But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your servant is in your power; do to her as you please.” Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.

It is in my power to do you harm. But the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’

Joseph Rises to Power

This proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his servants.

“Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the firstfruits of my strength, preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.

And the Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.

But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.

Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the Lord, and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses.

Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power, your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy.

But Moses implored the Lord his God and said, “O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

And now, please let the power of the Lord be great as you have promised, saying,

Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you! Have I now any power of my own to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that must I speak.”

And because he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,

Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’

You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

For they are your people and your heritage, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.’

For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone and there is none remaining, bond or free.

and for all the mighty power and all the great deeds of terror that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

So when the men of Ai looked back, behold, the smoke of the city went up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that, for the people who fled to the wilderness turned back against the pursuers.

Then Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, “You are a numerous people and have great power. You shall not have one allotment only,

And when the people came to the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has the Lord defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord here from Shiloh, that it may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies.”

Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with every sort of plague in the wilderness.

David also defeated Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the river Euphrates.

And as soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand, he struck down his servants who had struck down the king his father.

Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold on the royal power.

but you shall fear the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm. You shall bow yourselves to him, and to him you shall sacrifice.

Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me?

Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all.

Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.

Jeroboam did not recover his power in the days of Abijah. And the Lord struck him down, and he died.

and said, “O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.

And as soon as the royal power was firmly his, he killed his servants who had struck down the king his father.

But go, act, be strong for the battle. Why should you suppose that God will cast you down before the enemy? For God has power to help or to cast down.”

Under their command was an army of 307,500, who could make war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

Then, when the copy of King Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their associates, they went in haste to the Jews at Jerusalem and by force and power made them cease.

For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, “The hand of our God is for good on all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him.”

They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand.

Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

And all the acts of his power and might, and the full account of the high honor of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?

The man with power possessed the land, and the favored man lived in it.

Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No; he would pay attention to me.

Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life.

“How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!

By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.

Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

It hurls at him without pity; he flees from its power in headlong flight.

Behold, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?

The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.

Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly.

Be exalted, O Lord, in your strength! We will sing and praise your power.

Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog!

The Lord will not abandon him to his power or let him be condemned when he is brought to trial.

But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah

Kill them not, lest my people forget; make them totter by your power and bring them down, O Lord, our shield!

Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God,

So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.

they shall be given over to the power of the sword; they shall be a portion for jackals.

Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds! So great is your power that your enemies come cringing to you.

that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.

Summon your power, O God, the power, O God, by which you have worked for us.

Ascribe power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, and whose power is in the skies.

Awesome is God from his sanctuary; the God of Israel—he is the one who gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God!

So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.

because they did not believe in God and did not trust his saving power.

He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens, and by his power he led out the south wind;

They did not remember his power or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,

and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hand of the foe.

Let the groans of the prisoners come before you; according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die!

What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

Who considers the power of your anger, and your wrath according to the fear of you?

Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power to their children.

Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his mighty power.

So he saved them from the hand of the foe and redeemed them from the power of the enemy.

Their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their power.

Your people will offer themselves freely on the day of your power, in holy garments; from the womb of the morning, the dew of your youth will be yours.

He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the inheritance of the nations.

They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom and tell of your power,

Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.

Evil Under the Sun

Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.

Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God.

a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous evil.

No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death. There is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.

All this I observed while applying my heart to all that is done under the sun, when man had power over man to his hurt.

Behold, the Lord God of hosts will lop the boughs with terrifying power; the great in height will be hewn down, and the lofty will be brought low.

Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me?

Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name; by the greatness of his might and because he is strong in power, not one is missing.

He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.

These two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day; the loss of children and widowhood shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the great power of your enchantments.

Behold, they are like stubble; the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before!

Why, when I came, was there no man; why, when I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a desert; their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst.

It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

“Therefore, behold, I will make them know, this once I will make them know my power and my might, and they shall know that my name is the Lord.”

Therefore deliver up their children to famine; give them over to the power of the sword; let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.

“It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me.

‘Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.

“It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

“Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.

‘Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the yearning of your soul, and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.

Because you cherished perpetual enmity and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment,

You, O king, the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the might, and the glory,

And the satraps, the prefects, the governors, and the king's counselors gathered together and saw that the fire had not had any power over the bodies of those men. The hair of their heads was not singed, their cloaks were not harmed, and no smell of fire had come upon them.

and the king answered and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”

He delivers and rescues; he works signs and wonders in heaven and on earth, he who has saved Daniel from the power of the lions.”

I saw the ram charging westward and northward and southward. No beast could stand before him, and there was no one who could rescue from his power. He did as he pleased and became great.

I saw him come close to the ram, and he was enraged against him and struck the ram and broke his two horns. And the ram had no power to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground and trampled on him. And there was no one who could rescue the ram from his power.

As for the horn that was broken, in place of which four others arose, four kingdoms shall arise from his nation, but not with his power.

His power shall be great—but not by his own power; and he shall cause fearful destruction and shall succeed in what he does, and destroy mighty men and the people who are the saints.

And he shall stir up his power and his heart against the king of the south with a great army. And the king of the south shall wage war with an exceedingly great and mighty army, but he shall not stand, for plots shall be devised against him.

And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream; he raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven and swore by him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time, and that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end all these things would be finished.

I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol; I shall redeem them from Death. O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.

Woe to the Oppressors

Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.

But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the Lord, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.

The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

His brightness was like the light; rays flashed from his hand; and there he veiled his power.

Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.

But behold, the Lord will strip her of her possessions and strike down her power on the sea, and she shall be devoured by fire.