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αὐτόν — 680x G846 αὐτός
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Occurrences: 669 times in 624 verses
Speech: Demonstrative Pronoun
Parsing: Accusative Masculine Singular
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:27 - So God created human beings[fn] in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:18 - Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:8 - One day Cain suggested to his brother, “Let's go out into the fields.”[fn] And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother, Abel, and killed him.
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 5:1 - This is the written account of the descendants of Adam. When God created human beings,[fn] he made them to be like himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:7 - Then the LORD told him, “I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as your possession.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:12 - This son of yours will be a wild man, as untamed as a wild donkey! He will raise his fist against everyone, and everyone will be against him. Yes, he will live in open hostility against all his relatives.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:16 - And I will bless her and give you a son from her! Yes, I will bless her richly, and she will become the mother of many nations. Kings of nations will be among her descendants.”
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 18:9 - “Where is Sarah, your wife?” the visitors asked.
“She's inside the tent,” Abraham replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:19 - I have singled him out so that he will direct his sons and their families to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just. Then I will do for Abraham all that I have promised.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:5 - They shouted to Lot, “Where are the men who came to spend the night with you? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:13 - But I will also make a nation of the descendants of Hagar's son because he is your son, too.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:18 - Go to him and comfort him, for I will make a great nation from his descendants.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:1 - Some time later, God tested Abraham's faith. “Abraham!” God called.
“Yes,” he replied. “Here I am.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:18 - “Yes, my lord,” she answered, “have a drink.” And she quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and gave him a drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:36 - “When Sarah, my master's wife, was very old, she gave birth to my master's son, and my master has given him everything he owns.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:20 - But then the shepherds from Gerar came and claimed the spring. “This is our water,” they said, and they argued over it with Isaac's herdsmen. So Isaac named the well Esek (which means “argument”).
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:10 - Then take the food to your father so he can eat it and bless you before he dies.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:23 - But he did not recognize Jacob, because Jacob's hands felt hairy just like Esau's. So Isaac prepared to bless Jacob.
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 27:33 - Isaac began to tremble uncontrollably and said, “Then who just served me wild game? I have already eaten it, and I blessed him just before you came. And yes, that blessing must stand!”
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 32:11 - O LORD, please rescue me from the hand of my brother, Esau. I am afraid that he is coming to attack me, along with my wives and children.
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 33:11 - Please take this gift I have brought you, for God has been very gracious to me. I have more than enough.” And because Jacob insisted, Esau finally accepted the gift.
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 37:27 - 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 42:8 - Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they didn't recognize him.
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 45:15 - Then Joseph kissed each of his brothers and wept over them, and after that they began talking freely with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:27 - But when they repeated to Jacob everything Joseph had told them, and when he saw the wagons Joseph had sent to carry him, their father's spirits revived.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:5 - So Jacob left Beersheba, and his sons took him to Egypt. They carried him and their little ones and their wives in the wagons Pharaoh had provided for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:10 - Jacob was half blind because of his age and could hardly see. So Joseph brought the boys close to him, and Jacob kissed and embraced them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:9 - Judah, my son, is a young lion
that has finished eating its prey.
Like a lion he crouches and lies down;
like a lioness—who dares to rouse him?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:19 - “Gad will be attacked by marauding bands,
but he will attack them when they retreat.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:1 - Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:17 - to say to you: ‘Please forgive your brothers for the great wrong they did to you—for their sin in treating you so cruelly.' So we, the servants of the God of your father, beg you to forgive our sin.” When Joseph received the message, he broke down and wept.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:20 - “Then where is he?” their father asked. “Why did you leave him there? Invite him to come and eat with us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:18 - “The elders of Israel will accept your message. Then you and the elders must go to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the LORD, our God.'
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:2 - And God said to Moses, “I am Yahweh—‘the LORD.'[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:16 - Then announce to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you, “Let my people go, so they can worship me in the wilderness.” Until now, you have refused to listen to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:1 - [fn]Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go back to Pharaoh and announce to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so they can worship me.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:20 - Then the LORD told Moses, “Get up early in the morning and stand in Pharaoh's way as he goes down to the river. Say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so they can worship me.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:13 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh. Tell him, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so they can worship me.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:7 - Pharaoh's officials now came to Pharaoh and appealed to him. “How long will you let this man hold us hostage? Let the men go to worship the LORD their God! Don't you realize that Egypt lies in ruins?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:44 - But any slave who has been purchased may eat it if he has been circumcised.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:2 - The LORD is my strength and my song;
he has given me victory.
This is my God, and I will praise him—
my father's God, and I will exalt him!
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:12 - Moses' arms soon became so tired he could no longer hold them up. So Aaron and Hur found a stone for him to sit on. Then they stood on each side of Moses, holding up his hands. So his hands held steady until sunset.
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 18:17 - “This is not good!” Moses' father-in-law exclaimed.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:29 - But suppose the ox had a reputation for goring, and the owner had been informed but failed to keep it under control. If the ox then kills someone, it must be stoned, and the owner must also be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:33 - “Suppose someone digs or uncovers a pit and fails to cover it, and then an ox or a donkey falls into it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:36 - But if the ox had a reputation for goring, yet its owner failed to keep it under control, he must pay full compensation—a live ox for the dead one—but he may keep the dead ox.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:21 - “You must not mistreat or oppress foreigners in any way. Remember, you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:43 - These must be worn whenever Aaron and his sons enter the Tabernacle[fn] or approach the altar in the Holy Place to perform their priestly duties. Then they will not incur guilt and die. This is a permanent law for Aaron and all his descendants after him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:7 - Then anoint him by pouring the anointing oil over his head.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:29 - “Aaron's sacred garments must be preserved for his descendants who succeed him, and they will wear them when they are anointed and ordained.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:21 - They must always wash their hands and feet, or they will die. This is a permanent law for Aaron and his descendants, to be observed from generation to generation.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:15 - Then Moses said, “If you don't personally go with us, don't make us leave this place.
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 5:3 - “Or suppose you unknowingly touch something that makes a person unclean. When you realize what you have done, you must admit your guilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:20 - “On the day Aaron and his sons are anointed, they must present to the LORD a grain offering of two quarts[fn] of choice flour, half to be offered in the morning and half to be offered in the evening.
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 9:9 - His sons brought him the blood, and he dipped his finger in it and put it on the horns of the altar. He poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:12 - Next Aaron slaughtered the animal for the burnt offering. His sons brought him the blood, and he splattered it against all sides of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:18 - Then Aaron slaughtered the bull and the ram for the people's peace offering. His sons brought him the blood, and he splattered it against all sides of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:3 - The priest will examine the affected area of the skin. If the hair in the affected area has turned white and the problem appears to be more than skin-deep, it is a serious skin disease, and the priest who examines it must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean.
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 13:11 - 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 13:34 - 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 13:35 - But if the scabby sore begins to spread after the person is pronounced clean,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:33 - “Do not take advantage of foreigners who live among you in your land.
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 21:8 - You must treat them as holy because they offer up food to your God. You must consider them holy because I, the LORD, am holy, and I make you holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:15 - so that he will not dishonor his descendants among his clan, for I am the LORD who makes him holy.”
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 25:48 - they still retain the right to be bought back, even after they have been purchased. They may be bought back by a brother,
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 27:19 - If the person who dedicated the field wants to buy it back, he must pay the value set by the priest, plus 20 percent. Then the field will again be legally his.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:20 - But if he does not want to buy it back, and it is sold to someone else, the field can no longer be bought back.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24 - In the Year of Jubilee the field must be returned to the person from whom he purchased it, the one who inherited it as family property.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:8 - But if the person who was wronged is dead, and there are no near relatives to whom restitution can be made, the payment belongs to the LORD and must be given to the priest. Those who are guilty must also bring a ram as a sacrifice, and they will be purified and made right with the LORD.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:88 - Twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty male goats, and sixty one-year-old male lambs were donated for the peace offerings. This was the dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed.
