21 occurrences

'Men' in the Bible

Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you."

Verse ConceptsWisdom, Human ImportanceCivil GovernmentLeadersExamples of LeadershipDiscernmentLeadership Qualitiesfitnessexperiencewise

So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.

Verse ConceptsCommanderWisdom, Human ImportanceHuman Authority, Nature OfTen PeopleFiftiesOne HundredA Thousand People

You came near to me everyone of you, and said, "Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come."

Verse ConceptsSpies

The thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:

Verse ConceptsGood WordsTwelve Tribes

"Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land, which I swore to give to your fathers,

Verse ConceptsEvil GenerationsExclusion

The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.

Verse ConceptsGenerations30 To 40 YearsDeath As Punishment

So it happened, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

Verse ConceptsWar

I commanded you at that time, saying, "Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it: you shall pass over armed before your brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor.

Verse ConceptsUnity, Of God's PeopleGod Gave The Land

Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed them from the midst of you.

Verse ConceptsBaal Worship, HistoryGod KillingGod Killed His PeopleLooking At God's Works

then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesStanding

All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstBanishmentPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSelf WillChildren, UngratefulFear Is DueInstructions About Stoning

then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

Verse ConceptsdisgraceBanishmentPunishment, Legal Aspects OfDeath Penalty For Sexual SinInstructions About StoningsexDeath Of A MotherDeath Of A FatherSex Before MarriageFamily DeathFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughtersmistresspremaritalwhoresvirginity

If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;

Verse Conceptsethics, incentives towardsInnocence, Teaching OnJustification, Necessity OfLawsuitsMagistrates

When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;

Verse ConceptsGraspingMale GenitalsFighting One AnotherStrugglesmanhood

The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

Verse ConceptsStandingForeigners Included Among The People

Then men shall say, "Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentForsaking GodBreaking The CovenantGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your foreigner who is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;

Verse ConceptsForeignersCovenant breakersdiscipleship, nature ofLearning From Other PeopleMale And FemaleOutsidersAliens, Believers DutyAssembling IsraelForeigners Included Among The PeopleKeep The Commandments!Aliens

When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfGod's Activity In The NationsAdam, DescendantsBoundariesMonogamySeparationThe Most HighLanguages SeparatedAccording To PeopleGod Saves From Sin And DeathGod Sets BoundariesRaceborders

I said, I would scatter them afar. I would make the memory of them to cease from among men;

Verse ConceptsOblivionPeople Cut In PiecesForgetting Peopleremembrance

"Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few."

Verse ConceptsSeeking LifeMany In Israel

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