam's mother was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:22 - During Rehoboam's reign, the people of Judah did what was evil in the LORD's sight, provoking his anger with their sin, for it was even worse than that of their ancestors.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:27 - King Rehoboam later replaced them with bronze shields as substitutes, and he entrusted them to the care of the commanders of the guard who protected the entrance to the royal palace.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:4 - But for David's sake, the LORD his God allowed his descendants to continue ruling, shining like a lamp, and he gave Abijam a son to rule after him in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:27 - Then Baasha son of Ahijah, from the tribe of Issachar, plotted against Nadab and assassinated him while he and the Israelite army were laying siege to the Philistine town of Gibbethon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:28 - Baasha killed Nadab in the third year of King Asa's reign in Judah, and he became the next king of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:29 - He immediately slaughtered all the descendants of King Jeroboam, so that not one of the royal family was left, just as the LORD had promised concerning Jeroboam by the prophet Ahijah from Shiloh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:4 - The members of Baasha's family who die in the city will be eaten by dogs, and those who die in the field will be eaten by vultures.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:7 - The message from the LORD against Baasha and his family came through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani. It was delivered because Baasha had done what was evil in the LORD's sight (just as the family of Jeroboam had done), and also because Baasha had destroyed the family of Jeroboam. The LORD's anger was provoked by Baasha's sins.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:9 - Then Zimri, who commanded half of the royal chariots, made plans to kill him. One day in Tirzah, Elah was getting drunk at the home of Arza, the supervisor of the palace.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:10 - Zimri walked in and struck him down and killed him. This happened in the twenty-seventh year of King Asa's reign in Judah. Then Zimri became the next king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:11 - Zimri immediately killed the entire royal family of Baasha, leaving him not even a single male child. He even destroyed distant relatives and friends.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:18 - When Zimri saw that the city had been taken, he went into the citadel of the palace and burned it down over himself and died in the flames.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:19 - But Elijah replied, “Give me your son.” And he took the child's body from her arms, carried him up the stairs to the room where he was staying, and laid the body on his bed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:23 - Then Elijah brought him down from the upper room and gave him to his mother. “Look!” he said. “Your son is alive!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:31 - He took twelve stones, one to represent each of the tribes of Israel,[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:9 - There he came to a cave, where he spent the night. But the LORD said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:13 - When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave.
And a voice said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:19 - So Elijah went and found Elisha son of Shaphat plowing a field. There were twelve teams of oxen in the field, and Elisha was plowing with the twelfth team. Elijah went over to him and threw his cloak across his shoulders and then walked away.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:10 - Then Ben-hadad sent this message to Ahab: “May the gods strike me and even kill me if there remains enough dust from Samaria to provide even a handful for each of my soldiers.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:13 - Then a certain prophet came to see King Ahab of Israel and told him, “This is what the LORD says: Do you see all these enemy forces? Today I will hand them all over to you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:33 - The men took this as a good sign and quickly picked up on his words. “Yes,” they said, “your brother Ben-hadad!”
“Go and get him,” the king of Israel told them. And when Ben-hadad arrived, Ahab invited him up into his chariot.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:36 - Then the prophet told him, “Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, a lion will kill you as soon as you leave me.” And when he had gone, a lion did attack and kill him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:37 - Then the prophet turned to another man and said, “Hit me!” So he struck the prophet and wounded him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:40 - But while I was busy doing something else, the prisoner disappeared!”
“Well, it's your own fault,” the king replied. “You have brought the judgment on yourself.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:41 - Then the prophet quickly pulled the bandage from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:5 - “What's the matter?” his wife Jezebel asked him. “What's made you so upset that you're not eating?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:7 - “Are you the king of Israel or not?” Jezebel demanded. “Get up and eat something, and don't worry about it. I'll get you Naboth's vineyard!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:10 - And then seat two scoundrels across from him who will accuse him of cursing God and the king. Then take him out and stone him to death.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:13 - Then the two scoundrels came and sat down across from him. And they accused Naboth before all the people, saying, “He cursed God and the king.” So he was dragged outside the town and stoned to death.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:19 - Give him this message: ‘This is what the LORD says: Wasn't it enough that you killed Naboth? Must you rob him, too? Because you have done this, dogs will lick your blood at the very place where they licked the blood of Naboth!'”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:25 - (No one else so completely sold himself to what was evil in the LORD's sight as Ahab did under the influence of his wife Jezebel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:19 - Then Micaiah continued, “Listen to what the LORD says! I saw the LORD sitting on his throne with all the armies of heaven around him, on his right and on his left.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:21 - and finally a spirit approached the LORD and said, ‘I can do it!'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:26 - “Arrest him!” the king of Israel ordered. “Take him back to Amon, the governor of the city, and to my son Joash.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:27 - Give them this order from the king: ‘Put this man in prison, and feed him nothing but bread and water until I return safely from the battle!'”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:32 - So when the Aramean chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat in his royal robes, they went after him. “There is the king of Israel!” they shouted. But when Jehoshaphat called out,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:42 - Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. His mother was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:9 - Then he sent an army captain with fifty soldiers to arrest him. They found him sitting on top of a hill. The captain said to him, “Man of God, the king has commanded you to come down with us.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:10 - But Elijah replied to the captain, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and destroy you and your fifty men!” Then fire fell from heaven and killed them all.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:11 - So the king sent another captain with fifty men. The captain said to him, “Man of God, the king demands that you come down at once.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:12 - Elijah replied, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and destroy you and your fifty men!” And again the fire of God fell from heaven and killed them all.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:13 - Once more the king sent a third captain with fifty men. But this time the captain went up the hill and fell to his knees before Elijah. He pleaded with him, “O man of God, please spare my life and the lives of these, your fifty servants.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:16 - And Elijah said to the king, “This is what the LORD says: Why did you send messengers to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether you will recover? Is there no God in Israel to answer your question? Therefore, because you have done this, you will never leave the bed you are lying on; you will surely die.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:12 - Elisha saw it and cried out, “My father! My father! I see the chariots and charioteers of Israel!” And as they disappeared from sight, Elisha tore his clothes in distress.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:15 - When the group of prophets from Jericho saw from a distance what happened, they exclaimed, “Elijah's spirit rests upon Elisha!” And they went to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:16 - “Sir,” they said, “just say the word and fifty of our strongest men will search the wilderness for your master. Perhaps the Spirit of the LORD has left him on some mountain or in some valley.”
“No,” Elisha said, “don't send them.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:17 - But they kept urging him until they shamed him into agreeing, and he finally said, “All right, send them.” So fifty men searched for three days but did not find Elijah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:12 - Jehoshaphat said, “Yes, the LORD speaks through him.” So the kings of Israel, Judah, and Edom went to consult with Elisha.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:15 - Now bring me someone who can play the harp.”
While the harp was being played, the power[fn] of the LORD came upon Elisha,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:26 - When the king of Moab saw that he was losing the battle, he led 700 of his swordsmen in a desperate attempt to break through the enemy lines near the king of Edom, but they failed.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:27 - Then the king of Moab took his oldest son, who would have been the next king, and sacrificed him as a burnt offering on the wall. So there was great anger against Israel,[fn] and the Israelites withdrew and returned to their own land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:8 - One day Elisha went to the town of Shunem. A wealthy woman lived there, and she urged him to come to her home for a meal. After that, whenever he passed that way, he would stop there for something to eat.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:19 - Suddenly he cried out, “My head hurts! My head hurts!”
His father said to one of the servants, “Carry him home to his mother.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:20 - So the servant took him home, and his mother held him on her lap. But around noontime he died.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:21 - She carried him up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and left him there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:23 - “Why go today?” he asked. “It is neither a new moon festival nor a Sabbath.”
But she said, “It will be all right.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:3 - One day the girl said to her mistress, “I wish my master would go to see the prophet in Samaria. He would heal him of his leprosy.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:6 - The letter to the king of Israel said: “With this letter I present my servant Naaman. I want you to heal him of his leprosy.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:10 - But Elisha sent a messenger out to him with this message: “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan River. Then your skin will be restored, and you will be healed of your leprosy.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:16 - But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives, whom I serve, I will not accept any gifts.” And though Naaman urged him to take the gift, Elisha refused.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:18 - However, may the LORD pardon me in this one thing: When my master the king goes into the temple of the god Rimmon to worship there and leans on my arm, may the LORD pardon me when I bow, too.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:21 - So Gehazi set off after Naaman.
When Naaman saw Gehazi running after him, he climbed down from his chariot and went to meet him. “Is everything all right?” Naaman asked.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:25 - When he went in to his master, Elisha asked him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?”
“I haven't been anywhere,” he replied.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:26 - But Elisha asked him, “Don't you realize that I was there in spirit when Naaman stepped down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to receive money and clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and cattle, and male and female servants?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:26 - One day as the king of Israel was walking along the wall of the city, a woman called to him, “Please help me, my lord the king!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:28 - But then the king asked, “What is the matter?”
She replied, “This woman said to me: ‘Come on, let's eat your son today, then we will eat my son tomorrow.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:32 - Elisha was sitting in his house with the elders of Israel when the king sent a messenger to summon him. But before the messenger arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “A murderer has sent a man to cut off my head. When he arrives, shut the door and keep him out. We will soon hear his master's steps following him.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:33 - While Elisha was still saying this, the messenger arrived. And the king[fn] said, “All this misery is from the LORD! Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:17 - The king appointed his officer to control the traffic at the gate, but he was knocked down and trampled to death as the people rushed out.
So everything happened exactly as the man of God had predicted when the king came to his house.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:20 - And so it was, for the people trampled him to death at the gate!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:17 - Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:21 - So Jehoram[fn] went with all his chariots to attack the town of Zair.[fn] The Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, but he went out at night and attacked them[fn] under cover of darkness. But Jehoram's army deserted him and fled to their homes.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:26 - Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother was Athaliah, a granddaughter of King Omri of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:29 - he returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he had received at Ramoth.[fn] Because Joram was wounded, King Ahaziah of Judah went to Jezreel to visit him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:2 - and find Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi. Call him into a private room away from his friends,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:15 - But King Joram[fn] was wounded in the fighting and returned to Jezreel to recover from his wounds.) So Jehu told the men with him, “If you want me to be king, don't let anyone leave town and go to Jezreel to report what we have done.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:16 - Then Jehu got into a chariot and rode to Jezreel to find King Joram, who was lying there wounded. King Ahaziah of Judah was there, too, for he had gone to visit him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:17 - The watchman on the tower of Jezreel saw Jehu and his company approaching, so he shouted to Joram, “I see a company of troops coming!”