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 8:2 - “Give Aaron the following instructions: When you set up the seven lamps in the lampstand, place them so their light shines forward in front of the lampstand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:7 - and said, “We have become ceremonially unclean by touching a dead body. But why should we be prevented from presenting the LORD's offering at the proper time with the rest of the Israelites?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:30 - But Hobab replied, “No, I will not go. I must return to my own land and family.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:25 - And the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to Moses. Then he gave the seventy elders the same Spirit that was upon Moses. And when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But this never happened again.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:20 - Present a cake from the first of the flour you grind, and set it aside as a sacred offering, as you do with the first grain from the threshing floor.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:34 - They held him in custody because they did not know what to do with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:5 - Buds will sprout on the staff belonging to the man I choose. Then I will finally put an end to the people's murmuring and complaining against you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13 - All those who touch a dead body and do not purify themselves in the proper way defile the LORD's Tabernacle, and they will be cut off from the community of Israel. Since the water of purification was not sprinkled on them, their defilement continues.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:20 - “But those who become defiled and do not purify themselves will be cut off from the community, for they have defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. Since the water of purification has not been sprinkled on them, they remain defiled.
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 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 22:22 - But God was angry that Balaam was going, so he sent the angel of the LORD to stand in the road to block his way. As Balaam and two servants were riding along,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:6 - So Balaam returned and found the king standing beside his burnt offerings with all the officials of Moab.
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 23:17 - So Balaam returned and found the king standing beside his burnt offerings with all the officials of Moab. “What did the LORD say?” Balak asked eagerly.
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 24:9 - Like a lion, Israel crouches and lies down;
like a lioness, who dares to arouse her?
Blessed is everyone who blesses you, O Israel,
and cursed is everyone who curses you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:20 - Transfer some of your authority to him so the whole community of Israel will obey him.
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 35:16 - “But if someone strikes and kills another person with a piece of iron, it is murder, and the murderer must be executed.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:17 - Or if someone with a stone in his hand strikes and kills another person, it is murder, and the murderer must be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:18 - Or if someone strikes and kills another person with a wooden object, it is murder, and the murderer must be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:19 - The victim's nearest relative is responsible for putting the murderer to death. When they meet, the avenger must put the murderer to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:23 - or accidentally drops a huge stone on someone, though they were not enemies, and the person dies.
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 3:28 - 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 4:25 - “In the future, when you have children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time, do not corrupt yourselves by making idols of any kind. This is evil in the sight of the LORD your God and will arouse his anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:6 - “So obey the commands of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and fearing him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:18 - “Then, as before, I threw myself down before the LORD for forty days and nights. I ate no bread and drank no water because of the great sin you had committed by doing what the LORD hated, provoking him to anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:20 - The LORD was so angry with Aaron that he wanted to destroy him, too. But I prayed for Aaron, and the LORD spared him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:8 - But do not give in or listen. Have no pity, and do not spare or protect them.
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 14:25 - If so, you may sell the tithe portion of your crops and herds, put the money in a pouch, and go to the place the LORD your God has chosen.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:7 - Roast the lamb and eat it in the place the LORD your God chooses. Then you may go back to your tents the next morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:7 - The witnesses must throw the first stones, and then all the people may join in. In this way, you will purge the evil from among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:15 - If this happens, be sure to select as king the man the LORD your God chooses. You must appoint a fellow Israelite; he may not be a foreigner.
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 22:2 - If its owner does not live nearby or you don't know who the owner is, take it to your place and keep it until the owner comes looking for it. Then you must return it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:16 - Let them live among you in any town they choose, and do not oppress them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:3 - But never give more than forty lashes; more than forty lashes would publicly humiliate your neighbor.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:3 - Go to the priest in charge at that time and say to him, ‘With this gift I acknowledge to the LORD your God that I have entered the land he swore to our ancestors he would give us.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:30 - “You will be engaged to a woman, but another man will sleep with her. You will build a house, but someone else will live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will never enjoy its fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:7 - Moses was 120 years old when he died, yet his eyesight was clear, and he was as strong as ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:9 - Now Joshua son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. So the people of Israel obeyed him, doing just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:3 - I promise you what I promised Moses: ‘Wherever you set foot, you will be on land I have given you—
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:7 - Then you can tell them, ‘They remind us that the Jordan River stopped flowing when the Ark of the LORD's Covenant went across.' These stones will stand as a memorial among the people of Israel forever.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:3 - When they returned, they told Joshua, “There's no need for all of us to go up there; it won't take more than two or three thousand men to attack Ai. Since there are so few of them, don't make all our people struggle to go up there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:4 - Select three men from each tribe, and I will send them out to explore the land and map it out. They will then return to me with a written report of their proposed divisions of their new homeland.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:28 - When the Israelites grew stronger, they forced the Canaanites to work as slaves, but they never did drive them completely out of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:32 - Instead, the people of Asher moved in among the Canaanites, who controlled the land, for they failed to drive them out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:20 - Ehud walked over to Eglon, who was sitting alone in a cool upstairs room. And Ehud said, “I have a message from God for you!” As King Eglon rose from his seat,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:6 - One day she sent for Barak son of Abinoam, who lived in Kedesh in the land of Naphtali. She said to him, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, commands you: Call out 10,000 warriors from the tribes of Naphtali and Zebulun at Mount Tabor.
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 4:24 - And from that time on Israel became stronger and stronger against King Jabin until they finally destroyed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:3 - Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, marauders from Midian, Amalek, and the people of the east would attack Israel,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:12 - The angel of the LORD appeared to him and said, “Mighty hero, the LORD is with you!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:31 - But Joash shouted to the mob that confronted him, “Why are you defending Baal? Will you argue his case? Whoever pleads his case will be put to death by morning! If Baal truly is a god, let him defend himself and destroy the one who broke down his altar!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:3 - Therefore, tell the people, ‘Whoever is timid or afraid may leave this mountain[fn] and go home.'” So 22,000 of them went home, leaving only 10,000 who were willing to fight.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:14 - There he captured a young man from Succoth and demanded that he write down the names of all the seventy-seven officials and elders in the town.
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 9:52 - 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 11:28 - But the king of Ammon paid no attention to Jephthah's message.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:36 - And she said, “Father, if you have made a vow to the LORD, you must do to me what you have vowed, for the LORD has given you a great victory over your enemies, the Ammonites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:10 - So she quickly ran and told her husband, “The man who appeared to me the other day is here again!”
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 14:17 - 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 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 16:9 - She had hidden some men in one of the inner rooms of her house, and she cried out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” But Samson snapped the bowstrings as a piece of string snaps when it is burned by a fire. So the secret of his strength was not discovered.
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 16:16 - She tormented him with her nagging day after day until he was sick to death of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26 - Samson said to the young servant who was leading him by the hand, “Place my hands against the pillars that hold up the temple. I want to rest against them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:9 - “Where are you from?” Micah asked him.
He replied, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am looking for a place to live.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:15 - Then the five men turned off the road and went over to Micah's house, where the young Levite lived, and greeted him kindly.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:19 - “Be quiet and come with us,” they said. “Be a father and priest to all of us. Isn't it better to be a priest for an entire tribe and clan of Israel than for the household of just one man?”
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 19:12 - “No,” his master said, “we can't stay in this foreign town where there are no Israelites. Instead, we will go on to Gibeah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:18 - “We have been in Bethlehem in Judah,” the man replied. “We are on our way to a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim, which is my home. I traveled to Bethlehem, and now I'm returning home.[fn] But no one has taken us in for the night,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:22 - While they were enjoying themselves, a crowd of troublemakers from the town surrounded the house. They began beating at the door and shouting to the old man, “Bring out the man who is staying with you so we can have sex with him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:23 - For they had gone up to Bethel and wept in the presence of the LORD until evening. They had asked the LORD, “Should we fight against our relatives from Benjamin again?”
And the LORD had said, “Go out and fight against them.”
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 BoxRth 2:10 - Ruth fell at his feet and thanked him warmly. “What have I done to deserve such kindness?” she asked. “I am only a foreigner.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:4 - Be sure to notice where he lies down; then go and uncover his feet and lie down there. He will tell you what to do.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:15 - May he restore your youth and care for you in your old age. For he is the son of your daughter-in-law who loves you and has been better to you than seven sons!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:20 - and in due time she gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel,[fn] for she said, “I asked the LORD for him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:23 - “Whatever you think is best,” Elkanah agreed. “Stay here for now, and may the LORD help you keep your promise.” So she stayed home and nursed the boy until he was weaned.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:2 - His son Saul was the most handsome man in Israel—head and shoulders taller than anyone else in the land.
