Jeremiah 29:7
And be working for the peace of the land to which I have had you taken away prisoners, and make prayer to the Lord for it: for in its peace you will have peace.
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Jeremiah 29:7
And be working for the peace of the land to which I have had you taken away prisoners, and make prayer to the Lord for it: for in its peace you will have peace.
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Genesis 29:6
And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well, and here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep.
Genesis 37:14
And he said to him, Go now, and see if your brothers are well and how the flock is; then come back and give me word. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
Genesis 41:16
Then Joseph said, Without God there will be no answer of peace for Pharaoh.
1 Samuel 17:17
And Jesse said to his son David, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dry grain and these ten cakes of bread, and go quickly with them to the tents to your brothers;
1 Samuel 17:18
And take these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are and come back with a sign to say how they are.
1 Kings 2:33
So their blood will be on the head of Joab, and on the head of his seed for ever; but for David and his seed and his family and the seat of his kingdom, there will be peace for ever from the Lord.
Psalms 125:5
But as for such as are turned out of the straight way, the Lord will take them away with the workers of evil. Let peace be on Israel.
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Genesis 47:7
Then Joseph made his father Jacob come before Pharaoh, and Jacob gave him his blessing.
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Genesis 49:10
The rod of authority will not be taken from Judah, and he will not be without a law-giver, till he comes who has the right to it, and the peoples will put themselves under his rule.
2 Kings 19:34
For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.
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Exodus 32:10
Now do not get in my way, for my wrath is burning against them; I will send destruction on them, but of you I will make a great nation.
Job 42:8
And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
Psalms 106:23
And he was purposing to put an end to them if Moses, his special servant, had not gone up before him, between him and his people, turning back his wrath, to keep them from destruction.
Jeremiah 7:16
And as for you (Jeremiah), make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them, make no request for them to me: for I will not give ear.
Jeremiah 11:14
And as for you, make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them: for I will not give ear to their cry in the time of their trouble.
Jeremiah 14:11
And the Lord said to me, Make no prayer for this people for their good.
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Numbers 9:12
Nothing of it is to be kept till the morning, and no bone of it is to be broken: they are to keep it by the rules of the Passover.
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Deuteronomy 23:7
But have no hate for an Edomite, because he is your brother, or for an Egyptian, for you were living in his land.
Ezra 9:12
So now do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or do anything for their peace or well-being for ever; so that you may be strong, living on the good of the land, and handing it on to your children for a heritage for ever.
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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.
Isaiah 30:15
For the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, said, In quiet and rest is your salvation: peace and hope are your strength: but you would not have it so.
Jeremiah 52:7
Then an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight out of the town 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 they went by the way of the Arabah.
Jeremiah 52:8
And the Chaldaean army went after King Zedekiah and overtook him on the other side of Jericho, and all his army went in flight from him in every direction.
Jeremiah 52:9
Then they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath to be judged.
Jeremiah 52:10
And the king of Babylon put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes: and he put to death all the rulers of Judah in Riblah.
Jeremiah 52:11
And he put out Zedekiah's eyes; and the king of Babylon, chaining him in iron bands, took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
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2 Kings 25:27
And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year of his rule, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison;
2 Kings 25:28
And said kind words to him, and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
2 Kings 25:29
And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life.
2 Kings 25:30
And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day for the rest of his life.
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2 Chronicles 7:13
If, at my word, heaven is shut up, so that there is no rain, or if I send locusts on the land for its destruction, or if I send disease on my people;
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2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, on whom my name is named, make themselves low and come to me in prayer, searching for me and turning from their evil ways; then I will give ear from heaven, overlooking their sin, and will give life again to their land.
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Ezra 6:9
And whatever they have need of, young oxen and sheep and lambs, for burned offerings to the God of heaven, grain, salt, wine, and oil, whatever the priests in Jerusalem say is necessary, is to be given to them day by day regularly:
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Nehemiah 13:1
On that day there was a reading from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and they saw that it said in the book that no Ammonite or Moabite might ever come into the meeting of God;
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Psalms 51:18
Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem.
