'Story' in the Bible

Then the servant gave Isaac the story of all he had done.

And he said to them, Let me give you the story of my dream.

Then she gave him the same story, saying, The Hebrew servant whom you have taken into our house came in to make sport of me;

And so that you may be able to give to your son and to your son's son the story of my wonders in Egypt, and the signs which I have done among them; so that you may see that I am the Lord.

Then he went on with his story and said, These are the words of Balaam, the son of Beor, the words of him whose eyes are open:

Then, turning his eyes to Amalek, he went on with his story and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his part will be destruction for ever.

And looking on the Kenites he went on with his story and said, Strong is your living-place, and your secret place is safe in the rock.

Then he went on with his story and said, But who may keep his life when God does this?

Give thought now to the days which are past, before your time, from the day when God first gave life to man on the earth, and searching from one end of heaven to the other, see if such a great thing as this has ever been, or if anything like it has been talked of in story.

Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story.

Then give your children the story, and say, Israel came over this river Jordan on dry land.

And they said to him, Your servants have come from a very far country, because of the name of the Lord your God: for the story of his great name, and of all he did in Egypt has come to our ears,

Give ear to the women laughing by the water-springs; there they will give again the story of the upright acts of the Lord, all the upright acts of his arm in Israel.

Then Gideon, hearing the story of the dream and the sense in which they took it, gave worship; then he went back to the tents of Israel, and said, Up! for the Lord has given the army of Midian into your hands.

Keep your places now, while I take up the argument with you before the Lord, and give you the story of the righteousness of the Lord, which he has made clear by his acts to you and to your fathers.

Then Saul said to Jonathan, Give me an account of what you have done. And Jonathan gave him the story and said, Certainly I took a little honey on the end of my rod; and now death is to be my fate.

And while you are still talking there with the king, see, I will come in after you and say that your story is true.

But I had no faith in what was said about you, till I came and saw for myself; and now I see that it was not half the story; your wisdom and your wealth are much greater than they said.

And while he was giving the king the story of how Elisha had given life to the dead, the woman whose son had come back to life came to the king with a request for her house and her land. And Gehazi said, My lord king, this is the woman and this is her son, whose life Elisha gave back to him.

And in answer to the king's questions, the woman gave him all the story. So the king gave orders to one of his unsexed servants, saying, Give her back all her property, and all the produce of her fields from the day when she went away from the land up till now.

And they said, That is not true; now give us his story. Then he said, This is what he said to me: The Lord says, I have made you king over Israel.

No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse; and will you be kept safe?

Now the story of his sons, and all the words said by the prophet against him, and the building up again of the Lord's house, are recorded in the account in the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son became king in his place.

And all his acts of power and his great strength and the full story of the high place which the king gave Mordecai, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Media and Persia?

It has come to our ears, O God, our fathers have given us the story, of the works which you did in their days, in the old times,

I will put my teaching into a story; I will make my dark sayings clear with music.

Opening my mouth I will give out a story, even the dark sayings of old times;

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

Life and not death will be my part, and I will give out the story of the works of the Lord.

All things are full of weariness; man may not give their story: the eye has never enough of its seeing, or the ear of its hearing.

No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse: and will you be kept safe from their fate?

The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to his children.

When has such a story come to men's ears? who has seen such things? will a land come to birth in one day? will a nation be given birth in a minute? For when Zion's pains came on her, she gave birth to her children straight away.

So that your hearts may not become feeble and full of fear because of the news which will go about in the land; for a story will go about one year, and after that in another year another story, and violent acts in the land, ruler against ruler.

Destruction will come on destruction, and one story after another; and the vision of the prophet will be shamed, and knowledge of the law will come to an end among the priests, and wisdom among the old.

You were so beautiful that the story of you went out into all nations; you were completely beautiful because of my glory which I had put on you, says the Lord.

Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.

And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, A man went out to put seed in the earth;

Give ear, then, to the story of the man who put the seed in the earth.

And he gave them another story, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who put good seed in his field:

He put another story before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his field:

Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.

All these things Jesus said to the people in the form of stories; and without a story he said nothing to them:

Then he went away from the people, and went into the house; and his disciples came to him, saying, Make clear to us the story of the evil plants in the field.

Then Peter said to him, Make the story clear to us.

Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

And turning to them, he said to them in the form of a story, How is it possible for Satan to put out Satan?

And he said to them, If you are not clear about this story, how will you be clear about the others?

And he said, What picture may we give of the kingdom of God, or with what story may we make it clear?

And without a story he said nothing to them: but privately to his disciples he made all things clear.

And they made attempts to take him; but they were in fear of the people, because they saw that the story was against them; and they went away from him.

And he said to them, in a story, No man takes a bit of cloth from a new coat and puts it on to an old coat, for so the new coat would be damaged and the bit from the new would not go well with the old.

And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, Is it possible for one blind man to be guide to another? will they not go falling together into a hole?

And this story about him went through all Judaea and the places round about.

And when a great number of people came together, and men from every town went out to him, he gave them teaching in the form of a story:

And his disciples put questions to him about the point of the story.

Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God.

And he said to them, in a story, The land of a certain man of great wealth was very fertile:

And he made up this story for them: A certain man had a fig-tree in his garden, and he came to get fruit from it, and there was no fruit.

And he gave teaching in the form of a story to the guests who came to the feast, when he saw how they took the best seats; saying to them,

And he made a story for them, saying,

And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;

And he made this story for some people who were certain that they were good, and had a low opinion of others:

And while they were giving ear to these words, he made another story for them, because he was near Jerusalem, and because they were of the opinion that the kingdom of God was coming straight away.

And he gave the people this story: A man made a vine-garden and gave the use of it to some field-workers and went into another country for a long time.

And the chief priests and the scribes made attempts to get their hands on him in that very hour; and they were in fear of the people, for they saw that he had made up this story against them.

But even Moses made it clear that the dead come back to life, saying, in the story of the burning thorn-tree, The Lord, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

And he made a story for them: See the fig-tree, and all the trees;

And they said to the woman, Now we have faith, but not because of your story: we ourselves have given ear to his words, and we are certain that he is truly the Saviour of the world.

In this Jesus was teaching them in the form of a story: but what he said was not clear to them.

My brothers and fathers, give ear to the story of my life which I now put before you.

And as they were there for some days, Festus gave them Paul's story, saying, There is a certain man here who was put in prison by Felix:

We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.