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a.yin H5869

עַ֫יִן (a.yin) means “eye” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

עַ֫יִן Hebrew · H5869 887 tagged occurrences in 827 verses

Pronunciation guide: ah'-yin Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H5869A

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · eye

: eye 1) eye 1a) eye 1a1) of physical eye 1a2) as showing mental qualities 1a3) of mental and spiritual faculties (fig.)

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TBESH · H5869B

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · Fountain (Gate)

§ spring, fountain

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TBESH · H5869G

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · Fountain of

§ spring, fountain

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TBESH · H5869H

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · eye: seeing

: seeing 1) eye 1a) eye 1a1) of physical eye 1a2) as showing mental qualities 1a3) of mental and spiritual faculties (fig.)

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TBESH · H5869I

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · eye: appearance

: appearance 1) eye 1a) eye 1a1) of physical eye 1a2) as showing mental qualities 1a3) of mental and spiritual faculties (fig.)

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TBESH · H5869J

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · eye: before(the eyes)

: before(the_eyes) 1) eye 1a) eye 1a1) of physical eye 1a2) as showing mental qualities 1a3) of mental and spiritual faculties (fig.)

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TBESH · H5869K

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · eye: sin

: sin 1) eye 1a) eye 1a1) of physical eye 1a2) as showing mental qualities 1a3) of mental and spiritual faculties (fig.)

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TBESH · H5869M

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · spring

spring, fountain

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

probably a primitive word; an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)

KJV glosses: affliction, outward appearance, [phrase] before, [phrase] think best, colour, conceit, [phrase] be content, countenance, [phrase] displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, [phrase] favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), [idiom] him, [phrase] humble, knowledge, look, ([phrase] well), [idiom] me, open(-ly), [phrase] (not) please, presence, [phrase] regard, resemblance, sight, [idiom] thee, [idiom] them, [phrase] think, [idiom] us, well, [idiom] you(-rselves).

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How translators render H5869

