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“When you approach a city to fight against it, you must make an offer of peace.

Verse ConceptsCities Under AttackMaking Peace With EnemiesSurrender

If that city accepts your terms of peace and opens its gates to you, then all the people who are found in it shall become your forced labor and shall serve you.

Verse ConceptsForced LabourMaking Peace With Enemies

However, if it does not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall lay siege to it.

Verse ConceptsCitySiegesThe Nations Attacked

“When you besiege a city a long time, to make war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, and you shall not cut them down. For is the tree of the field a man, that it should be besieged by you?

Verse ConceptsRespect, For EnvironmentEcological ConcernsFortsTreesFelling TreesSharp ToolsHarming Trees

Only the trees which you know are not fruit trees shall you destroy and cut down, so that you may build siegeworks against the city that is making war with you until it falls.

Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyFelling TreesHarming Trees

and they are to make this declaration: "Our hands didn't shed this blood, nor were we witnesses to the crime.

Verse ConceptsSheddingPlea Of Innocence

Make atonement for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, LORD, and don't charge the blood of an innocent man against them.' Then the blood that has been shed will be atoned for.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerAcceptance, From GodAcceptance, divineExpiationGod Will Forgive

If among the prisoners you see a beautiful woman and it is your desire to make her your wife;

Verse ConceptsBeautifulMarriage AllowedWomen's BeautyWifewomanBeautiful Women

And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.

Verse Conceptsdivorce, amongst believersAvoid Divorce

Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:

Verse ConceptsReal EstateBirthrights

his body must not remain all night on the tree; instead you must make certain you bury him that same day, for the one who is left exposed on a tree is cursed by God. You must not defile your land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Verse ConceptsThe AccursedGallowsHangingHumiliationKillingPollutionsOvernightThe Curse Of The LawPeople Hung To DeathBurying places

“If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; make sure you return it to your brother.

Verse ConceptsMissing Someonewandering

And, if thy brother be not nigh unto thee or thou know him not, then shalt thou make room for it within thee own shed and it shall be with thee, until thy brother seek after it, when thou shalt return it unto him.

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing PeopleFar From Here

You shall in every case let the mother go and take the young for yourself, so that it may be well with you, and you may make your days longer.

Verse ConceptsAnimal LifeHow To Live Long

If you build a new house, make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.

Verse ConceptsRooftopArchitectureHousesSanctity Of LifeBattlementsPeople Falling From A HeightGuiltconstruction

and makes shameful charges against her, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I did not find in her the tokens of virginity,

Then they are to make the girl come to the door of her father's house and she will be stoned to death by the men of the town, because she has done evil and put shame on Israel, by acting as a loose woman in her father's house: so you are to put away evil from among you.

Verse ConceptsdisgraceBanishmentPunishment, Legal Aspects OfDeath Penalty For Sexual SinInstructions About StoningsexDeath Of A MotherDeath Of A FatherSex Before MarriageFamily DeathFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughtersmistresspremaritalwhoresvirginity

Then the man will have to give the virgin's father fifty shekels of silver and make her his wife, because he has put shame on her; he may never put her away all his life.

Verse ConceptsAvoid DivorceMarriage Between Man And WomanSex Before Marriagemarraigepremaritalvirginity

“When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for He will most certainly require it of you, and a delay would cause you to sin.

Verse ConceptsCovenant breakersdelay, humanOaths, HumanPromises, HumanProcrastinationMaking Vows

If a man is found stealing a person of his brothers, the sons of Israel, and makes a slave of him, or sells him, then that thief shall die. And you shall put evil away from among you.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentKidnappingCommerceDeath Penalty For Violencerelaxation

When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security.

Verse Conceptslent

You shall remain outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you.

Verse ConceptsOutside The House

When thou beatest down thine olive trees thou shalt not make clean riddance after thee: but it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless and the widow.

Verse ConceptsBranches, Types OfDoing Things TwiceOlive Trees

If the guilty party deserves to be flogged, the judge will make him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes appropriate for his crime.

Verse ConceptsSin, God's Judgment OnAdvice On Beating People

If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.

Verse Conceptsethics, personalBrothersLoyaltyStrangersLack Of SonsBrothers in lawDutyDeath Of A Family MemberRelationships With BoyfriendDeath Of A ChildMarriage Between Man And WomanRaising ChildrenWomen's RolesRelationships And DatingFamily Deathculture

then shalt thou take - of the first of all the fruit of the soil which thou shalt bring in from thy land which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee and shalt put it in a basket, - and go thy way unto the place which Yahweh thy God shall choose, to make a habitation for his name there.

Verse ConceptsChoicesBaskets, Uses OfWorship, Places OfA Place For God's NameFirst fruits

When thou shalt make an end of tithing all the tithe of thine increase in the third year the year of tithing, - and shalt give unto the Levite unto the sojourner, unto the fatherless and unto the widow, and they shall eat within thy gates and be satisfied,

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of PossessionsCropsForeignersethics, socialBereaved, Care ForSatisfactionWidowsAliensTithes And Offering

and that He will set you high above all the nations which He has made, for praise, fame, and honor: and that you shall be a holy people [set apart and consecrated] to the Lord your God, just as He has spoken.”

