Genesis 44:13

Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.

Genesis 50:14

Joseph returned into Egypt--he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

Hosea 7:10

The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven't returned to the LORD their God, nor sought him, for all this.

Isaiah 37:8

So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

Isaiah 37:37

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.

Isaiah 38:8

Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down."'"

Jeremiah 3:10

Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense," says the LORD.



Jeremiah 40:12

then all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.

Jeremiah 43:5

But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, who were returned from all the nations where they had been driven, to live in the land of Judah;

Joshua 2:16

She said to them, "Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way."

Joshua 2:22

They went, and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but didn't find them.

Joshua 2:23

Then the two men returned, descended from the mountain, passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun; and they told him all that had happened to them.

Joshua 4:18

It happened, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD had come up out of the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks, as before.

Joshua 6:14

The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.



Joshua 7:3

They returned to Joshua, and said to him, "Don't let all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don't make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them."

Joshua 8:24

It happened, when Israel had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.

Joshua 10:15

Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.

Joshua 10:21

that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace. None moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.

Joshua 10:38

Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought against it.

Joshua 10:43

Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.

Joshua 22:9

The children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they owned, according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.



Joshua 22:32

Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.

Judges 5:29

Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself,

Judges 7:3

Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, 'Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.'" Twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.

Judges 7:15

It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and its interpretation, that he worshiped; and he returned into the camp of Israel, and said, "Arise; for the LORD has delivered the army of Midian into your hand!"

Judges 8:13

Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres.

Judges 11:39

It happened at the end of two months, that she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she was a virgin. It was a custom in Israel,

Judges 14:8

After a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.



Judges 21:14

Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead: and yet so they weren't enough for them.

Judges 21:23

The children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of those who danced, whom they carried off. They went and returned to their inheritance, built the cities, and lived in them.

Leviticus 22:13

But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.

Luke 1:56

Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her house.

Luke 2:20

The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it was told them.

Luke 2:39

When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.

Luke 2:45

When they didn't find him, they returned to Jerusalem, looking for him.



Luke 4:1

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

Luke 4:14

Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area.

Luke 8:37

All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. He entered into the boat, and returned.

Luke 8:40

It happened, when Jesus returned, that the multitude welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him.

Luke 8:55

Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to eat.

Luke 9:10

The apostles, when they had returned, told him what things they had done. He took them, and withdrew apart to a deserted place of a city called Bethsaida.

Luke 10:17

The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!"

Luke 17:18

Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this stranger?"

Luke 23:48

All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.

Luke 23:56

They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

Luke 24:9

returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven, and to all the rest.

Luke 24:33

They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them,

Luke 24:52

They worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

Mark 14:40

Again he returned, and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they didn't know what to answer him.

Matthew 21:18

Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.

Nehemiah 2:15

Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

Nehemiah 4:15

It happened, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, that we returned all of us to the wall, everyone to his work.

Nehemiah 7:6

These are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, everyone to his city;

Nehemiah 9:28

But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore left you them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies,

Numbers 13:25

They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.

Numbers 14:36

The men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,

Numbers 16:50

Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the Tent of Meeting: and the plague was stayed.

Numbers 23:6

He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.

Numbers 24:25

Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.

Psalms 35:13

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.

Psalms 59:17

To you, my strength, I will sing praises. For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lily of the Covenant." A teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.

Psalms 78:34

When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

Psalms 126:1

When the LORD brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

Revelation 18:6

Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.

Ruth 1:22

So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

Zechariah 1:16

Therefore thus says the LORD: "I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it," says the LORD of Armies, "and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem."'

Zechariah 7:14

"but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate."

Zechariah 8:3

Thus says the LORD: "I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called 'The City of Truth;' and the mountain of the LORD of Armies, 'The Holy Mountain.'"


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