Genesis 31:30
And now, it seems, you are going because your heart's desire is for your father's house; but why have you taken my gods?
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Genesis 31:30
And now, it seems, you are going because your heart's desire is for your father's house; but why have you taken my gods?
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Genesis 6:7
And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.
Genesis 34:7
Now the sons of Jacob came in from the fields when they had news of it, and they were wounded and very angry because of the shame he had done in Israel by having connection with Jacob's daughter; and they said, Such a thing is not to be done.
1 Samuel 15:11
It is no longer my pleasure for Saul to be king; for he is turned back from going in my ways, and has not done my orders. And Samuel was very sad, crying to the Lord in prayer all night.
2 Samuel 19:43
And in answer to the men of Judah, the men of Israel said, We have ten parts in the king, and we are the first in order of birth: why did you make nothing of us? and were we not the first to make suggestions for getting the king back? And the words of the men of Judah were more violent than the words of the men of Israel.
2 Samuel 22:8
Then the earth was moved with a violent shock; the bases of heaven were moved and shaking, because he was angry.
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Genesis 17:5
No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.
Acts 17:25
And he is not dependent on the work of men's hands, as if he had need of anything, for he himself gives to all life and breath and all things;
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Genesis 24:4
But that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for my son Isaac.
Genesis 24:31
And he said to him, Come in, you on whom is the blessing of the Lord; why are you waiting outside? for I have made the house ready for you, and a place for the camels.
Genesis 31:17
Then Jacob put his wives and his sons on camels;
Genesis 31:18
And sending on before him all his cattle and his property which he had got together in Paddan-aram, he made ready to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 31:20
And Jacob went away secretly, without giving news of his flight to Laban the Aramaean.
Genesis 31:21
So he went away with all he had, and went across the River in the direction of the hill-country of Gilead.
Genesis 31:22
And on the third day Laban had news of Jacob's flight.
Genesis 31:23
And taking the men of his family with him, he went after him for seven days and overtook him in the hill-country of Gilead.
Genesis 31:24
Then God came to Laban in a dream by night, and said to him, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.
Genesis 31:25
Now when Laban overtook him, Jacob had put up his tent in the hill-country; and Laban and his brothers put up their tents in the hill-country of Gilead.
Genesis 31:33
So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent, and into the tents of the two servant-women, but they were not there; and he came out of Leah's tent and went into Rachel's.
Genesis 31:35
And she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry because I do not get up before you, for I am in the common condition of women. And with all his searching, he did not come across the images.
Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.
Genesis 31:43
Then Laban, answering, said, These women are my daughters and these children my children, the flocks and all you see are mine: what now may I do for my daughters and for their children?
Genesis 31:54
And Jacob made an offering on the mountain, and gave orders to his people to take food: so they had a meal and took their rest that night on the mountain.
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Genesis 24:23
And said to her, Whose daughter are you? is there room in your father's house for us?
Exodus 12:3
Say to all the children of Israel when they are come together, In the tenth day of this month every man is to take a lamb, by the number of their fathers' families, a lamb for every family:
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Genesis 30:14
Now at the time of the grain-cutting, Reuben saw some love-fruits in the field, and took them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to her, Let me have some of your son's love-fruits.
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Genesis 35:3
And let us go up to Beth-el: and there I will make an altar to God, who gave me an answer in the day of my trouble, and was with me wherever I went.
Hosea 3:3
And I said to her, You are to be mine for a long space of time; you are not to be false to me, and no other man is to have you for his wife; and so will I be to you.
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Genesis 44:9
If it comes to light that any of your servants has done this, let him be put to death, and we will be your lord's servants.
Genesis 44:10
And he said, Let it be as you say: he in whose bag it is seen will become my servant; and you will not be responsible.
Genesis 44:11
Then every man quickly got his bag down and undid it.
Genesis 44:12
And he made a search, starting with the oldest and ending with the youngest; and the cup was in Benjamin's bag.
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Genesis 45:28
And Israel said, It is enough: Joseph my son is still living; I will go and see him before my death.
Genesis 48:11
And Israel said to Joseph, I had no hope of seeing your face again, but God in his mercy has let me see you and your children.
Romans 1:13
You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you (but till now I was kept from it), so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.
Philippians 1:22
But if I go on living in the flesh--if this is the fruit of my work--then I do not see what decision to make.
Philippians 1:23
I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:
Philippians 1:24
Still, to go on in the flesh is more necessary because of you.
