59 occurrences

'Happened' in the Bible

So Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian slave, and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife for him. This happened after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan 10 years.

Verse ConceptsConcubinesTen To Fourteen YearsGiving In Marriagemistress

When Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran to meet him, hugged him, and kissed him. Then he took him to his house, and Jacob told him all that had happened.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingArmsKissingIndividuals RunningNamed Sisters

When they reached their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them:

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Happenings

“This is what happened when we went back to your servant my father: We reported your words to him.

Verse ConceptsTelling What People Said

On the trip, at an overnight campsite, it happened that the Lord confronted him and sought to put him to death.

Verse ConceptsInnsOpposition, To Sin And EvilMeeting GodGod KillingStaying TemporarilyGod Killing Individuals

When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come, make us a god who will go before us because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt—we don’t know what has happened to him!”

Verse ConceptsGoadsdoubt, results ofImpatienceMonotonyAaron, Sins OfAaron, CharacterGod Going BeforePeople Who DelayedBringing Israel Out Of EgyptOthers Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptWaiting For God's Timingcats

They said to me, ‘Make us a god who will go before us because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt—we don’t know what has happened to him!’

Verse ConceptsMonotonyDisloyaltyGod Going BeforeBringing Israel Out Of EgyptOthers Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

But Aaron replied to Moses, “See, today they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord. Since these things have happened to me, if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been acceptable in the Lord’s sight?”

Verse ConceptsFood For Priests Defined

The entire Israelite community and the foreigner who resides among them will be forgiven, since it happened to all the people unintentionally.

Verse ConceptsForeigners Included In The Law

When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, you will return to the Lord your God in later days and obey Him.

Verse ConceptsDistressReturning To GodEnd Of Days

“Indeed, ask about the earlier days that preceded you, from the day God created man on the earth and from one end of the heavens to the other: Has anything like this great event ever happened, or has anything like it been heard of?

Verse ConceptsCreation Of All MankindMan's Relation To GodEnd Of Days

you are to inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. If the report turns out to be true that this detestable thing has happened among you,

Verse ConceptsInvestigatingrumorsresearch

and if you are told or hear about it, you must investigate it thoroughly. If the report turns out to be true that this detestable thing has happened in Israel,

Verse ConceptsInvestigating

Then the men returned, came down from the hill country, and crossed the Jordan. They went to Joshua son of Nun and reported everything that had happened to them.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Happenings

Gideon said to Him, “Please Sir, if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened? And where are all His wonders that our fathers told us about? They said, ‘Hasn’t the Lord brought us out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”

Verse ConceptsdoubtersHistoryWhy Does This Happen?God Will Cause DefeatMiraclesgideon

And that is what happened. When he got up early in the morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung dew out of it, filling a bowl with water.

Verse ConceptsDivine ManifestationsRising EarlyPressingThose Who Rose Early

Everyone who saw it said, “Nothing like this has ever happened or has been seen since the day the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt to this day. Think it over, discuss it, and speak up!”

Verse ConceptsUnique Events

So Ruth left and entered the field to gather grain behind the harvesters. She happened to be in the portion of land belonging to Boaz, who was from Elimelech’s family.

Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsGod's Mercy, Example OfRelatives

they panicked. “The gods have entered their camp!” they said. “Woe to us, nothing like this has happened before.

Verse ConceptsFear, Of UnknownUnique EventsThose Frightened Of God

The man said to Eli, “I’m the one who came from the battle. I fled from there today.”“What happened, my son?” Eli asked.

Verse ConceptsEscaping From PeopleWhat Manner?

Then watch: If it goes up the road to its homeland toward Beth-shemesh, it is the Lord who has made this terrible trouble for us. However, if it doesn’t, we will know that it was not His hand that punished us—it was just something that happened to us by chance.”

Verse ConceptsChanceDistinguishingNatural Disasters

When these signs have happened to you, do whatever your circumstances require because God is with you.

Verse ConceptsSigns From GodGod With Specific PeopleDoing God's Works

Everyone who knew him previously and saw him prophesy with the prophets asked each other, “What has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”

Verse ConceptsSchool

Saul did not say anything that day because he thought, “Something unexpected has happened; he must be ceremonially unclean—yes, that’s it, he is unclean.”

Verse ConceptsPurity, Nature OfIndividuals Being SilentPeople Being Unclean

“I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,” he replied, “and there was Saul, leaning on his spear. At that very moment the chariots and the cavalry were closing in on him.

Verse ConceptsChariotsChanceAttacking With ChariotsOther Supporting

Absalom was riding on his mule when he happened to meet David’s soldiers. When the mule went under the tangled branches of a large oak tree, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so he was suspended in midair.

Verse ConceptsMulesBackCovering HeadsRiding MulesHairdreadlocks

Now a wicked man, a Benjaminite named Sheba son of Bichri, happened to be there. He blew the ram’s horn and shouted:We have no portion in David,no inheritance in Jesse’s son.Each man to his tent, Israel!

Verse ConceptsTentsTrumpetAudacityTrumpets For SignallingNot Sharing

Ahaziah died according to the word of the Lord that Elijah had spoken. Since he had no son, Joram became king in his place. This happened in the second year of Judah’s King Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat.

Verse ConceptsWord Of GodKings Of The Northern KingdomList Of Kings Of IsraelWords To Individuals Fulfilled

This is what happened to him: the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.

