27 occurrences in 13 translations

'Hands' in the Bible

Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.

Verse ConceptsAnointing KingsMaking KingsBe Courageous!

And Abner said, Then go to the right or to the left and put your hands on one of the fighting-men and take his arms. But Asahel would not be turned away from going after Abner.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingNot Turning AsideChanging Direction

Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hands of David; and yet today you charge me with a guilt concerning the woman.

Verse ConceptsBlameAnger, HumanLoyaltyOffenceNamed People Angry With OthersPeople Of Judah

Now then, do it [and make him king]! For the Lord has spoken of David, saying, ‘By the hand of My servant David I will save My people Israel from the hand of the Philistines and the hand of all their enemies.’”

Verse ConceptsMinistry, Nature OfServanthood, In Life Of BelieversIndividuals Saving Others

Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.

Verse ConceptsWeepingTying UpBronze Shackles

And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.

Verse ConceptsdiscouragementLosing Courage

How much more when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house on his own bed! So now, should I not require his blood from your hands and wipe you off the earth?”

Verse ConceptsBeds

And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

Verse ConceptsGallowsHangingPunishment, Legal Aspects OfMutilationPoolsDisfigurementSkullsCutting Off Hands And FeetAnother's Burial PlacePeople Hung To DeathKilling Named Individuals

And David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go up to the Philistines? Will you give them into my hands?" Yahweh said to David, "Go up, for {I will certainly give} [the] Philistines into your hand."

Verse Conceptsenquiring of GodDivine DirectionThe Nations AttackedTo Be Given Into One's HandsDirection

Now it came about after this that David defeated the Philistines and subdued (humbled) them, and he took control of Metheg-ammah [the main city] from the hand of the Philistines.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahThose Subjected To People

And Nathan said to David, You are that man. The Lord God of Israel says, I made you king over Israel, putting holy oil on you, and I kept you safe from the hands of Saul;

Verse ConceptsFaultsCourage, Examples OfAnointing Kings

Then Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe she was wearing. She put her hands on her head and went on her way, wailing as she went.

Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesClothing, Tearing OfAshesWeepingFine ClothesThose Who Tore ClothesAshes Of Humiliation

The Lord has returned upon you all the bloodshed of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned; and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hands of Absalom your son. And behold, you are caught in your own evil, for you are a man of bloodshed!”

Verse ConceptsGod Makes Evil ReboundKings Of All Israel Or Judah

And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.

Verse ConceptsNosesOffenceOne FleshSmellsPeople Being Hated

But the soldier replied to Joab, "I wouldn't have touched the king's son even if you dropped 1,000 pieces of silver right into my hands, because we heard the king command you, Abishai, and Ittai, "Watch how you treat the young man Absalom!'

Verse ConceptsFraudCoinageThe King's Orders

Ahimaaz called and said to the king, “All is well.” And he prostrated himself before the king with his face to the ground. And he said, “Blessed is the Lord your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted their hands against my lord the king.”

Verse ConceptsBowingSalutationsGod Handing OverBowing Before David

All the people were quarreling throughout the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king rescued us from the hands of our enemies, and he saved us from the hands of the Philistines, but now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Saving Others

And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.

Verse ConceptsCriminalsMaternal LoveGrainAutumnPeople Hung To Death

And the battle is again in Gath, and there is a man of stature, and the fingers of his hands are six, and the toes of his feet are six, twenty and four in number, and he also hath been born to the giant,

Verse ConceptsFingersGiantsDefectivenessToesSix ThingsFingers Of PeopleTwenty Some

These four giants, who had been fathered by a giant in Gath, were killed at the hands of David and his servants.

Verse ConceptsFour People

David composed the words of this song to the LORD the very day the LORD delivered him from the domination of all of his enemies, including from Saul's hands.

Verse ConceptsDavid, Abilities OfThose Singing PraiseGod Saving From EnemiesBlindnessdeliverancesaul

The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

Verse ConceptsGod Has Requited

Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.

Verse ConceptsReward, DivineThe Recompense Of The RighteousGod Has Requited

He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

Verse ConceptsArmsGod TeachingReady For WarSteelWar

But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:

Verse ConceptsThornsEvil AssociationsThe Wicked Will Perish

And he made an attack on an Egyptian, a tall man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a stick, and pulling the spear out of the hands of the Egyptian, put him to death with that same spear

Verse ConceptsConfrontationSpears

David answered Gad, “I have great anxiety. Please, let us fall into the Lord’s hands because His mercies are great, but don’t let me fall into human hands.”

Verse ConceptsMercifulnessRegretDanger From MenMercyMaking DecisionsDecision Making

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