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11003
Verse ConceptsWeepingOthers MourningPeople Blessing

Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” So Esau lifted his voice and wept.

11004
Verse ConceptsNot FindingIn Men's Presence

Though you have felt through all my goods, what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that they may decide between us two.

11005
Verse ConceptsPay Attention To People!

After they had stopped speaking, James answered, saying, “Brethren, listen to me.

11006
Verse ConceptsThe Act Of OpeningOpening Documents

Then the voice which I heard from heaven, I heard again speaking with me, and saying, “Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land.”

11007
Verse ConceptsBlightHailChastisementMildewAfflictions Of The WickedTreesNot Returning To GodNature Decayingmold

I smote you and every work of your hands with blasting wind, mildew and hail; yet you did not come back to Me,’ declares the Lord.

11008
Verse ConceptsArmageddonNationalismPeople Of God, In OtJudgmentNames And Titles For The ChurchGathering Other Nations

I will gather all the nations
And bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat.
Then I will enter into judgment with them there
On behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel,
Whom they have scattered among the nations;
And they have divided up My land.

11009
Verse ConceptsRecognising PeopleBreaking Of Breadrecognition

They began to relate their experiences on the road and how He was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.

11010
Verse ConceptsSeven PeopleEight PeopleTrampling Places

This One will be our peace.
When the Assyrian invades our land,
When he tramples on our citadels,
Then we will raise against him
Seven shepherds and eight leaders of men.

11014
Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfJacob, The PatriarchGod Seeing The WickedNot DestroyedGod's People Sinning

“Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom,
And I will destroy it from the face of the earth;
Nevertheless, I will not totally destroy the house of Jacob,”
Declares the Lord.

11015
Verse ConceptsCosmic CreaturesCreatures Going UpOther Creatures Going UpCherubim

Then the cherubim rose up. They are the living beings that I saw by the river Chebar.

11016
Verse ConceptsDecaySeaShepherds, As OccupationsMourning In RegretDyingBirdsFishThe Sea

Therefore the land mourns,
And everyone who lives in it languishes
Along with the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky,
And also the fish of the sea disappear.

11017
Verse ConceptsBraceletsOrnamentsVeilsDressjewelry

dangling earrings, bracelets, veils,

11020
Verse ConceptsEvildoersGod's People Sinning

From the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel;
There they stand!
Will not the battle against the sons of iniquity overtake them in Gibeah?

11021
Verse ConceptsDestructionApproval To KillA Time ToGod HealsHealth And HealingSeasons Changing

A time to kill and a time to heal;
A time to tear down and a time to build up.

11022
Verse ConceptsdesiresTrapDistinctives Of RighteousnessSalvation By Other ThingsGreed

The righteousness of the upright will deliver them,
But the treacherous will be caught by their own greed.

11023
Verse ConceptsGriefAbasing PeopleEvil EyesWinkingHeartache

He who winks the eye causes trouble,
And a babbling fool will be ruined.

11025
Verse ConceptsFractions, One HalfSpeech

As for their children, half spoke in the language of Ashdod, and none of them was able to speak the language of Judah, but the language of his own people.

11026
Verse ConceptsGoldIvorySeafaringTradeThe NavyCommerceShips For TradingTrade With Metals

For the king had ships which went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks.

11027
Verse ConceptsCopies Of Documents

A copy of the edict to be issued as law in every province was published to all the peoples so that they should be ready for this day.

11028
Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and Judah

And it came about in King Rehoboam’s fifth year, because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem

11029
Verse ConceptsHeart, And Holy SpiritRiding HorsesDuring One NightThose Who Did Not Tell

And I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I did not tell anyone what my God was putting into my mind to do for Jerusalem and there was no animal with me except the animal on which I was riding.

11030
Verse Conceptsethics, personalBuying and sellingCreditRespect, For EnvironmentSabbatical YearSabbath, In OtTradeYearsDebtorsCancellation Of DeptCancelling DebtsSabbath ObservedDebt

As for the peoples of the land who bring wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the sabbath or a holy day; and we will forego the crops the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.

11031
Verse ConceptsPillars For Solomon's Temple

He erected the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right and the other on the left, and named the one on the right Jachin and the one on the left Boaz.

11032
Verse ConceptsFameTwenty Thousand And Up

Of the sons of Ephraim 20,800, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers’ households.

11033
Verse ConceptsBreastplatesBow And Arrows, Uses OfArmourDeath Of The Wicked, Examples OfArchers, Men Shot ByChancearmorlungs

Now a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel in a joint of the armor. So he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around and take me out of the fight; for I am severely wounded.”

11034
Verse ConceptsThe Number TwelveJacob, The PatriarchGod Renaming PeopleTwelve TribesTwelve Things

Elijah took twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”

11035

The Philistines closely pursued Saul and his sons, and the Philistines struck down Jonathan, Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.

11036
Verse ConceptsGenealogiesTwenty Thousand And Up

The sons of Tola were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam and Samuel, heads of their fathers’ households. The sons of Tola were mighty men of valor in their generations; their number in the days of David was 22,600.

11037

For many fell slain, because the war was of God. And they settled in their place until the exile.

11038
Verse ConceptsSeducersHow To Worship God

If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will return to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”

11039
Verse ConceptsRulers

Though Judah prevailed over his brothers, and from him came the leader, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph),

11040
Verse ConceptsMiracles Of ElishaReceiving Sight

When they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, “O Lord, open the eyes of these men, that they may see.” So the Lord opened their eyes and they saw; and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.

11041

His Jewish wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.

11042

the third was Absalom the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth was Adonijah the son of Haggith;

11043
Verse ConceptsSheepUncountableMany CreaturesSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats

And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen they could not be counted or numbered.

11044
Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forDoing Things TwiceGod AppearingGod Angry With Individualsrehabilitation

Now the Lord was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,

11045
Verse ConceptsWhy Do Others Do This?

Then Absalom said, “If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us.” And the king said to him, “Why should he go with you?”

11046

Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

11047
Verse ConceptsAltars To The LordBuilding Altars

Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,

11048

These were his officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest;

11049
Verse ConceptsArm Of GodGod's HandStrength Of GodGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

the great trials which your eyes saw and the signs and the wonders and the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.

11050

When her master arose in the morning and opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, then behold, his concubine was lying at the doorway of the house with her hands on the threshold.

11051
Verse ConceptsEncampmentsFive People

So the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered together and went up, they with all their armies, and camped by Gibeon and fought against it.

11052
Verse ConceptsActual WidowsDavid's Wives

and his second, Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur;

11053

and Hazar-shual and Beersheba and Biziothiah,

11054

Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Makkedah to Libnah, and fought against Libnah.

11055
Verse ConceptsTelling Of Movements

It was told the king of Jericho, saying, “Behold, men from the sons of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land.”

11056
Verse ConceptsSpirit, Fallen And RedeemedWill God Be Angry?venting

But they fell on their faces and said, “O God, God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the entire congregation?”

11057
Verse ConceptsForeigners Included In The Law

So all the congregation of the sons of Israel will be forgiven, with the alien who sojourns among them, for it happened to all the people through error.

11058
Verse ConceptsAcceptance, Of WorshipStrangersBlemished CreaturesAcceptancecorruption

nor shall you accept any such from the hand of a foreigner for offering as the food of your God; for their corruption is in them, they have a defect, they shall not be accepted for you.’”

11059
Verse ConceptsGenerations30 To 40 YearsDeath As Punishment

Now the time that it took for us to come from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war perished from within the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.

11060
Verse ConceptsAaron, PrivilegesBlood, Miracles Connected WithAnger Of God, Examples OfMiracles Of Moses And AaronPollutionsRodsSpectatorsRiver NileRivers

So Moses and Aaron did even as the Lord had commanded. And he lifted up the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood.

11061

Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation;

11062
Verse ConceptsHallowedGiving Sacrifices

Out of all your gifts you shall present every offering due to the Lord, from all the best of them, the sacred part from them.’

11063
Verse ConceptsAbominationsFliesGod DifferentiatingI Am The Lord

But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where My people are living, so that no swarms of flies will be there, in order that you may know that I, the Lord, am in the midst of the land.

11064
Verse ConceptsExclusivenessLove, In RelationshipsSexual Sin, Nature OfAbstaining From MeatsAbstinencePeople Consuming BloodChokingAvoiding EvilAvoid ImmoralityCreatures ChokedFood Offered To IdolsBloodSexual ImmoralitySexual Puritygoodbyes

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell.”

11065

(just as it is removed from the ox of the sacrifice of peace offerings), and the priest is to offer them up in smoke on the altar of burnt offering.

11066
Verse ConceptsLambsMutenessSilenceJesus Christ, Meekness OfSheep ShearingHumility Of ChristPatience, The Nature OfChrist Being SilentChrist Was KilledUse Of The Scriptures

Now the passage of Scripture which he was reading was this:
He was led as a sheep to slaughter;
And as a lamb before its shearer is silent,
So He does not open His mouth.

11067

Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites and the family of the Shimeites; these were the families of the Gershonites.

11068
Verse ConceptsHumilityBefore People ActWorshipping GodHumbling Oneself

Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

11069
Verse ConceptsBrimstoneFractions, One ThirdOne ThirdSulphurDeath Of Other GroupsOther References To Mouthssmokinghumanity

A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which proceeded out of their mouths.

11070

Now Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

11071
Verse ConceptsSymbolsSeven SpiritsSeven ThingsSeven TrumpetsPreparing For ActionAngels Doing God's Work

And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound them.

11072
Verse ConceptsTithesBringing In The Tithe

And those indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest’s office have commandment in the Law to collect a tenth from the people, that is, from their brethren, although these are descended from Abraham.

11075
Verse ConceptsBarnabasThe Number FourteenTen To Fourteen Years

Then after an interval of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along also.

11076
Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingJoy, Of The ChurchMourning In RegretRight Desires

and not only by his coming, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, as he reported to us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced even more.

11077
Verse ConceptsPrisonersRopesBad Wives ExamplesDispleasureTransferring Wives

For Herod himself had sent and had John arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, because he had married her.

11078
Verse ConceptsArmsEmbracingGod TeachingGod HealsGod's Healing Love

Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk,
I took them in My arms;
But they did not know that I healed them.

11079
Verse ConceptsGod Is UnchangeableEmpty PlacesExchanging Of LeadersBooks Of ProphecyHomestead

“For it is written in the book of Psalms,
Let his homestead be made desolate,
And let no one dwell in it’;
and,Let another man take his office.’

11080
Verse ConceptsLiving TogetherNo Condemnationcondemnation

I do not speak to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and to live together.

11081
Verse ConceptsDisciples Of John The BaptistTelling Of Jesusluck

The disciples of John reported to him about all these things.

11082
Verse ConceptsDestruction Of The TempleBuilding Stones RejectedPutting Things Down

And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left upon another which will not be torn down.”

11083
Verse ConceptsBirds, Types Of BirdsThings StrippedPelicansHedgehogsCedar Wood

Flocks will lie down in her midst,
All beasts which range in herds;
Both the pelican and the hedgehog
Will lodge in the tops of her pillars;
Birds will sing in the window,
Desolation will be on the threshold;
For He has laid bare the cedar work.

11084
Verse ConceptsWoodFire Of JudgementBurning Plants

“In that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves, so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples, while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem.

11085
Verse ConceptsShame Has ComeWe Have Sinned

Open shame belongs to us, O Lord, to our kings, our princes and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.

11086
Verse ConceptsMotionlessnessDwellings Of CreaturesOther Dwellings Of CreaturesUndisturbed

Where is the den of the lions
And the feeding place of the young lions,
Where the lion, lioness and lion’s cub prowled,
With nothing to disturb them?

11087
Verse ConceptsBabylonFortressesSkyThose Who DestroyGoing Up To HeavenSky, Figurative UseHer Strength

“Though Babylon should ascend to the heavens,
And though she should fortify her lofty stronghold,
From Me destroyers will come to her,” declares the Lord.

11088
Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In OtI Will Be Their God

But I have been the Lord your God since the land of Egypt;
I will make you live in tents again,
As in the days of the appointed festival.

11089
Verse ConceptsWitnessing, Importance OfSigns And Wonders Before ChristTelling Of GodSigns Of The End Times

It has seemed good to me to declare the signs and wonders which the Most High God has done for me.

11090
Verse ConceptsReward, DivineFruits Of SinThe Recompense Of The WickedGod Makes Evil Rebound

But as for those whose hearts go after their detestable things and abominations, I will bring their conduct down on their heads,” declares the Lord God.

11091
Verse ConceptsHeatNosesSeeking For Concrete ThingsDo Not Grow WearyPassiontired

A wild donkey accustomed to the wilderness,
That sniffs the wind in her passion.
In the time of her heat who can turn her away?
All who seek her will not become weary;
In her month they will find her.

11092
Verse ConceptsBeing AshamedStealingthieves

“As the thief is shamed when he is discovered,
So the house of Israel is shamed;
They, their kings, their princes
And their priests and their prophets,

11093
Verse ConceptsSpeaking The Word God Gives

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

11094
Verse ConceptsJacob, The PatriarchWord Of God

The Lord sends a message against Jacob,
And it falls on Israel.

11096

Madmenah has fled.
The inhabitants of Gebim have sought refuge.

11097
Verse ConceptsStoring

He has come against Aiath,
He has passed through Migron;
At Michmash he deposited his baggage.

11098
Verse ConceptsFate Of HumanityAfflictions As Blessings In DisguiseThinking ArightDeath Is UniversalDeath Of A Family MemberDeath Of Loved OneCelebrationLoss Of A Loved Onegrievingfate

It is better to go to a house of mourning
Than to go to a house of feasting,
Because that is the end of every man,
And the living takes it to heart.

11099
Verse ConceptsProverbsRighteous, TheRootsNot MovedgaysBeing GayA Good Manwickedness

A man will not be established by wickedness,
But the root of the righteous will not be moved.

11100
Verse ConceptsMischiefCausing Others To StumbleRestForgiving Others Who Hurt YouHurtSleeping PeacefullyHurt And BetrayalLosing Someonewickednesshurting

For they cannot sleep unless they do evil;
And they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.

11101
Verse ConceptsSecurityNeighborsTrusting God's PlanAbuse

Do not devise harm against your neighbor,
While he lives securely beside you.

11102
Verse ConceptsSecurityTentsApparent InjusticeThe Wicked Prosperthieves

“The tents of the destroyers prosper,
And those who provoke God are secure,
Whom God brings into their power.

11103
Verse ConceptsLipsGod Speaking

“But would that God might speak,
And open His lips against you,

11104
Verse ConceptsCoinageAttitudes Of ReverenceGovernorsGodly Fear, Examples OfHeavy BurdensIndividuals Fearing GodTax To Be Paid

But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people and took from them bread and wine besides forty shekels of silver; even their servants domineered the people. But I did not do so because of the fear of God.

11105
Verse ConceptsTransient WealthDrawbacks To Riches

“He will not become rich, nor will his wealth endure;
And his grain will not bend down to the ground.

11106
Verse ConceptsSpiritual PerceptionGod Not Sending

Then I perceived that surely God had not sent him, but he uttered his prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

11107
Verse ConceptsRainWeather, God's Sovereignty OverMonth 9Groups TremblingWeather Causing Sufferings

So all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month on the twentieth of the month, and all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and the heavy rain.

11108
Verse ConceptsSalivaGod Seeing All PeopleLeave Us Alone

Will You never turn Your gaze away from me,
Nor let me alone until I swallow my spittle?

11109
Verse ConceptsLack Of Discriminationdistance

so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the shout of joy from the sound of the weeping of the people, for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the sound was heard far away.

11110
Verse ConceptsLeapingdanceMorning WorshipMorningReligionPeople JumpingOthers Not AnsweringHinduism

Then they took the ox which was given them and they prepared it and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon saying, “O Baal, answer us.” But there was no voice and no one answered. And they leaped about the altar which they made.

11111

Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,

11112
Verse ConceptsecstasyEntering The Temple

The priests could not enter into the house of the Lord because the glory of the Lord filled the Lord’s house.

11114
Verse ConceptsTwo Thousand

the sons of Bigvai, 2,056;

11115
Verse ConceptsBeamsCraftsmenSpearsWeights And Measures, LinearGiants

He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature five cubits tall. Now in the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam, but he went down to him with a club and snatched the spear from the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.

11116
Verse ConceptsBeautifulCriminalsCoveting, prohibition ofBad Decision Making ExamplesGreed, Condemnation OfLove, Abuse OfRobesSelf IndulgenceTemptation, Universality OfTreasureVisionCovetousness, Results InCovetousness, Example OfBeauty, In ArtefactsConcealment, Of SinAllurements Of SinYielding To TemptationThings UnderOuter GarmentsFine ClothesSpecific Sums Of Money

when I saw among the spoil a beautiful mantle from Shinar and two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold fifty shekels in weight, then I coveted them and took them; and behold, they are concealed in the earth inside my tent with the silver underneath it.”

11117
Verse ConceptsAmbiguityMotionlessnessStaying PutWhere From?

But he went in and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” And he said, “Your servant went nowhere.”

11118
Verse ConceptsHeadsPunishment, Nature OfSin, God's Judgment OnAcquitting The Just

then hear from heaven and act and judge Your servants, punishing the wicked by bringing his way on his own head and justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness.

11119

Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,

11120
Verse ConceptsLanguagesLanguages Mentioned In Scripture

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Speak now to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak with us in Judean in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

11121
Verse ConceptsCompassion, Examples OfVisitingComfort, Of Friends

Their father Ephraim mourned many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.

11122
Verse ConceptsCessationStopping FightingNot The One

When the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.

11123

The sons of Ezrah were Jether, Mered, Epher and Jalon. (And these are the sons of Bithia the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took) and she conceived and bore Miriam, Shammai and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

11124
Verse ConceptsAttackingFear Of Enemies

Now when the Philistines heard that the sons of Israel had gathered to Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the sons of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.

11125
Verse Conceptsdoubt, results ofdoubtersAssurance in the life of faithSeeking SignsSeeking A SignYou Will Know I Am The LordFavorgideon

So Gideon said to Him, “If now I have found favor in Your sight, then show me a sign that it is You who speak with me.

11126
Verse ConceptsConspiraciesHistorical Books

Now the rest of the acts of Zimri and his conspiracy which he carried out, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

11127
Verse ConceptsBurials, Places OfBuried In The City Of DavidKings Of All Israel Or Judah

And Asa slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.

11128
Verse ConceptsPeople VisitingOthers SummoningApproval To Kill Oneself

Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent for you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me still to be there.”’ Now therefore, let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him put me to death.”

11129
Verse ConceptsNowhere To Be Found

Then he brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its families, and the Matrite family was taken. And Saul the son of Kish was taken; but when they looked for him, he could not be found.

11130

Then the cook took up the leg with what was on it and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, “Here is what has been reserved! Set it before you and eat, because it has been kept for you until the appointed time, since I said I have invited the people.” So Saul ate with Samuel that day.