Verse ConceptsTrampling PeopleMan's Words Fulfilled

This disaster happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt and because they had worshiped other gods.

Verse ConceptsDifferent GodsGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptWhy It Happened

Indeed, this happened to Judah at the Lord’s command to remove them from His sight. It was because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all he had done,

Verse ConceptsRejection Of God, Results OfDriven From God's Presence

So when Jehu executed judgment on the house of Ahab, he found the rulers of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s brothers who were serving Ahaziah, and he killed them.

Verse ConceptsPrinces

When the ambassadors of Babylon’s rulers were sent to him to inquire about the miraculous sign that happened in the land, God left him to test him and discover what was in his heart.

Verse ConceptsenvoyProving, Through TestingRulersTesting

After all that has happened to us because of our evil deeds and terrible guilt—though You, our God, have punished us less than our sins deserve and have allowed us to survive—

Verse ConceptsIniquity, Punishment ForRemnantSurvivors Of The Nations

Mordecai told him everything that had happened as well as the exact amount of money Haman had promised to pay the royal treasury for the slaughter of the Jews.

Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai is Jewish, and you have begun to fall before him, you won’t overcome him, because your downfall is certain.”

Verse ConceptsNamed WivesGod's TimingGods TimingGod's Timing And Plan

The king’s command and law went into effect on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar. On the day when the Jews’ enemies had hoped to overpower them, just the opposite happened. The Jews overpowered those who hated them.

Verse ConceptsMonth 12Jews Under ThreatHating Peoples

For this reason these days are called Purim, from the word Pur.Because of all the instructions in this letter as well as what they had witnessed and what had happened to them,

Verse ConceptsPurimthe anniversary FeastsCelebrationcelebrating

Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.

Verse ConceptsBad FriendsGood FriendsLove, For One AnotherSympathyVisitingComfort, Of FriendsCondolenceVisiting Of The SickVisitationThree MenMeeting PeopleBest FriendsLosing A FriendLosing FriendsTrue Friends

For the thing I feared has overtaken me,and what I dreaded has happened to me.

Verse ConceptsFear Will ComeFear And WorryBeing Scaredreality

But now that this has happened to you,you have become exhausted.It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

Verse ConceptsFaintingTrouble, Causes Ofdiscouragement

All this has happened to us,but we have not forgotten Youor betrayed Your covenant.

All this happenedso that they might keep His statutesand obey His instructions.Hallelujah!

Verse ConceptsPraise The Lord!Keep The Commandments!

And the inhabitants of this coastland will say on that day, ‘Look, this is what has happened to those we relied on and fled to for help to rescue us from the king of Assyria! Now, how will we escape?’”

Verse ConceptsEscaping Evilpremonitions

The past events have indeed happened.Now I declare new events;I announce them to you before they occur.”

Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingFutureForeknowledgeGod's Foreknowledgea new beginningThe Pastspringtime

These two things have happened to you:devastation and destruction,famine and sword.Who will grieve for you?How can I comfort you?

Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfKilling Israelites

And when you ask yourself,“Why have these things happened to me?”It is because of your great guiltthat your skirts have been stripped off,your body exposed.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual HarlotryWhy Does This Happen?Changing Yourselfgreatness

Look! Siege ramps have come against the city to capture it, and the city, as a result of the sword, famine, and plague, has been handed over to the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened. Look, You can see it!

Verse ConceptsAttackingActual Attacks On JerusalemGod Will Cause Defeat

Jeremiah remained in the guard’s courtyard until the day Jerusalem was captured, and he was there when it happened.

Verse ConceptsImprisonments

and the Lord has fulfilled it. He has done just what He decreed. Because you people have sinned against the Lord and have not obeyed Him, this thing has happened.

Verse ConceptsChains

Stand by the highway and look,resident of Aroer!Ask him who is fleeing or her who is escaping:What happened?

Verse ConceptsFugitivesRoadsWhat Is The Matter?

מ MemYet it happened because of the sins of her prophetsand the guilt of her priests,who shed the blood of the righteouswithin her.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesInnocent BloodSheddingKilling The InnocentWicked ProphetsA Righteous PeopleLeaders Sinning

Yahweh, remember what has happened to us.Look, and see our disgrace!

Verse ConceptsAfflictions, Prayer DuringBeing ReprovedPay Attention O God!

You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and you engaged in prostitution on them. These places should not have been built, and this should never have happened!

Verse ConceptsUnique EventsColorwhores

You also set before them as a pleasing aroma the food I gave you—the fine flour, oil, and honey that I fed you. That is what happened.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Verse ConceptsFoodOil On Sacrifices

This happened so that no trees planted beside water would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds, and so that no other well-watered trees would reach them in height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the underworld, among the people who descend to the Pit.

Verse ConceptsPitsSon Of ManGoing Down To The PitHow Death Is InevitableThings On HighWhy It Happened

All this happened to King Nebuchadnezzar.

Hear this, you elders;listen, all you inhabitants of the land.Has anything like this ever happened in your daysor in the days of your ancestors?

Verse ConceptsUnique Eventselders

My people,remember what Balak king of Moab proposed,what Balaam son of Beor answered him,and what happened from the Acacia Grove to Gilgalso that you may acknowledgethe Lord’s righteous acts.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyGod, Righteousness OfHistoryPast, TheAnswering PeopleGod Doing RightDoing RightMan's Counsel

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