Genesis 45:7
God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.
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Genesis 45:7
God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.
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Genesis 1:19
And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
Genesis 1:20
And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.
Genesis 1:24
And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.
Genesis 41:51
And to the first he gave the name Manasseh, for he said, God has taken away from me all memory of my hard life and of my father's house.
Genesis 41:52
And to the second he gave the name Ephraim, for he said, God has given me fruit in the land of my sorrow.
Genesis 42:18
And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:
Genesis 43:29
Then, lifting up his eyes, he saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother's son, and he said, Is this your youngest brother of whom you gave me word? And he said, God be good to you, my son.
Genesis 48:9
And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me in this land. And he said, Let them come near me, and I will give them a blessing.
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Genesis 6:19
And you will take with you into the ark two of every sort of living thing, and keep them safe with you; they will be male and female.
Genesis 47:25
And they said to him, Truly you have kept us from death; may we have grace in your eyes, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
Proverbs 11:26
He who keeps back grain will be cursed by the people; but a blessing will be on the head of him who lets them have it for a price.
Proverbs 11:27
He who, with all his heart, goes after what is good is searching for grace; but he who is looking for trouble will get it.
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Genesis 15:13
And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;
Genesis 27:37
And Isaac answering said, But I have made him your master, and have given him all his brothers for servants; I have made him strong with grain and wine: what then am I to do for you, my son?
Genesis 27:41
So Esau was full of hate for Jacob because of his father's blessing; and he said in his heart, The days of weeping for my father are near; then I will put my brother Jacob to death.
Genesis 31:40
This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.
Genesis 43:1
Now the land was in bitter need of food.
Genesis 43:2
And when the grain which they had got in Egypt was all used up, their father said to them, Go again and get us a little food.
Genesis 43:12
And take twice as much money with you; that is to say, take back the money which was put in your bags, for it may have been an error;
Genesis 45:11
And there I will take care of you, so that you and your family may not be in need, for there are still five bad years to come.
Genesis 46:3
And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there:
Deuteronomy 26:5
And these are the words which you will say before the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramaean, and he went down with a small number of people into Egypt; there he became a great and strong nation:
Isaiah 51:1
Give ear to me, you who are searching for righteousness, who are looking for the Lord: see the rock from which you were cut out, and the hole out of which you were taken.
Isaiah 53:11
...made clear his righteousness before men...had taken their sins on himself.
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Genesis 21:13
And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.
Genesis 21:18
Come, take your child in your arms, for I will make of him a great nation.
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Genesis 37:5
Now Joseph had a dream, and he gave his brothers an account of it, which made their hate greater than ever.
Genesis 37:6
And he said to them, Let me give you the story of my dream.
Genesis 37:7
We were in the field, getting the grain stems together, and my grain kept upright, and yours came round and went down on the earth before mine.
Genesis 37:8
And his brothers said to him, Are you to be our king? will you have authority over us? And because of his dream and his words, their hate for him became greater than ever.
Genesis 37:9
Then he had another dream, and gave his brothers an account of it, saying, I have had another dream: the sun and the moon and eleven stars gave honour to me.
Genesis 37:20
Let us now put him to death and put his body into one of these holes, and we will say, An evil beast has put him to death: then we will see what becomes of his dreams.
Genesis 50:19
And Joseph said, Have no fear: am I in the place of God?
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Genesis 40:15
For truly I was taken by force from the land of the Hebrews; and I have done nothing for which I might be put in prison.
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Genesis 41:35
And let them get together all the food in those good years and make a store of grain under Pharaoh's control for the use of the towns, and let them keep it.
Genesis 41:48
And Joseph got together all the food of those seven years, and made a store of food in the towns: the produce of the fields round every town was stored up in the town.
Genesis 41:49
So he got together a store of grain like the sand of the sea; so great a store that after a time he gave up measuring it, for it might not be measured.
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Genesis 49:22
Joseph is a young ox, whose steps are turned to the fountain;
Genesis 49:23
He was troubled by the archers; they sent out their arrows against him, cruelly wounding him:
Genesis 49:24
But their bows were broken by a strong one, and the cords of their arms were cut by the Strength of Jacob, by the name of the Stone of Israel:
Genesis 49:25
Even by the God of your father, who will be your help, and by the Ruler of all, who will make you full with blessings from heaven on high, blessings of the deep stretched out under the earth, blessings of the breasts and of the fertile body:
Genesis 49:26
Blessings of sons, old and young, to the father: blessings of the oldest mountains and the fruit of the eternal hills: let them come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of him who was separate from his brothers.