“Send out a rider to ask if they are coming in peace,” King Joram ordered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:19 - So the king sent out a second horseman. He rode up to them and said, “The king wants to know if you come in peace.”
Again Jehu answered, “What do you know about peace? Fall in behind me!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:21 - “Quick! Get my chariot ready!” King Joram commanded.
Then King Joram of Israel and King Ahaziah of Judah rode out in their chariots to meet Jehu. They met him at the plot of land that had belonged to Naboth of Jezreel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:25 - Jehu said to Bidkar, his officer, “Throw him into the plot of land that belonged to Naboth of Jezreel. Do you remember when you and I were riding along behind his father, Ahab? The LORD pronounced this message against him:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:26 - ‘I solemnly swear that I will repay him here on this plot of land, says the LORD, for the murder of Naboth and his sons that I saw yesterday.' So throw him out on Naboth's property, just as the LORD said.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:27 - When King Ahaziah of Judah saw what was happening, he fled along the road to Beth-haggan. Jehu rode after him, shouting, “Shoot him, too!” So they shot Ahaziah in his chariot at the Ascent of Gur, near Ibleam. He was able to go on as far as Megiddo, but he died there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:28 - His servants took him by chariot to Jerusalem, where they buried him with his ancestors in the City of David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:32 - Jehu looked up and saw her at the window and shouted, “Who is on my side?” And two or three eunuchs looked out at him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:3 - select the best qualified of your master's sons to be your king, and prepare to fight for Ahab's dynasty.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:7 - When the letter arrived, the leaders killed all seventy of the king's sons. They placed their heads in baskets and presented them to Jehu at Jezreel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:15 - When Jehu left there, he met Jehonadab son of Recab, who was coming to meet him. After they had greeted each other, Jehu said to him, “Are you as loyal to me as I am to you?”
“Yes, I am,” Jehonadab replied.
“If you are,” Jehu said, “then give me your hand.” So Jehonadab put out his hand, and Jehu helped him into the chariot.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:16 - Then Jehu said, “Now come with me, and see how devoted I am to the LORD.” So Jehonadab rode along with him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:17 - When Jehu arrived in Samaria, he killed everyone who was left there from Ahab's family, just as the LORD had promised through Elijah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:27 - They smashed the sacred pillar and wrecked the temple of Baal, converting it into a public toilet, as it remains to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:35 - When Jehu died, he was buried in Samaria. Then his son Jehoahaz became the next king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:2 - But Ahaziah's sister Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram,[fn] took Ahaziah's infant son, Joash, and stole him away from among the rest of the king's children, who were about to be killed. She put Joash and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah, so the child was not murdered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:4 - In the seventh year of Athaliah's reign, Jehoiada the priest summoned the commanders, the Carite mercenaries, and the palace guards to come to the Temple of the LORD. He made a solemn pact with them and made them swear an oath of loyalty there in the LORD's Temple; then he showed them the king's son.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:8 - Form a bodyguard around the king and keep your weapons in hand. Kill anyone who tries to break through. Stay with the king wherever he goes.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:12 - Then Jehoiada brought out Joash, the king's son, placed the crown on his head, and presented him with a copy of God's laws.[fn] They anointed him and proclaimed him king, and everyone clapped their hands and shouted, “Long live the king!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:18 - And all the people of the land went over to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They demolished the altars and smashed the idols to pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.
Jehoiada the priest stationed guards at the Temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:19 - Then the commanders, the Carite mercenaries, the palace guards, and all the people of the land escorted the king from the Temple of the LORD. They went through the gate of the guards and into the palace, and the king took his seat on the royal throne.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:2 - All his life Joash did what was pleasing in the LORD's sight because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:21 - The assassins were Jozacar[fn] son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer—both trusted advisers. Joash was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. Then his son Amaziah became the next king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:9 - When Jehoahaz died, he was buried in Samaria. Then his son Jehoash[fn] became the next king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:14 - When Elisha was in his last illness, King Jehoash of Israel visited him and wept over him. “My father! My father! I see the chariots and charioteers of Israel!” he cried.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:15 - Elisha told him, “Get a bow and some arrows.” And the king did as he was told.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:25 - Then Jehoash son of Jehoahaz recaptured from Ben-hadad son of Hazael the towns that had been taken from Jehoash's father, Jehoahaz. Jehoash defeated Ben-hadad on three occasions, and he recovered the Israelite towns.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:2 - Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother was Jehoaddin from Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:19 - There was a conspiracy against Amaziah's life in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But his enemies sent assassins after him, and they killed him there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:20 - They brought his body back to Jerusalem on a horse, and he was buried with his ancestors in the City of David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:21 - All the people of Judah had crowned Amaziah's sixteen-year-old son, Uzziah,[fn] as king in place of his father, Amaziah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:2 - He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother was Jecoliah from Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:7 - When Uzziah died, he was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. And his son Jotham became the next king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:10 - Then Shallum son of Jabesh conspired against Zechariah, assassinated him in public,[fn] and became the next king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:25 - Then Pekah son of Remaliah, the commander of Pekahiah's army, conspired against him. With fifty men from Gilead, Pekah assassinated the king, along with Argob and Arieh, in the citadel of the palace at Samaria. And Pekah reigned in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:30 - Then Hoshea son of Elah conspired against Pekah and assassinated him. He began to rule over Israel in the twentieth year of Jotham son of Uzziah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:33 - He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. His mother was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:2 - Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. He did not do what was pleasing in the sight of the LORD his God, as his ancestor David had done.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:3 - King Shalmaneser of Assyria attacked King Hoshea, so Hoshea was forced to pay heavy tribute to Assyria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:4 - But Hoshea stopped paying the annual tribute and conspired against the king of Assyria by asking King So of Egypt[fn] to help him shake free of Assyria's power. When the king of Assyria discovered this treachery, he seized Hoshea and put him in prison.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:36 - But worship only the LORD, who brought you out of Egypt with great strength and a powerful arm. Bow down to him alone, and offer sacrifices only to him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:2 - He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother was Abijah,[fn] the daughter of Zechariah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:4 - He removed the pagan shrines, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke up the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because the people of Israel had been offering sacrifices to it. The bronze serpent was called Nehushtan.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:5 - Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before or after his time.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:18 - They summoned King Hezekiah, but the king sent these officials to meet with them: Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace administrator; Shebna the court secretary; and Joah son of Asaph, the royal historian.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:4 - But perhaps the LORD your God has heard the Assyrian chief of staff,[fn] sent by the king to defy the living God, and will punish him for his words. Oh, pray for those of us who are left!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:7 - Listen! I myself will move against him,[fn] and the king will receive a message that he is needed at home. So he will return to his land, where I will have him killed with a sword.'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:37 - One day while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons[fn] Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with their swords. They then escaped to the land of Ararat, and another son, Esarhaddon, became the next king of Assyria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:1 - About that time Hezekiah became deathly ill, and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to visit him. He gave the king this message: “This is what the LORD says: Set your affairs in order, for you are going to die. You will not recover from this illness.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:4 - But before Isaiah had left the middle courtyard,[fn] this message came to him from the LORD:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:1 - Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother was Hephzibah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:19 - Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years. His mother was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz from Jotbah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:23 - Then Amon's own officials conspired against him and assassinated him in his palace.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:26 - He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza. Then his son Josiah became the next king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:1 - Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah from Bozkath.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:19 - You were sorry and humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I said against this city and its people—that this land would be cursed and become desolate. You tore your clothing in despair and wept before me in repentance. And I have indeed heard you, says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:6 - The king removed the Asherah pole from the LORD's Temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it. Then he ground the ashes of the pole to dust and threw the dust over the graves of the people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:25 - Never before had there been a king like Josiah, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and soul and strength, obeying all the laws of Moses. And there has never been a king like him since.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:26 - Even so, the LORD was very angry with Judah because of all the wicked things Manasseh had done to provoke him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:29 - While Josiah was king, Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, went to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah and his army marched out to fight him,[fn] but King Neco[fn] killed him when they met at Megiddo.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30 - Josiah's officers took his body back in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the land anointed Josiah's son Jehoahaz and made him the next king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:31 - Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:33 - Pharaoh Neco put Jehoahaz in prison at Riblah in the land of Hamath to prevent him from ruling[fn] in Jerusalem. He also demanded that Judah pay 7,500 pounds of silver and 75 pounds of gold[fn] as tribute.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:36 - Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother was Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah from Rumah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:3 - These disasters happened to Judah because of the LORD's command. He had decided to banish Judah from his presence because of the many sins of Manasseh,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:8 - After Shaharaim divorced his wives Hushim and Baara, he had children in the land of Moab.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:3 - The fighting grew very fierce around Saul, and the Philistine archers caught up with him and wounded him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:9 - So they stripped off Saul's armor and cut off his head. Then they proclaimed the good news of Saul's death before their idols and to the people throughout the land of Philistia.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:14 - instead of asking the LORD for guidance. So the LORD killed him and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:10 - These are the leaders of David's mighty warriors. Together with all Israel, they decided to make David their king, just as the LORD had promised concerning Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:12 - Next in rank among the Three was Eleazar son of Dodai,[fn] a descendant of Ahoah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:23 - Once, armed only with a club, he killed an Egyptian warrior who was 7½ feet[fn] tall and whose spear was as thick as a weaver's beam. Benaiah wrenched the spear from the Egyptian's hand and killed him with it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:25 - He was more honored than the other members of the Thirty, though he was not one of the Three. And David made him captain of his bodyguard.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:20 - Here is a list of the men from Manasseh who defected to David as he was returning to Ziklag: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai. Each commanded 1,000 troops from the tribe of Manasseh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:23 - These are the numbers of armed warriors who joined David at Hebron. They were all eager to see David become king instead of Saul, just as the LORD had promised.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:10 - Then the LORD's anger was aroused against Uzzah, and he struck him dead because he had laid his hand on the Ark. So Uzzah died there in the presence of God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:2 - And David realized that the LORD had confirmed him as king over Israel and had greatly blessed his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:29 - But as the Ark of the LORD's Covenant entered the City of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, looked down from her window. When she saw King David skipping about and laughing with joy, she was filled with contempt for him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:8 - Give thanks to the LORD and proclaim his greatness.
