Ecclesiastes 5:9

Ecclesiastes 5:9
It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.

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Genesis 1:29
And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:

Genesis 1:30
And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.

Genesis 2:5
In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.

Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

Genesis 4:12
No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.

Genesis 5:29
And he gave him the name of Noah, saying, Truly, he will give us rest from our trouble and the hard work of our hands, because of the earth which was cursed by God.

Psalms 104:14
He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;

Psalms 104:15
And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.

Psalms 115:16
The heavens are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.

Jeremiah 14:22
Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.

Jeremiah 40:10
As for me, I will be living in Mizpah as your representative before the Chaldaeans who come to us: but you are to get in your wine and summer fruits and oil and put them in your vessels, and make living-places for yourselves in the towns which you have taken.

Jeremiah 40:11
In the same way, when all the Jews who were in Moab and among the children of Ammon and in Edom and in all the countries, had news that the king of Babylon had let Judah keep some of its people and that he had put over them Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan;

Jeremiah 40:12
Then all the Jews came back from all the places to which they had gone in flight, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and got in a great store of wine and summer fruit.

Mark 4:28
The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.

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Genesis 43:1
Now the land was in bitter need of food.

Genesis 43:2
And when the grain which they had got in Egypt was all used up, their father said to them, Go again and get us a little food.

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Genesis 44:12
And he made a search, starting with the oldest and ending with the youngest; and the cup was in Benjamin's bag.

Ezra 10:17
And they got to the end of all the men who were married to strange women by the first day of the first month.

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1 Samuel 12:23
And as for me, never will I go against the orders of the Lord by giving up my prayers for you: but I will go on teaching you the good and right way.

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1 Chronicles 7:5
And there were recorded among all the families of Issachar, great men of war, eighty-seven thousand.

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Psalms 37:16
The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers.

Isaiah 60:5
Then you will see, and be bright with joy, and your heart will be shaking with increase of delight: for the produce of the sea will be turned to you, the wealth of the nations will come to you.

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Psalms 67:6
The earth has given her increase; and God, even our God, will give us his blessing.

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Proverbs 12:14
From the fruit of his mouth will a man have good food in full measure, and the work of a man's hands will be rewarded.

Proverbs 27:18
Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured.

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Proverbs 22:22
Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

Proverbs 22:23
For the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.

Isaiah 5:8
Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!

Amos 8:4
Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,

Amos 8:5
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;

Amos 8:6
Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.

Amos 8:7
The Lord has taken an oath by the pride of Jacob, Truly I will ever keep in mind all their works.

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Proverbs 14:28
A king's glory is in the number of his people: and for need of people a ruler may come to destruction.

Ecclesiastes 4:8
It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.

Ecclesiastes 4:9
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their work.

Ecclesiastes 4:10
And if one has a fall, the other will give him a hand; but unhappy is the man who is by himself, because he has no helper.

Ecclesiastes 4:11
So again, if two are sleeping together they are warm, but how may one be warm by himself?

Ecclesiastes 4:12
And two attacked by one would be safe, and three cords twisted together are not quickly broken.

Ecclesiastes 6:12
Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 9:14
There was a little town and the number of its men was small, and there came a great king against it and made an attack on it, building works of war round about it.

Ecclesiastes 9:15
Now there was in the town a poor, wise man, and he, by his wisdom, kept the town safe. But no one had any memory of that same poor man.

1 Corinthians 12:22
No, those parts which seem to be feeble are the more necessary;

2 Corinthians 1:11
You at the same time helping together by your prayer for us; so that for what has been given to us through a number of persons, praise may go up to God for us from all of them.

Titus 2:9
Servants are to be under the authority of their masters, pleasing them in all things, without argument;

Titus 2:10
Not taking what is not theirs, but giving clear signs of their good faith, in all things doing credit to the teaching of God our Saviour.

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Ecclesiastes 3:16
And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.

Ecclesiastes 3:17
I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.

Ecclesiastes 4:2
So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.

Ecclesiastes 5:1
Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.

Ecclesiastes 5:7
Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.

Ecclesiastes 5:20
He will not give much thought to the days of his life; because God lets him be taken up with the joy of his heart.

Ecclesiastes 9:2
Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.

Ecclesiastes 9:4
For him who is joined to all the living there is hope; a living dog is better than a dead lion.

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Isaiah 8:22
And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

Isaiah 22:2
You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or come to their death in war.

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Proverbs 10:11
The mouth of the upright man is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the evil-doer is a bitter cup.

Isaiah 28:24
Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?

Isaiah 28:25
When the face of the earth has been levelled, does he not put in the different sorts of seed, and the grain in lines, and the barley in its place, and the spelt at the edge?

Isaiah 28:26
For his God is his teacher, giving him the knowledge of these things.

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Ezekiel 36:9
For truly I am for you, and I will be turned to you, and you will be ploughed and planted:

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Amos 7:1
This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw that, when the growth of the late grass was starting, he made locusts; it was the late growth after the king's cutting was done.

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