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2 Samuel 15:2
And Absalom got up early, morning after morning, and took his place at the side of the public meeting-place: and when any man had a cause which had to come to the king to be judged, then Absalom, crying out to him, said, What is your town? and he would say, Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.

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Genesis 49:21
Naphtali is a roe let loose, giving fair young ones.

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Exodus 2:5
Now Pharaoh's daughter came down to the Nile to take a bath, while her women were walking by the riverside; and she saw the basket among the river-plants, and sent her servant-girl to get it.

Joshua 15:46
From Ekron to the sea, all the towns by the side of Ashdod, with their unwalled places.

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Exodus 18:13
Now on the day after, Moses took his seat to give decisions for the people: and the people were waiting before Moses from morning till evening.

Exodus 18:14
And when Moses' father-in-law saw all he was doing, he said, What is this you are doing for the people? why are you seated here by yourself, with all the people waiting before you from morning till evening?

Exodus 18:19
Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's representative before God, taking their causes to him:

Exodus 18:22
And let them be judges in the causes of the people at all times: and let them put before you all important questions, but in small things let them give decisions themselves: in this way, it will be less hard for you, and they will take the weight off you.

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 17:10
And you are to be guided by the decision they give in the place named by the Lord, and do whatever they say:

Deuteronomy 17:11
Acting in agreement with their teaching and the decision they give: not turning to one side or the other from the word they have given you.

Deuteronomy 17:12
And any man who, in his pride, will not give ear to the priest whose place is there before the Lord your God, or to the judge, is to be put to death: you are to put away the evil from Israel.

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Numbers 35:12
In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overtake the taker of life till he has been judged by the meeting of the people.

Joshua 20:4
And if anyone goes in flight to one of those towns, and comes into the public place of the town, and puts his cause before the responsible men of the town, they will take him into the town and give him a place among them where he may be safe.

Joshua 20:6
And he is to go on living in that town till he has to come before the meeting of the people to be judged; (till the death of him who is high priest at that time:) then the taker of life may come back to his town and to his house, to the town from which he had gone in flight.

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1 Samuel 2:23
And he said to them, Why are you doing such things? for from all this people I get accounts of your evil ways.

1 Samuel 2:24
No, my sons, the account which is given me, which the Lord's people are sending about, is not good.

1 Samuel 2:25
If one man does wrong to another, God will be his judge: but if a man's sin is against the Lord, who will take up his cause? But they gave no attention to the voice of their father, for it was the Lord's purpose to send destruction on them.

1 Chronicles 22:11
Now, my son, may the Lord be with you; and may you do well, and put up the house of the Lord your God, as he has said of you.

1 Chronicles 22:12
Only may the Lord give you wisdom, and knowledge of his orders for Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God.

1 Chronicles 22:13
And all will go well for you, if you take care to keep the laws and the rules which the Lord gave to Moses for Israel: be strong and take heart; have no fear and do not be troubled.

1 Chronicles 28:9
And you, Solomon my son, get knowledge of the God of your father, and be his servant with a true heart and with a strong desire, for the Lord is the searcher of all hearts, and has knowledge of all the designs of men's thoughts; if you make search for him, he will be near you; but if you are turned away from him, he will give you up for ever.

1 Chronicles 28:20
And David said to his son Solomon, Be strong and of a good heart and do your work; have no fear and do not be troubled, for the Lord God, my God, is with you; he will not give you up, and his face will not be turned away from you, till all the work necessary for the house of the Lord is complete.

Psalms 72:1
Of Solomon. Give the king your authority, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son.

Proverbs 10:1
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Proverbs 13:1
A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words.

Proverbs 13:18
Need and shame will be the fate of him who is uncontrolled by training; but he who takes note of teaching will be honoured.

Proverbs 15:5
A foolish man puts no value on his father's training; but he who has respect for teaching has good sense.

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1 Samuel 8:5
And said to him, See now, you are old, and your sons do not go in your ways: give us a king now to be our judge, so that we may be like the other nations.

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1 Samuel 8:6
But Samuel was not pleased when they said to him, Give us a king to be our judge. And Samuel made prayer to the Lord.