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 10:21 - Then he brought each family of the tribe of Benjamin before the LORD, and the family of the Matrites was chosen. And finally Saul son of Kish was chosen from among them. But when they looked for him, he had disappeared!
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:6 - The men of Israel saw what a tight spot they were in; and because they were hard pressed by the enemy, they tried to hide in caves, thickets, rocks, holes, and cisterns.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:10 - Just as Saul was finishing with the burnt offering, Samuel arrived. Saul went out to meet and welcome him,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:48 - He performed great deeds and conquered the Amalekites, saving Israel from all those who had plundered them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:52 - The Israelites fought constantly with the Philistines throughout Saul's lifetime. So whenever Saul observed a young man who was brave and strong, he drafted him into his army.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:7 - But the LORD said to Samuel, “Don't judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The LORD doesn't see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:11 - Then Samuel asked, “Are these all the sons you have?”
“There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied. “But he's out in the fields watching the sheep and goats.”
“Send for him at once,” Samuel said. “We will not sit down to eat until he arrives.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:12 - So Jesse sent for him. He was dark and handsome, with beautiful eyes.
And the LORD said, “This is the one; anoint him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:15 - Some of Saul's servants said to him, “A tormenting spirit from God is troubling you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:9 - If he kills me, then we will be your slaves. But if I kill him, you will be our slaves!
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:32 - “Don't worry about this Philistine,” David told Saul. “I'll go fight him!”
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 17:42 - sneering in contempt at this ruddy-faced boy.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:28 - When Saul realized that the LORD was with David and how much his daughter Michal loved him,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:4 - The next morning Jonathan spoke with his father about David, saying many good things about him. “The king must not sin against his servant David,” Jonathan said. “He's never done anything to harm you. He has always helped you in any way he could.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:14 - When the troops came to arrest David, she told them he was sick and couldn't get out of bed.
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 20:17 - And Jonathan made David reaffirm his vow of friendship again, for Jonathan loved David as he loved himself.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:33 - Then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan, intending to kill him. So at last Jonathan realized that his father was really determined to kill David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:11 - But the officers of Achish were unhappy about his being there. “Isn't this David, the king of the land?” they asked. “Isn't he the one the people honor with dances, singing,
‘Saul has killed his thousands,
and David his ten thousands'?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:17 - And he ordered his bodyguards, “Kill these priests of the LORD, for they are allies and conspirators with David! They knew he was running away from me, but they didn't tell me!” But Saul's men refused to kill the LORD's priests.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:3 - But David's men said, “We're afraid even here in Judah. We certainly don't want to go to Keilah to fight the whole Philistine army!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:4 - So David asked the LORD again, and again the LORD replied, “Go down to Keilah, for I will help you conquer the Philistines.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:17 - “Don't be afraid,” Jonathan reassured him. “My father will never find you! You are going to be the king of Israel, and I will be next to you, as my father, Saul, is well aware.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:25 - When David heard that Saul and his men were searching for him, he went even farther into the wilderness to the great rock, and he remained there in the wilderness of Maon. But Saul kept after him in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:4 - “Now's your opportunity!” David's men whispered to him. “Today the LORD is telling you, ‘I will certainly put your enemy into your power, to do with as you wish.'” So David crept forward and cut off a piece of the hem of Saul's robe.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:5 - But then David's conscience began bothering him because he had cut Saul's robe.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:6 - “The LORD knows I shouldn't have done that to my lord the king,” he said to his men. “The LORD forbid that I should do this to my lord the king and attack the LORD's anointed one, for the LORD himself has chosen him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:17 - You need to know this and figure out what to do, for there is going to be trouble for our master and his whole family. He's so ill-tempered that no one can even talk to him!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:36 - When Abigail arrived home, she found that Nabal was throwing a big party and was celebrating like a king. He was very drunk, so she didn't tell him anything about her meeting with David until dawn the next day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:9 - “No!” David said. “Don't kill him. For who can remain innocent after attacking the LORD's anointed one?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:10 - Surely the LORD will strike Saul down someday, or he will die of old age or in battle.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:4 - Word soon reached Saul that David had fled to Gath, so he stopped hunting for him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:7 - Saul then said to his advisers, “Find a woman who is a medium, so I can go and ask her what to do.”
His advisers replied, “There is a medium at Endor.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:9 - “Are you trying to get me killed?” the woman demanded. “You know that Saul has outlawed all the mediums and all who consult the spirits of the dead. Why are you setting a trap for me?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:21 - When the woman saw how distraught he was, she said, “Sir, I obeyed your command at the risk of my life.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:6 - David was now in great danger because all his men were very bitter about losing their sons and daughters, and they began to talk of stoning him. But David found strength in the LORD his God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:3 - “Where have you come from?” David asked.
“I escaped from the Israelite camp,” the man replied.
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 1:15 - Then David said to one of his men, “Kill him!” So the man thrust his sword into the Amalekite and killed him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:16 - “You have condemned yourself,” David said, “for you yourself confessed that you killed the LORD's anointed one.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:1 - After this, David asked the LORD, “Should I move back to one of the towns of Judah?”
“Yes,” the LORD replied.
Then David asked, “Which town should I go to?”
“To Hebron,” the LORD answered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:8 - Abner was furious. “Am I some Judean dog to be kicked around like this?” he shouted. “After all I have done for your father, Saul, and his family and friends by not handing you over to David, is this my reward—that you find fault with me about this woman?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:11 - Ishbosheth didn't dare say another word because he was afraid of what Abner might do.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:34 - Your hands were not bound;
your feet were not chained.
No, you were murdered—
the victim of a wicked plot.” All the people wept again for Abner.
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 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 9:9 - Then the king summoned Saul's servant Ziba and said, “I have given your master's grandson everything that belonged to Saul and his family.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:4 - Then David sent messengers to get her; and when she came to the palace, he slept with her. She had just completed the purification rites after having her menstrual period. Then she returned home.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:7 - When Uriah arrived, David asked him how Joab and the army were getting along and how the war was progressing.
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 11:25 - “Well, tell Joab not to be discouraged,” David said. “The sword devours this one today and that one tomorrow! Fight harder next time, and conquer the city!”
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 12:18 - 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 12:21 - His advisers were amazed. “We don't understand you,” they told him. “While the child was still living, you wept and refused to eat. But now that the child is dead, you have stopped your mourning and are eating again.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:23 - But why should I fast when he is dead? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him one day, but he cannot return to me.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:24 - Then David comforted Bathsheba, his wife, and slept with her. She became pregnant and gave birth to a son, and David[fn] named him Solomon. The LORD loved the child
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:5 - “Well,” Jonadab said, “I'll tell you what to do. Go back to bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, ask him to let Tamar come and prepare some food for you. Tell him you'll feel better if she prepares it as you watch and feeds you with her own hands.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:6 - So Amnon lay down and pretended to be sick. And when the king came to see him, Amnon asked him, “Please let my sister Tamar come and cook my favorite dish[fn] as I watch. Then I can eat it from her own hands.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:21 - When King David heard what had happened, he was very angry.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:25 - The king replied, “No, my son. If we all came, we would be too much of a burden on you.” Absalom pressed him, but the king would not come, though he gave Absalom his blessing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:28 - Absalom told his men, “Wait until Amnon gets drunk; then at my signal, kill him! Don't be afraid. I'm the one who has given the command. Take courage and do it!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:6 - My two sons had a fight out in the field. And since no one was there to stop it, one of them was killed.
