He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him.

until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die. Do not listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, "The LORD will deliver us."

Therefore their inhabitants were of small power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.

Like him was there no king before him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.

The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was on it; and the height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of brass: and like to these had the second pillar with network.

The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea;

Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers did not have many children, neither did all their family multiply like the children of Judah.

The sons of Shemida were Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.

He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear.

Of the Gadites there separated themselves to David to the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, that could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the roes on the mountains;

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."

For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like the army of God.

So they came up to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there; and David said, God has broken through my enemies by my hand, like a breakthrough of waters. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal Perazim.

I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

LORD, there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for himself as a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeemed out of Egypt?

There was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

There were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and they were divided like this: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of ancestral houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers' houses, eight.

Of these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices like their brothers, to minister in the house of the LORD.

But David did not take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky.

Now, LORD God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

wisdom and knowledge is granted to you. I will give you riches, wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had who have been before you; neither shall there any after you have the like."

It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three thousand baths.

and he said, "LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven, or on earth; you who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;

The king made of the algum trees terraces for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, and harps and stringed instruments for the singers: and there were none like these seen before in the land of Judah.

Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps: there was nothing like it made in any kingdom.

The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, "Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Let your word therefore, please be like one of theirs, and speak good."

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:

It happened, in process of time, at the end of two years, that his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of severe diseases. His people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.

Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, "May the LORD look at it, and repay it."

Then Amaziah king of Judah consulted his advisers, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us look one another in the face."

Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he did not do that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, like David his father;

Do not be like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.

So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.

There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

The young woman then came to the king like this: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the women's house to the king's house.

Esther had not yet made known her relatives nor her people, as Mordecai had commanded her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai, like she did when she was brought up by him.

Then the king asked her, "What would you like, queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom."

The LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil."

The LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."

Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

Look this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know it for your good."

Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I shall not lie to your face.

"Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand?

How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

Haven't you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water.

He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.

yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

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

Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth like gold.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

"I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.

Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me.

The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.

Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?

"Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.

Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.

Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his belly.

He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.

His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.

His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

The arrow can't make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.

His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

You shall rule them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

Let my sentence come forth from your presence. Let your eyes look on equity.

He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.