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And Jehovah said to him, Therefore, whoever slayeth Cain, it shall be revenged sevenfold. And Jehovah set a mark on Cain, lest any finding him should smite him.

Verse ConceptsAbel and CainBlood, as symbol of guiltDeath penaltyRevenge, And RetaliationSanctity Of LifeSevenfoldRestraints From KillingMarks On PeopleDeath Penalty For KillingMan AvengingRevenge

He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah; therefore it is said, As Nimrod, the mighty hunter before Jehovah!

Verse ConceptsHuntingRecreationLike People In CharacterOld Sayingsfearless

Therefore was its name called Babel; because Jehovah there confounded the language of the whole earth. And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth.

Verse ConceptsConfusion, Examples OfScattering The PeoplesLanguages SeparatedLanguage

Therefore the well was named Beer-lahai-roi: behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

Verse ConceptsWellsGod Seeing All Peoplebeer

And I will fetch a morsel of bread; and refresh yourselves; after that ye shall pass on; for therefore have ye passed on towards your servant. And they said, So do as thou hast said.

Verse ConceptsBread, As FoodServanthood, In Life Of BelieversPeople Refreshed

Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known a man: let me now bring them out to you; and do to them as is good in your sight: only, to these men do nothing; for therefore have they come under the shadow of my roof.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersRooftopVirginTwo WomenLeaving People AloneNever Giving UpFather And Daughter RelationshipsProtecting Your FamilyFathers And Daughters

Haste, escape thither; for I cannot do anything until thou art come there. Therefore the name of the city is called Zoar.

Verse ConceptsHasteImpotence Of GodSmall ThingsHurrying Others On

And God said to him in a dream, I also knew that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart, and I, too, have withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore have I not suffered thee to touch her.

Verse ConceptsTouchAbsence Of SexNot TouchingPlea Of InnocenceDirect Communication Through Dreams

Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there they had sworn, both of them.

Verse ConceptsSealing A CovenantWellsPeople Naming Things

My lord, hearken to me. A field of four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.

Verse ConceptsReal EstateUnimportant Things

And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with the red the red thing there, for I am faint. Therefore was his name called Edom.

Verse ConceptsYielding To TemptationRequesting FoodRed BodiesPeople With Apt Names

And he called it Shebah; therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.

Verse ConceptsSwearing OathsGiven Names To This DayPeople Naming Things

And he said, Is it not therefore he was named Jacob, for he has supplanted me now twice? He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?

Verse ConceptsJacob, Life And Character OfDoing Things TwicePeople Naming PeopleGraspingPeople BlessingStoring Other Things

And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, Because Jehovah has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this one also; and she called his name Simeon.

Verse ConceptsGod Paid Attention To MeHating IndividualsPeople With Apt Names

And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, Now this time will my husband be united to me, for I have borne him three sons; therefore was his name called Levi.

Verse ConceptsThree ChildrenPeople With Apt Names

And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, This time will I praise Jehovah; therefore she called his name Judah. And she ceased to bear.

Verse ConceptsCessationShowing Forth His PraisePeople With Apt Nameschildbearing

And Rachel said, God has done me justice, and has also heard my voice, and given me a son; therefore she called his name Dan.

Verse ConceptsGod VindicatesGod Paid Attention To MePeople With Apt Namesvindication

And she said to her, Is it too little that thou hast taken my husband, that thou wilt take my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son's mandrakes.

Verse ConceptsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenTaking Other PeopleUnimportant Things

And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed,

Verse ConceptsThings As Witnesses

Therefore the children of Israel do not eat of the sinew that is over the joint of the thigh, to this day; because he touched the joint of Jacob's thigh the sinew.

Verse ConceptsWeakness, PhysicalThighsTouching To HarmForbidden FoodStatutes To This Daymuscles

And Jacob said, No, I pray thee; if now I have found favour in thine eyes, then receive my gift from my hand; for therefore have I seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou hast received me with pleasure.

Verse ConceptsHeavenly FacesSmiling

And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house, and for his cattle he made booths. Therefore the name of the place was called Succoth.

Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyBooths

These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade in it. And the land behold, it is of wide extent before them. We will take their daughters as wives, and give them our daughters.

