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'Back' in the Bible

So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim, saying, “The Philistines have brought back the ark of the Lord; come down and take it up to you.”

Then it happened when he turned his back to leave Samuel, God changed his heart; and all those signs came about on that day.

Verse ConceptsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedChanged HeartPeople TransformedMan's Words Fulfilledsaul

Then Saul said to Samuel, “I did obey the voice of the Lord, and went on the mission on which the Lord sent me, and have brought back Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

Verse ConceptsAnnihilationExterminationWe Obey

Then he said, “I have sinned; but please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and go back with me, that I may worship the Lord your God.”

Verse ConceptsWe Have SinnedThe ElderlyPraising God In Public Worship

So Samuel went back following Saul, and Saul worshiped the Lord.

but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s flock at Bethlehem.

Verse ConceptsHelpfulnessThose Who Kept Stock

Bring also these ten cuts of cheese to the commander of their thousand, and look into the welfare of your brothers, and bring back news of them.

Verse ConceptsCheeseDairyTen ThingsTelling Of Happenings

So David’s young men retraced their way and went back; and they came and told him according to all these words.

Verse ConceptsTelling What People Said

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the Lord, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal and has kept back His servant from evil. The Lord has also returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” Then David sent a proposal to Abigail, to take her as his wife.

Verse ConceptsDivine RestraintsHeadsRestraintGod Makes Evil ReboundGod VindicatesBless The Lord!

But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him, and the commanders of the Philistines said to him, “Make the man go back, that he may return to his place where you have assigned him, and do not let him go down to battle with us, or in the battle he may become an adversary to us. For with what could this man make himself acceptable to his lord? Would it not be with the heads of these men?

Verse ConceptsSending people homeUnnamed People Angry With Others

But nothing of theirs was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that they had taken for themselves; David brought it all back.

Verse ConceptsLackNo LossMissing SomeoneBeing Lost

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