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1 Chronicles 13:4

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And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
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  1. 1 Samuel 18:20Rank 1 from verse 4
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    20And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

  2. 2 Chronicles 30:4Rank 2 from verse 4
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    4And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.

  3. 2 Samuel 3:36Rank 3 from verse 4
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    36And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.

  4. Esther 8:5Rank 4 from verse 4
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    5And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king’s provinces:

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1 Chronicles 13:4

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congregation

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1. A gathered assembly, company, or community of people, or the people considered together as a body. 2. In the fixed expressions "tabernacle of the congregation" and "tent of the congregation," part of the name of the appointed meeting place.

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for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

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right

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1. Correct, just, upright, proper, lawful, fitting, true, or due; also a rightful claim or authority. 2. The direction or side opposite the left. 3. Straight, favourable, skilful, or approved. 4. Very, quite, or fully.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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eyes

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The bodily organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, observation, perception, understanding, desire, judgment, estimation, favour, or the presence and view before which something occurs.

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people

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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.

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13:1AND David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.

13:2And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the Lord our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:

13:3And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we inquired not at it in the days of Saul.

13:4And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.

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13:5So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjath-jearim.

13:6And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjath-jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the Lord, that dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is called on it.

13:7And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart.

13:8And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

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