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2 Samuel 14:3
And come to the king and say these words to him. So Joab gave her words to say.

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2 Samuel 15:15
And the king's servants said to the king, See, your servants are ready to do whatever the king says is to be done.

2 Samuel 15:16
So the king went out, taking with him all the people of his house, but for ten of his women, who were to take care of the house.

2 Samuel 15:17
And the king went out, and all his servants went after him, and made a stop at the Far House.

2 Samuel 15:18
And all the people went on by his side; and all the Cherethites and all the Pelethites and all the men of Ittai of Gath, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, went on before the king.

Psalms 3:1
A Psalm. Of David. When he went in flight from Absalom his son. Lord, how greatly are they increased who make attacks on me! in great numbers they come against me.

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2 Samuel 15:37
So Hushai, David's friend, went into the town, and Absalom came to Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 16:16
Then Hushai the Archite, David's friend, came to Absalom and said, Long life to the king, long life to the king!

2 Samuel 16:17
And Absalom said, Is this your love for your friend? why did you not go with your friend?

2 Samuel 16:18
And Hushai said to Absalom, Not so; I am for that man whom the Lord and this people and all the men of Israel have taken as king, and I will take my place with him.

2 Samuel 16:19
And more than this! where is my place as a servant? is it not before his son? as I have been your father's servant, so will I be yours.

2 Samuel 17:7
And Hushai said to Absalom, Ahithophel's idea is not a good one at this time.

2 Samuel 17:8
Hushai said further, You have knowledge of your father and his men, that they are men of war, and that their feelings are bitter, like those of a bear in the field whose young ones have been taken from her: and your father is a man of war, and will not take his night's rest with the people;

2 Samuel 17:9
But he will certainly have taken cover now in some hole or secret place; and if some of our people, at the first attack, are overcome, then any hearing of it will say, There is destruction among the people who are on Absalom's side.

2 Samuel 17:10
Then even the strongest, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will become like water; for all Israel is conscious that your father is a man of war, and those who are with him are strong and without fear.

2 Samuel 17:11
But my suggestion is that all Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, comes together to you, a great army like the sands of the sea in number; and that you yourself go out among them.

2 Samuel 17:12
Then we will come on him in some place, wherever he may be, falling on him as the dew comes on the earth: and of him and all the men who are with him not one will get away with his life.

2 Samuel 17:13
And if he has gone into some town, then let all Israel take strong cords to that town, and we will have it pulled into the valley, till not one small stone is to be seen there.

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 22:13
Now the servant who had gone to get Micaiah said to him, See now, all the prophets with one voice are saying good things to the king; so let your words be like theirs and say good things.

Proverbs 27:14
He who gives a blessing to his friend with a loud voice, getting up early in the morning, will have it put to his account as a curse.

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2 Samuel 18:14
Then Joab said, I would have made it safe for you. And he took three spears in his hand, and put them through Absalom's heart, while he was still living, in the branches of the tree.

2 Samuel 18:19
Then Ahimaaz, the son of Zadok, said, Let me go and give the king news of how the Lord has done right in his cause against those who took up arms against him.

2 Samuel 18:33
Then the king was much moved, and went up into the room over the door, weeping, and saying, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! if only my life might have been given for yours, O Absalom, my son, my son!

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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 3:26
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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1 Kings 7:7
Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of judging; it was covered with cedar-wood from floor to roof.

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2 Kings 15:5
And the Lord sent disease on the king and he became a leper, and to the day of his death he was living separately in his private house. And Jotham his son was over his house, judging the people of the land.

Hosea 5:5
And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; and Ephraim will have a fall through his sins, and the fall of Judah will be the same as theirs.

Acts 12:22
And the people, with loud cries, said, It is the voice of a god, not of a man.

Acts 12:23
And straight away the angel of the Lord sent a disease on him, because he did not give the glory to God: and his flesh was wasted away by worms, and so he came to his end.

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2 Chronicles 10:7
And they said to him, If you are kind to this people, pleasing them and saying good words to them, then they will be your servants for ever.

