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- Ruth 1:12
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,
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- Ruth 1:13
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would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it is much more bitter for me than for you, because the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”
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- Ruth 2:1
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Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a prominent man of noble character from the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.
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- Ruth 2:11
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Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.
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- Ruth 2:19
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Then her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today, and where did you work? Blessed be the man who noticed you.” So she told her mother-in-law where she had worked. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.
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- Ruth 2:20
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Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not withdrawn His kindness from the living or the dead.” Naomi continued, “The man is a close relative. He is one of our kinsman-redeemers.”
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- Ruth 3:3
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Therefore wash yourself, put on perfume, and wear your best clothes. Go down to the threshing floor, but do not let the man know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.
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- Ruth 3:8
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At midnight, Boaz was startled, turned over, and there lying at his feet was a woman!
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- Ruth 3:14
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So she lay down at his feet until morning, but she got up before anyone else could recognize her. Then Boaz said, “Do not let it be known that a woman came to the threshing floor.”
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- Ruth 3:16
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When Ruth returned to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked her, “How did it go, my daughter?” Then Ruth told her all that Boaz had done for her.
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- Ruth 3:18
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“Wait, my daughter,” said Naomi, “until you find out how things go, for he will not rest unless he has resolved the matter today.”
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- Ruth 4:7
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Now in former times in Israel, concerning the redemption or exchange of property, to make any matter legally binding a man would remove his sandal and give it to the other party, and this was a confirmation in Israel.
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- 1 Samuel 1:1
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Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
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- 1 Samuel 1:3
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Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.
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- 1 Samuel 1:8
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“Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why is your heart so grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
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- 1 Samuel 1:21
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Then Elkanah and all his house went up to make the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow,
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- 1 Samuel 1:22
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but Hannah did not go. “After the boy is weaned,” she said to her husband, “I will take him to appear before the LORD and to stay there permanently.”
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- 1 Samuel 1:23
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“Do what you think is best,” her husband Elkanah replied, “and stay here until you have weaned him. Only may the LORD confirm His word.” So Hannah stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.
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- 1 Samuel 2:9
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He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
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- 1 Samuel 2:13
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or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling
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- 1 Samuel 2:15
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Even before the fat was burned, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast, because he will not accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”
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- 1 Samuel 2:16
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And if any man said to him, “The fat must be burned first; then you may take whatever you want,” the servant would reply, “No, you must give it to me right now. If you refuse, I will take it by force!”
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- 1 Samuel 2:19
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Each year his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him when she went with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.
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- 1 Samuel 2:25
· BSB · 3 occurrences
If a man sins against another man, God can intercede for him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to their father, since the LORD intended to put them to death.
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- 1 Samuel 2:27
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Then a man of God came to Eli and told him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Did I not clearly reveal Myself to your father’s house when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh’s house?
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- 1 Samuel 2:33
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And every one of you that I do not cut off from My altar, I will cause your eyes to fail and your heart to grieve. All your descendants will die by the sword of men.
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- 1 Samuel 4:2
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The Philistines arrayed themselves against Israel, and as the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who struck down about four thousand men on the battlefield.
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- 1 Samuel 4:10
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So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great—thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.
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- 1 Samuel 4:12
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That same day a Benjamite ran from the battle line all the way to Shiloh, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head.
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- 1 Samuel 4:13
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When he arrived, there was Eli, sitting on his chair beside the road and watching, because his heart trembled for the ark of God. When the man entered the city to give a report, the whole city cried out.
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- 1 Samuel 4:14
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Eli heard the outcry and asked, “Why this commotion?” So the man hurried over and reported to Eli.
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- 1 Samuel 4:16
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“I have just come from the battle,” the man said to Eli. “I fled from there today.” “What happened, my son?” Eli asked.
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- 1 Samuel 4:18
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As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.
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- 1 Samuel 4:19
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Now Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news of the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth, for her labor pains overtook her.
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- 1 Samuel 4:21
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And she named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God had been captured and her father-in-law and her husband had been killed.
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- 1 Samuel 6:19
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But God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter.
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- 1 Samuel 8:22
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“Listen to their voice,” the LORD said to Samuel. “Appoint a king for them.” Then Samuel told the men of Israel, “Everyone must go back to his city.”
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- 1 Samuel 9:1
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Now there was a Benjamite, a powerful man, whose name was Kish son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah of Benjamin.
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- 1 Samuel 9:2
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And he had a son named Saul, choice and handsome, without equal among the Israelites—a head taller than any of the people.
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- 1 Samuel 9:6
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“Look,” said the servant, “in this city there is a man of God who is highly respected; everything he says surely comes to pass. Let us go there now. Perhaps he will tell us which way to go.”
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- 1 Samuel 9:7
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“If we do go,” Saul replied, “what can we give the man? For the bread in our packs is gone, and there is no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?”
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- 1 Samuel 9:8
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The servant answered him again. “Look,” he said, “I have here in my hand a quarter shekel of silver. I will give it to the man of God, and he will tell us our way.”
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- 1 Samuel 9:9
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(Formerly in Israel, a man on his way to inquire of God would say, “Come, let us go to the seer.” For the prophet of today was formerly called the seer.)
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- 1 Samuel 9:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Good,” said Saul to his servant. “Come, let us go.” So they set out for the city where the man of God was.
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- 1 Samuel 9:16
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“At this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you are to anoint him ruler over My people Israel; he will save them from the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked upon My people, because their cry has come to Me.”
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- 1 Samuel 9:17
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When Samuel saw Saul, the LORD told him, “Here is the man of whom I spoke; he shall rule over My people.”
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- 1 Samuel 9:22
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Then Samuel took Saul and his servant, brought them into the hall, and seated them in the place of honor among those who were invited—about thirty in all.
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- 1 Samuel 10:6
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Then the Spirit of the LORD will rush upon you, and you will prophesy with them; and you will be transformed into a different person.
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- 1 Samuel 10:11
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When all those who had formerly known Saul saw him prophesying with the prophets, they asked one another, “What has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”
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- 1 Samuel 10:12
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Then a man who lived there replied, “And who is their father?” So the saying became a proverb: “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
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