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He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

Verse ConceptsButterMilkDairyCompanionshipPeople EatingRich Food

When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, my father."

Verse ConceptsResentment, Against PeopleSelf PitySuffering, Emotional Aspects OfVoicesBeing BitterPeople BlessingBitterness

Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."

Verse ConceptsGood ActivityStaying TemporarilyGiving In Marriage

and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

Verse ConceptsBricksOppression, Examples OfTroubling Groups Of PeopleBitternessSuccess And Hard Work

They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.

Verse ConceptsBread, Kinds OfBitter HerbsEating Before GodBitter FoodHerbsEating Meatcooking

Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness."

Verse ConceptsDying In The WildernessPossibility Of DeathLeave Us AloneServing GroupsDying In The Desert slaveryNot Being Alone

When they came to Marah, they couldn't drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.

Verse ConceptsPoisonBitter WaterPeople Naming ThingsBitterness

He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

Verse ConceptsRepulsive FoodBurning Idolatrous ThingsWaters DividedGrandmothers

He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.

Verse ConceptsBitter WaterRepulsive FoodBad WaterBitternessInfidelity

When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.

Verse ConceptsThighsRepulsive FoodBad WaterBitter WaterSwellingBitternessInfidelityHurt And Betrayaladultry

In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Verse ConceptsMonthBitter HerbsTwilightMonth 2Bitter Food

Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?"

Verse ConceptsdoubtersFaint HeartednessWhy Does God Do This?

Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.

Verse ConceptsDust, Figurative Usedust

Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. Of the blood of the grape you drank wine.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholButterRamsDairyDrinking WineRich Food

[They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

Verse ConceptsDecayPoisonTeethWasteFamine ComingFamine Will Comehunger

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter.

Verse ConceptsPoisondissatisfactionBitterness

He asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him butter in a lordly dish.

Verse ConceptsButterNoblesWaterBeverages, LiteralRich Food

He said to them, "What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn't the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

Verse ConceptsGleaningGrapesMinoritiesVintageRelative Greatness

"Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, 'Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?' Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh."

Verse ConceptsBodySeventySame Bone And FleshSeventies

Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?

They said to him, "Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?"

Verse ConceptsSpiritual FathersCurbing SpeechUnnamed Priests

He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him."

Verse ConceptsMaturity, PhysicalOld Age, Attainment OfSeven ChildrenDaughters In LawGood PeopleThose Who LovedRenewal

Elkanah her husband said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep? Why don't you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?"

Verse ConceptsUnhappinessWeepingHusbands Duty To WivesTen PeopleGood PeopleWhy Do You Do This?

He had a son, whose name was Saul, an impressive young man; and there was not among the children of Israel a better person than he. From his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.

Verse ConceptsBodyHeadsOutward AppearanceTall PeoplestructuresaulHandsome Men

Samuel said to him, "Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.

Verse ConceptsPredictionssaul

David said in his heart, "I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand."

Verse ConceptsEscaping From PeopleDespair

Absalom answered Joab, "Behold, I sent to 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 to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me."'"

Verse ConceptsPeople VisitingOthers SummoningApproval To Kill Oneself

Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

Verse ConceptsAdvice, From GodGod Harmed ThemGod HinderingGod's OrdersMan's Counsel

and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat: for they said, "The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness."

Verse ConceptsCowsButterMilkSheepTirednessCheeseDairyRich FoodTired In Flighttired

But the people said, "You shall not go forth; for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city."

Verse ConceptsValuesTens Of ThousandsPeople HelpingHalf Of GroupsGreat IndividualsWorth

Moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, 'May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne;' and the king bowed himself on the bed.

Verse ConceptsBowingBowing Before GodThe Kingdom Of Solomon

Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn't know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

Verse ConceptsGod Makes Evil ReboundGod Will RequiteIgnorant Of Facts

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers."

Verse ConceptsDisappointments, Examples OfHope, Results Of Its AbsenceJourneyUniversality Of DeathLonelinessPrayer, As Asking GodPrayer, Doubts AboutSelf PitySittingTreesComplaintsUnwise PrayersDesire For DeathDimensions Of Other ThingsTemporary Stay In The WildernessDeathDepression

Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, "Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near to my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money."

