He told her, “If they tie me up with new ropes that have never been used, I will become weak and be like any other man.”

he told her the whole truth and said to her, “My hair has never been cut, because I am a Nazirite to God from birth. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become weak and be like any other man.”

Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.”

But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Am I able to have any more sons who could become your husbands?

May your house become like the house of Perez, the son Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring the Lord will give you by this young woman.”

He can take your daughters to become perfumers, cooks, and bakers.

He can take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves can become his servants.

Samuel continued, “Although you once considered yourself unimportant, have you not become the leader of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel

Then David responded, “Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel that I should become the king’s son-in-law?”

Saul then ordered his servants, “Speak to David in private and tell him, ‘Look, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. Therefore, you should become the king’s son-in-law.’”

Saul’s servants reported these words directly to David, but he replied, “Is it trivial in your sight to become the king’s son-in-law? I am a poor man who is common.”

When the servants reported these terms to David, he was pleased to become the king’s son-in-law. Before the wedding day arrived,

David and his men went out and killed 200 Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as full payment to the king to become his son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David as his wife.

If he says, ‘Good,’ then your servant is safe, but if he becomes angry, you will know he has evil intentions.

Samuel answered, “Since the Lord has turned away from you and has become your enemy, why are you asking me?

The Philistine commanders, however, were enraged with Achish and told him, “Send that man back and let him return to the place you assigned him. He must not go down with us into battle only to become our adversary during the battle. What better way could he regain his master’s favor than with the heads of our men?

You established Your people Israel to be Your own people forever, and You, Lord, have become their God.

When the Ammonites realized they had become repulsive to David, they hired 20,000 foot soldiers from the Arameans of Beth-rehob and Zobah, 1,000 men from the king of Maacah, and 12,000 men from Tob.

Then Absalom sent messengers throughout the tribes of Israel with this message: “When you hear the sound of the ram’s horn, you are to say, ‘Absalom has become king in Hebron!’”

The king said to Ziba, “Why do you have these?”

Ziba answered, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is for those to drink who become exhausted in the desert.”

Ahithophel replied to Absalom, “Sleep with your father’s concubines he left to take care of the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become repulsive to your father, everyone with you will be encouraged.”

The king asked the Cushite, “Is the young man Absalom all right?”

The Cushite replied, “May what has become of the young man happen to the enemies of my lord the king and to all who rise up against you with evil intent.”

And tell Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me and do so severely if you don’t become commander of the army from now on instead of Joab!’”

David answered, “Sons of Zeruiah, do we agree on anything? Have you become my adversary today? Should any man be killed in Israel today? Am I not aware that today I’m king over Israel?”

Was he not more honored than the Three? He became their commander even though he did not become one of the Three.

He was the most honored of the Thirty, but he did not become one of the Three. David put him in charge of his bodyguard.

Then Nathan said to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother, “Have you not heard that Adonijah son of Haggith has become king and our lord David does not know it?

Go, approach King David and say to him, ‘My lord the king, did you not swear to your servant: Your son Solomon is to become king after me, and he is the one who is to sit on my throne? So why has Adonijah become king?’

She replied, “My lord, you swore to your servant by the Lord your God, ‘Your son Solomon is to become king after me, and he is the one who is to sit on my throne.’

Now look, Adonijah has become king. And, my lord the king, you didn’t know it.

“My lord the king,” Nathan said, “did you say, ‘Adonijah is to become king after me, and he is the one who is to sit on my throne’?

just as I swore to you by the Lord God of Israel: Your son Solomon is to become king after me, and he is the one who is to sit on my throne in my place, that is exactly what I will do this very day.”

You are to come up after him, and he is to come in and sit on my throne. He is the one who is to become king in my place; he is the one I have commanded to be ruler over Israel and Judah.”

I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them, and I will reject the temple I have sanctified for My name. Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.

for this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘The flour jar will not become empty and the oil jug will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the surface of the land.”

The flour jar did not become empty, and the oil jug did not run dry, according to the word of the Lord He had spoken through Elijah.

“The Lord asked him, ‘How?’

“He said, ‘I will go and become a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’

“Then He said, ‘You will certainly entice him and prevail. Go and do that.’

So he took his firstborn son, who was to become king in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering on the city wall. Great wrath was on the Israelites, and they withdrew from him and returned to their land.

It was in the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab that Ahaziah had become king over Judah.

You have indeed defeated Edom, and you have become overconfident. Enjoy your glory and stay at home. Why should you stir up such trouble that you fall—you and Judah with you?”

Their inhabitants have become powerless,
dismayed, and ashamed.
They are plants of the field,
tender grass,
grass on the rooftops,
blasted by the east wind.

‘Some of your descendants who come from you will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and hand them over to their enemies. They will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,

because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I Myself have heard you—this is the Lord’s declaration—

Cush fathered Nimrod, who was the first to become a great warrior on earth.