Let the whole world know what he has done.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:17 - He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree,
and to the people of Israel as a never-ending covenant:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:9 - And I will provide a homeland for my people Israel, planting them in a secure place where they will never be disturbed. Evil nations won't oppress them as they've done in the past,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:14 - I will confirm him as king over my house and my kingdom for all time, and his throne will be secure forever.'”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:21 - What other nation on earth is like your people Israel? What other nation, O God, have you redeemed from slavery to be your own people? You made a great name for yourself when you redeemed your people from Egypt. You performed awesome miracles and drove out the nations that stood in their way.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:10 - he sent his son Joram[fn] to congratulate King David for his successful campaign. Hadadezer and Toi had been enemies and were often at war. Joram presented David with many gifts of gold, silver, and bronze.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:2 - David said, “I am going to show loyalty to Hanun because his father, Nahash, was always loyal to me.” So David sent messengers to express sympathy to Hanun about his father's death.
But when David's ambassadors arrived in the land of Ammon,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:10 - When Joab saw that he would have to fight on both the front and the rear, he chose some of Israel's elite troops and placed them under his personal command to fight the Arameans in the fields.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:16 - The Arameans now realized that they were no match for Israel, so they sent messengers and summoned additional Aramean troops from the other side of the Euphrates River.[fn] These troops were under the command of Shobach,[fn] the commander of Hadadezer's forces.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:7 - But when he defied and taunted Israel, he was killed by Jonathan, the son of David's brother Shimea.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:9 - But you will have a son who will be a man of peace. I will give him peace with his enemies in all the surrounding lands. His name will be Solomon,[fn] and I will give peace and quiet to Israel during his reign.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:5 - Ammiel (the sixth), Issachar (the seventh), and Peullethai (the eighth). God had richly blessed Obed-edom.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:10 - Hosah, of the Merari clan, appointed Shimri as the leader among his sons, though he was not the oldest.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:5 - And from among my sons—for the LORD has given me many—he chose Solomon to succeed me on the throne of Israel and to rule over the LORD's kingdom.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:22 - They feasted and drank in the LORD's presence with great joy that day.
And again they crowned David's son Solomon as their new king. They anointed him before the LORD as their leader, and they anointed Zadok as priest.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:1 - Solomon son of David took firm control of his kingdom, for the LORD his God was with him and made him very powerful.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:4 - I am about to build a Temple to honor the name of the LORD my God. It will be a place set apart to burn fragrant incense before him, to display the special sacrificial bread, and to sacrifice burnt offerings each morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, at new moon celebrations, and at the other appointed festivals of the LORD our God. He has commanded Israel to do these things forever.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:4 - The entry room at the front of the Temple was 30 feet[fn] wide, running across the entire width of the Temple, and 30 feet[fn] high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:8 - He made the Most Holy Place 30 feet wide, corresponding to the width of the Temple, and 30 feet deep. He overlaid its interior with 23 tons[fn] of fine gold.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:22 - “If someone wrongs another person and is required to take an oath of innocence in front of your altar at this Temple,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:28 - “If there is a famine in the land or a plague or crop disease or attacks of locusts or caterpillars, or if your people's enemies are in the land besieging their towns—whatever disaster or disease there is—
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:20 - then I will uproot the people from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have made holy to honor my name. I will make it an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:21 - And though this Temple is impressive now, all who pass by will be appalled. They will ask, ‘Why did the LORD do such terrible things to this land and to this Temple?'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:1 - When the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame, she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions. She arrived with a large group of attendants and a great caravan of camels loaded with spices, large quantities of gold, and precious jewels. When she met with Solomon, she talked with him about everything she had on her mind.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:8 - Praise the LORD your God, who delights in you and has placed you on the throne as king to rule for him. Because God loves Israel and desires this kingdom to last forever, he has made you king over them so you can rule with justice and righteousness.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:17 - Then the king made a huge throne, decorated with ivory and overlaid with pure gold.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:31 - When he died, he was buried in the City of David, named for his father. Then his son Rehoboam became the next king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:6 - Then King Rehoboam discussed the matter with the older men who had counseled his father, Solomon. “What is your advice?” he asked. “How should I answer these people?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:18 - King Rehoboam sent Adoniram,[fn] who was in charge of the labor force, to restore order, but the people of Israel stoned him to death. When this news reached King Rehoboam, he quickly jumped into his chariot and fled to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:13 - But all the priests and Levites living among the northern tribes of Israel sided with Rehoboam.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:10 - King Rehoboam later replaced them with bronze shields as substitutes, and he entrusted them to the care of the commanders of the guard who protected the entrance to the royal palace.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:12 - Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the LORD's anger was turned away, and he did not destroy him completely. There were still some good things in the land of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:13 - King Rehoboam firmly established himself in Jerusalem and continued to rule. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from among all the tribes of Israel as the place to honor his name. Rehoboam's mother was Naamah, a woman from Ammon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:3 - Judah, led by King Abijah, fielded 400,000 select warriors, while Jeroboam mustered 800,000 select troops from Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:7 - Then a whole gang of scoundrels joined him, defying Solomon's son Rehoboam when he was young and inexperienced and could not stand up to them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:20 - So Jeroboam of Israel never regained his power during Abijah's lifetime, and finally the LORD struck him down and he died.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:1 - [fn]When Abijah died, he was buried in the City of David. Then his son Asa became the next king. There was peace in the land for ten years.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:1 - Then the Spirit of God came upon Azariah son of Oded,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:9 - Then Asa called together all the people of Judah and Benjamin, along with the people of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had settled among them. For many from Israel had moved to Judah during Asa's reign when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:10 - Asa became so angry with Hanani for saying this that he threw him into prison and put him in stocks. At that time Asa also began to oppress some of his people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:14 - He was buried in the tomb he had carved out for himself in the City of David. He was laid on a bed perfumed with sweet spices and fragrant ointments, and the people built a huge funeral fire in his honor.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:15 - Next in command was Jehohanan, who commanded 280,000 troops.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:16 - Next was Amasiah son of Zicri, who volunteered for the LORD's service, with 200,000 troops under his command.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:18 - Next in command was Jehozabad, who commanded 180,000 armed men.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:2 - A few years later he went to Samaria to visit Ahab, who prepared a great banquet for him and his officials. They butchered great numbers of sheep, goats, and cattle for the feast. Then Ahab enticed Jehoshaphat to join forces with him to recover Ramoth-gilead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:31 - So when the Aramean chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat in his royal robes, they went after him. “There is the king of Israel!” they shouted. But Jehoshaphat called out, and the LORD saved him. God helped him by turning the attackers away from him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:14 - the Spirit of the LORD came upon one of the men standing there. His name was Jahaziel son of Zechariah, son of Benaiah, son of Jeiel, son of Mattaniah, a Levite who was a descendant of Asaph.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:31 - So Jehoshaphat ruled over the land of Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. His mother was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:36 - Together they built a fleet of trading ships[fn] at the port of Ezion-geber.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:9 - So Jehoram went out with his full army and all his chariots. The Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, but he went out at night and attacked them[fn] under cover of darkness.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:18 - After all this, the LORD struck Jehoram with the severe intestinal disease.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:6 - he returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he had received at Ramoth.[fn] Because Joram was wounded, King Ahaziah[fn] of Judah went to Jezreel to visit him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:7 - But God had decided that this visit would be Ahaziah's downfall. While he was there, Ahaziah went out with Joram to meet Jehu grandson of Nimshi,[fn] whom the LORD had appointed to destroy the dynasty of Ahab.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:9 - Then Jehu's men searched for Ahaziah, and they found him hiding in the city of Samaria. They brought him to Jehu, who killed him. Ahaziah was given a decent burial because the people said, “He was the grandson of Jehoshaphat—a man who sought the LORD with all his heart.” But none of the surviving members of Ahaziah's family was capable of ruling the kingdom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:11 - But Ahaziah's sister Jehosheba,[fn] the daughter of King Jehoram, took Ahaziah's infant son, Joash, and stole him away from among the rest of the king's children, who were about to be killed. She put Joash and his nurse in a bedroom. In this way, Jehosheba, wife of Jehoiada the priest and sister of Ahaziah, hid the child so that Athaliah could not murder him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:11 - Then Jehoiada and his sons brought out Joash, the king's son, placed the crown on his head, and presented him with a copy of God's laws.[fn] They anointed him and proclaimed him king, and everyone shouted, “Long live the king!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:17 - And all the people went over to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They demolished the altars and smashed the idols, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:1 - Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother was Zibiah from Beersheba.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:16 - He was buried among the kings in the City of David, because he had done so much good in Israel for God and his Temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:21 - Then the leaders plotted to kill Zechariah, and King Joash ordered that they stone him to death in the courtyard of the LORD's Temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:23 - In the spring of the year[fn] the Aramean army marched against Joash. They invaded Judah and Jerusalem and killed all the leaders of the nation. Then they sent all the plunder back to their king in Damascus.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:25 - The Arameans withdrew, leaving Joash severely wounded. But his own officials plotted to kill him for murdering the son[fn] of Jehoiada the priest. They assassinated him as he lay in bed. Then he was buried in the City of David, but not in the royal cemetery.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:26 - The assassins were Jozacar,[fn] the son of an Ammonite woman named Shimeath, and Jehozabad, the son of a Moabite woman named Shomer.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:7 - But a man of God came to him and said, “Your Majesty, do not hire troops from Israel, for the LORD is not with Israel. He will not help those people of Ephraim!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:10 - So Amaziah discharged the hired troops and sent them back to Ephraim. This made them very angry with Judah, and they returned home in a great rage.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:20 - But Amaziah refused to listen, for God was determined to destroy him for turning to the gods of Edom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:23 - King Jehoash of Israel captured Judah's king, Amaziah son of Joash and grandson of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh. Then he brought him to Jerusalem, where he demolished 600 feet[fn] of Jerusalem's wall, from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:27 - After Amaziah turned away from the LORD, there was a conspiracy against his life in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But his enemies sent assassins after him, and they killed him there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:28 - They brought his body back on a horse, and he was buried with his ancestors in the City of David.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:1 - All the people of Judah had crowned Amaziah's sixteen-year-old son, Uzziah, as king in place of his father.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:7 - God helped him in his wars against the Philistines, his battles with the Arabs of Gur,[fn] and his wars with the Meunites.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:19 - Uzziah, who was holding an incense burner, became furious. But as he was standing there raging at the priests before the incense altar in the LORD's Temple, leprosy[fn] suddenly broke out on his forehead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:20 - When Azariah the high priest and all the other priests saw the leprosy, they rushed him out. And the king himself was eager to get out because the LORD had struck him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:23 - When Uzziah died, he was buried with his ancestors; his grave was in a nearby burial field belonging to the kings, for the people said, “He had leprosy.” And his son Jotham became the next king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:1 - Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. His mother was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:1 - Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. He did not do what was pleasing in the sight of the LORD, as his ancestor David had done.