11131
Verse ConceptsHuman WillHeart, Human

Saul also went to his house at Gibeah; and the valiant men whose hearts God had touched went with him.

11132

And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, “What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? Tell us how we shall send it to its place.”

11133
Verse ConceptsDoing Repeatedly

The sons of Israel went up against the sons of Benjamin on the third day and arrayed themselves against Gibeah as at other times.

11134
Verse ConceptsInvitations

and they said to Jephthah, “Come and be our chief that we may fight against the sons of Ammon.”

11135
Verse ConceptsCordsRed CordsGathering Friends

unless, when we come into the land, you tie this cord of scarlet thread in the window through which you let us down, and gather to yourself into the house your father and your mother and your brothers and all your father’s household.

11136
Verse ConceptsAaron, Life EventsFolly, Effects OfConfession, Examples OfAaron, Character

Then Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, I beg you, do not account this sin to us, in which we have acted foolishly and in which we have sinned.

11137
Verse ConceptsCrushingGrindingOilCakesBricksGrinding Foodcooking

The people would go about and gather it and grind it between two millstones or beat it in the mortar, and boil it in the pot and make cakes with it; and its taste was as the taste of cakes baked with oil.

11138
Verse ConceptsInvasionsGraduallyWild Beasts SubduedThe Lord Will Drive Them OutGradual Conquest Of The Land

The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, for the wild beasts would grow too numerous for you.

11139
Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfGod Forgive!Love And Forgivenessgreatness

Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness, just as You also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”

11140
Verse ConceptsFractions, One HalfReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob (concerning all Bashan, it is called the land of Rephaim.

11141
Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityGod Angry With Individuals

Now the Lord was angry with me on your account, and swore that I would not cross the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

11142
Verse ConceptsGuilt OfferingRamsSilverPerfect SacrificesUnintentionalUnfaithful

If a person acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally against the Lord’s holy things, then he shall bring his guilt offering to the Lord: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your valuation in silver by shekels, in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering.

11143
Verse ConceptsEating Before God

then it shall be, that when you eat of the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the Lord.

11144
Verse ConceptsFive Months And MoreWaters Subsiding

and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased.

11145

and Pagiel the son of Ochran over the tribal army of the sons of Asher;

11146

Of the sons of Manasseh, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

11147
Verse ConceptsAge, Lived Over 100Age At Death

So all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died.

11148
Verse ConceptsPeople Possessing Other Things

Then Laban replied to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters or to their children whom they have borne?

11149
Verse ConceptsWriting LettersObeying The Gospel

For to this end also I wrote, so that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things.

11150
Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfGrace, In OtPrayer, God's Promises ConcerningRevival, CorporateGod Giving StrengthGod Will AnswerGod Not ForsakingReturning to their landGod Gives StrengthGod Saves The NeedyGod Will Show MercyI Will Be Their GodRejection

“I will strengthen the house of Judah,
And I will save the house of Joseph,
And I will bring them back,
Because I have had compassion on them;
And they will be as though I had not rejected them,
For I am the Lord their God and I will answer them.

11151
Verse ConceptsOfferingsGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptSacrifice

For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.

11152
Verse ConceptsAngels HandsLifting HandsBlessings For The Right HandThe OceanThe Seagabrielevangelising

Then the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to heaven,

11153
Verse Concepts144,000

from the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand, from the tribe of Levi twelve thousand, from the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand,

11154
Verse ConceptsThe Golden LampstandVisions And Dreams In ScriptureSeven LightsWhat Is This?Forties

He said to me, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps on it with seven spouts belonging to each of the lamps which are on the top of it;

11155
Verse ConceptsIsolated Persons

All at once they looked around and saw no one with them anymore, except Jesus alone.

11156
Verse ConceptsCitadelsRivers And StreamsCanals

I looked in the vision, and while I was looking I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam; and I looked in the vision and I myself was beside the Ulai Canal.

11157

Now in that day a man may keep alive a heifer and a pair of sheep;

11158
Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfAcquiring WisdomFools Becoming Wise

“O naive ones, understand prudence;
And, O fools, understand wisdom.

11159
Verse ConceptsCurses, HumanFloggingHairsDisputesHair PluckingCursing The UngodlyPeople Bound By OathsSwearinginterracial

So I contended with them and cursed them and struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take of their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

11160
Verse ConceptsMan's Conduct Towards GodCurbing SpeechDo Not Be RashMaking DecisionsDecision MakingThe Presence Of Godlimitationsimpulsivenessevangelising

Do not be hasty in word or impulsive in thought to bring up a matter in the presence of God. For God is in heaven and you are on the earth; therefore let your words be few.

11161
Verse ConceptsFat PeopleFat Of People

“For he has covered his face with his fat
And made his thighs heavy with flesh.

11162
Verse ConceptsJoy, And Human ExperienceLaughterLife, HumanLipsShoutingLife Loved

“He will yet fill your mouth with laughter
And your lips with shouting.

11163
Verse ConceptsTravailToiling In VainUnder The SunMen WorkingStrugglesSuccess And Hard Workhardworkstriving

For what does a man get in all his labor and in his striving with which he labors under the sun?

11164
Verse ConceptsInferioritySelf RespectSelf ExaltationI Am Unimportant

“But I have intelligence as well as you;
I am not inferior to you.
And who does not know such things as these?

11165
Verse ConceptsInfatuationNamed Wives

So David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”

11166
Verse ConceptsGovernorsArtaxerxes The KingTen To Fourteen Years

Moreover, from the day that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes, for twelve years, neither I nor my kinsmen have eaten the governor’s food allowance.

11167

Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,

11168
Verse ConceptsSilverStoringfinishing

Thus all the work that Solomon performed for the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver and the gold and all the utensils, and put them in the treasuries of the house of God.

11169
Verse ConceptsTwo Parts Of Constructions

He also made two pillars for the front of the house, thirty-five cubits high, and the capital on the top of each was five cubits.

11170
Verse ConceptsCommerce

Now then, let my lord send to his servants wheat and barley, oil and wine, of which he has spoken.

11171
Verse ConceptsWeapons

Now these are the numbers of the divisions equipped for war, who came to David at Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the Lord.

11172
Verse ConceptsHeaven, Nature OfHousesSinnersHeaven, Glimpsed By HumansGod Acts From HeavenGod Forgive!supplication

Listen to the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place; hear in heaven Your dwelling place; hear and forgive.

11173

The sons of Elkanah were Amasai and Ahimoth.

11174

The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.

11175
Verse Conceptssyria

Now Hazael king of Aram had oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.

11176
Verse ConceptsWisdom, Source Of HumanOutdoing

Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

11178
Verse ConceptsProstitutionUnfaithfulness, To God

But they acted treacherously against the God of their fathers and played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.

11179
Verse ConceptsSons Of The Prophets

Now a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to another by the word of the Lord, “Please strike me.” But the man refused to strike him.

11180
Verse ConceptsMoney, Uses OfSpoils Of WarInexpensiveOther Volume Measures

So the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. Then a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the Lord.

11181
Verse ConceptsWhat Is This?Debthelppothelping

Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” And she said, “Your maidservant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.”

11182

Now therefore, O God of Israel, let Your word, I pray, be confirmed which You have spoken to Your servant, my father David.

11183
Verse ConceptsRich, TheSelf RespectWalking In The Ways Of GodDeercrusades

God is my strong fortress;
And He sets the blameless in His way.

11184
Verse ConceptsGovernors

Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only deputy who was in the land.

11185

But the king said to Absalom, “No, my son, we should not all go, for we will be burdensome to you.” Although he urged him, he would not go, but blessed him.

11186
Verse ConceptsHand Of GodAnimal Sacrifices, Trespass OfferingEmpty ThingsGod Heals

They said, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty; but you shall surely return to Him a guilt offering. Then you will be healed and it will be known to you why His hand is not removed from you.”

11187
Verse ConceptsAlcoholCobrasSerpentsSnakesThings Like Snakes

“Their wine is the venom of serpents,
And the deadly poison of cobras.

11188
Verse ConceptsGod Hearing

Now after Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the Lord’s hearing.

11189
Verse ConceptsAppealing To GodThe Witness Of God

The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The Lord is witness between us; surely we will do as you have said.”

11190
Verse ConceptsRobbing Gods

The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod and household idols and the graven image and went among the people.

11191
Verse ConceptsGroups Helping

Then the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, saying, “Do not abandon your servants; come up to us quickly and save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites that live in the hill country have assembled against us.”

11192
Verse ConceptsAbominationsIdolatryUnder The Bancurses

You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and like it come under the ban; you shall utterly detest it and you shall utterly abhor it, for it is something banned.

11193
Verse ConceptsGod, Glory OfGlory Of GodGod Appearing In FireLiving Despite God's Presencegreatness

You said, ‘Behold, the Lord our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire; we have seen today that God speaks with man, yet he lives.

11194
Verse ConceptsDead Sea

the Arabah also, with the Jordan as a border, from Chinnereth even as far as the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah on the east.

11195
Verse ConceptsWave OfferingsSwinging

You shall have the Levites stand before Aaron and before his sons so as to present them as a wave offering to the Lord.

11196
Verse ConceptsOrdinationPriests, Institution In Ot TimesConsecrationAnointing Priests

These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to serve as priests.

11197
Verse ConceptsNeedExaggerationsMoney, Attitudes ToRich, TheRiches, Dangers OfSelf ConfidenceSelf Righteousness, Nature OfSuperiorityRiches, Can Lead ToSelf DelusionArrogance, Characterizes The WickedPlea Of InnocenceWealthy People

And Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich,
I have found wealth for myself;
In all my labors they will find in me
No iniquity, which would be sin.”

11198

These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei;

11199
Verse ConceptsFirstborn Sons

Now the sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

11200
Verse ConceptsEvil SpiritsRestlessnessDry PlacesComing Out Of PeopleRestCasting Out Demons

When the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding any, it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’

11201
Verse ConceptsLeft Hands

The priest shall also pour some of the oil into his left palm;

11202
Verse ConceptsAaron, Ancestry And GenealogyNamed Sisters

Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

11203
Verse ConceptsTwelve Tribes144,000

from the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand were sealed, from the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand, from the tribe of Gad twelve thousand,

11204
Verse ConceptsPassoverSuffering, Of Jesus ChristRight Desirescommunion

And He said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer;

11205
Verse ConceptsBad LanguageInjustice, Examples OfLawsuitsPerjuryFurrowsPoisonTreatyWeedsCursingSwearing Oaths FalselyMere TalkNo Justice

They speak mere words,
With worthless oaths they make covenants;
And judgment sprouts like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

11206
Verse ConceptsFutilityFruitResponseUnreliabilityUprightnessDisdainImpotence Of IdolsObelisksCarrying IdolsDumbnessGood Or BadDumbChristmas Treestatues

“Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field are they,
And they cannot speak;
They must be carried,
Because they cannot walk!
Do not fear them,
For they can do no harm,
Nor can they do any good.”

11207
Verse ConceptsAbraham, Family And Descendants

the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

11208
Verse ConceptsRestoring NationsVinesThose Who DestroySource Of Honour

For the Lord will restore the splendor of Jacob
Like the splendor of Israel,
Even though devastators have devastated them
And destroyed their vine branches.

11209
Verse ConceptsSeaPouringCreation Of The SeasPouring WaterWaters DividingHis Name Is The Lord

The One who builds His upper chambers in the heavens
And has founded His vaulted dome over the earth,
He who calls for the waters of the sea
And pours them out on the face of the earth,
The Lord is His name.

11210
Verse ConceptsPromotionApproval To KillAll LanguagesAll NationsFear Of Individualsgreatness

Because of the grandeur which He bestowed on him, all the peoples, nations and men of every language feared and trembled before him; whomever he wished he killed and whomever he wished he spared alive; and whomever he wished he elevated and whomever he wished he humbled.

11211
Verse ConceptsColors, BlueJewelsTheophanyThroneCherubim, At God's ThronePrecious StonesThe ExpanseExpanse [The Firmament]

Then I looked, and behold, in the expanse that was over the heads of the cherubim something like a sapphire stone, in appearance resembling a throne, appeared above them.

11212
Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfFolly, Examples OfChildishnessGod, Revelation OfGood WorksKnowing God, Effects OfSkillWisdom, Human ImportanceDullnessNot Knowing HowFoolishness Of MenSkilled PeopleWorldly WisdomGood Children

For My people are foolish,
They know Me not;
They are stupid children
And have no understanding.
They are shrewd to do evil,
But to do good they do not know.”

11213
Verse ConceptsColors, BlueGoldSilverSkillToolsWisdom, Human NatureCommercePurple ClothesSkilled Peopleartistscraftsmanship

Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish,
And gold from Uphaz,
The work of a craftsman and of the hands of a goldsmith;
Violet and purple are their clothing;
They are all the work of skilled men.

11214
Verse ConceptsFaintingdiseasesAstonishmentUnintelligiblenessSick IndividualsPeople AppalledPeople Getting UpServing KingsIllnessgabriel

Then I, Daniel, was exhausted and sick for days. Then I got up again and carried on the king’s business; but I was astounded at the vision, and there was none to explain it.

11215
Verse ConceptsGod, Perfection OfSuffering, Of The InnocentApparent InjusticeIs God Unjust?

Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right.’ Hear now, O house of Israel! Is My way not right? Is it not your ways that are not right?

11216
Verse ConceptsSoldiersGod As A WarriorHis Name Is The Lord

Even the Lord, the God of hosts,
The Lord is His name.

11218
Verse ConceptsAbandoning Idols

“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“When I will punish her idols,
And the mortally wounded will groan throughout her land.

11219
Verse ConceptsAlcoholSleep, PhysicalThe Insecurity Of The WickedIn The Heart Of The Sea

And you will be like one who lies down in the middle of the sea,
Or like one who lies down on the top of a mast.

11220
Verse ConceptsHarvestJoy, And Human ExperienceGod Multipling PeopleYou Will Rejoice In SalvationDividing The SpoilJoyjoyfulness

You shall multiply the nation,
You shall increase their gladness;
They will be glad in Your presence
As with the gladness of harvest,
As men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

11221
Verse ConceptsSelf CondemnationTeachers

“I have not listened to the voice of my teachers,
Nor inclined my ear to my instructors!

11222
Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorMany Spiritual BeingsSalvation By Other Things

“But where are your gods
Which you made for yourself?
Let them arise, if they can save you
In the time of your trouble;
For according to the number of your cities
Are your gods, O Judah.

11223

Come back, come back, O Shulammite;
Come back, come back, that we may gaze at you!”
Why should you gaze at the Shulammite,
As at the dance of the two companies?

11224
Verse ConceptsDietsEating And DrinkingEating Drinking And RejoicingSunHaving A Good DayBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Lifefatehardwork

Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one’s labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward.

11225
Verse Conceptsdung and manureCity GatesNamed GatesBurning JerusalemInspectingDuring One Night

So I went out at night by the Valley Gate in the direction of the Dragon’s Well and on to the Refuse Gate, inspecting the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down and its gates which were consumed by fire.

11226
Verse ConceptsDeception In Fallen Human NatureMischief

“They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity,
And their mind prepares deception.”

11227
Verse ConceptsChaosPeople Possessing Other Things

“The increase of his house will depart;
His possessions will flow away in the day of His anger.

11228
Verse ConceptsMules

The couriers, hastened and impelled by the king’s command, went out, riding on the royal steeds; and the decree was given out at the citadel in Susa.

11229

at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,

11230

and of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui and Manasseh;

11231

Of Israel, of the sons of Parosh there were Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malchijah and Benaiah;

11232

Of Levites there were Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah and Eliezer.

11233
Verse Conceptspartnershipalignment

After this Jehoshaphat king of Judah allied himself with Ahaziah king of Israel. He acted wickedly in so doing.

11234

Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth on the seashore in the land of Edom.

11235
Verse ConceptsSeersVillages

All these who were chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds were 212. These were enrolled by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer appointed in their office of trust.

11236
Verse ConceptsCisternsVinesDo Not Listen!Surrender

Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria, “Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat each of his vine and each of his fig tree and drink each of the waters of his own cistern,

11237
Verse ConceptsRootsSurvivors FavouredPotential Of FruitGod's People Planted

The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

11238
Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorDavid, Character OfTrust, Importance OfBraveryDeliverance From LionsFeet Of CreaturesGod Be With You

And David said, “The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, and may the Lord be with you.”

11239
Verse ConceptsLivestockOwning LivestockTwo ThousandFifty To Ninety ThousandOne Hundred Thousand And MoreTwo Hundred Thousand And More

They took away their cattle: their 50,000 camels, 250,000 sheep, 2,000 donkeys; and 100,000 men.

11240

Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,

11241
Verse ConceptsOld Things

and Jokim, the men of Cozeba, Joash, Saraph, who ruled in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. And the records are ancient.

11242
Verse ConceptsBeltsGreetingsHastePreparing For ActionDo Not Greet

Then he said to Gehazi, “Gird up your loins and take my staff in your hand, and go your way; if you meet any man, do not salute him, and if anyone salutes you, do not answer him; and lay my staff on the lad’s face.”

11243
Verse ConceptsDifferent GodsIf You Do Not Keep Commands

But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,

11244

Reaiah the son of Shobal became the father of Jahath, and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were the families of the Zorathites.

11245
Verse ConceptsConversion, nature of

He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel sin.

11246
Verse ConceptsThroneSaul And David

Now therefore, O Lord, the God of Israel, keep with Your servant David my father that which You have promised him, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way to walk before Me as you have walked.’

11248
Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahHating Individuals

So he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, along with the evil that Hadad did; and he abhorred Israel and reigned over Aram.

11249
Verse ConceptsRestoration

Then David defeated Hadadezer, the son of Rehob king of Zobah, as he went to restore his rule at the River.

11250
Verse ConceptsAmmonitesdefeatHeatNoonScattering The PeoplesThree GroupsSurvivors ThreatenedTwo People

The next morning Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp at the morning watch and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

11251
Verse ConceptsGiving Information

Then Solomon sent word to Hiram, saying,

11252
Verse ConceptsClouds, Natural UseWaterGod Shaking The EarthGod Sending Rain

Lord, when You went out from Seir,
When You marched from the field of Edom,
The earth quaked, the heavens also dripped,
Even the clouds dripped water.

11253
Verse ConceptsSpokesmen

Bathsheba said, “Very well; I will speak to the king for you.”

11254
Verse ConceptsCovenant RelationshipsMaking Kings

Abner said to David, “Let me arise and go and gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may be king over all that your soul desires.” So David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.

11255
Verse ConceptsResponseOthers Not AnsweringDeath Of A ChildDeath Of A MotherDespairHaving A Babychildbearing

And about the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you have given birth to a son.” But she did not answer or pay attention.

