Israel in the Bible

Meaning: who prevails with God

Exact Match

When Peter saw this, he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Or why do you stare at us, as though we had made him walk by our own power or godliness?

Verse ConceptsPower Through GodPeter, The ApostleThe Healed WalkingLooking Intently At Peoplepietysurprises

and elders of Israel, if we are this day examined about the benefit done to the impotent man,

Verse ConceptsActs of KindnessKindnessHow Healing Came

[You] said, through the Holy Spirit and by means of [the inspired writings of] our forefather David, your servant, [Psa. 2:1-2], 'Why did the [unconverted] Gentiles rage [at the Messiah], and the people [of Israel] devise useless plans [for opposing Christ]?

Verse ConceptsMinistry, Nature OfMouthsTrapThe Holy Spirit, And ScriptureWhat Foreigners DoSpeaking By The SpiritAngry With GodSpeaking The Word God Gives

In obedience to this, they entered the temple complex at daybreak and began to teach.

When the high priest and those who were with him arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin—the full Senate of the sons of Israel—and sent orders to the jail to have them brought.

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And he made with him the agreement of which circumcision was the sign. And so Abraham had a son, Isaac, and gave him circumcision on the eighth day; and Isaac had a son, Jacob, and Jacob was the father of the twelve heads of the families of Israel.

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Their bodies were carried back [from Egypt] to Shechem and buried in the tomb that Abraham had purchased in Shechem from the sons of Hamor for a sum of silver. [Note: "Shechem" was a town in Israel, the country which in New Testament times was known as Samaria].

Verse ConceptsMoney, Uses OfThe Cave Of Machpelah

This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.

Verse ConceptsChrist Like PeopleJesus The Prophet

Then God turned away and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:

House of Israel, did you bring Me offerings and sacrifices
40 years in the wilderness?

Verse ConceptsBody40 To 50 YearsIsrael In The WildernessBooks Of ProphecyWorshiping Together

The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.

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And when God removed him [from the throne of Israel] He raised up David to be their king. God said about him, 'I have found David, the son of Jesse, to be a man close to my heart [i.e., whom I loved very much] and he will do all that I want him to.'

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As John was completing his ministry he said [to the great crowds], 'Who do you people think I am? [No], I am not the Messiah. But look, Someone is coming [to Israel] after [I complete] my mission whose sandal straps I am not even worthy to unfasten.'

Verse ConceptsSandalsShoesWho Is John The Baptist?Undoing Fastenings

But when the seven days were near ended, the Jews that came from Asia seeing him in the temple, raised a tumult among the people, and laid hands on him, crying out, Men of Israel, help:

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When Jesus reached the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?"

Then Jesus and his disciples went away to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he questioned his disciples and said to them, "Who do people say that I am?"

Once when he was praying by himself, with only the disciples near him, he asked them, "Who do the people say that I am?"


You are the descendants of the prophets and the heirs of the agreement that God made with your forefathers when he said to Abraham, 'Through your posterity all the families of the earth will be blessed.'









































































Be quick and come to terms with your opponent while you are on the way to court with him, or he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you will be thrown into prison.








and he said, "There was once in a city a judge who had no fear of God and no respect for men.


























no light of any lamp will ever shine in you again; no voice of bride or bridegroom will ever be heard in you again. For your merchants were the great men of the earth; by your magic all the heathen have been led astray,










no light of any lamp will ever shine in you again; no voice of bride or bridegroom will ever be heard in you again. For your merchants were the great men of the earth; by your magic all the heathen have been led astray,















so that all who have refused to believe the truth but have preferred disobedience may be condemned.









so that all who have refused to believe the truth but have preferred disobedience may be condemned.











These men are grumblers, dissatisfied with life. They go where their passions lead, their talk is arrogant and they cultivate people in the hope of gain.





















Now there were devout Jews from every part of the world living in Jerusalem.




Then the Jews said to one another, "Where is he going, that we shall not find him? Is he going to our people scattered among the Greeks, and will he teach the Greeks?







James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends greeting to the twelve tribes that are scattered over the world.






Then the Jews said to one another, "Where is he going, that we shall not find him? Is he going to our people scattered among the Greeks, and will he teach the Greeks?




they will take snakes in their hands, and if they drink poison it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get well."









they will take snakes in their hands, and if they drink poison it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get well."














































Yet not a hair of your head will perish!





