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:5 - Because of all this, the LORD his God allowed the king of Aram to defeat Ahaz and to exile large numbers of his people to Damascus. The armies of the king of Israel also defeated Ahaz and inflicted many casualties on his army.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:20 - So when King Tiglath-pileser[fn] of Assyria arrived, he attacked Ahaz instead of helping him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:22 - Even during this time of trouble, King Ahaz continued to reject the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:27 - When Ahaz died, he was buried in Jerusalem but not in the royal cemetery of the kings of Judah. Then his son Hezekiah became the next king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:6 - Our ancestors were unfaithful and did what was evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned the LORD and his dwelling place; they turned their backs on him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:10 - And Azariah the high priest, from the family of Zadok, replied, “Since the people began bringing their gifts to the LORD's Temple, we have had enough to eat and plenty to spare. The LORD has blessed his people, and all this is left over.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:6 - He appointed military officers over the people and assembled them before him in the square at the city gate. Then Hezekiah encouraged them by saying:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:21 - And the LORD sent an angel who destroyed the Assyrian army with all its commanders and officers. So Sennacherib was forced to return home in disgrace to his own land. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons killed him there with a sword.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:25 - But Hezekiah did not respond appropriately to the kindness shown him, and he became proud. So the LORD's anger came against him and against Judah and Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:31 - However, when ambassadors arrived from Babylon to ask about the remarkable events that had taken place in the land, God withdrew from Hezekiah in order to test him and to see what was really in his heart.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:33 - When Hezekiah died, he was buried in the upper area of the royal cemetery, and all Judah and Jerusalem honored him at his death. And his son Manasseh became the next king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:1 - Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:11 - So the LORD sent the commanders of the Assyrian armies, and they took Manasseh prisoner. They put a ring through his nose, bound him in bronze chains, and led him away to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:13 - And when he prayed, the LORD listened to him and was moved by his request. So the LORD brought Manasseh back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh finally realized that the LORD alone is God!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:18 - The rest of the events of Manasseh's reign, his prayer to God, and the words the seers spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, are recorded in The Book of the Kings of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:20 - When Manasseh died, he was buried in his palace. Then his son Amon became the next king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:21 - Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:24 - Then Amon's own officials conspired against him and assassinated him in his palace.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:1 - Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:27 - You were sorry and humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this city and its people. You humbled yourself and tore your clothing in despair and wept before me in repentance. And I have indeed heard you, says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - This Passover celebration took place in the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:21 - But King Neco sent messengers to Josiah with this message: “What do you want with me, king of Judah? I have no quarrel with you today! I am on my way to fight another nation, and God has told me to hurry! Do not interfere with God, who is with me, or he will destroy you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:22 - But Josiah refused to listen to Neco, to whom God had indeed spoken, and he would not turn back. Instead, he disguised himself and led his army into battle on the plain of Megiddo.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:24 - So they lifted Josiah out of his chariot and placed him in another chariot. Then they brought him back to Jerusalem, where he died. He was buried there in the royal cemetery. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:25 - The prophet Jeremiah composed funeral songs for Josiah, and to this day choirs still sing these sad songs about his death. These songs of sorrow have become a tradition and are recorded in The Book of Laments.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:1 - Then the people of the land took Josiah's son Jehoahaz and made him the next king in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:2 - Jehoahaz[fn] was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:3 - Then he was deposed by the king of Egypt, who demanded that Judah pay 7,500 pounds of silver and 75 pounds of gold[fn] as tribute.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:4 - The king of Egypt then installed Eliakim, the brother of Jehoahaz, as the next king of Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim. Then Neco took Jehoahaz to Egypt as a prisoner.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:5 - Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:6 - Then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to Jerusalem and captured it, and he bound Jehoiakim in bronze chains and led him away to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:9 - Jehoiachin was eighteen[fn] years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days. Jehoiachin did what was evil in the LORD's sight.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:10 - In the spring of the year[fn] King Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin to Babylon. Many treasures from the Temple of the LORD were also taken to Babylon at that time. And Nebuchadnezzar installed Jehoiachin's uncle,[fn] Zedekiah, as the next king in Judah and Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:11 - Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:13 - He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, even though he had taken an oath of loyalty in God's name. Zedekiah was a hard and stubborn man, refusing to turn to the LORD, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:4 - Wherever this Jewish remnant is found, let their neighbors contribute toward their expenses by giving them silver and gold, supplies for the journey, and livestock, as well as a voluntary offering for the Temple of God in Jerusalem.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:68 - When they arrived at the Temple of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the family leaders made voluntary offerings toward the rebuilding of God's Temple on its original site,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:11 - “This was their answer: ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the Temple that was built here many years ago by a great king of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:6 - This Ezra was a scribe who was well versed in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given to the people of Israel. He came up to Jerusalem from Babylon, and the king gave him everything he asked for, because the gracious hand of the LORD his God was on him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:22 - For I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers and horsemen[fn] to accompany us and protect us from enemies along the way. After all, we had told the king, “Our God's hand of protection is on all who worship him, but his fierce anger rages against those who abandon him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:1 - While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and lying face down on the ground in front of the Temple of God, a very large crowd of people from Israel—men, women, and children—gathered and wept bitterly with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:5 - Then I said, “O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps his covenant of unfailing love with those who love him and obey his commands,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:11 - O Lord, please hear my prayer! Listen to the prayers of those of us who delight in honoring you. Please grant me success today by making the king favorable to me.[fn] Put it into his heart to be kind to me.” In those days I was the king's cup-bearer.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:5 - I replied, “If it please the king, and if you are pleased with me, your servant, send me to Judah to rebuild the city where my ancestors are buried.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:18 - Next down the line were his countrymen led by Binnui[fn] son of Henadad, the leader of the other half of the district of Keilah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:20 - Next to him was Baruch son of Zabbai, who zealously repaired an additional section from the angle to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:21 - Meremoth son of Uriah and grandson of Hakkoz rebuilt another section of the wall extending from the door of Eliashib's house to the end of the house.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:22 - The next repairs were made by the priests from the surrounding region.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:23 - After them, Benjamin and Hasshub repaired the section across from their house, and Azariah son of Maaseiah and grandson of Ananiah repaired the section across from his house.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:24 - Next was Binnui son of Henadad, who rebuilt another section of the wall from Azariah's house to the angle and the corner.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:25 - Palal son of Uzai carried on the work from a point opposite the angle and the tower that projects up from the king's upper house beside the court of the guard. Next to him were Pedaiah son of Parosh,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:27 - Then came the people of Tekoa, who repaired another section across from the great projecting tower and over to the wall of Ophel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:29 - Next Zadok son of Immer also rebuilt the wall across from his own house, and beyond him was Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, the gatekeeper of the East Gate.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:30 - Next Hananiah son of Shelemiah and Hanun, the sixth son of Zalaph, repaired another section, while Meshullam son of Berekiah rebuilt the wall across from where he lived.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:31 - Malkijah, one of the goldsmiths, repaired the wall as far as the housing for the Temple servants and merchants, across from the Inspection Gate. Then he continued as far as the upper room at the corner.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:8 - I replied, “There is no truth in any part of your story. You are making up the whole thing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:7 - “You are the LORD God, who chose Abram and brought him from Ur of the Chaldeans and renamed him Abraham.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:8 - When he had proved himself faithful, you made a covenant with him to give him and his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites. And you have done what you promised, for you are always true to your word.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:2 - For they had not provided the Israelites with food and water in the wilderness. Instead, they hired Balaam to curse them, though our God turned the curse into a blessing.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:26 - “Wasn't this exactly what led King Solomon of Israel into sin?” I demanded. “There was no king from any nation who could compare to him, and God loved him and made him king over all Israel. But even he was led into sin by his foreign wives.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:28 - One of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest had married a daughter of Sanballat the Horonite, so I banished him from my presence.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:11 - to bring Queen Vashti to him with the royal crown on her head. He wanted the nobles and all the other men to gaze on her beauty, for she was a very beautiful woman.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:8 - Mordecai gave Hathach a copy of the decree issued in Susa that called for the death of all Jews. He asked Hathach to show it to Esther and explain the situation to her. He also asked Hathach to direct her to go to the king to beg for mercy and plead for her people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:11 - and boasted to them about his great wealth and his many children. He bragged about the honors the king had given him and how he had been promoted over all the other nobles and officials.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:14 - So Haman's wife, Zeresh, and all his friends suggested, “Set up a sharpened pole that stands seventy-five feet[fn] tall, and in the morning ask the king to impale Mordecai on it. When this is done, you can go on your merry way to the banquet with the king.” This pleased Haman, and he ordered the pole set up.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:9 - Let the robes and the horse be handed over to one of the king's most noble officials. And let him see that the man whom the king wishes to honor is dressed in the king's robes and led through the city square on the king's horse. Have the official shout as they go, ‘This is what the king does for someone he wishes to honor!'”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:11 - So Haman took the robes and put them on Mordecai, placed him on the king's own horse, and led him through the city square, shouting, “This is what the king does for someone he wishes to honor!”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:13 - When Haman told his wife, Zeresh, and all his friends what had happened, his wise advisers and his wife said, “Since Mordecai—this man who has humiliated you—is of Jewish birth, you will never succeed in your plans against him. It will be fatal to continue opposing him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:2 - The king took off his signet ring—which he had taken back from Haman—and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed Mordecai to be in charge of Haman's property.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:7 - Then King Xerxes said to Queen Esther and Mordecai the Jew, “I have given Esther the property of Haman, and he has been impaled on a pole because he tried to destroy the Jews.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:25 - But when Esther came before the king, he issued a decree causing Haman's evil plot to backfire, and Haman and his sons were impaled on a sharpened pole.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:8 - Then the LORD asked Satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:3 - Then the LORD asked Satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil. And he has maintained his integrity, even though you urged me to harm him without cause.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:11 - When three of Job's friends heard of the tragedy he had suffered, they got together and traveled from their homes to comfort and console him. Their names were Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:12 - When they saw Job from a distance, they scarcely recognized him. Wailing loudly, they tore their robes and threw dust into the air over their heads to show their grief.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:10 - They are gone forever from their home—
never to be seen again.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:17 - “What are people, that you should make so much of us,
that you should think of us so often?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:18 - For you examine us every morning
and test us every moment.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:1 - “I am disgusted with my life.
