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Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.

Verse ConceptsHousesPrivacySuffering, Emotional Aspects OfPartialityBowelsHasty ActionPrivate Rooms

Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

Verse ConceptsDanger, PhysicalFugitivesSittingPeople Sitting DownAttempting To Kill Specific People

The LORD said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead."

Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill

Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it "The Tent of Meeting." It happened that everyone who sought the LORD went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp.

Verse Conceptsenquiring of GodAskingTent Of MeetingTentsWeights And Measures, DistancesOutside The CampFar From Onedistance

The one hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; one hundred sockets for the one hundred talents, a talent for a socket.

Verse ConceptsOne HundredSockets

or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;

Verse ConceptsBeing Struck With Stones

You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Verse ConceptsPunishment, Legal Aspects OfGroups Of SlavesInstructions About StoningGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

They went, and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but did not find them.

Verse ConceptsThree DaysEscaping To MountainsThose Looking For People

But his father and his mother did not know that it was of the LORD, for he sought for an opportunity against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.

Verse ConceptsCaused By God

He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by their families; and the family of the Matrites was taken; and Saul the son of Kish was taken: but when they sought him, he could not be found.

Verse ConceptsNowhere To Be Found

But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and the LORD has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which the LORD commanded you."

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfDavid, Character OfHeart, DivineSpiritualityDisobedience, To GodFalse AccusationsThey Do Not Keep CommandsSaul And David

Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines' garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, and a rocky crag on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

Verse ConceptsGarrisonsSharpness

Saul sought to pin David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night.

Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsExamples Of EscapingEscaping From PeopleAttempting To Kill Specific Peoplesaul

David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God did not deliver him into his hand.

Verse ConceptsDavid, Rise OfFortificationsFortressesHillsSelf DefenceUnceasingAlways Being ActiveNot Given Into One's HandsThose Looking For People

It was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.

Verse ConceptsNot Seeking PeopleTelling Of Movements

Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, "In times past, you sought for David to be king over you.

Verse ConceptsMaking KingsThe Elders Gathered

They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, "Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life. The LORD has avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed."

Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill Specific People

Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" The woman said to them, "They have gone over the brook of water." When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsFindingRiver CrossingsNot FindingGroups going homeWhere Are People?Those Looking For People

There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. The LORD said, "It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites."

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfFamine, Examples OfFace Of GodGod's Activity In IsraelAnger Of God, Examples OfThree YearsFound GuiltyFamily Problemssaul

The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them: and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);

Verse ConceptsTribes Of IsraelZeal

Therefore his servants said to him, "Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin. And let her attend the king, and care for him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm."

Verse ConceptsLying Down To RestWarmingThose Looking For Peopleteenager

So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

Verse ConceptsThose Looking For People

All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanHuman IntellectThose Looking For People

Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesAttempting To Kill Specific Peoplerehabilitation

Of the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even of the Hebronites, according to their generations by ancestral houses. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valor at Jazer of Gilead.

Verse ConceptsGenealogies

All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave them food in abundance. He sought for them many wives.

Verse ConceptsPolygamyShrewdness

For he said to Judah, "Let us build these cities, and make walls around them, with towers, gates, and bars. The land is yet before us, because we have sought the LORD our God; we have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side." So they built and prospered.

Verse ConceptsGatesTowersWallsprospering

But when in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

Verse ConceptsReturning To God

All Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and the LORD gave them rest all around.

Verse ConceptsAnswered PrayereagernessdiligenceDiligence, Examples OfExcitementConsecration, Examples OfUnquestioning Service

but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.

He sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu, and killed him; and they buried him, for they said, "He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart." The house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom.

Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent to him a prophet, who said to him, "Why have you sought after the gods of the people, which have not delivered their own people out of your hand?"

Verse ConceptsTwelve Beings

But Amaziah would not listen; for it was of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought after the gods of Edom.

Verse ConceptsTwelve Beings

He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.

Verse ConceptsIrreverenceFormulas For SuccessReverence, And BlessingSuccessSports

These sought their place among those who were registered by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.

