2 Samuel 15:2
Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”
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2 Samuel 15:2
Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”
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Genesis 49:21
“Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.
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Exodus 2:5
Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her servant to get it.
Joshua 15:46
from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.
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Exodus 18:13
On the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.
Exodus 18:14
When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, “What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?”
Exodus 18:19
Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.
Exodus 18:22
Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.
Deuteronomy 17:8
If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.
Deuteronomy 17:10
You shall do according to the decisions of the verdict which they shall give you from that place which Yahweh chooses. You shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you.
Deuteronomy 17:11
According to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn away from the sentence which they announce to you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
Deuteronomy 17:12
The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.
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Numbers 35:12
The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
Joshua 20:4
He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.
Joshua 20:6
He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the man slayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.’ ”
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1 Samuel 2:23
He said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.
1 Samuel 2:24
No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear! You make Yahweh’s people disobey.
1 Samuel 2:25
If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.
1 Chronicles 22:11
Now, my son, may Yahweh be with you and prosper you, and build the house of Yahweh your God, as he has spoken concerning you.
1 Chronicles 22:12
May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel, so that you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.
1 Chronicles 22:13
Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid and don’t be dismayed.
1 Chronicles 28:9
You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
1 Chronicles 28:20
David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed, for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of Yahweh’s house is finished.
Psalms 72:1
God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.
Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
Proverbs 13:1
A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.
Proverbs 13:18
Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.
Proverbs 15:5
A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
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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.”
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1 Samuel 8:6
But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
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2 Samuel 14:3
Go in to the king and speak like this to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.
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2 Samuel 15:15
The king’s servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses.”
2 Samuel 15:16
The king went out, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.
2 Samuel 15:17
The king went out, and all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth Merhak.
2 Samuel 15:18
All his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
Psalms 3:1
Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
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2 Samuel 15:37
So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city; and Absalom came into Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 16:16
When Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, had come to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”
2 Samuel 16:17
Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?”
2 Samuel 16:18
Hushai said to Absalom, “No; but whomever Yahweh and this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, I will be his, and I will stay with him.
2 Samuel 16:19
Again, whom should I serve? Shouldn’t I serve in the presence of his son? As I have served in your father’s presence, so I will be in your presence.”
2 Samuel 17:7
Hushai said to Absalom, “The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good.”
2 Samuel 17:8
Hushai said moreover, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
2 Samuel 17:9
Behold, he is now hidden in some pit, or in some other place. It will happen, when some of them have fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, ‘There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom!’
2 Samuel 17:10
Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.
2 Samuel 17:11
But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.
2 Samuel 17:12
So we will come on him in some place where he will be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground, then we will not leave so much as one of him and of all the men who are with him.
2 Samuel 17:13
Moreover, if he has gone into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there isn’t one small stone found there.”
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 22:13
The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good.”
Proverbs 27:14
He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.
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2 Samuel 18:14
Then Joab said, “I’m not going to wait like this with you.” He took three darts in his hand and thrust them through Absalom’s heart while he was still alive in the middle of the oak.
2 Samuel 18:19
Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, “Let me now run and carry the king news, how Yahweh has avenged him of his enemies.”
2 Samuel 18:33
The king was much moved, and went up to the room over the gate and wept. As he went, he said, “My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! I wish I had died instead of you, Absalom, my son, my son!”
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1 Kings 3:17
The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.
1 Kings 3:18
The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.
1 Kings 3:19
This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it.
1 Kings 3:20
She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
1 Kings 3:21
When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead; but when I had looked at him in the morning, behold, it was not my son whom I bore.”
1 Kings 3:22
The other woman said, “No! But the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.” The first one said, “No! But the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” They argued like this before the king.
1 Kings 3:23
Then the king said, “One says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other says, ‘No! But your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’ ”
1 Kings 3:24
The king said, “Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king.
1 Kings 3:25
The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”
1 Kings 3:26
Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”
1 Kings 3:27
Then the king answered, “Give the first woman the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother.”
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1 Kings 7:7
He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment; and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.
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2 Kings 15:5
Yahweh struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. Jotham, the king’s son, was over the household, judging the people of the land.
Hosea 5:5
The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.
Acts 12:22
The people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”
Acts 12:23
Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.
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2 Chronicles 10:7
They spoke to him, saying, “If you are kind to these people, please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”
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Deuteronomy 22:15
then the young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.
Deuteronomy 25:7
If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”
Ruth 4:11
All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.
Job 5:4
His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;
Psalms 69:12
Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.
Proverbs 1:21
She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:
Proverbs 31:23
Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.
Isaiah 29:21
who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for one who reproves in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.
Jeremiah 14:2
“Judah mourns, and its gates languish. They sit in black on the ground. The cry of Jerusalem goes up.
Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
Zechariah 8:16
These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,
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Psalms 36:11
Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.
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 55:3
because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.
Psalms 86:14
God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don’t hold regard for you before them.
Psalms 119:51
The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.
Psalms 119:69
The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
Psalms 119:85
The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.
Psalms 140:5
The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
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Job 7:18
that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
Psalms 37:6
he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun.
Psalms 73:14
For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.
Psalms 90:14
Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Psalms 143:8
Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.
Hosea 6:3
Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
Hosea 6:5
Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.
Zephaniah 3:5
Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.
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Job 24:14
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
Proverbs 1:16
for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
Proverbs 4:16
For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Matthew 27:1
Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.
Luke 22:66
As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,
John 18:28
They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
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Ecclesiastes 9:18
Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good.
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Psalms 86:2
Preserve my soul, for I am godly. You, my God, save your servant who trusts in you.
Isaiah 54:17
No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.
Matthew 16:18
I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
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Jeremiah 1:15
For behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north,” says Yahweh. “They will come, and they will each set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of Judah.
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2 Samuel 17:1
Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.
Jeremiah 28:2
“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Jeremiah 28:3
Within two full years I will bring again into this place all the vessels of Yahweh’s house that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon.
Jeremiah 28:4
I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, who went to Babylon,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’ ”
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Jeremiah 26:10
When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to Yahweh’s house; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of Yahweh’s house.
Amos 5:15
Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
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