TBESH · H5971A
עַם · am · people
: people/nation 1) nation, people 1a) people, nation 1b) persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men
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עַם (am) means “people” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: am Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
עַם · am · people
: people/nation 1) nation, people 1a) people, nation 1b) persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men
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עַם · am · kinsman
kinsman, kindred
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עַם · am · Ammi
A man living at the time of United Monarchy, only mentioned at Sng.6.12 § kinsman, kindred
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עַם · am · People's (Gate)
§ kinsman, kindred
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עַם · am · (Ibleam)-am
Combined with yiv.le.am (יִבְלְעָם "Ibleam" H2991) § kinsman, kindred
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עַם · am · Amaw
This name means nation, people
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עַם · am · people: soldiers
: soldiers/army 1) nation, people 1a) people, nation 1b) persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men
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עַם · am · people: creatures
: creatures 1) nation, people 1a) people, nation 1b) persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men
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from H6004 (עָמַם); a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV glosses: folk, men, nation, people.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the people | 395 |
| people | 179 |
| my people | 96 |
| of the people | 67 |
| your people | 67 |
| his people | 62 |
| the peoples | 45 |
| of my people | 43 |
| and the people | 36 |
| the troops | 35 |
| peoples | 30 |
| a people | 29 |
| the nations | 26 |
| them | 18 |
| for the people | 17 |
| and his people | 15 |
| so the people | 15 |
| and your people | 13 |
| army | 13 |
| but the people | 13 |
| of the peoples | 13 |
| of his people | 12 |
| to the people | 12 |
| among the people | 11 |
| from his people | 11 |
| nations | 11 |
| of the nations | 11 |
| of the troops | 11 |
| of your people | 11 |
| his troops | 10 |
| then the people | 9 |
| among the nations | 8 |
| and the troops | 8 |
| from the people | 8 |
| let my people | 8 |
| are the people | 6 |
| they | 6 |
| to his people | 6 |
| to my people | 6 |
| and the peoples | 5 |
| her people | 5 |
| o my people | 5 |
| of peoples | 5 |
| our people | 5 |
| that the people | 5 |
| the men | 5 |
| their people | 5 |
| to your people | 5 |
| when the people | 5 |
| you people | 5 |
| are my people | 4 |
| for my people | 4 |
| his men | 4 |
| let the people | 4 |
| men | 4 |
| the army | 4 |
| vvv | 4 |
| against his people | 3 |
| among his people | 3 |
| among the peoples | 3 |
| and his troops | 3 |
| and my people | 3 |
| are a people | 3 |
| as a people | 3 |
| but my people | 3 |
| for his people | 3 |
| from a people | 3 |
| his own people | 3 |
| it to the people | 3 |
| nation | 3 |
| o people | 3 |
| o peoples | 3 |
| of people | 3 |
| of them | 3 |
| the others | 3 |
| these people | 3 |
| this people | 3 |
| to the nations | 3 |
| troops | 3 |
| against your people | 2 |
| among my people | 2 |
| among the troops | 2 |
| among your people | 2 |
| an army | 2 |
| and among their people | 2 |
| and for his people | 2 |
| and for the people | 2 |
| and his army | 2 |
| and his men | 2 |
| and of your people | 2 |
| are creatures | 2 |
| are your people | 2 |
| as do your people | 2 |
| for the peoples | 2 |
| for your people | 2 |
| from the nations | 2 |
| is like your people | 2 |
| its people | 2 |
| let the peoples | 2 |
| my people are | 2 |
| of the others | 2 |
| on the people | 2 |
| over my people | 2 |
| people of yours | 2 |
| so they | 2 |
| solomon sent the people | 2 |
| those | 2 |
| to a people | 2 |
| to let the people | 2 |
| a multitude | 1 |
| a nation | 1 |
| against my people | 1 |
| against the people | 1 |
| along with his people | 1 |
| among your own people | 1 |
| and | 1 |
| and a people | 1 |
| and all your people | 1 |
| and an army | 1 |
| and by the people | 1 |
| and have caused my people | 1 |
