2 Samuel 16:2
The king said to Ziba, “What do you mean by these?” Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that those who are faint in the wilderness may drink.”
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2 Samuel 16:2
The king said to Ziba, “What do you mean by these?” Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that those who are faint in the wilderness may drink.”
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Genesis 21:29
Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs, which you have set by themselves, mean?”
Genesis 33:8
Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?” Jacob said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”
Ezekiel 15:1
Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 37:18
“When the children of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Won’t you show us what you mean by these?’
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Genesis 33:9
Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”
Genesis 33:10
Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.
Genesis 33:11
Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged him, and he took it.
1 Samuel 25:35
So David received from her hand that which she had brought him. Then he said to her, “Go up in peace to your house. Behold, I have listened to your voice and have granted your request.”
Proverbs 17:8
A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns, he prospers.
Proverbs 18:16
A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.
Micah 7:3
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe. The powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
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Deuteronomy 26:1
It shall be, when you have come in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, possess it, and dwell in it,
Deuteronomy 26:2
that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
Deuteronomy 26:3
You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, “I profess today to Yahweh your God, that I have come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.”
Deuteronomy 26:4
The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before Yahweh your God’s altar.
Isaiah 28:4
The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer, which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.
Jeremiah 24:1
Yahweh showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were set before Yahweh’s temple, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
Jeremiah 24:2
One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
Jeremiah 24:3
Then Yahweh asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad are very bad, so bad that they can’t be eaten.”
Jeremiah 40:10
As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who will come to us; but you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken.”
Amos 8:1
Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
Micah 7:1
Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard. There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.
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Judges 4:10
Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh. Ten thousand men followed him; and Deborah went up with him.
Judges 8:4
Gideon came to the Jordan and passed over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing.
Judges 8:5
He said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
1 Samuel 14:28
Then one of the people answered, and said, “Your father directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’ ” So the people were faint.
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1 Samuel 10:27
But certain worthless fellows said, “How could this man save us?” They despised him, and brought him no tribute. But he held his peace.
1 Samuel 16:20
Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a container of wine, and a young goat, and sent them by David his son to Saul.
2 Samuel 15:13
A messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.”
2 Samuel 16:6
He cast stones at David and at all the servants of king David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
2 Samuel 16:7
Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and wicked fellow!
2 Samuel 16:8
Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of Saul’s house, in whose place you have reigned! Yahweh has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!”
2 Samuel 16:9
Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head.”
2 Samuel 16:10
The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”
2 Samuel 16:11
David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.
2 Samuel 16:12
It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”
2 Samuel 16:13
So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him and cursed as he went, threw stones at him, and threw dust.
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.”
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1 Samuel 25:42
Abigail hurriedly arose and rode on a donkey with her five maids who followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
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2 Samuel 3:16
Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go! Return!” and he returned.
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2 Samuel 4:4
Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the news came about Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse picked him up and fled. As she hurried to flee, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.
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?”
2 Samuel 9:9
Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s son.
2 Samuel 9:12
Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. All who lived in Ziba’s house were servants to Mephibosheth.
2 Samuel 9:13
So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for he ate continually at the king’s table. He was lame in both his feet.
2 Samuel 17:27
When David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,
2 Samuel 19:24
Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.
2 Samuel 19:28
For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should appeal any more to the king?”
2 Samuel 19:29
The king said to him, “Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land.”
2 Samuel 21:7
But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
Isaiah 32:8
But the noble devises noble things, and he will continue in noble things.
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2 Samuel 16:20
Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your counsel what we shall do.”
2 Samuel 16:21
Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s concubines that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong.”
2 Samuel 16:22
So they spread a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
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.
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.
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,
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1 Kings 10:26
Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen. He kept them in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.
Hosea 1:7
But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”
Micah 5:10
“It will happen in that day”, says Yahweh, “that I will cut off your horses from among you and will destroy your chariots.
Micah 5:11
I will cut off the cities of your land and will tear down all your strongholds.
Zechariah 9:10
I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem. The battle bow will be cut off; and he will speak peace to the nations. His dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
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Psalms 7:1
Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
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Psalms 37:1
Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.
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Proverbs 12:17
He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.
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Proverbs 18:13
He who answers before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.
Acts 24:5
For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
Acts 24:6
He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.
Acts 24:12
In the temple they didn’t find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues or in the city.
Acts 24:13
Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.
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Psalms 4:7
You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.
Psalms 104:15
wine that makes the heart of man glad, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart.
Proverbs 31:7
Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
1 Timothy 5:23
Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.
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Matthew 3:2
“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”
Luke 1:80
The child was growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.
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Matthew 21:5
“Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
John 12:15
“Don’t be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey’s colt.”
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