Ezekiel 17:2
Son of man, give out a dark saying, and make a comparison for the children of Israel,
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Ezekiel 17:2
Son of man, give out a dark saying, and make a comparison for the children of Israel,
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Numbers 21:27
So the makers of wise sayings say, Come to Heshbon, building up the town of Sihon and making it strong:
Isaiah 14:4
That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off;
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Numbers 23:18
And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, Up! Balak, and give ear; give attention to me, O son of Zippor:
Numbers 24:15
Then he went on with his story and said, These are the words of Balaam, the son of Beor, the words of him whose eyes are open:
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Numbers 24:3
And moved by the spirit, he said, These are the words of Balaam, son of Beor, the words of the man whose eyes are open:
Numbers 24:23
Then he went on with his story and said, But who may keep his life when God does this?
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Deuteronomy 6:7
Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.
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Judges 14:1
Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines;
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Judges 14:2
And when he came back he said to his father and mother, I have seen a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines: get her now for me for my wife.
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1 Kings 10:5
And the food at his table, and all his servants seated there, and those who were waiting on him in their places, and their robes, and his wine-servants, and the burned offerings which he made in the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.
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Job 26:1
Then Job made answer and said,
Ezekiel 21:5
And all flesh will see that I the Lord have taken my sword out of its cover: and it will never go back.
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Psalms 78:1
Maschil. Of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law; let your ears be bent down to the words of my mouth.
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Proverbs 1:1
The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.
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Proverbs 8:1
Is not wisdom crying out, and the voice of knowledge sounding?
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Isaiah 28:10
For it is one rule after another; one line after another; here a little, there a little.
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Isaiah 28:13
For this cause the word of the Lord will be to them rule after rule, line after line, here a little, there a little; so that they may go on their way, and falling back may be broken, and taken in the net.
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Ezekiel 2:1
And he said to me, Son of man, get up on your feet, so that I may say words to you.
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Ezekiel 12:22
Son of man, what is this saying which you have about the land of Israel, The time is long and every vision comes to nothing?
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Ezekiel 17:1
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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Ezekiel 17:4
Biting off the highest of its young branches, he took it to the land of Canaan, and put it in a town of traders.
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Ezekiel 18:2
Why do you make use of this saying about the land of Israel, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are on edge?
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Ezekiel 19:2
What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.
Ezekiel 19:3
And one of her little ones came to growth under her care, and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.
Ezekiel 19:4
And the nations had news of him; he was taken in the hole they had made: and, pulling him with hooks, they took him into the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 19:5
Now when she saw that her hope was made foolish and gone, she took another of her little ones and made him into a young lion.
Ezekiel 19:6
And he went up and down among the lions and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.
Ezekiel 19:7
And he sent destruction on their widows and made waste their towns; and the land and everything in it became waste because of the loud sound of his voice.
Ezekiel 19:8
Then the nations came against him from the kingdoms round about: their net was stretched over him and he was taken in the hole they had made.
Ezekiel 19:9
They made him a prisoner with hooks, and took him to the king of Babylon; they put him in the strong place so that his voice might be sounding no longer on the mountains of Israel.
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Ezekiel 19:10
Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters.
Ezekiel 19:11
And she had a strong rod for a rod of authority for the rulers, and it became tall among the clouds and it was seen lifted up among the number of its branches.
Ezekiel 19:12
But she was uprooted in burning wrath, and made low on the earth; the east wind came, drying her up, and her branches were broken off; her strong rod became dry, the fire made a meal of it.
Ezekiel 19:13
And now she is planted in the waste land, in a dry and unwatered country.
Ezekiel 19:14
And fire has gone out from her rod, causing the destruction of her branches, so that there is no strong rod in her to be the ruler's rod of authority. This is a song of grief, and it was for a song of grief.
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Daniel 8:23
And in the later years of their kingdom, when their evil doings have become complete, there will come up a king full of pride and expert in dark sayings.
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Matthew 13:3
And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, A man went out to put seed in the earth;
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Matthew 13:13
For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.
John 16:29
His disciples said, Now you are talking clearly and not in veiled language.
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Matthew 13:24
And he gave them another story, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who put good seed in his field:
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Matthew 13:33
Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.
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Matthew 21:33
Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.
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Mark 10:2
And Pharisees came to him, testing him with the question, Is it right for a man to put away his wife?
Acts 5:9
But Peter said to her, Why have you made an agreement together to be false to the Spirit of the Lord? See, the feet of the young men who have put the body of your husband in the earth, are at the door, and they will take you out.
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Mark 12:15
Are we to give or not to give? But he, conscious of their false hearts, said to them, Why do you put me to the test? give me a penny, so that I may see it.
1 Corinthians 10:9
And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes.
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Luke 8:10
And he said, To you is given knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to the others, they are given in stories, so that seeing, they may not see, and though they give hearing, the sense will not be clear to them.
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John 15:15
No longer do I give you the name of servants; because a servant is without knowledge of what his master is doing: I give you the name of friends, because I have given you knowledge of all the things which my Father has said to me.
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Hebrews 10:24
And let us be moving one another at all times to love and good works;
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