Judges 20:23
The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until evening; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?” Yahweh said, “Go up against him.”
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Judges 20:23
The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until evening; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?” Yahweh said, “Go up against him.”
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Genesis 4:9
Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
Genesis 27:41
Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
Genesis 33:9
Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”
Proverbs 16:7
When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Amos 1:11
Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;
Acts 9:17
Ananias departed and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
Acts 21:20
They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.
Philemon 1:7
For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
Philemon 1:16
no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother—especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
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Genesis 25:22
The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it is like this, why do I live?” She went to inquire of Yahweh.
Judges 10:10
The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, “We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.”
Judges 10:11
Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “Didn’t I save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
Judges 10:12
The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.
Judges 10:13
Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more.
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 10:21
He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by their families and the family of the Matrites was chosen. Then Saul the son of Kish was chosen; but when they looked for him, he could not be found.
2 Samuel 16:23
The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel was like this both with David and with Absalom.
1 Kings 22:5
Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for Yahweh’s word.”
1 Kings 22:6
Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Should I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I refrain?” They said, “Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
1 Kings 22:7
But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of him?”
2 Kings 3:12
Jehoshaphat said, “Yahweh’s word is with him.” So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
2 Kings 22:13
“Go inquire of Yahweh for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found; for great is Yahweh’s wrath that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that which is written concerning us.”
1 Chronicles 13:3
Also, let’s bring the ark of our God back to us again, for we didn’t seek it in the days of Saul.”
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Exodus 12:38
A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.
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Leviticus 8:8
He placed the breastplate on him. He put the Urim and Thummim in the breastplate.
Numbers 26:55
Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
Deuteronomy 33:8
About Levi he said, “Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah.
Ezra 2:63
The governor told them that they should not eat of the most holy things until a priest stood up to serve with Urim and with Thummim.
Nehemiah 7:65
The governor told them not to eat of the most holy things until a priest stood up to minister with Urim and Thummim.
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Deuteronomy 10:9
Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, according as Yahweh your God spoke to him.)
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Deuteronomy 18:2
They shall have no inheritance among their brothers. Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.
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Judges 3:15
But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior for them: Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
Judges 20:16
Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed. Every one of them could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
1 Chronicles 12:2
They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow. They were of Saul’s relatives of the tribe of Benjamin.
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Judges 9:29
I wish that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech.” He said to Abimelech, “Increase your army and come out!”
Judges 20:13
Now therefore deliver up the men, the wicked fellows who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and put away evil from Israel.” But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the children of Israel.
2 Samuel 2:27
Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother.”
2 Chronicles 25:17
Then Amaziah king of Judah consulted his advisers, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come! Let’s look one another in the face.”
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.
2 Chronicles 25:19
You say to yourself that you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle with trouble, that you should fall, even you and Judah with you?’ ”
2 Chronicles 25:20
But Amaziah would not listen; for it was of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought after the gods of Edom.
2 Chronicles 25:21
So Joash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
2 Chronicles 25:22
Judah was defeated by Israel; so every man fled to his tent.
2 Chronicles 25:23
Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth Shemesh and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
Proverbs 20:18
Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!
Proverbs 25:8
Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?
Luke 14:31
Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
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Judges 20:1
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.
Judges 20:2
The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword.
Judges 20:8
All the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house.
Judges 20:9
But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot;
Judges 20:10
and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that the men of Gibeah have done in Israel.”
Judges 20:11
So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
Judges 20:21
The children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and on that day destroyed twenty-two thousand of the Israelite men down to the ground.
2 Kings 3:1
Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.
2 Kings 3:3
Nevertheless he held to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin. He didn’t depart from them.
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Judges 18:31
So they set up for themselves Micah’s engraved image which he made, and it remained all the time that God’s house was in Shiloh.
1 Samuel 4:3
When the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has Yahweh defeated us today before the Philistines? Let’s get the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of Shiloh and bring it to us, that it may come among us and save us out of the hand of our enemies.”
1 Samuel 4:4
So the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh of Armies, who sits above the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
1 Samuel 4:5
When the ark of Yahweh’s covenant came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth resounded.
1 Samuel 14:18
Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring God’s ark here.” For God’s ark was with the children of Israel at that time.
2 Samuel 11:11
Uriah said to David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!”
2 Samuel 15:24
Behold, Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down God’s ark; and Abiathar went up until all the people finished passing out of the city.
2 Samuel 15:25
The king said to Zadok, “Carry God’s ark back into the city. If I find favor in Yahweh’s eyes, he will bring me again, and show me both it and his habitation;
2 Samuel 15:26
but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you,’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.”
Psalms 78:60
so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men,
Jeremiah 3:16
It will come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land in those days,” says Yahweh, “they will no longer say, ‘the ark of Yahweh’s covenant!’ It will not come to mind. They won’t remember it. They won’t miss it, nor will another be made.
Jeremiah 7:12
“But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
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1 Samuel 20:23
Concerning the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, Yahweh is between you and me forever.”
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Joshua 7:6
Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before Yahweh’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.
Judges 11:35
When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to Yahweh, and I can’t go back.”
Judges 21:6
The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, “There is one tribe cut off from Israel today.
Judges 21:15
The people grieved for Benjamin, because Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
2 Samuel 1:12
They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
Hosea 11:8
“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.
Luke 19:41
When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,
Luke 19:42
saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
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Numbers 27:5
Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.
Judges 18:5
They said to him, “Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.”
Judges 20:29
Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.
1 Samuel 14:37
Saul asked counsel of God: “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But he didn’t answer him that day.
1 Samuel 22:13
Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”
1 Samuel 23:3
David’s men said to him, “Behold, we are afraid here in Judah. How much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”
2 Samuel 5:19
David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?” Yahweh said to David, “Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
2 Samuel 5:23
When David inquired of Yahweh, he said, “You shall not go up. Circle around behind them, and attack them in front of the mulberry trees.
1 Chronicles 10:13
So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of Yahweh’s word, which he didn’t keep, and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,
1 Chronicles 14:10
David inquired of God, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?” Yahweh said to him, “Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand.”
1 Chronicles 14:14
David inquired again of God; and God said to him, “You shall not go up after them. Turn away from them, and come on them opposite the mulberry trees.
1 Chronicles 15:13
For because you didn’t carry it at first, Yahweh our God broke out in anger against us, because we didn’t seek him according to the ordinance.”
Proverbs 3:5
Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:6
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
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2 Chronicles 1:6
Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before Yahweh, which was at the Tent of Meeting, and offered one thousand burnt offerings on it.
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