Judges 9:14
“Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘Come and reign over us.’
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Judges 9:14
“Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘Come and reign over us.’
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Judges 8:22
Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you, your son, and your son’s son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian.”
Judges 8:23
Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. Yahweh shall rule over you.”
Judges 8:31
His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
Judges 9:6
All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together with all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.
1 Samuel 8:5
They said to him, “Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”
1 Samuel 12:12
“When you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ when Yahweh your God was your king.
John 6:15
Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
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Judges 10:14
Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”
1 Samuel 11:10
Therefore the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you.”
1 Samuel 17:28
Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the evil of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”
1 Kings 18:27
At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”
1 Kings 20:11
The king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Don’t let him who puts on his armor brag like he who takes it off.’ ”
Nehemiah 4:2
He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?”
Matthew 27:29
They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
John 19:3
They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.
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2 Samuel 12:1
Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in one city: the one rich, and the other poor.
2 Samuel 12:2
The rich man had very many flocks and herds,
2 Samuel 12:3
but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was like a daughter to him.
1 Kings 20:39
As the king passed by, he cried to the king, and he said, “Your servant went out into the middle of the battle; and behold, a man came over and brought a man to me, and said, ‘Guard this man! If by any means he is missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’
2 Chronicles 25:18
Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as his wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.
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2 Samuel 14:6
Your servant had two sons; and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other and killed him.
2 Samuel 14:7
Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.”
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1 Kings 4:33
He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; he also spoke of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish.
Psalms 96:12
Let the field and all that is in it exult! Then all the trees of the woods shall sing for joy
Psalms 96:13
before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.
Isaiah 55:12
For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.
Ezekiel 17:22
“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘I will also take some of the lofty top of the cedar, and will plant it. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
Ezekiel 17:24
All the trees of the field will know that I, Yahweh, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree flourish. “ ‘I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.’ ”
Ezekiel 31:9
I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.’
Zechariah 11:2
Wail, cypress tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down.
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1 Kings 12:13
The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,
1 Kings 12:14
and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”
Esther 3:1
After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.
Psalms 12:8
The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.
Proverbs 28:12
When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.
Proverbs 28:28
When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous thrive.
Ecclesiastes 10:6
Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.
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Isaiah 7:23
It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, will be for briers and thorns.
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1 Corinthians 12:15
If the foot would say, “Because I’m not the hand, I’m not part of the body,” it is not therefore not part of the body.
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