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practicing evil in the LORD's presence, only not to the extent that his mother and father had done he forced abolition of the sacred pillar to Baal that his father had crafted.

Verse ConceptsStonesObelisks

Only, he clave to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin: he did not depart therefrom.

Then the king of Israel said, “Oh no, the Lord has summoned three kings, only to hand them over to Moab.”

Verse ConceptsThree MenGiven Into One's HandsGod Will Cause Defeat

And this will be only a small thing to the Lord: in addition he will give the Moabites into your hands.

Verse ConceptsUnimportant ThingsTo Be Given Into One's Hands

They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the springs of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth [only] they left its stones; however the men armed with slings went about it, and struck it.

Verse ConceptsSlingsFelling TreesCities Under AttackThrowing StonesPeople Drying Things UpHarming Treescrusades

Then go in and shut the door behind you, taking only your children, and pour oil into all of the pots. As each one is filled, set it aside."

Verse ConceptsShutting DoorsPraying Behind Closed Doors

His servant said, “How am I to set [only] this before a hundred [hungry] men?” He said, “Give it to the people so that they may eat, for thus says the Lord, ‘They shall eat and have some left.’”

She said to her mistress, "If only my lord would [come] before the prophet who [is] in Samaria; then {he would cure his skin disease}."

Verse ConceptsMission, Of IsraelProphets, Role OfHelpful ChildrenHealing LepersNamed Prophets Of The Lordmistress

When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life that this man expects me to cure a man of his skin disease? Think it over and you will see that he is only picking a fight with me.”

Verse ConceptsLiteracyGod Giving LifeGod KillingThose Who Tore ClothesGod In Relation To ManGod KillsMan's Relation To God

But then his servants approached him and spoke with him. They said, "My father, had the prophet only asked of you something great, you would have done it, wouldn't you? Yet he told you, "Bathe, and be clean"!'"

Verse ConceptsServants, GoodNamed Prophets Of The LordExamples Of Good Servants

Then he went back to the man of God, with all his train, and, taking his place before him, said, Now I am certain that there is no God in all the earth, but only in Israel: now then, take an offering from me.

Verse ConceptsConversion, examples ofNo Other Is GodMan Of God

Then Naaman said, "If not, then please let a load of soil on a pair of mules be given to your servants, for your servant will never again bring a burnt offering and sacrifice to other gods, [but] only to Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsMulesRight SacrificesWeights Of Other Things

After Naaman had gone only a short distance, Gehazi, the attendant to Elisha, the man of God, told himself, "Look how my master has spared this Aramean, Naaman! He declined to take from him what he brought. As the LORD lives, I'm going to run after him and get something from him."

Verse ConceptsLove, Abuse OfIndividuals RunningExemptGreedservanthood

If we say, 'We will enter into the city,' then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die."

Verse ConceptsPessimismResigned To DeathDyingSurrender

When they came, they called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, saying, "We came to the camp of [the] Arameans, and behold, there was no man or the voice of a man there! Only the horses and the donkeys were tied up, and the tents [were left] as they [were]."

Verse ConceptsCitiesEmpty PlacesLoss Of Donkeys

And Elisha said to him, Go, say to him, You will certainly get better; but the Lord has made it clear to me that only death is before him.

Verse ConceptsFutureKnowing God, Nature OfNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenRecoverypotential

Then Hazael said, “Surely not! For what is your servant, who is nothing more than a dog, that he would do this monstrous thing?” And Elisha answered, “The Lord has shown me that you will be king over Aram.”

Verse ConceptsdogsI Am Unimportantresiliencesyria

And they went out to put her body into the earth, but nothing of her was to be seen, only the bones of her head, and her feet, and parts of her hands.

Verse ConceptsSkullsCorpses Of Other Peoplejezebel

Then Jehu and Jehonadab the son of Recab came [to] the temple of Baal, and he said to the servants of Baal, "Search and see that there is none of the servants of Yahweh here with you; only those who serve Baal."

Verse ConceptsThose Looking For People

Only Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat [by] which he caused Israel to sin; [namely,] the calf-shaped idols of gold which [were in] Bethel and Dan.

Verse ConceptsGolden Calves

Only the high places were not removed; the people [were] still making sacrifices and offering incense on the high places.

Verse ConceptsShrinesIncense Offered Amiss

And the priests consented to receive no money of the people, and that they should only repair the breaches of the house.

