Ecclesiastes 3:7
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Micah 7:5
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5 (A)Do not trust in a friend;
Do not put your confidence in a companion;
Guard the doors of your mouth
From her who lies in your (B)bosom.
Amos 5:13
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13 Therefore (A)the prudent keep silent at that time,
For it is an evil time.
Esther 4:13-14
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13 And Mordecai told them to answer Esther: “Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king’s palace any more than all the other Jews. 14 For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
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Acts 4:20
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20 (A)For we cannot but speak the things which (B)we have seen and heard.”
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Lamentations 3:28
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28 (A)Let him sit alone and keep silent,
Because God has laid it on him;
Proverbs 31:8-9
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8 (A)Open your mouth for the speechless,
In the cause of all who are [a]appointed to die.
9 Open your mouth, (B)judge righteously,
And (C)plead the cause of the poor and needy.
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- Proverbs 31:8 Lit. sons of passing away
Proverbs 24:11-12
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11 (A)Deliver those who are drawn toward death,
And hold back those stumbling to the slaughter.
12 If you say, “Surely we did not know this,”
Does not (B)He who weighs the hearts consider it?
He who keeps your soul, does He not know it?
And will He not render to each man (C)according to his deeds?
Joel 2:13
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13 So (A)rend your heart, and not (B)your garments;
Return to the Lord your God,
For He is (C)gracious and merciful,
Slow to anger, and of great kindness;
And He relents from doing harm.
Job 32:4-22
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4 Now because they were years older than he, Elihu had waited [a]to speak to Job. 5 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was aroused.
6 So Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, answered and said:
“I am (A)young in years, and you are very old;
Therefore I was afraid,
And dared not declare my opinion to you.
7 I said, [b]‘Age should speak,
And multitude of years should teach wisdom.’
8 But there is a spirit in man,
And (B)the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding.
9 (C)Great[c] men are not always wise,
Nor do the aged always understand justice.
10 “Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me,
I also will declare my opinion.’
11 Indeed I waited for your words,
I listened to your reasonings, while you searched out what to say.
12 I paid close attention to you;
And surely not one of you convinced Job,
Or answered his words—
13 (D)Lest you say,
‘We have found wisdom’;
God will vanquish him, not man.
14 Now he has not [d]directed his words against me;
So I will not answer him with your words.
15 “They are dismayed and answer no more;
Words escape them.
16 And I have waited, because they did not speak,
Because they stood still and answered no more.
17 I also will answer my part,
I too will declare my opinion.
18 For I am full of words;
The spirit within me compels me.
19 Indeed my [e]belly is like wine that has no [f]vent;
It is ready to burst like new wineskins.
20 I will speak, that I may find relief;
I must open my lips and answer.
21 Let me not, I pray, show partiality to anyone;
Nor let me flatter any man.
22 For I do not know how to flatter,
Else my Maker would soon take me (E)away.
Esther 7:4
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4 For we have been (A)sold, my people and I, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. Had we been sold as (B)male and female slaves, I would have held my tongue, although the enemy could never compensate for the king’s loss.”
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Luke 19:37-40
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37 Then, as He was now drawing near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to (A)rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen, 38 saying:
(B)“ ‘Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!’
(C)Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
39 And some of the Pharisees called to Him from the crowd, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.”
40 But He answered and said to them, “I tell you that if these should keep silent, (D)the stones would immediately cry out.”
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1 Samuel 25:24-44
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24 So she fell at his feet and said: “On me, my lord, on me let this iniquity be! And please let your maidservant [a]speak in your ears, and hear the words of your maidservant. 25 Please, let not my lord [b]regard this scoundrel Nabal. For as his name is, so is he: [c]Nabal is his name, and folly is with him! But I, your maidservant, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent. 26 Now therefore, my lord, (A)as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, since the Lord has (B)held you back from coming to bloodshed and from (C)avenging[d] yourself with your own hand, now then, (D)let your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be as Nabal. 27 And now (E)this present which your maidservant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord. 28 Please forgive the trespass of your maidservant. For (F)the Lord will certainly make for my lord an enduring house, because my lord (G)fights the battles of the Lord, (H)and evil is not found in you throughout your days. 29 Yet a man has risen to pursue you and seek your life, but the life of my lord shall be (I)bound in the bundle of the living with the Lord your God; and the lives of your enemies He shall (J)sling out, as from the pocket of a sling. 30 And it shall come to pass, when the Lord has done for my lord according to all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you (K)ruler over Israel, 31 that this will be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. But when the Lord has dealt well with my lord, then remember your maidservant.”
