Exodus 18:15
And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to get directions from God:
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Exodus 18:15
And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to get directions from God:
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Genesis 25:22
And the children were fighting together inside her, and she said, If it is to be so, why am I like this? So she went to put her question to the Lord.
1 Samuel 7:6
So they came together to Mizpah, and got water, draining it out before the Lord, and they took no food that day, and they said, We have done evil against the Lord. And Samuel was judge of the children of Israel in Mizpah.
1 Kings 22:5
Then Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Let us now get directions from the Lord.
1 Kings 22:6
So the king of Israel got all the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Am I to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And they said, Go up: for the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.
1 Kings 22:7
But Jehoshaphat said, Is there no other prophet of the Lord here from whom we may get directions?
2 Chronicles 34:21
Go and get directions from the Lord for me and for those who are still in Israel and for Judah, about the words of this book which has come to light; for great is the wrath of the Lord which has been let loose on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord or done what is recorded in this book.
Jeremiah 21:2
Will you get directions from the Lord for us; for Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, is making war against us; it may be that the Lord will do something for us like all the wonders he has done, and make him go away from us.
Ezekiel 14:1
Then certain of the responsible men of Israel came to me and took their seats before me.
Ezekiel 14:2
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 14:3
Son of man, these men have taken their false gods into their hearts and put before their faces the sin which is the cause of their fall: am I to give ear when they come to me for directions?
Ezekiel 14:4
For this cause say to them, These are the words of the Lord: Every man of Israel who has taken his false god into his heart, and put before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, and comes to the prophet; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself in agreement with the number of his false gods;
Ezekiel 14:5
So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.
Ezekiel 20:4
Will you be their judge, O son of man, will you be their judge? make clear to them the disgusting ways of their fathers,
Ezekiel 20:6
In that day I gave my oath to take them out of the land of Egypt into a land which I had been searching out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands:
Ezekiel 20:7
And I said to them, Let every man among you put away the disgusting things to which his eyes are turned, and do not make yourselves unclean with the images of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.
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Exodus 3:1
Now Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he took the flock to the back of the waste land and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Exodus 4:18
And Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go back now to my relations in Egypt and see if they are still living. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
Exodus 18:2
And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,
Exodus 18:6
And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law, have come to you, with your wife and your two sons.
Exodus 18:8
And Moses gave his father-in-law an account of all the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians because of Israel, and of all the troubles which had come on them by the way, and how the Lord had given them salvation.
Numbers 10:29
Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of his father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, We are journeying to that place of which the Lord has said, I will give it to you: so come with us, and it will be for your profit: for the Lord has good things in store for Israel.
Judges 1:16
Now Hobab the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, had come up out of the town of palm-trees, with the children of Judah, into the waste land of Arad; and he went and was living among the Amalekites;
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Exodus 7:1
And the Lord said to Moses, See I have made you a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet.
Exodus 21:6
Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.
Exodus 22:8
If they do not get the thief, let the master of the house come before the judges and take an oath that he has not put his hand on his neighbour's goods.
Exodus 22:9
In any question about an ox or an ass or a sheep or clothing, or about the loss of any property which anyone says is his, let the two sides put their cause before God; and he who is judged to be in the wrong is to make payment to his neighbour of twice the value.
Exodus 22:28
You may not say evil of the judges, or put a curse on the ruler of your people.
1 Samuel 28:13
And the king said to her, Have no fear: what do you see? And the woman said to Saul, I see a god coming up out of the earth.
Psalms 8:5
For you have made him only a little lower than the gods, crowning him with glory and honour.
Psalms 45:6
Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; the rod of your kingdom is a rod of honour.
Ecclesiastes 8:10
And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.
John 10:34
In answer, Jesus said, Is there not a saying in your law, I said, You are gods?
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Exodus 13:17
Now after Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not take them through the land of the Philistines, though that was near: for God said, If the people see war, they may have a change of heart and go back to Egypt.
Exodus 16:3
And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.
Exodus 16:4
Then the Lord said to Moses, See, I will send down bread from heaven for you; and the people will go out every day and get enough for the day's needs; so that I may put them to the test to see if they will keep my laws or not.
Exodus 23:29
I will not send them all out in one year, for fear that their land may become waste, and the beasts of the field be increased overmuch against you.