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
in the sight	106
my eyes	51
your eyes	38
in the eyes	36
in your sight	29
eyes	27
his eyes	25
the eyes	19
eye	17
in my sight	16
in your eyes	16
in his sight	12
their eyes	11
with your own eyes	11
in his own eyes	10
in the presence	9
the eye	8
before their eyes	7
before your very eyes	6
before your eyes	5
in his eyes	5
in their sight	5
our eyes	5
sight	5
the spring	5
to the eyes	5
to you	5
and his eyes	4
and my eyes	4
as they watch	4
before his eyes	4
from my eyes	4
the face	4
the fountain	4
to him	4
your sight	4
before	3
before our eyes	3
her eyes	3
in full view	3
in my eyes	3
may your eyes	3
of your eyes	3
seemed	3
they have eyes	3
to my eyes	3
up my eyes	3
with his eyes	3
with my own eyes	3
with your eyes	3
you	3
a spring	2
and	2
and your eyes	2
as the eyes	2
but the eyes	2
do you really believe	2
him	2
his sight	2
in their own eyes	2
in your own eyes	2
let your eyes	2
look	2
look on them	2
me	2
of his eye	2
springs	2
to	2
to eye	2
to the spring	2
vvv	2
what you think	2
whose eyes	2
with eyes	2
your own eyes	2
a gleam	1
and as i watched	1
and as they watch	1
and eyes	1
and fountains	1
and his gaze	1
and in full view of the people	1
and in the presence	1
and it seemed	1
and its appearance	1
and let us feast our eyes	1
and let your eyes	1
and may the eyes	1
and the eyes	1
and those who	1
and thought	1
and turn their eyes	1
and watch	1
and your own eyes	1
appear to you	1
are their eyes	1
as for the eye	1
as he looks on	1
as i watched	1
as my eyes	1
as the gleam	1
as they watched	1
as you please	1
as you see	1
be	1
before them	1
but his eyes	1
but pay no regard	1
but your eyes	1
by	1
by the spring	1
by what his eyes	1
can see it	1
do you have eyes	1
do your eyes	1
every eye	1
eyesight	1
face	1
for eye	1
for myself	1
from	1
from his sight	1
from my sight	1
from the eyes	1
glance of your eyes	1
gleamed	1
gleaming	1
he sees	1
his eye	1
his eyes are	1
his eyes tightly	1
i valued	1
i will cause your eyes	1
i will not look upon you	1
in appearance	1
in my presence	1
in our eyes	1
in our own sight	1
in the sight of the people	1
in your presence	1
iniquity	1
is their iniquity	1
it seemed	1
it seems	1
it with your own eyes	1
let his eyes	1
let your eyes be on	1
like	1
like the gleam	1
look after	1
look in his eyes	1
man has eyes	1
may their eyes	1
my eyes favor	1
my sight	1
myself	1
of my eyes	1
of the eyes	1
of the springs	1
of their eyes	1
of your eye	1
our eyes are	1
our very eyes	1
pleased	1
presence	1
regard it	1
seem	1
show pity	1
sight of them	1
sight of this	1
so that you look upon	1
so the eyes	1
that our eyes	1
the gleam	1
the notice	1
the outward appearance	1
the well	1
them	1
then the eyes	1
this spring	1
thought	1
to displease	1
to face	1
to his eyes	1
to our eyes	1
to see	1
to the eye	1
to your eyes	1
to your face	1
transgression	1
turn your eyes	1
us	1
value	1
was a gleam	1
was also displeased	1
was like that	1
were pleased	1
what the eye	1
whatever seems	1
when the fountains	1
when they saw	1
wherever it seems	1
while they watch	1
while your eyes	1
who has an eye	1
who have eyes	1
whose eyesight	1
with my eyes	1
with their eyes	1
with you	1
with yourselves	1
without the knowledge	1
yet his eyes	1
you considered	1
you please	1
you saw him	1
you will look	1
your eye	1
your eyes look	1
your very eyes	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
in the sight	118
mine eyes	35
his eyes	33
in thy sight	27
thine eyes	27
in the eyes	22
the eyes	19
in my sight	16
mine eye	13
their eyes	13
eyes	12
in their sight	12
in thine eyes	12
eye	11
in his sight	10
pleased	10
and his eyes	9
before their eyes	9
before	7
in his own eyes	7
in your eyes	7
the eye	7
and thine eyes	6
your eyes	6
and mine eyes	5
and the eyes	5
before mine eyes	5
before your eyes	5
in mine eyes	5
of thine eyes	5
with thine eyes	5
and mine eye	4
as the colour	4
before his eyes	4
before thine eyes	4
displeased	4
from mine eyes	4
her eyes	4
in his eyes	4
in his own conceit	4
in the presence	4
in whose sight	4
of eyes	4
the face	4
well	4
which thine eyes	4
and in the sight	3
between thine eyes	3
for eye	3
from the eyes	3
in their own eyes	3
look	3
looks	3
now thine eyes	3
of the eyes	3
our eyes	3
that thine eyes	3
unto the well	3
what seemeth	3
with his eyes	3
and in the eyes	2
and in the presence	2
and their eyes	2
and thine eye	2
be in his sight	2
before our eyes	2
between his eyes	2
between your eyes	2
but having his eyes	2
but the eyes	2
but thine eyes	2
by a fountain	2
by the well	2
for his eyes	2
for mine eyes	2
for the eyes	2