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalHorticultureCovetousness, Example Of

Aren't Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn't I wash in them, and be clean?" So he turned and went away in a rage.

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsUnbelief, Examples OfAngry People

For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there any helper for Israel.

Verse ConceptsReceptivenessSuffering, Of The InnocentGod Seeing Their AfflictionGod Sending His SonNo Help

David went out to meet them, and answered them, "If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be knit to you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it."

Verse ConceptsBetrayalPeople HelpingHurt And Betrayal

but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute, like the house of Ahab did, and also have slain your brothers of your father's house, who were better than yourself:

Verse ConceptsSpiritual HarlotryMurderImitating Wicked Kings

He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsCrushing

"If it please the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.

Verse ConceptsHuman LawDeposing

"Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

Verse ConceptsLight, SpiritualWearinessWeariness Of Life

For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

Verse ConceptsFruits Of SinLimitations Of YouthJudgements Writtenaccusations

He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

Verse ConceptsButterMilk And Honey

"As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.

Verse ConceptsTasteIs God Unjust?Bitterness

when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,

Verse ConceptsProvision From Rocks

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

Verse ConceptsSinful HeartsButterHeart, Fallen And RedeemedOilOintmentSincereitySmoothnessSmoothWarSpeech

It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.

Verse ConceptsHornsRight Sacrifices

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Verse ConceptsDoorkeepersDoorsProperty, HousesTentsEvil AssociationsOne DayPresented At The DoorwayWe Live With GodDaysgaysBeing GayHaving A Good Daywickedness

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver. YUD

Verse ConceptsGoldMetalsMineralsMouthsRiches, SpiritualTreasureAlternatives To Money

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

Verse ConceptsAlternatives To MoneyTrue GainEducation

But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

Verse ConceptsSharpnessTwo SidedBitterness

For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can't be compared to it.

Verse ConceptsValuesPrecious StonesBenefits Of WisdomUnique ThingsInternal AdornmentWorthjewelry

My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold; my yield than choice silver.

Verse ConceptsAlternatives To Moneyhonour

Better is he who is lightly esteemed, and has a servant, than he who honors himself, and lacks bread.

Verse ConceptsPretenceServanthood, In SocietyShortagesServants Of PeopleSeeking HonourBeing Gay

Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king. He shall not betray his mouth.

Verse ConceptsOraclesGood KingsPeople Involved In JudgementDecision Making

That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.

Verse ConceptsBeing PoorThe End Of LiarsUnconditional Love

for it is better that it be said to you, "Come up here," than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom your eyes have seen.

Verse ConceptsHumiliationSelf ExaltationMoving UpwardsAbasing PeopleWaiting Till Marriage

A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.

Verse ConceptsHoneyBitter FoodSweetnessMore Than EnoughBitternesshunger

For as the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood; so the forcing of wrath brings forth strife."

Verse ConceptsButterMilkNosesQuarrelsDairyPressingBleedingCovered With Bloodpressure

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Verse ConceptsEating And DrinkingGood ActivityCaused By GodFinding LoveSuccess And Hard WorkBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Lifeuncertaintyhardwork

I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.

Verse ConceptsContentmentGood ActivityBeing ContentBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Life

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

Verse ConceptsCareersWithheld KnowledgeUnknown FutureBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Lifeaccomplishments

Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Verse ConceptsUnder The SunBabies Sinful From Birth

Guard your steps when you go to God's house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don't know that they do evil.

Verse ConceptsFormalityGod's DwellingThe Work Of FoolsCare Of FeetSacrificeFoolsGoing To ChurchListening To GodfootstepsbehaviorevangelisingGuarding Yourself

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Verse ConceptsUseless EndeavourThe Faculty Of SightFocusstrivingwanderingFutility Of Worldly Pursuits

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

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 hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

Verse ConceptsReproving PeopleWise Man Or FoolFoolscriticismrebuking

Don't say, "Why were the former days better than these?" For you do not ask wisely about this.

Verse ConceptsHaving A Good DayThe Pastpastwise