1 Samuel 24:14
Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?
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1 Samuel 24:14
Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?
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Genesis 16:5
Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, she despised me. May Yahweh judge between me and you.”
Genesis 31:42
Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”
Exodus 5:21
They said to them, “May Yahweh look at you and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us!”
1 Samuel 26:23
Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn’t stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed.
1 Chronicles 12:17
David went out to meet them, and answered them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see this and rebuke it.”
Psalms 7:8
Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.
Psalms 35:23
Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!
Psalms 43:1
Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
Daniel 6:22
My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me, because innocence was found in me before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”
Acts 23:1
Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”
Acts 24:16
In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
1 Peter 2:23
When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.
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Judges 8:1
The men of Ephraim said to him, “Why have you treated us this way, that you didn’t call us when you went to fight with Midian?” They rebuked him sharply.
Judges 8:2
He said to them, “What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn’t the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
Judges 8:3
God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger was abated toward him when he had said that.
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Ruth 1:1
In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab with his wife and his two sons.
2 Kings 25:4
Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah.
2 Kings 25:5
But the Chaldean army pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
Job 10:16
If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
Psalms 140:11
An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Jeremiah 16:16
“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
Jeremiah 39:4
When Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled and went out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.
Jeremiah 39:5
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. When they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment on him.
Jeremiah 52:7
Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden. Now the Chaldeans were against the city all around. The men of war went toward the Arabah,
Jeremiah 52:8
but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
Jeremiah 52:9
Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment on him.
Lamentations 4:18
They hunt our steps, so that we can’t go in our streets. Our end is near. Our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.
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1 Samuel 2:7
Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.
1 Samuel 2:8
He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.
2 Samuel 7:8
Now therefore tell my servant David this: ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel.
2 Samuel 7:9
I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
Job 2:8
He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
Job 36:6
He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted.
Job 36:7
He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
Psalms 113:7
He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the needy from the ash heap,
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1 Samuel 20:1
David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said to Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”
1 Samuel 22:14
Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, “Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, captain of your body guard, and honored in your house?
1 Samuel 24:18
You have declared today how you have dealt well with me, because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you didn’t kill me.
1 Samuel 24:19
For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you have done to me today.
2 Samuel 24:17
David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house.”
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1 Samuel 21:15
Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Should this fellow come into my house?”
Psalms 119:23
Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.
Psalms 119:157
Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.
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1 Samuel 23:26
Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away for fear of Saul, for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them.
1 Samuel 23:27
But a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid on the land!”
2 Samuel 17:2
I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,
2 Samuel 17:21
After they had departed, they came up out of the well and went and told king David; and they said to David, “Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you.”
2 Samuel 17:22
Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.
Psalms 124:7
Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
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1 Samuel 26:24
Behold, as your life was respected today in my eyes, so let my life be respected in Yahweh’s eyes, and let him deliver me out of all oppression.”
2 Samuel 8:15
David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people.
Psalms 7:1
Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
Psalms 7:6
Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
Psalms 18:20
Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me.
Psalms 18:21
For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Psalms 18:22
For all his ordinances were before me. I didn’t put away his statutes from me.
Psalms 18:23
I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
Psalms 18:24
Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
Psalms 75:2
When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly.
Acts 25:10
But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well.
2 Corinthians 1:12
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
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2 Samuel 6:20
Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How glorious the king of Israel was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of his servants’ maids, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”
1 Kings 21:7
Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
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2 Samuel 9:1
David said, “Is there yet any who is left of Saul’s house, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”
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Genesis 31:36
Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?
1 Samuel 19:4
Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you;
1 Samuel 19:5
for he put his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”
2 Chronicles 24:22
Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”
Proverbs 17:13
Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
Proverbs 17:26
Also to punish the righteous is not good, nor to flog officials for their integrity.
Jeremiah 26:19
Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn’t he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the disaster which he had pronounced against them? We would commit great evil against our own souls that way!”
