17 occurrences

'Right' in the Bible

Ehud made himself a sword -- it had two edges and was eighteen inches long. He strapped it under his coat on his right thigh.

Verse ConceptsThighsTwo SidedDimensions Of Other ThingsOther Right Parts

Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and drove it into Eglon's belly.

Verse ConceptsMurderStomachsThighsOther Right Parts

They waited so long they were embarrassed, but he still did not open the doors of the upper room. Finally they took the key and opened the doors. Right before their eyes was their master, sprawled out dead on the floor!

Verse ConceptsKeys

Her left hand reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workmen's hammer. She "hammered" Sisera, she shattered his skull, she smashed his head, she drove the tent peg through his temple.

Verse ConceptsHeadsHandsPegsSharp ToolsKilling Named Individuals

All three units blew their trumpets and broke their jars. They held the torches in their left hand and the trumpets in their right. Then they yelled, "A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!"

Verse ConceptsShoutingBattle CriesGod's Swordgideon

"Now, if you have shown loyalty and integrity when you made Abimelech king, if you have done right to Jerub-Baal and his family, if you have properly repaid him --

Verse ConceptsPerforming The Truth

Jephthah said to the leaders of Gilead, "All right! If you take me back to fight with the Ammonites and the Lord gives them to me, I will be your leader."

You have the right to take what Chemosh your god gives you, but we will take the land of all whom the Lord our God has driven out before us.

Verse ConceptsPagan Gods

The Ephraimites assembled and crossed over to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, "Why did you go and fight with the Ammonites without asking us to go with you? We will burn your house down right over you!"

Verse ConceptsArsonActing AloneBurning People

then they said to him, "Say 'Shibboleth!'" If he said, "Sibboleth" (and could not pronounce the word correctly), they grabbed him and executed him right there at the fords of the Jordan. On that day forty-two thousand Ephraimites fell dead.

Verse ConceptsForty Thousand And UpFordsKilling Within Israelbridges

But his father and mother said to him, "Certainly you can find a wife among your relatives or among all our people! You should not have to go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines." But Samson said to his father, "Get her for me, because she is the right one for me."

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalBad Decision Making ExamplesMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningUncircumcisionInfatuationIntermarriageLeaving Parents For Spouse

Samson continued on down to Timnah and spoke to the girl. In his opinion, she was just the right one.

Samson spent half the night with the prostitute; then he got up in the middle of the night and left. He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all. He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron.

Verse ConceptsStrength, SpiritualMidnightLocks And BarsCarrying Other Loads

Samson took hold of the two middle pillars that supported the temple and he leaned against them, with his right hand on one and his left hand on the other.

In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right.

Verse ConceptsEyes, Figurative UseChaosSelfishnessAnarchyNo King

The rest turned and ran toward the wilderness, heading toward the cliff of Rimmon. But the Israelites caught five thousand of them on the main roads. They stayed right on their heels all the way to Gidom and struck down two thousand more.

Verse ConceptsTwo ThousandFive ThousandOvertaking

In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right.

Verse ConceptsAuthority, of human institutionsKingship, HumanSelfishnessAnarchyNo King

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