32 Then David said to Abigail: (L)“Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! 33 And blessed is your advice and blessed are you, because you have (M)kept me this day from coming to bloodshed and from avenging myself with my own hand. 34 For indeed, as the Lord God of Israel lives, who has (N)kept me back from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely (O)by morning light no males would have been left to Nabal!” 35 So David received from her hand what she had brought him, and said to her, (P)“Go up in peace to your house. See, I have heeded your voice and (Q)respected your person.”
36 Now Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was, (R)holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; therefore she told him nothing, little or much, until morning light. 37 So it was, in the morning, when the wine had gone from Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became like a stone. 38 Then it happened, after about ten days, that the Lord (S)struck Nabal, and he died.
39 So when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, (T)“Blessed be the Lord, who has (U)pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has (V)kept His servant from evil! For the Lord has (W)returned the wickedness of Nabal on his own head.”
And David sent and proposed to Abigail, to take her as his wife. 40 When the servants of David had come to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her saying, “David sent us to you, to ask you to become his wife.”
41 Then she arose, bowed her face to the earth, and said, “Here is your maidservant, a servant to (X)wash the feet of the servants of my lord.” 42 So Abigail rose in haste and rode on a donkey, [e]attended by five of her maidens; and she followed the messengers of David, and became his wife. 43 David also took Ahinoam (Y)of Jezreel, (Z)and so both of them were his wives.
44 But Saul had given (AA)Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to [f]Palti the son of Laish, who was from (AB)Gallim.
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- 1 Samuel 25:24 speak to you
- 1 Samuel 25:25 pay attention to
- 1 Samuel 25:25 Lit. Fool
- 1 Samuel 25:26 Lit. saving yourself
- 1 Samuel 25:42 Lit. with five of her maidens at her feet
- 1 Samuel 25:44 Paltiel, 2 Sam. 3:15
Amos 8:3
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3 And (A)the songs of the temple
Shall be wailing in that day,”
Says the Lord God—
“Many dead bodies everywhere,
(B)They shall be thrown out in silence.”
Jeremiah 8:14
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14 “Why do we sit still?
(A)Assemble yourselves,
And let us enter the fortified cities,
And let us be silent there.
For the Lord our God has put us to silence
And given us (B)water[a] of gall to drink,
Because we have sinned against the Lord.
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- Jeremiah 8:14 Bitter or poisonous water
Isaiah 36:21
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21 But they [a]held their peace and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Do not answer him.”
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- Isaiah 36:21 were silent
Psalm 39:2
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2 (A)I was mute with silence,
I held my peace even from good;
And my sorrow was stirred up.
2 Kings 6:30
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30 Now it happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he (A)tore his clothes; and as he passed by on the wall, the people looked, and there underneath he had sackcloth on his body.
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2 Kings 5:7
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7 And it happened, when the king of Israel read the letter, that he tore his clothes and said, “Am I (A)God, to kill and make alive, that this man sends a man to me to heal him of his leprosy? Therefore please consider, and see how he seeks a quarrel with me.”
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1 Kings 21:27
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27 So it was, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes and (A)put sackcloth on his body, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went about mourning.
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2 Samuel 3:31
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David’s Mourning for Abner
31 Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, (A)“Tear your clothes, (B)gird yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn for Abner.” And King David followed the coffin.
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2 Samuel 1:11
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11 Therefore David took hold of his own 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 Thus Jonathan (A)spoke well of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Let not the king (B)sin against his servant, against David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you. 5 For he took his (C)life in his hands and (D)killed the Philistine, and (E)the Lord brought about a great deliverance for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. (F)Why then will you (G)sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”
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Genesis 44:34
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34 For how shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with me, lest perhaps I see the evil that would [a]come upon my father?”
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- Genesis 44:34 Lit. find
Genesis 44:18
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Judah Intercedes for Benjamin
18 Then Judah came near to him and said: “O my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s hearing, and (A)do not let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even like Pharaoh.
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