'Thus' in the Bible

He burned his sons as an offering in the Ben-hinnom Valley, practiced fortune-telling, witchcraft, sorcery, and communicated with mediums and separatists. He did a lot of things that the LORD considered to be evil, thus provoking him.

Thus Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the sons of Israel.

He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, thus purging Judah and Jerusalem.

And Hilkiah goeth, and they of the king, unto Huldah the prophetess, wife of Shallum son of Tikvath, son of Hasrah, keeper of the garments, and she is dwelling in Jerusalem in the Second, and they speak unto her thus.

And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me,

Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:

And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard;

And they set aside the burnt offerings to give them to the clans of the {families} for the {lay people}, to offer to Yahweh according to what is written in the scroll of Moses. And thus they did with the bulls.

Thus the sons of Israel who were present celebrated the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days.

Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.

Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

Rehum counsellor, and Shimshai scribe have written a letter concerning Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king, thus:

At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shetharboznai, and their companions, and said thus unto them, Who hath commanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall?

Then thus we have said to them, 'What are the names of the men who are building this building?'

They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace.

Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?

And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.

And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:

and has extended lovingkindness to me before the king and his counselors and before all the king’s mighty princes. Thus I was strengthened according to the hand of the Lord my God upon me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.

Thus I weighed into their hands 650 talents of silver, and silver utensils worth 100 talents, and 100 gold talents,

Thus we came to Jerusalem and remained there three days.

"But now briefly we have received mercy from the Lord our God, in that he has left us a remnant and has given us a secure position in his holy place. Thus our God has enlightened our eyes and has given us a little relief in our time of servitude.

Thus in Judah it was said,“The strength of the burden bearers is failing,Yet there is much rubbish;And we ourselves are unableTo rebuild the wall.”

So I stationed armed men behind the wall in the lowest places, at the open positions [where it was least protected]; and I stationed the people in families with their swords, spears, and bows.

Now our flesh (skin) is the same as that of our brothers (relatives), and our children are like their children, yet here we are forcing (selling) our sons and our daughters to be slaves; and some of our daughters are forced into bondage already, and we are powerless [to redeem them] because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.

He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I would be discredited.

They read from the book of God's law, explaining it and imparting insight. Thus the people gained understanding from what was read.

For the sons of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of the grain, the new wine and the oil to the chambers; there are the utensils of the sanctuary, the priests who are ministering, the gatekeepers and the singers. Thus we will not neglect the house of our God.

Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.

Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;

Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king's princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.

Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house.

“Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maidens also will fast in the same way. And thus I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.

Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.

Then King Ahasuerus asked Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who would presume to do thus?”

Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.

Thus the Jews undertook what they had started to do, and what Mordecai had written to them.

Therefore they called these days Purim, because of the name Pur. Thus because of all the words of this letter, and of what they faced concerning this, and of what had happened to them,

His possessions included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys; in addition he had a very great household. Thus he was the greatest of all the people in the east.

And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

Thus Job's three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. So each set out from his [own] place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they met together to come to console him and to comfort him.

Thus they lifted up their eyes from afar, but they did not recognize him, so they raised their voice, and they wept, and each man tore his outer garment and threw dust on their heads {toward the sky}.

Thus Job {spoke up} and said,

I am not at ease, and I am not at peace, and I do not have rest, thus turmoil has come."

Thus the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts its mouth.

“Behold this; we have investigated it, and so it is.Hear it, and know for yourself.”

thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me.

"But a man dies, and he dwindles away; thus a human being passes away, and where is he?

Thus you shriveled me up; it became a witness. And my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.

Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers me among his enemies.

And after my skin has been thus destroyed, but from my flesh I will see God,

“Is it because of your fear of Him that He corrects you,That He enters into judgment against you?

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

“Thus it is hidden from the eyes of all livingAnd concealed from the birds of the sky.

Thus Elihu had waited for Job {to speak} because {they were older than he}.

Thus Elihu {spoke up} and said,

Thus he acknowledges their behavior, and overcomes them; when night time comes, they are crushed.

And I said, ‘Thus far you shall come, but no farther;And here shall your proud waves stop’?

Then Yahweh returned Job's fortune when he prayed to him on behalf of his friends. Thus Yahweh increased {all that Job had twice as much as before}.

So Yahweh blessed Job's latter days more than his beginning. {Thus he had} fourteen thousand sheep and goats and six thousand camels and a thousand pair of oxen and a thousand female donkeys.

Tremble ye, and do not sin;' Say ye thus in your heart on your bed, And be ye silent. Selah.

Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary,To see Your power and Your glory.

Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.

Thou hast inspected the earth, and waterest it, Thou makest it very rich, the rivulet of God is full of water, Thou preparest their corn, When thus Thou dost prepare it,

If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

Thus He remembered that they were but flesh,A wind that passes and does not return.

Israel also came into Egypt;Thus Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

Thus He rebuked the Red Sea and it dried up,And He led them through the deeps, as through the wilderness.

Thus he saved them from [the] hand of [the] hater and redeemed them from [the] hand of [the] enemy.

Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.

Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

Thus they have repaid me evil for goodAnd hatred for my love.

[It is] in vain for you who rise early [and] sit late, eating the bread of anxious toil, [when] thus he provides for his beloved in [his] sleep.

Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.

O the happiness of the people that is thus, O the happiness of the people whose God is Jehovah!

He hath not dealt thus with any nation; and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Hallelujah!

Thus are the ways of all who are greedy [for] gain-- it will take the life of its possessors.

Thus, he who goes to the wife of his neighbor, any who touches her shall not go unpunished.

Like vinegar to the tooth and like smoke to the eyes, thus [is] the lazy to one who employs him.

The [malevolent] words of the wicked lie in wait for [innocent] blood [to slander],But the mouth of the upright will rescue and protect them.

Know that wisdom is thus for your soul;If you find it, then there will be a future,And your hope will not be cut off.

Do not say, “Thus I shall do to him as he has done to me;I will render to the man according to his work.”

The words of Agur, son of Yakeh, the oracle. Thus says the man to Ithiel, to Ithiel, and Ucal:

So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem; my wisdom also remained with me.

Thus I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had exerted, and behold all was vanity and striving after wind and there was no profit under the sun.

Thus I hated all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, for I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

I said in my heart, It is thus with the children of men, that God may prove them, and that they should see that they themselves are but beasts.

This also is a grievous evil—exactly as a man is born, thus will he die. So what is the advantage to him who toils for the wind?

So then, I have seen the wicked buried, those who used to go in and out from the holy place, and they are soon forgotten in the city where they did thus. This too is futility.

What is thy beloved above any beloved, O fair among women? What is thy beloved above any beloved, That thus thou hast adjured us?

The strong man will become tinder,His work also a spark.Thus they shall both burn togetherAnd there will be none to quench them.

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of IsraelAnd the men of Judah His delightful plant.Thus He looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed;For righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.