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;
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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;
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Genesis 6:4
There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.
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.
Psalms 33:16
A king's salvation is not in the power of his army; a strong man does not get free by his great strength.
Psalms 52:1
To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of David. When Doeg the Edomite came to Saul saying, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?
Psalms 120:4
Sharp arrows of the strong, and burning fire.
Psalms 127:4
Like arrows in the hand of a man of war, are the children of the young.
Jeremiah 2:20
For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman
Jeremiah 51:30
Babylon's men of war have kept back from the fight, waiting in their strong places; their strength has given way, they have become like women: her houses have been put on fire, her locks are broken.
Ezekiel 39:20
At my table you will have food in full measure, horses and war-carriages, great men and all the men of war, says the Lord.
Daniel 11:3
And a strong king will come to power, ruling with great authority and doing whatever is his pleasure.
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Leviticus 19:32
Get up from your seats before the white-haired, and give honour to the old, and let the fear of your God be before you: I am the Lord.
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.
2 Chronicles 31:17
And the families of the priests were listed by their fathers' names, but the Levites, of twenty years old and over, were listed in relation to their work in their divisions;
Job 32:4
Now Elihu had kept quiet while Job was talking, because they were older than he;
Job 32:6
And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, made answer and said, I am young, and you are very old, so I was in fear, and kept myself from putting my knowledge before you.
Job 32:7
I said to myself, It is right for the old to say what is in their minds, and for those who are far on in years to give out wisdom.
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.
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Numbers 23:23
No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts against Israel; at the right time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, See what God has done!
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Deuteronomy 18:11
Or anyone using secret force on people, or putting questions to a spirit, or having secret knowledge, or going to the dead for directions.
Deuteronomy 18:12
For all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord; and because of these disgusting things the Lord your God is driving them out before you.
Deuteronomy 18:13
You are to be upright in heart before the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 18:14
For these nations, whose land you are taking, give attention to readers of signs and to those using secret arts: but the Lord your God will not let you do so.
1 Samuel 6:2
And the Philistines sent for the priests and those who were wise in secret arts, and said to them, What are we to do with the ark of the Lord? How are we to send it away to its place?
Zechariah 10:2
For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.
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Deuteronomy 18:20
But the prophet who takes it on himself to say words in my name which I have not given him orders to say, or who says anything in the name of other gods, will come to his death.
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Deuteronomy 25:2
And if the wrongdoer is to undergo punishment by whipping, the judge will give orders for him to go down on his face and be whipped before him, the number of the blows being in relation to his crime.
Hosea 7:7
They are all heated like an oven, and they put an end to their judges; all their kings have been made low; not one among them makes prayer to me.
Hosea 10:3
Now, truly, they will say, We have no king, we have no fear of the Lord; and the king, what is he able to do for us?
Hosea 13:11
I have given you a king, because I was angry, and have taken him away in my wrath.
Micah 4:9
Now why are you crying so loudly? is there no king in you? has destruction come on your wise helper? so that pains have taken you like the pains of a woman in childbirth:
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Joshua 7:21
When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it.
2 Samuel 11:2
Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.
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Judges 1:1
Now after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel made request to the Lord, saying, Who is to go up first to make war for us against the Canaanites?
Judges 10:18
And the people of Israel said to one another, Who will be the first to make an attack on the children of Ammon? We will make him head over all Gilead.
Judges 11:5
And when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the responsible men of Gilead went to get Jephthah back from the land of Tob;
Judges 11:6
And they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief so that we may make war against the children of Ammon.
Judges 11:7
But Jephthah said to the responsible men of Gilead, Did you not, in your hate for me, send me away from my father's house? Why do you come to me now when you are in trouble?
Judges 11:8
And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, That is the reason we have come back to you; so go with us and make war against the children of Ammon, and we will make you our head over all the people of Gilead.
Isaiah 34:12
The jackals will be there, and her great ones will be gone; they will say, There is no longer a kingdom there, and all her chiefs will have come to an end.
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Ruth 4:4
And it was in my mind to give you the chance of taking it, with the approval of those seated here and of the responsible men of my people. If you are ready to do what it is right for a relation to do, then do it: but if you will not do it, say so to me now; for there is no one who has the right to do it but you, and after you myself. And he said, I will do it.
2 Samuel 19:11
And King David sent word to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, Say to the responsible men of Judah, Why are you the last to take steps to get the king back to his house?
1 Kings 20:7
Then the king of Israel sent for all the responsible men of the land, and said, Now will you take note and see the evil purpose of this man: he sent for my wives and my children, my silver and my gold, and I did not keep them back.
1 Kings 21:8
So she sent a letter in Ahab's name, stamped with his stamp, to the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority with Naboth.
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2 Chronicles 2:11
Then Huram, king of Tyre, sent Solomon an answer in writing, saying, Because of his love for his people the Lord has made you king over them.
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2 Chronicles 26:11
In addition, Uzziah had an army of fighting-men who went out to war in bands, as they had been listed by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the authority of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.
2 Chronicles 26:12
The heads of families, the strong men of war, were two thousand, six hundred.
2 Chronicles 26:13
And under their orders was a trained army of three hundred and seven thousand, five hundred, of great strength in war, helping the king against any who came against him.
2 Chronicles 26:14
And Uzziah had all these forces armed with body-covers and spears and head-covers and coats of metal and bows and stones for sending from leather bands.
2 Chronicles 26:15
And in Jerusalem he made machines, the invention of expert men, to be placed on the towers and angles of the walls for sending arrows and great stones. And his name was honoured far and wide; for he was greatly helped till he was strong.
