NONE.filter - bes Wherefore:

bes@Genesis:3:2 @ Now the serpent was the most crafty of all the brutes on the earth, which the Lord God made, and the serpent said to the woman, Wherefore has God said, Eat not of every tree of the garden?

bes@Genesis:12:19 @ Wherefore didst thou say, She is my sister? and I took her for a wife to myself; and now, behold, thy wife is before thee, take her and go quickly away.

bes@Genesis:26:27 @ And Isaac said to them, Wherefore have ye come to me? whereas ye hated me, and sent me away from you.

bes@Genesis:27:46 @ And Rebecca said to Isaac, I am weary of my life, because of the daughters of the sons of Chet; if Jacob shall take a wife of the daughters of this land, wherefore should I live?

bes@Genesis:29:25 @ And it was morning, and behold it was Lea; and Jacob said to Laban, What is this that thou hast done to me? did I not serve thee for Rachel? and wherefore hast thou deceived me?

bes@Genesis:31:26 @ And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done? wherefore didst thou run away secretly, and pillage me, and lead away my daughters as captives taken with the sword?

bes@Genesis:31:30 @ Now then go on thy way, for thou hast earnestly desired to depart to the house of thy father; wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

bes@Genesis:32:29 @ And Jacob asked and said, Tell me thy name; and he said, Wherefore dost thou ask after my name? and he blessed him there.

bes@Exodus:2:13 @ And having gone out the second day he sees two Hebrew men fighting; and he says to the injurer, Wherefore smitest thou thy neighbour?

bes@Exodus:5:22 @ And Moses turned to the Lord, and said, I pray, Lord, why hast thou afflicted this people? and wherefore hast thou sent me?

bes@Exodus:18:14 @ And Jothor having seen all that Moses (note:)Gr. does(:note) did to the people, says, What is this that thou doest to the people? wherefore sittest thou alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning till evening?

bes@Exodus:32:11 @ And Moses prayed before the Lord God, and said, Wherefore, O Lord, art thou very angry with thy people, whom thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt with great strength, and with thy high arm?

bes@Numbers:20:4 @ And wherefore have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, to kill us and our cattle?

bes@Numbers:20:5 @ And wherefore is this? Ye have brought us up out of Egypt, that we should come into this evil place; a place where there is no sowing, neither figs, nor vines, nor pomegranates, neither is there water to drink.

bes@Joshua:5:6 @ Wherefore most of the fighting men that came out of the land of Egypt, were uncircumcised, who disobeyed the commands of God; concerning whom also he determined that they should not see the land, which the Lord sware to give to their fathers, even a land flowing with milk and honey.

bes@Joshua:7:7 @ And Joshua said, I pray, Lord, wherefore has thy servant brought this people over Jordan to deliver them to the Amorite to destroy us? (note:)Gr. and if we had(:note) would we had remained and settled ourselves beyond Jordan.

bes@Joshua:17:14 @ And the sons of Joseph answered Joshua, saying, Wherefore hast thou caused us to inherit one inheritance, and one line? whereas I am a great people, and God has blessed me.

bes@Judges:11:7 @ And Jephthae said to the elders of Galaad, Did ye not hate me, and cast me out of my father’s house, and banish me from you? and wherefore are ye come to me now when ye want me?

bes@Judges:11:26 @ when Israel dwelt in Esebon and in its coasts, and in the land of Aroer and in its coasts, and in all the cities by Jordan, three hundred years? and wherefore didst thou not (note:)Or, redeem(:note) recover them in that time?

bes@Judges:12:1 @ And the men of Ephraim (note:)i. e., by calling(:note) assembled themselves, and passed on to the north, and said to Jephthae, Wherefore didst thou go over to fight with the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thy house over thee with fire.

bes@Judges:12:3 @ And I saw that thou (note:)Gr. art(:note) wert no Gr. saviour or deliverer helper, and I put my life in my hand, and passed on to the sons of Ammon; and the Lord delivered them into my hand: and wherefore are ye come up against me this day to fight with me?

bes@Judges:21:3 @ and said, Wherefore, O Lord God of Israel, has this come to pass, that to-day one tribe should be counted as missing from Israel?

