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Passages on this topic · 32

• Genesis 47:15

  When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, “Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails.”

• Genesis 47:16

  Joseph said, “Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone.”

• Genesis 47:17

  They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year.

• Genesis 47:18

  When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.

• Genesis 47:19

  Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.”

• Genesis 47:20

  So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s.

• Genesis 47:21

  As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.

• Genesis 47:22

  Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn’t sell their land.

• Genesis 47:23

  Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

• Genesis 47:24

  It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.”

• Genesis 47:25

  They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”

• Genesis 47:26

  Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s.

• 1 Samuel 11:12

  The people said to Samuel, “Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we may put them to death!”

• 1 Samuel 11:13

  Saul said, “No man shall be put to death today; for today Yahweh has rescued Israel.”

• 1 Samuel 11:14

  Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.”

• 1 Samuel 11:15

  All the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before Yahweh in Gilgal. There they offered sacrifices of peace offerings before Yahweh; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

• 1 Kings 1:11

  Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, “Haven’t you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn’t know it?

• 1 Kings 1:12

  Now therefore come, please let me give you counsel, that you may save your own life, and your son Solomon’s life.

• 1 Kings 1:13

  Go in to king David, and tell him, ‘Didn’t you, my lord, king, swear to your servant, saying, “Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?” Why then does Adonijah reign?’

• 1 Kings 1:14

  Behold, while you are still talking there with the king, I will also come in after you and confirm your words.”

• 1 Kings 12:26

  Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to David’s house.

• 1 Kings 12:27

  If this people goes up to offer sacrifices in Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”

• 1 Kings 12:28

  So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

• 1 Kings 12:29

  He set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.

• 1 Kings 12:30

  This thing became a sin; for the people went even as far as Dan to worship before the one there.

• 1 Kings 12:31

  He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

• 1 Kings 12:32

  Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

• 1 Kings 12:33

  He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.

• Proverbs 28:2

  In rebellion, a land has many rulers, but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge.

• Daniel 1:3

  The king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring in some of the children of Israel, even of the royal offspring and of the nobles;

• Daniel 1:4

  youths in whom was no defect, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability to stand in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.

• Daniel 1:5

  The king appointed for them a daily portion of the king’s dainties, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at its end they should stand before the king.