Philippians 1:25
And being certain of this, I am conscious that I will go on, yes, and go on with you all, for your growth and joy in the faith;
Philippians 1:26
So that your pride in me may be increased in Christ Jesus through my being present with you again.
1 Thessalonians 2:17
But we, my brothers, being away from you for a short time, in body but not in heart, had all the more desire to see your face;
1 Thessalonians 3:6
But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you;
1 Thessalonians 3:10
Night and day requesting God again and again that we may see your face and make your faith complete.
1 Thessalonians 3:11
Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus make a way for us to come to you;
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Numbers 11:4
And the mixed band of people who went with them were overcome by desire: and the children of Israel, weeping again, said, Who will give us flesh for our food?
Numbers 11:20
But every day for a month, till you are tired of it, turning from it in disgust: because you have gone against the Lord who is with you, and have been weeping before him saying, Why did we come out of Egypt?
Numbers 11:34
So that place was named Kibroth-hattaavah; because there they put in the earth the bodies of the people who had given way to their desires.
Deuteronomy 12:15
Only you may put to death animals, such as the gazelle or the roe, for your food in any of your towns, at the desire of your soul, in keeping with the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may take of it.
Deuteronomy 12:20
When the Lord your God makes wide the limit of your land, as he has said, and you say, I will take flesh for my food, because you have a desire for it; then you may take whatever flesh you have a desire for.
Psalms 107:9
He gives its desire to the unresting soul, so that it is full of good things.
Psalms 119:20
My soul is broken with desire for your decisions at all times.
Psalms 119:40
See how great is my desire for your orders: give me life in your righteousness.
Psalms 119:174
All my desire has been for your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my delight.
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Numbers 24:25
Then Balaam got up and went back to his place: and Balak went away.
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Deuteronomy 12:3
Their altars and their pillars are to be broken down, and their holy trees burned with fire, and the images of their gods cut down; you are to take away their names out of that place.
1 Samuel 5:2
They took the ark of God into the house of Dagon and put it by the side of Dagon.
1 Samuel 5:3
And when the people of Ashdod got up early on the morning after, they saw that Dagon had come down to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon up and put him in his place again.
1 Samuel 5:4
And when they got up early on the morning after, Dagon had come down to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord; and his head and his hands were broken off on the doorstep; only the base was in its place.
1 Samuel 5:5
So to this day no priest of Dagon, or any who come into Dagon's house, will put his foot on the doorstep of the house of Dagon in Ashdod.
1 Samuel 5:6
But the hand of the Lord was hard on the people of Ashdod and he sent disease on them through all the country of Ashdod.
2 Samuel 5:21
And the Philistines, when they went in flight, did not take their images with them, and David and his men took them away.
Ezra 1:7
And Cyrus the king got out the vessels of the house of the Lord which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem and put in the house of his gods;
Jeremiah 43:13
And the stone pillars of Beth-shemesh in the land of Egypt will be broken by him, and the houses of the gods of Egypt burned with fire.
Jeremiah 46:25
The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send punishment on Amon of No and on Pharaoh and on those who put their faith in him;
Daniel 11:8
And their gods and their metal images and their fair vessels of silver and gold he will take away into the south; and for some years he will keep away from the king of the north.
Hosea 8:14
For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.
Hosea 10:5
The people of Samaria will be full of fear because of the ox of Beth-aven; its people will have sorrow for it, and its priests will give cries of grief for its glory, for the glory has gone in flight.
Hosea 10:6
And they will take it to Assyria and give it to the great king; shame will come on Ephraim, and Israel will be shamed because of its image.
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Deuteronomy 28:32
Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything.
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Judges 17:6
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did as seemed right to him.
Judges 18:15
And turning from their road they came to the house of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and said to him, Is it well with you?
Judges 18:16
And the six hundred armed men of the Danites took their places by the doorway.
Judges 18:19
And they said to him, Be quiet; say nothing, and come with us and be our father and priest; is it better for you to be priest to one man's house or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?
Judges 18:21
So they went on their way again, putting the little ones and the oxen and the goods in front of them.
Judges 18:22
When they had gone some way from the house of Micah, the men from the houses near Micah's house came together and overtook the children of Dan,
Judges 18:23
Crying out to them. And the Danites, turning round, said to Micah, What is your trouble, that you have taken up arms?