Verse ConceptsDeposed Priests

At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks, and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and with harps.

Verse ConceptsBaby dedicationHarpsJoy, Of IsraelLyreMusicMusical Instruments, types ofOrchestrasCymbalsBuilding Jerusalem's Wall

Then the king's servants who served him said, "Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.

Verse ConceptsThose Looking For People

In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate, two of the king's eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.

Verse ConceptsSitting In The GatewayAttempting To Kill Specific People

But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai's people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai's people.

Verse ConceptsVindictivenessJews Under ThreatKilling IsraelitesIdentity

But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

Verse ConceptsColors, GreenPeople Passing AwaySeeking But Not Finding People

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, Nature OfAttempting To Kill MePsalm Interjections

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and did not get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofNo ComfortHealing And ComfortOvercoming Hard TimesGetting Through Hard TimesFeeling Lostproblemssoultired

When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

Verse ConceptsDeathbedsAfflictions, Benefits OfGod KillingGod Killed His People

God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they do not hold regard for you before them.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofenemies, of believersPride, Results OfArrogance, Characterizes The WickedAttempting To Kill MeIn Front

Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

Verse ConceptsBeggingDestitutesBeggarsRestlessness

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Do not let me wander from your commandments.

Verse ConceptsSin, Nature OfRenewed HeartDeterminationWhole HeartednessSingle Mindednesswandering

I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodImportunity, Towards GodPrayer, Offered WithWhole Heartedness

I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.

Verse ConceptsPeople Belong To GodSave Us!

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

Verse ConceptsInvestigatingStudying Insanity

Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

Verse ConceptsPeople TeachingWise Proverbsexploringorder

The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth.

Verse ConceptsA Word Fitly Spoken

By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.

Verse ConceptsSeeking But Not Finding People

I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.

Verse ConceptsLove Towards Christ, Shown ByFinding Love

Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought the LORD of hosts.

Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessGod Is TruthfulAfflictions Of The WickedNot Returning To GodGod Beating PeopleNot Seeking God

Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.

Verse ConceptsHerdsPasturing The Flock

and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligiondirtAstrologyMoonStarsDefecationBonesNo BurialsIdolatrous Worship Of The MoonGod Judging Star WorshippersThe Moon

And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the officials, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt.

Thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.'"

In those days, and in that time, says the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant."'"

Verse ConceptsNot FindingGod Will ForgiveGuilt

"I sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.

Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessWallsGapsFigurative WallsNo One AvailableMasculinitybridges

I will make you a terror, and you shall no more have any being; though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again,' says the Lord GOD."

Verse ConceptsendPeople Passing AwayNeverNot Findingterrorism

You haven't strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor you have ruled over them.

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofdiseasesInjuryOppression, Nature OfUnkindnessWeakness, PhysicalBones BrokenWeak AnimalsNot Seeking PeopleReinstating PeopleOppressorsJoining Flesh And BonesLording ItLost PeopleNo HealingWeakness

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; and there was none who searched or sought."'

Verse ConceptsHillsWanderersScattered Like SheepEscaping To MountainsNot Seeking PeopleNo One Available

So the decree went forth, and the wise men were to be killed; and they sought Daniel and his companions to be killed.

Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleThose Looking For People

At the same time my understanding returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and splendor returned to me; and my counselors and my lords sought me out; and I was established in my kingdom, and even more greatness was added to me.

Verse ConceptsAdding BlessingRegaining SanityReinstating PeopleThose Looking For Peoplegreatness

Then the administrators and the satraps sought to find a charge against Daniel regarding the kingdom; but they could find no charge or fault, because he was faithful. Neither was there any error or fault found in him.

Verse ConceptsCriticism, amongst believersFaithfulness, Examples OfBusiness, ExamplesHonestyNeglecting DutiesServants, GoodBusiness EthicsMagistratesFaultlessnessFidelityPlottingErrorcorruptionaccusations

It came about when I, Daniel, had seen the vision, that I sought to understand it. And behold, there stood before me someone who appeared to be a man.

