KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Judges 7:1–6
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Judges 7:1
1THEN Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
1¶ Then Ierubbaal (who is Gideon) and all the people that were with him, rose vp earely, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the hoste of the Midianites were on the North side of them by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
Judges 7:2
2And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
2And the LORD said vnto Gideon, The people that are with thee, are too many for me to giue the Midianites into their handes, lest Israel vaunt themselues against mee, saying, Mine owne hand hath saued me.
Judges 7:3
3Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
3Now therefore go to, proclaime in the eares of the people, saying, *Whosoeuer is fearefull and afraid, let him returne and depart earely from mount Gilead: and there returned of the people twentie and two thousand, & there remained ten thousand.
- Deut. 20.8. 1.mac. 3.56.
Judges 7:4
4And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.
4And the LORD said vnto Gideon, The people are yet too many: bring them downe vnto the water, and I wil trie them for thee there: and it shall bee that of whome I say vnto thee, This shall goe with thee, the same shall goe with thee: and of whomsoeuer I say vnto thee, This shal not goe with thee, the same shall not goe.
Judges 7:5
5So he brought down the people unto the water: and the Lord said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
5So he brought downe the people vnto the water: and the LORD sayd vnto Gideon, Euery one that lappeth of the water with his tongue as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himselfe, likewise euery one that boweth downe vpon his knees to drinke.
Judges 7:6
6And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
6And the number of them that lapped putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed downe vpon their knees to drinke water.
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DEFINED WORDS
Judges 7:1
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
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Arose, stood up, or went upward; also a fragrant flower, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Near the beginning of a time; soon or before the usual time.
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Set; planted; fixed; thrown headlong; set in array; smeared with pitch.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
At the side of; apart from; or in addition to.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893)
In a good, right, or healthy manner or condition; also a deep source of water, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
An army or organized multitude; also one who receives guests.
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The northern direction, side, quarter, or region named by the verse.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
A lateral part, edge, or surface; also a party or position in a dispute.
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Low ground between hills or mountains, often watered by a stream.
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DEFINED WORDS
Judges 7:2
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
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A great number; numerous persons or things.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To grant, hand, offer, supply, yield, or cause to have.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The end parts of the arms used for holding and working; also figures of power, possession, agency, or aid.
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That not; for fear that.
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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called in Scripture.
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To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments or decorations; to talk with vain ostentation; to brag.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893)
Belonging to oneself; peculiar or proper to the person or thing named.
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The part of the body at the end of the arm; figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.
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Preserved or delivered from danger, injury, destruction, or loss; rescued, spared, or kept alive.
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Judges 7:3
To promulgate; to announce; to publish. To utter openly; to make public.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
The organ of hearing; also, the seed-bearing head of grain.
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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
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Whoever; any person who, without restriction in the stated class.
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Afraid or full of fear; also causing fear or terrible, according to context.
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Fearful or apprehensive.
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To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
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To go, come, send, or give back; to restore, answer, or turn again.
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To leave; to deviate from; to forsake; not to adhere to or follow. To leave; to forsake; to abandon.
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Near the beginning of a time; soon or before the usual time.
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A mountain or hill; as a verb, to ascend or rise.
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Came, sent, or gave back; restored or repaid.
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The number equal to one and one.
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Continued, stayed, or was left after others departed or were removed.
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DEFINED WORDS
Judges 7:4
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
A great number; numerous persons or things.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
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The common liquid necessary for life; as a verb, to supply with water, irrigate, or cause to drink.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To test, examine, search, prove, or discern the person, heart, spirit, work, words, or way named.
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To speak, declare, tell, or express; also what is said.
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Judges 7:5
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
The common liquid necessary for life; as a verb, to supply with water, irrigate, or cause to drink.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Each one of all; all taken separately, without exception in the stated group.
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The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The organ of speech; a language; speech or manner of speaking.
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A domestic canine; figuratively, a contemptible, hostile, or unclean person.
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To place, fix, appoint, establish, or prescribe; also fixed or determined.
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In like manner; also or similarly.
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The joint between the thigh and lower leg, especially as bent or bowed.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
DEFINED WORDS
Judges 7:6
A count or quantity; also to count, reckon, appoint, or include among a group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Drank by taking up water with the tongue; also folded or wrapped over.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Setting, placing, laying, applying, appointing, or moving the person or thing into the stated position or office.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
The part of the body at the end of the arm; figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.
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The opening used for eating and speaking; also an opening, edge, command, or testimony by extension.
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The number following two and preceding four.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The number equal to ten times ten.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893) · KJV usage
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
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Repose, relief, or cessation from labour; also what remains.
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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
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Bent, stooped, inclined, or brought low in body, will, or condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
The joint between the thigh and lower leg, especially as bent or bowed.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
The common liquid necessary for life; as a verb, to supply with water, irrigate, or cause to drink.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study32Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar.
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Open the full verse study6¶ And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
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Open the full verse study10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
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Open the full verse study30Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
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Open the full verse study3¶ And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
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Open the full verse study1AND Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.
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Open the full verse study12¶ And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord.
From verse 2
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Open the full verse study17And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.
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Open the full verse study27But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
28And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
29That no flesh should glory in his presence.
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Open the full verse study7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
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Open the full verse study18Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
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Open the full verse study7The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.
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Open the full verse study6Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.
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Open the full verse study4And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
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Open the full verse study6And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the Lord will work for us: for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few.
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Open the full verse study27Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this.
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Open the full verse study17Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
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Open the full verse study11And Asa cried unto the Lord his God, and said, Lord, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O Lord our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O Lord, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.
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Open the full verse study30The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
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Open the full verse study2Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
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Open the full verse study16Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
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Open the full verse study13For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:
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Open the full verse study23¶ Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
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Open the full verse study27Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
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Open the full verse study4(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
5Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
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Open the full verse study9Not of works, lest any man should boast.
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Open the full verse study17And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
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Open the full verse study6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
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Open the full verse study11The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
From verse 3
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Open the full verse study8And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren’s heart faint as well as his heart.
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Open the full verse study14These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
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Open the full verse study16So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
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Open the full verse study8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
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Open the full verse study25¶ And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them,
26If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
27And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
28For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
29Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
30Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
31Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
32Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.
33So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
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Open the full verse study21Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
From verse 4
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Open the full verse study16There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
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Open the full verse study7But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
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Open the full verse study6And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the Lord will work for us: for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few.
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Open the full verse study10But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
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Open the full verse study2But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
3And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.
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Open the full verse study9Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
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Open the full verse study1AND it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
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Open the full verse study27I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
28They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
29The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
30Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.
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Open the full verse study10For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
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