Verse ConceptsMoney, Stewardship OfLiving In The LandMen Of Peace

Then they said one to another, We are indeed guilty concerning our brother, whose anguish of soul we saw when he besought us, and we did not hearken; therefore this distress is come upon us.

Verse ConceptsGuilty ConsciencesGuilt, Human Aspects OfAfflicted Saints, Examples OfFound GuiltyPeople Without MercyWhy It HappenedHuman Awareness Of Guilt

And the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing-floor of Atad, and they said, This is a grievous mourning of the Egyptians. Therefore the name of it was called Abel-Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

Verse ConceptsMourningMourning DeathBeyond Jordan

And the number of the bricks they have made heretofore shall ye lay upon them: ye shall not diminish any of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

Verse ConceptsOppression, Examples OfNumbers ReducingNo Reduction

And he said, Ye are idle, idle! therefore ye say, Let us go and sacrifice to Jehovah.

Verse Conceptshumor

Therefore say unto the children of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their service, and I will redeem you with a stretched-out arm, and with great judgments.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfGod, As SaviorArmsGod, The LordRedemption, In Everyday LifeStrength, DivineArm Of GodCaptivesStrength Of GodRemoving BurdensI Am The LordGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptRedemptionGod's Interventionliberation

And it came to pass, when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, that Jehovah slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of men and the firstborn of cattle: therefore I sacrifice to Jehovah all that breaketh open the womb being males; and every firstborn of my children I ransom.

Verse ConceptsStubbornness, Consequences OfDeath Of The FirstbornGod KillingMale AnimalsBoth Men And Animals KilledHindering God's WorkGod Killed The PeoplesRegulating Sacrifices

And they came to Marah, and could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore the name of it was called Marah.

Verse ConceptsPoisonBitter WaterPeople Naming ThingsBitterness

See, for Jehovah hath given you the sabbath; therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread for two days. Abide every man in his place: let no man go from his place on the seventh day.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesDouble PortionsThe Sixth Day Of The WeekTwo DaysMotionlessnessStaying PutDay 6Gifts Of GodOther Gifts Of God

Keep the sabbath, therefore; for it is holy unto you; every one that profaneth it shall certainly be put to death: yea, whoever doeth work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his peoples.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentSabbath, In OtGoldsmithsHoly TimesSabbath ObservedThose To Be Cut Off From IsraelLack Of Holiness

For I am Jehovah who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In OtClaimsI Am The LordBe Holy For I Am HolyI Will Be Their GodGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

Therefore have I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall the stranger who sojourneth among you eat blood.

Verse ConceptsForbidden Food

They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God; for they present Jehovah's offerings by fire, the bread of their God; therefore shall they be holy.

Verse ConceptsCripplesHoliness Of MinistersIrreverenceMinisters, Should BeProfaning God's NameMaking People Holy

Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land that he had sworn unto them, he has therefore slain them in the wilderness.

Verse ConceptsImpotence Of GodDying In The WildernessGod KillingGod Killed His People

the censers of these sinners who have forfeited their life; and they shall make them into broad plates for the covering of the altar; for they presented them before Jehovah, therefore they are hallowed; and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsSetting Up The Bronze AltarThings As Signs

for I have given for an inheritance to the Levites the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as a heave-offering to Jehovah; therefore I have said of them, They shall possess no inheritance among the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsAnimal Sacrifices, Heave OfferingFood For Priests DefinedNo Earthly InheritanceThe Tithe For LevitesTithes And Offering

And Jehovah said to Moses and to Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to hallow me before the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land that I have given them.

Verse Conceptsdoubt, results ofHonorMoses, Life OfTrust, Lack OfUnbelief, Examples OfSkepticismDoubting GodDishonoring GodUnbelief Toward God

Therefore it is said in the book of the wars of Jehovah, Vaheb in Suphah, and the brooks of Arnon;

Verse ConceptsBooksBooks, Not PreservedArnonHistorical BooksBrookscredibility

Therefore the poets say, Come to Heshbon; let the city of Sihon be built and established.

for very highly will I honour thee, and whatever thou shalt say to me will I do; come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyCursing Israel

Therefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace!

Verse ConceptsLater Covenants With God

Thou shalt know therefore this day, and consider it in thy heart, that Jehovah, he is God in the heavens above, and on the earth beneath: there is none else.