11256
Verse ConceptsGiving, Of OneselfPeople Going BeforePraise God For His BenefitsVolunteering

That the leaders led in Israel,
That the people volunteered,
Bless the Lord!

11257
Verse ConceptsPeople VisitingWhen?

When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’

11258
Verse ConceptsThe Lord Is GodThings As WitnessesThe Lord [Yahweh] Is God

The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad called the altar Witness; “For,” they said, “it is a witness between us that the Lord is God.”

11259
Verse ConceptsNo SurvivorsExterminationBurning Cities

They struck every person who was in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them; there was no one left who breathed. And he burned Hazor with fire.

11260
Verse ConceptsHorsesGod's Action TomorrowDestroying ChariotsDo Not Fear MenThose God Gave Into Their Handsmusclesreuniting

Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow at this time I will deliver all of them slain before Israel; you shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”

11261
Verse ConceptsInvincibilityDo Not Fear MenThose God Gave Into Their HandsStaying Strong And Not Giving UpBeing Scared

The Lord said to Joshua, “Do not fear them, for I have given them into your hands; not one of them shall stand before you.”

11262
Verse ConceptsFoodLand, Spiritual Aspects OfMilkProperty, LandSeparationThe Promised LandSeparation From Evil PeopleI Am The LordMilk And Honey

Hence I have said to you, “You are to possess their land, and I Myself will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

11263

To Machir I gave Gilead.

11264
Verse ConceptsMaking Cereal Offerings And Libations

and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;

11265
Verse ConceptsIrreverenceBeing Seen By ManNo Fear Of GodRespectFearing GodPersistencefearless

saying, “In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and did not respect man.

11266

The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.

11267

‘Now arise and cross over the brook Zered yourselves.’ So we crossed over the brook Zered.

11268
Verse ConceptsGold Items For The TabernaclWeights Of Gold

one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;

11269

and the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ households.

11270

But you will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you.

11271
Verse ConceptsInsectsLocustsGod's Action Tomorrow

For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.

11272
Verse ConceptsSecond Thing

Behind the second veil there was a tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

11273

These then are the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.

11274

But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite your whole territory with frogs.

11275
Verse ConceptsNecksRestlessnessYokesSubjectionServing IndividualsPeople Releasing Othersdominion

“By your sword you shall live,
And your brother you shall serve;
But it shall come about when you become restless,
That you will break his yoke from your neck.”

11276
Verse ConceptsOrdinationTwelve DisciplesChosen DisciplesChrist With His Disciples

And when day came, He called His disciples to Him and chose twelve of them, whom He also named as apostles:

11277

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.

11278
Verse ConceptsdesiresBurnt offeringNominal ReligionValuing KnowledgeCondemning The InnocentGod's DesiresRight SacrificesThe Need For Mercy

But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire compassion, and not a sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.

11279
Verse ConceptsFulfilling The Law

Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since there are those who offer the gifts according to the Law;

11280
Verse ConceptsdewLoyaltyMistMorningUnreliabilityWeather, As God's JudgmentLukewarmnessInstabilityWhat Does God Do?

What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O Judah?
For your loyalty is like a morning cloud
And like the dew which goes away early.

11281
Verse ConceptsProphets, Lives OfSycamoresTreesFarmersSons Of The ProphetsNot The OneThose Who Kept StockBelittlingSchoolFarming

Then Amos replied to Amaziah, “I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet; for I am a herdsman and a grower of sycamore figs.

11282
Verse ConceptsAdvantages

Go over to Calneh and look,
And go from there to Hamath the great,
Then go down to Gath of the Philistines.
Are they better than these kingdoms,
Or is their territory greater than yours?

11283
Verse ConceptsdiseasesBalmsHealingHerbs And SpicesMedicineOintmentNo HealingHealth And HealingHope And Healingwholeness

Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored?

11284
Verse ConceptsNecksPresent, TheGod With You

“Then it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass through,
It will reach even to the neck;
And the spread of its wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.

11285
Verse ConceptsFootstoolsZion, As A SymbolGod ForgettingLosing HonourThe Coming Day Of God's WrathFeelings Of Alienation

How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion
With a cloud in His anger!
He has cast from heaven to earth
The glory of Israel,
And has not remembered His footstool
In the day of His anger.

11286
Verse ConceptsOrderly Patternsisrael

If this fixed order departs
From before Me,” declares the Lord,
“Then the offspring of Israel also will cease
From being a nation before Me forever.”

11287
Verse ConceptsProvokingFruits Of SinShame Has Comehurting

Do they spite Me?” declares the Lord. “Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?”

11288
Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In OtHoliness, As Set Apart For GodLiteracyMonth 7

Then Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly of men, women and all who could listen with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.

11289
Verse ConceptsBusynessVegetationNot Knowing The FutureAt Morning And EveningFrom Morning Till EveningCareer SuccessReaping What You SowPlanting SeedsSeedsSuccess And Hard WorkSowing Seedssowing

Sow your seed in the morning and do not be idle in the evening, for you do not know whether morning or evening sowing will succeed, or whether both of them alike will be good.

11290
Verse ConceptsDespair, Description OfExcavationDesire For DeathDrawbacks To RichesDeath Of A Family MemberFamily Death

Who long for death, but there is none,
And dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

11292
Verse ConceptsLight And DarknessBenefits Of Wisdom

And I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness.

11293
Verse ConceptsBitterness

While another dies with a bitter soul,
Never even tasting anything good.

11294
Verse ConceptsMonth 10

So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus to his royal palace in the tenth month which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

11295
Verse ConceptsHaving No BreathBitternessCompetitionbreathingrelaxation

“He will not allow me to get my breath,
But saturates me with bitterness.

11296
Verse ConceptsTombsHalf Of Districtsheroes

After him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, official of half the district of Beth-zur, made repairs as far as a point opposite the tombs of David, and as far as the artificial pool and the house of the mighty men.

11297
Verse ConceptsGoatsTwenty Thousand And UpOne Hundred Thousand And MoreSacrificesDedicationSacrifice

King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. Thus the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

11298
Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodPromises, HumanServants Of The LordThe Curse Of The LawLater Covenants With GodPeople Bound By OathsThe Law Given Through Moses

are joining with their kinsmen, their nobles, and are taking on themselves a curse and an oath to walk in God’s law, which was given through Moses, God’s servant, and to keep and to observe all the commandments of God our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes;

11299
Verse ConceptsCommemorationSeersVisionsProphetic Visions

Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, from first to last, are they not written in the records of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

11300
Verse ConceptsPraise, Manner And Methods OfTrumpetInventions

The priests stood at their posts, and the Levites also, with the instruments of music to the Lord, which King David had made for giving praise to the Lord—“for His lovingkindness is everlasting”—whenever he gave praise by their means, while the priests on the other side blew trumpets; and all Israel was standing.

11301
Verse ConceptsdanceDancingHeart, Fallen And RedeemedSuperiorityLooking Through WindowsPeople Jumping

It happened when the ark of the covenant of the Lord came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and celebrating; and she despised him in her heart.

11302
Verse ConceptsZion, As A Place

Then David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (that is, Jebus); and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there.

11303
Verse ConceptsCommander

Now David had said, “Whoever strikes down a Jebusite first shall be chief and commander.” Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, so he became chief.

11304
Verse ConceptsChariotsHorsesSoldiersAnimals, Cruelty TowardsCavalryAnimal RightsOne HundredThousandsTwenty Thousand And UpDestroying ChariotsTaking Possessions

David captured from him 1,700 horsemen and 20,000 foot soldiers; and David hamstrung the chariot horses, but reserved enough of them for 100 chariots.

11305
Verse ConceptsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenTragedy

Then he went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because misfortune had come upon his house.

11306
Verse ConceptsTombsInadequate BurialsBurial Of Unnamed PeopleLack Of A Proper Burial

but have returned and eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which He said to you, “Eat no bread and drink no water”; your body shall not come to the grave of your fathers.’”

11307

The sons of Jehallelel were Ziph and Ziphah, Tiria and Asarel.

11308
Verse ConceptsActing Three TimesCapturing Cities

Then Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again from the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken in war from the hand of Jehoahaz his father. Three times Joash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel.

11309
Verse ConceptsGraspingLeave Them AloneGod's Things ConcealedMan Of God

When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to push her away; but the man of God said, “Let her alone, for her soul is troubled within her; and the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me.”

11310
Verse ConceptsMan Of God

Then she called to her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God and return.”

11311
Verse ConceptsCripplesAccidentsFeetdisabilitiesLamenessNursesSuffering, Causes OfPeople TumblingHurt And Betrayalsaul

Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the report of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse took him up and fled. And it happened that in her hurry to flee, he fell and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.

11312
Verse ConceptsFour To Five HundredFour And Five Hundred

These were the chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people doing the work.

11313
Verse ConceptsCaptainsRank

But Solomon did not make slaves of the sons of Israel; for they were men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, his chariot commanders, and his horsemen.

11314
Verse Conceptsevangelism, nature ofGod Saving From Enemies

Behold, the Cushite arrived, and the Cushite said, “Let my lord the king receive good news, for the Lord has freed you this day from the hand of all those who rose up against you.”

11315
Verse ConceptsDoing Things TwiceGod Appearing

that the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.

11316
Verse ConceptsLong ThingsPlaces To This Day

But the poles were so long that the ends of the poles could be seen from the holy place before the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen outside; they are there to this day.

11317
Verse ConceptsGovernorsTables

Those deputies provided for King Solomon and all who came to King Solomon’s table, each in his month; they left nothing lacking.

11319
Verse ConceptsForbidden AlliancesAllegiancesDestruction Of Satan's WorksWhat Do You Do?

and as for you, you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed Me; what is this you have done?

11320
Verse ConceptsNot DyingDeath AvertedDo Not Fear For God Will Helpgideon

The Lord said to him, “Peace to you, do not fear; you shall not die.”

11321
Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In OtOrdinationAnointed Old Testament LeadersConsecrationPriests Garments

So the priest who is anointed and ordained to serve as priest in his father’s place shall make atonement: he shall thus put on the linen garments, the holy garments,

11322
Verse ConceptsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

and Phinehas the son of Eleazar, Aaron’s son, stood before it to minister in those days), saying, “Shall I yet again go out to battle against the sons of my brother Benjamin, or shall I cease?” And the Lord said, “Go up, for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand.”

11323
Verse ConceptsFeetClothing40 To 50 YearsThings Wearing OutSwellingCare Of FeetChange And Growthwandering

Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.

11324

The sons of Benjamin gathered together behind Abner and became one band, and they stood on the top of a certain hill.

11325
Verse ConceptsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

So the men of the garrison hailed Jonathan and his armor bearer and said, “Come up to us and we will tell you something.” And Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come up after me, for the Lord has given them into the hands of Israel.”

11326
Verse ConceptsCripplesHigh Priest, In OtSin OfferingPerfect SacrificesSacrificing CattleGuilt

if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer to the Lord a bull without defect as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.

11327
Verse ConceptsRemnantScattering The PeoplesGod Scattering IsraelDriven Away By GodFew People

The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord drives you.

11328
Verse ConceptsJudging Israel

Now Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel after him.

11330
Verse ConceptsBoundaries

The border of the Amorites ran from the ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela and upward.

11331

Suddenly the Lord said to Moses and Aaron and to Miriam, “You three come out to the tent of meeting.” So the three of them came out.

11332
Verse ConceptsSprinkling OilSeven TimesLeft HandsApplied With The FingerOther Right Parts

and with his right-hand finger the priest shall sprinkle some of the oil that is in his left palm seven times before the Lord.

11333
Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfGod, Repentance OfKnowing God, Nature OfReceptivenessRestraintGod Is UnchangeableGod Changing His MindHasty ActionSaying The Same ThingsSaying RepeatedlyA Forgiving GodGod Turned Back From Harming ThemKnowing God's CharacterAnger And Forgivenessjonah

He prayed to the Lord and said, “Please Lord, was not this what I said while I was still in my own country? Therefore in order to forestall this I fled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity.

11334

and Ahira the son of Enan over the tribal army of the sons of Naphtali.

11335
Verse ConceptsCousinsCamps, Unclean ThingsCarrying Dead Bodies

Moses called also to Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come forward, carry your relatives away from the front of the sanctuary to the outside of the camp.”

11336
Verse ConceptsFlood, TheRainWeeksElements, Control OfDivine Power Over NatureSeven DaysMore Than One MonthGod KillingGod Killing All People

For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made.”

11338
Verse ConceptsGod With ChristNot MovedRight SidesPeople Shaking

For David says of Him,
I saw the Lord always in my presence;
For He is at my right hand, so that I will not be shaken.

11339
Verse ConceptsResidueTwo Of Body Parts

and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys.

11340
Verse ConceptsDavid, Spiritual Significance OfCovenant, God's with DavidThe Perfect TempleGod Living In The TabernacleRepairingThe Gospel To The Nationsrebuilding

After these things I will return,
And I will rebuild the tabernacle of David which has fallen,
And I will rebuild its ruins,
And I will restore it,

11341
Verse ConceptsWater ContainersDrawing WaterMan Providing Water

behold, I am standing by the spring, and may it be that the maiden who comes out to draw, and to whom I say, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar”;

11342

Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah;

11345
Verse ConceptsChainsPersecution Of The Apostle PaulSufferingThe Word Of GodHardshipjail

for which I suffer hardship even to imprisonment as a criminal; but the word of God is not imprisoned.

11346
Verse ConceptsComplaintsRitualThe Disciples ActionsPharisees Concerned About ChristThe Sabbath And ChristThe SabbathJesus Healing On Sabbathpharisees

But when the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples do what is not lawful to do on a Sabbath.”

11347
Verse ConceptsDealing With Many PeopleWhile Still Speaking

As he talked with him, he entered and *found many people assembled.

11348
Verse ConceptsFearing Other People

for I do not wish to seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

11349
Verse ConceptsInsanityHealthMadnessWatchfulness, DivineRiding HorsesGod Seeing The RighteousGod BlindingPuzzlementBlindness

In that day,” declares the Lord, “I will strike every horse with bewilderment and his rider with madness. But I will watch over the house of Judah, while I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.

11350
Verse ConceptsNames And Titles For The ChristianProphecies Said By JesusForeknowledge Of ChristDeparturesChrist Not Always With PeopleChrist's Short LifeUnable To Do Other Things

Little children, I am with you a little while longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’

11351
Verse ConceptsSmall CreaturesAnimals EatingGod Forgive!

And it came about, when it had finished eating the vegetation of the land, that I said,
Lord God, please pardon!
How can Jacob stand,
For he is small?”

11352
Verse ConceptsGod, Revelation OfInspiration Of The Holy Spirit, Means OfProphetic VisionsThe Spirit Of GodGod Lifting PeopleVisions From God

And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God to the exiles in Chaldea. So the vision that I had seen left me.

11353
Verse ConceptsRescuePeople Torn To PiecesGod Like A LionLike CreaturesNo One Can Save

For I will be like a lion to Ephraim
And like a young lion to the house of Judah.
I, even I, will tear to pieces and go away,
I will carry away, and there will be none to deliver.

11354
Verse ConceptsPredictionsSealsRevelation Of The FutureSealing The MessageVisions From GodGod's Word Is True

“The vision of the evenings and mornings
Which has been told is true;
But keep the vision secret,
For it pertains to many days in the future.”

11355
Verse ConceptsCorpses Of AnimalsDimensions Of Other Things

The double hooks, one handbreadth in length, were installed in the house all around; and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

11356
Verse ConceptsRevival, Nature OfI Will Be Their GodKeep The Commandments!

that they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God.

11357
Verse ConceptsFalse Ways

And it will be to them like a false divination in their eyes; they have sworn solemn oaths. But he brings iniquity to remembrance, that they may be seized.

11358
Verse ConceptsArbitration

“And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,
Judge between Me and My vineyard.

11359
Verse ConceptsLipsMouthsPersuasionEleganceadultry

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey
And smoother than oil is her speech;

11360
Verse ConceptsCosmic CreaturesRecognising People

These are the living beings that I saw beneath the God of Israel by the river Chebar; so I knew that they were cherubim.

11361
Verse ConceptsWorryViolence In The EarthEating And DrinkingFear Will ComeDespair

Then say to the people of the land, ‘Thus says the Lord God concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel, “They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water with horror, because their land will be stripped of its fullness on account of the violence of all who live in it.

11362
Verse ConceptsAcquittalGuiltAcquitting The Guilty

Who justify the wicked for a bribe,
And take away the rights of the ones who are in the right!

11363
Verse ConceptsNosesRingsSealsjewelry

finger rings, nose rings,

11364
Verse ConceptsQuiversFigurative Burials

“Their quiver is like an open grave,
All of them are mighty men.

11365

“Is not Calno like Carchemish,
Or Hamath like Arpad,
Or Samaria like Damascus?

11366
Verse ConceptsLove, In RelationshipsTongueEleganceThe TongueWomen's Beauty

To keep you from the evil woman,
From the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

11367
Verse ConceptsCareersWithheld KnowledgeUnknown FutureBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Lifeaccomplishments

I have seen that nothing is better than that man should be happy in his activities, for that is his lot. For who will bring him to see what will occur after him?

11368
Verse ConceptsLimitations Of YouthAnxiety And DepressionWorry And StressAnxiety And FearWorryingAnxiety And StressEmotionsTaking Care Of Your Bodygrievingrehabilitationteenagerworriesanxious

So, remove grief and anger from your heart and put away pain from your body, because childhood and the prime of life are fleeting.

11369
Verse ConceptsCommendationProverbsPerversionDespising PeopleLife Despisedgays

A man will be praised according to his insight,
But one of perverse mind will be despised.

11370
Verse ConceptsGraspingLife Through Keeping The LawKeeping Man's Word

Then he taught me and said to me,
“Let your heart hold fast my words;
Keep my commandments and live;

11372
Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfJustification, Necessity OfUprightnessResolving Conflict

For the Lord is righteous, He loves righteousness;
The upright will behold His face.

11373
Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutAdulteress ExamplesImmorality, Examples Of SexualMinistry, Qualifications ForSleep, PhysicalExtra Marital Sex ExamplesPurifying OneselfIndividuals going home

David sent messengers and took her, and when she came to him, he lay with her; and when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.

11374
Verse ConceptsPeople Being Silent

Because I feared the great multitude,
And the contempt of families terrified me,
And kept silent and did not go out of doors?

11375
Verse ConceptsAffluencePeace, Human Search ForPeople Stumblingfate

He who is at ease holds calamity in contempt,
As prepared for those whose feet slip.

11376
Verse ConceptsCrowns, Worn ByAttractionCoronationsExchanging Of LeadersMan's FavouriteWomen's BeautyFavorCompetitioncrownsroyalty

The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she found favor and kindness with him more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

11377
Verse ConceptsDesire For DeathRejoicing In Evil

Who rejoice greatly,
And exult when they find the grave?