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 14:31 - Then Joab came to Absalom at his house and demanded, “Why did your servants set my field on fire?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:4 - I wish I were the judge. Then everyone could bring their cases to me for judgment, and I would give them justice!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:5 - When people tried to bow before him, Absalom wouldn't let them. Instead, he took them by the hand and kissed them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:12 - While Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel, one of David's counselors who lived in Giloh. Soon many others also joined Absalom, and the conspiracy gained momentum.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:7 - “Get out of here, you murderer, you scoundrel!” he shouted at David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:2 - I will catch up with him while he is weary and discouraged. He and his troops will panic, and everyone will run away. Then I will kill only the king,
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 18:15 - Ten of Joab's young armor bearers then surrounded Absalom and killed him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:33 - [fn]The king was overcome with emotion. He went up to the room over the gateway and burst into tears. And as he went, he cried, “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you! O Absalom, my son, my son.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:39 - So all the people crossed the Jordan with the king. After David had blessed Barzillai and kissed him, Barzillai returned to his own home.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:9 - “How are you, my cousin?” Joab said and took him by the beard with his right hand as though to kiss him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:16 - But a wise woman in the town called out to Joab, “Listen to me, Joab. Come over here so I can talk to you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:21 - That's not my purpose. All I want is a man named Sheba son of Bicri from the hill country of Ephraim, who has revolted against King David. If you hand over this one man to me, I will leave the town in peace.”
“All right,” the woman replied, “we will throw his head over the wall to you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:17 - But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to David's rescue and killed the Philistine. Then David's men declared, “You are not going out to battle with us again! Why risk snuffing out the light of Israel?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:20 - And now, my lord the king, all Israel is waiting for you to announce who will become king after you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:27 - Has my lord the king really done this without letting any of his officials know who should be the next king?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:1 - As the time of King David's death approached, he gave this charge to his son Solomon:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:9 - But that oath does not make him innocent. You are a wise man, and you will know how to arrange a bloody death for him.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:25 - So King Solomon ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada to execute him, and Adonijah was put to death.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:29 - When this was reported to King Solomon, he sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada to execute him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:42 - So the king sent for Shimei and demanded, “Didn't I make you swear by the LORD and warn you not to go anywhere else or you would surely die? And you replied, ‘The sentence is fair; I will do as you say.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:46 - Then, at the king's command, Benaiah son of Jehoiada took Shimei outside and killed him.
So the kingdom was now firmly in Solomon's grip.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:11 - So God replied, “Because you have asked for wisdom in governing my people with justice and have not asked for a long life or wealth or the death of your enemies—
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:19 - “But her baby died during the night when she rolled over on it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:26 - Then the woman who was the real mother of the living child, and who loved him very much, cried out, “Oh no, my lord! Give her the child—please do not kill him!”
But the other woman said, “All right, he will be neither yours nor mine; divide him between us!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:27 - Then the king said, “Do not kill the child, but give him to the woman who wants him to live, for she is his mother!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:3 - The entry room at the front of the Temple was 30 feet[fn] wide, running across the entire width of the Temple. It projected outward 15 feet[fn] from the front of the Temple.
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 6:9 - After completing the Temple structure, Solomon put in a ceiling made of cedar beams and planks.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:15 - Huram cast two bronze pillars, each 27 feet tall and 18 feet in circumference.[fn]
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 8:53 - For when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt, O Sovereign LORD, you told your servant Moses that you had set Israel apart from all the nations of the earth to be your own special possession.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:66 - After the festival was over,[fn] Solomon sent the people home. They blessed the king and went to their homes joyful and glad because the LORD had been good to his servant David and to his people Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:34 - “‘But I will not take the entire kingdom from Solomon at this time. For the sake of my servant David, the one whom I chose and who obeyed my commands and decrees, I will keep Solomon as leader for the rest of his life.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:1 - Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had gathered to make him king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:4 - When King Jeroboam heard the man of God speaking against the altar at Bethel, he pointed at him and shouted, “Seize that man!” But instantly the king's hand became paralyzed in that position, and he couldn't pull it back.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:6 - The king cried out to the man of God, “Please ask the LORD your God to restore my hand again!” So the man of God prayed to the LORD, and the king's hand was restored and he could move it again.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:13 - “Quick, saddle the donkey,” the old man said. So they saddled the donkey for him, and he mounted it.
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 13:19 - So they went back together, and the man of God ate and drank at the prophet's home.
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 13:30 - He laid the body in his own grave, crying out in grief, “Oh, my brother!”
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 16:21 - But now the people of Israel were split into two factions. Half the people tried to make Tibni son of Ginath their king, while the other half supported Omri.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:21 - And he stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, please let this child's life return to him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:30 - Then Elijah called to the people, “Come over here!” They all crowded around him as he repaired the altar of the LORD that had been torn down.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:15 - Then the LORD told him, “Go back the same way you came, and travel to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive there, anoint Hazael to be king of Aram.
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 20:3 - ‘Your silver and gold are mine, and so are your wives and the best of your children!'”
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 20:34 - Ben-hadad told him, “I will give back the towns my father took from your father, and you may establish places of trade in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.”
Then Ahab said, “I will release you under these conditions.” So they made a new treaty, and Ben-hadad was set free.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:35 - Meanwhile, the LORD instructed one of the group of prophets to say to another man, “Hit me!” But the man refused to hit the prophet.
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 20:42 - The prophet said to him, “This is what the LORD says: Because you have spared the man I said must be destroyed,[fn] now you must die in his place, and your people will die instead of his people.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:2 - One day Ahab said to Naboth, “Since your vineyard is so convenient to my palace, I would like to buy it to use as a vegetable garden. I will give you a better vineyard in exchange, or if you prefer, I will pay you for it.”
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 21:10 - 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 21:16 - So Ahab immediately went down to the vineyard of Naboth to claim it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:18 - “Go down to meet King Ahab of Israel, who rules in Samaria. He will be at Naboth's vineyard in Jezreel, claiming it for himself.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:20 - “So, my enemy, you have found me!” Ahab exclaimed to Elijah.
“Yes,” Elijah answered, “I have come because you have sold yourself to what is evil in the LORD's sight.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:8 - The king of Israel replied to Jehoshaphat, “There is one more man who could consult the LORD for us, but I hate him. He never prophesies anything but trouble for me! His name is Micaiah son of Imlah.”
Jehoshaphat replied, “That's not the way a king should talk! Let's hear what he has to say.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:21 - and finally a spirit approached the LORD and said, ‘I can do it!'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:5 - When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, “Why have you returned so soon?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:6 - They replied, “A man came up to us and told us to go back to the king and give him this message. ‘This is what the LORD says: Is there no God in Israel? Why are you sending men to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether you will recover? Therefore, because you have done this, you will never leave the bed you are lying on; you will surely die.'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:8 - They replied, “He was a hairy man,[fn] and he wore a leather belt around his waist.”
“Elijah from Tishbe!” the king exclaimed.
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 2:3 - The group of prophets from Bethel came to Elisha and asked him, “Did you know that the LORD is going to take your master away from you today?”
“Of course I know,” Elisha answered. “But be quiet about it.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:5 - Then the group of prophets from Jericho came to Elisha and asked him, “Did you know that the LORD is going to take your master away from you today?”
“Of course I know,” Elisha answered. “But be quiet about it.”
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 2:18 - Elisha was still at Jericho when they returned. “Didn't I tell you not to go?” he asked.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:20 - Elisha said, “Bring me a new bowl with salt in it.” So they brought it to him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:29 - Then Elisha said to Gehazi, “Get ready to travel[fn]; take my staff and go! Don't talk to anyone along the way. Go quickly and lay the staff on the child's face.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:34 - Then he lay down on the child's body, placing his mouth on the child's mouth, his eyes on the child's eyes, and his hands on the child's hands. And as he stretched out on him, the child's body began to grow warm again!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:36 - Then Elisha summoned Gehazi. “Call the child's mother!” he said. And when she came in, Elisha said, “Here, take your son!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:13 - But his officers tried to reason with him and said, “Sir,[fn] if the prophet had told you to do something very difficult, wouldn't you have done it? So you should certainly obey him when he says simply, ‘Go and wash and be cured!'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:13 - “Go and find out where he is,” the king commanded, “so I can send troops to seize him.”
And the report came back: “Elisha is at Dothan.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:15 - When the servant of the man of God got up early the next morning and went outside, there were troops, horses, and chariots everywhere. “Oh, sir, what will we do now?” the young man cried to Elisha.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:18 - As the Aramean army advanced toward him, Elisha prayed, “O LORD, please make them blind.” So the LORD struck them with blindness as Elisha had asked.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:29 - So we cooked my son and ate him. Then the next day I said to her, ‘Kill your son so we can eat him,' but she has hidden her son.”