from thine eyes	2
his colour	2
his eye	2
in her eyes	2
in our sight	2
in them in the sight	2
in your sight	2
it pleased	2
let thine eyes	2
not eyes	2
of his eye	2
of his eyes	2
of the fountain	2
of their eyes	2
of thine eye	2
thee in the sight	2
them before your eyes	2
thereof as the colour	2
thine eye	2
thinkest	2
to the eyes	2
unto thee	2
which have eyes	2
whose eyes	2
with mine eyes	2
with the eye	2
with their eyes	2
all that seemed	1
also	1
also was displeased	1
an open	1
and	1
and also in the sight	1
and as for me also mine eye	1
and at the fountain	1
and behold your eyes	1
and convenient	1
and eyes	1
and he thought	1
and his eye	1
and his eyebrows	1
and i will look well	1
and it displease	1
and it displeased	1
and it pleased	1
and let our eye	1
and let thine eyes	1
and no eye	1
and so we were in their sight	1
and that seemed good	1
and that the eyes	1
and the colour	1
and they seemed	1
and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes	1
and we were in our own sight	1
and what do thy eyes	1
and whatsoever mine eyes	1
and your eyes	1
and your own eyes	1
any more but thine eyes	1
are their eyes	1
as for us our eyes	1
as it seemeth	1
as seemed	1
as the eyes	1
as thine eyes	1
at the well	1
before the eyes	1
behold as the eyes	1
behold the eye	1
behold the eyes	1
but mine eyes	1
but now mine eye	1
but our eyes	1
but your eyes	1
by a well	1
by the fountain	1
countenance	1
displease	1
even the eyes	1
eyed	1
face	1
for me	1
for myself and mine eyes	1
for thine eyes	1
for us that our eyes	1
fountains	1
from his face	1
from me and with their eyes	1
from my sight	1
furrows	1
hast thou eyes	1
he was content	1
her eye	1
her face	1
her for me for she pleaseth me well	1
him and look well	1
him and they pleased	1
him before their eyes	1
himself in his own eyes	1
i pray you how mine eyes	1
i was eyes	1
if it seem good	1
if she please	1
in his eye	1
in his eye sight	1
in his eyesight	1
in mine own sight	1
in our eyes	1
in their eyes	1
in thine own eyes	1
in thine own sight	1
in thyself in the sight	1
in whose eyes	1
in you before	1
in you before their eyes	1
it displeased	1
it unto whom it seemed	1
it with his eyes	1
it with thine eyes	1
let i beseech thee thine eyes	1
let it not displease	1
let not your eye	1
let their eyes	1
like in colour	1
like the colour	1
like unto the colour	1
lo mine eye	1
looketh	1
me and i shall seem	1
me and when the eye	1
me in the eyes	1
me now therefore if it displease thee	1
neither hath the eye	1
neither have our eyes	1
neither is his eye	1
neither shall mine eye	1
neither shall thine eyes	1
nevertheless mine eye	1
no eye	1
no eyes	1
none eye	1
nor mine eyes	1
not his eyes	1
not in your eyes	1
not thine eyes	1
now mine eyes	1
now the eyes	1
now therefore in the sight	1
of fountains	1
of mine eyes	1
of the eye	1
of the fountains	1
of thee in the sight	1
of thy sight	1
of your eyes	1
on mine affliction	1
on the outward appearance	1
only with thine eyes	1
openly	1
or have caused the eyes	1
or the eye	1
our eye	1
out of his sight	1
over him in thy sight	1
peradventure it will please	1
person	1
pleased me well	1
seemeth	1
should seem vile	1
sight	1
so in the sight	1
so our eyes	1
so the eyes	1
that it pleased	1
that thou displease	1
that which seemeth	1
the fountain	1
the fountains	1
thee in the presence	1
thee not	1
thee thine eye	1
thee with mine eye	1
their eye	1
their resemblance	1
them and your eyes	1
them with her eyes	1
then it had pleased thee well	1
then the eyes	1
then was i in his eyes	1
thereof then your eyes	1
thereof when the eyes	1
thinking to have brought	1
thou mine eyes	1
thou unto us whatsoever seemeth	1
thought	1
thy eyes	1
thy face	1
to eye	1
to face	1
to her as it pleaseth thee	1
to him that which shall seem good	1
to him what shall seem good	1
to me as seemeth	1
to mine eyes	1
to the eye	1
to the well	1
to thee	1
to thine eyes	1
to whom they think	1
unto	1
unto him	1
unto him in the presence	1
unto him in the sight	1
unto him neither shall thine eye	1
unto thee but if it seem ill	1
unto them if ye think	1
unto them let mine eyes	1
unto them what seemeth	1
upon his eyes	1
upon his face	1
upon thee in the sight	1
upon thine eyes	1
us	1
was displeased	1
wells	1
what he thought	1
whatsoever seemeth	1
where it pleaseth	1
wheresoever it seemeth convenient	1
which pleaseth	1
whom	1
whom thine eyes	1
with me and doth not mine eye	1
with me as seemeth	1
with them as it seemeth	1
with them what seemeth	1
with us all that seemeth	1
with your eyes	1
with yourselves	1
without the knowledge	1
yet his eyes	1
you	1

