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'People' in the Bible

David said to him, "How did it go? Please tell me." He answered, "The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also."

Verse ConceptsIsrael FleeingWhat Manner?

They mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfEveningLossWeepingAction Until EveningFasting In MourningMourning The Death Of Others

Then Abner called to Joab, and said, "Shall the sword devour forever? Don't you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long shall it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?"

Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleEternal Judgement

Joab said, "As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother."

So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.

Verse ConceptsTrumpetCessationStopping FightingTrumpets To Stop Fighting

Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.

Verse ConceptsNineteen

Now then do it; for Yahweh has spoken of David, saying, 'By the hand of my servant David, I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.'"

Verse ConceptsMinistry, Nature OfServanthood, In Life Of BelieversIndividuals Saving Others

David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. King David followed the bier.

Verse ConceptsGesturesClothingClothSackcloth And AshesPreparation For Burial

They buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Experience OfMourning The Death Of OthersBurying places

Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell." All the people wept again over him.

Verse ConceptsWeepingTying UpBronze Shackles

All the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, "God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun goes down."

Verse ConceptsPersuasionPromises, HumanTasteSunsetsVowing To Fast

All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.

Verse ConceptsPopularity

So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.

Verse ConceptsMan's Purposes

In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. Yahweh said to you, 'You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.'"

Verse ConceptsGod, As ShepherdGoing Out And Coming InSaul And David

David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake.

Verse ConceptsInsightStabilitySpiritual PerceptionSaul And David

David arose, and went with all the people who were with him, from Baale Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name, even the name of Yahweh of Armies who sits [above] the cherubim.

Verse ConceptsDivine ManifestationsJudgment SeatCherubim, At God's ThroneGod's Shekinah GloryGod, Presence OfGod Sitting In GloryCalled By God's Name

When David had made an end of offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of Armies.

Verse ConceptsOfferingsPeople Who Blessed OthersPeace offerings

He dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a cake of bread, and a portion [of flesh], and a cake of raisins. So all the people departed everyone to his house.

Verse ConceptsGiftsFruitFoodMale And Female

David said to Michal, "It was before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel. Therefore will I celebrate before Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with DavidRulersSaul And DavidGod's Election Of DavidCelebrationcelebrating

In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, 'Why have you not built me a house of cedar?'"'

Verse ConceptsCedarShepherds, As Kings And LeadersCedar Wood

Now therefore you shall tell my servant David this, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies, "I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people, over Israel.

Verse ConceptsHumilityServanthood, In Life Of BelieversPromotionNo More Tending The FlockSaul And DavidServant Leadership

I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as at the first,

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toBeginningGod, The ProviderTroubling Groups Of PeopleGod's People PlantedMoving OnMoving To A New Place

and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house.

Verse ConceptsProperty, HousesTime Of Peace

What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make him a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeem to you out of Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods?

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerMiracles, Nature OfNationalismUnique Israel

You established for yourself your people Israel to be a people to you forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.

Verse ConceptsGod, The LordUnity, Of God's PeopleEternally With GodYou Are Our God

The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon.

So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.

Verse ConceptsPeoples Who Fled

When Uriah was come to him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.

The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.

Verse ConceptsKilling Named Individuals

Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called after my name."

Verse ConceptsPeople Naming Things

David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.

Verse ConceptsCapturing Cities

He brought forth the people who were therein, and put them under saws, and under iron picks, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln: and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsAxesIronToolsCaptivesClay, UsesHorrors Of WarSawsFurnacesIron ObjectsForced Labour

But Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming by way of the hillside behind him.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesWatchmanWest

The woman said, "Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.

Verse ConceptsReinstating PeopleFound Guilty

Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, 'I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.'

Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

Verse ConceptsadvisersConspiraciesPeople MultiplyingConspiracy

The king went forth, and all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth Merhak.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesCessationStopping Still

All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

Verse ConceptsValleysTemporary Stay In The Wilderness

Behold, Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people finished passing out of the city.

Verse ConceptsLevitesThe Ark In JerusalemPriests In Action

David went up by the ascent of the [Mount of] Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot: and all the people who were with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

Verse ConceptsBarefeetHead coveringSelf PitySuffering, Emotional Aspects OfVeilsWeepingShoes

He cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.

Verse ConceptsGuardsStoningThrowing Stones

The king, and all the people who were with him, came weary; and he refreshed himself there.

Verse ConceptsTirednessPeople RefreshedTired In Flight

Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.

