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• Judges 8:1

  The men of Ephraim said to him, “Why have you treated us this way, that you didn’t call us when you went to fight with Midian?” They rebuked him sharply.

• Judges 8:2

  He said to them, “What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn’t the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

• Judges 8:3

  God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.

• 1 Samuel 10:27

  But certain worthless fellows said, “How could this man save us?” They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.

• 1 Samuel 11:7

  He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, “Whoever doesn’t come out after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen.” The dread of Yahweh fell on the people, and they came out as one man.

• 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 Samuel 25:18

  Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two bottles of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five seahs of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

• 1 Samuel 25:19

  She said to her young men, “Go on before me. Behold, I am coming after you.” But she didn’t tell her husband, Nabal.

• 1 Samuel 25:20

  As she rode on her donkey, and came down by the covert of the mountain, that behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them.

• 1 Samuel 25:21

  Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.

• 1 Samuel 25:22

  God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”

• 1 Samuel 25:23

  When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got off of her donkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.

• 1 Samuel 25:24

  She fell at his feet, and said, “On me, my lord, on me be the blame! Please let your servant speak in your ears. Hear the words of your servant.

• 1 Samuel 25:25

  Please don’t let my lord pay attention to this worthless fellow, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men, whom you sent.

• 1 Samuel 25:26

  Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

• 1 Samuel 25:27

  Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.

• 1 Samuel 25:28

  Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights Yahweh’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days.

• 1 Samuel 25:29

  Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.

• 1 Samuel 25:30

  It will come to pass, when Yahweh has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you prince over Israel,

• 1 Samuel 25:31

  that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.”

• 1 Samuel 25:32

  David said to Abigail, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!

• 1 Samuel 25:33

  Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, who have kept me today from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

• 1 Samuel 25:34

  For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”

• 1 Samuel 25:35

  So David received from her hand that which she had brought him. Then he said to her, “Go up in peace to your house. Behold, I have listened to your voice, and have granted your request.”

• 1 Samuel 25:36

  Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, until the morning light.

• 1 Samuel 25:37

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

• 2 Samuel 3:28

  Afterward, when David heard it, he said, “I and my kingdom are guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

• 2 Samuel 3:29

  Let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house. Let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has an issue, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.”

• 2 Samuel 3:30

  So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

• 2 Samuel 3:31

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

• 2 Samuel 3:32

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

• 2 Samuel 3:33

  The king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?

• 2 Samuel 3:34

  Your hands weren’t bound, and your feet weren’t put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell.” All the people wept again over him.

• 2 Samuel 3:35

  All the people came to urge 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.”

• 2 Samuel 3:36

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

• 2 Samuel 3:37

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

• 2 Samuel 14:1

  Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.

• 2 Samuel 14:2

  Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.

• 2 Samuel 14:3

  Go in to the king, and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.

• 2 Samuel 14:4

  When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”

• 2 Samuel 14:5

  The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

• 2 Samuel 14:6

  Your servant had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

• 2 Samuel 14:7

  Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.”

• 2 Samuel 14:8

  The king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give a command concerning you.”

• 2 Samuel 14:9

  The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, may the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”

• 2 Samuel 14:10

  The king said, “Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he will not bother you any more.”

• 2 Samuel 14:11

  Then she said, “Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”

• 2 Samuel 14:12

  Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.” He said, “Say on.”

• 2 Samuel 14:13

  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.

• 2 Samuel 14:14

  For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

• 2 Samuel 14:15

  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. Your servant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’

• 2 Samuel 14:16

  For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

• 2 Samuel 14:17

  Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’”

• 2 Samuel 14:18

  Then the king answered the woman, “Please don’t hide anything from me that I ask you.” The woman said, “Let my lord the king now speak.”

• 2 Samuel 14:19

  The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered, “As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your servant;

• 2 Samuel 14:20

  to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done this thing. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”

• 2 Samuel 14:21

  The king said to Joab, “Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, and bring the young man Absalom back.”

• 2 Samuel 14:22

  Joab fell to the ground on his face, showed respect, and blessed the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.”

• 2 Samuel 20:16

  Then a wise woman cried out of the city, “Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, ‘Come near here, that I may speak with you.’”

• 2 Samuel 20:17

  He came near to her; and the woman said, “Are you Joab?” He answered, “I am.” Then she said to him, “Hear the words of your servant.” He answered, “I’m listening.”

