⇧  1 2 3 4 1-4 5

1 Kings 12:7
And they said to him, If you will be a servant to this people today, caring for them and giving them a gentle answer, then they will be your servants for ever.

--------------------

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.

Leviticus 25:23
No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.

Leviticus 25:40
But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee;

Deuteronomy 15:17
Then take a sharp-pointed instrument, driving it through his ear into the door, and he will be your servant for ever. And you may do the same for your servant-girl.

1 Samuel 1:22
But Hannah did not go, for she said to her husband, I will not go till the child has been taken from the breast, and then I will take him with me and put him before the Lord, where he may be for ever.

1 Samuel 27:12
And Achish had belief in what David said, saying, He has made himself hated by all his people Israel, and so he will be my servant for ever.

1 Samuel 28:2
And David said to Achish, You will see now what your servant will do. And Achish said to David, Then I will make you keeper of my head for ever.

-----

1 Samuel 8:3
And his sons did not go in his ways, but moved by the love of money took rewards, and were not upright in judging.

1 Kings 12:12
So all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come back to me the third day.

1 Kings 12:14
But giving them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.

1 Kings 12:15
So the king did not give ear to the people; and this came about by the purpose of the Lord, so that what he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, son of Nebat, might be effected.

2 Kings 21:1
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king; for fifty-five years he was ruling in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hephzi-bah.

2 Kings 21:2
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of those nations whom the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

2 Kings 21:3
He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.

Ecclesiastes 2:19
And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.

Jeremiah 22:15
Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?

Jeremiah 22:16
He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.

Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

John 11:48
If we let him go on in this way, everybody will have belief in him and the Romans will come and take away our place and our nation.

-----

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 15:5
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.

Ecclesiastes 10:4
If the wrath of the ruler is against you, keep in your place; in him who keeps quiet even great sins may be overlooked.

-----

1 Kings 12:4
Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.

1 Kings 12:5
And he said to them, Go away for three days and then come back to me again. So the people went away.

1 Kings 12:18
Then King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the overseer of the forced work; and he was stoned to death by all Israel. And King Rehoboam went quickly and got into his carriage to go in flight to Jerusalem.

1 Kings 12:21
When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he got together all the men of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam, the son of Solomon.

-----

2 Kings 9:15
But King Joram had gone back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which the Aramaeans had given him when he was fighting against Hazael, king of Aram.) And Jehu said, If this is your purpose, then let no one get away and go out of the town to give news of it in Jezreel.

1 Chronicles 13:2
And David said to all the men of Israel who had come together there, If it seems good to you and if it is the purpose of the Lord our God, let us send to all the rest of our brothers, everywhere in the land of Israel, and to the priests and the Levites in their towns and the country round them, and get them to come together here to us;

Proverbs 15:22
Where there are no wise suggestions, purposes come to nothing; but by a number of wise guides they are made certain.

Philemon 1:8
And so, though I might, in the name of Christ, give you orders to do what is right,

Philemon 1:9
Still, because of love, in place of an order, I make a request to you, I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner of Christ Jesus:

-----

Ezra 7:10
For Ezra had given his mind to learning the law of the Lord and doing it, and to teaching his rules and decisions in Israel.

Job 8:8
Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:

Job 8:9
(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

Job 8:10
Will they not give you teaching, and say words of wisdom to you?

Job 15:9
What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?

Job 15:10
With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.

Job 32:4
Now Elihu had kept quiet while Job was talking, because they were older than he;

Job 32:9
It is not the old who are wise, and those who are full of years have not the knowledge of what is right.

Job 32:10
So I say, Give ear to me, and I will put forward my knowledge.

Psalms 34:11
Come, children, give attention to me; I will be your teacher in the fear of the Lord.

Psalms 34:12
What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good?

Psalms 119:100
I have more wisdom than the old, because I have kept your orders.

Proverbs 1:1
The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.

Proverbs 1:2
To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:

Hebrews 5:12
And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

-----

Psalms 2:11
Give worship to the Lord with fear, kissing his feet and giving him honour,

Malachi 3:18
Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.

-----

Proverbs 1:3
To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:

Proverbs 1:4
To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:

Proverbs 16:31
The grey head is a crown of glory, if it is seen in the way of righteousness.

Isaiah 3:2
The strong man and the man of war; the judge and the prophet; the man who has knowledge of secret arts, and the man who is wise because of his years;

-----

2 Samuel 19:24
And Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son, came down for the purpose of meeting the king; his feet had not been cared for or his hair cut or his clothing washed from the day when the king went away till the day when he came back in peace.

2 Samuel 19:28
For all my father's family were only dead men before my lord the king: and still you put your servant among those whose place is at the king's table. What right then have I to say anything more to the king?

2 Samuel 21:7
But the king did not give up Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of the Lord's oath made between David and Jonathan, the son of Saul.

2 Chronicles 24:22
So King Joash did not keep in mind how good Jehoiada his father had been to him, but put his son to death. And in the hour of his death he said, May the Lord see it and take payment!

Isaiah 41:8
But as for you, Israel, my servant, and you, Jacob, whom I have taken for myself, the seed of Abraham my friend:

Isaiah 41:9
You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and sent for from its farthest parts, saying to you, You are my servant, whom I have taken for myself, and whom I have not given up:

Isaiah 41:10
Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.

Jeremiah 2:5
These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?

-----

Proverbs 12:25
Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.

Daniel 10:13
But the angel of the kingdom of Persia put himself against me for twenty-one days; but Michael, one of the chief angels, came to my help; and when I came he was still there with the angel of the kings of Persia.

Zechariah 1:13
And the Lord gave an answer in good and comforting words to the angel who was talking to me.

-----

2 Chronicles 10:6
Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was living, and said, In your opinion, what answer am I to give to this people?

Mark 10:43
But it is not so among you: but whoever has a desire to become great among you, let him be your servant:

Mark 10:44
And whoever has a desire to be first among you, let him be servant of all.

Philippians 2:7
But he made himself as nothing, taking the form of a servant, being made like men;

Philippians 2:8
And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross.

Philippians 2:9
For this reason God has put him in the highest place and has given to him the name which is greater than every name;

Philippians 2:10
So that at the name of Jesus every knee may be bent, of those in heaven and those on earth and those in the underworld,

Philippians 2:11
And that every tongue may give witness that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

-----

Psalms 37:25
I have been young, and now am old, but I have not seen the good man without help, or his children looking for bread.

Titus 2:2
That old men are to be simple in their tastes, serious, wise, true in faith, in love, and of a quiet mind.

Titus 2:3
That old women are to be self-respecting in behaviour, not saying evil of others, not given to taking much wine, teachers of that which is good,

Titus 2:4
Training the younger women to have love for their husbands and children,

Titus 2:5
To be wise in mind, clean in heart, kind; working in their houses, living under the authority of their husbands; so that no evil may be said of the word of God.

Public Domain