Exodus 23:30
Little by little I will send them away before you, till your numbers are increased and you take up your heritage in the land.
Deuteronomy 7:7
The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:
Deuteronomy 7:22
The Lord your God will send out the nations before you little by little; they are not to be rooted out quickly, for fear that the beasts of the field may be increased overmuch against you.
Joshua 7:5
The men of Ai put to death about thirty-six of them, driving them from before the town as far as the stoneworks, and overcoming them on the way down: and the hearts of the people became like water.
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Exodus 20:18
And all the people were watching the thunderings and the flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when they saw it, they kept far off, shaking with fear.
Exodus 25:22
And there, between the two winged ones on the cover of the ark, I will come to you, face to face, and make clear to you all the orders I have to give you for the children of Israel.
Exodus 33:7
Now it was Moses' way to put up the Tent of meeting outside the tent-circle, at some distance away; giving it the name of The Tent of meeting. And everyone desiring to make his prayer to the Lord went to the Tent of meeting outside the tent-circle.
Job 23:4
I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments.
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Numbers 11:11
And Moses said to the Lord, Why have you done me this evil? and why have I not grace in your eyes, that you have put on me the care of all this people?
Numbers 11:12
Am I the father of all this people? have I given them birth, that you say to me, Take them in your arms, like a child at the breast, to the land which you gave by an oath to their fathers?
Numbers 11:13
Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food.
Numbers 11:14
I am not able by myself to take the weight of all this people, for it is more than my strength.
Numbers 11:15
If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.
Deuteronomy 1:9
At that time I said to you, I am not able to undertake the care of you by myself;
Deuteronomy 1:12
How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments?
1 Kings 3:7
And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am only a young boy, with no knowledge of how to go out or come in.
1 Kings 3:8
And your servant has round him the people of your selection, a people so great that they may not be numbered, and no account of them may be given.
1 Kings 3:9
Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?
Psalms 89:19
Then your voice came to your holy one in a vision, saying, I have put the crown on a strong one, lifting up one taken from among the people.
2 Corinthians 2:16
To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?
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Numbers 24:20
Then, turning his eyes to Amalek, he went on with his story and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his part will be destruction for ever.
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Numbers 36:5
So by the direction of the Lord, Moses gave orders to the children of Israel, saying, What the tribe of the sons of Joseph have said is right.
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Numbers 36:6
This is the order of the Lord about the daughters of Zelophehad: The Lord says, Let them take as their husbands whoever is most pleasing to them, but only among the family of their father's tribe.
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Exodus 18:21
But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;
Exodus 18:25
And he made selection of able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens.
Leviticus 24:11
And the son of the Israelite woman said evil against the holy Name, with curses; and they took him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
Leviticus 24:14
Take the curser outside the tent-circle; and let all in whose hearing the words were said put their hands on his head, and let him be stoned by all the people.
Numbers 15:33
And those who saw him getting sticks took him before Moses and Aaron and all the people.
Numbers 27:2
They came before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs and all the people at the door of the Tent of meeting, and said,
Deuteronomy 1:15
So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and respected, and made them rulers over you, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds and captains of fifties and captains of tens, and overseers of your tribes.
Deuteronomy 1:16
And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him.
Deuteronomy 1:17
In judging, do not let a man's position have any weight with you; give hearing equally to small and great; have no fear of any man, for it is God who is judge: and any cause in which you are not able to give a decision, you are to put before me and I will give it a hearing.
Matthew 27:11
And Jesus was before the ruler, who put a question to him, Are you the King of the Jews? And Jesus said to him, You say so.
Acts 25:6
And when he had been with them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea; and on the day after, he took his place on the judge's seat, and sent for Paul.
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Deuteronomy 5:5
(I was between the Lord and you at that time, to make clear to you the word of the Lord: because, through fear of the fire, you did not go up the mountain;) saying,
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Judges 4:4
Now Deborah, a woman prophet, the wife of Lapidoth, was judge of Israel at that time.
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Judges 4:5
(And she had her seat under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the hill-country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her to be judged.)
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1 Kings 3:26
Then the mother of the living child came forward, for her heart went out to her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the child; do not on any account put it to death. But the other woman said, It will not be mine or yours; let it be cut in two.