11378
Verse ConceptsWallsDistressDestruction Of JerusalemCity GatesBurning JerusalemEliminating ShameRebuilding Jerusalemrebuilding

Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation we are in, that Jerusalem is desolate and its gates burned by fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that we will no longer be a reproach.”

11379
Verse ConceptsShameTentsClothed With Bad Things

“Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,
And the tent of the wicked will be no longer.”

11380
Verse ConceptsdiligenceAction Lest God Be Angryrisk

Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done with zeal for the house of the God of heaven, so that there will not be wrath against the kingdom of the king and his sons.

11381
Verse ConceptsHoliness, Believers' Growth InPurifying Oneself

The priests and the Levites purified themselves; they also purified the people, the gates and the wall.

11382
Verse ConceptsResponsibilityPerspective

Thus they are to keep charge of the tent of meeting, and charge of the holy place, and charge of the sons of Aaron their relatives, for the service of the house of the Lord.

11383
Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness Of

Now, O Lord, You are God, and have promised this good thing to Your servant.

11384

Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,

11385
Verse Conceptselection, privileges ofHeatPropitiationGod Will Be Angry

However, the Lord did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath with which His anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him.

11386
Verse ConceptsAxesLendingLossThings Falling

But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water; and he cried out and said, “Alas, my master! For it was borrowed.”

11387

Eleazar became the father of Phinehas, and Phinehas became the father of Abishua,

11388
Verse ConceptsPomegranatesThe Number Two Hundred

There were capitals on the two pillars, even above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network; and the pomegranates numbered two hundred in rows around both capitals.

11389

The sons of Simeon were Nemuel and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;

11390

The sons of Shimon were Amnon and Rinnah, Benhanan and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi were Zoheth and Ben-zoheth.

11391

Amon his son, Josiah his son.

11392
Verse ConceptsShoutingMegiddo

When Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu pursued him and said, “Shoot him too, in the chariot.” So they shot him at the ascent of Gur, which is at Ibleam. But he fled to Megiddo and died there.

11393
Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Temple Furniture

Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub and five cubits the other wing of the cherub; from the end of one wing to the end of the other wing were ten cubits.

11394
Verse ConceptsMan's Action TomorrowInexpensiveOther Volume Measurestomorrow

It happened just as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, “Two measures of barley for a shekel and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, will be sold tomorrow about this time at the gate of Samaria.”

11395
Verse ConceptsFugitivesWatchmanWest

Now Absalom had fled. And the young man who was the watchman raised his eyes and looked, and behold, many people were coming from the road behind him by the side of the mountain.

11396

Now Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said once more to Joab, “But whatever happens, please let me also run after the Cushite.” And Joab said, “Why would you run, my son, since you will have no reward for going?”

11397
Verse ConceptsGiving Information

Are not Zadok and Abiathar the priests with you there? So it shall be that whatever you hear from the king’s house, you shall report to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

11398
Verse ConceptsEternal BlessingMay God Bless!DedicationBlessings From God

Now therefore, may it please You to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue forever before You. For You, O Lord God, have spoken; and with Your blessing may the house of Your servant be blessed forever.”

11399
Verse ConceptsTirednessTired In Pursuit

They struck among the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very weary.

11400
Verse ConceptsRespect, For Human BeingsMan Of GodNamed Prophets Of The LordMan's Words Fulfilled

He said to him, “Behold now, there is a man of God in this city, and the man is held in honor; all that he says surely comes true. Now let us go there, perhaps he can tell us about our journey on which we have set out.”

11401
Verse ConceptsPregnancyDaughters In LawOther Wives

Now his daughter-in-law, Phinehas’s wife, was pregnant and about to give birth; and when she heard the news that the ark of God was taken and that her father-in-law and her husband had died, she kneeled down and gave birth, for her pains came upon her.

11402
Verse ConceptsAskingNot Enquiring Of GodDirection

So the men of Israel took some of their provisions, and did not ask for the counsel of the Lord.

11403
Verse ConceptsSeeking For Concrete ThingsLoss Of DonkeysMissing SomeoneLosing A FriendBeing Lostsaul

Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, were lost. So Kish said to his son Saul, “Take now with you one of the servants, and arise, go search for the donkeys.”

11404
Verse ConceptsMurderStomachsThighsOther Right Parts

Ehud stretched out his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh and thrust it into his belly.

11405
Verse ConceptsAuthority Delegated To PeopleLater Covenants With God

Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them; and Jephthah spoke all his words before the Lord at Mizpah.

11406

So Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you take me back to fight against the sons of Ammon and the Lord gives them up to me, will I become your head?”

11407
Verse ConceptsPurity, Nature OfWeeksTen Or More DaysTwo To Four MonthsBleedingPurifying OneselfHaving A Babychildbearing

But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean for two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall remain in the blood of her purification for sixty-six days.

11408
Verse ConceptsTowersKilling Within Israel

He tore down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.

11409

and Hazar-gaddah and Heshmon and Beth-pelet,

11410
Verse ConceptsLaw, Ten CommandmentsTen ThingsGod Appearing In FireThe Law Given By God

He wrote on the tablets, like the former writing, the Ten Commandments which the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me.

11411
Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!

“You shall therefore keep every commandment which I am commanding you today, so that you may be strong and go in and possess the land into which you are about to cross to possess it;

11412
Verse ConceptsConquestBeyond JordanGentile Rulers

Now these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the sons of Israel defeated beyond the Jordan toward the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon even as far as Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir; and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their divisions,

11413
Verse ConceptsClayDust, Literal UseHoly VesselsWeed

and the priest shall take holy water in an earthenware vessel; and he shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.

11414

I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you shattered, and you shall put them in the ark.’

11415
Verse ConceptsKept Alive By God

But you who held fast to the Lord your God are alive today, every one of you.

11416
Verse ConceptsFlood, TheSkyDivine RestraintsWindows Of HeavenSealing ThingsThe Sea StilledFloods

Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained;

11417
Verse ConceptsGiving, Of PossessionsPigeons

He shall then offer one of the turtledoves or young pigeons, which are within his means.

11418
Verse ConceptsConversion, examples ofFaith, Nature OfExperience, of GodSpiritual DiscernmentGospel, Essence OfKnowledge, Of Jesus ChristSalvation, Necessity And Basis OfJesus Christ, SaviorHearing ChristReasons For Faith In ChristThe Gospel To The NationsBelieving In Yourself

and they were saying to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is indeed the Savior of the world.”

11420

Then the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

11421

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

11422
Verse ConceptsFilling PlacesFilling HousesUnique Creatures

Then your houses shall be filled and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians, something which neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day that they came upon the earth until this day.’” And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

11423
Verse ConceptsFlood, TheFive Months And MoreFloods

The water prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.

11424
Verse ConceptsWithheld KnowledgeSecret ThingsGoing To Heavenrevelation

And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the book or to look into it.

11425
Verse ConceptsSheep, FigurativeUnfaithfulness, To PeopleInadequate ShepherdingThe Smiting Of JesusScattered Like SheepChrist Would Be KilledJesus Foretelling His Resurrection

And Jesus *said to them, “You will all fall away, because it is written, ‘I will strike down the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.’

11426

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that My wonders will be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

11427
Verse ConceptsForeskinsAt The Same TimeGroups Of Slaves

Then Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all the servants who were born in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the very same day, as God had said to him.

11428
Verse ConceptsAmazingGod's Voice

When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight; and as he approached to look more closely, there came the voice of the Lord:

11429
Verse ConceptsFountainsAlcoholdrinkingHillsMessianic AgeMilkProperty, HousesWineFountains Of LifePlenty Of WineMetaphorical SpringsBlessings From The MountainsFountains Used FigurativelyMillenial SacrificesBrooks

And in that day
The mountains will drip with sweet wine,
And the hills will flow with milk,
And all the brooks of Judah will flow with water;
And a spring will go out from the house of the Lord
To water the valley of Shittim.

11430
Verse ConceptsFeeblenessPowerlessnessEffeminacyThe Act Of OpeningOpening GatesWeak WomenLocks And BarsWomen's Strength

Behold, your people are women in your midst!
The gates of your land are opened wide to your enemies;
Fire consumes your gate bars.

11431
Verse ConceptsInsectsBurning People

There fire will consume you,
The sword will cut you down;
It will consume you as the locust does.
Multiply yourself like the creeping locust,
Multiply yourself like the swarming locust.

11432
Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyGod, Righteousness OfHistoryPast, TheAnswering PeopleGod Doing RightDoing RightMan's Counsel

“My people, remember now
What Balak king of Moab counseled
And what Balaam son of Beor answered him,
And from Shittim to Gilgal,
So that you might know the righteous acts of the Lord.”

11433
Verse ConceptsIvoryFire Of Judgement

Thus the Lord God showed me, and behold, the Lord God was calling to contend with them by fire, and it consumed the great deep and began to consume the farm land.

11434
Verse ConceptsInsectsMothsPeople RottingPeople Eaten By Worm

Therefore I am like a moth to Ephraim
And like rottenness to the house of Judah.

11435
Verse ConceptsApostates, PunishmentOffenceRighteous, TheStumblingAccountabilityResponsibility For Blood ShedWarning IndividualsGod HinderingIf You Turn From GodResponsible To WarnResponsibility

Again, when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I place an obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.

11436
Verse Conceptsevil, believers' responses toDrawbacks To KnowledgeHumbling OneselfHumble Yourself

Yet you, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this,

11437
Verse ConceptsWingsWheelsAngel's WingsTouching Holy ThingsSound

And I heard the sound of the wings of the living beings touching one another and the sound of the wheels beside them, even a great rumbling sound.

11438
Verse ConceptsFutilityOraclesVisionsFalse VisionsSin Made KnownMen DeceivingFalse Prophets DenouncedWhat Sin?Peace And SafetyFake Friends

Your prophets have seen for you
False and foolish visions;
And they have not exposed your iniquity
So as to restore you from captivity,
But they have seen for you false and misleading oracles.

11439
Verse ConceptsGoldAbandoning IdolsTaking PossessionsThe Nations Attacked

Also their gods with their metal images and their precious vessels of silver and gold he will take into captivity to Egypt, and he on his part will refrain from attacking the king of the North for some years.

11440
Verse ConceptsSeaThe OceanBirdsFishThe SeaPaths

The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea,
Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

11441
Verse ConceptsFoliageBearing Fruit

and whose foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in which was food for all, under which the beasts of the field dwelt and in whose branches the birds of the sky lodged—

11442
Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsWeeksPeople AppalledRivers As Places Of Prayer

Then I came to the exiles who lived beside the river Chebar at Tel-abib, and I sat there seven days where they were living, causing consternation among them.

11443
Verse ConceptsImpenitence, Results OfReturning To GodStanding FirmRepenting Of Abominations

“If you will return, O Israel,” declares the Lord,
“Then you should return to Me.
And if you will put away your detested things from My presence,
And will not waver,

11444
Verse ConceptsNomadsUsing RoadsPolluting The LandSpiritual HarlotrySex Between NationsThings On High

“Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see;
Where have you not been violated?
By the roads you have sat for them
Like an Arab in the desert,
And you have polluted a land
With your harlotry and with your wickedness.

11445
Verse ConceptsPlunderingGodlessnessNationalismTrampling People

I send it against a godless nation
And commission it against the people of My fury
To capture booty and to seize plunder,
And to trample them down like mud in the streets.

11447
Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorFalse ConfidenceGod My SalvationDeception

“Surely, the hills are a deception,
A tumult on the mountains.
Surely in the Lord our God
Is the salvation of Israel.

11448
Verse ConceptsCoinageVinesWeedsA Thousand Things

And it will come about in that day, that every place where there used to be a thousand vines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will become briars and thorns.

11449
Verse ConceptsFoodAbundance, MaterialMilkRich Food

and because of the abundance of the milk produced he will eat curds, for everyone that is left within the land will eat curds and honey.

11450
Verse ConceptsDestructionIn The Congregation

“I was almost in utter ruin
In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”

11451
Verse ConceptsSpeed Of God's Anger

For in a very little while My indignation against you will be spent and My anger will be directed to their destruction.”

11452
Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstHomeRighteous, ThePeople Passing AwaygaysProtecting Your Family

The wicked are overthrown and are no more,
But the house of the righteous will stand.

11454
Verse ConceptsAmenEmptyingPeople ShakingPeople Abandoning People

I also shook out the front of my garment and said, “Thus may God shake out every man from his house and from his possessions who does not fulfill this promise; even thus may he be shaken out and emptied.” And all the assembly said, “Amen!” And they praised the Lord. Then the people did according to this promise.

11455
Verse ConceptsHand Of GodProsperity Of The Wicked

‘Is it right for You indeed to oppress,
To reject the labor of Your hands,
And to look favorably on the schemes of the wicked?

11456
Verse ConceptsRedemption, In OtHelp In ShortagePrinciples Of WarWarredeemed

“In famine He will redeem you from death,
And in war from the power of the sword.

11457
Verse ConceptsNightOvercoming Adversitywaterfalls

“Amid disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night,
When deep sleep falls on men,

11458
Verse ConceptsLambsdrink offeringSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats

with this money, therefore, you shall diligently buy bulls, rams and lambs, with their grain offerings and their drink offerings and offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.

11459
Verse ConceptsArchivesBooksStoringSeeking For Concrete ThingsHistorical Books

so that a search may be made in the record books of your fathers. And you will discover in the record books and learn that that city is a rebellious city and damaging to kings and provinces, and that they have incited revolt within it in past days; therefore that city was laid waste.

11460
Verse ConceptsSeafaringForbidden AlliancesProphesying

Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat saying, “Because you have allied yourself with Ahaziah, the Lord has destroyed your works.” So the ships were broken and could not go to Tarshish.

11461
Verse ConceptsExclusivenessMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningParticipation, In SinIntermarriage

and that we will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.

11462
Verse ConceptsLoyaltyFifty To Ninety ThousandWhole HeartednessMind Battlestraining

Of Zebulun, there were 50,000 who went out in the army, who could draw up in battle formation with all kinds of weapons of war and helped David with an undivided heart.

11463
Verse ConceptsThe Navypartnership

So he allied himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish, and they made the ships in Ezion-geber.

11464

Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the Lord.

11465
Verse ConceptsCedarShepherds, As Kings And LeadersCedar Wood

Wherever I have gone with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel, which I commanded to shepherd My people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?’”’

11466

Jakim, Zichri, Zabdi,

11467
Verse ConceptsCraftsmenPotter

These were the potters and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah; they lived there with the king for his work.

11468
Verse ConceptsFalse GodsServing Asherahjezebel

Ahab also made the Asherah. Thus Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

11469

and Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah and Jushab-hesed, five.

11470
Verse Conceptsorganization

Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord, and acted more wickedly than all who were before him.

11471
Verse ConceptsRoadsAnimals KillingCorpses Of Other PeopleDeath

Now when he had gone, a lion met him on the way and killed him, and his body was thrown on the road, with the donkey standing beside it; the lion also was standing beside the body.

11472
Verse ConceptsCommerce

A chariot was imported from Egypt for 600 shekels of silver, and a horse for 150; and by the same means they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of the Arameans.

11473
Verse ConceptsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedChanged HeartPeople TransformedMan's Words Fulfilledsaul

Then it happened when he turned his back to leave Samuel, God changed his heart; and all those signs came about on that day.

11474
Verse ConceptsThirtyGreat Individuals

Then Samuel took Saul and his servant and brought them into the hall and gave them a place at the head of those who were invited, who were about thirty men.

11476
Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleEternal Judgement

Then Abner called to Joab and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that it will be bitter in the end? How long will you refrain from telling the people to turn back from following their brothers?”

11477

She said, “The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God was taken.”

11478
Verse ConceptsEscaping From PeopleWhat Manner?

The man said to Eli, “I am the one who came from the battle line. Indeed, I escaped from the battle line today.” And he said, “How did things go, my son?”

11479
Verse ConceptsSeafaringShipsSeashoresBeyond JordanReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

Gilead remained across the Jordan;
And why did Dan stay in ships?
Asher sat at the seashore,
And remained by its landings.

11480
Verse ConceptsOpposition, To Sin And EvilAngels, Ministry To UnbelieversCursing The UngodlyNo Helpcurses

‘Curse Meroz,’ said the angel of the Lord,
‘Utterly curse its inhabitants;
Because they did not come to the help of the Lord,
To the help of the Lord against the warriors.’

11481

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?

11482
Verse Concepts20 To 30 YearsJudging Israel

He judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried in Shamir.

11483
Verse ConceptsGrandchildrenThe Kingdom Of Othersgideon

Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you and your son, also your son’s son, for you have delivered us from the hand of Midian.”

11484
Verse ConceptsEast And West

to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite at the foot of Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.

11485

Then Joshua and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the mantle, the bar of gold, his sons, his daughters, his oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent and all that belonged to him; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.

11486
Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyCityBuildingPregnancyCitiesCivilizationBuildersMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenPeople Naming ThingsSame Sex MarriageBuilding Relationships

Cain had relations with his wife and she conceived, and gave birth to Enoch; and he built a city, and called the name of the city Enoch, after the name of his son.

11487

But if you tell this business of ours, then we shall be free from the oath which you have made us swear.”

11488
Verse ConceptsCooking, Types Of FoodAnimal Sacrifices, Peace OfferingFood For Priests Defined

“You shall take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.

11489
Verse ConceptsSeven YearsFertile LandPlenty In EgyptAbundance

During the seven years of plenty the land brought forth abundantly.

11490
Verse Conceptssmoking

Then the priest shall offer it up in smoke on the altar as food, an offering by fire to the Lord.

11491
Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsGod VisitingBonesPeople Bound By Oaths

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, “God will surely take care of you, and you shall carry my bones from here with you.”

11492
Verse ConceptsPregnancyRams20 To 30 YearsMiscarrying Animals

These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flocks.

11494
Verse ConceptsDisorder Among PeopleChristians Are Called Followers Of The Way

About that time there occurred no small disturbance concerning the Way.

11495
Verse ConceptsArrestingequipping, physicalWay, TheTying Updamascus

and asked for letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

11496
Verse ConceptsForeheadsColors, GreenGuaranteeSealsThe Sealing Of The Holy SpiritHarming TreesHurthurting

They were told not to hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

11497
Verse ConceptsTwo YearsWelcoming Other PeoplePaying For Goods

And he stayed two full years in his own rented quarters and was welcoming all who came to him,

11498
Verse ConceptsWatchfulness, Of BelieversIgnorance Of Christ’s ReturnTaking HeedThe Time UnknownPersistence

“Take heed, keep on the alert; for you do not know when the appointed time will come.

11499
Verse ConceptsChristmas Treeassertiveness

And a man named Joseph, who was a member of the Council, a good and righteous man

11500
Verse ConceptsLove, Abuse OfTablesGuest Roomsmarketing

And He began speaking a parable to the invited guests when He noticed how they had been picking out the places of honor at the table, saying to them,

11501
Verse ConceptsFortressesFig treeMouthsThings ShakingEating With MouthsThings Falling

All your fortifications are fig trees with ripe fruit—
When shaken, they fall into the eater’s mouth.

