19 occurrences

'Nothing' in the Bible

Do not take your servant to be a good-for-nothing woman: for my words have come from my stored-up sorrow and pain.

Verse ConceptsAgony, In HeartComplaintsSorrow

And again the Lord said, Samuel. And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, Here am I; for you certainly said my name. But he said in answer, I said nothing, my son; go to your rest again.

Verse ConceptsCalling, Of IndividualsLying Down To RestBehold Me!Others Summoning

Then Samuel gave him an account of everything, keeping nothing back. And he said, It is the Lord; let him do what seems good to him.

Verse ConceptsAfflicted Saints, Examples OfAfflicted SaintsResignationTelling Of God

And Saul, answering him, said, He gave us word that the asses had come back. But he said nothing to him of Samuel's words about the kingdom.

Verse ConceptsFinding ThingsThose Who Did Not Tell

But certain good-for-nothing persons said, How is this man to be our saviour? And having no respect for him, they gave him no offering.

Verse ConceptsGiftsReproachInsultsPrejudiceSilenceSpeech, Power And Significance OfSuperiorityTreasonIndividuals Being SilentNo One Can SaveNot Giving

And they said, You have never been untrue to us or cruel to us; you have taken nothing from any man.

Verse ConceptsFraud

Now one day Jonathan, the son of Saul, said to the young man who was with him, looking after his arms, Come, let us go over to the Philistine force over there. But he said nothing to his father.

Verse ConceptsArmourGarrisonsManlinessCrossing To The Other SideThose Who Did Not Tell

And he said to him, Far be the thought: you will not be put to death: see, my father does nothing, great or small, without giving me word of it: would he keep this secret from me? It is not so.

Verse ConceptsSmallnessFar Be It!Things RevealedThose Who Did Not Tell

But Saul said nothing that day, for his thought was, Something has taken place making him unclean; it is clear that he is not clean.

Verse ConceptsPurity, Nature OfIndividuals Being SilentPeople Being Unclean

And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has given me orders and has said to me, Say nothing to anyone about the business on which I am sending you and the orders I have given you: and a certain place has been fixed to which the young men are to go.

Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In OtDo Not TellMan Appointing

I have had word that you have wool-cutters: now the keepers of your sheep have been with us, and we have done them no evil, and taken nothing of theirs while they were in Carmel.

Verse ConceptsSheepSheep ShearingLiving Together

And when David's young men came, they said all this to Nabal, in David's name, and said nothing more.

Verse ConceptsPeople Waiting

But these men have been very good to us; they did us no wrong and nothing of ours was touched while we were with them in the fields:

Verse ConceptsShepherds, As Occupations

So now, give thought to what you are going to do; for evil is in store for our master and all his house: for he is such a good-for-nothing person that it is not possible to say anything to him.

Verse ConceptsTemperament

And she said to her young men, Go on in front of me and I will come after you. But she said nothing to her husband Nabal.

Verse ConceptsThose Who Did Not Tell

Let my lord give no attention to Nabal, that good-for-nothing: for as his name is, so is he, a man without sense: but I, your servant, did not see the young men whom my lord sent.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfFoolish PeoplePeople With Apt Names

And Abigail went back to Nabal; and he was feasting in his house like a king; and Nabal's heart was full of joy, for he had taken much wine; so she said nothing to him till dawn came.

Verse ConceptsDawnGluttonyFeastingExcessdrinking, abstention fromBanquets, ActivitiesDrunkenness, Examples OfMerrinessRevelryDrunk IndividualsThose Who Did Not Tell

Then the bad and good-for-nothing men among those who went with David said, Because they did not go with us, we will give them nothing of the goods which we have got back, but only to every man his wife and children, so that he may take them and go.

Verse ConceptsNot With PeopleDividing Plunder

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