| and if my people | 1 |
| and its people | 1 |
| and led my people | 1 |
| and my people are | 1 |
| and our people | 1 |
| and people | 1 |
| and peoples | 1 |
| and the lives of my people | 1 |
| and the lord made his people | 1 |
| and the nations | 1 |
| and the rest of the people | 1 |
| and their people | 1 |
| and they | 1 |
| and those people | 1 |
| and troops | 1 |
| and when the people | 1 |
| and when they | 1 |
| are those | 1 |
| army appears | 1 |
| as a nation | 1 |
| as do the peoples | 1 |
| as the people | 1 |
| as the peoples | 1 |
| as they | 1 |
| before the people | 1 |
| bound the troops | 1 |
| but the followers | 1 |
| but the troops | 1 |
| by the people | 1 |
| came with your people | 1 |
| concerning the people | 1 |
| do my people | 1 |
| do the people | 1 |
| each people | 1 |
| elses | 1 |
| following | 1 |
| for the army | 1 |
| for when the people | 1 |
| for your people are like those | 1 |
| from his own people | 1 |
| had bound the people | 1 |
| had placed the troops | 1 |
| has a people | 1 |
| he brought forth his people | 1 |
| he led out his people | 1 |
| his army | 1 |
| his troops however | 1 |
| i brought my people | 1 |
| in his people | 1 |
| in my people | 1 |
| is a people | 1 |
| is his people | 1 |
| is with your own people | 1 |
| is your people | 1 |
| israels troops | 1 |
| led the people | 1 |
| let the nations | 1 |
| like people | 1 |
| like the nations | 1 |
| may peoples | 1 |
| multitude | 1 |
| my fellow townspeople | 1 |
| my own people | 1 |
| my troops | 1 |
| nevertheless the people | 1 |
| now the troops | 1 |
| now when the people | 1 |
| of any people | 1 |
| of each | 1 |
| of every people | 1 |
| of its peoples | 1 |
| of my men | 1 |
| of nations | 1 |
| of our people | 1 |
| of the men | 1 |
| of the neighboring peoples | 1 |
| of the soldiers | 1 |
| of those | 1 |
| of troops | 1 |
| offered by the people | 1 |
| on his people | 1 |
| or anyone | 1 |
| or her people | 1 |
| own | 1 |
| people for me | 1 |
| people here | 1 |
| people up | 1 |
| population | 1 |
| remain upon your people | 1 |
| send the people | 1 |
| sent the people | 1 |
| so a people | 1 |
| so davids army | 1 |
| so gideon brought the men | 1 |
| so my people | 1 |
| so that a people | 1 |
| so the forces | 1 |
| soldiers | 1 |
| than those | 1 |
| that is why the people | 1 |
| that your people | 1 |
| the other nations | 1 |
| the other people | 1 |
| the other peoples | 1 |
| the others to destruction | 1 |
| the people have | 1 |
| the people in it | 1 |
| the people of shechem | 1 |
| the people on | 1 |
| the peoples representative | 1 |
| the soldiers | 1 |
| the troops out to battle | 1 |
| the workers | 1 |
| their | 1 |
| their troops | 1 |
| then all the people | 1 |
| then his people | 1 |
| then i will let your people | 1 |
| then my people | 1 |
| then the troops | 1 |
| then you my people | 1 |
| they are my people | 1 |
| they have led my people | 1 |
| they were a people | 1 |
| this peoples | 1 |
| though the troops | 1 |
| to every people | 1 |
| to foreigners | 1 |
| to lead my people | 1 |
| to let my people | 1 |
| to one of my people | 1 |
| to the creatures | 1 |
| to the troops | 1 |
| to them | 1 |
| was a people | 1 |
| we are his people | 1 |
| what the people | 1 |
| when her people | 1 |
| when my people | 1 |
| when people | 1 |
| when peoples | 1 |
| when the troops | 1 |
| when they | 1 |
| when you have brought the people | 1 |
| when your people | 1 |
| whether its people | 1 |
| who lead my people | 1 |
| why have his people | 1 |
| will be my people | 1 |
| will make my people | 1 |
| with his people | 1 |
| with his troops | 1 |
| with the nations | 1 |
| with the people | 1 |
| with the peoples | 1 |
| with the troops | 1 |
| yet my people | 1 |
| you among the peoples | 1 |
| your merchants | 1 |
| your own people | 1 |
| your troops | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the people | 194 |
| of the people | 164 |
| and the people | 108 |
| and all the people | 105 |
| people | 103 |
| my people | 55 |
| of my people | 52 |
| his people | 44 |
| unto the people | 43 |
| thy people | 40 |
| all the people | 29 |
| this people | 29 |
| for the people | 28 |
| among the people | 21 |
| unto all the people | 21 |
| of thy people | 20 |
| a people | 19 |
| of all the people | 17 |