Verses containing H5869

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2 Kings 1:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. And the third captain went up, fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, “Man of God, may my life and the lives of these fifty servants of yours please be precious in your sight.
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2 Kings 1:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, fire has come down from heaven and consumed the first two captains of fifty, with all their men. But now may my life be precious in your sight.”
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2 Kings 3:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as his father and mother had done. He removed the sacred pillar of Baal that his father had made.
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2 Kings 3:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is a simple matter in the sight of the LORD, and He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.
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2 Kings 4:34 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then Elisha got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eye to eye, and hand to hand. As he stretched himself out over him, the boy’s body became warm.
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2 Kings 4:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Elisha turned away and paced back and forth across the room. Then he got on the bed and stretched himself out over the boy again, and the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
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2 Kings 6:17 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then Elisha prayed, “O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.” And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw that the hills were full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
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2 Kings 6:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences
When they had entered Samaria, Elisha said, “O LORD, open the eyes of these men that they may see.” Then the LORD opened their eyes, and they looked around and discovered that they were in Samaria.
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2 Kings 7:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”
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2 Kings 7:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the officer had answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” So Elisha had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”
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2 Kings 8:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.
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2 Kings 8:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Ahaziah walked in the ways of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
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2 Kings 9:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window.
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2 Kings 10:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the palace administrator, the overseer of the city, the elders, and the guardians sent a message to Jehu: “We are your servants, and we will do whatever you say. We will not make anyone king. Do whatever is good in your sight.”
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2 Kings 10:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Nevertheless, the LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in My sight and have done to the house of Ahab all that was in My heart, four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel.”
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2 Kings 12:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days he was instructed by Jehoiada the priest.
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2 Kings 13:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and followed the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit; he did not turn away from them.
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2 Kings 13:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and did not turn away from all the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit, but he walked in them.
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2 Kings 14:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father David had done. He did everything as his father Joash had done.
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2 Kings 14:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and did not turn away from all the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.
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2 Kings 15:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.
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2 Kings 15:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.
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2 Kings 15:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and throughout his reign he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.
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2 Kings 15:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.
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2 Kings 15:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.
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2 Kings 15:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah had done.
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2 Kings 16:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. And unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God.
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2 Kings 17:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not like the kings of Israel who preceded him.
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2 Kings 17:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and soothsaying. They devoted themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
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2 Kings 18:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done.
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2 Kings 19:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.
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2 Kings 19:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
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2 Kings 20:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
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2 Kings 21:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
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2 Kings 21:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
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2 Kings 21:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
because they have done evil in My sight and have provoked Me to anger from the day their fathers came out of Egypt until this day.’”
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2 Kings 21:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
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2 Kings 21:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done.
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2 Kings 22:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
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2 Kings 22:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
‘Therefore I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place.’” So they brought her answer back to the king.
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2 Kings 23:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his fathers had done.
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2 Kings 23:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his fathers had done.
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2 Kings 24:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his father had done.
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2 Kings 24:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Zedekiah did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.
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2 Kings 25:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.
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1 Chronicles 2:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanite. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD. So the LORD put him to death.
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1 Chronicles 13:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And because this proposal seemed right to all the people, the whole assembly agreed to it.
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1 Chronicles 17:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And as if this was a small thing in Your eyes, O God, You have spoken about the future of the house of Your servant and have regarded me as a man of great distinction, O LORD God.
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1 Chronicles 19:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun, “Just because David has sent you comforters, do you really believe he is showing respect for your father? Have not his servants come to you to explore the land, spy it out, and overthrow it?”
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1 Chronicles 19:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Be strong and let us fight bravely for our people and for the cities of our God. May the LORD do what is good in His sight.”
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