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;
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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;
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Judges 8:21
Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Up! Put an end to us yourself: for you have a man's strength. Then Gideon got up and put Zebah and Zalmunna to death and took the ornaments which were on their camels' necks.
Judges 15:12
Then they said to him, We have come down to take you and give you up into the hands of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Give me your oath that you will not make an attack on me yourselves.
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Ruth 1:20
And she said to them, Do not let my name be Naomi, but Mara, for the Ruler of all has given me a bitter fate.
Job 3:5
Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.
Job 27:2
By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;
Isaiah 54:6
For the Lord has made you come back to him, like a wife who has been sent away in grief of spirit; for one may not give up the wife of one's early days.
Lamentations 3:15
He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.
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1 Samuel 16:18
Then one of the servants in answer said, I have seen a son of Jesse, the Beth-lehemite, who is expert at playing, and a strong man and a man of war; and he is wise in his words, and pleasing in looks, and the Lord is with him.
1 Samuel 17:32
And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart become feeble because of him; I, your servant, will go out and have a fight with this Philistine.
1 Samuel 17:33
And Saul said to David, You are not able to go out against this Philistine and have a fight with him: for you are only a boy, and he has been a man of war from his earliest days.
1 Samuel 17:35
I went out after him, and overcame him, and took it out of his mouth: and if, turning on me, he came at me, I took him by the hair and overcame him and put him to death.
1 Samuel 17:37
And David said, The Lord, who kept me safe from the grip of the lion and the bear, will be my saviour from the hands of this Philistine. And Saul said to David, Go! and may the Lord be with you.
Psalms 3:7
Come to me, Lord; keep me safe, O my God; for you have given all my haters blows on their face-bones; the teeth of the evil-doers have been broken by you.
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1 Samuel 18:17
And Saul said to David, Here is my oldest daughter Merab, whom I will give you for your wife: only be strong for me, fighting in the Lord's wars. For Saul said, Let it not be through me that his fate comes to him, but through the Philistines.
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1 Samuel 18:25
And Saul said, Then say to David, The king has no desire for any bride-price, but only for the private parts of a hundred Philistines so that the king may get the better of his haters. But it was in Saul's mind that David might come to his end by the hands of the Philistines.
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1 Samuel 20:30
Then Saul was moved to wrath against Jonathan, and he said to him, You son of an evil and uncontrolled woman, have I not seen how you have given your love to the son of Jesse, to your shame and the shame of your mother?
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1 Samuel 23:23
So take care to get knowledge of all the secret places where he is taking cover, and be certain to come back to me, and I will go with you: and without doubt, if he is anywhere in the land, I will get him, among all the families of Judah.
Psalms 2:2
The kings of the earth have taken their place, and the rulers are fixed in their purpose, against the Lord, and against the king of his selection, saying,
Psalms 71:10
For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,
Psalms 83:3
They have made wise designs against your people, talking together against those whom you keep in a secret place.
Proverbs 21:30
Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.
Matthew 26:3
Then the chief priests and the rulers of the people came together in the house of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.
Matthew 26:4
And they made designs together to take Jesus by some trick, and put him to death.
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.
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1 Samuel 26:5
And David got up and came to the place where Saul's tents were: and David had a view of the place where Saul was sleeping with Abner, the son of Ner, the captain of his army: and Saul was sleeping inside the ring of carts, and the tents of the people were all round him.
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1 Samuel 30:9
So David went, and his six hundred men went with him, and they came to the stream Besor.
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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.
2 Samuel 15:3
And Absalom would say to him, See, your cause is true and right; but no man has been named by the king to give you a hearing.
2 Samuel 15:4
And more than this, Absalom said, If only I was made judge in the land, so that every man who has any cause or question might come to me, and I would give a right decision for him!
2 Samuel 15:5
And if any man came near to give him honour, he took him by the hand and gave him a kiss.
2 Samuel 15:6
And this Absalom did to everyone in Israel who came to the king to have his cause judged: so Absalom, like a thief, took away the hearts of the men of Israel.
2 Samuel 15:7
Now at the end of four years, Absalom said to the king, Let me go to Hebron and give effect to the oath which I made to the Lord:
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.
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.
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:
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2 Samuel 17:15
Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, This is the suggestion made by Ahithophel to Absalom and the responsible men of Israel, and this is what I said to them.