Let me complain freely.
My bitter soul must complain.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:20 - You always overpower them, and they pass from the scene.
You disfigure them in death and send them away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:23 - They wander around, saying, ‘Where can I find bread?'[fn]
They know their day of destruction is near.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:24 - That dark day terrifies them.
They live in distress and anguish,
like a king preparing for battle.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:9 - A trap grabs them by the heel.
A snare holds them tight.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:11 - “Terrors surround the wicked
and trouble them at every step.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:14 - They are torn from the security of their homes
and are brought down to the king of terrors.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:18 - They will be thrust from light into darkness,
driven from the world.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:7 - yet they will vanish forever,
thrown away like their own dung.
Those who knew them will ask,
‘Where are they?'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:9 - Those who once saw them will see them no more.
Their families will never see them again.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:15 - They will vomit the wealth they swallowed.
God won't let them keep it down.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:16 - They will suck the poison of cobras.
The viper will kill them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:22 - “In the midst of plenty, they will run into trouble
and be overcome by misery.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:23 - May God give them a bellyful of trouble.
May God rain down his anger upon them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:24 - When they try to escape an iron weapon,
a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:26 - Their treasures will be thrown into deepest darkness.
A wildfire will devour their goods,
consuming all they have left.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:19 - “‘Well,' you say, ‘at least God will punish their children!'
But I say he should punish the ones who sin,
so that they understand his judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:27 - You will pray to him, and he will hear you,
and you will fulfill your vows to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:3 - If only I knew where to find God,
I would go to his court.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:9 - He covers the face of the moon,[fn]
shrouding it with his clouds.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:20 - Terror overwhelms them like a flood,
and they are blown away in the storms of the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:21 - The east wind carries them away, and they are gone.
It sweeps them away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:22 - It whirls down on them without mercy.
They struggle to flee from its power.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:23 - But everyone jeers at them
and mocks them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:3 - He was also angry with Job's three friends, for they made God[fn] appear to be wrong by their inability to answer Job's arguments.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:18 - He protects them from the grave,
from crossing over the river of death.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:19 - “Or God disciplines people with pain on their sickbeds,
with ceaseless aching in their bones.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:24 - he will be gracious and say,
‘Rescue him from the grave,
for I have found a ransom for his life.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:25 - Then his body will become as healthy as a child's,
firm and youthful again.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:21 - “For God watches how people live;
he sees everything they do.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:28 - They cause the poor to cry out, catching God's attention.
He hears the cries of the needy.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:22 - “Look, God is all-powerful.
Who is a teacher like him?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:30 - See how he spreads the lightning around him
and how it lights up the depths of the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:24 - No wonder people everywhere fear him.
All who are wise show him reverence.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:14 - As the light approaches,
the earth takes shape like clay pressed beneath a seal;
it is robed in brilliant colors.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:38 - when the parched ground is dry
and the soil has hardened into clods?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:9 - Are you as strong as God?
Can you thunder with a voice like his?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:4 - Will it agree to work for you,
to be your slave for life?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:5 - Can you make it a pet like a bird,
or give it to your little girls to play with?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:6 - Will merchants try to buy it
to sell it in their shops?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:9 - [fn]No, it is useless to try to capture it.
The hunter who attempts it will be knocked down.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:28 - Arrows cannot make it flee.
Stones shot from a sling are like bits of grass.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:30 - Its belly is covered with scales as sharp as glass.
It plows up the ground as it drags through the mud.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:11 - Then all his brothers, sisters, and former friends came and feasted with him in his home. And they consoled him and comforted him because of all the trials the LORD had brought against him. And each of them brought him a gift of money[fn] and a gold ring.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:17 - Then he died, an old man who had lived a long, full life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:15 - They dig a deep pit to trap others,
then fall into it themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:5 - Yet you made them only a little lower than God[fn]
and crowned them[fn] with glory and honor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:6 - You gave them charge of everything you made,
putting all things under their authority—
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:10 - Their helpless victims are crushed;
they fall beneath the strength of the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:1 - For the choir director: A psalm of David, the servant of the LORD. He sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD rescued him from all his enemies and from Saul. He sang:

I love you, LORD;
you are my strength.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:3 - You welcomed him back with success and prosperity.
You placed a crown of finest gold on his head.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:6 - You have endowed him with eternal blessings
and given him the joy of your presence.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:23 - Praise the LORD, all you who fear him!
Honor him, all you descendants of Jacob!
Show him reverence, all you descendants of Israel!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:24 - For he has not ignored or belittled the suffering of the needy.
He has not turned his back on them,
but has listened to their cries for help.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:6 - Therefore, let all the godly pray to you while there is still time,
that they may not drown in the floodwaters of judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:18 - But the LORD watches over those who fear him,
those who rely on his unfailing love.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:5 - Those who look to him for help will be radiant with joy;
no shadow of shame will darken their faces.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:7 - For the angel of the LORD is a guard;
he surrounds and defends all who fear him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:12 - The wicked plot against the godly;
they snarl at them in defiance.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:22 - Those the LORD blesses will possess the land,
but those he curses will die.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:33 - But the LORD will not let the wicked succeed
or let the godly be condemned when they are put on trial.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:1 - For the choir director: A psalm of David.

Oh, the joys of those who are kind to the poor!
The LORD rescues them when they are in trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:2 - The LORD protects them
and keeps them alive.
He gives them prosperity in the land
and rescues them from their enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:17 - For when they die, they take nothing with them.
Their wealth will not follow them into the grave.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:1 - For the choir director: A psalm of David, regarding the time Nathan the prophet came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba.

Have mercy on me, O God,
because of your unfailing love.
Because of your great compassion,
blot out the stain of my sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:6 - The righteous will see it and be amazed.
They will laugh and say,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:1 - For the choir director: A psalm[fn] of David, regarding the time the Philistines seized him in Gath. To be sung to the tune “Dove on Distant Oaks.”

O God, have mercy on me,
for people are hounding me.
My foes attack me all day long.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:1 - For the choir director: A psalm[fn] of David, regarding the time he fled from Saul and went into the cave. To be sung to the tune “Do Not Destroy!”

Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy!
I look to you for protection.
I will hide beneath the shadow of your wings
until the danger passes by.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:1 - A psalm of David, regarding a time when David was in the wilderness of Judah.

O God, you are my God;
I earnestly search for you.
My soul thirsts for you;
my whole body longs for you
in this parched and weary land
where there is no water.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:4 - They shoot from ambush at the innocent,
attacking suddenly and fearlessly.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:17 - For I cried out to him for help,
praising him as I spoke.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 67:7 - Yes, God will bless us,
and people all over the world will fear him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:1 - For the choir director: A song. A psalm of David.

Rise up, O God, and scatter your enemies.
Let those who hate God run for their lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:30 - Then I will praise God's name with singing,
and I will honor him with thanksgiving.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:34 - Praise him, O heaven and earth,
the seas and all that move in them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:14 - You crushed the heads of Leviathan[fn]
and let the desert animals eat him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:34 - When God began killing them,
they finally sought him.
They repented and took God seriously.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:36 - But all they gave him was lip service;
they lied to him with their tongues.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:40 - Oh, how often they rebelled against him in the wilderness
and grieved his heart in that dry wasteland.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:58 - They angered God by building shrines to other gods;
they made him jealous with their idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:70 - He chose his servant David,
calling him from the sheep pens.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:71 - He took David from tending the ewes and lambs
and made him the shepherd of Jacob's descendants—
God's own people, Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:5 - He made it a law for Israel[fn]
when he attacked Egypt to set us free.
I heard an unknown voice say,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 85:8 - I listen carefully to what God the LORD is saying,
for he speaks peace to his faithful people.
But let them not return to their foolish ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 85:9 - Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him,
so our land will be filled with his glory.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:23 - I will beat down his adversaries before him
and destroy those who hate him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:41 - Everyone who comes along has robbed him,
and he has become a joke to his neighbors.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:16 - I will reward them with a long life
and give them my salvation.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:12 - Joyful are those you discipline, LORD,
those you teach with your instructions.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:21 - Joseph was put in charge of all the king's household;
he became ruler over all the king's possessions.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:24 - And the LORD multiplied the people of Israel
until they became too mighty for their enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:29 - They angered the LORD with all these things,
so a plague broke out among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:32 - At Meribah, too, they angered the LORD,
causing Moses serious trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:43 - Again and again he rescued them,
but they chose to rebel against him,
and they were finally destroyed by their sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:44 - Even so, he pitied them in their distress
and listened to their cries.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:32 - Let them exalt him publicly before the congregation
and before the leaders of the nation.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:6 - They say,[fn] “Get an evil person to turn against him.
Send an accuser to bring him to trial.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:7 - When his case comes up for judgment,
let him be pronounced guilty.
Count his prayers as sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 113:8 - He sets them among princes,
even the princes of his own people!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:34 - Give me understanding and I will obey your instructions;
I will put them into practice with all my heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:12 - Let's swallow them alive, like the grave[fn];
let's swallow them whole, like those who go down to the pit of death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:8 - He guards the paths of the just
and protects those who are faithful to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:21 - So she seduced him with her pretty speech
and enticed him with her flattery.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:26 - People curse those who hoard their grain,
but they bless the one who sells in time of need.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:31 - Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker,
but helping the poor honors him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:8 - Better to have little, with godliness,
than to be rich and dishonest.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:6 - Fools' words get them into constant quarrels;
they are asking for a beating.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:16 - Giving a gift can open doors;
it gives access to important people!