• 2 Samuel 20:18

  Then she spoke, saying, “They used to say in old times, ‘They shall surely ask counsel at Abel;’ and so they settled a matter.

• 2 Samuel 20:19

  I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up Yahweh’s inheritance?”

• 2 Samuel 20:20

  Joab answered, “Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

• 2 Samuel 20:21

  The matter is not so. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David. Just deliver him, and I will depart from the city.” The woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”

• 2 Samuel 20:22

  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. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

• 1 Kings 3:24

  The king said, “Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king.

• 1 Kings 3:25

  The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”

• 1 Kings 3:26

  Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”

• 1 Kings 3:27

  Then the king answered, “Give her the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother.”

• 1 Kings 3:28

  All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

• 1 Chronicles 13:1

  David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.

• 1 Chronicles 13:2

  David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is of Yahweh our God, let us send word everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have suburbs, that they may gather themselves to us.

• 1 Chronicles 13:3

  Also, let us again bring the ark of our God back to us; for we didn’t seek it in the days of Saul.”

• 1 Chronicles 13:4

  All the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.

• 1 Chronicles 15:16

  David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.

• 1 Chronicles 15:17

  So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;

• 1 Chronicles 15:18

  and with them their brothers of the second rank, Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers.

• 1 Chronicles 15:19

  So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were given cymbals of brass to sound aloud;

• 1 Chronicles 15:20

  and Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with stringed instruments set to Alamoth;

• 1 Chronicles 15:21

  and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed lyre, to lead.

• 1 Chronicles 15:22

  Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the singing. He taught the singers, because he was skillful.

• 1 Chronicles 15:23

  Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.

• 1 Chronicles 15:24

  Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, blew the trumpets before God’s ark; and Obed-Edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.

• Esther 2:10

  Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.

• Esther 5:7

  Then Esther answered and said, “My petition and my request is this.

• Proverbs 15:1

  A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

• Proverbs 25:15

  By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.

• Acts 16:3

  Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

• Acts 19:35

  When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, “You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?

• Acts 19:36

  Seeing then that these things can’t be denied, you ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rash.

• Acts 19:37

  For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.

• Acts 19:38

  If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a matter against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them press charges against one another.

• Acts 19:39

  But if you seek anything about other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly.

• Acts 19:40

  For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning today’s riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn’t be able to give an account of this commotion.”

• Acts 19:41

  When he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.

• Acts 21:20

  They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

• Acts 21:21

  They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children neither to walk after the customs.

• Acts 21:22

  What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come.

• Acts 21:23

  Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow.

• Acts 21:24

  Take them, and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will know that there is no truth in the things that they have been informed about you, but that you yourself also walk keeping the law.

• Acts 21:25

  But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality.”

• Acts 23:6

  But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

• Acts 23:7

  When he had said this, an argument arose between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the crowd was divided.

• Acts 23:8

  For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.

• Acts 23:9

  A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!”

• Acts 23:10

  When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

• 1 Corinthians 9:19

  For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

• 1 Corinthians 9:20

  To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

• 1 Corinthians 9:21

  to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

• 1 Corinthians 9:22

  To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

• 2 Corinthians 8:1

  Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia;

• 2 Corinthians 8:2

  how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.

• 2 Corinthians 8:3

  For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,

• 2 Corinthians 8:4

  begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

• 2 Corinthians 8:5

  This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

• 2 Corinthians 8:6

  So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.

• 2 Corinthians 8:7

  But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

• 2 Corinthians 8:8

  I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

• 2 Corinthians 9:1

  It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,

• 2 Corinthians 9:2

  for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

• 2 Corinthians 9:3

  But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,

• 2 Corinthians 9:4

  so that I won’t by any means, if anyone from Macedonia comes there with me and finds you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.

• 2 Corinthians 9:5

  I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.

• 2 Corinthians 12:6

  For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me.

• Philippians 1:10

  so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;

• Philippians 1:11

  being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

• Philippians 1:12

  Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News;

• Philippians 1:13

  so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ;

• Philippians 1:14

  and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

• Philippians 1:15

  Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.

• Philippians 1:16

  The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

• Philippians 1:17

  but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

• Philippians 1:18

  What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.

• Philippians 1:19

  For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

• Philippians 1:20

  according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

• Philippians 1:21

  For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

• Philippians 1:22

  But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.