Verse ConceptsRepairing

Only, for the temple of Yahweh, there were not any silver basins, snuffers, bowls for drinking wine, trumpets, or any vessel of gold or silver from the money being brought [to] the temple of Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsTrumpetProvision Of Temple Utensils

only, they have not turned aside from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, that he caused Israel to sin, therein they walked, and also, the shrine hath remained in Samaria, --

Verse ConceptsServing Asherah

For He had not left a people remaining to Jehoahaz, but only fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them and had made them like the dust at threshing-time.

Verse ConceptsSoldiersThreshingTen ThingsFiftiesTens Of ThousandsGrinding People

[Yet] the man of God became angry against him and said, "For striking five or six times, then you would have defeated Aram until finishing [them], but now you will defeat Aram [only] three times."

Verse ConceptsHalf HeartednessActing Three TimesOvercoming Hard Timessyria

He did right in the eyes of Yahweh, only not as David his ancestor; as all which Jehoash his father had done, he did.

Verse ConceptsKingship, HumanNot Imitating GoodPeople Who Did Right

Only the high places were not removed; the people [were] still sacrificing and offering incense on the high places.

Verse ConceptsIncense Offered Amiss

But he did not execute the sons of the assassins. He obeyed the Lord's commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses, "Fathers must not be put to death for what their sons do, and sons must not be put to death for what their fathers do. A man must be put to death only for his own sin."

Verse ConceptsBook of the LawSins Of The FathersWritten In The LawDeath Of A Child

Only he did not remove the high places; the people [were] still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

Verse ConceptsIncense Offered Amiss

Only the high places were not removed; the people still [were] sacrificing and offering incense on the high places. He built the upper gate of the temple of Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsSolomon's TempleGateways Of The TempleIncense Offered Amiss

He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, only not as the kings of Israel who were before him.

Verse ConceptsNot Imitating Evil

Therefore Jehovah was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there remained but the tribe of Judah only.

Verse ConceptsRemnantAnger Of God, ConsequencesSmall RemnantsDriven From God's Presence

You think only a word of lips, '[I have] advice and power for the war.' Now, on whom do you trust that you have rebelled against me?

Verse Conceptsemptiness

But if you say to me, 'On Yahweh our God we trust,' [is] it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, and he had said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'In the presence of this altar you shall bow down [only] in Jerusalem?'

Verse ConceptsShrines

But the chief adviser said to them, "My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you."

Verse ConceptsSiegesRepulsive FoodDefecationUrinatingpoop

And Hezekiah made his prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.

Verse ConceptsEarth, Creation OfHeaven And EarthJudgment SeatKingdomsUniverseNo Other Is GodThe Lord [Yahweh] Is God

They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.

Verse ConceptsCreativityStonesWoodBurning Idolatrous ThingsWood And Stone

And now, Jehovah our God, I beseech thee, save us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou, Jehovah, art God, thou only.

Verse ConceptsKingdomsKnowing God, Nature OfAfflictions, Prayer DuringNo Other Is GodKnowing That There Is A God

"Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the king of Assyria: "Not only will he not approach this city or shoot an arrow in its direction, he won't approach it with so much as a shield, nor will he throw up a siege ramp against it.

Verse ConceptsShieldsArchers, In ArmiesAttacks On Jerusalem Turned Back

And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of Jehovah which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not so? if only there shall be peace and truth in my days!

Verse ConceptsAfflicted SaintsSearchingResignationTime Of Peace

I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I have given to their ancestors, if they only observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, as far as the law that Moses my servant commanded them."

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!

only, the priests of the high places come not up unto the altar of Jehovah in Jerusalem, but they have eaten unleavened things in the midst of their brethren.

Verse ConceptsThe Altar Of The Lord

save only, in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, when this passover was held unto Yahweh, in Jerusalem.

Only, Jehovah hath not turned back from the fierceness of His great anger with which His anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh provoked him,

Verse Conceptselection, privileges ofHeatPropitiationGod Will Be Angry

And the silver and the gold hath Jehoiakim given to Pharaoh; only he valued the land to give the silver by the command of Pharaoh; from each, according to his valuation, he exacted the silver and the gold, from the people of the land, to give to Pharaoh-Nechoh.

Verse ConceptsTaxationTributesTaxValuation Of PeopleTax To Be Paid

Indeed, this happened to Judah at the Lord’s command to remove them from His sight. It was because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all he had done,

Verse ConceptsRejection Of God, Results OfDriven From God's Presence

And he took away all the people of Jerusalem and all the chiefs and all the men of war, ten thousand prisoners; and all the expert workmen and the metal-workers; only the poorest sort of the people of the land were not taken away.

