Where it appears(showing the first 58 of 66)

• Gen 26:20The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
• Gen 26:21They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.
• Gen 26:22He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
• Gen 31:36Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?
• Exod 17:2Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”
• Exod 21:18“If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed;
• Num 20:3The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!
• Num 20:13These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
• Deut 33:8About Levi he said, “Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah.
• Judg 6:31Joash said to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? He who will contend for him, let him be put to death by morning! If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because someone has broken down his altar!”
• Judg 6:32Therefore on that day he named him Jerub-Baal, saying, “Let Baal contend against him, because he has broken down his altar.”
• Judg 8:1The 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.
• Judg 11:25Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?
• Judg 21:22It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we didn’t take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, otherwise you would now be guilty.’”
• 1 Sam 2:10Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”
• 1 Sam 15:5Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley.
• 1 Sam 24:15May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”
• 1 Sam 25:39When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.
• Neh 5:7Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.
• Neh 13:11Then I contended with the rulers, and said, “Why is God’s house forsaken?” I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
• Neh 13:17Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, “What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?
• Neh 13:25I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.
• Job 9:3If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
• Job 10:2I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
• Job 13:8Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?
• Job 13:19Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
• Job 23:6Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.
• Job 33:13Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?
• Job 40:2“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
• Ps 35:1By David. Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.
• Ps 43:1Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
• Ps 74:22Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
• Ps 103:9He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever.
• Ps 119:154Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.
• Prov 3:30Don’t strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.
• Prov 22:23for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.
• Prov 23:11for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.
• Prov 25:8Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?
• Prov 25:9Debate your case with your neighbor, and don’t betray the confidence of another;
• Isa 1:17Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
• Isa 3:13Yahweh stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples.
• Isa 27:8In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
• Isa 45:9Woe to him who strives with his Maker — a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’
• Isa 49:25But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce; for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children.
• Isa 50:8He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
• Isa 51:22Thus says your Lord Yahweh, your God who pleads the cause of his people, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more:
• Isa 57:16For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.
• Jer 2:9“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says Yahweh, “and I will contend with your children’s children.
• Jer 2:29“Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me,” says Yahweh.
• Jer 12:1You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
• Jer 50:34Their Redeemer is strong: Yahweh of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
• Jer 51:36Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
• Lam 3:58Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.
• Hos 2:2Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
• Hos 4:4“Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; For your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.
• Amos 7:4Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.
• Mic 6:1Listen now to what Yahweh says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say.
• Mic 7:9I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.