Judges 18:31
And they put up for themselves the image which Micah had made, and it was there all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
1 Samuel 19:13
Then Michal took the image and put it in the bed, with a cushion of goat's hair at its head, and she put clothing over it.
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Psalms 84:3
The little birds have places for themselves, where they may put their young, even your altars, O Lord of armies, my King and my God.
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Isaiah 33:11
Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.
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Isaiah 44:15
Then it will be used to make a fire, so that a man may get warm; he has the oven heated with it and makes bread: he makes a god with it, to which he gives worship: he makes a pictured image out of it, and goes down on his face before it.
Hosea 4:12
My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.
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Psalms 115:5
They have mouths, but no voice; they have eyes, but they see not;
Psalms 115:6
They have ears, but no hearing; they have noses, but no sense of smell;
Psalms 115:7
They have hands without feeling, and feet without power of walking; and no sound comes from their throat.
Psalms 115:8
Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.
Psalms 115:9
O Israel, have faith in the Lord: he is their help and their breastplate.
Isaiah 44:12
The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble.
Isaiah 44:14
He has cedars cut down for himself, he takes an oak and lets it get strong among the trees of the wood; he has an ash-tree planted, and the rain gives it growth.
Isaiah 44:19
And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?
Jeremiah 10:3
For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.
Jeremiah 10:4
They make it beautiful with silver and gold; they make it strong with nails and hammers, so that it may not be moved.
Jeremiah 10:15
They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.
Acts 19:26
And you see, for it has come to your ears, that not only at Ephesus, but almost all through Asia, this Paul has been teaching numbers of people and turning them away, saying that those are not gods who are made by men's hands:
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Deuteronomy 27:15
Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it.
2 Kings 19:18
And have given their gods to the fire; for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.
Psalms 115:4
Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Isaiah 41:29
Truly they are all nothing, their works are nothing and of no value: their metal images are of no more use than wind.
Isaiah 44:10
Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.
Isaiah 44:11
Truly, all those who make use of secret arts will be put to shame, and their words of power are only words of men: let them all come forward together; they will all be in fear and be put to shame.
Isaiah 44:16
With part of it he makes a fire, and on the fire he gets meat cooked and takes a full meal: he makes himself warm, and says, Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire:
Isaiah 44:17
And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his pictured image: he goes down on his face before it, giving worship to it, and making prayer to it, saying, Be my saviour; for you are my god.
Isaiah 44:18
They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.
Isaiah 44:20
As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.
Hosea 8:6
The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.
Micah 5:13
And I will have your images and your pillars cut off from you; and you will no longer give worship to the work of your hands.
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Ezekiel 1:6
And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings.
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Joshua 7:21
When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it.
Ezekiel 8:12
And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the responsible men of the children of Israel do in the dark, every man in his room of pictured images? for they say, The Lord does not see us; the Lord has gone away from the land.
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Psalms 5:9
For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.
Hosea 4:2
There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.
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Romans 1:11
For I have a strong desire to see you, and to give you some grace of the spirit, so that you may be made strong;
Romans 15:32
So that I may come to you in joy by the good pleasure of God, and have rest with you.
2 Corinthians 8:23
If any question comes up about Titus, he is my brother-worker, working with me for you; or about the others, they are the representatives of the churches to the glory of Christ.
Philippians 4:1
So my brothers, well loved and very dear to me, my joy and crown, be strong in the Lord, my loved ones.
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1 Corinthians 4:13
When evil things are said about us we give gentle answers: we are made as the unclean things of the world, as that for which no one has any use, even till now.
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Joshua 24:15
And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.
Ruth 1:15
And Naomi said, See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods: go back after your sister-in-law.
Ruth 1:16
But Ruth said, Give up requesting me to go away from you, or to go back without you: for where you go I will go; and where you take your rest I will take my rest; your people will be my people, and your God my God.
Ruth 1:17
Wherever death comes to you, death will come to me, and there will be my last resting-place; the Lord do so to me and more if we are parted by anything but death.
Psalms 37:6
And he will make your righteousness be seen like the light, and your cause like the shining of the sun.
Psalms 45:10
O daughter, give thought and attention, and let your ear be open; no longer keep in mind your people, and your father's house;
Luke 14:26
And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.
2 Corinthians 5:16
For this reason, from this time forward we have knowledge of no man after the flesh: even if we have had knowledge of Christ after the flesh, we have no longer any such knowledge.
Hebrews 11:8
By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going.
Hebrews 11:13
All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.
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