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 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 10:9 - In the morning he went out and spoke to the crowd that had gathered around them. “You are not to blame,” he told them. “I am the one who conspired against my master and killed him. But who killed all these?
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 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 11:21 - [fn]Joash[fn] was seven years old when he became king.
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 13:20 - Then Elisha died and was buried.
Groups of Moabite raiders used to invade the land each spring.
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 15:14 - Then Menahem son of Gadi went to Samaria from Tirzah and assassinated him, and he became the next king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:17 - They even sacrificed their own sons and daughters in the fire.[fn] They consulted fortune-tellers and practiced sorcery and sold themselves to evil, arousing the LORD's anger.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:21 - On Egypt? If you lean on Egypt, it will be like a reed that splinters beneath your weight and pierces your hand. Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, is completely unreliable!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:25 - What's more, do you think we have invaded your land without the LORD's direction? The LORD himself told us, ‘Attack this land and destroy it!'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:3 - They told him, “This is what King Hezekiah says: Today is a day of trouble, insults, and disgrace. It is like when a child is ready to be born, but the mother has no strength to deliver the baby.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:21 - And the LORD has spoken this word against him:
“The virgin daughter of Zion
despises you and laughs at you.
The daughter of Jerusalem
shakes her head in derision as you flee.
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 20:14 - Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did those men want? Where were they from?”
Hezekiah replied, “They came from the distant land of Babylon.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:6 - Manasseh also sacrificed his own son in the fire.[fn] He practiced sorcery and divination, and he consulted with mediums and psychics. He did much that was evil in the LORD's sight, arousing his anger.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:16 - ‘This is what the LORD says: I am going to bring disaster on this city[fn] and its people. All the words written in the scroll that the king of Judah has read will come true.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:18 - “But go to the king of Judah who sent you to seek the LORD and tell him: ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says concerning the message you have just heard:
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 Box1Ch 2:3 - Judah had three sons from Bathshua, a Canaanite woman. Their names were Er, Onan, and Shelah. But the LORD saw that the oldest son, Er, was a wicked man, so he killed him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:20 - They cried out to God during the battle, and he answered their prayer because they trusted in him. So the Hagrites and all their allies were defeated.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:22 - Their father, Ephraim, mourned for them a long time, and his relatives came to comfort him.
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 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 19:17 - When David heard what was happening, he mobilized all Israel, crossed the Jordan River, and positioned his troops in battle formation. Then David engaged the Arameans in battle, and they fought against him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:4 - After this, war broke out with the Philistines at Gezer. As they fought, Sibbecai from Hushah killed Saph,[fn] a descendant of the giants,[fn] and so the Philistines were subdued.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:22 - David said to Araunah, “Let me buy this threshing floor from you at its full price. Then I will build an altar to the LORD there, so that he will stop the plague.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:9 - “And Solomon, my son, learn to know the God of your ancestors intimately. Worship and serve him with your whole heart and a willing mind. For the LORD sees every heart and knows every plan and thought. If you seek him, you will find him. But if you forsake him, he will reject you forever.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:11 - God said to Solomon, “Because your greatest desire is to help your people, and you did not ask for wealth, riches, fame, or even the death of your enemies or a long life, but rather you asked for wisdom and knowledge to properly govern my people—
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 10:1 - Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had gathered to make him king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:3 - The leaders of Israel summoned him, and Jeroboam and all Israel went to speak with Rehoboam.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:14 - and followed the counsel of his younger advisers. He told the people, “My father laid[fn] heavy burdens on you, but I'm going to make them even heavier! My father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:22 - Rehoboam appointed Maacah's son Abijah as leader among the princes, making it clear that he would be the next king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:11 - They present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD every morning and evening. They place the Bread of the Presence on the holy table, and they light the gold lampstand every evening. We are following the instructions of the LORD our God, but you have abandoned him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:2 - and he went out to meet King Asa as he was returning from the battle. “Listen to me, Asa!” he shouted. “Listen, all you people of Judah and Benjamin! The LORD will stay with you as long as you stay with him! Whenever you seek him, you will find him. But if you abandon him, he will abandon you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:15 - All in Judah were happy about this covenant, for they had entered into it with all their heart. They earnestly sought after God, and they found him. And the LORD gave them rest from their enemies on every side.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:9 - The eyes of the LORD search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. What a fool you have been! From now on you will be at war.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:7 - The king of Israel replied to Jehoshaphat, “There is one more man who could consult the LORD for us, but I hate him. He never prophesies anything but trouble for me! His name is Micaiah son of Imlah.”
Jehoshaphat replied, “That's not the way a king should talk! Let's hear what he has to say.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:20 - and finally a spirit approached the LORD and said, ‘I can do it!'
“‘How will you do this?' the LORD asked.
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 22:4 - He did what was evil in the LORD's sight, just as Ahab's family had done. They even became his advisers after the death of his father, and they led him to ruin.
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 24:15 - Jehoiada lived to a very old age, finally dying at 130.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:5 - Jotham went to war against the Ammonites and conquered them. Over the next three years he received from them an annual tribute of 7,500 pounds[fn] of silver, 50,000 bushels of wheat, and 50,000 bushels of barley.[fn]
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 30:9 - “For if you return to the LORD, your relatives and your children will be treated mercifully by their captors, and they will be able to return to this land. For the LORD your God is gracious and merciful. If you return to him, he will not continue to turn his face from you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:6 - Manasseh also sacrificed his own sons in the fire[fn] in the valley of Ben-Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and he consulted with mediums and psychics. He did much that was evil in the LORD's sight, arousing his anger.
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 34:28 - So I will not send the promised disaster until after you have died and been buried in peace. You yourself will not see the disaster I am going to bring on this city and its people.'”
So they took her message back to the king.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:11 - This is a copy of their letter: “To King Artaxerxes, from your loyal subjects in the province west of the Euphrates River.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:7 - “To King Darius. Greetings.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:9 - He had arranged to leave Babylon on April 8, the first day of the new year,[fn] and he arrived at Jerusalem on August 4,[fn] for the gracious hand of 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 BoxNeh 2:8 - And please give me a letter addressed to Asaph, the manager of the king's forest, instructing him to give me timber. I will need it to make beams for the gates of the Temple fortress, for the city walls, and for a house for myself.” And the king granted these requests, because the gracious hand of God was on me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:12 - I realized that God had not spoken to him, but that he had uttered this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:19 - “So if it please the king, we suggest that you issue a written decree, a law of the Persians and Medes that cannot be revoked. It should order that Queen Vashti be forever banished from the presence of King Xerxes, and that the king should choose another queen more worthy than she.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:1 - Some time later King Xerxes promoted Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite over all the other nobles, making him the most powerful official in the empire.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:5 - So the attendants replied to the king, “Haman is out in the court.”
“Bring him in,” the king ordered.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:6 - “All right, do with him as you please,” the LORD said to Satan. “But spare his life.”
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 8:18 - But when it is uprooted,
it's as though it never existed!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:13 - “If only you would prepare your heart
and lift up your hands to him in prayer!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:21 - For they will not care what happens to their family
after they are dead.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:29 - If people are in trouble and you say, ‘Help them,'
God will save them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:13 - His Spirit made the heavens beautiful,
and his power pierced the gliding serpent.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:23 - “But if an angel from heaven appears—
a special messenger to intercede for a person
and declare that he is upright—
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:30 - He rescues them from the grave
so they may enjoy the light of life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:11 - He repays people according to their deeds.
He treats people as they deserve.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:29 - But if he chooses to remain quiet,
who can criticize him?
When he hides his face, no one can find him,
whether an individual or a nation.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:14 - You say you can't see him,
but he will bring justice if you will only wait.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:13 - He makes these things happen either to punish people
or to show his unfailing love.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:23 - We cannot imagine the power of the Almighty;
but even though he is just and righteous,
he does not destroy us.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:12 - “I want to emphasize Leviathan's limbs
and its enormous strength and graceful form.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:16 - They are so close together
that no air can get between them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:23 - Its flesh is hard and firm
and cannot be penetrated.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:8 - So take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer on your behalf. I will not treat you as you deserve, for you have not spoken accurately about me, as my servant Job has.”
