'Things' in the Bible

He said to them, “Why do you do such things, the evil things that I hear from all these people?

The man said to Eli, “I am the one who came from the battle line. Indeed, I escaped from the battle line today.” And he said, “How did things go, my son?”

You must not turn aside, for then you would go after futile things which can not profit or deliver, because they are futile.

Only fear the Lord and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.

But the people took some of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the choicest of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God at Gilgal.”

But in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him so that he became as a stone.