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Nehemiah 1:11
O Lord, let your ear take note of the prayer of your servant, and of the prayers of your servants, who take delight in worshipping your name: give help, O Lord, to your servant this day, and let him have mercy in the eyes of this man. (Now I was the king's wine-servant.)
Psalms 20:1
To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. May the Lord give ear to you in the day of trouble; may you be placed on high by the name of the God of Jacob;
Psalms 20:2
May he send you help from the holy place, and give you strength from Zion;
Psalms 20:3
May he keep all your offerings in mind, and be pleased with the fat of your burned offerings; (Selah.)
Psalms 20:4
May he give you your heart's desire, and put all your purposes into effect.
Psalms 72:1
Of Solomon. Give the king your authority, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son.
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Isaiah 6:13
And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is still in the earth after the tree has been cut down (the holy seed is the broken end).
Isaiah 24:4
The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.
Daniel 4:27
For this cause, O King, let my suggestion be pleasing to you, and let your sins be covered by righteousness and your evil-doing by mercy to the poor, so that the time of your well-being may be longer.
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Isaiah 51:14
The prisoner, bent under his chain, will quickly be made free, and will not go down into the underworld, and his bread will not come to an end.
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Isaiah 62:4
You will not now be named, She who is given up; and your land will no longer be named, The waste land: but you will have the name, My pleasure is in her, and your land will be named, Married: for the Lord has pleasure in you, and your land will be married.
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Jeremiah 6:21
For this reason the Lord has said, See, I will put stones in the way of this people: and the fathers and the sons together will go falling over them; the neighbour and his friend will come to destruction.
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Jeremiah 21:4
The Lord God of Israel has said, See, I am turning back the instruments of war in your hands, with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and the Chaldaeans, who are outside the walls and shutting you in; and I will get them together inside this town.
Jeremiah 21:5
And I myself will be fighting against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even with angry feeling and passion and in great wrath.
Jeremiah 21:6
And I will send a great disease on the people living in this town, on man and on beast, causing their death.
Jeremiah 21:7
And after that, says the Lord, I will give up Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his servants and his people, even those in the town who have not come to their end from the disease and the sword and from need of food, into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of their haters, and into the hands of those desiring their death: he will put them to the sword; he will not let anyone get away, he will have no pity or mercy.
Jeremiah 24:7
And I will give them a heart to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord: and they will be my people, and I will be their God: for they will come back to me with all their heart.
Jeremiah 24:8
And like the bad figs which are so bad that they are of no use for food, so I will give up Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his chiefs and the rest of Jerusalem who are still in this land, and those who are in the land of Egypt:
Jeremiah 24:9
I will give them up to be a cause of fear and of trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth; to be a name of shame and common talk and a cutting word and a curse in all the places wherever I will send them wandering.
Jeremiah 24:10
And I will send the sword, and need of food, and disease, among them till they are all cut off from the land which I gave to them and to their fathers.
Jeremiah 27:13
Why are you desiring death, you and your people, by the sword, and because food is gone, and by disease, as the Lord has said of the nation which does not become the servant of the king of Babylon?
Jeremiah 38:4
Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man be put to death, because he is putting fear into the hearts of the men of war who are still in the town, and into the hearts of the people, by saying such things to them: this man is not working for the well-being of the people, but for their damage.
Ezekiel 17:9
Say, This is what the Lord has said: Will it do well? will he not have its roots pulled up and its branches cut off, so that all its young leaves may become dry and it may be pulled up by its roots?
Ezekiel 17:12
Say now to this uncontrolled people, Are these things not clear to you? Say to them, See, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and took its king and its rulers away with him to Babylon;
Ezekiel 17:15
But he went against his authority in sending representatives to Egypt to get from them horses and a great army. Will he do well? will he be safe who does such things? if the agreement is broken will he be safe?
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Jeremiah 29:8
For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Do not let yourselves be tricked by the prophets who are among you, and the readers of signs, and give no attention to their dreams which they may have;
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Jeremiah 29:9
For they are saying to you what is false in my name: I have not sent them, says the Lord.