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 BoxPsa 4:3 - You can be sure of this:
The LORD set apart the godly for himself.
The LORD will answer when I call to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:4 - what are mere mortals that you should think about them,
human beings that you should care for them?[fn]
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 10:9 - Like lions crouched in hiding,
they wait to pounce on the helpless.
Like hunters they capture the helpless
and drag them away in nets.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:10 - Their helpless victims are crushed;
they fall beneath the strength of the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 13:4 - Don't let my enemies gloat, saying, “We have defeated him!”
Don't let them rejoice at my downfall.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:2 - The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my savior;
my God is my rock, in whom I find protection.
He is my shield, the power that saves me,
and my place of safety.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:30 - God's way is perfect.
All the LORD's promises prove true.
He is a shield for all who look to him for protection.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:2 - For you have given him his heart's desire;
you have withheld nothing he requested.
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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:5 - Your victory brings him great honor,
and you have clothed him with splendor and majesty.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:8 - “Is this the one who relies on the LORD?
Then let the LORD save him!
If the LORD loves him so much,
let the LORD rescue him!”
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 22:25 - I will praise you in the great assembly.
I will fulfill my vows in the presence of those who worship you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:26 - The poor will eat and be satisfied.
All who seek the LORD will praise him.
Their hearts will rejoice with everlasting joy.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:6 - Such people may seek you
and worship in your presence, O God of Jacob.
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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:14 - The LORD is a friend to those who fear him.
He teaches them his covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:1 - A psalm of David, regarding the time he pretended to be insane in front of Abimelech, who sent him away.

I will praise the LORD at all times.
I will constantly speak his praises.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:6 - In my desperation I prayed, and the LORD listened;
he saved me from all my troubles.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:8 - Taste and see that the LORD is good.
Oh, the joys of those who take refuge in him!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:9 - Fear the LORD, you his godly people,
for those who fear him will have all they need.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:22 - But the LORD will redeem those who serve him.
No one who takes refuge in him will be condemned.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:10 - With every bone in my body I will praise him:
“LORD, who can compare with you?
Who else rescues the helpless from the strong?
Who else protects the helpless and poor from those who rob them?”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:25 - Don't let them say, “Look, we got what we wanted!
Now we will eat him alive!”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:5 - Commit everything you do to the LORD.
Trust him, and he will help you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:7 - Be still in the presence of the LORD,
and wait patiently for him to act.
Don't worry about evil people who prosper
or fret about their wicked schemes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:13 - But the Lord just laughs,
for he sees their day of judgment coming.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:32 - The wicked wait in ambush for the godly,
looking for an excuse to kill them.
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 37:36 - But when I looked again, they were gone!
Though I searched for them, I could not find them!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:40 - The LORD helps them,
rescuing them from the wicked.
He saves them,
and they find shelter in him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:6 - My enemies have set a trap for me.
I am weary from distress.
They have dug a deep pit in my path,
but they themselves have fallen into it.
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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:1 - For the choir director: A psalm[fn] of David, regarding the time Saul sent soldiers to watch David's house in order to kill him. To be sung to the tune “Do Not Destroy!”

Rescue me from my enemies, O God.
Protect me from those who have come to destroy me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:8 - O my people, trust in him at all times.
Pour out your heart to him,
for God is our refuge.
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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:10 - The godly will rejoice in the LORD
and find shelter in him.
And those who do what is right
will praise him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:11 - They say, “God has abandoned him.
Let's go and get him,
for no one will help him now.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:15 - Long live the king!
May the gold of Sheba be given to him.
May the people always pray for him
and bless him all day long.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:17 - May the king's name endure forever;
may it continue as long as the sun shines.
May all nations be blessed through him
and bring him praise.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:58 - They angered God by building shrines to other gods;
they made him jealous with their idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:20 - I have found my servant David.
I have anointed him with my holy oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:21 - I will steady him with my hand;
with my powerful arm I will make him strong.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:22 - His enemies will not defeat him,
nor will the wicked overpower him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:27 - I will make him my firstborn son,
the mightiest king on earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:44 - You have ended his splendor
and overturned his throne.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:2 - This I declare about the LORD:
He alone is my refuge, my place of safety;
he is my God, and I trust him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:14 - The LORD says, “I will rescue those who love me.
I will protect those who trust in my name.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:15 - When they call on me, I will answer;
I will be with them in trouble.
I will rescue and honor them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:11 - For his unfailing love toward those who fear him
is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:13 - The LORD is like a father to his children,
tender and compassionate to those who fear him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:17 - But the love of the LORD remains forever
with those who fear him.
His salvation extends to the children's children
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:19 - Until the time came to fulfill his dreams,[fn]
the LORD tested Joseph's character.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:20 - Then Pharaoh sent for him and set him free;
the ruler of the nation opened his prison door.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:26 - But the LORD sent his servant Moses,
along with Aaron, whom he had chosen.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:32 - Let them exalt him publicly before the congregation
and before the leaders of the nation.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:30 - But I will give repeated thanks to the LORD,
praising him to everyone.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 111:5 - He gives food to those who fear him;
he always remembers his covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 117:1 - Praise the LORD, all you nations.
Praise him, all you people of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:2 - Joyful are those who obey his laws
and search for him with all their hearts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:13 - She threw her arms around him and kissed him,
and with a brazen look she said,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:21 - So she seduced him with her pretty speech
and enticed him with her flattery.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:27 - If you search for good, you will find favor;
but if you search for evil, it will find you!
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:25 - Worry weighs a person down;
an encouraging word cheers a person up.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:17 - An unreliable messenger stumbles into trouble,
but a reliable messenger brings healing.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:31 - Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker,
but helping the poor honors him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:12 - Mockers hate to be corrected,
so they stay away from the wise.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:14 - The anger of the king is a deadly threat;
the wise will try to appease it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:5 - Those who mock the poor insult their Maker;
those who rejoice at the misfortune of others will be punished.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:16 - Giving a gift can open doors;
it gives access to important people!
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:20 - The wise have wealth and luxury,
but fools spend whatever they get.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:14 - The mouth of an immoral woman is a dangerous trap;
those who make the LORD angry will fall into it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:5 - In the blink of an eye wealth disappears,
for it will sprout wings
and fly away like an eagle.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:22 - for disaster will hit them suddenly.
Who knows what punishment will come
from the LORD and the king?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:31 - I saw that it was overgrown with nettles.
It was covered with weeds,
and its walls were broken down.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:13 - Trustworthy messengers refresh like snow in summer.
They revive the spirit of their employer.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:21 - If your enemies are hungry, give them food to eat.
If they are thirsty, give them water to drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:27 - If you set a trap for others,
you will get caught in it yourself.
If you roll a boulder down on others,
it will crush you instead.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:21 - Fire tests the purity of silver and gold,
but a person is tested by being praised.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:8 - Income from charging high interest rates
will end up in the pocket of someone who is kind to the poor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:5 - Every word of God proves true.
He is a shield to all who come to him for protection.
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 4:10 - If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:2 - God gives some people great wealth and honor and everything they could ever want, but then he doesn't give them the chance to enjoy these things. They die, and someone else, even a stranger, ends up enjoying their wealth! This is meaningless—a sickening tragedy.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:10 - Everything has already been decided. It was known long ago what each person would be. So there's no use arguing with God about your destiny.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:13 - Accept the way God does things,
for who can straighten what he has made crooked?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:6 - for there is a time and a way for everything, even when a person is in trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:9 - I have thought deeply about all that goes on here under the sun, where people have the power to hurt each other.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:12 - Wise words bring approval,
but fools are destroyed by their own words.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:1 - Send your grain across the seas,
and in time, profits will flow back to you.[fn]
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 4:4 - Your neck is as beautiful as the tower of David,
jeweled with the shields of a thousand heroes.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:3 - But I responded,
“I have taken off my robe.
Should I get dressed again?
I have washed my feet.
Should I get them soiled?”
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:4 - My lover tried to unlatch the door,
and my heart thrilled within me.