11502
Verse ConceptsDebaucheryHuman SkinSkinningBonesHating GoodLoving EvilHatehaters

“You who hate good and love evil,
Who tear off their skin from them
And their flesh from their bones,

11503
Verse ConceptsFulfilling The LawPeople Accusing Peopleconnection

Then these men said, “We will not find any ground of accusation against this Daniel unless we find it against him with regard to the law of his God.”

11504
Verse ConceptsempiresImpenitence, Warnings AgainstRepentance, Importance OfAssyria, Prophecies OfNot Returning To GodReturning to the oldGentile Rulers

They will not return to the land of Egypt;
But Assyria—he will be their king
Because they refused to return to Me.

11505
Verse ConceptsPromotionAccountabilityThree Men

and over them three commissioners (of whom Daniel was one), that these satraps might be accountable to them, and that the king might not suffer loss.

11506
Verse ConceptsDay of the LORDExile, in assyriaExile In ProspectGod As A WarriorOther References To God's Name

Therefore, I will make you go into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.

11507
Verse ConceptsIndividuals going home

Then the latter will enter the realm of the king of the South, but will return to his own land.

11508
Verse ConceptsFalse GodsCoercionPeople Torn To PiecesRubbishBlasphemy

Therefore I make a decree that any people, nation or tongue that speaks anything offensive against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego shall be torn limb from limb and their houses reduced to a rubbish heap, inasmuch as there is no other god who is able to deliver in this way.”

11509

So Darius the Mede received the kingdom at about the age of sixty-two.

11510
Verse ConceptsGod's Orders

this is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king:

11511
Verse ConceptsReinstatementPromotionStruggles In Relationship

Then the king caused Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego to prosper in the province of Babylon.

11512
Verse ConceptsEffect Of BribesPaying For Goodswhores

Men give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them to come to you from every direction for your harlotries.

11513
Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeHearingReceptivenessNo EscapeGod Will Bring Harm

Therefore thus says the Lord, “Behold I am bringing disaster on them which they will not be able to escape; though they will cry to Me, yet I will not listen to them.

11514
Verse ConceptsMercy, HumanInfanticidePitilessnessPeople Without Mercypity

And their bows will mow down the young men,
They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb,
Nor will their eye pity children.

11515
Verse ConceptsGod Not ForsakingNot For EverRejection

For the Lord will not reject forever,

11516
Verse ConceptsAnimismSpiritual FathersSpiritual MothersTurning One's BackSave Us!Dads

Who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
And to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their back to Me,
And not their face;
But in the time of their trouble they will say,
‘Arise and save us.’

11518
Verse ConceptsCups, Figurative UseBrimstoneDisastersCoal, Uses OfWorldly SnaresBurning PeopleSulphurPunishment of the The WickedResolving Conflict

Upon the wicked He will rain snares;
Fire and brimstone and burning wind will be the portion of their cup.

11519
Verse ConceptsMouthsSpeaking TruthTelling The Truth

“For my mouth will utter truth;
And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

11520
Verse ConceptsWithheld KnowledgeFinancesSaving Moneyinvestingriskempowerment

Divide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what misfortune may occur on the earth.

11521
Verse ConceptsBeing CalmPeaceablenessStaying Strong And Not Giving UpAnger And Forgiveness

If the ruler’s temper rises against you, do not abandon your position, because composure allays great offenses.

11522
Verse ConceptsCastawaysEvildoersGod Not ForsakingPlea Of Innocence

“Lo, God will not reject a man of integrity,
Nor will He support the evildoers.

11523
Verse ConceptsSuffering SaintsPersecution, Christian ResponseTrust

A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush, a Benjamite.
O Lord my God, in You I have taken refuge;
Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,

11524
Verse ConceptsBeginningGod's HandGod's Hands On PeopleRebuilding Jerusalemconstructionrebuilding

I told them how the hand of my God had been favorable to me and also about the king’s words which he had spoken to me. Then they said, “Let us arise and build.” So they put their hands to the good work.

11525

and let the robe and the horse be handed over to one of the king’s most noble princes and let them array the man whom the king desires to honor and lead him on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king desires to honor.’”

11526

Next to them Jedaiah the son of Harumaph made repairs opposite his house. And next to him Hattush the son of Hashabneiah made repairs.

11527
Verse ConceptsCherubim

The wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits; the wing of one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub.

11528

The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth, and Beracah and Jehu the Anathothite,

11529
Verse ConceptsEncampmentsOne FleshTribes Of IsraelAbsence Of SexThe Ark Moved Around

Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? By your life and the life of your soul, I will not do this thing.”

11530

Abdon, Zichri, Hanan,

11531
Verse ConceptsBuilders

His daughter was Sheerah, who built lower and upper Beth-horon, also Uzzen-sheerah.

11532
Verse ConceptsThe Ark In The TempleCherubim

For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim made a covering over the ark and its poles from above.

11533

The son of Uzzi was Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah were Michael, Obadiah, Joel, Isshiah; all five of them were chief men.

11534
Verse ConceptsGoldShieldsMoney For The Temple

He took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house, and he took everything, even taking all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

11535
Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfCertaintyGod, Titles And Names OfHonestyTrustworthinessThe Lord Is GodGod's Word Is TrueGod's Trustworthiness

Now, O Lord God, You are God, and Your words are truth, and You have promised this good thing to Your servant.

11536
Verse ConceptsFirstborn Sons

Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These were the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.

11537

The sons of Hananiah were Pelatiah and Jeshaiah, the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah.

11538
Verse ConceptsCovenant RelationshipsSealing A CovenantAgreements, LegalKept Alive By Men

Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live; and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.

11539
Verse ConceptsReward, DivineThe Recompense Of The RighteousGod Has Requited

Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness,
According to my cleanness before His eyes.

11540

So they brought it with the ark of God from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill; and Ahio was walking ahead of the ark.

11541

Then the woman said, “Please let your maidservant speak a word to my lord the king.” And he said, “Speak.”

11542

But the remainder of the people he placed in the hand of Abishai his brother, and he arrayed them against the sons of Ammon.

11543
Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftWarfare, Nature OfResisting DiscouragementGradual Conquest Of The LandThose God Gave Into Their Hands

Now the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not fear or be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.

11544
Verse ConceptsAffirmationsExamples, BadLuxuryReturning To GodAcknowledge, SinConfessionWe Have Sinned

So Achan answered Joshua and said, “Truly, I have sinned against the Lord, the God of Israel, and this is what I did:

11545
Verse Conceptsprocessreuniting

It came about after a while that the sons of Ammon fought against Israel.

11546

Then Elon the Zebulunite died and was buried at Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.

11547
Verse ConceptsJerusalem, History OfFourteen

and Zelah, Haeleph and the Jebusite (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to their families.

11548
Verse ConceptsChariotsGod Overcoming

The Lord routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his chariot and fled away on foot.

11549
Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsHalf Of DistrictsArnon

Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, both the middle of the valley and half of Gilead, even as far as the brook Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon;

11550
Verse ConceptsMilitary Serviceequipping, physicalArmourWarriorsForty Thousand And Up

about 40,000 equipped for war, crossed for battle before the Lord to the desert plains of Jericho.

11551
Verse ConceptsAgreement, Making AgreementsCordsRed Cords

She said, “According to your words, so be it.” So she sent them away, and they departed; and she tied the scarlet cord in the window.

11552
Verse Conceptsethics, incentives towardsJustice

Justice, and only justice, you shall pursue, that you may live and possess the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

11553
Verse ConceptsLeavenOfferingsLeavenedPeace offerings

With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving, he shall present his offering with cakes of leavened bread.

11554
Verse ConceptsHow To Live LongGod Gave The LandMilk And Honey

so that you may prolong your days on the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

11555
Verse ConceptsIncurring GuiltOffspringForbidden Sexual RelationshipsReasons For BarrennessNakedness Uncovered

If there is a man who lies with his uncle’s wife he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness; they will bear their sin. They will die childless.

11556
Verse ConceptsDiscernment, Nature OfPriests, Function In Ot TimesRitual LawMan DifferentiatingClean And Unclean

and so as to make a distinction between the holy and the profane, and between the unclean and the clean,

11557
Verse ConceptsLevitesStandingSeparation From Evil PeopleThe Ark Moved AroundCarrying Holy ThingsPeople BlessingStatutes To This DayGod’s Covenant With The Levites

At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to serve Him and to bless in His name until this day.

11558
Verse ConceptsAaron, Priestly ResponsibilitiesSacrifice On The Bronze AltarMeat offerings

‘Now this is the law of the grain offering: the sons of Aaron shall present it before the Lord in front of the altar.

11559
Verse ConceptsOutside The CampBurning SacrificesClean Objects

that is, all the rest of the bull, he is to bring out to a clean place outside the camp where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire; where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.

11560
Verse ConceptsAaron, As High PriestTithes And Offering

So you shall also present an offering to the Lord from your tithes, which you receive from the sons of Israel; and from it you shall give the Lord’s offering to Aaron the priest.

11561

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

11563
Verse ConceptsInsectsFliesHouses Under Attackbugs

Then the Lord did so. And there came great swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh and the houses of his servants and the land was laid waste because of the swarms of flies in all the land of Egypt.

11564
Verse ConceptsOccupationsFortsAfter A Long TimeLeasingFarming

And He began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and rented it out to vine-growers, and went on a journey for a long time.

11565
Verse ConceptsChildlikenessKingdom Of God, Entry IntoExclusionEntering The KingdomChrist Telling The TruthLike Children

Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all.”

11566
Verse ConceptsHuman Favour

The Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Furthermore, the man Moses himself was greatly esteemed in the land of Egypt, both in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants and in the sight of the people.

11567
Verse ConceptsBorrowing, Examples OfGold

Speak now in the hearing of the people that each man ask from his neighbor and each woman from her neighbor for articles of silver and articles of gold.”

11568
Verse ConceptsHairsNot DyingOther References To Hairlazarus

It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

11569
Verse ConceptsBowing Heads Before GodGod Has GuidedBlessed Be God!

And I bowed low and worshiped the Lord, and blessed the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had guided me in the right way to take the daughter of my master’s kinsman for his son.

11570
Verse ConceptsTeachablenessIsolated PersonsQuestioning ChristTwelve DisciplesJesus Using Parables

As soon as He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve, began asking Him about the parables.

11572
Verse ConceptsAngerAttitudes Of StubbornnessAnger, HumanHardness Of HeartHeart, DivineAnger, Justified ExamplesAnger Of Man, RighteousStretching OutChrist SeeingObstinate IndividualsThose Jesus Healed

After looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He *said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

11573
Verse ConceptsReadingLiteracySynagogueReading The ScripturesExhort OthersStudying The LawUse Of The ScripturesWritten In The ProphetsEncouragementMotivationReading The Bibleencouraginguplifting

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets the synagogue officials sent to them, saying, “Brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say it.”

11574

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

11575
Verse ConceptsSkullsPots For Cooking And Eating

and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother.

11576

otherwise if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to speak of you—will be put to shame by this confidence.

11577
Verse ConceptsFootstoolsChrist OvercomingSubject To GodEnemiespoop

Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”’

11578
Verse ConceptsChristlikenessdiscipleship, nature ofTeachersInferiorityBecoming Like Peopletraining

A pupil is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher.

11580
Verse ConceptsThe Number TwelveRoofYearsOne YearRoyal HousesRooftop

Twelve months later he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon.

11581
Verse ConceptsJesus The Prophet

and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the prophets of old had risen again.

11582
Verse ConceptsFir TreesWailingFelling TreesDestruction Of PlantsOaksHarming Trees

Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,
Because the glorious trees have been destroyed;
Wail, O oaks of Bashan,
For the impenetrable forest has come down.

11583
Verse ConceptsRejecting God's WordDecayGrassRejection Of GodStrawRejection Of God's WordWord Of GodRootsPeople RottingBurning Plants

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble
And dry grass collapses into the flame,
So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as dust;
For they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts
And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

11585
Verse ConceptsInadequate ShepherdingThree MenOne Month

Then I annihilated the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also was weary of me.

11586
Verse ConceptsStaffKilling Domesticated AnimalsNations UnitedTwo Other ThingsBlessingPasturing The Flockreunitinggraciousness

So I pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, hence the afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Favor and the other I called Union; so I pastured the flock.

11587
Verse ConceptsClayArts And Crafts, Types ofTabletsClay, Uses

“Now you son of man, get yourself a brick, place it before you and inscribe a city on it, Jerusalem.

11589
Verse ConceptsWailingUnique Nations

“Moreover, in their wailing they will take up a lamentation for you
And lament over you:
‘Who is like Tyre,
Like her who is silent in the midst of the sea?

11590
Verse Conceptsdrink offeringProvoking GodShrinesMaking Cereal Offerings And LibationsSacrificing On The High PlacesWorship At Trees

When I had brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, and they offered there their sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There also they made their soothing aroma and there they poured out their drink offerings.

11591
Verse ConceptsForestsdoubtersPessimismAllegiancesGroups Trembling

When it was reported to the house of David, saying, “The Arameans have camped in Ephraim,” his heart and the hearts of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake with the wind.

11592
Verse ConceptsSin, Effects OfSin, Consequences OfThe Fate Of The WickedContinuing In SinPunishment of the The Wicked

His own iniquities will capture the wicked,
And he will be held with the cords of his sin.

11593
Verse ConceptsAbandonmentSound DoctrinePeople Not Abandoningdoctrine

For I give you sound teaching;
Do not abandon my instruction.

11594
Verse ConceptsClothAsceticism, TypesRepentance, Examples OfSackcloth And AshesFasting, Accompanied ByMonth 7FastingFasting And Prayer

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the sons of Israel assembled with fasting, in sackcloth and with dirt upon them.

11595
Verse ConceptsContempt, Examples OfLaughterMockeryRebellion, Against Human AuthorityRidicule, Nature OfSpeech, Negative Aspects OfCharacter Of Wicked

But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard it, they mocked us and despised us and said, “What is this thing you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

11596
Verse ConceptsPlea Of Innocence

‘According to Your knowledge I am indeed not guilty,
Yet there is no deliverance from Your hand.

11597
Verse ConceptsSelf Righteousness, And The GospelPeople With General KnowledgeAcquitting The Guilty

“In truth I know that this is so;
But how can a man be in the right before God?

11598
Verse ConceptsJews, TheThose Who Did Not Tell

The officials did not know where I had gone or what I had done; nor had I as yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials or the rest who did the work.

11599
Verse ConceptsPillars For Solomon's TempleTwo Parts Of Constructions

the two pillars, the bowls and the two capitals on top of the pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on top of the pillars,

11600

and of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch and Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal and Jeremoth;

11601
Verse ConceptsCrimsonClothLinenMost Holy PlaceCherubim, As DecorationsColors, BlueBlue Purple And Scarlet

He made the veil of violet, purple, crimson and fine linen, and he worked cherubim on it.

11602
Verse ConceptsTrumpet

They came to Jerusalem with harps, lyres and trumpets to the house of the Lord.

11603
Verse ConceptsTemple Assistants

I sent them to Iddo the leading man at the place Casiphia; and I told them what to say to Iddo and his brothers, the temple servants at the place Casiphia, that is, to bring ministers to us for the house of our God.

11604
Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forTwelve Beings

From the time that Amaziah turned away from following the Lord they conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there.

11605
Verse ConceptsBeginningKingsMonthProperty, HousesSolomon, Life OfTypes Of ChristCalendarsMonth 2100 Years And MoreStarting To BuildThe First Temple

Now it came about in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.

11606
Verse ConceptsTurned To BloodThose Who Rose EarlyRosesSunshine

They rose early in the morning, and the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood.

11607
Verse ConceptsMarinersSkillShips For Trading

And Hiram sent his servants with the fleet, sailors who knew the sea, along with the servants of Solomon.

11608

The sons of Samuel were Joel the firstborn, and Abijah the second.

11609

and Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama and Nedabiah.

11610
Verse ConceptsHeart, DivineHoliness, Believers' Growth InHoliness, As Set Apart For GodHoliness, Purpose OfPrayer, Answers ToReceptivenessWatchfulness, DivineGod Answered PrayerGod Pays AttentionA Place For God's Namesupplication

The Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built by putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.

11611

the fifth was Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth was Ithream, by his wife Eglah.

11612

Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;

11613

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home, and lived at Nineveh.

11614
Verse ConceptsMothers Love For Her ChildrenDeath Of A Mother

Then the king said, “Give the first woman the living child, and by no means kill him. She is his mother.”

11615
Verse Concepts20 To 30 YearsList Of Kings Of Israel

In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.

11616
Verse Conceptsevil, believers' responses toFat PeopleKickingPraising Specific PeopleDishonoring God

Why do you kick at My sacrifice and at My offering which I have commanded in My dwelling, and honor your sons above Me, by making yourselves fat with the choicest of every offering of My people Israel?’

11617
Verse ConceptsComplaints

It shall come about, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we shall say to them, ‘Give them to us voluntarily, because we did not take for each man of Benjamin a wife in battle, nor did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty.’”

11618
Verse ConceptsPalm TreesCourts

She used to sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the sons of Israel came up to her for judgment.

11619

Saul’s son had two men who were commanders of bands: the name of the one was Baanah and the name of the other Rechab, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the sons of Benjamin (for Beeroth is also considered part of Benjamin,

11620
Verse ConceptsIs It Really?This Is Me

Then Abner looked behind him and said, “Is that you, Asahel?” And he answered, “It is I.”

11621
Verse ConceptsCarrying Dead BodiesGet Up!Others Not Answering

He said to her, “Get up and let us go,” but there was no answer. Then he placed her on the donkey; and the man arose and went to his home.

11622
Verse ConceptsResentment, Against PeopleDisputesWhat Do You Do?

Then the men of Ephraim said to him, “What is this thing you have done to us, not calling us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they contended with him vigorously.

11623

When the sons of Ammon fought against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob;

11624
Verse ConceptsHeadsRoadsStreetsGoing OutsideResponsibility

It shall come about that anyone who goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we shall be free; but anyone who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head if a hand is laid on him.

11625
Verse ConceptsGiftsPoverty, Remedies ForReligionFear, Of UnknownBenevolenceGod Remembering DevotionWhat Is The Matter?Giving To The PoorThings Going UpGod Answered Prayerremembrance

And fixing his gaze on him and being much alarmed, he said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and alms have ascended as a memorial before God.