| of his people | 17 |
| to the people | 15 |
| of this people | 13 |
| unto his people | 13 |
| and his people | 10 |
| from the people | 10 |
| over my people | 9 |
| so the people | 9 |
| that the people | 9 |
| and to all the people | 8 |
| but the people | 8 |
| over the people | 8 |
| and my people | 7 |
| for my people | 7 |
| o my people | 7 |
| of people | 7 |
| and all his people | 6 |
| and they shall be my people | 6 |
| and thy people | 6 |
| and when the people | 6 |
| from his people | 6 |
| let my people | 6 |
| to all the people | 6 |
| to this people | 6 |
| unto thy people | 6 |
| with the people | 6 |
| behold the people | 5 |
| then the people | 5 |
| against the people | 4 |
| all ye people | 4 |
| among his people | 4 |
| and of thy people | 4 |
| from among his people | 4 |
| let the people | 4 |
| their people | 4 |
| unto a people | 4 |
| unto my people | 4 |
| unto this people | 4 |
| against his people | 3 |
| against thy people | 3 |
| all his people | 3 |
| all this people | 3 |
| among all nations | 3 |
| among all people | 3 |
| among thy people | 3 |
| and for the people | 3 |
| and this people | 3 |
| and upon thy people | 3 |
| and ye shall be my people | 3 |
| as thy people | 3 |
| but my people | 3 |
| for all people | 3 |
| for all the people | 3 |
| for his people | 3 |
| for thy people | 3 |
| he and all the people | 3 |
| him and the people | 3 |
| not my people | 3 |
| of a people | 3 |
| that all the people | 3 |
| that my people | 3 |
| to a people | 3 |
| to his people | 3 |
| to my people | 3 |
| unto all people | 3 |
| upon this people | 3 |
| with all the people | 3 |
| also and the people | 2 |
| among all the people | 2 |
| among my people | 2 |
| among you of all his people | 2 |
| and among all the people | 2 |
| and from his people | 2 |
| and it came to pass when the people | 2 |
| and of all the people | 2 |
| and people | 2 |
| and upon the people | 2 |
| as this people | 2 |
| because the people | 2 |
| behold a people | 2 |
| but all the people | 2 |
| for a people | 2 |
| for our people | 2 |
| had let the people | 2 |
| her people | 2 |
| him and his people | 2 |
| if thy people | 2 |
| let all the people | 2 |
| like thy people | 2 |
| me this people | 2 |
| not thou for this people | 2 |
| not unto the people | 2 |
| now in the presence of all his people | 2 |
| o people | 2 |
| of all people | 2 |
| of every people | 2 |
| of the nations | 2 |
| on the people | 2 |
| out of the people | 2 |
| over his people | 2 |
| so all the people | 2 |
| so that the people | 2 |
| than any of the people | 2 |
| themselves from the people | 2 |
| then all the people | 2 |
| therefore my people | 2 |
| therefore the people | 2 |
| thou the people | 2 |
| to be over my people | 2 |
| to thee for that all people | 2 |
| to thy people | 2 |
| upon my people | 2 |
| upon thy people | 2 |
| us he and all his people | 2 |
| when all the people | 2 |
| when the people | 2 |
| with him and all the people | 2 |
| ye people | 2 |
| ye the people | 2 |
| above all people | 1 |
| above all the people | 1 |
| above the people | 1 |
| after the manner of the nations | 1 |
| against my people | 1 |
| against this people | 1 |
| all her people | 1 |
| all people | 1 |
| all thy people | 1 |
| alone and of the people | 1 |
| also neither would he let the people | 1 |
| also thine own people | 1 |
| ammi | 1 |
| among all his people | 1 |
| among all this people | 1 |
| among the nations | 1 |
| among this people | 1 |
| and against the people | 1 |
| and all people | 1 |
| and all this people | 1 |
| and among the people | 1 |
| and as for the people | 1 |
| and behold the people | 1 |
| and caused my people | 1 |
| and for all the people | 1 |
| and for thy people | 1 |
| and from a people | 1 |
| and from thy people | 1 |
| and had caused my people | 1 |
| and hast made my people | 1 |
| and he did not let the people | 1 |
| and her people | 1 |
| and how the people | 1 |
| and i and all the people | 1 |
| and i and my people | 1 |
| and i will let the people | 1 |
| and if the people | 1 |
| and if thy people | 1 |
| and it came to pass when all the people | 1 |
| and it shall be as with the people | 1 |
| and let all the people | 1 |
| and nations | 1 |
| and none else and my people | 1 |
| and of what people | 1 |