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 8:7 - Many waters cannot quench love,
nor can rivers drown it.
If a man tried to buy love
with all his wealth,
his offer would be utterly scorned.

The Young Woman's Brothers
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:15 - But can the ax boast greater power than the person who uses it?
Is the saw greater than the person who saws?
Can a rod strike unless a hand moves it?
Can a wooden cane walk by itself?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:12 - The people of Moab will worship at their pagan shrines,
but it will do them no good.
They will cry to the gods in their temples,
but no one will be able to save them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:7 - Then at last the people will look to their Creator
and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:25 - But the LORD of Heaven's Armies also says: “The time will come when I will pull out the nail that seemed so firm. It will come out and fall to the ground. Everything it supports will fall with it. I, the LORD, have spoken!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:8 - “The Assyrians will be destroyed,
but not by the swords of men.
The sword of God will strike them,
and they will panic and flee.
The strong young Assyrians
will be taken away as captives.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:9 - Soon afterward King Sennacherib received word that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia[fn] was leading an army to fight against him. Before leaving to meet the attack, he sent messengers back to Hezekiah in Jerusalem with this message:
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 39:3 - Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did those men want? Where were they from?”
Hezekiah replied, “They came from the distant land of Babylon.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:13 - Who is able to advise the Spirit of the LORD?[fn]
Who knows enough to give him advice or teach him?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:14 - Has the LORD ever needed anyone's advice?
Does he need instruction about what is good?
Did someone teach him what is right
or show him the path of justice?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:18 - To whom can you compare God?
What image can you find to resemble him?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:19 - Can he be compared to an idol formed in a mold,
overlaid with gold, and decorated with silver chains?
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 42:5 - God, the LORD, created the heavens and stretched them out.
He created the earth and everything in it.
He gives breath to everyone,
life to everyone who walks the earth.
And it is he who says,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:24 - Who allowed Israel to be robbed and hurt?
It was the LORD, against whom we sinned,
for the people would not walk in his path,
nor would they obey his law.
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 46:7 - They carry it around on their shoulders,
and when they set it down, it stays there.
It can't even move!
And when someone prays to it, there is no answer.
It can't rescue anyone from trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:11 - So disaster will overtake you,
and you won't be able to charm it away.
Calamity will fall upon you,
and you won't be able to buy your way out.
A catastrophe will strike you suddenly,
one for which you are not prepared.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:5 - And now the LORD speaks—
the one who formed me in my mother's womb to be his servant,
who commissioned me to bring Israel back to him.
The LORD has honored me,
and my God has given me strength.
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 53:2 - My servant grew up in the LORD's presence like a tender green shoot,
like a root in dry ground.
There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance,
nothing to attract us to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:5 - But he was pierced for our rebellion,
crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:4 - See how I used him to display my power among the peoples.
I made him a leader among the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:14 - When you see these things, your heart will rejoice.
You will flourish like the grass!
Everyone will see the LORD's hand of blessing on his servants—
and his anger against his enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:30 - “The people of Judah have sinned before my very eyes,” says the LORD. “They have set up their abominable idols right in the Temple that bears my name, defiling it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:12 - Who is wise enough to understand all this? Who has been instructed by the LORD and can explain it to others? Why has the land been so ruined that no one dares to travel through it?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:5 - This is what the LORD says:
“Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans,
who rely on human strength
and turn their hearts away from the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:9 - “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things,
and desperately wicked.
Who really knows how bad it is?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:11 - Like a partridge that hatches eggs she has not laid,
so are those who get their wealth by unjust means.
At midlife they will lose their riches;
in the end, they will become poor old fools.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:12 - This is what the LORD says to the dynasty of David:
“‘Give justice each morning to the people you judge!
Help those who have been robbed;
rescue them from their oppressors.
Otherwise, my anger will burn like an unquenchable fire
because of all your sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:10 - Do not weep for the dead king or mourn his loss.
Instead, weep for the captive king being led away!
For he will never return to see his native land again.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:12 - He will die in a distant land and will never again see his own country.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:18 - Therefore, this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim, son of King Josiah:
“The people will not mourn for him, crying to one another,
‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!'
His subjects will not mourn for him, crying,
‘Alas, our master is dead! Alas, his splendor is gone!'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:24 - Can anyone hide from me in a secret place?
Am I not everywhere in all the heavens and earth?”
says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:28 - “Let these false prophets tell their dreams,
but let my true messengers faithfully proclaim my every word.
There is a difference between straw and grain!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:21 - When King Jehoiakim and the army officers and officials heard what he was saying, the king sent someone to kill him. But Uriah heard about the plan and escaped in fear to Egypt.
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 29:31 - “Send an open letter to all the exiles in Babylon. Tell them, ‘This is what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Since he has prophesied to you when I did not send him and has tricked you into believing his lies,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:20 - “Is not Israel still my son,
my darling child?” says the LORD.
“I often have to punish him,
but I still love him.
That's why I long for him
and surely will have mercy on him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:4 - So Jeremiah sent for Baruch son of Neriah, and as Jeremiah dictated all the prophecies that the LORD had given him, Baruch wrote them on a scroll.
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 38:27 - Sure enough, it wasn't long before the king's officials came to Jeremiah and asked him why the king had called for him. But Jeremiah followed the king's instructions, and they left without finding out the truth. No one had overheard the conversation between Jeremiah and the king.
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 40:5 - If you decide to stay, then return to Gedaliah son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan. He has been appointed governor of Judah by the king of Babylon. Stay there with the people he rules. But it's up to you; go wherever you like.”
Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, gave Jeremiah some food and money and let him go.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:6 - Whether we like it or not, we will obey the LORD our God to whom we are sending you with our plea. For if we obey him, everything will turn out well for us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:15 - Why have your warriors fallen?
They cannot stand, for the LORD has knocked them down.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:27 - “But do not be afraid, Jacob, my servant;
do not be dismayed, Israel.
For I will bring you home again from distant lands,
and your children will return from their exile.
Israel[fn] will return to a life of peace and quiet,
and no one will terrorize them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:26 - “Let him stagger and fall like a drunkard,
for he has rebelled against the LORD.
Moab will wallow in his own vomit,
ridiculed by all.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:27 - Did you not ridicule the people of Israel?
Were they caught in the company of thieves
that you should despise them as you do?
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 52:1 - 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 BoxJer 52:21 - Each of the pillars was 27 feet tall and 18 feet in circumference.[fn] They were hollow, with walls 3 inches thick.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:17 - Jerusalem reaches out for help,
but no one comforts her.
Regarding his people Israel,[fn]
the LORD has said,
“Let their neighbors be their enemies!
Let them be thrown away like a filthy rag!”
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:25 - The LORD is good to those who depend on him,
to those who search for him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:18 - If I warn the wicked, saying, ‘You are under the penalty of death,' but you fail to deliver the warning, they will die in their sins. And I will hold you responsible for their deaths.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:4 - He said to him, “Walk through the streets of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of all who weep and sigh because of the detestable sins being committed in their city.”
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 13:10 - “This will happen because these evil prophets deceive my people by saying, ‘All is peaceful' when there is no peace at all! It's as if the people have built a flimsy wall, and these prophets are trying to reinforce it by covering it with whitewash!
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 17:7 - But then another great eagle came
with broad wings and full plumage.
So the vine now sent its roots and branches
toward him for water,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:16 - No! For as surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, the king of Israel will die in Babylon, the land of the king who put him in power and whose treaty he disregarded and broke.
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 19:5 - “When the lioness saw
that her hopes for him were gone,
she took another of her cubs
and taught him to be a strong young lion.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:4 - Deep springs watered it
and helped it to grow tall and luxuriant.
The water flowed around it like a river,
streaming to all the trees nearby.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:10 - “Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because Egypt[fn] became proud and arrogant, and because it set itself so high above the others, with its top reaching to the clouds,
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 32:16 - Yes, this is the funeral song
they will sing for Egypt.
Let all the nations mourn.
Let them mourn for Egypt and its hordes.