11626

Amam and Shema and Moladah,

11627
Verse ConceptsWestern BordersGentile RulersThe Shephelah

and to the kings who were of the north in the hill country, and in the Arabah—south of Chinneroth and in the lowland and on the heights of Dor on the west—

11628
Verse ConceptsSalt

and the Arabah as far as the Sea of Chinneroth toward the east, and as far as the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward toward Beth-jeshimoth, and on the south, at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah;

11629
Verse ConceptsHumilityGod OpposingUncircumcised In Heart

I also was acting with hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies—or if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled so that they then make amends for their iniquity,

11631
Verse ConceptsNationalismSeparation From Evil PeopleGod's Action Tomorrowtomorrowdivision

I will put a division between My people and your people. Tomorrow this sign will occur.”’”

11632
Verse ConceptsCovenant Made At Sinai

The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

11633

The sons of Benjamin according to their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;

11634

that the Lord spoke to me, saying,

11635
Verse ConceptsThe Region Of Jordan

Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho, saying,

11636
Verse ConceptsServants, BadWellsDishonesty, Examples Of

But Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the well of water which the servants of Abimelech had seized.

11637
Verse ConceptsDawnCreation, Origin OfPlanetsFate, And FatalismBlackConstellationsNatureSeaStarsColors, BlackOrionCreation Of The SeasLight And DarknessProvision Of Day And NightHis Name Is The LordSun Moon And Stars Before GodWhat Else God Created

He who made the Pleiades and Orion
And changes deep darkness into morning,
Who also darkens day into night,
Who calls for the waters of the sea
And pours them out on the surface of the earth,
The Lord is His name.

11638
Verse ConceptsearthquakesLightningSymbolsThunderCensersFire From HeavenAltars, In HeavenAstronomical SignsThunder Showing God's Presence

Then the angel took the censer and filled it with the fire of the altar, and threw it to the earth; and there followed peals of thunder and sounds and flashes of lightning and an earthquake.

11639
Verse ConceptsdiseasesMothers, Responsibilities OfPeter, The DiscipleSuffering, Nature OfMother In Laws

Then He got up and left the synagogue, and entered Simon’s home. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Him to help her.

11640
Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfCoinageNatureSparrowsAnimals, God's Care OfFive AnimalsGod Remembering The NeedyGod ReprovingInexpensive

Are not five sparrows sold for two cents? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God.

11641
Verse ConceptsHerdsAll PeopleBoth Men And Animals AffectedFestivals Observed

Moses said, “We shall go with our young and our old; with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we shall go, for we must hold a feast to the Lord.”

11642
Verse ConceptsSaintsVisiting

Now as Peter was traveling through all those regions, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.

11643
Verse ConceptsdisgraceIdolatry, Objections ToShameTaxationAssyria, Prophecies OfCarrying IdolsGentile RulersShame Of Idolatry

The thing itself will be carried to Assyria
As tribute to King Jareb;
Ephraim will be seized with shame
And Israel will be ashamed of its own counsel.

11644
Verse ConceptsBoundariesSandSeaAttitudes Of RespectOceansAweWavesDivine Power Over NatureBarriersEternal WorldLimits For The SeaSand And GravelFear God!

‘Do you not fear Me?’ declares the Lord.
‘Do you not tremble in My presence?
For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea,
An eternal decree, so it cannot cross over it.
Though the waves toss, yet they cannot prevail;
Though they roar, yet they cannot cross over it.

11645
Verse ConceptsFirst To FightThe Honourable Will Be Honoured

The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah.

11646
Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with NoahBreaking SticksBlessingBreaking The Covenantgraciousness

I took my staff Favor and cut it in pieces, to break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

11647
Verse ConceptsBaal Worship, HistoryShrinesNature Of Kings

You also carried along Sikkuth your king and Kiyyun, your images, the star of your gods which you made for yourselves.

11648
Verse ConceptsTentsPegs

“From them will come the cornerstone,
From them the tent peg,
From them the bow of battle,
From them every ruler, all of them together.

11649
Verse ConceptsNetsTrapCorrupt PriestsSnares Laid for PeopleMan Trapping

Hear this, O priests!
Give heed, O house of Israel!
Listen, O house of the king!
For the judgment applies to you,
For you have been a snare at Mizpah
And a net spread out on Tabor.

11650
Verse ConceptsCompassesGateways Of The TempleFacing EastGod Lifting PeopleTwenty Some

Moreover, the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the Lord’s house which faced eastward. And behold, there were twenty-five men at the entrance of the gate, and among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, leaders of the people.

11652
Verse ConceptsFoundationsDestruction Of JerusalemBurning Jerusalemventing

The Lord has accomplished His wrath,
He has poured out His fierce anger;
And He has kindled a fire in Zion
Which has consumed its foundations.

11653
Verse ConceptsLipsNominal ReligionRootsMetaphorical PlantingLack Of Meaning

You have planted them, they have also taken root;
They grow, they have even produced fruit.
You are near to their lips
But far from their mind.

11654
Verse ConceptsDeceit, Practice OfDeceit Leading to JudgmentHell, As An ExperienceLiesPitsLiarsThe Fate Of The WickedAbasing PeopleHalf Of ThingsPits As A Term For Graves

But You, O God, will bring them down to the pit of destruction;
Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days.
But I will trust in You.

11655
Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfGod, Titles And Names OfShouting For Joy

Cry aloud and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,
For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

11656
Verse ConceptsNo Escapeimpossible

Flight will perish from the shepherds,
And escape from the masters of the flock.

11657
Verse ConceptsEggsMonotonyWhiteTastelessnessTastelessSournesslegacy

“Can something tasteless be eaten without salt,
Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

11658
Verse ConceptsRescueRighteous, TheA Good ManProtection From Dangerproblems

The righteous is delivered from trouble,
But the wicked takes his place.

11659
Verse ConceptsPaths

On top of the heights beside the way,
Where the paths meet, she takes her stand;

11660
Verse ConceptsGod Seeing All The EarthGod In Relation To Man

‘Have You eyes of flesh?
Or do You see as a man sees?

11661
Verse ConceptsSighingIndigestion

“For my groaning comes at the sight of my food,
And my cries pour out like water.

11662
Verse ConceptsHarvestNot Reaping What You SowOvercoming Obstacles

His harvest the hungry devour
And take it to a place of thorns,
And the schemer is eager for their wealth.

11663
Verse ConceptsWaiting At GatesPraising Specific People

All the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman; for so the king had commanded concerning him. But Mordecai neither bowed down nor paid homage.

11664
Verse ConceptsCity Of DavidCastlesEntering Cities

The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You shall not enter here.” Nevertheless David captured the stronghold of Zion (that is, the city of David).

11665
Verse ConceptsThose Looking For People

Then the king’s attendants, who served him, said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.

11666
Verse ConceptsHuman WillHeart, HumanBless The Lord!

Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to adorn the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem,

11667
Verse ConceptsHeads Of Priestly HouseholdsTimes Of People

Now in the days of Joiakim, the priests, the heads of fathers’ households were: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

11668
Verse ConceptsTen TimesGiving Informationvulnerability

When the Jews who lived near them came and told us ten times, “They will come up against us from every place where you may turn,”

11669
Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitHillsLying, Examples OfPeople Giving ClothesSons Of The ProphetsTwo Other ThingsTwo Other Men

He said, “All is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, just now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothes.’”

11670

And the Levites: Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;

11671
Verse ConceptsClosing Up

“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin when You afflict them;

11672

The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits, and they stood on their feet facing the main room.

11673
Verse ConceptsFalse WorshipLoyaltyParticipation, In SinServanthood, And Worship Of Goddouble mindednessServing One's Own Gods

They feared the Lord and served their own gods according to the custom of the nations from among whom they had been carried away into exile.

11674
Verse ConceptsPeople Giving ClothesTwo Other ThingsCarrying Other LoadsTwo Other MenTalents

Naaman said, “Be pleased to take two talents.” And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags with two changes of clothes and gave them to two of his servants; and they carried them before him.

11675
Verse ConceptsWeeksWeekly

Their relatives in their villages were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them;

11676
Verse ConceptsMorningNursesWho Is This?Not The OneDeath Of A Childsisterhood

When I rose in the morning to nurse my son, behold, he was dead; but when I looked at him carefully in the morning, behold, he was not my son, whom I had borne.”

11677

Bela had sons: Addar, Gera, Abihud,

11678

The sons of Benjamin were three: Bela and Becher and Jediael.

11679
Verse ConceptsIndividuals Fearing God

They also feared the Lord and appointed from among themselves priests of the high places, who acted for them in the houses of the high places.

11680

The sons of Elioenai were Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah and Anani, seven.

11681
Verse ConceptsConfrontationGod, Righteousness OfStillnessGod Doing RightDoing Right

So now, take your stand, that I may plead with you before the Lord concerning all the righteous acts of the Lord which He did for you and your fathers.

11682
Verse ConceptsFraud

They said, “You have not defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from any man’s hand.”

11683

Now Jehoshaphat the son of Asa became king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.

11684
Verse ConceptsForgetting

But they forgot the Lord their God, so He sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

11685
Verse ConceptsWeeksSeven DaysLeave Us AloneSurrender

The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Let us alone for seven days, that we may send messengers throughout the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to deliver us, we will come out to you.”

11686
Verse ConceptsPorchesShutting DoorsLocks And Bars

Then Ehud went out into the vestibule and shut the doors of the roof chamber behind him, and locked them.

11687
Verse ConceptsCapital Punishment

“But if in the field the man finds the girl who is engaged, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lies with her shall die.

11688
Verse ConceptsExcellent WomenBlessed By GodBlessing Others

Most blessed of women is Jael,
The wife of Heber the Kenite;
Most blessed is she of women in the tent.

11689
Verse ConceptsFalse GodsShrinesStonesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisksBurning Idolatrous Things

But thus you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars, and smash their sacred pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.

11690
Verse ConceptsTen To Fourteen YearsJudging Israel

Now Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel after him; and he judged Israel ten years.

11691

This is the inheritance of the sons of Gad according to their families, the cities and their villages.

11692

So all of these kings having agreed to meet, came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.

11693
Verse ConceptsHeart, Human

and His signs and His works which He did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land;

11694
Verse ConceptsThree DaysEscaping To MountainsThose Looking For People

They departed and came to the hill country, and remained there for three days until the pursuers returned. Now the pursuers had sought them all along the road, but had not found them.

11695
Verse ConceptsDivine ManifestationsRevelation, In OtGod Appearing At The Doorway

Then the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the doorway of the tent, and He called Aaron and Miriam. When they had both come forward,

11696
Verse ConceptsPillar Of CloudClouds, God's PresenceDivine Manifestations

It came about, however, when the congregation had assembled against Moses and Aaron, that they turned toward the tent of meeting, and behold, the cloud covered it and the glory of the Lord appeared.

11697
Verse ConceptsDeath penaltySabbath, In Ot

Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.”

11698
Verse ConceptsAnimal Sacrifices, Meal OfferingBad WaterBitter WaterOther References To HairRegulations For Cereal OfferingsThose Jealous For People

The priest shall then have the woman stand before the Lord and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and place the grain offering of memorial in her hands, which is the grain offering of jealousy, and in the hand of the priest is to be the water of bitterness that brings a curse.

11699
Verse ConceptsTouchCorpses Of AnimalsTouching Unclean ThingsForbidden FoodEating Meatporkfootball

You shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

11700
Verse ConceptsGuilt, Human Aspects OfGuilt OfferingResponsibility, To GodSin BearerBearingIgnorance Of EvilIgnorance of God

“Now if a person sins and does any of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, though he was unaware, still he is guilty and shall bear his punishment.

11701
Verse ConceptsAgony, In HeartPessimismAnguish, Causeterrorism

This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples everywhere under the heavens, who, when they hear the report of you, will tremble and be in anguish because of you.’

11702
Verse ConceptsGiantsPeople Naming People

(It is also regarded as the land of the Rephaim, for Rephaim formerly lived in it, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummin,

11703
Verse ConceptsCorpses Of AnimalsIndeterminate Sums Of Money

the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall become his.

11704
Verse ConceptsSwinging

The priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall offer them for a wave offering before the Lord.

11706
Verse ConceptsAaron, Moses SpokespersonMiracles, Responses ToGod Hardening PeopleOther Miracles

Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh; yet the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the sons of Israel go out of his land.

11707
Verse ConceptsTheocracyThe Law Given To Israel

“Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them:

11708
Verse ConceptsTwo Other ThingsActual Widows

And He saw a poor widow putting in two small copper coins.

11709
Verse ConceptsMan TrappingBefore People ActWorshipping God

Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God. Do you not realize that Egypt is destroyed?”

11711
Verse ConceptsVolunteering

The sons of Izhar: Korah and Nepheg and Zichri.

11712
Verse ConceptsSwordsThree DaysParticular JourneysA Feast In The WildernessGod Might Kill His People

Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please, let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, otherwise He will fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”

11713
Verse ConceptsPeople Of God, In NtRepentance, Nature OfSecuritySelf DeceptionChildren Of AbrahamPotential Of FruitSigns Of RepentanceNervousness

Therefore bear fruits in keeping with repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham.

11714
Verse ConceptsEscapingEscaping, Physical ThingsOld Testament Events As TypesEntering The ArkBuilding Relationships

Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood.

11715
Verse ConceptsThe Age At Fatherhood

Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and became the father of a son.

11716
Verse ConceptsWeepingWorthinessMourning In Regret

Then I began to weep greatly because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look into it;

11717
Verse ConceptsSigns From GodTelling Of God

Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord with which He had sent him, and all the signs that He had commanded him to do.

11718
Verse ConceptsCovered With Blood

So He let him alone. At that time she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood”—because of the circumcision.

11719
Verse ConceptsStumblingWarfare, Nature OfRiding HorsesSpeedPeople StumblingSparklingDeath

Horsemen charging,
Swords flashing, spears gleaming,
Many slain, a mass of corpses,
And countless dead bodies—
They stumble over the dead bodies!

11721
Verse ConceptsCakesDefecationBaking BreadDung For Fuelcookingpoop

You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung.”

11722
Verse ConceptsBreasts, Nursing MothersCrowdsWombbreasts

While Jesus was saying these things, one of the women in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You and the breasts at which You nursed.”

11723
Verse ConceptsCrowds SeekingWelcoming ChristPeople Waitingwelcome

And as Jesus returned, the people welcomed Him, for they had all been waiting for Him.

11724
Verse ConceptsCaldronsBones BrokenPeople Stripping OffSkinningPots For Cooking And Eatingcookingpot

Who eat the flesh of my people,
Strip off their skin from them,
Break their bones
And chop them up as for the pot
And as meat in a kettle.”

11725
Verse ConceptsMoney, Attitudes ToRich, TheVisitationGod VisitingReckoningDrawbacks To RichesPeople From Far Away

Now what will you do in the day of punishment,
And in the devastation which will come from afar?
To whom will you flee for help?
And where will you leave your wealth?

11726
Verse ConceptsBaldness, Figurative UseClothHairsSackcloth And AshesSmellsPeople RottingFragranceMarks On PeopleAppearance Of HairNo BeautyWomen's BeautyHairmakeupbranding

Now it will come about that instead of sweet perfume there will be putrefaction;
Instead of a belt, a rope;
Instead of well-set hair, a plucked-out scalp;
Instead of fine clothes, a donning of sackcloth;
And branding instead of beauty.

11727
Verse ConceptsDeath Of The WickedKeeping Oneself AliveRepent Lest You DieDyingResponsibilitywickednesssoulpeople

Yet if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself.

11728
Verse ConceptsProvoking GodGod Opposes IdolatryPeople From Far Away

Behold, listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not within her?”
“Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, with foreign idols?”

11729
Verse ConceptsIndifferenceNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsGod's Attitude To FoolsUnhearing

‘Now hear this, O foolish and senseless people,
Who have eyes but do not see;
Who have ears but do not hear.

11730
Verse ConceptsGod, The CreatorUnceasingAlways Being ActiveGod Has Been With YouBeing ContentThe Presence Of Godcraftsmanship

Then I was beside Him, as a master workman;
And I was daily His delight,
Rejoicing always before Him,

11731
Verse ConceptsFellowship OfferingVowsPeace offerings

I was due to offer peace offerings;
Today I have paid my vows.

11732
Verse ConceptsWomenAnnunciationsProphetessSpeedGod Naming People

So I approached the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. Then the Lord said to me, “Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz;

11733
Verse ConceptsGroups Trembling

They have gone through the pass, saying,
Geba will be our lodging place.”
Ramah is terrified, and Gibeah of Saul has fled away.

11735
Verse ConceptsEquality Of FateForgetting PeopleDeath Is UniversalWise Man Or FoolWisdom

For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise man as with the fool, inasmuch as in the coming days all will be forgotten. And how the wise man and the fool alike die!

11736
Verse ConceptsPleasing GodPleasureCharacter Of WickedNot Pleasing Godwickednessartists

For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness;
No evil dwells with You.

11737
Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodPsalm InterjectionsGod's WillSupportdeliverancehelpsoul

Many are saying of my soul,
“There is no deliverance for him in God.” Selah.

11738
Verse ConceptsOnce A Day

Every day Mordecai walked back and forth in front of the court of the harem to learn how Esther was and how she fared.

11739
Verse ConceptsFour To Five HundredPomegranatesFour And Five Hundred

and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the pillars.

11740
Verse ConceptsSchool Of ProphetsProphetessFear Of Enemies

Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these works of theirs, and also Noadiah the prophetess and the rest of the prophets who were trying to frighten me.

11741
Verse ConceptsSongsThanksgiving

The Levites were Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah who was in charge of the songs of thanksgiving, he and his brothers.

11742
Verse ConceptsRulersHalf Of Districts

Next to them Rephaiah the son of Hur, the official of half the district of Jerusalem, made repairs.

11743
Verse ConceptsTwo Hundred And Some

the sons of Hashum, 223;

11744
Verse Conceptszion

Then Solomon assembled to Jerusalem the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers’ households of the sons of Israel, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.

11745
Verse ConceptsBedroomsPrincesSistersStealingKept Alive By MenNamed SistersPrivate Rooms

But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and placed him and his nurse in the bedroom. So they hid him from Athaliah, and he was not put to death.

11746
Verse ConceptsKeysEvery MorningActing All Night

They spent the night around the house of God, because the watch was committed to them; and they were in charge of opening it morning by morning.

11747
Verse ConceptsGod, As Shepherd

In times past, even when Saul was king, you were the one who led out and brought in Israel; and the Lord your God said to you, ‘You shall shepherd My people Israel, and you shall be prince over My people Israel.’”

11748

Now the first who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites and the temple servants.

11749

Gera, Shephuphan and Huram.

11750
Verse ConceptsElisha, Prophecies OfArmsUnbelief, As Response To GodUnbelief, Shown ByUnbelief, Examples OfSkepticismWindows Of HeavenImpossible For GodOther SupportingLooking At God's WorksQuestioning Godtomorrowroyalty

The royal officer on whose hand the king was leaning answered the man of God and said, “Behold, if the Lord should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?” Then he said, “Behold, you will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat of it.”