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Deuteronomy 22:15
Then let the girl's father and mother put before the responsible men of the town, in the public place, signs that the girl was a virgin:

Deuteronomy 25:7
But if the man says he will not take his brother's wife, then let the wife go to the responsible men of the town, and say, My husband's brother will not keep his brother's name living in Israel; he will not do what it is right for a husband's brother to do.

Ruth 4:11
And all the people who were in the public place, and the responsible men, said, We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who is about to come into your house, like Rachel and Leah, which two were the builders of the house of Israel: and may you have wealth in Ephrathah, and be great in Beth-lehem;

Job 5:4
Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

Job 31:21
If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

Psalms 69:12
I am a cause of wonder to those in authority; a song to those who are given to strong drink.

Proverbs 1:21
Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:

Proverbs 31:23
Her husband is a man of note in the public place, when he takes his seat among the responsible men of the land.

Isaiah 29:21
Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.

Jeremiah 14:2
Judah is weeping and its doors are dark with sorrow, and people are seated on the earth clothed in black; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

Amos 5:11
So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

Zechariah 8:16
These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.

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Psalms 36:11
Let not the foot of pride come against me, or the hand of the evil-doers put me out of my place.

Psalms 54:3
For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)

Psalms 55:3
I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

Psalms 86:14
O God, men of pride have come up against me, and the army of violent men would take my life; they have not put you before them.

Psalms 119:51
The men of pride have made great sport of me; but I have not been turned from your law.

Psalms 119:69
The men of pride have said false things about me; but I will keep your orders in my heart.

Psalms 119:85
The men of pride, who are turned away from your law, have put nets for me.

Psalms 140:5
The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)

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Job 7:18
And that your hand is on him every morning, and that you are testing him every minute?

Psalms 37:6
And he will make your righteousness be seen like the light, and your cause like the shining of the sun.

Psalms 73:14
For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.

Psalms 90:14
In the morning give us your mercy in full measure; so that we may have joy and delight all our days.

Psalms 143:8
Let the story of your mercy come to me in the morning, for my hope is in you: give me knowledge of the way in which I am to go; for my soul is lifted up to you.

Hosea 6:3
And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

Hosea 6:5
So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;

Zephaniah 3:5
The Lord in her is upright; he will not do evil; every morning he lets his righteousness be seen, he is unchanging; but the evil-doer has no sense of shame.

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Job 24:14
He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

Proverbs 1:16
For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

Proverbs 4:16
For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

Micah 2:1
A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

Matthew 27:1
Now when it was morning, all the chief priests and those in authority took thought together with the purpose of putting Jesus to death.

Luke 22:66
And when it was day, the rulers of the people came together, with the chief priests and the scribes, and they took him before their Sanhedrin, saying,

John 18:28
So they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, so that they might not become unclean, but might take the Passover.

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Ecclesiastes 9:18
Wisdom is better than instruments of war, but one sinner is the destruction of much good.

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Psalms 86:2
Keep my soul, for I am true to you; O my God, give salvation to your servant, whose hope is in you.

Isaiah 54:17
No instrument of war which is formed against you will be of any use; and every tongue which says evil against you will be judged false. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.

Matthew 16:18
And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will my church be based, and the doors of hell will not overcome it.

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Jeremiah 1:15
For see, I will send for all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the Lord; and they will come, everyone placing his high seat at the way into Jerusalem, and against its walls on every side, and against all the towns of Judah.

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2 Samuel 17:1
Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me take out twelve thousand men and this very night I will go after David:

Jeremiah 28:2
These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: By me the yoke of the king of Babylon has been broken.

Jeremiah 28:3
In the space of two years I will send back into this place all the vessels of the Lord's house which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, took away from this place to Babylon:

Jeremiah 28:4
And I will let Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, come back to this place, with all the prisoners of Judah who went to Babylon, says the Lord: for I will have the yoke of the king of Babylon broken.

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Jeremiah 26:10
And the rulers of Judah, hearing of these things, came up from the king's house to the house of the Lord, and took their seats by the new door of the Lord's house.

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.

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