Verse ConceptsGod, Present EverywhereGod, Sovereignty OfGod, Uniqueness OfOrthodoxy, In OtNo Other Is GodThe Lord Is GodThe Lord [Yahweh] Is God

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and that Jehovah thy God brought thee out thence with a powerful hand and with a stretched-out arm; therefore Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee to observe the sabbath day.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfGod, As RedeemerHand Of GodHolidayRememberingCaptivity, Of IsraelAbusive ParentsArm Of GodGod's HandGroups Of SlavesKeeping The SabbathGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

Know therefore that Jehovah thy God doth not give thee this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiff-necked people.

Verse ConceptsUnderstandingObstinacy Against GodStiffnecked PeopleNecksSelf Will

I prayed therefore to Jehovah, and said, Lord Jehovah, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a powerful hand.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfGod, As RedeemerGod, Majesty OfGod, Power OfPeople Of God, In OtRedemption, In Everyday LifeAbundance, SpiritualGod's HandGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; Jehovah is his inheritance, according as Jehovah thy God told him.

Verse ConceptsGod Is My PortionNo Earthly Inheritance

For the needy shall never cease from within the land; therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thy hand bountifully unto thy brother, to thy poor and to thy needy, in thy land.

Verse ConceptsLiberalityBad LeadershipCommands, in OTPoor PeopleBeggarsLendingPoverty, Remedies ForSuffering, HardshipGenerosity, Used TowardsThe poorHelping The PoorHelping Others In NeedFeeding The Poor

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and that Jehovah thy God redeemed thee; therefore I command thee this thing to-day.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerCommands, in OTGroups Of Slavesslavery

Therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thyself.

Verse ConceptsThree Cities

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and that Jehovah thy God redeemed thee from thence; therefore I command thee to do this thing.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerGroups Of Slaves

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing.

Verse ConceptsGroups Of Slaves

And they raised over him a great heap of stones, which is there to this day. And Jehovah turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called, The Valley of Achor, to this day.

Verse ConceptsCairnsGod Will No More Be AngryPlaces To This Day

Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed Jehovah the God of Israel.

Verse ConceptsFollowing GodWhere People Live To This Day

Take great heed therefore unto your souls, that ye love Jehovah your God.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodCautionLove For GodThe Need To Love God

And Jehovah drove out from before us all the peoples, and the Amorites the inhabitants of the land: so therefore we will serve Jehovah, for he is our God.

Verse ConceptsHe Is Our GodThe Lord Drove Them Out

Now therefore put away the strange gods that are among you, and incline your heart unto Jehovah the God of Israel.

Verse ConceptsRestoration After BackslidingAbandoning Things

Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cu'shan-rishatha'im king of Mesopota'mia; and the people of Israel served Cu'shan-rishatha'im eight years.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahEight Or Nine Years

Therefore on that day he was called Jerubba'al, that is to say, "Let Ba'al contend against him," because he pulled down his altar.

Verse ConceptsChanged NamesPeople Renaming People

Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, 'Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return home.'" And Gideon tested them; twenty-two thousand returned, and ten thousand remained.

Verse ConceptsDesertionTens Of ThousandsTwenty Thousand And UpFear Of Enemies

"Now therefore, if you acted in good faith and honor when you made Abim'elech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubba'al and his house, and have done to him as his deeds deserved--

Verse ConceptsPerforming The Truth

Now therefore, go by night, you and the men that are with you, and lie in wait in the fields.

Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods; therefore I will deliver you no more.

Verse ConceptsForsaking GodBeing ForsakenUnfaithfulness, To GodDifferent GodsCompetition

And the king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, "Because Israel on coming from Egypt took away my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore restore it peaceably."

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsArnon

I therefore have not sinned against you, and you do me wrong by making war on me; the LORD, the Judge, decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon."

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeJudgesJustification, Necessity Of

And God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and there came water from it; and when he drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkor'e; it is at Lehi to this day.

Verse ConceptsSplitting RocksGod Providing WaterPartridgesPlaces To This Dayrevival

And he restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother; and his mother said, "I consecrate the silver to the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image; now therefore I will restore it to you."

Then the five men who had gone to spy out the country of La'ish said to their brethren, "Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, teraphim, a graven image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you will do."

