36 occurrences

'One' in the Bible

And he said to them, Come after me; for the Lord has given the Moabites, your haters, into your hands. So they went down after him and took the crossing-places of Jordan against Moab, and let no one go across.

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsFordsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

They had no one to make arms, there were no more armed men in the towns; was there a body-cover or a spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?

Verse ConceptsForty Thousand And UpNo Help In Other GodsVolunteering

Then the Lord said to him, Truly, I will be with you, and you will overcome the Midianites as if they were one man.

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Nature OfOnly One PersonGod With Specific PeopleOvercominggideon

And they said to one another, Who has done this thing? And after searching with care, they said, Gideon, the son of Joash, has done this thing.

Verse ConceptsWho Is The Doer?

Then Gideon said to God, Do not be moved to wrath against me if I say only this: let me make one more test with the wool; let the wool now be dry, while the earth is covered with dew.

Verse ConceptsAskingTestingLet Not God Be AngryTestsexamsgideon

So he took the people down to the water; and the Lord said to Gideon, Put on one side by themselves all those drinking up the water with their tongues like a dog; and in the same way, all those who go down on their knees to the water while drinking.

Verse ConceptsdogsTonguegroupsarmygideon

Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, Where are the men whom you put to death at Tabor? And they gave answer, As you are, so were they; every one of them was like a king's son.

Verse ConceptsLike People By NatureWhat Kind?Nature Of Kings

The weight of the gold ear-rings which he got from them was one thousand, seven hundred shekels of gold; in addition to the moon-ornaments and jewels and the purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and the chains on their camels' necks.

Verse ConceptsChainsColors, PurpleNecklacePurple ClothesWearing JewelleryWeights Of Gold

Say now in the ears of all the townsmen of Shechem, Is it better for you to be ruled by all the seventy sons of Jerubbaal or by one man only? And keep in mind that I am your bone and your flesh.

Verse ConceptsBodySeventySame Bone And FleshSeventies

One day the trees went out to make a king for themselves; and they said to the olive-tree, Be king over us.

Verse ConceptsAnointing KingsMetaphorical TreesOlive TreesMoralityJudging Others Actions

And you have gone against my father's family this day, and have put to death his sons, even seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his servant-wife, king over the townsmen of Shechem because he is your brother;)

Verse ConceptsConcubinesIngratitudeBeing Killed By A RockMaking KingsSeventiesKilling Brothers

And Gaal said again, See! people are coming down from the middle of the land, and one band is coming by way of the oak-tree of the Seers.

Verse ConceptsOaks

And the people of Israel said to one another, Who will be the first to make an attack on the children of Ammon? We will make him head over all Gilead.

Verse ConceptsFirst To FightFighting EnemiesCompetition

And the spirit of the Lord came on him with power, and, unarmed as he was, pulling the lion in two as one might do to a young goat, he put him to death; (but he said nothing to his father and mother of what he had done.)

Verse ConceptsPower, HumanStrength, SpiritualTranceBrawnAnimals Torn To PiecesDeliverance From LionsThose Who Did Not Tell

And the chiefs of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Make use of your power over him and see what is the secret of his great strength, and how we may get the better of him, and put bands on him, so that we may make him feeble; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.

Verse ConceptsCoinageEnticementEnticingTying Up

And when the people saw him, they gave praise to their god; for they said, Our god has given into our hands the one who was fighting against us, who made our country waste, and who put great numbers of us to death.

Verse ConceptsPraise, Reasons ForVictory, As An Act Of GodGiven Into One's Hands

And Samson, crying out to the Lord, said, O Lord God, do have me now in mind, and do make me strong only this once, O God, so that I may take one last payment from the Philistines for my two eyes.

Verse ConceptsAboundingSeeking God's StrengthEyes HarmedTwo Of Body PartsMan AvengingNamed Individuals Who PrayedRevenge

Then Samson put his arms round the two middle pillars supporting the house, putting his weight on them, on one with his right hand and on the other with his left.

And the man Micah had a house of gods; and he made an ephod and family gods and put one of his sons in the position of priest.

Verse ConceptsephodsPriests, Institution In Ot TimesShrinesConsecration

And the Levite said he would make his living-place with the man, and he became to him as one of his sons.

Verse ConceptsAdoption

And they said to him, Be quiet; say nothing, and come with us and be our father and priest; is it better for you to be priest to one man's house or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?

Verse ConceptsSpiritual FathersCurbing SpeechUnnamed Priests

And he said to his servant, Come, let us go on to one of these places, stopping for the night in Gibeah or Ramah.

Verse ConceptsStaying Temporarily

And they went off the road there with the purpose of stopping for the night in Gibeah: and he went in, seating himself in the street of the town, for no one took them into his house for the night.

Verse ConceptsHospitality, Examples OfInhospitalityCity SquaresNot Welcoming PeopleStaying Temporarily

Then all the children of Israel took up arms, and the people came together like one man, from Dan to Beer-sheba, and the land of Gilead, before the Lord at Mizpah.

Verse ConceptsCongregationShrinesAssembling IsraelUnified PeopleAll Peoplecrusades

Then all the people got up as one man and said, Not one of us will go to his tent or go back to his house:

Verse ConceptsUnified People

And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, moving away from the town; and as before, at their first attack, they put to death about thirty men of Israel on the highways, of which one goes up to Beth-el and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country.

Verse ConceptsThirtyBringing People Out Of Other PlacesKilling Within Israel

Then the Lord sent sudden fear on Benjamin before Israel; and that day the children of Israel put to death twenty-five thousand, one hundred men of Benjamin, all of them swordsmen.

Verse ConceptsTwenty Thousand And UpGod KillingGod Killed His PeopleKilling Within Israel

Now the men of Israel had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, Not one of us will give his daughter as a wife to Benjamin.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersWives For BenjaminPeople Bound By Oaths

And they said, O Lord, the God of Israel, why has this fate come on Israel, that today one tribe has been cut off from Israel?

Verse ConceptsSubtracting From PeopleBereavementNo One To Be FoundWhy Does This Happen?

And the children of Israel were moved with pity for Benjamin their brother, saying, Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel.

Verse ConceptsUnhappinessBereavementNo One To Be Found

And they said, Which one of the tribes of Israel did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord? And it was seen that no one had come from Jabesh-gilead to the meeting.

For when the people were numbered, not one man of the people of Jabesh-gilead was present.

Verse ConceptsCensus

And they said, How is the rest of Benjamin to be given offspring so that one tribe of Israel may not be put out of existence,

Verse ConceptsHeirsInheritance, MaterialSurvivors Of Israel

And watching; and if the daughters of Shiloh come out to take part in the dances, then come from the vine-gardens and take a wife for every one of you from among the daughters of Shiloh, and go back to the land of Benjamin.

Verse ConceptsWives For Benjamin

So the men of Benjamin did this, and got wives for themselves for every one of their number, taking them away by force from the dance; then they went back to their heritage, building up their towns and living in them.

Verse ConceptsGroups going home

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