38 occurrences

'One' in the Bible

Ehud forged a double-edged sword that was one cubit long, tied it to his right thigh under his cloak,

Verse ConceptsThighsTwo SidedDimensions Of Other ThingsOther Right Parts

At that time they attacked about 10,000 Moabites, all of whom were strong and valiant men. Not one man escaped.

Verse ConceptsTens Of ThousandsNumbers Of Foreigners Killedhumor

while Barak chased the chariots and army as far as Harosheth-haggoyim. Sisera's entire army died in the battle not even one soldier remained.

Verse ConceptsConquest

But Heber's wife Jael grabbed a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other, crept up to him quietly, and drove the tent peg right through his temple into the ground below after he had fallen sound asleep from exhaustion. That's how he died.

Verse ConceptsTentsTirednessHammersNailsPegsSharp ToolsTired In FlightKilling Named Individuals

She reached out one hand for the tent peg, and her other for the workman's mallet. Then she struck Sisera, smashing his head, shattering and piercing his temple.

Verse ConceptsHeadsHandsPegsSharp ToolsKilling Named Individuals

the LORD sent a man who was a prophet to the Israelis and told them, "This is what the LORD God of Israel says: "I was the one who brought you up from the land of Egypt, delivering you from the house of servitude.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In OtMessengerGroups Of SlavesGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

The LORD told him, "Because I'll be with you, and you'll defeat Midian every single one of them!"

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Nature OfOnly One PersonGod With Specific PeopleOvercominggideon

"There are still too many soldiers," the LORD told Gideon. "Bring them down to the water and I'll refine them for you there. Therefore when I say to you, "This one will be going with you,' he'll go with you, but no one may go about whom I tell you, "This one won't be going with you.'"

Verse ConceptsMany CombatantsSiftinggideon

As the 300 trumpets were being sounded, the LORD turned the swords of the Midianite soldiers against one another throughout the entire army, and the army ran away as far as Beth-shittah in the direction of Zererah. They got as far as the outskirts of Abel-meholah, near Tabbath.

Verse ConceptsChaosThree To Four HundredTrumpets For BattleThree Hundred And AboveKilling One Another

Afterwards, he asked Zebah and Zalmunna, "What were the men like whom you killed at Tabor?" They answered, "Like you, each one like the son of a king""

Verse ConceptsLike People By NatureWhat Kind?Nature Of Kings

"Ask all the "lords" of Shechem, "What's better for you? That 70 men, each of them Jerubbaal's sons, rule over you? Or that one man rule over you?' Keep in mind that I'm like your own close relative."

Verse ConceptsBodySeventySame Bone And FleshSeventies

to his father's house in Ophrah. There he murdered his own brothers, Jerubbaal's sons all 70 of them in one place. But Jerubbaal's youngest son Jotham survived by hiding himself.

Verse ConceptsCriminalsThe Youngest ChildBeing Killed By A RockHiding From PeopleSole SurvivorsSeventiesKilling BrothersHalf brothersanniversary

"But now as for you, you've rebelled against my father's house today. You've murdered his sons 70 men in one place, and you've installed Abimelech, the son of his mistress, as king to rule over the "lords" of Shechem, since he's related to you.

Verse ConceptsConcubinesIngratitudeBeing Killed By A RockMaking KingsSeventiesKilling Brothers

So he cried out to his young armor bearer and ordered him, "Draw your sword and kill me, so no one will say about me that "A woman killed him.'" So the young man pierced him through, and he died.

Verse ConceptsArmourArmorbearerApproval To Kill OneselfKilling Named Individuals

When Jephthah arrived at his home in Mizpah surprise! it was his daughter who came out to meet him, playing tambourines and dancing. She was his one and only child. Except for her, he had no other son or daughter.

Verse ConceptsdanceDancingLeisure, And PastimesMusical Instruments, types ofVirginChildren, Good Examples OfThe Only ChildMeeting PeopleMusic To CelebrateOnly Child Of Peopleprepping

There was one man from Zorah, from the family of the descendants of Dan, whose name was Manoah. Since his wife was infertile, she hadn't borne children.