Verse ConceptsBlacksmithsSmall RemnantsTens Of ThousandsExile Of Judah To Babylon

And Sheshan had no sons, only daughters, but Sheshan had an Egyptian slave, and his name [was] Jarha.

Verse ConceptsFathers And Daughters

Jabez called out to the God of Israel, "If only you would greatly bless me and expand my territory! May your hand be with me! Keep me from harm so I might not endure pain!" God answered his prayer.

Verse ConceptsAnswered PrayerDivine RestraintsHand Of GodRestraintSuccessEnlargementSpiritual ProgressGod's HandGod's Hands On Peopleborders

And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers had only a small number of children, and their family was not as fertile as the children of Judah.

Verse ConceptsSix PeopleSixteen

Now Makir married a wife from the Huppites and Shuppites. (His sister's name was Maacah.) Zelophehad was Manasseh's second son; he had only daughters.

David was extremely thirsty and said, “If only someone would bring me water to drink from the well at the city gate of Bethlehem!”

Then David said, "Only the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the Lord chose them to carry the ark of the Lord and to serve before him perpetually.

Verse Conceptselection, responsibilities ofMinistry, Nature OfCarrying Holy Things


When you were few in number,
Even a very few, and strangers in it,

Verse ConceptsForeignersCymbals

And this was only a small thing to you, O God; but your words have even been about the far-off future of your servant's family, looking on me as on one of high position, O Lord God.

Verse ConceptsFuture

and David captureth from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen, and David destroyeth utterly all the chariots, and leaveth of them a hundred chariots only.

Verse ConceptsChariotsHorsesAnimal RightsOne HundredA Thousand ThingsSeven ThousandTwenty Thousand And Upmuscles

But the chiefs of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Does it seem to you that David is honouring your father, by sending comforters to you? is it not clear that these men have only come to go through the land and to make secret observation of it so that they may overcome it?

Verse ConceptsSpiesSpying

And David said to God, Was it not I who gave the order for the people to be numbered? It is I who have done the sin and the great wrong; but these are only sheep; what have they done? let your hand, O Lord God, be lifted up against me and against my family, but not against your people to send disease on them.

Verse ConceptsNumberingLonelinessAngst

Only may Yahweh give to you understanding and insight that he might give you charge over Israel and the keeping of the law of Yahweh your God.

Verse ConceptsParents Prayer For Their ChildrenLibertinismWisdom, Human Importance

Jahath was the chief and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah had only a small number of sons, so they were grouped together as one family.

Eleazar died having no sons, only daughters. Their cousins, the sons of Kish, married them.

Verse ConceptsCousins

And David the king said to all the people, Solomon my son, the only one who has been marked out by God, is still young and untested, and the work is great, for this great house is not for man, but for the Lord God.

Verse Conceptselection, responsibilities ofInexperienceMiddle AgeYouthAmateursApprenticesLimitations Of Youthstructure

But who is able to build him a house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then that I should build him a house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?

Verse ConceptsGod, As SpiritGod, Present EverywhereGod Is TranscendentGod, InfiniteGod's DwellingThe Vastness Of Nature

There was, nothing in the ark, save only the two tables, which Moses placed therein in Horeb, - when Yahweh made a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsTabletsTwo Stone Tablets

Only, thou thyself, must not build the house, - but, thine own son, that proceedeth out of thy loins - he, shall build the house for my Name.

Verse ConceptsSolomon's Temple

Therefore, Lord God of Israel,
keep what You promised
to Your servant, my father David:
“You will never fail to have a man
to sit before Me on the throne of Israel,
if only your sons guard their way to walk in My Law
as you have walked before Me.”

Verse ConceptsThrone

then hear thou from the heavens, the settled place of thy dwelling, and forgive, and render unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou knowest (for thou, thou only, knowest the hearts of the children of men),

Verse ConceptsHousesOutward Appearance

Not only that, but since my father loaded you down heavily, I'm going to add to that burden. If my father disciplined you with whips, I'm going to do so with scorpions!'"

And Asa made prayer to the Lord his God and said, Lord, you only are able to give help against the strong to him who has no strength; come to our help, O Lord our God, for our hope is in you, and in your name we have come out against this great army. O Lord, you are our God; let not man's power be greater than yours.

Verse ConceptsConfrontationBeggarsPower, God's SavingPower, HumanPrayer, As Asking GodSuccessProtection, From GodCrying To GodRelationship TroublesConflictTrust In RelationshipsBuilding Relationshipshelp

But the high places were not removed from Israel; only, Asa's heart was perfect all his days.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodReformationSacrifice, In OtGrandmothers

And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, he fell {severely} ill in his feet. But even in his illness he did not seek Yahweh, but [only] among the healers.

