'Ever' in the Bible

Ask me ever so much bridal payment and gift, and I will give according as you say to me; but give me the girl in marriage.”

Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, “O Lord, why have You brought harm to this people? Why did You ever send me?

Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done harm to this people, and You have not delivered Your people at all.”

Then he said to them, “Thus may the Lord be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Take heed, for evil is in your mind.

“The Lord shall reign forever and ever.”

If you ever take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, you are to return it to him before the sun sets,

So if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings should ever be eaten on the third day, he who offers it will not be accepted, and it will not be reckoned to his benefit. It shall be an offensive thing, and the person who eats of it will bear his own iniquity.

If the people of the land, however, should ever disregard that man when he gives any of his offspring to Molech, so as not to put him to death,

But if he should ever wish to redeem it, then he shall add one-fifth of it to your valuation.

If the one who consecrates it should ever wish to redeem the field, then he shall add one-fifth of your valuation price to it, so that it may pass to him.

but a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you; because you have rejected the Lord who is among you and have wept before Him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?”’”

The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey on which you have ridden all your life to this day? Have I ever been accustomed to do so to you?” And he said, “No.”

It shall come about if you ever forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.

No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly of the Lord; none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation, shall ever enter the assembly of the Lord,

Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord God, why did You ever bring this people over the Jordan, only to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? If only we had been willing to dwell beyond the Jordan!

For if you ever go back and cling to the rest of these nations, these which remain among you, and intermarry with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,

Now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive with Israel, or did he ever fight against them?

All who saw it said, “Nothing like this has ever happened or been seen from the day when the sons of Israel came up from the land of Egypt to this day. Consider it, take counsel and speak up!”

So David blessed the Lord in the sight of all the assembly; and David said, “Blessed are You, O Lord God of Israel our father, forever and ever.

Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah, said, “Arise, bless the Lord your God forever and ever!O may Your glorious name be blessedAnd exalted above all blessing and praise!

On that day they read aloud from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and there was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,

“Remember now, who ever perished being innocent?Or where were the upright destroyed?

‘My glory is ever new with me,And my bow is renewed in my hand.’

“Have you ever in your life commanded the morning,And caused the dawn to know its place,

But let all who take refuge in You be glad,Let them ever sing for joy;And may You shelter them,That those who love Your name may exult in You.

You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked;You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

The Lord is King forever and ever;Nations have perished from His land.

He asked life of You,You gave it to him,Length of days forever and ever.

Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;A scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom.

I will cause Your name to be remembered in all generations;Therefore the peoples will give You thanks forever and ever.

For such is God,Our God forever and ever;He will guide us until death.

For I know my transgressions,And my sin is ever before me.

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God;I trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever.

How blessed are those who dwell in Your house!They are ever praising You. Selah.

He established the earth upon its foundations,So that it will not totter forever and ever.

They are upheld forever and ever;They are performed in truth and uprightness.

So I will keep Your law continually,Forever and ever.

Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies,For they are ever mine.

A Psalm of Praise, of David.I will extol You, my God, O King,And I will bless Your name forever and ever.

Every day I will bless You,And I will praise Your name forever and ever.

My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord,And all flesh will bless His holy name forever and ever.

He has also established them forever and ever;He has made a decree which will not pass away.

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied,Nor are the eyes of man ever satisfied.

It will not be quenched night or day;Its smoke will go up forever.From generation to generation it will be desolate;None will pass through it forever and ever.

“As a well keeps its waters fresh,So she keeps fresh her wickedness.Violence and destruction are heard in her;Sickness and wounds are ever before Me.

then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

“Therefore thus says the Lord,‘Ask now among the nations,Who ever heard the like of this?The virgin of IsraelHas done a most appalling thing.

‘Does the snow of Lebanon forsake the rock of the open country?Or is the cold flowing water from a foreign land ever snatched away?

Because they have forsaken Me and have made this an alien place and have burned sacrifices in it to other gods, that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent

and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I never commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter My mind;

Because he did not kill me before birth,So that my mother would have been my grave,And her womb ever pregnant.

Why did I ever come forth from the wombTo look on trouble and sorrow,So that my days have been spent in shame?

saying, ‘Turn now everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your deeds, and dwell on the land which the Lord has given to you and your forefathers forever and ever;

But I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I have never been defiled; for from my youth until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has any unclean meat ever entered my mouth.”

The Chaldeans answered the king and said, “There is not a man on earth who could declare the matter for the king, inasmuch as no great king or ruler has ever asked anything like this of any magician, conjurer or Chaldean.

Daniel said,“Let the name of God be blessed forever and ever,For wisdom and power belong to Him.

Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.

Then she conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And the Lord said to him, “Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I would ever forgive them.

Though all the peoples walkEach in the name of his god,As for us, we will walkIn the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.