Verse ConceptsFive People

Now therefore give up the men, the base fellows in Gib'e-ah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel." But the Benjaminites would not listen to the voice of their brethren, the people of Israel.

Verse ConceptsPurity, Moral And SpiritualHanding Over PeopleDeath Penalty For Sexual Sin

Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel in the direction of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them, and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst of them.

Verse ConceptsTurning One's Back

Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thyself, and put thy raiment upon thee, and go down to the floor; make not thyself known to the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.

Verse ConceptsAnointing, Social CustomAnointing With OilOintmentPerfumeClothing OneselfOuter GarmentsAnointing OneselfClean FacesEating And DrinkingPeople Made Known

And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be expiated with sacrifice or oblation for ever.

Verse ConceptsAtonement, in OTPriesthood, In OtGod Swearing Harm

Therefore neither the priests of Dagon nor any that come into Dagon's house tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.

And a man of that place answered and said, But who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets?

Verse ConceptsOld Sayings

but ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your troubles, and have said unto him, Nay, but a king shalt thou set over us. Now therefore present yourselves before Jehovah by your tribes, and by your thousands.

Verse ConceptsRejection Of GodTheocracyNatural Disasters

Therefore they inquired of Jehovah further, Will the man yet come hither? And Jehovah answered, Behold, he hath hid himself among the baggage.

Verse Conceptsenquiring of GodHiding From PeopleBaggage

Now therefore stand and see this great thing which Jehovah will do before your eyes.

Verse ConceptsLooking At God's Works

And Samuel said to Saul, Jehovah sent me to anoint thee king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken to the voice of the words of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsAnointing Kings

And Saul commanded his servants, Speak with David secretly, saying, Behold, the king has delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son-in-law.

Verse ConceptsPrivacySons In LawThose Who Loved

and said, Let me go, I pray thee; for we have a family sacrifice in the city; and my brother himself has commanded me to be there; and now, if I have found favour in thy sight, let me go away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. He has therefore not come to the king's table.

Verse ConceptsBrothersethics, personalTown

And Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines; therefore they called that place Sela-hammahlekoth.

Verse ConceptsEscapingEscaping From People

Jehovah therefore shall be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and do me justice in delivering me out of thy hand.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeGod, Justice Of

Swear now therefore to me by Jehovah, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house.

Verse ConceptsNames Blotted OutChildren Suffering

Ask thy young men, and they will tell thee. Therefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes; for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, what thy hand may find to thy servants, and to thy son David.

Verse ConceptsGrace, In Human Relationships

And Achish gave him Ziklag that day; therefore Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this day.

Verse ConceptsPeople Giving Other ThingsWhere People Live To This Day

And David said to Achish, Thereby thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of my person for ever.

Verse ConceptsGuards

And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul said, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answers me no more, neither by prophets nor by dreams; therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known to me what I shall do.

Verse ConceptsMiseryApostasy Of SaulGod Not AnsweringProphecy AbolishedTroubling Individualswitchesawakeningsaul

Because thou didst not hearken to the voice of Jehovah, and didst not execute his fierce anger upon Amalek, therefore has Jehovah done this thing to thee this day.

Verse ConceptsDisobedience, Examples OfApostasy Of SaulGod Angry With The Nations

But he refused to turn aside; therefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him in the belly, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place. And it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

Verse ConceptsBackSpearsStomachsPiercingsMotionlessnessComing To RestStriking To Death

And David said on that day, Whoever smites the Jebusites and gets up to the watercourse, and the lame and the blind hated of David's soul ...! Therefore they say, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.

Verse ConceptsZion, As A PlaceOld SayingsHating PeoplesWater Channel

And David came to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there; and he said, Jehovah has broken in upon mine enemies before me, as the breaking forth of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal-perazim.

Verse ConceptsBreaking Forth

For thou, Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee a house; therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.

Verse ConceptsGod, Revelation OfKnowing God, Nature OfThe Dynasty Of David

Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Urijah the Hittite to be thy wife.

Verse ConceptsRetributionKilling Will HappenTransferring Wives

And when he shaved his head (for it was at every year's end that he shaved it, because it was heavy on him, therefore he shaved it), he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.

Verse ConceptsHairsShavingCutting HairLong HairWeights Of Other ThingsTime Of YearHairweight