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:2 - The king's fury is like a lion's roar;
to rouse his anger is to risk your life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:8 - You will throw up what little you've eaten,
and your compliments will be wasted.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:13 - Don't fail to discipline your children.
They won't die if you spank them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:14 - Physical discipline
may well save them from death.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:29 - And don't say, “Now I can pay them back for what they've done to me!
I'll get even with them!”
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:12 - If a ruler pays attention to liars,
all his advisers will be wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:17 - The eye that mocks a father
and despises a mother's instructions
will be plucked out by ravens of the valley
and eaten by vultures.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:18 - I came to hate all my hard work here on earth, for I must leave to others everything I have earned.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:22 - So I saw that there is nothing better for people than to be happy in their work. That is why we are here! No one will bring us back from death to enjoy life after we die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:12 - People who work hard sleep well, whether they eat little or much. But the rich seldom get a good night's sleep.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:19 - And it is a good thing to receive wealth from God and the good health to enjoy it. To enjoy your work and accept your lot in life—this is indeed a gift from God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:20 - God keeps such people so busy enjoying life that they take no time to brood over the past.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:3 - A man might have a hundred children and live to be very old. But if he finds no satisfaction in life and doesn't even get a decent burial, it would have been better for him to be born dead.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:8 - When you dig a well,
you might fall in.
When you demolish an old wall,
you could be bitten by a snake.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:1 - Young Woman
One night as I lay in bed, I yearned for my lover.
I yearned for him, but he did not come.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:2 - So I said to myself, “I will get up and roam the city,
searching in all its streets and squares.
I will search for the one I love.”
So I searched everywhere but did not find him.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:4 - Then scarcely had I left them
when I found my love!
I caught and held him tightly,
then I brought him to my mother's house,
into my mother's bed, where I had been conceived.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:11 - Young Woman
Come out to see King Solomon,
young women of Jerusalem.[fn]
He wears the crown his mother gave him on his wedding day,
his most joyous day.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:6 - I opened to my lover,
but he was gone!
My heart sank.
I searched for him
but could not find him anywhere.
I called to him,
but there was no reply.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:1 - Young Women of Jerusalem
Where has your lover gone,
O woman of rare beauty?
Which way did he turn
so we can help you find him?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:6 - I will make it a wild place
where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed,
a place overgrown with briers and thorns.
I will command the clouds
to drop no rain on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:15 - By the time this child is old enough to choose what is right and reject what is wrong, he will be eating yogurt[fn] and honey.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:1 - Then the LORD said to me, “Make a large signboard and clearly write this name on it: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:13 - Make the LORD of Heaven's Armies holy in your life.
He is the one you should fear.
He is the one who should make you tremble.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:17 - The LORD, the Light of Israel, will be a fire;
the Holy One will be a flame.
He will devour the thorns and briers with fire,
burning up the enemy in a single night.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:2 - And the Spirit of the LORD will rest on him—
the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and might,
the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:3 - He will delight in obeying the LORD.
He will not judge by appearance
nor make a decision based on hearsay.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:13 - But though they thunder like breakers on a beach,
God will silence them, and they will run away.
They will flee like chaff scattered by the wind,
like a tumbleweed whirling before a storm.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:6 - Your mighty army will be left dead in the fields
for the mountain vultures and wild animals.
The vultures will tear at the corpses all summer.
The wild animals will gnaw at the bones all winter.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:21 - I will dress him in your royal robes and will give him your title and your authority. And he will be a father to the people of Jerusalem and Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:23 - He will bring honor to his family name, for I will drive him firmly in place like a nail in the wall.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:24 - They will give him great responsibility, and he will bring honor to even the lowliest members of his family.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:32 - And as the LORD strikes them with his rod of punishment,
his people will celebrate with tambourines and harps.
Lifting his mighty arm, he will fight the Assyrians.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:3 - These are the officials who went out to meet with them: Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace administrator; Shebna the court secretary; and Joah son of Asaph, the royal historian.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:11 - Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Assyrian chief of staff, “Please speak to us in Aramaic, for we understand it well. Don't speak in Hebrew,[fn] for the people on the wall will hear.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:7 - Listen! I myself will move against him,[fn] and the king will receive a message that he is needed at home. So he will return to his land, where I will have him killed with a sword.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:38 - One day while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with their swords. They then escaped to the land of Ararat, and another son, Esarhaddon, became the next king of Assyria.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:1 - About that time Hezekiah became deathly ill, and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to visit him. He gave the king this message: “This is what the LORD says: ‘Set your affairs in order, for you are going to die. You will not recover from this illness.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:1 - “Look at my servant, whom I strengthen.
He is my chosen one, who pleases me.
I have put my Spirit upon him.
He will bring justice to the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:7 - Bring all who claim me as their God,
for I have made them for my glory.
It was I who created them.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:6 - This is what the LORD says—Israel's King and Redeemer, the LORD of Heaven's Armies:
“I am the First and the Last;
there is no other God.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:13 - I will raise up Cyrus to fulfill my righteous purpose,
and I will guide his actions.
He will restore my city and free my captive people—
without seeking a reward!
I, the LORD of Heaven's Armies, have spoken!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:24 - The people will declare,
“The LORD is the source of all my righteousness and strength.”
And all who were angry with him
will come to him and be ashamed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:11 - I will call a swift bird of prey from the east—
a leader from a distant land to come and do my bidding.
I have said what I would do,
and I will do it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:15 - “I have said it: I am calling Cyrus!
I will send him on this errand and will help him succeed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:7 - The LORD, the Redeemer
and Holy One of Israel,
says to the one who is despised and rejected by the nations,
to the one who is the servant of rulers:
“Kings will stand at attention when you pass by.
Princes will also bow low
because of the LORD, the faithful one,
the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:2 - Yes, think about Abraham, your ancestor,
and Sarah, who gave birth to your nation.
Abraham was only one man when I called him.
But when I blessed him, he became a great nation.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:4 - Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
it was our sorrows[fn] that weighed him down.
And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,
a punishment for his own sins!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:6 - All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God's paths to follow our own.
Yet the LORD laid on him
the sins of us all.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:7 - He was oppressed and treated harshly,
yet he never said a word.
He was led like a lamb to the slaughter.
And as a sheep is silent before the shearers,
he did not open his mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:10 - But it was the LORD's good plan to crush him
and cause him grief.
Yet when his life is made an offering for sin,
he will have many descendants.
He will enjoy a long life,
and the LORD's good plan will prosper in his hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:6 - Seek the LORD while you can find him.
Call on him now while he is near.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:8 - For the Sovereign LORD,
who brings back the outcasts of Israel, says:
I will bring others, too,
besides my people Israel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:17 - I was angry,
so I punished these greedy people.
I withdrew from them,
but they kept going on their own stubborn way.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:18 - I have seen what they do,
but I will heal them anyway!
I will lead them.
I will comfort those who mourn,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:12 - They will be called “The Holy People”
and “The People Redeemed by the LORD.”
And Jerusalem will be known as “The Desirable Place”
and “The City No Longer Forsaken.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:8 - “But I will not destroy them all,”
says the LORD.
“For just as good grapes are found among a cluster of bad ones
(and someone will say, ‘Don't throw them all away—
some of those grapes are good!'),
so I will not destroy all Israel.
For I still have true servants there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:2 - The LORD first gave messages to Jeremiah during the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:3 - In those days Israel was holy to the LORD,
the first of his children.[fn]
All who harmed his people were declared guilty,
and disaster fell on them.
I, the LORD, have spoken!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:15 - Strong lions have roared against him,
and the land has been destroyed.
The towns are now in ruins,
and no one lives in them anymore.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:1 - “If a man divorces a woman
and she goes and marries someone else,
he will not take her back again,
for that would surely corrupt the land.
But you have prostituted yourself with many lovers,
so why are you trying to come back to me?”
says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:25 - Pour out your wrath on the nations that refuse to acknowledge you—
on the peoples that do not call upon your name.
For they have devoured your people Israel[fn];
they have devoured and consumed them,
making the land a desolate wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:19 - I was like a lamb being led to the slaughter. I had no idea that they were planning to kill me! “Let's destroy this man and all his words,” they said. “Let's cut him down, so his name will be forgotten forever.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:7 - No one will offer a meal to comfort those who mourn for the dead—not even at the death of a mother or father. No one will send a cup of wine to console them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:18 - Then the people said, “Come on, let's plot a way to stop Jeremiah. We have plenty of priests and wise men and prophets. We don't need him to teach the word and give us advice and prophecies. Let's spread rumors about him and ignore what he says.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:14 - Then Jeremiah returned from Topheth, the garbage dump where he had delivered this message, and he stopped in front of the Temple of the LORD. He said to the people there,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:2 - So he arrested Jeremiah the prophet and had him whipped and put in stocks at the Benjamin Gate of the LORD's Temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:1 - The LORD spoke through Jeremiah when King Zedekiah sent Pashhur son of Malkijah and Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, the priest, to speak with him. They begged Jeremiah,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:3 - This is what the LORD says: Be fair-minded and just. Do what is right! Help those who have been robbed; rescue them from their oppressors. Quit your evil deeds! Do not mistreat foreigners, orphans, and widows. Stop murdering the innocent!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:6 - And this will be his name:
‘The LORD Is Our Righteousness.'[fn]
In that day Judah will be saved,
and Israel will live in safety.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:8 - But when Jeremiah had finished his message, saying everything the LORD had told him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people at the Temple mobbed him. “Kill him!” they shouted.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:19 - But did King Hezekiah and the people kill him for saying this? No, they turned from their sins and worshiped the LORD. They begged him for mercy. Then the LORD changed his mind about the terrible disaster he had pronounced against them. So we are about to do ourselves great harm.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:23 - They took him prisoner and brought him back to King Jehoiakim. The king then killed Uriah with a sword and had him buried in an unmarked grave.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:24 - Nevertheless, Ahikam son of Shaphan stood up for Jeremiah and persuaded the court not to turn him over to the mob to be killed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:11 - But the people of any nation that submits to the king of Babylon will be allowed to stay in their own country to farm the land as usual. I, the LORD, have spoken!'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:26 - “The LORD has appointed you to replace Jehoiada as the priest in charge of the house of the LORD. You are responsible to put into stocks and neck irons any crazy man who claims to be a prophet.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:10 - “Listen to this message from the LORD,
you nations of the world;
proclaim it in distant coastlands:
The LORD, who scattered his people,
will gather them and watch over them
as a shepherd does his flock.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:11 - For the LORD has redeemed Israel
from those too strong for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:3 - King Zedekiah had put him there, asking why he kept giving this prophecy: “This is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to hand this city over to the king of Babylon, and he will take it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:14 - I told them that every Hebrew slave must be freed after serving six years. But your ancestors paid no attention to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:31 - I will punish him and his family and his attendants for their sins. I will pour out on them and on all the people of Jerusalem and Judah all the disasters I promised, for they would not listen to my warnings.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:4 - Jeremiah had not yet been imprisoned, so he could come and go among the people as he pleased.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:14 - “That's not true!” Jeremiah protested. “I had no intention of doing any such thing.” But Irijah wouldn't listen, and he took Jeremiah before the officials.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:15 - They were furious with Jeremiah and had him flogged and imprisoned in the house of Jonathan the secretary. Jonathan's house had been converted into a prison.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:17 - Later King Zedekiah secretly requested that Jeremiah come to the palace, where the king asked him, “Do you have any messages from the LORD?”
