By my life, says the Lord, truly, because my sheep have been taken away, and my sheep became food for all the beasts of the field, because there was no keeper, and my keepers did not go in search of the sheep, but the keepers took food for themselves and gave my sheep no food;
And they will put on one side men to do no other work but to go through the land and put in the earth the rest of those who are still on the face of the land, to make it clean: after seven months are ended they are to make a search.
They made search for their record among the lists of families, but their names were nowhere to be seen; so they were looked on as unclean and no longer priests.
So that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: and you will see in the book of the records that this town has been uncontrolled, and a cause of trouble to kings and countries, and that there were outbursts against authority there in the past: for which reason the town was made waste.
And I gave orders for a search to be made, and it is certain that in the past this town has made trouble for kings, and that outbursts against authority have taken place there.
So now, if it seems good to the king, let search be made in the king's store-house at Babylon, to see if it is true that an order was given by Cyrus the king for the building of this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send us word of his pleasure in connection with this business.
Then Darius the king gave an order and a search was made in the house of the records, where the things of value were stored up in Babylon.
As for your gods, if anyone of us has them, let him be put to death: make search before us all for what is yours, and take it. For Jacob had no knowledge that Rachel had taken them.
Now that you have made search through all my goods, what have you seen which is yours? Make it clear now before my people and your people, so that they may be judges between us.
And now let Pharaoh make search for a man of wisdom and good sense, and put him in authority over the land of Egypt.
And he made a search, starting with the oldest and ending with the youngest; and the cup was in Benjamin's bag.
And without faith it is not possible to be well-pleasing to him, for it is necessary for anyone who comes to God to have the belief that God is, and that he is a rewarder of all those who make a serious search for him.
For here we have no fixed resting-place, but our search is for the one which is to come.
Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.
And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.
And after that, the children of Israel will come back and go in search of the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come in fear to the Lord and to his mercies in the days to come.
I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.
They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.
And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; but for all this, they have not gone back to the Lord their God, or made search for him.
You will make search for your haters but they will not be there; those who make war against you will be as nothing and will come to destruction.
Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:
So this is what the Lord has said: Make search among the nations and see who has had word of such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very shocking thing.
Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.
This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.
He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:
See, we have made search with care, and it is so; it has come to our ears; see that you take note of it for yourself.
If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;
You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.
This was their answer: And do you come from Galilee? Make search and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.
I, however, am not in search of glory for myself: there is One who is searching for it and he is judge.
I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadesh-barnea to make a search through the land; and the account which I gave him was in keeping with his desire.
Then Joshua said to the two men who had been sent to make a search through the land, Go into the house of the loose woman, and get her out, and all who are with her, as you gave her your oath.
But Joshua kept Rahab, the loose woman, and her father's family and all she had, from death, and so she got a living-place among the children of Israel to this day; because she kept safe the men whom Joshua had sent to make a search through the land.
Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is by the side of Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and said to them, Go up and make a search through the land. And the men went up and saw how Ai was placed.
So they sent men to make a search round Beth-el. (Now the name of the town in earlier times was Luz.)
Then the five men who had gone to make a search through the country of Laish, said to their brothers, Have you knowledge that in these houses there is an ephod and family gods and a pictured image and a metal image? So now you see what to do.
Then the five men who had gone to make a search through the land, went in and took the pictured image and the ephod and the family gods and the metal image; and the priest was by the doorway with the six hundred armed men.
So the children of Dan sent five men from among their number, strong men, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to take a look at the land and make a search through it; and they said to them, Go and make a search through the land; and they came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, where they made a stop for the night.
Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;
Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.
He may not make search to see if it is good or bad, or make any changes in it; and if he makes exchange of it for another, the two will be holy; he will not get them back again.
For the nations of the world go in search of all these things: but your Father has knowledge that you have need of them.
For the Son of man came to make search for those who are wandering from the way, and to be their Saviour.
And seeing that he was not there, they went back to Jerusalem, to make search for him.
And into whatever town or small place you go, make search there for someone who is respected, and make his house your resting-place till you go away.
What would you say now? if a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone wandering away, will he not let the ninety-nine be, and go to the mountains in search of the wandering one?
Because the Gentiles go in search of all these things: for your Father in heaven has knowledge that you have need of all these things:
They made search for their record among the lists of families, but their names were nowhere to be seen, so they were looked on as unclean and no longer priests.
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