Philemon 1:15
For it is possible that for this reason he was parted from you for a time, so that you might have him for ever;
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Genesis 49:29
And he gave orders to them, saying, Put me to rest with my people and with my fathers, in the hollow of the rock in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
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Deuteronomy 21:10
When you go out to war against other nations, and the Lord your God gives them up into your hands and you take them as prisoners;
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Numbers 21:1
And it came to the ears of the Canaanite, the king of Arad, living in the South, that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, and he came out against them and took some of them prisoners.
Judges 15:18
After this, he was in great need of water, and crying out to the Lord, he said, You have given this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and now need of water will be my death; and I will be given into the hands of this people who are without circumcision.
1 Chronicles 11:14
And he took up his position in the middle of the bit of land, and kept back their attack, and overcame the Philistines; and the Lord gave a great salvation.
Psalms 18:50
Great salvation does he give to his king; he has mercy on the king of his selection, David, and on his seed for ever.
Psalms 44:4
You are my King and my God; ordering salvation for Jacob.
Acts 7:35
This Moses, whom they would not have, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? him God sent to be a ruler and a saviour, by the hand of the angel whom he saw in the thorn-tree.
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1 Samuel 3:18
Then Samuel gave him an account of everything, keeping nothing back. And he said, It is the Lord; let him do what seems good to him.
Job 23:13
But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul.
Psalms 39:9
I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.
Proverbs 21:1
The king's heart in the hands of the Lord is like the water streams, and by him it is turned in any direction at his pleasure.
Isaiah 10:7
But this is not what is in his mind, and this is not his design; but his purpose is destruction, and the cutting off of more and more nations.
Isaiah 14:24
The Lord has taken an oath, saying, My design will certainly come about, and my purpose will be effected:
Isaiah 14:27
For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back?
Isaiah 26:9
In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments come on the earth, the people of the world will get the knowledge of righteousness.
Isaiah 46:10
Making clear from the first what is to come, and from past times the things which have not so far come about; saying, My purpose is fixed, and I will do all my pleasure;
Daniel 4:35
And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?
Amos 3:6
If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?
Ephesians 1:11
In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;
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1 Kings 17:6
And the ravens took him bread in the morning and meat in the evening; and the water of the stream was his drink.
Job 5:20
When there is need of food he will keep you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.
Psalms 33:19
To keep their souls from death; and to keep them living in time of need.
Proverbs 10:3
The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.
Isaiah 33:16
He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.
Habakkuk 3:17
For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:
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Genesis 42:36
And Jacob their father said to them, You have taken my children from me: Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone, and now you would take Benjamin away; all these things have come on me.
1 Kings 18:43
And he said to his servant, Go now, and take a look in the direction of the sea. And he went up, and after looking said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times; and he went seven times.
Job 1:21
With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.
Psalms 105:16
And he took away all food from the land, so that the people were without bread.
Proverbs 19:21
A man's heart may be full of designs, but the purpose of the Lord is unchanging.
Isaiah 14:26
This is the purpose for all the earth: and this is the hand stretched out over all nations.
Daniel 4:17
This order is fixed by the watchers, and the decision is by the word of the holy ones: so that the living may be certain that the Most High is ruler over the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure, lifting up over it the lowest of men.
John 19:11
Jesus gave this answer: You would have no power at all over me if it was not given to you by God; so that he who gave me up to you has the greater sin.
Acts 4:27
For, truly, in this town, against your holy servant, Jesus, who was marked out by you as Christ, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, came together,
Hebrews 6:17
So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath;
James 5:11
We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.
1 Peter 2:8
And, A stone of falling, a rock of trouble; the word is the cause of their fall, because they go against it, and this was the purpose of God.
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Psalms 78:34
When he sent death on them, then they made search for him; turning to him and looking for him with care;
Psalms 78:35
In the memory that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their saviour.