| and on all the people | 1 |
| and on all thy people | 1 |
| and shall be my people | 1 |
| and so it fell out unto him for the people | 1 |
| and there shall be like people | 1 |
| and to all this people | 1 |
| and to his people | 1 |
| and to the people | 1 |
| and unto this people | 1 |
| and upon all the people | 1 |
| and when all the people | 1 |
| and when this people | 1 |
| and would to god this people | 1 |
| as people | 1 |
| at the people | 1 |
| because my people | 1 |
| because of his people | 1 |
| before all the people | 1 |
| before all thy people | 1 |
| before this people | 1 |
| behold o my people | 1 |
| behold there is a people | 1 |
| behold thy people | 1 |
| between him and between all the people | 1 |
| between my people | 1 |
| both on thee and upon thy people | 1 |
| both thou and this people | 1 |
| but made his own people | 1 |
| but not for himself and the people | 1 |
| but not on thy people | 1 |
| but that they may be my people | 1 |
| but this people | 1 |
| but when the people | 1 |
| by all this people | 1 |
| by all thy people | 1 |
| caused the people | 1 |
| concerning all the people | 1 |
| concerning the people | 1 |
| else if thou wilt not let my people | 1 |
| even all the people | 1 |
| every people | 1 |
| folk | 1 |
| for among my people | 1 |
| for as yet the people | 1 |
| for he was above all the people | 1 |
| for himself and for all the people | 1 |
| for himself and for the people | 1 |
| for it shall be upon my people | 1 |
| for me and for the people | 1 |
| for this people | 1 |
| for though thy people | 1 |
| for thyself and for the people | 1 |
| for unto this people | 1 |
| for you and the people | 1 |
| from a people | 1 |
| from all people | 1 |
| from all the people | 1 |
| from among the people | 1 |
| from hence for thy people | 1 |
| from me and from my people | 1 |
| from my people | 1 |
| from this people | 1 |
| he also shall become a people | 1 |
| he and all his people | 1 |
| he and his people | 1 |
| he and the people | 1 |
| he hath made his people | 1 |
| he the people | 1 |
| hence thou and the people | 1 |
| him and all his people | 1 |
| him for her people | 1 |
| him lo the people | 1 |
| him shall the people | 1 |
| him the people | 1 |
| him unto his people | 1 |
| himself among the people | 1 |
| himself to the people | 1 |
| his own people | 1 |
| how long will this people | 1 |
| i and my people | 1 |
| i and thy people | 1 |
| i pray you all people | 1 |
| i unto the people | 1 |
| if my people | 1 |
| if the people | 1 |
| if this people | 1 |
| in his people | 1 |
| in my people | 1 |
| in number than any people | 1 |
| in the presence of the people | 1 |
| in thine own people | 1 |
| in which my people | 1 |
| is this people | 1 |
| it all the people | 1 |
| lest peradventure the people | 1 |
| let people | 1 |
| letting the people | 1 |
| like unto thee o people | 1 |
| likewise the people | 1 |
| make his people | 1 |
| make not all the people | 1 |
| me among my people | 1 |
| me from his people | 1 |
| me let my people | 1 |
| me that this people | 1 |
| me the people | 1 |
| mine own people | 1 |
| nation | 1 |
| neither had the people | 1 |
| neither shall the people | 1 |
| nevertheless the people | 1 |
| none like him among all the people | 1 |
| nor her people | 1 |
| nor the people | 1 |
| not a man among all the people | 1 |
| not a people | 1 |
| not for this people | 1 |
| not lest the people | 1 |
| not of thy people | 1 |
| not this the people | 1 |
| not thy people | 1 |
| not unto them the people | 1 |
| of all this people | 1 |
| of any of the people | 1 |
| of each | 1 |
| of her people | 1 |
| of his own people | 1 |
| of the folk | 1 |
| of the peoples | 1 |
| of thee upon the nations | 1 |
| of their people | 1 |
| of these people | 1 |
| off from his people | 1 |
| on his people | 1 |
| only the people | 1 |
| or against this people | 1 |
| or among all my people | 1 |
| or of all thy people | 1 |
| out of all the people | 1 |
| out of it that the people | 1 |
| out of the nations | 1 |
| over a people | 1 |
| over them o my people | 1 |
| over this people | 1 |
| shall a nation | 1 |
| shall all my people | 1 |
| shall be upon my people | 1 |
| should not a people | 1 |
| so none of the people | 1 |
| so that all the people | 1 |
| so we thy people | 1 |