Verse ConceptsBarrenness, Examples OfAppearances Of God In OtChildren, responsibilities to parents

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

The Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and he ripped the lion apart as one might dissect a young goat, even though he carried nothing in his hand. But he didn't tell his father and mother what he had done.

Verse ConceptsPower, HumanStrength, SpiritualTranceBrawnAnimals Torn To PiecesDeliverance From LionsThose Who Did Not Tell

Meanwhile, some kidnappers were hiding inside an inner room, waiting for her signal. So she told him, "The Philistines are attacking you!" But he snapped the cords as one might break a burned candle wick. So his secret remained undiscovered.

Verse ConceptsAmbush

When the people saw Samson, they praised their god, claiming: Our god has given our enemy into our control; the one who was destroying our land, and who has killed many of us.

Verse ConceptsPraise, Reasons ForVictory, As An Act Of GodGiven Into One's Hands

Then Samson cried out to the LORD, "Lord GOD, please remember me. And please strengthen me this one time, God, so that I can repay the Philistines right now for my two eyes."

Verse ConceptsAboundingSeeking God's StrengthEyes HarmedTwo Of Body PartsMan AvengingNamed Individuals Who PrayedRevenge

Then Samson grabbed the two middle pillars upon which the house rested and braced himself against them with one pillar in his right hand and the other in his left.

This man Micah had his own shrine, had crafted his own ephod and some household idols, and had installed one of his sons as a priest.

Verse ConceptsephodsPriests, Institution In Ot TimesShrinesConsecration

The descendant of Levi agreed to live with the man, and the young man became like one of the family.

Verse ConceptsAdoption

They replied, "Let's get going and attack them. We've scouted out the land and look! it's a very good one. Why should we sit still? We can't wait to go back, invade, and take over the land.

They told him, "Shut up and keep quiet. Come with us and be our spiritual father and priest. It's better for you, isn't it, to be a priest to an entire tribe and family in Israel than to be priest to the home of one man?"

Verse ConceptsSpiritual FathersCurbing SpeechUnnamed Priests

They had no one else to deliver them, because they lived far from Sidon and had no dealings with anyone. It lay in the valley near Beth-rehob. They rebuilt the city and lived in it.

Verse ConceptsValleysFar From HereRebuilding Named CitiesBuilding Relationships

He also told his servant, "Come on, let's go to one of these places and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah."

Verse ConceptsStaying Temporarily

After they entered the city, they had to sit down in the public square because no one would take them into their home for the night. Just then, an old man was coming out of the fields that evening from work. The man was from the mountainous region of Ephraim and had been staying in Gibeah, even though the men of that place were descendants of Benjamin.

Verse ConceptsEveningMen Working

He replied, "We're traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote part of the mountainous region of Ephraim, because I'm from there, and I've been visiting Bethlehem in Judah. I'm going home now, but no one will take me into his home.

Verse ConceptsNot Welcoming People

Then the entire Israeli nation from Dan to Beer-sheba, including the territory of Gilead came out for war. The army assembled as one united force to God at Mizpah.

Verse ConceptsCongregationShrinesAssembling IsraelUnified PeopleAll Peoplecrusades

Now the people of Israel had taken a vow in Mizpah that went like this: "Not even one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a descendant of Benjamin!"

Verse ConceptsdaughtersWives For BenjaminPeople Bound By Oaths

"Why, LORD God of Israel," they asked him, "is one tribe missing from Israel?"

Verse ConceptsSubtracting From PeopleBereavementNo One To Be FoundWhy Does This Happen?

But the Israelis were mourning for their relatives in the tribe of Benjamin. They announced, "One tribe has been eliminated from Israel today!

Verse ConceptsUnhappinessBereavementNo One To Be Found

They asked, "What one group of the tribes of Israel didn't come up to meet the LORD at Mizpah?" It turned out that no one had come to the encampment from Jabesh-gilead,

since when they took a census of the assembly, not even one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was in attendance.

Verse ConceptsCensus

The people felt sorry for the tribe of Benjamin because the LORD had broken one of the tribes of Israel.

Verse ConceptsRegretting

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