I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:4 - Then if those who hear the alarm refuse to take action, it is their own fault if they die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:11 - As surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of wicked people. I only want them to turn from their wicked ways so they can live. Turn! Turn from your wickedness, O people of Israel! Why should you die?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:16 - “Son of man, take a piece of wood and carve on it these words: ‘This represents Judah and its allied tribes.' Then take another piece and carve these words on it: ‘This represents Ephraim and the northern tribes of Israel.'[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:6 - Gomer and all its armies will also join you, along with the armies of Beth-togarmah from the distant north, and many others.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:12 - When the prince offers a voluntary burnt offering or peace offering to the LORD, the east gateway to the inner courtyard will be opened for him, and he will offer his sacrifices as he does on Sabbath days. Then he will leave, and the gateway will be shut behind him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:13 - “Each morning you must sacrifice a one-year-old lamb with no defects as a burnt offering to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:16 - For seven periods of time, let him have the mind of a wild animal instead of the mind of a human.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:19 - “Upon hearing this, Daniel (also known as Belteshazzar) was overcome for a time, frightened by the meaning of the dream. Then the king said to him, ‘Belteshazzar, don't be alarmed by the dream and what it means.' “Belteshazzar replied, ‘I wish the events foreshadowed in this dream would happen to your enemies, my lord, and not to you!
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:23 - “‘Then you saw a messenger, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, “Cut down the tree and destroy it. But leave the stump and the roots in the ground, bound with a band of iron and bronze and surrounded by tender grass. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven. Let him live with the animals of the field for seven periods of time.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:6 - and his face turned pale with fright. His knees knocked together in fear and his legs gave way beneath him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:11 - There is a man in your kingdom who has within him the spirit of the holy gods. During Nebuchadnezzar's reign, this man was found to have insight, understanding, and wisdom like that of the gods. Your predecessor, the king—your predecessor King Nebuchadnezzar—made him chief over all the magicians, enchanters, astrologers, and fortune-tellers of Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:21 - He was driven from human society. He was given the mind of a wild animal, and he lived among the wild donkeys. He ate grass like a cow, and he was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he learned that the Most High God rules over the kingdoms of the world and appoints anyone he desires to rule over them.
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 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 11:26 - His own household will cause his downfall. His army will be swept away, and many will be killed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:45 - He will stop between the glorious holy mountain and the sea and will pitch his royal tents. But while he is there, his time will suddenly run out, and no one will help him.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:4 - And the LORD said, “Name the child Jezreel, for I am about to punish King Jehu's dynasty to avenge the murders he committed at Jezreel. In fact, I will bring an end to Israel's independence.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:6 - When they come with their flocks and herds
to offer sacrifices to the LORD,
they will not find him,
because he has withdrawn from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:3 - Oh, that we might know the LORD!
Let us press on to know him.
He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn
or the coming of rains in early spring.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:5 - The people of Samaria tremble in fear
for what might happen to their calf idol at Beth-aven.[fn]
The people mourn and the priests wail,
because its glory will be stripped away.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:4 - I led Israel along
with my ropes of kindness and love.
I lifted the yoke from his neck,
and I myself stooped to feed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:7 - For my people are determined to desert me.
They call me the Most High,
but they don't truly honor me.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:4 - Yes, he wrestled with the angel and won.
He wept and pleaded for a blessing from him.
There at Bethel he met God face to face,
and God spoke to him[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:15 - Ephraim was the most fruitful of all his brothers,
but the east wind—a blast from the LORD
will arise in the desert.
All their flowing springs will run dry,
and all their wells will disappear.
Every precious thing they own
will be plundered and carried away.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:8 - “O Israel,[fn] stay away from idols!
I am the one who answers your prayers and cares for you.
I am like a tree that is always green;
all your fruit comes from me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:3 - This is what the LORD says:
“The people of Damascus have sinned again and again,[fn]
and I will not let them go unpunished!
They beat down my people in Gilead
as grain is threshed with iron sledges.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:13 - This is what the LORD says:
“The people of Ammon have sinned again and again,
and I will not let them go unpunished!
When they attacked Gilead to extend their borders,
they ripped open pregnant women with their swords.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:1 - This is what the LORD says:
“The people of Moab have sinned again and again,[fn]
and I will not let them go unpunished!
They desecrated the bones of Edom's king,
burning them to ashes.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:4 - This is what the LORD says:
“The people of Judah have sinned again and again,
and I will not let them go unpunished!
They have rejected the instruction of the LORD,
refusing to obey his decrees.
They have been led astray by the same lies
that deceived their ancestors.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:6 - This is what the LORD says:
“The people of Israel have sinned again and again,
and I will not let them go unpunished!
They sell honorable people for silver
and poor people for a pair of sandals.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:14 - “On the very day I punish Israel for its sins,
I will destroy the pagan altars at Bethel.
The horns of the altar will be cut off
and fall to the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:6 - Come back to the LORD and live!
Otherwise, he will roar through Israel[fn] like a fire,
devouring you completely.
Your gods in Bethel
won't be able to quench the flames.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:8 - And the LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”
I answered, “A plumb line.”
And the Lord replied, “I will test my people with this plumb line. I will no longer ignore all their sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:2 - “What do you see, Amos?” he asked.
I replied, “A basket full of ripe fruit.”
Then the LORD said, “Like this fruit, Israel is ripe for punishment! I will not delay their punishment again.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:8 - “Why has this awful storm come down on us?” they demanded. “Who are you? What is your line of work? What country are you from? What is your nationality?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:10 - The sailors were terrified when they heard this, for he had already told them he was running away from the LORD. “Oh, why did you do it?” they groaned.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:11 - And since the storm was getting worse all the time, they asked him, “What should we do to you to stop this storm?”
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 1:12 - O LORD my God, my Holy One, you who are eternal—
surely you do not plan to wipe us out?
O LORD, our Rock, you have sent these Babylonians to correct us,
to punish us for our many sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:3 - This vision is for a future time.
It describes the end, and it will be fulfilled.
If it seems slow in coming, wait patiently,
for it will surely take place.
It will not be delayed.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:7 - Suddenly, your debtors will take action.
They will turn on you and take all you have,
while you stand trembling and helpless.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:2 - “Where are you going?” I asked.
He replied, “I am going to measure Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is.”
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 4:9 - “Zerubbabel is the one who laid the foundation of this Temple, and he will complete it. Then you will know that the LORD of Heaven's Armies has sent me.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:11 - Then I asked the angel, “What are these two olive trees on each side of the lampstand,
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:12 - and what are the two olive branches that pour out golden oil through two gold tubes?”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:12 - Tell him, ‘This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies says: Here is the man called the Branch. He will branch out from where he is and build the Temple of the LORD.
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.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:4 - “On that day people will be ashamed to claim the prophetic gift. No one will pretend to be a prophet by wearing prophet's clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:6 - And if someone asks, ‘Then what about those wounds on your chest?[fn]' he will say, ‘I was wounded at my friends' house!'
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:5 - “The purpose of my covenant with the Levites was to bring life and peace, and that is what I gave them. This required reverence from them, and they greatly revered me and stood in awe of my name.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:17 - You have wearied the LORD with your words.
“How have we wearied him?” you ask.
You have wearied him by saying that all who do evil are good in the LORD's sight, and he is pleased with them. You have wearied him by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”
P-ASM
Occurrences: 10 times in 8 verses
Speech: Personal / Possessive Pronoun
Parsing: Accusative Singular Masculine
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:1 - A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem. A psalm of Solomon.

Unless the LORD builds a house,
the work of the builders is wasted.
Unless the LORD protects a city,
guarding it with sentries will do no good.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:3 - O LORD, what are human beings that you should notice them,
mere mortals that you should think about them?
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 147:9 - He gives food to the wild animals
and feeds the young ravens when they cry.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:2 - Praise him, all his angels!
Praise him, all the armies of heaven!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:3 - Praise him, sun and moon!
Praise him, all you twinkling stars!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:4 - Praise him, skies above!
Praise him, vapors high above the clouds!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:2 - O Israel, rejoice in your Maker.
O people of Jerusalem,[fn] exult in your King.
D-ASN
Occurrences: 1 time in 1 verse
Speech: Demonstrative Pronoun
Parsing: Accusative Neuter Singular
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:24 - No one can catch it off guard
or put a ring in its nose and lead it away.
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