This was what God said: 'His descendants will be strangers, living in a foreign land, and they will be enslaved and misused for four hundred years,








This was what God said: 'His descendants will be strangers, living in a foreign land, and they will be enslaved and misused for four hundred years,









There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them,






and brought them before the chief magistrates. "These men," they said, "are Jews, and they are making a great disturbance in our town.




They will fall by the edge of the sword, and be carried off as prisoners among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the heathen, until the time of the heathen comes.










"Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we mark the slaves of our God on their foreheads."








He will come and put those tenants to death, and give the vineyard to others." When they heard this they said, "Heaven forbid!"

If some of the branches have been broken off, and you who were only a wild olive shoot have been grafted in, in place of them, and made to share the richness of the olive's root,


For I tell you that none of those men who were invited shall have any of my dinner!' "

"That, I tell you, is why the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and given to a people that will produce its proper fruit.


He will come and put those tenants to death, and give the vineyard to others." When they heard this they said, "Heaven forbid!"

If some of the branches have been broken off, and you who were only a wild olive shoot have been grafted in, in place of them, and made to share the richness of the olive's root,


For I tell you that none of those men who were invited shall have any of my dinner!' "

"That, I tell you, is why the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and given to a people that will produce its proper fruit.


"Listen to another figure. There was a land owner who planted a vineyard and fenced it in, and hewed out a wine-vat in it, and built a watch-tower, and leased it to tenants, and left the neighborhood.






And Jesus spoke to them again in figures, and said,






As the time drew near for the fulfilment of the promise God had made to Abraham, the people became more and more numerous in Egypt,






















This was what God said: 'His descendants will be strangers, living in a foreign land, and they will be enslaved and misused for four hundred years,

My point is this: An agreement already ratified by God cannot be annulled and its promise canceled by the Law, which arose four hundred and thirty years later.
































Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the Passover Festival, many, when they saw the signs that he showed, came to believe in him.

So it came about that many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and saw what Jesus did, came to believe in him,

for because of him many of the Jews were leaving them and becoming believers in Jesus.

And many became believers in him in that place.

They praised God when they heard it, and they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousand believers there are among the Jews, all of them zealous upholders of the Law.





Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all,












I was circumcised when I was eight days old. I am a descendant of Israel. I belong to the tribe of Benjamin. I am a Hebrew, and the son of Hebrews. As to the Law, I was a Pharisee;





































































































































until another king, who knew nothing about Joseph, became ruler of Egypt. He took advantage of our people and oppressed our forefathers, making them abandon their infant children, so that they should not live. It was at this time that Moses was born. He was a wonderfully beautiful child, and for three months he was taken care of in his father's house. read more.
When he was abandoned, the daughter of Pharaoh adopted him and brought him up as her own son.





















This was what God said: 'His descendants will be strangers, living in a foreign land, and they will be enslaved and misused for four hundred years, and I will sentence the nation that has enslaved them,' God said, 'and afterward they will leave that country and worship me on this spot.'








After that he gave them judges, down to the time of the prophet Samuel.





























He will come and put those tenants to death, and give the vineyard to others." When they heard this they said, "Heaven forbid!"

"That, I tell you, is why the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and given to a people that will produce its proper fruit.

























































































































































































































































































































It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates, which had carved upon them the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.










After that I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no wind should blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree. Then I saw another angel ascend from the east with the seal of the living God, and he cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who had it in their power to harm the earth and the sea, "Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we mark the slaves of our God on their foreheads." read more.
I heard that the number of those that were marked with the seal was 144,000. They were from every tribe of the children of Israel: 12,000 from the tribe of Judah that were marked; 12,000 from the tribe of Reuben; 12,000 from the tribe of Gad; 12,000 from the tribe of Asher; 12,000 from the tribe of Naphtali; 12,000 from the tribe of Manasseh; 12,000 from the tribe of Symeon; 12,000 from the tribe of Levi; 12,000 from the tribe of Issachar; 12,000 from the tribe of Zebulon; 12,000 from the tribe of Joseph; 12,000 from the tribe of Benjamin.


































As all this aroused people's expectations, and they were all wondering in their hearts whether John was the Christ,










































































For in their ignorance of God's way of uprightness and in the attempt to set up one of their own, they refused to conform to God's way of uprightness.


For in their ignorance of God's way of uprightness and in the attempt to set up one of their own, they refused to conform to God's way of uprightness.