Ecclesiastes 3:7
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Amos 5:13
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Esther 4:13-14
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13 Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not think to yourself that in the king's palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. 14 For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
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Acts 4:20
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20 for (A)we cannot but speak of what (B)we have seen and heard.”
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Micah 7:5
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5 (A)Put no trust in a neighbor;
have no confidence in a friend;
guard (B)the doors of your mouth
from her who lies in your arms;[a]
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- Micah 7:5 Hebrew bosom
Lamentations 3:28
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28 Let him (A)sit alone in silence
when it is laid on him;
Proverbs 31:8-9
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8 (A)Open your mouth for the mute,
for the rights of all who are destitute.[a]
9 Open your mouth, (B)judge righteously,
(C)defend the rights of (D)the poor and needy.
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- Proverbs 31:8 Hebrew are sons of passing away
Proverbs 24:11-12
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11 (A)Rescue those who are being taken away to death;
hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.
12 If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,”
(B)does not he who (C)weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who (D)keeps watch over your soul know it,
and will he not repay man (E)according to his work?
Joel 2:13
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13 and (A)rend your hearts and not (B)your garments.”
Return to the Lord your God,
(C)for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
(D)and he relents over disaster.
Job 32:4-22
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4 Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he. 5 And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, he burned with anger.
6 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said:
“I am young in years,
and you are (A)aged;
therefore I was timid and afraid
to declare my opinion to you.
7 I said, ‘Let days speak,
and many years teach wisdom.’
8 But it is (B)the spirit in man,
(C)the breath of the Almighty, that makes him (D)understand.
9 (E)It is not the old[a] who are wise,
nor the aged who understand what is right.
10 Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me;
let me also declare my opinion.’
11 “Behold, I waited for your words,
I listened for your wise sayings,
while you searched out what to say.
12 I gave you my attention,
and, behold, there was none among you who refuted Job
or who answered his words.
13 Beware (F)lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom;
God may vanquish him, not a man.’
14 He has not directed his words against me,
and I will not answer him with your speeches.
15 “They are dismayed; they answer no more;
they have not a word to say.
16 And shall I wait, because they do not speak,
because they stand there, and answer no more?
17 I also will answer with my share;
I also will declare my opinion.
18 For I am full of words;
the spirit within me constrains me.
19 Behold, my belly is like wine that has no vent;
like new (G)wineskins ready to burst.
20 (H)I must speak, that I may find (I)relief;
I must open my lips and answer.
21 I will not (J)show partiality to any man
or use flattery toward any person.
22 For I do not know how to flatter,
else my Maker would soon take me away.
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- Job 32:9 Hebrew many [in years]
Esther 7:4
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4 (A)For we have been sold, I and my people, (B)to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”
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Luke 19:37-40
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37 As he was drawing near—already on the way down the Mount of Olives—(A)the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice (B)for all the mighty works that they had seen, 38 saying, (C)“Blessed is (D)the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and (E)glory in the highest!” 39 (F)And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.” 40 He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, (G)the very stones would cry out.”
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1 Samuel 25:24-44
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24 She fell at his feet and said, (A)“On me alone, my lord, be the guilt. Please let your servant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your servant. 25 Let not my lord regard (B)this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal[a] is his name, and folly is with him. But I your servant did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent. 26 Now then, my lord, (C)as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, because (D)the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from (E)saving with your own hand, now then (F)let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal. 27 And now let this (G)present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord. 28 Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For the Lord will certainly make my lord (H)a sure house, because my lord (I)is fighting the battles of the Lord, and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live. 29 If men rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living in the care of the Lord your God. And the lives of your enemies (J)he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling. 30 And when the Lord has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you and has appointed you prince[b] over Israel, 31 my lord shall have no cause of grief or pangs of conscience for having shed blood without cause or for my lord (K)working salvation himself. And when the Lord has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.”
32 And David said to Abigail, (L)“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! 33 Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, (M)who have kept me this day from bloodguilt (N)and from working salvation with my own hand! 34 For as surely (O)as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, (P)who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male.” 35 Then David received from her hand what she had brought him. And he said to her, (Q)“Go up in peace to your house. See, I have obeyed your voice, and I have granted your petition.”
36 And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, (R)he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart (S)was merry within him, for he was very drunk. So she told him nothing (T)at all until the morning light. 37 In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. 38 And about ten days later (U)the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.
39 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, (V)“Blessed be the Lord who has (W)avenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, (X)and has kept back his servant from wrongdoing. (Y)The Lord has returned the evil of Nabal on his own head.” Then David sent and (Z)spoke to Abigail, to take her as his wife. 40 When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, “David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.” 41 And she rose (AA)and bowed with her face to the ground and said, “Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.” 42 And Abigail hurried and rose and mounted a donkey, and her five young women attended her. She followed the messengers of David and became his wife.
43 David also took Ahinoam of (AB)Jezreel, (AC)and both of them became his wives. 44 Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
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- 1 Samuel 25:25 Nabal means fool
- 1 Samuel 25:30 Or leader
Jeremiah 8:14
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14 Why do we sit still?
(A)Gather together; (B)let us go into the fortified cities
and perish there,
for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish
and has (C)given us (D)poisoned water to drink,
because we have sinned against the Lord.
Isaiah 36:21
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21 But they were silent and answered him not a word, for the king's command was, “Do not answer him.”
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Psalm 39:2
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2 I was (A)mute and silent;
I held my peace to no avail,
and my distress grew worse.
2 Kings 6:30
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30 When the king heard the words of the woman, (A)he tore his clothes—now he was passing by on the wall—and the people looked, and behold, (B)he had sackcloth beneath on his body—
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2 Kings 5:7
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7 And when the king of Israel read the letter, (A)he tore his clothes and said, (B)“Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only (C)consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me.”
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1 Kings 21:27
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27 And when Ahab heard those words, he (A)tore his clothes and (B)put sackcloth on his flesh and (C)fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.
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2 Samuel 3:31
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David Mourns Abner
31 Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, (A)“Tear your clothes and (B)put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner.” And King David followed the bier.
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2 Samuel 1:11
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11 Then David took hold of his clothes and (A)tore them, and so did all the men who were with him.
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1 Samuel 19:4-5
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4 And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, “Let not the king (A)sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have brought good to you. 5 For (B)he took his life in his hand (C)and he struck down the Philistine, (D)and the Lord worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against (E)innocent blood by killing David without cause?”
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Genesis 44:34
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34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would find my father.”
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Genesis 44:18
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18 Then Judah went up to him and said, (A)“Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and (B)let not your anger burn against your servant, for (C)you are like Pharaoh himself.
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