“Yes, I do!” said Jeremiah. “You will be defeated by the king of Babylon.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:21 - So King Zedekiah commanded that Jeremiah not be returned to the dungeon. Instead, he was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard in the royal palace. The king also commanded that Jeremiah be given a loaf of fresh bread every day as long as there was any left in the city. So Jeremiah was put in the palace prison.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:6 - So the officials took Jeremiah from his cell and lowered him by ropes into an empty cistern in the prison yard. It belonged to Malkijah, a member of the royal family. There was no water in the cistern, but there was a thick layer of mud at the bottom, and Jeremiah sank down into it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:8 - so Ebed-melech rushed from the palace to speak with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:10 - So the king told Ebed-melech, “Take thirty of my men with you, and pull Jeremiah out of the cistern before he dies.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:13 - they pulled him out. So Jeremiah was returned to the courtyard of the guard—the palace prison—where he remained.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:14 - One day King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah and had him brought to the third entrance of the LORD's Temple. “I want to ask you something,” the king said. “And don't try to hide the truth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:14 - sent messengers to bring Jeremiah out of the prison. They put him under the care of Gedaliah son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, who took him back to his home. So Jeremiah stayed in Judah among his own people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:1 - The LORD gave a message to Jeremiah after Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, had released him at Ramah. He had found Jeremiah bound in chains among all the other captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being sent to exile in Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:2 - The captain of the guard called for Jeremiah and said, “The LORD your God has brought this disaster on this land,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:12 - they took all their men and set out to stop him. They caught up with him at the large pool near Gibeon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:1 - When Jeremiah had finished giving this message from the LORD their God to all the people,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:12 - But the time is coming soon,” says the LORD,
“when I will send men to pour him from his jar.
They will pour him out,
then shatter the jar!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:8 - Turn and flee!
Hide in deep caves, you people of Dedan!
For when I bring disaster on Edom,[fn]
I will punish you, too!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:17 - “The Israelites are like sheep
that have been scattered by lions.
First the king of Assyria ate them up.
Then King Nebuchadnezzar[fn] of Babylon cracked their bones.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:62 - Then say, ‘LORD, you have said that you will destroy Babylon so that neither people nor animals will remain here. She will lie empty and abandoned forever.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:8 - But the Babylonian troops chased King Zedekiah and caught him on the plains of Jericho, for his men had all deserted him and scattered.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:9 - They took him to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath. There the king of Babylon pronounced judgment upon Zedekiah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:11 - Then they gouged out Zedekiah's eyes, bound him in bronze chains, and led him away to Babylon. Zedekiah remained there in prison until the day of his death.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:31 - In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, Evil-merodach ascended to the Babylonian throne. He was kind to[fn] Jehoiachin and released him from prison on March 31 of that year.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:19 - Rise during the night and cry out.
Pour out your hearts like water to the Lord.
Lift up your hands to him in prayer,
pleading for your children,
for in every street
they are faint with hunger.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:25 - The LORD is good to those who depend on him,
to those who search for him.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:30 - Let them turn the other cheek to those who strike them
and accept the insults of their enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:36 - if they twist justice in the courts—
doesn't the Lord see all these things?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:6 - The LORD said to the man in linen clothing, “Go between the cherubim and take some burning coals from between the wheels.” So the man went in and stood beside one of the wheels.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:12 - “Even Zedekiah will leave Jerusalem at night through a hole in the wall, taking only what he can carry with him. He will cover his face, and his eyes will not see the land he is leaving.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:13 - Then I will throw my net over him and capture him in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Babylonians,[fn] though he will never see it, and he will die there.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:14 - I will break down your wall right to its foundation, and when it falls, it will crush you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:15 - At last my anger against the wall and those who covered it with whitewash will be satisfied. Then I will say to you: ‘The wall and those who whitewashed it are both gone.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:22 - You have discouraged the righteous with your lies, but I didn't want them to be sad. And you have encouraged the wicked by promising them life, even though they continue in their sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:7 - I, the LORD, will answer all those, both Israelites and foreigners, who reject me and set up idols in their hearts and so fall into sin, and who then come to a prophet asking for my advice.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:8 - I will turn against such people and make a terrible example of them, eliminating them from among my people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:9 - “‘And if a prophet is deceived into giving a message, it is because I, the LORD, have deceived that prophet. I will lift my fist against such prophets and cut them off from the community of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:3 - Can its wood be used for making things, like pegs to hang up pots and pans?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:13 - He made a treaty with a member of the royal family and forced him to take an oath of loyalty. He also exiled Israel's most influential leaders,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:17 - Pharaoh and all his mighty army will fail to help Israel when the king of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem again and destroys many lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:20 - I will throw my net over him and capture him in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon and put him on trial for this treason against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:22 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will take a branch from the top of a tall cedar, and I will plant it on the top of Israel's highest mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:13 - and lends money at excessive interest. Should such a sinful person live? No! He must die and must take full blame.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:20 - The person who sins is the one who will die. The child will not be punished for the parent's sins, and the parent will not be punished for the child's sins. Righteous people will be rewarded for their own righteous behavior, and wicked people will be punished for their own wickedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:23 - “Do you think that I like to see wicked people die? says the Sovereign LORD. Of course not! I want them to turn from their wicked ways and live.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:4 - Then the nations heard about him,
and he was trapped in their pit.
They led him away with hooks
to the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:8 - Then the armies of the nations attacked him,
surrounding him from every direction.
They threw a net over him
and captured him in their pit.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:9 - With hooks, they dragged him into a cage
and brought him before the king of Babylon.
They held him in captivity,
so his voice could never again be heard
on the mountains of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:3 - Then give these rebels an illustration with this message from the Sovereign LORD:
“Put a pot on the fire,
and pour in some water.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:4 - Fill it with choice pieces of meat—
the rump and the shoulder
and all the most tender cuts.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:2 - “Son of man, turn and face Egypt and prophesy against Pharaoh the king and all the people of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:21 - “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. His arm has not been put in a cast so that it may heal. Neither has it been bound up with a splint to make it strong enough to hold a sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:9 - Because I made this tree so beautiful,
and gave it such magnificent foliage,
it was the envy of all the other trees of Eden,
the garden of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:11 - I will hand it over to a mighty nation that will destroy it as its wickedness deserves. I have already discarded it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:12 - A foreign army—the terror of the nations—has cut it down and left it fallen on the ground. Its branches are scattered across the mountains and valleys and ravines of the land. All those who lived in its shadow have gone away and left it lying there.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:15 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When Assyria went down to the grave,[fn] I made the deep springs mourn. I stopped its rivers and dried up its abundant water. I clothed Lebanon in black and caused the trees of the field to wilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:16 - I made the nations shake with fear at the sound of its fall, for I sent it down to the grave with all the others who descend to the pit. And all the other proud trees of Eden, the most beautiful and the best of Lebanon, the ones whose roots went deep into the water, took comfort to find it there with them in the depths of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:2 - “Son of man, give your people this message: ‘When I bring an army against a country, the people of that land choose one of their own to be a watchman.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:12 - “Son of man, give your people this message: The righteous behavior of righteous people will not save them if they turn to sin, nor will the wicked behavior of wicked people destroy them if they repent and turn from their sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:22 - The previous evening the LORD had taken hold of me and given me back my voice. So I was able to speak when this man arrived the next morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:29 - I will cleanse you of your filthy behavior. I will give you good crops of grain, and I will send no more famines on the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:19 - say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will take Ephraim and the northern tribes and join them to Judah. I will make them one piece of wood in my hand.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:2 - “Son of man, turn and face Gog of the land of Magog, the prince who rules over the nations of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:21 - I will summon the sword against you on all the hills of Israel, says the Sovereign LORD. Your men will turn their swords against each other.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:22 - I will punish you and your armies with disease and bloodshed; I will send torrential rain, hailstones, fire, and burning sulfur!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:20 - So the area was 875 feet on each side with a wall all around it to separate what was holy from what was common.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:26 - Even then, he can return to his Temple duties only after being ceremonially cleansed and then waiting for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:11 - The king's demand is impossible. No one except the gods can tell you your dream, and they do not live here among people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:48 - Then the king appointed Daniel to a high position and gave him many valuable gifts. He made Daniel ruler over the whole province of Babylon, as well as chief over all his wise men.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:23 - For you have proudly defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone—gods that neither see nor hear nor know anything at all. But you have not honored the God who gives you the breath of life and controls your destiny!