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Job 12:24
He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.
Job 17:4
You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.
Job 39:17
For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.
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Deuteronomy 16:18
You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.
Job 29:7
When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,
Job 29:8
The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats;
Job 29:9
The rulers kept quiet, and put their hands on their mouths;
Job 29:10
The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths.
Job 29:11
For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me;
Job 29:12
For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.
Job 29:13
The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.
Job 29:14
I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.
Job 29:15
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.
Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
Job 30:1
But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.
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Job 29:17
By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.
Isaiah 1:5
Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.
Isaiah 1:23
Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.
Lamentations 1:4
The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.
Lamentations 1:19
I sent for my lovers, but they were false to me: my priests and my responsible men were breathing their last breath in the town, while they were looking for food to give them new life.
Lamentations 2:10
The responsible men of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth without a word; they have put dust on their heads, they are clothed in haircloth: the heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are bent down to the earth.
Micah 3:1
And I said, Give ear, now, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel: is it not for you to have knowledge of what is right?
Micah 7:3
Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.
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Psalms 89:19
Then your voice came to your holy one in a vision, saying, I have put the crown on a strong one, lifting up one taken from among the people.
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.
Luke 12:32
Have no fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Ephesians 1:7
In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,
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Proverbs 24:16
For an upright man, after falling seven times, will get up again: but trouble is the downfall of the evil.
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Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.
Ecclesiastes 10:2
The heart of the wise man goes in the right direction; but the heart of a foolish man in the wrong.
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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.
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Song of Solomon 6:13
Come back, come back, O Shulammite; come back, come back, so that our eyes may see you. What will you see in the Shulammite? A sword-dance.
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Isaiah 2:12
For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;
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Isaiah 2:16
And on all the ships of Tarshish, and on all the fair boats.
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Isaiah 5:3
And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.
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Isaiah 19:19
In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord at the edge of the land.
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2 Kings 24:15
He took Jehoiachin a prisoner to Babylon, with his mother and his wives and his unsexed servants and the great men of the land; he took them all as prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon.
2 Kings 24:16
And all the men of war, seven thousand of them, and a thousand expert workmen and metal-workers, all of them strong and able to take up arms, the king of Babylon took away as prisoners into Babylon.
2 Kings 25:4
So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and the king went by the way of the Arabah.
2 Kings 25:5
But the Chaldaean army went after the king, and overtook him in the lowlands of Jericho, and all his army went in flight from him in every direction.
2 Kings 25:6
And they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah to be judged.
2 Kings 25:7
And they put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes, and then they put out his eyes, and chaining him with iron bands, took him to Babylon.
2 Kings 25:21
And the king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken away prisoner from his land.
Isaiah 22:3
All your rulers...have gone in flight; all your strong ones have gone far away.
Jeremiah 39:7
And more than this, he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and had him put in chains to take him away to Babylon.
Jeremiah 52:27
And the king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken prisoner away from his land.
Lamentations 4:20
Our breath of life, he on whom the holy oil was put, was taken in their holes; of whom we said, Under his shade we will be living among the nations.
Lamentations 5:12
Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.
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2 Kings 25:18
And the captain of the armed men took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three door-keepers;
2 Kings 25:19
And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was over the men of war, and five of the king's near friends who were in the town, and the scribe of the captain of the army, who was responsible for getting the people of the land together in military order, and sixty men of the people of the land who were in the town.
2 Kings 25:20
These Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took with him to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
Jeremiah 39:4
And when Zedekiah, king of Judah, and all the men of war saw it, they went in flight from the town by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the doorway between the two walls: and they went out by the Arabah.
Jeremiah 39:5
But the Chaldaean army went after them and overtook Zedekiah in the lowlands of Jericho: and they made him a prisoner and took him up to Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, to be judged by him.
Jeremiah 39:6
Then the king of Babylon put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes in Riblah: and the king of Babylon put to death all the great men of Judah.
Jeremiah 52:24
And the captain of the armed men took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three door-keepers;
Jeremiah 52:25
And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was over the men of war, and seven of the king's near friends who were in the town, and the scribe of the captain of the army, who was responsible for getting the people of the land together in military order, and sixty men of the people of the land who were in the town.
Jeremiah 52:26
These Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took with him to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
Lamentations 5:13
The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.
Amos 2:3
And I will have the judge cut off from among them, and all their captains I will put to death with him, says the Lord.
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Ezekiel 8:12
And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the responsible men of the children of Israel do in the dark, every man in his room of pictured images? for they say, The Lord does not see us; the Lord has gone away from the land.
Ezekiel 9:5
And to these he said in my hearing, Go through the town after him using your axes: do not let your eyes have mercy, and have no pity:
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Psalms 85:6
Will you not give us life again, so that your people may be glad in you?
Isaiah 4:3
And it will come about that the rest of the living in Zion, and of those who have been kept from destruction in Jerusalem, will be named holy, even everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem:
Isaiah 51:3
For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.
Zechariah 4:6
This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by force or by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of armies.
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Isaiah 11:1
And there will come a rod out of the broken tree of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will give fruit.
Isaiah 11:2
And the spirit of the Lord will be resting on him, the spirit of wisdom and good sense, the spirit of wise guiding and strength, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
Isaiah 11:10
And in that day, the eyes of the nations will be turned to the root of Jesse which will be lifted up as the flag of the peoples; and his resting-place will be glory.
John 18:31
Then Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves and let him be judged by your law. But the Jews said to him, We have no right to put any man to death.
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Philippians 3:8
Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,
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