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The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.

Yahweh, the God of your fathers, be adding unto you the like of you, a thousand times, - and bless you, as he hath spoken unto you!

Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersA Thousand PeopleGod Multipling PeopleMay God Bless!AbundanceBlessings From GodBlessing OthersBlessings And ProsperityGiving Back

So all of you approached me and said, "Let's send some men ahead of us to scout out the land and bring us back word as to how we should attack it and what the cities are like there."

Verse ConceptsSpies

In the desert you saw that the LORD carried you like a man carries his son, on every road you traveled until you reached this place.'

Verse ConceptsFathers, Responsibilities OfLight, NaturalSustaining ProvidenceGod Carrying PeopleGod Led Them Through The Wilderness

And the Amorite that dwelt on that hill came out against you, and chased you, like as bees do, and cut you in pieces in Seir, as far as Hormah.

Verse ConceptsBeesInsects

(The Emim previously lived in it, a people large, numerous, and tall, like the Anakites.

Verse ConceptsGiants

They also are reckoned as giants like the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.

Verse ConceptsGiantsPeople Naming People

In like manner the Horites dwelt in Seir, before time: which the children of Esau cast out, and destroyed them before them, and dwelt there in their stead: as Israel did in the land of his possession which the LORD gave them.

Verse ConceptsGod Gave The Land

a people great and many and tall, like the Anakim, - but Yahweh destroyed them from before them, and they took their possessions, and dwelt in their stead:

till that Jehovah give rest to your brethren like yourselves, and they also have possessed the land which Jehovah your God is giving to them beyond the Jordan, then ye have turned back each to his possession, which I have given to you.

Verse ConceptsNot going home directlyTime Of Peace

Lord Jehovah, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy powerful hand; for what God is in the heavens or in the earth that can do like to thy works, and like to thy might?

Verse ConceptsGod, Power OfMiracles, Nature OfStrength, DivinePower Of God, DescribedMiracles Showing God's PowerBeginning Of SalvationNo One Is Like GodNo Other Acts Like Godgreatness

For what great nation is there which hath gods nigh unto it, - like Yahweh our God, whensoever we have cried out unto him.

Verse ConceptsAnswered PromisesClosenessUnique Israel

And what [other] great nation has for it just rules and regulations just like {this whole} law that I [am] setting {before} you {today}?

Verse ConceptsBodyGod, Righteousness OfMind, Of GodUnique IsraelExcellent LawGod's Word Is RighteousDecision Makinglawstatues

For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?

Verse ConceptsCreation Of All MankindMan's Relation To GodEnd Of Days

Or has a god [ever] attempted to go to take for himself a nation from the midst of a nation, [using] trials and signs and wonders and war, with an outstretched arm and with great and awesome deeds, like all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

Verse ConceptsMiracles, Nature OfStrength, DivineArm Of God

and the seventh day is a sabbath to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not do any work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and thine ox, and thine ass, and all thy cattle, and thy sojourner who is within thy gates; so that thy man-servant, and thy handmaid doth rest like thyself;

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyWork, And RestStrangersThe Seventh Day Of The WeekForeigners Included In The LawDay 7No Work On Feast DaysRegulations For Men And Women

For who of all flesh is he who hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire like us -- and doth live?

Verse ConceptsGod, Living And Self sustainingeternal life, nature ofGod Appearing In FireLiving Despite God's Presence

But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsShrinesStonesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisksBurning Idolatrous Things

Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsIdolatryUnder The Bancurses

Like the nations which the Lord causes to perish before you, so shall you perish; because you would not listen to and obey the voice of the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsObeying God

Be certain then today that it is the Lord your God who goes over before you like an all-burning fire; he will send destruction on them, crushing them before you; and you will send them in flight, putting an end to them quickly, as the Lord has said.

Verse ConceptsBattlesAssurance in the life of faithGod DestroyingCrossing Into The Promised Landtoughness

Then I fell down like the first time in the presence of the Lord for 40 days and 40 nights; I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you committed, doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and provoking Him to anger.

Verse ConceptsMediatorProstrationWaterFasting, Accompanied ByMore Than One MonthFasting For Long Periods

At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, ConstructionGoing Up MountainsTwo Stone Tablets

And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, ConstructionToolsTwo Stone Tablets

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.

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

For this reason, Levi does not have a portion or inheritance like his brothers; the Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord your God told him.

Verse ConceptsGod Is My PortionNo Earthly Inheritance

“I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights like the first time. The Lord also listened to me on this occasion; He agreed not to annihilate you.

Verse ConceptsMore Than One MonthGod Unwilling

Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you like the stars of heaven in number.

Verse ConceptsStarsSeventies

For the land which you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot like a garden of vegetables.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalWater IrrigationRivers And StreamsArtificialnessNot Like ThingsFeet In ActionGardensHerbsland

So that your days, and the days of your children, may be long in the land which the Lord by his oath to your fathers said he would give them, like the days of the eternal heavens.

Verse ConceptsHow To Live LongEternal PossessionGod Gave The LandThe Earthland

You must not do like we are doing here today, with everyone doing what seems best to him,

Verse ConceptsAnarchyDoing The Right ThingDoing Your Best

It will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe; the unclean and the clean may take of it.

Verse ConceptsClean And UncleanDeer Etc.Deer

You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

After they have been destroyed from your presence, be careful not to be ensnared like they are; do not pursue their gods and say, "How do these nations serve their gods? I will do the same."

