2 Chronicles 26:10
And he put up towers in the waste land and made places for storing water, for he had much cattle, in the low hills and in the table land; and he had farmers and vine-keepers in the mountains and in the fertile land, for he was a lover of farming.
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2 Chronicles 26:10
And he put up towers in the waste land and made places for storing water, for he had much cattle, in the low hills and in the table land; and he had farmers and vine-keepers in the mountains and in the fertile land, for he was a lover of farming.
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Genesis 11:4
And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.
Genesis 11:5
And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.
Genesis 26:13
And his wealth became very great, increasing more and more;
Genesis 26:14
For he had great wealth of flocks and herds and great numbers of servants; so that the Philistines were full of envy.
Psalms 48:12
Make your way about Zion, and go round it, numbering its towers.
Ecclesiastes 2:4
I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.
Ecclesiastes 2:7
I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.
Ecclesiastes 5:15
As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.
Song of Solomon 7:12
Let us go out early to the vine-gardens; let us see if the vine is in bud, if it has put out its young fruit, and the pomegranate is in flower. There I will give you my love.
Song of Solomon 8:11
Solomon had a vine-garden at Baal-hamon; he let out the vine-garden to keepers; every one had to give a thousand bits of silver for its fruit.
Song of Solomon 8:12
My vine-garden, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, will have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit of them two hundred.
Isaiah 5:1
Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:
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Genesis 13:3
And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai;
Genesis 13:4
To the place where he had made his first altar, and there Abram gave worship to the name of the Lord.
Genesis 13:5
And Lot, who went with him, had flocks and herds and tents;
Genesis 13:6
So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together.
Genesis 13:7
And there was an argument between the keepers of Abram's cattle and the keepers of Lot's cattle: at that time the Canaanites and Perizzites were still living in the land.
Genesis 13:8
Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers.
Job 1:9
And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Is it for nothing that Job is a god-fearing man?
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Genesis 26:18
And he made again the water-holes which had been made in the days of Abraham his father, and which had been stopped up by the Philistines; and he gave them the names which his father had given them.
Genesis 26:19
Now Isaac's servants made holes in the valley, and came to a spring of flowing water.
Genesis 26:21
Then they made another water-hole, and there was a fight about that, so he gave it the name of Sitnah.
2 Kings 3:19
And you are to put every walled town to destruction, cutting down every good tree, and stopping up every water-spring, and making all the good land rough with stones.
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Genesis 31:38
These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food.
Genesis 31:39
Anything which was wounded by beasts I did not take to you, but myself made up for the loss of it; you made me responsible for whatever was taken by thieves, by day or by night.
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 33:13
But Jacob said, My lord may see that the children are only small, and there are young ones in my flocks and herds: one day's over-driving will be the destruction of all the flock.
1 Samuel 17:28
And Eliab, his oldest brother, hearing what David said to the men, was moved to wrath against David, and said, Why have you come here? Into whose care have you given that little flock of sheep in the waste land? I have knowledge of your pride and the evil of your heart, you have come down to see the fight.
Proverbs 27:23
Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;
Proverbs 27:24
For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.
Ezekiel 34:22
I will make my flock safe, and they will no longer be taken away, and I will be judge between sheep and sheep.
Ezekiel 34:23
And I will put over them one keeper, and he will give them food, even my servant David; he will give them food and be their keeper.
Ezekiel 34:24
And I the Lord will be their God and my servant David their ruler; I the Lord have said it.
Ezekiel 34:31
And you are my sheep, the sheep of my grass-lands, and I am your God, says the Lord.
John 21:15
Then when they had taken food, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, is your love for me greater than the love of these others? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you are certain of my love for you. He said to him, Then give my lambs food.
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Genesis 38:12
And after a time, Bath-shua, Judah's wife, came to her end; and after Judah was comforted for her loss, he went to Timnah, where they were cutting the wool of his sheep, and his friend Hirah of Adullam went with him.