Verse ConceptsdiseasesdisabilitiesHealingHelpfulnessSeeking GodDiseaseSicknessIllnessNot Seeking God

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man who can ask Yahweh, but I hate him because he never prophesies good about me, but only disaster. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.”

“The king shouldn’t say that,” Jehoshaphat replied.

Verse ConceptsPersecution, Forms Of

But Micaiah said, "As Yahweh lives, only what my God has said, that will I speak."

The king said to him, "How many times must I make you solemnly promise in the name of the Lord to tell me only the truth?"

So the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you he never prophesies good about me, but only disaster?”

and say, ‘This is what the king says: Put this guy in prison and feed him only bread and water until I come back safely.’”

Verse ConceptsPrisonersVindictivenessWaters Of Affliction

Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that were with him, saying, Fight you not with small or great, except only with the king of Israel.

Verse ConceptsSmallness

"Pay careful attention to your duties, because you are judging not only for the sake of human beings but also for the LORD and he is present with you as you make your rulings.

Verse ConceptsKings, Duties OfMagistratesGod With Specific PeopleMaking DecisionsJudgement

And Judah came to the watchtower of the waste land, and looking in the direction of the army, they saw only dead bodies stretched on the earth; no living man was to be seen.

Verse ConceptsObliteration

Only, the high places were not removed; and as yet the people had not directed their hearts to the God of their fathers.

Verse ConceptsComplacencyHalf Heartedness

and they came up against Judah, and forced their way into it, and carried off all the possessions that were found belonging to the house of the king, moreover also his sons and his wives, - so that there was left him never a son, save only Jehoahaz the youngest of his sons.

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest Child

a [second] third shall be at the king’s house (palace), and a [final] third at the Gate of the Foundation; and all the people shall be in the courtyards of the house of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsCourtyardNamed Gates

then let no one enter the house of Yahweh, save only the priests, and they who are in attendance of the Levites, they, may enter, for, holy, they are,-but, all the people, shall keep the watch of Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsHoliness, As Set Apart For God

Although the Aramean army came with only a few men, the Lord handed over a vast army to them because the people of Judah had abandoned Yahweh, the God of their ancestors. So they executed judgment on Joash.

Verse ConceptsLargenessLarge Armies

And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, only not with a fully-devoted heart.

Verse ConceptsHalf HeartednessLosing A FriendDoing The Right Thingdevotion

However, he did not execute their sons. He obeyed the Lord's commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses, "Fathers must not be executed for what their sons do, and sons must not be executed for what their fathers do. A man must be executed only for his own sin."

Verse ConceptsBook of the Law

You claim you've defeated Edom, but you're really only puffed up with arrogant boasting. So stay home. Why stir up trouble so you die, and the rest of Judah with you?"

Verse ConceptsSuccessArrogance, Characterizes The WickedTwelve Beings

They took their stand against King Uzziah and said, “Uzziah, you have no right to offer incense to the Lordonly the consecrated priests, the descendants of Aaron, have the right to offer incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have acted unfaithfully! You will not receive honor from the Lord God.”

Verse ConceptsConfrontationevil, believers' responses toChallengesSanctuaryConsecration

And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Uzziah had done--only he did not go into the temple of Yahweh. But the people still acted corruptly.

Verse ConceptsImitating Good KingsEntering The Temple

And now ye are saying to subdue the sons of Judah and Jerusalem for servants and for maids to you: are not only with you trespasses with you against Jehovah your God?

Only the priests were too few, and they could not flay all the burnt-offerings; therefore their brethren the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had hallowed themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to hallow themselves than the priests.

Verse ConceptsdiligenceSkinningFew Priests

Only men from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsHumilityReligious Awakenings

He has only human strength, but we have Yahweh our God to help us and to fight our battles.” So the people relied on the words of King Hezekiah of Judah.

Verse ConceptsArmsGuardiansOptimismGod With You To Helpfaith and strengthStrength And FaithTrusting OthersSupportBattle

Isn't this the very same Hezekiah who removed this god's high places and altars? Isn't this the same Hezekiah who issued this order to Judah and Jerusalem: "You are to worship in front of only one altar and burn your sacrifices only on it."?

Verse ConceptsHigh Places

Even in the matter of the envoys of the rulers of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone only to test him, that He might know all that was in his heart.

Verse ConceptsenvoyProving, Through TestingRulersTesting

Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; if only they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.

Verse ConceptsOrdinances

Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.

Verse ConceptsShrines