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Jeremiah 29:10
For this is what the Lord has said: When seventy years are ended for Babylon, I will have pity on you and give effect to my good purpose for you, causing you to come back to this place.
Jeremiah 29:11
For I am conscious of my thoughts about you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope at the end.
Jeremiah 29:14
I will be near you again, says the Lord, and your fate will be changed, and I will get you together from all the nations and from all the places where I had sent you away, says the Lord; and I will take you back again to the place from which I sent you away prisoners.
Jeremiah 50:8
Go in flight out of Babylon, go out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and be like he-goats before the flocks.
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Jeremiah 29:20
And now, give ear to the word of the Lord, all you whom I have sent away prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon.
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Ezekiel 12:2
Son of man, you are living among an uncontrolled people, who have eyes to see but see not, and ears for hearing but they do not give ear; for they are an uncontrolled people.
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Esther 3:8
And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, There is a certain nation living here and there in small groups among the people in all the divisions of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of any other nation, and they do not keep the king's laws: for this reason it is not right for the king to let them be.
Daniel 6:5
Then these men said, We will only get a reason for attacking Daniel in connection with the law of his God.
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Luke 9:54
And when his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, Lord, may we send fire from heaven and put an end to them?
Luke 9:55
But turning round he said sharp words to them.
Luke 9:56
And they went to another small town.
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Esther 4:16
Go, get together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and go without food for me, taking no food or drink night or day for three days: and I and my women will do the same; and so I will go in to the king, which is against the law: and if death is to be my fate, then let it come.
Luke 7:5
It is right for you to do this for him, because he is a friend to our nation, and himself has put up a Synagogue for us.
Luke 19:42
Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them.
Romans 9:1
I say what is true in Christ, and not what is false, my mind giving witness with me in the Holy Spirit,
Romans 9:2
That I am full of sorrow and pain without end.
Romans 9:3
For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh:
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Proverbs 17:11
An uncontrolled man is only looking for trouble, so a cruel servant will be sent against him.
Proverbs 24:21
My son, go in fear of the Lord and the king: have nothing to do with those who are in high positions:
Mark 12:17
And Jesus said to them, Give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's. And they were full of wonder at him.
Luke 20:25
And he said, Then give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's.
Romans 13:2
For which reason everyone who puts himself against the authority puts himself against the order of God: and those who are against it will get punishment for themselves.
Romans 13:3
For rulers are not a cause of fear to the good work but to the evil. If you would have no fear of the authority, do good and you will have praise;
Romans 13:6
For the same reason, make payment of taxes; because the authority is God's servant, to take care of such things at all times.
Romans 13:7
Give to all what is their right: taxes to him whose they are, payment to him whose right it is, fear to whom fear, honour to whom honour is to be given.
Ephesians 5:21
Letting yourselves be ruled by one another in the fear of Christ.
Titus 3:1
Make clear to them that they are to put themselves under rulers and authorities, to do what they are ordered, to be ready for every good work,
2 Peter 2:10
But specially those who go after the unclean desires of the flesh, and make sport of authority. Ready to take chances, uncontrolled, they have no fear of saying evil of those in high places:
Jude 1:8
In the same way these dreamers make the flesh unclean, having no respect for authorities, and say evil of rulers.
Jude 1:9
Now when Michael, one of the chief angels, was fighting against the Evil One for the body of Moses, fearing to make use of violent words against him, he only said, May the Lord be your judge.
Jude 1:10
But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.
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1 Samuel 7:9
And Samuel took a young lamb, offering all of it as a burned offering to the Lord; and Samuel made prayers to the Lord for Israel and the Lord gave him an answer.
Jeremiah 2:17
Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?
Daniel 6:10
And Daniel, on hearing that the writing had been signed, went into his house; (now he had windows in his room on the roof opening in the direction of Jerusalem;) and three times a day he went down on his knees in prayer and praise before his God, as he had done before.
Ephesians 6:18
With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,
1 Timothy 5:14
So it is my desire that the younger widows may be married and have children, controlling their families, and giving the Evil One no chance to say anything against them,
James 5:18
And he made another prayer, and the heaven sent down rain and the earth gave her fruit.
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James 4:1
What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?
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