Verse ConceptsSaintsNames And Titles For The ChristianA Holy NationShowing Forth His Praisehonour

There you are to make an altar to the Lord your God, of stones on which no iron instrument has been used.

Verse ConceptsAltars, Made OfIronToolsAltars To The Lord

You are to make the altar of the Lord your God of uncut stones; offering on it burned offerings to the Lord your God:

Verse ConceptsThe Altar Of The LordRegulating Sacrifices

And you are to make your peace-offerings, feasting there with joy before the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsFellowship OfferingRecreationEating Before GodPeace offerings

‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved or cast image (idol), a repulsive thing to the Lord, the work of the hands of the artisan, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

Verse ConceptsAbominationsCreativityAmenArtMetalworkersSecrecyIdolsPagan PracticesAbominations, Idolatry IsAbominations, To GodAvoiding SecrecyFate Of Idolaterscursesimage

Cursed is he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesRoadsDisabled PersonsAmen

"The LORD will make your enemies, who rise against you and attack from one direction, to flee from you in seven directions.

Verse ConceptsBlessings, To IsraelSevenInvincibilitySevenfoldEnemiesRisingDirectionEnemy Attacks

"The LORD shall make thee a holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God and walk in his ways.

Verse ConceptsHoliness, Believers' Growth InGod's WaysOrthodoxy, In OtPeople Of God, In OtA Holy NationWalking In God's WayKeep The Commandments!

The Lord will give you great prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.

Verse ConceptsCropsGenerosity, God'sLand ProducingGod Gave The LandThe Righteous ProsperBlessings And ProsperityWealth And ProsperityRespecting Your Body

Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs.

Verse ConceptsBeing In DebtRainStoringWeather, God's Sovereignty OverYearsProvisionsSeeking Things AboveGod Sending RainGod's StorehousesBorrowingLending And BorrowingBlessing OthersMoney Blessingslent

The Lord will make you the head (leader) and not the tail (follower); and you will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen and pay attention to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I am commanding you today, to observe them carefully.

Verse ConceptsTailsHead As ChiefKeep The Commandments!Never Giving Up

The Lord will make the pestilence and plague cling to you until He has consumed and eliminated you from the land which you are entering to possess.

Verse ConceptsPestilence

The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it will come down on you until you are destroyed.

Verse ConceptsDust, Figurative Usedust

The Lord will send on you the disease of Egypt, and other sorts of skin diseases which nothing will make well.

Verse ConceptsBodyDiseases, Kinds OfMedicineThreateningsBlemished PeopleNo HealingHealing CancerDiseaseAbscesscancer

and thou shalt he groping about in noonday brightness, as the blind man gropeth in thick darkness, and thou shalt not make thy ways prosper, - but shalt be only oppressed and spoiled all the days with none to save.

Verse ConceptsNoonRescueWorldly DilemmasWalking In DarknessNot ProsperingRobbing PeopleSpiritual Darkness

You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

Verse ConceptsEnjoyment, Lack OfVineyardPlanting VineyardsEngagementRelationship TroublesMarriage KjvBuilding Relationshipsmatrimony

The Lord will send a skin disease, attacking your knees and your legs, bursting out from your feet to the top of your head, so that nothing will make you well.

Verse ConceptsLegsKneesNo Healing

And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

Verse ConceptsCannibalismActing In SecretBirth

Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

Verse ConceptsDiseaseIllness

This is what will happen: Just as the Lord delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess.

Verse Conceptsprospering

Then the Lord will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you."

Verse ConceptsSeafaringNeverSea TravelReturning to the oldGroups Of Slavesslavery

These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which He made with them at Horeb (Sinai).

Verse ConceptsCovenant Made At SinaiLater Covenants With God

When you came to this place King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to make war and we defeated them.

Verse Conceptsdefeat

so that you may enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, and into His oath and agreement which the Lord your God is making with you today,

Verse ConceptsSealsLater Covenants With God

And so that he may make you his people today, and be your God, as he has said to you, and as he made an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Verse ConceptsAncestorsGod Swearing BlessingsHe Is Our God

“It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant and this oath,

Verse ConceptsA Solitary People

'All its land is brimstone and salt left by fire, {none of its land will be sown}, and it will not make plants sprout out and it will not grow any vegetation; [it is] as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Adman and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overturned in his anger and in his wrath.'

Verse ConceptsBrimstoneCities of the plainMineralsSodom And GomorrahSulphurWasteEcological ConcernsGod Angry With The NationsSourness

And Yahweh your God will bring you to the land that your ancestors had taken possession of, and he will make you successful, and he will make you more numerous than your ancestors.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamGod Multipling PeopleThe Righteous ProsperLand Permanently Restored To Israel

Then the Lord your God shall make you abundantly prosperous in everything that you do, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your cattle and in the produce of your land; for the Lord will again delight over you for good, just as He delighted over your fathers,

Verse ConceptsGod, Joy OfFutureFruitfulness, NaturalHeart, DivineWombLand ProducingThe Righteous ProsperAbundanceGod's WillBlessings And Prosperityprospering

It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will go up to heaven for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?’