Hushai said to Absalom, "No; but whoever Yahweh, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, his will I be, and with him I will stay.

Verse ConceptsCompanionshipChoosing PeoplePeople Possessing Other Things

I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him shall flee. I will strike the king only;

Verse ConceptsIsrael FleeingOnly One PersonKilling Will HappenTired In Flighttired

and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace."

Verse ConceptsReinstating People

Hushai said moreover, "You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

Verse ConceptsMiddle AgeBearsBereavementFierce MenReady For War

Behold, he is now hidden in some pit, or in some other place. It will happen, when some of them have fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, 'There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom!'

Verse ConceptsCavesPeople In CavesHiding From PeopleKilling Will HappenCaves As Places Of Refuge

Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, 'Don't lodge this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.'"

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsOvernightFords

Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.

Verse ConceptsDawnDaybreakUntil Daybreak

and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat: for they said, "The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness."

Verse ConceptsCowsButterMilkSheepTirednessCheeseDairyRich FoodTired In Flighttired

David numbered the people who were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.

Verse ConceptsCounting Soldiers

David sent forth the people, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, "I will surely go forth with you myself also."

Verse ConceptsFractions, One ThirdFighting TogetherDividing Into Three Groups

But the people said, "You shall not go forth; for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city."

Verse ConceptsValuesTens Of ThousandsPeople HelpingHalf Of GroupsGreat IndividualsWorth

The king said to them, "I will do what seems best to you." The king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

Verse ConceptsStanding In The Gateway

The king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, "Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom." All the people heard when the king commanded all the captains concerning Absalom.

Verse ConceptsParental LoveSoft TreatmentThe King's Orders

So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.

The people of Israel were struck there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.

Verse ConceptsTwenty Thousand And UpKilling IsraelitesDefeat Of God's People

For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

Verse ConceptsBattle

Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held back the people.

Verse ConceptsTrumpets To Stop Fighting

The victory that day was turned into mourning to all the people; for the people heard it said that day, "The king grieves for his son."

Verse ConceptsSorrowPeople Mourning CatastropheDeath

The people snuck into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

Verse ConceptsHiding From People

Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, "Behold, the king is sitting in the gate." All the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.

Verse ConceptsSittingAssembling IsraelSitting In The GatewayPeople Sitting DownIsrael Fleeing

All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Saving Others

All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. Then the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingPeople Who Blessed Others

So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him. All the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half the people of Israel.

Verse ConceptsCompanionshipHalf Of Groups

Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the midst of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still.

Verse ConceptsMotionlessnessComing To RestCovered With BloodTragedy On The StreetsCorpses Of Other People

When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

They came and besieged him in Abel of Beth Maacah, and they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsSiegesWallsSiege MoundsPeople Attacking Their Own

Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

Verse ConceptsTrumpetBeheadingTrumpets To Stop FightingGroups going home

You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.

Verse ConceptsServing PeopleNot Knowing PeopleForeigners Included Among The PeopleHead As ChiefServingpreservation

He arose, and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand froze to the sword; and Yahweh worked a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take spoil.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfFatigueSwordsThings Stuck TogetherPeople Stripping PeopleTired In Activity

After him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite. The Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines.

Verse ConceptsIsrael Fleeing

The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, "Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number the people, that I may know the sum of the people."

Verse ConceptsCensus

Joab said to the king, "Now may Yahweh your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?"

Verse ConceptsOne HundredGod Multipling PeopleAdding People

Notwithstanding, the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.

Verse ConceptsStubbornnessSelf WillCensus

Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

Verse ConceptsSwordsTribes Of IsraelThree To Nine Hundred Thousand

David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. David said to Yahweh, "I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly."

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfFolly, Examples OfGuilty ConsciencesConfession, Examples OfBeggarsGuilt, Human Aspects OfKnowledge, Of SinRegretRepentance, Examples OfFoolish PeopleWe Have Sinned

So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.

Verse ConceptsPestilenceFifty To Ninety ThousandDeath As Punishment

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, "It is enough. Now stay your hand." The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Verse ConceptsRegretUnhappinessAngels, Ot AppearancesDestruction Of JerusalemGod Changing His MindMore Than EnoughAngels Activities Among Unbelievers

David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, "Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father's house."

Verse ConceptsIntercessionSelf CondemnationSheepShepherds, As Kings And LeadersIntercessory PrayerSeeing AngelsGod Opposing

Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people."

Verse ConceptsAltars To The LordBuilding Altars

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Citizenry (1 instance)
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