2 Kings 2:2
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2 And Elijah said to Elisha, (A)“Please stay here, for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel.” But Elisha said, (B)“As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
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2 Kings 2:6
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6 Then Elijah said to him, (A)“Please stay here, for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan.” But he said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them went on.
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2 Kings 4:30
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30 Then the mother of the child said, (A)“As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he arose and followed her.
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2 Kings 2:4
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4 Elijah said to him, “Elisha, (A)please stay here, for the Lord has sent me to (B)Jericho.” But he said, (C)“As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they came to Jericho.
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1 Samuel 1:26
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26 And she said, “Oh, my lord! (A)As you live, my lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the Lord.
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John 6:67-68
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67 So Jesus said to (A)the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have (B)the words of eternal life,
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Jeremiah 4:2
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2 (A)and if you swear, ‘As the Lord lives,’
in truth, in justice, and in righteousness,
then (B)nations shall bless themselves in him,
(C)and in him shall they glory.”
2 Samuel 15:19-21
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19 Then the king said to (A)Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Go back and stay with the king, for you are a foreigner and also an exile from your home. 20 You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander about with us, since I go (B)I know not where? Go back and take your brothers with you, and may the Lord show[a] steadfast love and faithfulness to you.” 21 But Ittai answered the king, (C)“As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, (D)wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be.”
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- 2 Samuel 15:20 Septuagint; Hebrew lacks may the Lord show
1 Samuel 25:26
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26 Now then, my lord, (A)as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, because (B)the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from (C)saving with your own hand, now then (D)let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.
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Ruth 1:15-18
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15 And she said, “See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to (A)her gods; return after your sister-in-law.” 16 But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. (B)Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. 17 Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. (C)May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.” 18 (D)And when Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.
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Genesis 28:19
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19 He called the name of that place (A)Bethel,[a] but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
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- Genesis 28:19 Bethel means the house of God
1 Kings 12:33-13:2
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33 He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had devised from his own heart. And he instituted a feast for the people of Israel and went up to the altar (A)to make offerings.
A Man of God Confronts Jeroboam
13 And behold, (B)a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the Lord to Bethel. Jeroboam was standing by the altar (C)to make offerings. 2 (D)And the man cried against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, (E)Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who make offerings on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.’”
1 Kings 12:29
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29 And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
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1 Samuel 17:55
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55 As soon as Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, (A)the commander of the army, “Abner, (B)whose son is this youth?” And Abner said, (C)“As your soul lives, O king, I do not know.”
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1 John 2:19
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19 (A)They went out from us, but they were not of us; for (B)if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, (C)that it might become plain that they all are not of us.
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