John 10:32
Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”
Acts 25:8
while he said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.”
Acts 25:25
But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor, I determined to send him,
Acts 26:31
When they had withdrawn, they spoke to one another, saying, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.”
Galatians 4:16
So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
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Job 7:12
Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
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Job 14:3
Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
Isaiah 17:13
The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
Isaiah 40:1
“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
Matthew 12:20
He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.
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Psalms 22:6
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
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1 Kings 14:11
The dogs will eat he who belongs to Jeroboam who dies in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field, for Yahweh has spoken it.” ’
Job 30:1
“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.
Psalms 22:16
For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
Psalms 62:3
How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
Proverbs 5:23
He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.
Ecclesiastes 9:4
For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Isaiah 56:11
Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
Matthew 15:26
But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
Matthew 15:27
But she said, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”
2 Peter 2:22
But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”
Revelation 21:8
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
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Psalms 54:2
Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth.
Psalms 54:6
With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, Yahweh, for it is good.
Psalms 54:7
For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.
Jeremiah 20:11
But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.
Jeremiah 20:12
But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.
Luke 18:7
Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
Revelation 18:20
“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets, for God has judged your judgment on her.”
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Psalms 55:23
But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
Psalms 136:15
but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea, for his loving kindness endures forever;
Psalms 136:16
to him who led his people through the wilderness, for his loving kindness endures forever;
Psalms 136:17
to him who struck great kings, for his loving kindness endures forever;
Psalms 136:18
and killed mighty kings, for his loving kindness endures forever;
Psalms 136:19
Sihon king of the Amorites, for his loving kindness endures forever;
Psalms 136:20
Og king of Bashan, for his loving kindness endures forever;
Psalms 143:12
In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.
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Psalms 105:31
He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.
Psalms 118:12
They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In Yahweh’s name I cut them off.
Proverbs 6:6
Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;
Proverbs 30:25
The ants are not a strong people, yet they provide their food in the summer.
Proverbs 30:28
You can catch a lizard with your hands, yet it is in kings’ palaces.
Isaiah 7:18
It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
Isaiah 50:9
Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.
Isaiah 59:5
They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
Hosea 5:12
Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.
Matthew 6:19
“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
Matthew 23:24
You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!
James 5:2
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
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Psalms 119:121
I have done what is just and righteous. Don’t leave me to my oppressors.
Acts 21:16
Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we would stay.
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Psalms 3:1
Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
Psalms 35:19
Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
Psalms 38:19
But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
Psalms 57:2
I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my requests for me.
Psalms 57:3
He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah.God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.
Psalms 57:4
My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalms 58:1
Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?
Psalms 59:3
For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.
Psalms 109:3
They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
Psalms 142:6
Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.
Romans 8:33
Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.
Romans 8:37
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
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Exodus 8:21
Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground they are on.
Exodus 23:28
I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
Deuteronomy 1:44
The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you and chased you as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah.
Deuteronomy 7:20
Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.
Joshua 24:12
I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.
Judges 14:8
After a while he returned to take her, and he went over to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
Job 4:19
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
Job 8:14
whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.
Job 13:28
though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Job 27:18
He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.
Psalms 78:45
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
Ecclesiastes 10:1
Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to produce an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.
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Matthew 26:47
While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
Mark 14:48
Jesus answered them, “Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me?
Luke 22:52
Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?
Luke 22:53
When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”
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John 19:5
Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”
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1 Samuel 26:11
Yahweh forbid that I should stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let’s go.”
Psalms 9:8
He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
Psalms 10:15
Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
Psalms 10:16
Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.
Psalms 10:17
Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
Psalms 10:18
to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.
Psalms 54:1
Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.
Psalms 54:3
For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them. Selah.
Psalms 54:4
Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.
Jeremiah 20:13
Sing to Yahweh! Praise Yahweh, for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.
2 Thessalonians 1:6
For it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
Revelation 6:10
They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
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