11751
Verse ConceptsMegiddoborders

and along the borders of the sons of Manasseh, Beth-shean with its towns, Taanach with its towns, Megiddo with its towns, Dor with its towns. In these lived the sons of Joseph the son of Israel.

11752
Verse ConceptsPolygamyThirty Thousand And Up

With them by their generations according to their fathers’ households were 36,000 troops of the army for war, for they had many wives and sons.

11753
Verse ConceptsHalf HeartednessActing Three TimesOvercoming Hard Timessyria

So the man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck five or six times, then you would have struck Aram until you would have destroyed it. But now you shall strike Aram only three times.”

11754
Verse ConceptsMiracles Of ElishaBuoyancyWhere Are Things?

Then the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” And when he showed him the place, he cut off a stick and threw it in there, and made the iron float.

11755
Verse ConceptsHistorical Booksaccomplishmentsaccomplishment

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did and his might, how he fought and how he recovered for Israel, Damascus and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

11756
Verse ConceptsAnointing KingsMaking KingsList Of Kings Of Israel

He arose and went into the house, and he poured the oil on his head and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I have anointed you king over the people of the Lord, even over Israel.

11757
Verse ConceptsIndividuals going home

At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines; and she went out to appeal to the king for her house and for her field.

11758
Verse ConceptsLeaders, PoliticalMastersWork, And The FallYokesRemoving BurdensLight YokeEasy Burdens

Your father made our yoke hard; now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you.”

11759
Verse ConceptsCavesPower, HumanSelf DefenceStrength, HumanStrongholdsFortsDensEscaping To MountainsPeople In CavesCaves As Places Of Refuge

The power of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of Midian the sons of Israel made for themselves the dens which were in the mountains and the caves and the strongholds.

11760
Verse ConceptsDuplicating WordsPeople Carrying Live PeopleDeath Of A Motherhurting

He said to his father, “My head, my head.” And he said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

11761
Verse ConceptsTime Of YearMan's Words Fulfilled

The woman conceived and bore a son at that season the next year, as Elisha had said to her.

11762
Verse ConceptsBarren WomenAnswered PrayerChildbirthHeraldAngel, AnnouncementsBirths ForetoldGod Naming PeopleGod Answered Prayer

But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your petition has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will give him the name John.

11763
Verse Concepts20 To 30 YearsList Of Kings Of Israel

In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah became king over all Israel at Tirzah, and reigned twenty-four years.

11764
Verse ConceptsSanctuaryTouchMore Than One MonthTouching Holy ThingsTouching Unclean ThingsPurifying OneselfHallowed

Then she shall remain in the blood of her purification for thirty-three days; she shall not touch any consecrated thing, nor enter the sanctuary until the days of her purification are completed.

11765

Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,

11766
Verse ConceptsSix YearsJudging Israel

Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

11767

The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “For this reason we have now returned to you, that you may go with us and fight with the sons of Ammon and become head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

11768
Verse ConceptsPeople Of JudahThose God Gave Into Their Hands

The Lord said, “Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand.”

11769
Verse ConceptsArrows, Described AsLong HairCovered With BloodGod KillingGod Making DrunkGod Will Kill The PeoplesGod's SwordArrows

I will make My arrows drunk with blood,
And My sword will devour flesh,
With the blood of the slain and the captives,
From the long-haired leaders of the enemy.’

11771
Verse ConceptsEmpty Places

He said to her, “Stand in the doorway of the tent, and it shall be if anyone comes and inquires of you, and says, ‘Is there anyone here?’ that you shall say, ‘No.’”

11772
Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, Names ForThe Ark Moved Around

and when all the people had finished crossing, the ark of the Lord and the priests crossed before the people.

11773

the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;

11774
Verse ConceptsThe Ark Moved AroundPriests In Action

and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God with the Levitical priests carrying it, then you shall set out from your place and go after it.

11775
Verse ConceptsHeresiesPrejudiceResurrection, Of The DeadSadduceesSpiritsJewish SectsSpirit BeingsAngelsAre The Dead Raised?Characteristics Of Phariseesgroupspharisees

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor an angel, nor a spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.

11776
Verse ConceptsIntelligenceStatusTeachers Of The LawJewish SectsScholarsSchools

But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law, respected by all the people, stood up in the Council and gave orders to put the men outside for a short time.

11777
Verse ConceptsSlavesHumbling Oneself

and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave;

11778

Now the Canaanite, the king of Arad who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the sons of Israel.

11779
Verse ConceptsBirds, Types Of BirdsPeople Sending CreaturesSeeing SituationsWaters Subsiding

Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water was abated from the face of the land;

11780

Of the sons of Asher, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

11781
Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TimeHow Disciples LearnRest, PhysicalRecreationRetirementSolitudeDealing With Many PeopleComing To RestPeople EatingDisadvantages Of CrowdsGod Giving RestRest

And He *said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a secluded place and rest a while.” (For there were many people coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat.)

11783
Verse ConceptsAnimal Sacrifices, Meal OfferingSeeking Honour

Still you exalt yourself against My people by not letting them go.

11784
Verse ConceptsTwinsTwo DisciplesTwin BrothersDiscipleship

Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of His disciples were together.

11785

The sons of Korah: Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.

11786
Verse ConceptsSpiritsIndividuals ShoutingThose DemonisedDemonic Influence

Just then there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,

11787
Verse ConceptsMessianic Titles, The ProphetSigns Performed By ChristJesus The ProphetWho He Might Be

Therefore when the people saw the sign which He had performed, they said, “This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

11788
Verse ConceptsDemon PossessionThe SunEvenings For Jesus And His DisciplesThose Demonised

When evening came, after the sun had set, they began bringing to Him all who were ill and those who were demon-possessed.

11789
Verse ConceptsDisclosuresLight Of Lamps

“Now no one after lighting a lamp covers it over with a container, or puts it under a bed; but he puts it on a lampstand, so that those who come in may see the light.

11790
Verse ConceptsChrist In The Temple

They *came again to Jerusalem. And as He was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders *came to Him,

11791
Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionBowingThe SunPollutionsAnimismTurning One's BackFacing EastBowing To False GodsTwenty SomeWorship Of The SunCourts Of The TempleSunWorshiping GodSunshinefootballapostasyislam

Then He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east; and they were prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun.

11792
Verse ConceptsFeetAshesWicked Described AsPromised VictoryTrampling PeopleGod Judges The Wickeddust

You will tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing,” says the Lord of hosts.

11793
Verse ConceptsTradeCommerceThings StrippedPeople MultiplyingThose Flying

You have increased your traders more than the stars of heaven—
The creeping locust strips and flies away.

11794
Verse ConceptsInadequate ShepherdingBattle

“My anger is kindled against the shepherds,
And I will punish the male goats;
For the Lord of hosts has visited His flock, the house of Judah,
And will make them like His majestic horse in battle.

11795
Verse ConceptsVisions And Dreams In ScriptureBrassHeavenly ChariotsThings Like BronzeTwo Other ThingsFour Other Things

Now I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold, four chariots were coming forth from between the two mountains; and the mountains were bronze mountains.

11796
Verse ConceptsMotionlessnessComing To RestCreatures Going UpOther Creatures Going UpSpirit Of Creatures

When the cherubim stood still, the wheels would stand still; and when they rose up, the wheels would rise with them, for the spirit of the living beings was in them.

11797
Verse ConceptsSleeplessnessRevelation Of The FutureLying Down To RestGod Revealing Mysteries

As for you, O king, while on your bed your thoughts turned to what would take place in the future; and He who reveals mysteries has made known to you what will take place.

11798
Verse ConceptsdrynessGrassPunishment, Nature OfShepherds, As OccupationsBeastsGod Not SeeingBefore God ActsHerbs

How long is the land to mourn
And the vegetation of the countryside to wither?
For the wickedness of those who dwell in it,
Animals and birds have been snatched away,
Because men have said, “He will not see our latter ending.”

11799
Verse ConceptsWallsFigurative Fields

“So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge and it will be consumed;
I will break down its wall and it will become trampled ground.

11800
Verse ConceptsAvoid Quarrelsstrivingaccusationspriests

Yet let no one find fault, and let none offer reproof;
For your people are like those who contend with the priest.

11801
Verse ConceptsWeights Of Other Thingsweight

Your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time.

11802
Verse ConceptsSpringBeing AshamedWeather, As God's JudgmentHarlotsShowersLack Of RainNatural Disasterswhores

“Therefore the showers have been withheld,
And there has been no spring rain.
Yet you had a harlot’s forehead;
You refused to be ashamed.

11803
Verse ConceptsPlaguesRepentance, Examples OfRepentance, Importance OfResponseReturning To GodGod Beating PeopleGod HealsHealing And Comfort

The Lord will strike Egypt, striking but healing; so they will return to the Lord, and He will respond to them and will heal them.

11805
Verse ConceptsBitingPoisonSnakebites

“For behold, I am sending serpents against you,
Adders, for which there is no charm,
And they will bite you,” declares the Lord.

11806
Verse ConceptsOccupationsProphets, Lives OfPoolsMeeting PeopleClean ClothesWater ChannelHighways

Then the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shear-jashub, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway to the fuller’s field,

11807
Verse ConceptsIn The Beginning

While He had not yet made the earth and the fields,
Nor the first dust of the world.

11808
Verse ConceptsSafetyShieldsProtection And Safetyjournaling

You, O Lord, will keep them;
You will preserve him from this generation forever.

11809
Verse ConceptsBeverages, FigurativeArrows, Figurative OfPoisonAnxiety, Examples OfThe AlmightySevere AfflictionsGod Appointed AfflictionsTerror Of GodArrows

“For the arrows of the Almighty are within me,
Their poison my spirit drinks;
The terrors of God are arrayed against me.

11810
Verse ConceptsWitnesses, False

A rascally witness makes a mockery of justice,
And the mouth of the wicked spreads iniquity.

11811
Verse Conceptseternity, nature ofLifespanGod In Relation To Man

‘Are Your days as the days of a mortal,
Or Your years as man’s years,

11812
Verse ConceptsNot Guilty

That You should seek for my guilt
And search after my sin?

11813
Verse ConceptsHuntingNo Food

“The lion perishes for lack of prey,
And the whelps of the lioness are scattered.

11814
Verse ConceptsFearing Other PeopleRejoicing In God's Works

In each and every province and in each and every city, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree arrived, there was gladness and joy for the Jews, a feast and a holiday. And many among the peoples of the land became Jews, for the dread of the Jews had fallen on them.

11815
Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalHorticultureStairwaysPoolsNamed GatesStepsGardens Attached To Palaces

Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, the official of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He built it, covered it and hung its doors with its bolts and its bars, and the wall of the Pool of Shelah at the king’s garden as far as the steps that descend from the city of David.

11816
Verse ConceptsGoatsExpiationSacrifice, In OtSin OfferingOne HundredThe Number Two HundredFour To Five HundredTwelve TribesTwelve AnimalsFour And Five HundredSheep And GoatsDedication

They offered for the dedication of this temple of God 100 bulls, 200 rams, 400 lambs, and as a sin offering for all Israel 12 male goats, corresponding to the number of the tribes of Israel.

11817
Verse ConceptsCopies Of DocumentsMan Avenging

A copy of the edict to be issued as law in each and every province was published to all the peoples, so that the Jews would be ready for this day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

11818
Verse Conceptsflexibility

Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai,

11819
Verse ConceptsSitting In The GatewayAttempting To Kill Specific People

In those days, while Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s officials from those who guarded the door, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.

11820
Verse ConceptsIn The MorningOthers Summoning

In the evening she would go in and in the morning she would return to the second harem, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the concubines. She would not again go in to the king unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name.

11821
Verse ConceptsFoundationsBurnt offeringSacrifice, In OtAnimal Sacrifices, BurntAt Morning And EveningSetting Up The Bronze AltarFear Of Enemies

So they set up the altar on its foundation, for they were terrified because of the peoples of the lands; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord, burnt offerings morning and evening.

11822
Verse ConceptsTelling What People Said

They related Esther’s words to Mordecai.

11823
Verse ConceptsSeparation From Evil PeopleSingersPeople With KnowledgeTemple Assistants

Now the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons and their daughters, all those who had knowledge and understanding,

11825

then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants and Your people Israel, indeed, teach them the good way in which they should walk. And send rain on Your land which You have given to Your people for an inheritance.

11826

As to his sons and the many oracles against him and the rebuilding of the house of God, behold, they are written in the treatise of the Book of the Kings. Then Amaziah his son became king in his place.

11827
Verse ConceptsCoronationsThree Thousand And Up

Of the sons of Benjamin, Saul’s kinsmen, 3,000; for until now the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.

11828
Verse Concepts20 To 30 Years

Now it came about at the end of the twenty years in which Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house

11829

“I have built You a lofty house,
And a place for Your dwelling forever.”

11830

Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,

11831

Nohah the fourth and Rapha the fifth.

11832
Verse ConceptsWhipsWhippingHeavy BurdensScorpionsAdding Evil

Whereas my father loaded you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’”

11833

Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,

11834
Verse ConceptsTwenty Thousand And Up

The sons of Bela were five: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth and Iri. They were heads of fathers’ households, mighty men of valor, and were 22,034 enrolled by genealogy.

11835
Verse ConceptsFifty To Ninety Thousand

Their relatives among all the families of Issachar were mighty men of valor, enrolled by genealogy, in all 87,000.

11836
Verse ConceptsConspiraciesPlottingKilling KingsConspiracy

They conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there.

11837

The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

11838

Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.

11839
Verse ConceptsTent Of MeetingHoly VesselsSacred VesselsPriests In ActionThe Tabernaclereuniting

They brought up the ark of the Lord and the tent of meeting and all the holy utensils, which were in the tent, and the priests and the Levites brought them up.

11840
Verse ConceptsBodyHeadsMorningRising EarlyBeheadingCutting Off Hands And FeetThose Who Rose EarlyThings Fallingstatues

But when they arose early the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. And the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off on the threshold; only the trunk of Dagon was left to him.

11841
Verse ConceptsForeign Kingssyria

When Hazael king of Aram died, Ben-hadad his son became king in his place.

11842
Verse ConceptsMan Of God

She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door behind him and went out.

11843
Verse ConceptsHistorical Books

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he made war and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

11844
Verse Conceptsstructure

Against the wall of the house he built stories encompassing the walls of the house around both the nave and the inner sanctuary; thus he made side chambers all around.

11845
Verse ConceptsPresents

Now let this gift which your maidservant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who accompany my lord.

11846
Verse ConceptsForsaking GodRejection Of GodDifferent GodsGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

Like all the deeds which they have done since the day that I brought them up from Egypt even to this day—in that they have forsaken Me and served other gods—so they are doing to you also.

11847
Verse ConceptsGesturesHeraldKnivesAnimals Cut In PiecesUnified PeopleTerror Of God

He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, “Whoever does not come out after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen.” Then the dread of the Lord fell on the people, and they came out as one man.

11848

Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,

11850

The messenger said to David, “The men prevailed against us and came out against us in the field, but we pressed them as far as the entrance of the gate.

11851
Verse ConceptsSpoils Of War

And behold, the servants of David and Joab came from a raid and brought much spoil with them; but Abner was not with David in Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.

11852
Verse ConceptsBrothgideon

The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And he did so.

11853

Abner also spoke in the hearing of Benjamin; and in addition Abner went to speak in the hearing of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel and to the whole house of Benjamin.

11854
Verse ConceptsSheepfolds

“Why did you sit among the sheepfolds,
To hear the piping for the flocks?
Among the divisions of Reuben
There were great searchings of heart.

11855
Verse ConceptsRulersFive People

These nations are: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.

11856
Verse ConceptsThe Third Day Of The WeekCities In Israel

Then the sons of Israel set out and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and Kiriath-jearim.

11857
Verse ConceptsProving, Through Testing

in order to test Israel by them, whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk in it as their fathers did, or not.”

11858
Verse ConceptsConquestNo SurvivorsExterminationThose God Gave Into Their Hands

The Lord delivered them into the hand of Israel, so that they defeated them, and pursued them as far as Great Sidon and Misrephoth-maim and the valley of Mizpeh to the east; and they struck them until no survivor was left to them.

11859
Verse ConceptsAgreement, Before GodThighsAmenSwelling

and this water that brings a curse shall go into your stomach, and make your abdomen swell and your thigh waste away.” And the woman shall say, “Amen. Amen.”

11860

The hand of the sons of Israel pressed heavier and heavier upon Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin the king of Canaan.

11861
Verse ConceptsReady For War

only in order that the generations of the sons of Israel might be taught war, those who had not experienced it formerly).

11862
Verse ConceptsChariotsHorsesDestroying ChariotsEarthly Armies

and what He did to Egypt’s army, to its horses and its chariots, when He made the water of the Red Sea to engulf them while they were pursuing you, and the Lord completely destroyed them;

11863
Verse ConceptsSuddenlyWalking All Nightsurprises

So Joshua came upon them suddenly by marching all night from Gilgal.

11864
Verse ConceptsFlourAromasGrain OfferingPriests, Function In Ot TimesSmellsOther Volume MeasuresRefreshing God

He shall then bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests; and shall take from it his handful of its fine flour and of its oil with all of its frankincense. And the priest shall offer it up in smoke as its memorial portion on the altar, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the Lord.

11865
Verse ConceptsGod, Joy OfBoasting, LegitimateDelight, God ExpressingGod's attitude towards peopleGod, Righteousness OfGod, Will OfHappinessHeart, DivineJustification, Necessity OfKindnessPleasureUnderstandingGod Doing RightDoing RightI Am The LordExerciseBoasting

but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the Lord.

11866
Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfFamine, Kinds OfempiresSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, Nature OfAbraham, Calling And LifeSojourning

Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

11867
Verse ConceptsGod Angry With Individuals

So the anger of the Lord burned against them and He departed.

11868
Verse ConceptsDeafnessCripplesHearingKingdom Of God, Entry IntoLamenessLast DaysPoverty, Remedies ForNatural DeafnessThe Healed WalkingThe Deaf HearingHearing ChristHealing Of The BlindTelling Of JesusThose Helping The Poor

And He answered and said to them, “Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have the gospel preached to them.

11869
Verse ConceptsLooking At God's WorksTwo Other Men

I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, ‘Your eyes have seen all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings; so the Lord shall do to all the kingdoms into which you are about to cross.

11870
Verse ConceptsMore Than One MonthGod Unwilling

I, moreover, stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights like the first time, and the Lord listened to me that time also; the Lord was not willing to destroy you.

11871
Verse ConceptsThumbsToesAnointed By PeopleOther Right Parts

Of the remaining oil which is in his palm, the priest shall put some on the right ear lobe of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the guilt offering;

11873
Verse ConceptsMaking Cereal Offerings And LibationsPriests Atoning

He shall offer what he can afford, the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. So the priest shall make atonement before the Lord on behalf of the one to be cleansed.

11874
Verse ConceptsCovering The EarthRemaining FoodAnimals EatingHarming Trees

They shall cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land. They will also eat the rest of what has escaped—what is left to you from the hail—and they will eat every tree which sprouts for you out of the field.