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Psalms 62:11
Once has God said, twice has it come to my ears, that power is God's:
Psalms 119:71
It is good for me to have been through trouble; so that I might come to the knowledge of your rules.
Proverbs 16:1
The designs of the heart are man's, but the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord.
Proverbs 16:9
A man may make designs for his way, but the Lord is the guide of his steps.
Proverbs 21:30
Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.
Daniel 4:25
That they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and you will be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure.
Matthew 6:13
And let us not be put to the test, but keep us safe from the Evil One.
Acts 1:16
My brothers, the word of God had to be put into effect, which the Holy Spirit had said before, by the mouth of David, about Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus,
Acts 5:38
And now I say to you, Do nothing to these men, but let them be: for if this teaching or this work is of men, it will come to nothing:
Acts 5:39
But if it is of God, you will not be able to overcome them, and you are in danger of fighting against God.
Hebrews 6:18
So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;
Jude 1:4
For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
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Proverbs 28:2
Because of the sin of the land, its troubles are increased; but by a man of wisdom and knowledge they will be put out like a fire.
Ecclesiastes 9:15
Now there was in the town a poor, wise man, and he, by his wisdom, kept the town safe. But no one had any memory of that same poor man.
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2 Kings 19:30
And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth and give fruit.
2 Kings 19:31
For from Jerusalem those who have been kept safe will go out, and those who are still living will go out of Mount Zion: by the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.
2 Chronicles 30:6
So runners went with letters from the king and his chiefs through all Israel and Judah, by the order of the king, saying, O children of Israel, come back again to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he may come again to that small band of you which has been kept safe out of the hands of the kings of Assyria.
Isaiah 1:9
If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours.
Isaiah 10:20
And it will be in that day that the rest of Israel, and those of Jacob who have come safely through these troubles, will no longer go for help to him whose rod was on their back, but their faith will be in the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 10:21
The rest, even the rest of Jacob, will come back to the Strong God.
Isaiah 10:22
For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea, only a small number will come back: for the destruction is fixed, overflowing in righteousness.
Isaiah 46:3
Give ear to me, O family of Jacob, and all the rest of the people of Israel, who have been supported by me from their birth, and have been my care from their earliest days:
Ezekiel 6:8
But still, I will keep a small band safe from the sword among the nations, when you are sent wandering among the countries.
Amos 5:15
Be haters of evil and lovers of good, and let right be done in the public place: it may be that the Lord, the God of armies, will have mercy on the rest of Joseph.
Zechariah 8:6
This is what the Lord of armies has said: If this is a wonder to the rest of this people, is it a wonder to me? says the Lord of armies.
Zechariah 8:12
For I will let the seed of peace be planted; the vine will give her fruit and the land will give her increase and the heavens will give their dew; and I will give to the rest of this people all these things for their heritage.
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Isaiah 11:11
And in that day the hand of the Lord will be stretched out the second time to get back the rest of his people, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the sea-lands.
Isaiah 11:16
And there will be a highway for the rest of his people from Assyria; as there was for Israel in the day when he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Isaiah 20:6
And those living by the sea will say in that day, See the fate of our hope to whom we went for help and salvation from the king of Assyria: what hope have we then of salvation?
Jeremiah 23:3
And I will get the rest of my flock together from all the countries where I have sent them, and will make them come back again to their resting-place; and they will have offspring and be increased.
Micah 2:12
I will certainly make all of you, O Jacob, come together; I will get together the rest of Israel; I will put them together like the sheep in their circle: like a flock in their green field; they will be full of the noise of men.
Micah 5:7
And the rest of Jacob will be among the mass of peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which may not be kept back by man, or be waiting for the sons of men.
Micah 5:8
And the rest of Jacob will be among the nations, in the middle of the mass of peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the woods, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep: if he goes through, they will be crushed under foot and pulled to bits, and there will be no saviour.
Zephaniah 2:7
The land by the sea will be for the rest of the children of Judah; by the sea they will give their flocks food: in the houses of Ashkelon they will take their rest in the evening; for the Lord their God will take them in hand and their fate will be changed.
Zephaniah 2:9
For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.
Zephaniah 3:13
The rest of Israel will do no evil and say no false words; the tongue of deceit will not be seen in their mouth: for they will take their food and their rest, and no one will be a cause of fear to them.