1 Kings 3:27
Then the king made answer and said, Give her the child, and do not put it to death; she is the mother of it.
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Deuteronomy 17:8
If you are not able to give a decision as to who is responsible for a death, or who is right in a cause, or who gave the first blow in a fight, and there is a division of opinion about it in your town: then go to the place marked out by the Lord your God;
Deuteronomy 17:9
And come before the priests, the Levites, or before him who is judge at the time: and they will go into the question and give you a decision:
1 Kings 3:16
Then two loose women of the town came and took their places before the king;
1 Kings 3:17
And one of them said, O my lord, I and this woman are living in the same house; and I gave birth to a child by her side in the house.
1 Kings 3:18
And three days after the birth of my child, this woman had a child: we were together, no other-person was with us in the house but we two only.
1 Kings 3:19
In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death.
1 Kings 3:20
And she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was sleeping; and she took it in her arms and put her dead child in my arms.
1 Kings 3:21
And when I got up to give my child the breast, I saw that it was dead; but in the morning, looking at it with care, I saw that it was not my son.
1 Kings 3:22
And the other woman said, No; but the living child is my son and the dead one yours. But the first said, No; the dead child is your son and the living one mine. So they kept on talking before the king.
1 Kings 3:23
Then the king said, One says, The living child is my son, and yours is the dead: and the other says, Not so; but your son is the dead one and mine is the living.
1 Kings 3:24
Then he said, Get me a sword. So they went and put a sword before the king.
1 Kings 3:25
And the king said, Let the living child be cut in two and one half given to one woman and one to the other.
1 Kings 3:28
And news of this decision which the king had made went through all Israel; and they had fear of the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to give decisions.
1 Kings 10:1
Now the queen of Sheba, hearing great things of Solomon, came to put his wisdom to the test with hard questions.
Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
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Ezekiel 14:6
For this cause say to the children of Israel, These are the words of the Lord: Come back and give up your false gods and let your faces be turned from your disgusting things.
Ezekiel 14:7
When any one of the men of Israel, or of those from other lands who are living in Israel, who has become strange to me, and takes his false gods into his heart, and puts before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, comes to the prophet to get directions from me; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself:
Ezekiel 14:8
And my face will be turned against that man, and I will make him a sign and a common saying, cutting him off from among my people; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 14:9
And if the prophet, tricked by deceit, says anything, it is I the Lord by whom he has been tricked, and I will put out my hand against him, and he will be cut off from among my people Israel.
Ezekiel 14:10
And the punishment of their sin will be on them: the sin of the prophet will be the same as the sin of him who goes to him for directions;
Ezekiel 14:11
So that the children of Israel may no longer go wandering away from me, or make themselves unclean with all their wrongdoing; but they will be my people, and I will be their God, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 20:1
Now it came about in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, that certain of the responsible men of Israel came to get directions from the Lord and were seated before me.
Ezekiel 20:2
Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 20:3
Son of man, say to the responsible men of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: Have you come to get directions from me? By my life, says the Lord, you will get no directions from me.
Ezekiel 20:5
And say to them, This is what the Lord has said: In the day when I took Israel for myself, when I made an oath to the seed of the family of Jacob, and I gave them knowledge of myself in the land of Egypt, saying to them with an oath, I am the Lord your God;
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Exodus 23:20
See, I am sending an angel before you, to keep you on your way and to be your guide into the place which I have made ready for you.
Exodus 23:21
Give attention to him and give ear to his voice; do not go against him; for your wrongdoing will not be overlooked by him, because my name is in him.
Exodus 23:22
But if you truly give ear to his voice, and do whatever I say, then I will be against those who are against you, fighting those who are fighting you.
Exodus 23:23
And my angel will go before you, guiding you into the land of the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, and they will be cut off by my hand.
Exodus 33:2
And I will send an angel before you, driving out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite:
Acts 7:38
This is the man who was in the church in the waste land with the angel who was talking to him in Sinai, and with our fathers; and to him were given the living words of God, so that he might give them to you.
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2 Corinthians 3:5
Not as if we were able by ourselves to do anything for which we might take the credit; but our power comes from God;
1 Thessalonians 5:21
Let all things be tested; keep to what is good;
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