Genesis 38:13
And when Tamar had news that her father-in-law was going up to Timnah to the wool-cutting,
1 Samuel 25:4
And David had word in the waste land that Nabal was cutting the wool of his sheep.
1 Samuel 25:7
I have had word that you have wool-cutters: now the keepers of your sheep have been with us, and we have done them no evil, and taken nothing of theirs while they were in Carmel.
1 Samuel 25:36
And Abigail went back to Nabal; and he was feasting in his house like a king; and Nabal's heart was full of joy, for he had taken much wine; so she said nothing to him till dawn came.
2 Samuel 13:23
Now after two full years, Absalom had men cutting the wool of his sheep in Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim: and he sent for all the king's sons to come to his feast.
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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 47:6
And Jacob and his sons came to Joseph in Egypt, and when word of it came to the ears of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, he said to Joseph, Your father and brothers have come to you; all the land of Egypt is before you; let your father and your brothers have the best of the land for their resting-place.
Exodus 1:11
So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.
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;
Proverbs 22:29
Have you seen a man who is expert in his business? he will take his place before kings; his place will not be among low persons.
Jeremiah 41:8
But there were ten men among them who said to Ishmael, Do not put us to death, for we have secret stores, in the country, of grain and oil and honey. So he did not put them to death with their countrymen.
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Genesis 49:11
Knotting his ass's cord to the vine, and his young ass to the best vine; washing his robe in wine, and his clothing in the blood of grapes:
Judges 5:10
Let them give thought to it, who go on white asses, and those who are walking on the road.
Judges 10:4
And he had thirty sons, who went on thirty young asses; and they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which are named Havvoth-Jair to this day.
Judges 12:14
He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons who went on seventy young asses; and he was judge of Israel for eight years.
1 Kings 10:26
And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem.
Isaiah 2:7
And their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end to their stores; their land is full of horses, and there is no end to their carriages.
Amos 1:7
And I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, burning up its great houses:
Micah 5:11
I will have the towns of your land cut off and all your strong places pulled down:
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Leviticus 2:14
And if you give a meal offering of first-fruits to the Lord, give, as your offering of first-fruits, new grain, made dry with fire, crushed new grain.
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Deuteronomy 4:43
The names of the towns were Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for Manasseh.
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Joshua 15:55
Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jutah;
1 Samuel 23:25
And Saul and his men went in search of him. And David had word of it, so he came down to the rock in the waste land of Maon. And Saul, hearing of this, went after David into the waste land of Maon.
Psalms 72:16
May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be unnumbered like the grass of the earth.
Isaiah 32:15
Till the spirit comes on us from on high, and the waste land becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field is changed into a wood.
Isaiah 35:2
It will be flowering like the rose; it will be full of delight and songs; the glory of Lebanon will be given to it; the pride of Carmel and Sharon: they will see the glory of the Lord, the power of our God.
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1 Kings 9:22
But Solomon did not put the children of Israel to forced work; they were the men of war, his servants, his captains, and his chiefs, captains of his war-carriages and of his horsemen.
1 Kings 9:23
These were the chiefs of the overseers of Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, in authority over the people who did the work.
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 12:10
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;
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1 Kings 17:9
Up! go now to Zarephath, in Zidon, and make your living-place there; I have given orders to a widow woman there to see that you have food.
1 Kings 18:8
And Elijah in answer said, It is I; now go and say to your lord, Elijah is here.
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2 Chronicles 11:5
Now Rehoboam kept in Jerusalem, building walled towns in Judah.
2 Chronicles 11:6
He was the builder of Beth-lehem and Etam and Tekoa
2 Chronicles 11:7
And Beth-zur and Soco and Adullam
2 Chronicles 11:8
And Gath and Mareshah and Ziph
2 Chronicles 11:9
And Adoraim and Lachish and Azekah
2 Chronicles 11:10
And Zorah and Aijalon and Hebron, walled towns in Judah and Benjamin.
2 Chronicles 14:7
He said to Judah, Let us make these towns, building walls round them with towers and doors and locks. The land is still ours, because we have been true to the Lord our God; we have been true to him and he has given us rest on every side. So they went on building and all went well for them.
