Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put [them] in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent me] to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make [an agreement] with me by a present, and come out to me, and [then] eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.
And he slew an Egyptian, a man of [great] stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand [was] a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all [these] great things.
And what one nation in the earth [is] like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem [to be] his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?
For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, [which] I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
But who [am] I, and what [is] my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things [come] of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.
O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name [cometh] of thine hand, and [is] all thine own.
Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.
[Then] what prayer [or] what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:
Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.
And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,
And she said to the king, [It was] a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:
And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside [that] which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.
And when all Israel [saw] that the king would not hearken unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? and [we have] none inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: [and] now, David, see to thine own house. So all Israel went to their tents.
And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds [of spices] prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.
And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
But he slew not their children, but [did] as [it is] written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.
Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand?
Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.
So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.
I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and [of] his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.
Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard [thereof], and all the heathen that [were] about us saw [these things], they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.
For he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that [it] should be published according to the language of every people.
And he brought up Hadassah, that [is], Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid [was] fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
But when [Esther] came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: [if I say], I [am] perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's [sake] of mine own body.
[Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where [is] he?
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he [was] righteous in his own eyes.
Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.
Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
The heathen are sunk down in the pit [that] they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
The LORD is known [by] the judgment [which] he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips [are] our own: who [is] lord over us?
In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. [He that] sweareth to [his own] hurt, and changeth not.
They are enclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.
Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: [so] will we sing and praise thy power.
All [they that be] fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
Blessed [is] the nation whose God [is] the LORD; [and] the people [whom] he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was] sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up [his] heel against me.
For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
Their inward thought [is, that] their houses [shall continue] for ever, [and] their dwelling places to all generations; they call [their] lands after their own names.
Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
[Then] shall the earth yield her increase; [and] God, [even] our own God, shall bless us.
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: [and] they walked in their own counsels.
And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; [yea], the LORD our God shall cut them off.
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
The LORD will perfect [that which] concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, [endureth] for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
[As for] the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.
And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
[But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in [their own] naughtiness.
The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but [he that is] cruel troubleth his own flesh.
As righteousness [tendeth] to life: so he that pursueth evil [pursueth it] to his own death.
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool [shall be] servant to the wise of heart.
The way of a fool [is] right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel [is] wise.
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man [shall be satisfied] from himself.
The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich [hath] many friends.
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
All the ways of a man [are] clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
[He that is] first in his own cause [seemeth] just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.
He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; [but] he that despiseth his ways shall die.
The fear of a king [is] as the roaring of a lion: [whoso] provoketh him to anger sinneth [against] his own soul.
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
Man's goings [are] of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
Every way of a man [is] right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
[It is] not good to eat much honey: so [for men] to search their own glory [is not] glory.
He that [hath] no rule over his own spirit [is like] a city [that is] broken down, [and] without walls.
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him.
The sluggard [is] wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: [for] better [is] a neighbour [that is] near than a brother far off.
Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good [things] in possession.
The rich man [is] wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth [it] not.
[There is] a generation [that are] pure in their own eyes, and [yet] is not washed from their filthiness.
Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all [they] that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
Wherefore I perceive that [there is] nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that [is] his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: [there is] a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
Look not upon me, because I [am] black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; [but] mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
Woe unto [them that are] wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
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