11875
Verse ConceptsGuardsImprisonmentsPassoverPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSoldiersFour GroupsEasterPeople Releasing Othersjail

When he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out before the people.

11876
Verse ConceptsTombsThe Act Of OpeningOpening PitsRolling

And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb,

11877
Verse ConceptsLocustsSymbolsAltar Of IncenseScorpionsbugs

Then out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth, and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

11878
Verse ConceptsClaimsFour To Five HundredFour And Five HundredGreat IndividualsPeople Following PeopleScattering FollowersKilling Named Individualsmovement

For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a group of about four hundred men joined up with him. But he was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing.

11879
Verse ConceptsGuestsHospitality, Examples OfMotionlessnessStaying PutEntering Houses

Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave that city.

11880
Verse ConceptsMany In Israel

Again Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are now many, and you would have them cease from their labors!”

11881
Verse ConceptsNo Decaycorruption

Therefore He also says in another Psalm, ‘You will not allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.’

11883
Verse ConceptsHouse Of GodUnity, God's Goal OfPeople In CavesStatus Of The TempleThe Gospel To The Nationsthieves

And He began to teach and say to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a robbersden.”

11884
Verse ConceptsFilthinessRagsGarments Of SinUnclean ThingsGarments

Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and standing before the angel.

11885
Verse ConceptsBlackAstronomyNoonThe SunDarkness During DaytimeDarkening Sun Moon And StarsAstronomical SignsCosmic DisturbancesSunEclipseSolar EclipseSunshineThe Moon

“It will come about in that day,” declares the Lord God,
“That I will make the sun go down at noon
And make the earth dark in broad daylight.

11886
Verse ConceptsGod, Titles And Names OfGod Is My PortionHope For The Righteous

“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I have hope in Him.”

11887
Verse ConceptsViolence In The EarthGod, Suffering OfProvoking GodA Little BitDoing RepeatedlyLooking And SeeingTroubling Individuals

He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they have committed here, that they have filled the land with violence and provoked Me repeatedly? For behold, they are putting the twig to their nose.

11888
Verse ConceptsCarpentry ToolsHammersNailsDecksMotionlessnessChristmas Tree

“They decorate it with silver and with gold;
They fasten it with nails and with hammers
So that it will not totter.

11889
Verse ConceptsGod's HandInscriptions

Then the hand was sent from Him and this inscription was written out.

11890
Verse ConceptsFutilityFools, Characteristics OfFolly, Examples OfVanityFoolishness Of Mendoctrine

But they are altogether stupid and foolish
In their discipline of delusion—their idol is wood!

11891
Verse ConceptsGesturesAgreement, Before GodBowingPraise, Examples OfPraise, Reasons ForProstrationResponseWorship, Places OfBowing Heads Before GodLifting HandsAmenSpecific Praising Of GodPraise And Worshipadoration

Then Ezra blessed the Lord the great God. And all the people answered, “Amen, Amen!” while lifting up their hands; then they bowed low and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground.

11892
Verse ConceptsMantlesPursesRich ApparelDressDistinctive ClothingMoney Box

festal robes, outer tunics, cloaks, money purses,

11893
Verse ConceptsSeeking FoodRiskingrisk

We get our bread at the risk of our lives
Because of the sword in the wilderness.

11894
Verse ConceptsSafetyTrumpetBeaconsOut Of The NorthTrumpets For BattleNatural Disasters

“Flee for safety, O sons of Benjamin,
From the midst of Jerusalem!
Now blow a trumpet in Tekoa
And raise a signal over Beth-haccerem;
For evil looks down from the north,
And a great destruction.

11895
Verse ConceptsSuddenly

Disaster on disaster is proclaimed,
For the whole land is devastated;
Suddenly my tents are devastated,
My curtains in an instant.

11896
Verse ConceptsProphecy Abolishedheroes

The mighty man and the warrior,
The judge and the prophet,
The diviner and the elder,

11897
Verse ConceptsOblivionEternal JudgementBlotted OutGod Judges The WickedGod Requite Them!rebuking

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

11898
Verse ConceptsEternal JudgementBlotted Outremembrancefinishing

The enemy has come to an end in perpetual ruins,
And You have uprooted the cities;
The very memory of them has perished.

11899
Verse ConceptsChastisementMusicMusical Instruments, types ofDispleasureGod Angry With IndividualsGod Requite Them!instruments

For the choir director; with stringed instruments, upon an eight-string lyre. A Psalm of David.
O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger,
Nor chasten me in Your wrath.

11900
Verse ConceptsThe Insecurity Of The WickedDigging Pits

He who digs a pit may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a wall.

11901
Verse ConceptsAfflictions Of The WickedMiseryPhysical PainPleasurableness

“The wicked man writhes in pain all his days,
And numbered are the years stored up for the ruthless.

11902
Verse ConceptsGenerationsOld Age, Attitudes ToAskingHistory Of NationsInformation AgeFathersDadsThe PastAgepastattention

“Please inquire of past generations,
And consider the things searched out by their fathers.

11903
Verse ConceptsBasins

He also made the stands and he made the basins on the stands,

11905
Verse ConceptsFour CornersNorth, South, East And WestFour Sides

The gatekeepers were on the four sides, to the east, west, north and south.

11906

So they and their sons had charge of the gates of the house of the Lord, even the house of the tent, as guards.

11907
Verse ConceptsThreshing FloorProviding WineNo Help

He said, “If the Lord does not help you, from where shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”

11908

Jaareshiah, Elijah and Zichri were the sons of Jeroham.

11909

The sons of Asher were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi and Beriah, and Serah their sister.

11910

Their possessions and settlements were Bethel with its towns, and to the east Naaran, and to the west Gezer with its towns, and Shechem with its towns as far as Ayyah with its towns,

11911

and Abishua became the father of Bukki, and Bukki became the father of Uzzi,

11912

The sons of Neariah were Elioenai, Hizkiah and Azrikam, three.

11913
Verse ConceptsVisitingVisiting Of The SickVisitationPeople Visiting

So King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramah when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel because he was sick.

11914

Please let us go to the Jordan and each of us take from there a beam, and let us make a place there for ourselves where we may live.” So he said, “Go.”

11915

He set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.

11916
Verse Concepts15 To 20 YearsAge When CrownedMothers Of Kings

He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

11917
Verse ConceptsJerusalem, History Of20 To 30 YearsAge When CrownedMothers Of Kings

Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

11918
Verse ConceptsThe Third Day Of The Week

Then Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day as the king had directed, saying, “Return to me on the third day.”

11919
Verse ConceptsGesturesClothingClothSackcloth And AshesPreparation For Burial

Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes and gird on sackcloth and lament before Abner.” And King David walked behind the bier.

11920
Verse ConceptsBaldness, Unnatural

“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to dedicate himself to the Lord,

11921
Verse ConceptsPorchesDimensions Of Chambers

The porch in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits in length, corresponding to the width of the house, and its depth along the front of the house was ten cubits.

11922

So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house and drank water.

11923
Verse ConceptsPersuasionPromises, HumanTasteSunsetsVowing To Fast

Then all the people came to persuade David to eat bread while it was still day; but David vowed, saying, “May God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun goes down.”

11924
Verse ConceptsThree MenThree AnimalsGoing Up MountainsQuantities Of WineOaksThree Other Things

Then you will go on further from there, and you will come as far as the oak of Tabor, and there three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a jug of wine;

11925
Verse ConceptsProstrationRestoring ThingsThose Who Rose EarlyThings Falling

When the Ashdodites arose early the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and set him in his place again.

11926
Verse ConceptsPeople Mourning Catastrophe

Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and spoke these words in the hearing of the people, and all the people lifted up their voices and wept.

11927
Verse ConceptsStillnessPeople Going Before

As they were going down to the edge of the city, Samuel said to Saul, “Say to the servant that he might go ahead of us and pass on, but you remain standing now, that I may proclaim the word of God to you.”

11928
Verse ConceptsLet Them Go Home

When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come, and let us return, or else my father will cease to be concerned about the donkeys and will become anxious for us.”

11929
Verse ConceptsNegotiationPeople Helping

“Come up to me and help me, and let us attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and with the sons of Israel.”

11930
Verse ConceptsThose Not Saved

Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were at great strife with the sons of Ammon; when I called you, you did not deliver me from their hand.

11932
Verse ConceptsScrollsWritingBitter WaterRepulsive FoodJudgements WrittenBitternesscurses

‘The priest shall then write these curses on a scroll, and he shall wash them off into the water of bitterness.

11933
Verse ConceptsFruits Of SinWho Is Jesus?Persecution

And he said, “Who are You, Lord?” And He said, “I am Jesus whom you are persecuting,

11934
Verse ConceptsHillsThe Shephelah

in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, on the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the Negev; the Hittite, the Amorite and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite:

11935
Verse ConceptsMediterranean SeaBeyond JordanGentile RulersThe Shephelah

Now it came about when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country and in the lowland and on all the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, heard of it,

11936
Verse ConceptsCamp, Of IsraelEastern Borders

Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth of the first month and camped at Gilgal on the eastern edge of Jericho.

11937
Verse ConceptsMischiefEquality Of PunishmentEyes Harmed

But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life,

11938
Verse ConceptsAltar Of IncenseAnimal SkinsBlue Cloth

Over the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth and cover it with a covering of porpoise skin, and shall insert its poles;

11939
Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityFractions, One HalfReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

So Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Joseph’s son Manasseh, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og, the king of Bashan, the land with its cities with their territories, the cities of the surrounding land.

11940
Verse ConceptsBrooks

From there they set out to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water.

11941
Verse ConceptsThank OfferingSprinkling BloodFood For Priests DefinedPriests PossessingPeace offerings

Of this he shall present one of every offering as a contribution to the Lord; it shall belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.

11942
Verse ConceptsExchange Of NationsImmigrants

And the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.)

11943
Verse ConceptsStanding

‘Then the priest shall bring her near and have her stand before the Lord,

11944
Verse ConceptsAaron, As High PriestInspiration

The Lord then spoke to Aaron, saying,

11945
Verse ConceptsBeing PoorHealing Lepers

This is the law for him in whom there is an infection of leprosy, whose means are limited for his cleansing.”

11946
Verse ConceptsRegulations For The Sin Offering

He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as its memorial portion and offer it up in smoke on the altar, with the offerings of the Lord by fire: it is a sin offering.

11947
Verse ConceptsLikening ThingsParables Of The Kingdom

So He was saying, What is the kingdom of God like, and to what shall I compare it?

11948
Verse ConceptsPrincesProphecy IgnoredSpeaking As From God

Moreover, we have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, our fathers and all the people of the land.

11949
Verse ConceptsFatnessFat Of AnimalsRefreshing GodAll Things Belong To God

The priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar as food, an offering by fire for a soothing aroma; all fat is the Lord’s.

11950
Verse ConceptsFliesbugs

For if you do not let My people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and on your servants and on your people and into your houses; and the houses of the Egyptians will be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they dwell.

11951
Verse ConceptsPower Through GodPeter, The ApostleThe Healed WalkingLooking Intently At Peoplepietysurprises

But when Peter saw this, he replied to the people, “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this, or why do you gaze at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made him walk?

11952
Verse ConceptsLight As ChaffThe Coming Day Of God's Wrath

Before the decree takes effect—
The day passes like the chaff—
Before the burning anger of the Lord comes upon you,
Before the day of the Lord’s anger comes upon you.

11953
Verse ConceptsAbasement, Examples Of

‘PERĒS’—your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

11954
Verse ConceptsGod, Sovereignty OfGod, Wisdom OfReverence, And God's NatureGod, All knowingNo One Is Like GodGod Is WorthyGod Is To Be Fearedroyalty

Who would not fear You, O King of the nations?
Indeed it is Your due!
For among all the wise men of the nations
And in all their kingdoms,
There is none like You.

11955
Verse ConceptsGatesLocks And Bars

The sword will whirl against their cities,
And will demolish their gate bars
And consume them because of their counsels.

11956
Verse ConceptsKnowledge, Of GodShrinesOaksIdol WorshipFate Of IdolatersWorship At Trees

Then you will know that I am the Lord, when their slain are among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every green tree and under every leafy oak—the places where they offered soothing aroma to all their idols.

11957

‘When your wares went out from the seas,
You satisfied many peoples;
With the abundance of your wealth and your merchandise
You enriched the kings of earth.

11958
Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerRedemption, In OtRescue From ViolenceGod Saves The NeedyRedemptionStaying StrongwickednessdeliveranceredeemedGod Delivering From Evil

“So I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked,
And I will redeem you from the grasp of the violent.”

11959
Verse ConceptsRadiancyShining FacesCountenanceRadiant LivesAurasLight Of God's PeopleMan's WisdomBoldness

Who is like the wise man and who knows the interpretation of a matter? A man’s wisdom illumines him and causes his stern face to beam.

11960
Verse ConceptsPromotionRiding HorsesSlavesslaveryroyalty

I have seen slaves riding on horses and princes walking like slaves on the land.

11961
Verse ConceptsLifestylesAspects Of People Made Known

Even when the fool walks along the road, his sense is lacking and he demonstrates to everyone that he is a fool.

11962
Verse ConceptsPretenceServanthood, In SocietyShortagesServants Of PeopleSeeking HonourBeing Gay

Better is he who is lightly esteemed and has a servant
Than he who honors himself and lacks bread.

11963
Verse ConceptsBusiness At The Gateway

Beside the gates, at the opening to the city,
At the entrance of the doors, she cries out:

11964
Verse ConceptsAfterlifeGrave, TheSheolNot Praising GodState Of The DeadDeath Of Loved OneLoss Of A Loved One

For there is no mention of You in death;
In Sheol who will give You thanks?

11965
Verse ConceptsBoldness Examples OfCourage, Examples OfNot Maintaining LifeInterlopers In The Temple

But I said, “Should a man like me flee? And could one such as I go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.”

11966
Verse ConceptsHealth AchievedLife Through Keeping The LawHealth And Healing

For they are life to those who find them
And health to all their body.

11967
Verse ConceptsGrassLike Grass

“You will know also that your descendants will be many,
And your offspring as the grass of the earth.

11968
Verse ConceptsNamed GatesGay Marriage

Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate. They built it and hung its doors with its bolts and its bars, and a thousand cubits of the wall to the Refuse Gate.

11969

Now these are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jeshaiah;

11970
Verse ConceptsFurnacesOvens

Malchijah the son of Harim and Hasshub the son of Pahath-moab repaired another section and the Tower of Furnaces.

11971
Verse ConceptsNamed GatesDuring One Night

So I went up at night by the ravine and inspected the wall. Then I entered the Valley Gate again and returned.

11972

Zorah, Aijalon and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin.

11973
Verse ConceptsCovenant RelationshipsKingsKingship, HumanAnointing Kings

So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the Lord; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the Lord through Samuel.

11974
Verse ConceptsIncenseOilWine

Some of them also were appointed over the furniture and over all the utensils of the sanctuary and over the fine flour and the wine and the oil and the frankincense and the spices.

11975

Eluzai, Jerimoth, Bealiah, Shemariah, Shephatiah the Haruphite,

11976

Now the mighty men of the armies were Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

11977
Verse ConceptsCoinageGenerosity, HumanGoldTen ThingsPeople Giving Clothes

Then the king of Aram said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” He departed and took with him ten talents of silver and six thousand shekels of gold and ten changes of clothes.

11978
Verse ConceptsDefecation

They also broke down the sacred pillar of Baal and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day.

11979

Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, from the sons of Perez the son of Judah.

11980

Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.

11981

the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi.

11982
Verse ConceptsGesturesAssassinations, CompletedConfidence BetrayedBetrayalAvenger of bloodLength Of LifeMurderPrivacyRevenge, Examples OfStomachsTreacheryUnfaithfulness, To PeopleAmbushBetrayal, Example OfBusiness At The GatewayStriking To DeathInformation In SecretWhy People Did ThingsKilling Named Individuals

So when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he struck him in the belly so that he died on account of the blood of Asahel his brother.

11983

The descendants of Shecaniah were Shemaiah, and the sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah and Shaphat, six.

11984
Verse ConceptsPrivate Rooms

When you arrive there, search out Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in and bid him arise from among his brothers, and bring him to an inner room.

11985

Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

11986

By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he shall not come to this city,”’ declares the Lord.

11987
Verse ConceptsStepsorganizationoverwhelmed

the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the attendance of his waiters and their attire, his cupbearers, and his stairway by which he went up to the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.

11988
Verse ConceptsAmmonitesenemies, of Israel and JudahHiringMercenariesNosesOffenceSmellsSoldiersDislikingA Thousand PeopleEleven To Nineteen ThousandTwenty Thousand And UpHating Peoples

Now when the sons of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the sons of Ammon sent and hired the Arameans of Beth-rehob and the Arameans of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob with 12,000 men.

11989
Verse ConceptsWindows Of HeavenImpossible For GodLooking At God's Works

Then the royal officer answered the man of God and said, “Now behold, if the Lord should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?” And he said, “Behold, you will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat of it.”

11990
Verse ConceptsInvasionsPeoples Who Fled

But when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites arose and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land, slaughtering the Moabites.

11991
Verse ConceptsChildren, needs ofChildren, Good Parental ExamplesKeep The Commandments!

As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you and will keep My statutes and My ordinances,

11992
Verse ConceptsConspiraciesKilling KingsThe Nations Attacked

Then Baasha the son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against him, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, while Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.

11993
Verse ConceptsProperty, HousesThroneSolomon's TempleA Place For God's Name

Behold, I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, he will build the house for My name.’

11994

Nevertheless, he clung to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel sin; he did not depart from them.

11995
Verse ConceptsSelf ConfidenceWeakness, PhysicalGod Abandoning Individualsresilienceflexibilitypremonitions

She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and said, “I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the Lord had departed from him.

11996
Verse ConceptsLying Down To RestWarmingThose Looking For Peopleteenager

So his servants said to him, “Let them seek a young virgin for my lord the king, and let her attend the king and become his nurse; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.”

11997
Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In OtGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptMoving OnMoving To A New Place

For I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought up the sons of Israel from Egypt, even to this day; but I have been moving about in a tent, even in a tabernacle.

11998
Verse ConceptsWhy Do You Do This?

Then Joab arose, came to Absalom at his house and said to him, “Why have your servants set my field on fire?”

11999
Verse ConceptsHerds

Now behold, Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen, and he said, “What is the matter with the people that they weep?” So they related to him the words of the men of Jabesh.

12000
Verse ConceptsTwenty Thousand And UpGod KillingGod Killed His PeopleKilling Within Israel

And the Lord struck Benjamin before Israel, so that the sons of Israel destroyed 25,100 men of Benjamin that day, all who draw the sword.

12001

Jonathan then answered Saul, “David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem,

12002

The anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the sons of Ammon.

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