2 Chronicles 27:3
He put up the higher doorway of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of the Ophel.
Amos 1:1
The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa; what he saw about Israel in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earth-shock.
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2 Chronicles 17:13
He had much property in the towns of Judah; he had forces of armed men, great and strong, in Jerusalem.
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2 Kings 14:18
And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings 15:6
Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?
2 Chronicles 26:1
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
2 Chronicles 26:2
He was the builder of Eloth, which he got back for Judah after the death of the king.
2 Chronicles 26:3
Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for fifty-two years; his mother's name was Jechiliah of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 26:4
He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.
2 Chronicles 26:16
But when he had become strong, his heart was lifted up in pride, causing his destruction; and he did evil against the Lord his God; for he went into the Temple of the Lord for the purpose of burning perfumes on the altar of perfumes.
2 Chronicles 26:17
And Azariah the priest went in after him, with eighty of the Lord's priests, who were strong men;
2 Chronicles 26:18
And they made protests to Uzziah the king, and said to him, The burning of perfumes, Uzziah, is not your business but that of the priests, the sons of Aaron, who have been made holy for this work: go out of the holy place, for you have done wrong, and it will not be to your honour before God.
2 Chronicles 26:19
Then Uzziah was angry; and he had in his hand a vessel for burning perfume; and while his wrath was bitter against the priests, the mark of the leper's disease came out on his brow, before the eyes of the priests in the house of the Lord by the altar of perfumes.
2 Chronicles 26:21
So King Uzziah was a leper till the day of his death, living separately in his private house; for he was cut off from the house of God; and Jotham his son was ruling over his house, judging the people of the land.
2 Chronicles 26:22
Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, were recorded by Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
2 Chronicles 26:23
So Uzziah went to rest with his fathers; and they put his body into the earth in the field used for the resting-place of the kings, for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son became king in his place.
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Isaiah 16:1
And they will send...to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.
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2 Kings 19:23
You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods; I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.
2 Chronicles 32:1
Now after these things and this true-hearted work, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came into Judah, and put his army in position before the walled towns of Judah, designing to make his way into them by force.
Song of Solomon 4:4
Your neck is like the tower of David made for a store-house of arms, in which a thousand breastplates are hanging, breastplates for fighting-men.
Isaiah 7:6
Let us go up against Judah, troubling her, and forcing our way into her, and let us put up a king in her, even the son of Tabeel:
Isaiah 22:8
He took away the cover of Judah; and in that day you were looking with care at the store of arms in the house of the woods.
Isaiah 22:9
And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town of David: and you got together the waters of the lower pool.
Isaiah 22:10
And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.
Isaiah 22:11
And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.
Isaiah 37:25
I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.
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2 Kings 18:31
Do not give ear to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me; and everyone will be free to take the fruit of his vine and of his fig-tree, and the water of his spring;
Ecclesiastes 12:6
Before ever the silver cord is cut, or the vessel of gold is broken, or the pot is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the water-hole;
Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.
Hosea 6:5
So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;
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Hosea 8:1
Put the horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the Lord; because they have gone against my agreement, they have not kept my law.
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Micah 5:1
Now you will give yourselves deep wounds for grief; they will put up a wall round us: they will give the judge of Israel a blow on the face with a rod.
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Song of Solomon 1:4
Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.
John 21:16
Again, a second time, he said to him, Simon, son of John, have you any love for me? Yes, Lord, he said, you are certain of my love for you. Then take care of my sheep, said Jesus.
John 21:17
He said to him a third time, Simon, son of John, am I dear to you? Now Peter was troubled in his heart because he put the question a third time, Am I dear to you? And he said to him, Lord, you have knowledge of all things; you see that you are dear to me. Jesus said to him, Then give my sheep food.
1 Peter 5:2
Keep watch over the flock of God which is in your care, using your authority, not as forced to do so, but gladly; and not for unclean profit but with a ready mind;
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