Verse ConceptsClimbingGoing To Heaven

Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will cross the sea for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?’

Verse ConceptsExpanse Of The SeaThe OceanThe Sea

But if your heart is turned away and your ear is shut, and you go after those who would make you servants and worshippers of other gods:

Verse ConceptsIdolatry Consists OfDifferent GodsPenalties For Serving Other Gods

Make all the people come together, men and women and children, and anyone from another country who is with you, so that hearing they may become wise in the fear of the Lord your God, and take care to do all the words of this law;

Verse ConceptsForeignersCovenant breakersdiscipleship, nature ofLearning From Other PeopleMale And FemaleOutsidersAliens, Believers DutyAssembling IsraelForeigners Included Among The PeopleKeep The Commandments!Aliens

Make then this song for yourselves, teaching it to the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, so that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsSongsWritingBible MemorizationWriting SongsComposersThings As WitnessesOld Testament Claims Inspiration

Get together before me all those who are in authority in your tribes, and your overseers, so that I may say these things in their hearing, and make heaven and earth my witnesses against them.

Verse ConceptsHeaven And EarthAssembling LeadersThings As WitnessesThe Elders Gathered

For I knew after my death that acting wickedly, ye will be corrupted, and turn aside from the way that I commanded you; and evil met you in the last of the days, for ye will. do evil in the eyes of Jehovah to Make him angry in the work of your hands.

Verse ConceptsCorruption, CausesGod's WaysProvoking GodSin, Nature OfKnowing Beforehand

Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story.

Verse ConceptsLearning From The PastAgingGenerationsAskingPast, TheThoughtfulnessDadsThe PastThe Elderlyelderspastgrandfathers

As an eagle, teaching her young to make their flight, with her wings outstretched over them, takes them up on her strong feathers:

Verse ConceptsNestsDivine LeadingMothers, As A SymbolWingsGod's WingsGod Carrying PeopleEaglesGod Urgingphotographysoaring

And Jeshurun grew fat, and he kicked; you grew fat, you bloated, and you became obstinate; and he abandoned God, his maker, and he scoffed [at] the rock of his salvation.

Verse ConceptsFatnessAbandonmentGod, The RockPerils Of LuxuryRiches, Dangers OfIngratitude To GodRiches, Can Lead ToSalvation, Illustrations OfInfidelity To GodFat PeopleKicking

They make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfJealousyGod, Jealous

They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfVanityFoolish PeopleWhat Is Not GodMaking Israel Jealous

The sword will make people childless outside, and terror will do so inside; they will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant and the gray-haired man.

Verse ConceptsGreyFear Of EnemiesGod's Sword

To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And DivinePunishment, Nature OfRetributionRevenge, And RetaliationSeasons, Of LifeGod Executes VengeanceNear The Time GenerallyRevenge


‘See now that I, I am He,
And there is no god besides Me;
It is I who put to death and I who give life.
I have wounded and it is I who heal,
And there is no one who can deliver from [the power of] My hand.

Verse ConceptsAfterlifedoctorsMonotheismOne GodSuicidePower Of God, DescribedGod Giving LifeGod KillingWoundsNo Other Is GodGod HealsGod KillsNo One Can SaveDeathHealing And ComfortLife After DeathLoss Of A Loved Onemyself

If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodHatredSharpeningGod Executes VengeanceHating GodGod's Sword

I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh -- the blood of the slaughtered and captured, the chief of the enemy's leaders!'"

Verse ConceptsArrows, Described AsLong HairCovered With BloodGod KillingGod Making DrunkGod Will Kill The PeoplesGod's SwordArrows

Cry out, O nations, with his people, for he will avenge his servants' blood; he will take vengeance against his enemies, and make atonement for his land and people.

Verse ConceptsGentiles, In OtAvenger of bloodJoy, Of IsraelRevenge, And RetaliationForeigners Included Among The PeopleGod Atoning

And this is no small thing for you, but it is your life, and through this you may make your days long in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.

Verse ConceptsHow To Live LongCrossing Into The Promised LandUseless WordsLife Through Keeping The LawEnjoying Life

And this is the blessing of Judah: he said, Give ear, O Lord, to the voice of Judah and make him one with his people: let your hands take up his cause, and be his help against his attackers.

Verse ConceptsTribes Of IsraelGod Help!Pay Attention O God!

Of Benjamin he said,

“May the beloved of the Lord dwell in safety by Him;
He shields and covers him all the day long,
And he dwells between His shoulders.”

Verse ConceptsSolutions To InsecurityRest, PhysicalSafetyShouldersGod's Love For Israel

Of Gad he said, A blessing be on him who makes wide the limits of Gad: he takes his rest like a she-lion, taking for himself the arm and the crown of the head.

Verse ConceptsEnlargementLike Creatures