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:29 - Then at Belshazzar's command, Daniel was dressed in purple robes, a gold chain was hung around his neck, and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:3 - Daniel soon proved himself more capable than all the other administrators and high officers. Because of Daniel's great ability, the king made plans to place him over the entire empire.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:14 - Hearing this, the king was deeply troubled, and he tried to think of a way to save Daniel. He spent the rest of the day looking for a way to get Daniel out of this predicament.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:16 - So at last the king gave orders for Daniel to be arrested and thrown into the den of lions. The king said to him, “May your God, whom you serve so faithfully, rescue you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:20 - When he got there, he called out in anguish, “Daniel, servant of the living God! Was your God, whom you serve so faithfully, able to rescue you from the lions?”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:6 - headed toward the two-horned ram that I had seen standing beside the river, rushing at him in a rage.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:7 - The goat charged furiously at the ram and struck him, breaking off both his horns. Now the ram was helpless, and the goat knocked him down and trampled him. No one could rescue the ram from the goat's power.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:8 - The goat became very powerful. But at the height of his power, his large horn was broken off. In the large horn's place grew four prominent horns pointing in the four directions of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:11 - It even challenged the Commander of heaven's army by canceling the daily sacrifices offered to him and by destroying his Temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:17 - As Gabriel approached the place where I was standing, I became so terrified that I fell with my face to the ground. “Son of man,” he said, “you must understand that the events you have seen in your vision relate to the time of the end.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:18 - While he was speaking, I fainted and lay there with my face to the ground. But Gabriel roused me with a touch and helped me to my feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:11 - And the man said to me, “Daniel, you are very precious to God, so listen carefully to what I have to say to you. Stand up, for I have been sent to you.” When he said this to me, I stood up, still trembling.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:13 - But for twenty-one days the spirit prince[fn] of the kingdom of Persia blocked my way. Then Michael, one of the archangels,[fn] came to help me, and I left him there with the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:15 - While he was speaking to me, I looked down at the ground, unable to say a word.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:19 - “Don't be afraid,” he said, “for you are very precious to God. Peace! Be encouraged! Be strong!”
As he spoke these words to me, I suddenly felt stronger and said to him, “Please speak to me, my lord, for you have strengthened me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:2 - “Now then, I will reveal the truth to you. Three more Persian kings will reign, to be succeeded by a fourth, far richer than the others. He will use his wealth to stir up everyone to fight against the kingdom of Greece.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:5 - “The king of the south will increase in power, but one of his own officials will become more powerful than he and will rule his kingdom with great strength.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:16 - “The king of the north will march onward unopposed; none will be able to stop him. He will pause in the glorious land of Israel,[fn] intent on destroying it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:21 - “The next to come to power will be a despicable man who is not in line for royal succession. He will slip in when least expected and take over the kingdom by flattery and intrigue.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:23 - With deceitful promises, he will make various alliances. He will become strong despite having only a handful of followers.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:25 - “Then he will stir up his courage and raise a great army against the king of the south. The king of the south will go to battle with a mighty army, but to no avail, for there will be plots against him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:40 - “Then at the time of the end, the king of the south will attack the king of the north. The king of the north will storm out with chariots, charioteers, and a vast navy. He will invade various lands and sweep through them like a flood.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:44 - “But then news from the east and the north will alarm him, and he will set out in great anger to destroy and obliterate many.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:9 - ‘And what the priests do, the people also do.'
So now I will punish both priests and people
for their wicked deeds.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:1 - “I want to heal Israel,[fn] but its sins are too great.
Samaria is filled with liars.
Thieves are on the inside
and bandits on the outside!
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:10 - Their arrogance testifies against them,
yet they don't return to the LORD their God
or even try to find him.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:14 - Israel has forgotten its Maker and built great palaces,
and Judah has fortified its cities.
Therefore, I will send down fire on their cities
and will burn up their fortresses.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:6 - This idol will be carted away to Assyria,
a gift to the great king there.
Ephraim will be ridiculed and Israel will be shamed,
because its people have trusted in this idol.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:1 - “When Israel was a child, I loved him,
and I called my son out of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:3 - I myself taught Israel[fn] how to walk,
leading him along by the hand.
But he doesn't know or even care
that it was I who took care of him.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:14 - But the people of Israel
have bitterly provoked the LORD,
so their Lord will now sentence them to death
in payment for their sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:2 - It is a day of darkness and gloom,
a day of thick clouds and deep blackness.
Suddenly, like dawn spreading across the mountains,
a great and mighty army appears.
Nothing like it has been seen before
or will ever be seen again.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:20 - I will drive away these armies from the north.
I will send them into the parched wastelands.
Those in the front will be driven into the Dead Sea,
and those at the rear into the Mediterranean.[fn]
The stench of their rotting bodies will rise over the land.”
Surely the LORD has done great things!
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:19 - In that day you will be like a man who runs from a lion—
only to meet a bear.
Escaping from the bear, he leans his hand against a wall in his house—
and he's bitten by a snake.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:10 - I will turn your celebrations into times of mourning
and your singing into weeping.
You will wear funeral clothes
and shave your heads to show your sorrow—
as if your only son had died.
How very bitter that day will be!
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:6 - So the captain went down after him. “How can you sleep at a time like this?” he shouted. “Get up and pray to your god! Maybe he will pay attention to us and spare our lives.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:15 - Then the sailors picked Jonah up and threw him into the raging sea, and the storm stopped at once!
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:4 - In that day your enemies will make fun of you
by singing this song of despair about you:
“We are finished,
completely ruined!
God has confiscated our land,
taking it from us.
He has given our fields
to those who betrayed us.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:5 - This is what the LORD says:
“You false prophets are leading my people astray!
You promise peace for those who give you food,
but you declare war on those who refuse to feed you.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:5 - And he will be the source of peace.
When the Assyrians invade our land
and break through our defenses,
we will appoint seven rulers to watch over us,
eight princes to lead us.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:6 - What can we bring to the LORD?
What kind of offerings should we give him?
Should we bow before God
with offerings of yearling calves?
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:9 - I will be patient as the LORD punishes me,
for I have sinned against him.
But after that, he will take up my case
and give me justice for all I have suffered from my enemies.
The LORD will bring me into the light,
and I will see his righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:7 - The LORD is good,
a strong refuge when trouble comes.
He is close to those who trust in him.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:15 - Must we be strung up on their hooks
and caught in their nets while they rejoice and celebrate?
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:5 - Wealth[fn] is treacherous,
and the arrogant are never at rest.
They open their mouths as wide as the grave,[fn]
and like death, they are never satisfied.
In their greed they have gathered up many nations
and swallowed many peoples.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:12 - Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the whole remnant of God's people began to obey the message from the LORD their God. When they heard the words of the prophet Haggai, whom the LORD their God had sent, the people feared the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:3 - ‘Does anyone remember this house—this Temple—in its former splendor? How, in comparison, does it look to you now? It must seem like nothing at all!
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:4 - The other angel said, “Hurry, and say to that young man, ‘Jerusalem will someday be so full of people and livestock that there won't be room enough for everyone! Many will live outside the city walls.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:4 - So the angel said to the others standing there, “Take off his filthy clothes.” And turning to Jeshua he said, “See, I have taken away your sins, and now I am giving you these fine new clothes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:5 - Then I said, “They should also place a clean turban on his head.” So they put a clean priestly turban on his head and dressed him in new clothes while the angel of the LORD stood by.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:4 - And this is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies says: I am sending this curse into the house of every thief and into the house of everyone who swears falsely using my name. And my curse will remain in that house and completely destroy it—even its timbers and stones.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:10 - “Then I will pour out a spirit[fn] of grace and prayer on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem. They will look on me whom they have pierced and mourn for him as for an only son. They will grieve bitterly for him as for a firstborn son who has died.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:3 - If anyone continues to prophesy, his own father and mother will tell him, ‘You must die, for you have prophesied lies in the name of the LORD.' And as he prophesies, his own father and mother will stab him.
P-ASM
Occurrences: 26 times in 21 verses
Speech: Personal / Possessive Pronoun
Parsing: Accusative Singular Masculine
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:8 - Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan from Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:12 - Then King Jehoiachin, along with the queen mother, his advisers, his commanders, and his officials, surrendered to the Babylonians.
In the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, he took Jehoiachin prisoner.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:18 - Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:5 - But the Babylonian[fn] troops chased the king and caught him on the plains of Jericho, for his men had all deserted him and scattered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:6 - They took him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment upon Zedekiah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:7 - They made Zedekiah watch as they slaughtered his sons. Then they gouged out Zedekiah's eyes, bound him in bronze chains, and led him away to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:27 - In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, Evil-merodach ascended to the Babylonian throne. He was kind to[fn] Jehoiachin and released him from prison on April 2 of that year.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:18 - I will clothe his enemies with shame,
but he will be a glorious king.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 142:1 - A psalm[fn] of David, regarding his experience in the cave. A prayer.

I cry out to the LORD;
I plead for the LORD's mercy.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:1 - A psalm of David.

Hear my prayer, O LORD;
listen to my plea!
Answer me because you are faithful and righteous.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 145:18 - The LORD is close to all who call on him,
yes, to all who call on him in truth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 145:19 - He grants the desires of those who fear him;
he hears their cries for help and rescues them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 145:20 - The LORD protects all those who love him,
but he destroys the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:11 - No, the LORD's delight is in those who fear him,
those who put their hope in his unfailing love.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:1 - Praise the LORD!
Praise the LORD from the heavens!
Praise him from the skies!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 150:1 - Praise the LORD!
Praise God in his sanctuary;
praise him in his mighty heaven!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 150:2 - Praise him for his mighty works;
praise his unequaled greatness!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 150:3 - Praise him with a blast of the ram's horn;
praise him with the lyre and harp!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 150:4 - Praise him with the tambourine and dancing;
praise him with strings and flutes!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 150:5 - Praise him with a clash of cymbals;
praise him with loud clanging cymbals.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:7 - Fear of the LORD is the foundation of true knowledge,
but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
T-ASM
Occurrences: 1 time in 1 verse
Speech: Definite article
Parsing: Accusative Singular Masculine
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:2 - The LORD protects them
and keeps them alive.
He gives them prosperity in the land
and rescues them from their enemies.
D-ASN
Occurrences: 1 time in 1 verse
Speech: Demonstrative Pronoun
Parsing: Accusative Neuter Singular
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:15 - The LORD will make a dry path through the gulf of the Red Sea.[fn]
He will wave his hand over the Euphrates River,[fn]
sending a mighty wind to divide it into seven streams
so it can easily be crossed on foot.
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