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionParticipation, In SinImitatingEvil AssociationsNot Imitating EvilAsking Particular QuestionsEvil TrappingDo Not Have Other gods

"Your own blood brother, your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your friend who is like your soul mate may entice you quietly. He may tell you, "Let's go and serve other gods,' (whom neither you nor your ancestors have known

Verse ConceptsSecrecyEnticersUnknown GodsDifferent GodsEncouraged To Serve Foreign godsShow No MercyMothers Love For Her ChildrenSiblingsMothers And SonsDeath Of A Motheratheism

and all Israel do hear and fear, and add not to do like this evil thing in thy midst.

Verse ConceptsFear Will Come

Only you shall not eat its blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water.

Verse ConceptsPeople Consuming BloodForbidden Food

When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;

Verse ConceptsLike The Nations

then he hath ministered in the name of Jehovah his God, like all his brethren, the Levites, who are standing there before Jehovah,

Verse ConceptsIn God's Name

They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.

Verse ConceptsEquality In PaymentDividing FoodPermitted To Eat Offerings

"When you come to the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you, you must not learn to do like the detestable practices of those nations.

Verse ConceptsLearningConformityAbominations, PracticesNot Imitating EvilAncestral Worshipculturepracticeland

Then everyone else will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything evil like this among you.

Verse ConceptsFear Is Due

And the authorities have added to speak unto the people, and said, Who is the man that is afraid and tender of heart? -- let him go and turn back to his house, and the heart of his brethren doth not melt like his heart;

Verse ConceptsBattlesCowardiceBad AttitudeFaintingFaint HeartednessFear Of EnemiesFear And WorryBeing Scared

so that they may not teach you to do like all their detestable things that they do for their gods and [thereby] you sin against Yahweh your God.

Verse ConceptsMisteachingEncouraged To Serve Foreign gods

In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.

Verse ConceptsInstruction About ClothesNo Loss

they are to bring her to the door of her father's house. Then the men of the city are to stone her with boulders until she dies for doing a detestable thing in Israel acting like a prostitute while in her father's house. By doing this, you will remove this 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

Do nothing to the young woman, because she is not guilty of an offense deserving death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.

Let him live among you wherever he chooses in any of your cities that he likes. Don't mistreat him."

Verse ConceptsTroubling Groups Of People

“Do not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that is like taking a life as security.

Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyGuaranteeMillstonesCreditorsLaws About Pledges

He may have him beaten forty times, but no more. He is not to be beaten with more stripes than these and he is not to be degraded [that is, treated like an animal] in your sight.

Verse ConceptsBeatingsWhipsForties

And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.

Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attitudes ToTownComing To GatesPeople UnwillingBrothers in lawMarriage Between Man And Woman

Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;

Verse ConceptsPeople Unwilling

And your heavens that [are] over your heads shall be [like] bronze, and the earth that [is] under you [shall be like] iron.

Verse ConceptsBronzeIron, Figurative Use OfIronThings Like BronzeThings Like Iron

You will go feeling your way when the sun is high, like a blind man for whom all is dark, and nothing will go well for you: you will be crushed and made poor for ever, and you will have no saviour.

Verse ConceptsNoonRescueWorldly DilemmasWalking In DarknessNot ProsperingRobbing PeopleSpiritual Darkness

Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from afar, from the end of the earth, like as the eagle flieth, a nation whose tongue thou understandest not;

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesWingsEaglesNot Understanding LanguageUnknown LanguagesPeople From Far AwayLanguage

And you will become a very small band, though your numbers were like the stars of heaven; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsFew People

And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

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

May my teaching trickle like the dew, my words like rain showers on tender grass, and like spring showers on new growth.

Verse ConceptsdewGrassPlantsRainTendernessWeather, As God's JudgmentAbundance, MaterialShowersPeople TeachingHerbsdoctrine

His people have been unfaithful to him; they have not acted like his children -- this is their sin. They are a perverse and deceitful generation.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsSin, Nature OfCharacter Of WickedEvil GenerationsCrookednessIsrael As Sons Of GodTwisted Ways

He found him in a desert land, and in a howling, desert wasteland; he {encircled him}, he cared for him, he protected him like the {apple} of his eye.

Verse ConceptsFruitBarren, LandGod Keeping WatchApple Of The EyeGod SurroundingEyes Cared ForFinding PeopleGod Led Them Through The Wildernesswandering

He watches over His nest like an eagle
and hovers over His young;
He spreads His wings, catches him,
and lifts him up on His pinions.

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

I will sharpen my lightning-like sword, and my hand will grasp hold of the weapon of judgment; I will execute vengeance on my foes, and repay those who hate me!

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodHatredSharpeningGod Executes VengeanceHating GodGod's Sword

His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

Verse ConceptsFirstbornBullsHornsThousandsHorns VictoriousPropellingWild OxPowerful IndividualsUnicorns

Of Gad he said,

“Blessed is the one who enlarges Gad;
He lurks like a lioness,
And tears the arm and the crown of the head.

Verse ConceptsEnlargementLike Creatures

Of Naphtali he said,

“O Naphtali, satisfied with favor,
And full of the blessing of the Lord,
Take possession of the sea [of Galilee] and the south.”

Verse ConceptsGenerosity, God'sGrace, In OtPlenty Through GodBlessed By Godlakes

Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.

Verse ConceptsHelpfulnessHigh PlacesRefugeShieldsSpiritual Warfare, ArmourSwordsGod Being Our ShieldUnique IsraelGod HelpsGod's SwordExcellence