Zechariah 8:11
But now I will not be to the rest of this people as I was in the past, says the Lord of armies.
Romans 9:28
For the Lord will give effect to his word on the earth, putting an end to it and cutting it short.
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Esther 4:14
If at this time you say nothing, then help and salvation will come to the Jews from some other place, but you and your father's family will come to destruction: and who is to say that you have not come to the kingdom even for such a time as this?
Isaiah 45:1
The Lord says to the man of his selection, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by the right hand, putting down nations before him, and taking away the arms of kings; making the doors open before him, so that the ways into the towns may not be shut;
Isaiah 45:2
I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:
Isaiah 45:3
And I will give you the stores of the dark, and the wealth of secret places, so that you may be certain that I am the Lord, who gave you your name, even the God of Israel.
Isaiah 45:4
Because of Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself, I have sent for you by name, giving you a name of honour, though you had no knowledge of me.
Isaiah 45:5
I am the Lord, and there is no other; there is no God but me: I will make you ready for war, though you had no knowledge of me:
Isaiah 49:23
And kings will take care of you, and queens will give you their milk: they will go down on their faces before you, kissing the dust of your feet; and you will be certain that I am the Lord, and that those who put their hope in me will not be shamed.
Acts 7:20
At which time Moses came to birth, and he was very beautiful; and he was kept for three months in his father's house:
Acts 7:21
And when he was put out, Pharaoh's daughter took him and kept him as her son.
Acts 7:22
And Moses was trained in all the wisdom of Egypt, and was great in his words and works.
Acts 7:23
But when he was almost forty years old, it came into his heart to go and see his brothers, the children of Israel.
Acts 7:24
And seeing one of them being attacked, he went to his help and gave the Egyptian a death-blow:
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Genesis 41:56
And everywhere on the earth they were short of food; then Joseph, opening all his store-houses, gave the people of Egypt grain for money; so great was the need of food in the land of Egypt.
Genesis 45:1
Then Joseph, unable to keep back his feelings before those who were with him, gave orders for everyone to be sent away, and no one was present when he made clear to his brothers who he was.
Isaiah 51:2
Let your thoughts be turned to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth: for when he was but one, my voice came to him, and I gave him my blessing, and made him a great people.
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Jeremiah 44:7
So now, the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Why are you doing this great evil against yourselves, causing every man and woman, little child and baby at the breast among you in Judah to be cut off till not one is still living;
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2 Chronicles 32:20
And Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, made prayer because of this, crying out to heaven.
2 Chronicles 32:21
And the Lord sent an angel who put to death all the men of war and the chiefs and the captains in the army of the king of Assyria. So he went back to his country in shame. And when he came into the house of his god, his sons, the offspring of his body, put him to death there with the sword.
2 Chronicles 32:22
So the Lord gave Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem salvation from the power of Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, and from all others, giving them rest on every side.
2 Chronicles 32:23
And great numbers came to Jerusalem with offerings for the Lord, and things of great price for Hezekiah, king of Judah: so that he was honoured among all nations from that time.
2 Chronicles 32:24
In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death; and he made prayer to the Lord, and the Lord in answer gave him a sign.
2 Chronicles 32:25
But Hezekiah did not do as had been done to him; for his heart was lifted up in pride; and so wrath came on him and on Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 32:26
But then, Hezekiah, in sorrow for what he had done, put away his pride; and he and all Jerusalem made themselves low, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come on them in Hezekiah's life-time.
Job 22:28
Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways.
Job 22:29
For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit.
Job 22:30
He makes safe the man who is free from sin, and if your hands are clean, salvation will be yours.
Isaiah 58:12
And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.
Daniel 4:27
For this cause, O King, let my suggestion be pleasing to you, and let your sins be covered by righteousness and your evil-doing by mercy to the poor, so that the time of your well-being may be longer.
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Luke 22:53
When I was in the Temple with you every day, your hands were not stretched out against me: but this is your hour, and the authority of the dark power.
John 7:30
Then they had a desire to take him: but no man put hands on him because his hour was still to come.
Acts 3:26
To you, first, God sent his servant, blessing you by turning every one of you from his sins.
2 Thessalonians 2:11
And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:
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Acts 7:25
And he was hoping that his brothers would see that God had sent him to be their saviour; but they did not see.
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