'Alike' in the Bible
You could not possibly do such a thing: to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. You could not possibly do that! Won’t the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”
Please rescue me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and attack mother and children [alike].
They came, men and women alike, all who had willing hearts. They brought brooches, earrings, rings and ornaments, all kinds of gold jewelry, and everyone came who waved a wave offering of gold to the Lord.
Every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, shall belong to all the sons of Aaron, to all alike.
The assembly is to have the same statute for both you and the foreign resident as a permanent statute throughout your generations. You and the foreigner will be alike before the Lord.
Do not show partiality when deciding a case; listen to small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. Bring me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.
Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he will bless himself and say: "I will have a peaceful life, even though I'm determined to be stubborn.' By doing this he will be sweeping away both watered and parched ground alike.'
Outside, the sword will cause bereavement; within, there will be terror for the young man and virgin alike, also for the nursing infant and the aged man."
All Israel, foreigner and citizen alike, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on either side of the ark of the Lord’s covenant facing the Levitical priests who carried it. As Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded earlier, half of them were in front of Mount Gerizim and half in front of Mount Ebal, to bless the people of Israel.
Each of these cities had grazing areas around it; they were alike in this regard.
So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don't spare them. Put them to death -- man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.'"
For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.
David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Don’t let this matter upset you because the sword devours all alike. Intensify your fight against the city and demolish it.’ Encourage him.”
They divided them by lot {all alike}, for they were commanders of the sanctuary and commanders of God from among the sons of Eleazar and the sons of Ithamar.
They also cast lots the same way as their relatives the sons of Aaron did in the presence of King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the families of the priests and Levites—the family heads and their younger brothers alike.
They cast lots for their duties, young and old alike, teacher as well as pupil.
They cast lots for each gate according to their ancestral houses, young and old alike.
Under his authority were Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah in the cities of the priests, to distribute faithfully their portions to their brothers (relatives) by divisions, whether great or small,
While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself to the ground before the temple of God, a very large crowd of Israelites -- men, women, and children alike -- gathered around him. The people wept loudly.
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
"If he remains silent, who will condemn him? If he conceals his face, who can see him? He watches over both nation and individual alike,
“Will you have faith and depend on him to return your grainAnd gather it from your threshing floor?
All have turned away;all alike have become corrupt.There is no one who does good,not even one.
He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.
Both men of low and men of high degree, rich and poor alike.
For he seeth that wise men die; all alike, the fool and the brutish perish, and they leave their wealth to others.
Before your pots can feel the fire of thornsHe will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
Singers and dancers alike will say,“My whole source of joy is in you.”
He will bless those who fear the Lord—small and great alike.
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
young men and young women alike, along with older people and children.
He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous,Both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord.
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise man as with the fool, inasmuch as in the coming days all will be forgotten. And how the wise man and the fool alike die!
All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
so the king of Assyria will lead the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egypt’s shame.
people and priest alike,servant and master,female servant and mistress,buyer and seller,lender and borrower,creditor and debtor.
“To whom would you liken MeAnd make Me equal and compare Me,That we would be alike?
"Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves, following the one at the center of those who eat the meat of pigs, disgusting things, and rats, are all alike," says the LORD.
“I will go to the great [men]And speak to them,For they [must] know the way of the Lord,The ordinance of their God.”But [I found the reverse to be true, that] they too had all alike broken the yoke [of God’s law]And had burst the bonds [of obedience to Him].
"That is because, from the least important to the most important of them, all of them are greedy for dishonest gain. Prophets and priests alike, all of them practice deceit.
So I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least important to the most important of them, all of them are greedy for dishonest gain. Prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.
I will smash them against each other, fathers and sons alike”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “I will allow no mercy, pity, or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.”
Rich and poor alike will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned. People will not cut their bodies or shave off their hair to show their grief for them.
I will kill everything living in Jerusalem, people and animals alike! They will die from terrible diseases.
This is what the Lord of Hosts says:Israelites and Judeans alike have been oppressed.All their captors hold them fast;they refuse to release them.
The appearance of the wheels and their construction was like gleaming jasper, and all four wheels looked alike. Their structure was like a wheel within a wheel.
As for their appearance, all four looked alike, as if one wheel were within another wheel.
Look! {All lives are mine}. {The lives of father and son alike are mine}. The person sinning will die.
On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea, in summer and winter alike.
As for the man who does this, may the Lord cut off from the tents of Jacob to the last man those who do this [evil thing], awake and aware, even the one who brings an offering to the Lord of hosts.
so that you may [show yourselves to] be the children of your Father who is in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on those who are evil and on those who are good, and makes the rain fall on the righteous [those who are morally upright] and the unrighteous [the unrepentant, those who oppose Him].
Those servants went out into the streets and brought in everyone they found, evil and good alike, and the wedding hall was packed with guests.
"Is not this the cause of your error," replied Jesus--"your ignorance alike of the Scriptures and of the power of God?
for many were bearing false testimony against him, and their testimonies were not alike.
and he was again denying. And after a little again, those standing near said to Peter, 'Truly thou art of them, for thou also art a Galilean, and thy speech is alike;'
Peter said, “Lord, are You addressing this parable to us [disciples], or to everyone else as well?”
But they all alike began to make excuses. The first one said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of land and I need to go out and look at it; please consider me excused.’
Yet we all alike hear these Galilaeans speaking in our own language about the wonderful things which God has done."
In those days I will even pour out my Spirit on my slaves, men and women alike, and they will prophesy.
But when they believed Philip preaching the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were being baptized, men and women alike.
This went on for two years, so that all who lived in Asia, Jews and Greeks alike, heard the word of the Lord.
When this became known to everyone living in Ephesus, Jews and Greeks alike, they all became terrified, and the name of the Lord Jesus began to be held in high honor.
I've had help from God to this day, and so I stand here to testify to both the powerful and the lowly alike, stating only what the prophets and Moses said would happen
I am already under obligations alike to Greek-speaking races and to others, to cultured and to uncultured people:
What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,
for all alike have sinned, and all consciously come short of the glory of God,
For God has imprisoned all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all [Jew and Gentile alike].
One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
God, it seems to me, has exhibited us Apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; for we have come to be a spectacle to all creation--alike to angels and to men.
Do you not know that those who perform the sacred rites have their food from the sacred place, and that those who serve at the altar all alike share with the altar?
so that there would be no division or discord in the body [that is, lack of adaptation of the parts to each other], but that the parts may have the same concern for one another.
For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ [which ascends] to God, [discernible both] among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing;
at this present time your surplus [over necessities] is going to supply their need, so that [at some other time] their surplus may be given to supply your need, that there may be equality;
because it is through Him that Jews and Gentiles alike have access through one Spirit to the Father.
Avoid shameful and foolish talk and low jesting--they are all alike discreditable--and in place of these give thanks.
Since then the children referred to are all alike sharers in perishable human nature, He Himself also, in the same way, took on Him a share of it, in order that through death He might render powerless him who had authority over death, that is, the Devil,
For we have, all alike, become sharers with Christ, if we really hold our first confidence firm to the End;
Also he compels all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead [signifying allegiance to the beast],