| such a thing against the people | 1 |
| that he shall not let the people | 1 |
| that i and thy people | 1 |
| that it be not a people | 1 |
| that make my people | 1 |
| that they might be unto me for a people | 1 |
| that thy people | 1 |
| the cause of his people | 1 |
| the nations | 1 |
| the peoples | 1 |
| thee among all people | 1 |
| thee among the people | 1 |
| thee and thy people | 1 |
| thee but thou makest this people | 1 |
| thee from all the nations | 1 |
| thee unto this people | 1 |
| thee what this people | 1 |
| their own people | 1 |
| them among the people | 1 |
| them and all the people | 1 |
| them and cause my people | 1 |
| them and the people | 1 |
| them and they shall be my people | 1 |
| them but this people | 1 |
| them from among all the people | 1 |
| them he and all his people | 1 |
| them not lest my people | 1 |
| them seeing all the people | 1 |
| them so shall they be my people | 1 |
| themselves with the people | 1 |
| then shall the people | 1 |
| then were the people | 1 |
| therefore his people | 1 |
| therefore shall the people | 1 |
| thereof and against the people | 1 |
| thereof and all the people | 1 |
| thereof and to every people | 1 |
| thereof and unto every people | 1 |
| thereof for the people | 1 |
| thine own people | 1 |
| this thy people | 1 |
| thither of the people | 1 |
| thou and all the people | 1 |
| thou and all this people | 1 |
| thou and the people | 1 |
| thou and thy people | 1 |
| thou not what this people | 1 |
| thou thyself against my people | 1 |
| thou thyself alone and all the people | 1 |
| thou unto the people | 1 |
| through the people | 1 |
| till the people | 1 |
| till thy people | 1 |
| to all my people | 1 |
| to be unto him a people | 1 |
| to cause my people | 1 |
| to himself nor cause the people | 1 |
| to his own people | 1 |
| to let my people | 1 |
| to let the people | 1 |
| to me and the people | 1 |
| to our own people | 1 |
| to thee the people | 1 |
| to thyself thy people | 1 |
| toward the people | 1 |
| toward this people | 1 |
| until all the people | 1 |
| unto all his people | 1 |
| unto all nations | 1 |
| unto all this people | 1 |
| unto her people | 1 |
| unto him all people | 1 |
| unto him let not all the people | 1 |
| unto himself above all people | 1 |
| unto himself above all the nations | 1 |
| unto me above all people | 1 |
| unto me and all the people | 1 |
| unto me my people | 1 |
| unto thee as the people | 1 |
| unto them i and my people | 1 |
| unto them the people | 1 |
| upon all people | 1 |
| upon the people | 1 |
| upon thee and upon thy people | 1 |
| upon them because of the people | 1 |
| us all the people | 1 |
| us and our people | 1 |
| us not and our people | 1 |
| when her people | 1 |
| when my people | 1 |
| when people | 1 |
| when thy people | 1 |
| where the people | 1 |
| wherefore the people | 1 |
| which i have caused my people | 1 |
| which is not of thy people | 1 |
| which the men of | 1 |
| whom this people | 1 |
| with his people | 1 |
| with my people | 1 |
| with thee be thou for the people | 1 |
| with thee unto thy people | 1 |
| with them there for my people | 1 |
| with this people | 1 |
| with you and my people | 1 |
| ye my people | 1 |
| yea all the people | 1 |
| yet my people | 1 |
| you above all people | 1 |
| you among the nations | 1 |
| you from the people | 1 |
| you his people | 1 |
| you so shall ye be my people | 1 |
| you to me for a people | 1 |
| yourselves among the people | 1 |
| yourselves from the people | 1 |
| yourselves o ye people | 1 |
Page 11 of 34. 1655 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
After they had taken Micah’s idols and his priest, they went to Laish, to a quiet and unsuspecting people, and they struck them with their swords and burned down the city.
Read word by wordThe leaders of all the people and all the tribes of Israel presented themselves in the assembly of God’s people: 400,000 men on foot, armed with swords.
Read word by wordThen all the people stood as one man and said, “Not one of us will return to his tent or to his house.
Read word by wordWe will take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to supply provisions for the army when they go to Gibeah in Benjamin to punish them for the atrocity they have committed in Israel.”