Verse ConceptsLike MenUnderstanding God's Wordgabriel

The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven't returned to the LORD their God, nor sought him, for all this.

Verse ConceptsImpenitence, Warnings AgainstNot Returning To GodNot Seeking GodThings As WitnessesProud PeoplePridearrogance

How Esau will be ransacked. How his hidden treasures are sought out.

Verse ConceptsRobbing People

those who have turned back from following the LORD, and those who haven't sought the LORD nor inquired after him.

Verse ConceptsComplacencyIndifferenceNot Enquiring Of GodNot Seeking GodguidanceHelping Those In Needfollowing

The strong went out, and sought to go that they might walk back and forth through the earth: and he said, "Go around and through the earth." So they walked back and forth through the earth.

Verse ConceptsPatrolling

Did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Verse Conceptsdivorce, amongst believersHusbandsLove, In RelationshipsMarriage, Purpose OfMonogamyUnity, God's Goal OfWivesDesign Of MarriageYouthful DevotionResidueRaising ChildrenGodly WomanSeedsRespecting Your Body

"Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child's life are dead."

Verse ConceptsAttempts To Kill ChristDeath Of Office HoldersTaking ChristDeath Of A ChildDeath Of A Mother

When they sought to seize him, they feared the crowds, because they considered him to be a prophet.

Verse ConceptsMultitudesCrowdsHatredArresting ChristFearing Other PeopleJesus The Prophet

The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching.

Verse ConceptsScribesTeachers Of The LawMalice, Examples OfAmazement, Of Jesus ChristCrowds AmazedChrist TeachingChrist Would Be KilledFear Of ChristOpposition To Christ From Scribes

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

Verse ConceptsFeast Of Unleavened BreadChief priestsJudaismScribesTeachers Of The LawCraftinessTwo DaysActing In SecretArresting ChristChrist Would Be KilledOpposition To Christ From Scribes

They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.

Verse ConceptsOpportunities, In LifeConnivanceJudas Betraying ChristRight Time For PeopleRejoicing In EvilPrice Set On Individuals

Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.

Verse ConceptsChief priestsAttempts To Kill ChristNot FindingThe Chief Priests Condemning Christ

And suddenly men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him in to lay before him.

Verse ConceptsParalyticsdiseasesBedsLowering PeoplePeople Carrying Live PeopleBringing Men To Jesus

Herod said, "John I beheaded, but who is this, about whom I hear such things?" He sought to see him.

Verse ConceptsBeheadingMartyrdom, Methods OfRemoving HeadsKilling DisciplesThe First Sight Of ChristWho Is Jesus?

He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.

Verse ConceptsScribesTeachers Of The LawAmazement, Of Jesus ChristPlottingUnceasingAlways Being ActiveChrist TeachingChrist Would Be KilledOpposition To Christ From Scribes

He consented, and sought an opportunity to deliver him to them in the absence of the crowd.

Verse ConceptsOpportunities, In LifeCrowds AvoidedJudas Betraying ChristRight Time For People

For this cause therefore the Jewish leaders sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Jesus ChristEquality With GodPersecution, Nature OfChrist Would Be KilledRelationship Of Father And SonThe Sabbath And Christrelaxing

After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jewish leaders sought to kill him.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Jesus ChristAssassinations, AttemptedJews, ThePersecution Of ChristChrist Would Be Killed

The Jewish leaders therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?"

Verse ConceptsWhere Are People?

They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

Verse ConceptsUntimelinessLaying On Hands For EvilNot The TimeArresting ChristTimes Of The Christ

Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, "What do you think?that he is not coming to the feast at all?"

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy,

Verse ConceptsGrudgesHigh Priest, In NtJealousyJudaismPriests, Types Of In Nt TimesSadduceesSectsAnger, Sinful ExamplesAnger Of Man, UnrighteousJewish SectsMaking Israel Jealous

When Herod had sought for him, and did not find him, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in NTNot FindingSeeking But Not Finding People