33 occurrences

'Day' in the Bible

However, the descendants of Benjamin did not expel the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites have lived with the descendants of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, History OfZion, As A PlacePowerlessnessNot Driving Them OutUnable To ExpelWhere People Live To This Day

So the man traveled to the land of the Hittites and built a city that he named "Luz," and it is called by that name to this day.

Verse ConceptsBuildingGiven Names To This Day

"Get going!" Deborah told Barak. "Because today's the day when the LORD has dropped Sisera into your hands! Look! The LORD has already gone out ahead of you!" So Barak left Mount Tabor, followed by 10,000 men,

Verse ConceptsTens Of ThousandsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

That's how God subdued Jabin, king of Canaan right in front of the Israelis that day.

Later that day, Deborah and Abinoam's son Barak celebrated by singing this song:

Verse ConceptsThose Singing PraiseVolunteering

So Gideon built an altar right there to the LORD and called it "The LORD is peace." (To this very day it still stands in Ophrah, which belongs to the descendants of Abiezer.)

Verse ConceptsCommemorationNames Of GodBuilding AltarsGod Of PeaceNames Involving GodNature Of GodPeople Naming ThingsPlaces To This Daygideon

So Gideon went with ten men who were his servants and did just what the LORD had told him to do, though he did it at night because he was too afraid of his father's family and the leading men of the city to do it during the day.

Verse ConceptsTen PeopleDuring One NightFearing Other Peoplegideon

So that very day he named Gideon Jerubbaal, that is, "Let Baal fight," since he had torn down his altar.

Verse ConceptsChanged NamesPeople Renaming People

The next day, the people went out to the field, and Abimelech learned about it.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Movements

Abimelech fought against the city all that day, captured the city, killed the people in it, then tore the city to the ground and sowed it with salt.

Verse ConceptsConquestSournesssowing

His 30 sons rode on 30 donkeys, controlling 30 cities in the territory of Gilead named Havvoth-jair to this day.

Verse ConceptsBackThirtyGiven Names To This DayMultitudes Of Donkeys

One day the angel of the LORD presented himself to the woman. "Hello!" he greeted her. "Though you are infertile at this time and haven't borne a child, you're about to conceive and give birth to a son.

Verse ConceptsAngel of the LordCommunicationBirths ForetoldInfertility

He told me, "Surprise! you're going to conceive and give birth to a son!' and as for you, "Be sure that you don't drink wine or anything intoxicating, and don't eat anything unclean,' "because the young man will be a Nazirite dedicated to God from inside the womb' until the day he dies."

Verse ConceptsAlcohol ConsumptionStrong DrinkPollution ForbiddenFrom The WombDrinking No WineAlcoholic BeveragesHaving A Babybeeralcoholism

so the woman ran quickly to tell her husband, "Look! The man who came the other day appeared to me!"

Verse ConceptsGood Wives ExamplesRunning With News

The next day, they told Samson's wife, "Coax your husband to explain the riddle or we'll set fire to your father's house with you in it! You've invited us here to make us paupers, haven't you?"

Verse ConceptsEnticementThe Fourth Day Of The WeekBurning PeopleEnticingBecoming PoorDay 4

So she kept on crying in front of him for the entire seven days of the wedding party. On the seventh day he told the solution to her because she nagged him, and then she told the solution to the riddle to her relatives.

Verse ConceptsYielding To TemptationThe Seventh Day Of The WeekSeven DaysGiving InformationDay 7People Mourning Catastrophenagging

Then the men of the city answered him just before sunset on the seventh day: "What is sweeter than honey? What are stronger than lions?" Samson responded, "If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, you wouldn't have solved my riddle."

Verse ConceptsPloughingHeifersThe Seventh Day Of The WeekStrength Of AnimalsMetaphorical PloughingSweetnessDay 7

So God split a hollow place that's in Lehi, and water sprang out of it. After he had taken a drink, his strength returned, and he revived. That's why it was named "En-hakkore," which is in Lehi to this day.

Verse ConceptsSplitting RocksGod Providing WaterPartridgesPlaces To This Dayrevival

She nagged him every day with this speech, pestering him until he was annoyed nearly to death.

Verse ConceptsAsceticism, TypesIrritationTroubling Individualsnagging

They went out and encamped at Kiriath-jearim in the territory of Judah. (That's why they call the place Mahaneh-dan to this day. It lies west of Kiriath-jearim.)

Verse ConceptsGiven Names To This Day

On the fourth day, they got up early that morning, and the descendant of Levi got ready to leave. Then the young woman's father-in-law told him, "Fortify yourself by eating some food before you go."

Verse ConceptsSonsThe Fourth Day Of The WeekThose Who Rose EarlyPeople Who DelayedDay 4

On the fifth day, he got up early in the morning, but the young woman's father-in-law told him, "Please, fortify yourself," so they delayed until later that afternoon while both of them ate together.

Verse ConceptsThe Fifth Day Of The WeekThose Who Rose EarlyPeople Who DelayedDay 5

All the witnesses said, "Nothing has happened or has been seen like this from the day the Israelis came here from the land of Egypt to this day! Think about it, get some advice about it, and then speak up about it!"

Verse ConceptsUnique Events

The day of the battle, the army from the descendants of Benjamin numbered 26,000 expert swordsmen from their cities, not including the inhabitants of Gibeah, who numbered 700 special forces soldiers.

Verse ConceptsSeven To Nine HundredTwenty Thousand And Up

The descendants of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and 22,000 soldiers of Israel fell in battle that day.

Verse ConceptsTwenty Thousand And UpKilling Within IsraelDefeat Of God's People

But the army the men of Israel encouraged themselves and arrayed for battle again the next day in the same place where they had gathered the day before.

Verse ConceptsDoubt, Dealing WithEncouraging DoubtersDoing Repeatedlyreinforcement

So the Israelis attacked the descendants of Benjamin for a second day,

Verse ConceptsFighting One Another

and the tribe of Benjamin went to war against them from Gibeah during that second day, and 18,000 soldiers from the Israelis all of them expert swordsmen fell to the ground.

Verse ConceptsConfrontationEleven To Nineteen ThousandKilling Within IsraelDefeat Of God's People

All the Israelis, including its army, went up from there to Bethel and wept, remaining there in the LORD's presence, fasting throughout the day until dusk, when they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings in the LORD's presence.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfAsceticism, TypesPrayer, Practicalities OfSacrifice, In OtUnhappinessWeepingArk Of The Covenant, EventsAction Until EveningFasting

The Israelis went out against the descendants of Benjamin on the third day, arraying themselves against Gibeah as they had done previously.

Verse ConceptsDoing Repeatedly

The LORD struck Benjamin in the full view of Israel. As a result, the Israelis destroyed 25,100 soldiers of Benjamin that day, all expert swordsmen.

Verse ConceptsTwenty Thousand And UpGod KillingGod Killed His PeopleKilling Within Israel

To sum up, the soldiers from the tribe of Benjamin who died that day totaled 25,000 men, all of them expert swordsmen and valiant soldiers.

Verse ConceptsTwenty Thousand And Up

The next day, the people got up early, built an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

Verse ConceptsAltars, Built ByBuilding AltarsThose Who Rose Early

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