Read word by wordAmong all these soldiers there were 700 select left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.
Read word by wordBut the Israelite army took courage and again took their battle positions in the same place where they had arrayed themselves on the first day.
Read word by wordThen the Israelites, all the people, went up to Bethel, where they sat weeping before the LORD. That day they fasted until evening and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings to the LORD.
Read word by wordThe Benjamites came out against them and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the people as before, killing about thirty men of Israel in the fields and on the roads, one of which led up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.
Read word by wordSo the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, lifting up their voices and weeping bitterly.
Read word by wordThe next day the people got up early, built an altar there, and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings.
Read word by wordFor when the people were counted, none of the residents of Jabesh-gilead were there.
Read word by wordThe people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a void in the tribes of Israel.
Read word by wordWhen Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.
Read word by wordand said, “Surely we will return with you to your people.”
Read word by word“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”
Read word by wordBut Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
Read word by wordBoaz 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.
Read word by wordAnd now do not be afraid, my daughter. I will do for you whatever you request, since all my fellow townspeople know that you are a woman of noble character.
Read word by wordI thought I should inform you that you may buy it back in the presence of those seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you want to redeem it, do so. But if you will not redeem it, tell me so I may know, because there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am next after you.” “I will redeem it,” he replied.
Read word by wordAt this, Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I am buying from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon.
Read word by word“We are witnesses,” said the elders and all the people at the gate. “May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.
Read word by wordor 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
Read word by word“Why are you doing these things?” Eli said to his sons. “I hear about your wicked deeds from all these people.
Read word by wordNo, my sons; it is not a good report I hear circulating among the LORD’s people.
Read word by wordWhy then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’
Read word by wordWhen the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why has the LORD brought defeat on us before the Philistines today? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Shiloh, so that it may go with us to save us from the hand of our enemies.”
Read word by wordSo the people sent men to Shiloh, and they brought back the ark of the covenant of the LORD of Hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
Read word by wordThe messenger answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
Read word by wordSo they sent the ark of God to Ekron, but as it arrived, the Ekronites cried out, “They have brought us the ark of the God of Israel in order to kill us and our people!”
Read word by wordThen the Ekronites called together all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!” For a deadly confusion had pervaded the city; the hand of God was very heavy upon it.
Read word by wordBut 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.
Read word by wordAnd the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king.
Read word by wordSo Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king.
Read word by wordNevertheless, the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We must have a king over us.
Read word by wordSamuel listened to all the words of the people and repeated them in the hearing of the LORD.
Read word by wordAnd he had a son named Saul, choice and handsome, without equal among the Israelites—a head taller than any of the people.
Read word by word“Yes, he is ahead of you,” they answered. “Hurry now, for today he has come to the city because the people have a sacrifice on the high place.
Read word by wordAs soon as you enter the city, you will find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people will not eat until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice; after that, the guests will eat. Go up at once; you will find him.”
Read word by word“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.”
Read word by wordWhen Samuel saw Saul, the LORD told him, “Here is the man of whom I spoke; he shall rule over My people.”
Read word by wordSo the cook picked up the leg and what was attached to it and set it before Saul. Then Samuel said, “Here is what was kept back. It was set apart for you. Eat, for it has been kept for you for this occasion, from the time I said, ‘I have invited the people.’” So Saul dined with Samuel that day.
Read word by wordWhen 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?”
Read word by wordAfter this, Samuel summoned the people to the LORD at Mizpah
Read word by wordSo they ran and brought Saul, and when he stood among the people, he was a head taller than any of the others.
Read word by wordSamuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one the LORD has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”
Read word by wordThen Samuel explained to the people the rights of kingship. He wrote them on a scroll and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, each to his own home.
Read word by wordWhen the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and relayed these words in the hearing of the people, they all wept aloud.
Read word by wordJust then Saul was returning from the field, behind his oxen. “What troubles the people?” asked Saul. “Why are they weeping?” And they relayed to him the words of the men from Jabesh.
Read word by wordHe took a pair of oxen, cut them into pieces, and sent them by messengers throughout the land of Israel, proclaiming, “This is what will be done to the oxen of anyone who does not march behind Saul and Samuel.” Then the terror of the LORD fell upon the people, and they came out together as one man.
Read word by wordThe next day Saul organized the troops into three divisions, and during the morning watch they invaded the camp of the Ammonites and slaughtered them, until the hottest part of the day. And the survivors were so scattered that no two of them were left together.
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