2 Samuel 17:16
So now send the news quickly to David, and say, Do not take your night's rest by the way across the river to the waste land, but be certain to go over; or the king and all the people with him will come to destruction.
2 Samuel 17:17
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were waiting by En-rogel; and a servant-girl went from time to time and gave them news and they went with the news to King David, for it was not wise for them to let themselves be seen coming into the town.
2 Samuel 17:18
But a boy saw them, and gave word of it to Absalom: so the two of them went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim who had a water-hole in his garden, and they went down into it.
2 Samuel 17:19
And a woman put a cover over the hole, and put crushed grain on top of it, and no one had any knowledge of it.
2 Samuel 17:20
And Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house and said, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said to them, They have gone from here to the stream. And after searching for them, and seeing nothing of them, they went back to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 17:21
Then after the servants had gone away, they came up out of the water-hole and went to give King David the news; and they said, Get up and go quickly over the water, for such and such are Ahithophel's designs against you.
Psalms 70:1
To the chief music-maker. Of David. To keep in memory. Let your salvation come quickly, O God; come quickly to my help, O Lord.
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2 Samuel 17:29
And honey and butter and sheep and milk-cheeses, for David and his people: for they said, This people is in the waste land, needing food and drink and rest.
Psalms 14:1
To the chief music-maker. Of David. The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.
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2 Samuel 21:16
And there came against David one of the offspring of the Rephaim, whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, and having a new sword, he made an attempt to put David to death.
2 Samuel 23:18
And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the thirty. He put to death three hundred with his spear, and he got for himself a name among the thirty.
2 Samuel 23:19
Was he not the noblest of the thirty? so he was made their captain: but he was not equal to the first three.
2 Samuel 23:20
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a fighting man of Kabzeel, had done great acts; he put to death the two sons of Ariel of Moab: he went down into a hole and put a lion to death in time of snow:
2 Samuel 23:21
And he made an attack on an Egyptian, a tall man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a stick, and pulling the spear out of the hands of the Egyptian, put him to death with that same spear.
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1 Kings 12:10
And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us; will you make it less? say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;
2 Chronicles 10:10
And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us, but will you make it less; say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;
Isaiah 19:11
The chiefs of Zoan are completely foolish; the wisest guides of Pharaoh have become like beasts: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the offspring of early kings?
Isaiah 19:12
Where, then, are your wise men? let them make clear to you, let them give you knowledge of the purpose of the Lord of armies for Egypt.
Isaiah 19:13
The chiefs of Zoan have become foolish, the chiefs of Noph are tricked, the heads of her tribes are the cause of Egypt's wandering out of the way.
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2 Kings 4:27
And when she came to where the man of God was on the hill, she put her hands round his feet; and Gehazi came near with the purpose of pushing her away; but the man of God said, Let her be, for her soul is bitter in her; and the Lord has kept it secret from me, and has not given me word of it.
Job 3:20
Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
Job 21:25
And another comes to his end with a bitter soul, without ever tasting good.
Proverbs 14:10
No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.
Proverbs 31:6
Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:
Isaiah 38:16
O Lord, for this cause I am waiting for you, give rest to my spirit: make me well again, and let me come back to life.
Isaiah 38:17
See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.
Ezekiel 3:14
And the wind, lifting me up, took me away: and I went in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of the Lord was strong on me.
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1 Chronicles 22:9
But you will have a son who will be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from wars on every side. His name will be Solomon, and in his time I will give Israel peace and quiet;
1 Chronicles 28:3
But God said to me, You are not to be the builder of a house for my name, because you are a man of war and have taken life;
Isaiah 11:7
And the cow and the bear will be friends while their young ones are sleeping together.
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2 Samuel 15:34
But if you go back to the town and say to Absalom, I will be your servant, O king; as in the past I have been your father's servant, so now I will be yours: then you will be able to keep Ahithophel's designs against me from being put into effect.
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.
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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Amos 9:1
I saw the Lord stationed by the side of the altar, giving blows to the tops of the pillars so that the doorsteps were shaking: and he said, I will let all of them be broken with earth-shocks; I will put the last of them to the sword: if any one of them goes in flight he will not get away, not one of them will be safe.
Amos 9:2
Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:
Amos 9:3
Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite:
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