Shimei had 16 sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children, so their whole family did not become as numerous as the Judeans.

David said, “Whoever is the first to kill a Jebusite will become chief commander.” Joab son of Zeruiah went up first, so he became the chief.

He was more honored than the Three and became their commander even though he did not become one of the Three.

He was the most honored of the Thirty, but he did not become one of the Three. David put him in charge of his bodyguard.

You made Your people Israel Your own people forever, and You, Lord, have become their God.

However, they will become his servants so that they may recognize the difference between serving Me and serving the kingdoms of other lands.”

Didn’t you banish the priests of Yahweh, the descendants of Aaron and the Levites, and make your own priests like the peoples of other lands do? Whoever comes to ordain himself with a young bull and seven rams may become a priest of what are not gods.

“So he said, ‘I will go and become a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’

“Then He said, ‘You will entice him and also prevail. Go and do that.’

You have said, ‘Look, I have defeated Edom,’ and you have become overconfident that you will get glory. Now stay at home. Why stir up such trouble so that you fall and Judah with you?”

Don’t become obstinate now like your fathers did. Give your allegiance to Yahweh, and come to His sanctuary that He has consecrated forever. Serve the Lord your God so that He may turn His burning anger away from you,

Indeed, the Israelite men have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has become mixed with the surrounding peoples. The leaders and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness!”

should we break Your commands again and intermarry with the peoples who commit these detestable practices? Wouldn’t You become so angry with us that You would destroy us, leaving no survivors?

In it was written:

It is reported among the nations—and Geshem agrees—that you and the Jews plan to rebel. This is the reason you are building the wall. According to these reports, you are to become their king

For they were all trying to intimidate us, saying, “They will become discouraged in the work, and it will never be finished.”

But now, my God, strengthen me.

Even one of the sons of Jehoiada, son of Eliashib the high priest, had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. So I drove him away from me.

For the queen’s action will become public knowledge to all the women and cause them to despise their husbands and say, ‘King Ahasuerus ordered Queen Vashti brought before him, but she did not come.’

But now that this has happened to you,
you have become exhausted.
It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

and become darkened because of ice,
and the snow melts into them.

So this is what you have now become to me.
When you see something dreadful, you are afraid.

If I have sinned, what have I done to You,
Watcher of mankind?
Why have You made me Your target,
so that I have become a burden to You?

As water disappears from the sea
and a river becomes parched and dry,

If his sons receive honor, he does not know it;
if they become insignificant, he is unaware of it.

he will dwell in ruined cities,
in abandoned houses destined to become piles of rubble.

You have shriveled me up—it has become a witness;
My frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.

He has made me an object of scorn to the people;
I have become a man people spit at.

My eyes have grown dim from grief,
and my whole body has become but a shadow.

The murderer rises at dawn
to kill the poor and needy,
and by night he becomes a thief.

Now I am mocked by their songs;
I have become an object of scorn to them.

He throws me into the mud,
and I have become like dust and ashes.

I have become a brother to jackals
and a companion of ostriches.

Have I rejoiced over my enemy’s distress,
or become excited when trouble came his way?

For he has said, “A man gains nothing
when he becomes God’s friend.”

when water becomes as hard as stone,
and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?

No arrow can make him flee;
slingstones become like stubble to him.

I will declare the Lord’s decree:
He said to Me, “You are My Son;
today I have become Your Father.

All have turned away;
all alike have become corrupt.
There is no one who does good,
not even one.

They have become hardened;
their mouths speak arrogantly.

All have turned away;
all alike have become corrupt.
There is no one who does good,
not even one.

They will be given over to the power of the sword;
they will become the jackals’ prey.

I have become a stranger to my brothers
and a foreigner to my mother’s sons

I have become an ominous sign to many,
but You are my strong refuge.

How suddenly they become a desolation!
They come to an end, swept away by terrors.

I think of God; I groan;
I meditate; my spirit becomes weak.Selah

We have become an object of reproach
to our neighbors,
a source of mockery and ridicule
to those around us.

Do not hold past sins against us;
let Your compassion come to us quickly,
for we have become weak.

But You have spurned and rejected him;
You have become enraged with Your anointed.

All who pass by plunder him;
he has become an object of ridicule
to his neighbors.

Can a corrupt throne—
one that creates trouble by law—
become Your ally?

You bring darkness, and it becomes night,
when all the forest animals stir.

I have become an object of ridicule to my accusers;
when they see me, they shake their heads in scorn.

The Lord is my strength and my song;
He has become my salvation.

I will give thanks to You
because You have answered me
and have become my salvation.

The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.

Though I have become like a wineskin dried by smoke,
I do not forget Your statutes.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me,
and the light around me will be night”—