bes@1Samuel:2:29 @ And wherefore hast thou looked upon my incense-offering and my meat-offering with a shameless eye, and hast honoured thy sons above me, so that they should bless themselves with the first-fruits of every sacrifice of Israel before me?

bes@1Samuel:21:5 @ And David answered the priest, and said to him, Yea, we have been kept from women for three days: when I came forth for the journey all the young men were purified; but this expedition is unclean, wherefore it shall be sanctified this day because of my weapons.

bes@2Samuel:19:35 @ I am this day eighty years old: can I then distinguish between good and evil? Can thy servant taste any longer what I eat or drink? can I any longer hear the voice of singing men or singing women? and wherefore shall thy servant any longer be a burden to my lord the king?

bes@1Kings:9:8 @ And this house, which is high, shall be so that every one that passes (note:)Gr. through it(:note) by it shall be amazed, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Wherefore has the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

bes@2Kings:5:8 @ And it came to pass, when Elisaie heard that the king of Israel had rent his garments, that he sent to the king of Israel, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy garments? Let Naiman, I pray thee, come to me, and let him know that there is a prophet in Israel.

bes@2Kings:14:10 @ Thou hast smitten and wounded Edom, and thy heart has lifted thee up: (note:)Gr. glorify thyself sitting in thy house(:note) stay at home and glorify thyself; for wherefore art thou quarrelsome to thy hurt? So both thou wilt fall and Juda with thee.

bes@2Chronicles:7:21 @ And as for this lofty house, every one that passes by it shall be amazed, and shall say, Wherefore has the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

bes@Nehemiah:13:11 @ And I strove with the commanders, and said, Wherefore has the house of God been abandoned? and I assembled them, and set them in their place.

bes@Job:9:22 @ Wherefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man.

bes@Job:10:2 @ And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and wherefore hast thou thus judged me?

bes@Job:13:24 @ Wherefore hidest thou thyself from me, and deemest me thine enemy?

bes@Job:18:3 @ For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes?

bes@Job:19:22 @ Wherefore do ye persecute me as also the Lord does, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

bes@Job:21:7 @ Wherefore do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth?

bes@Job:32:6 @ And Elius the Buzite the son of Barachiel answered and said, I am younger in age, and ye are elder, wherefore I kept silence, fearing to declare to you my own knowledge.

bes@Job:32:10 @ Wherefore I said, Hear me, and I will tell you what I know.

bes@Job:34:10 @ Wherefore hear me, ye that are wise in heart: far be it from me to sin before the Lord, and to (note:)Gr. disturb(:note) pervert righteousness before the almighty.

bes@Job:37:19 @ Wherefore teach me, what shall we say to him? and let us cease from saying much.

bes@Job:37:24 @ Wherefore men shall fear him; and the wise also in heart shall fear him.

bes@Job:42:6 @ Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and have (note:)Gr. melted(:note) fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.

bes@Psalms:4:2 @ O ye sons on men, how long will ye be (note:)Lit. heavy of heart(:note) slow of heart? wherefore do ye love vanity, and seek falsehood? Pause.

bes@Psalms:10:13 @ Wherefore, has the wicked provoked God? for he has said in his heart, He will not require it.

bes@Psalms:42:5 @ Wherefore art thou very sad, O my soul? and wherefore dost thou trouble me? hope in God; for I will give thanks to him; he is the salvation of my countenance.

bes@Psalms:42:9 @ I will say to God, Thou art my helper; why hast thou forgotten me? wherefore do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses me?

bes@Psalms:42:11 @ Wherefore art thou very sad, O my soul? and wherefore dost thou trouble me? hope in God; for I will give thanks to him; he is the health of my countenance, and my God.

bes@Psalms:43:2 @ For thou, O God, art my strength: wherefore hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses me?

bes@Psalms:43:5 @ Wherefore art thou very sad, O my soul? and wherefore dost thou trouble me? Hope in God; for I will give thanks to him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

bes@Psalms:44:23 @ Awake, wherefore sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and do not cast us off for ever.

bes@Psalms:44:24 @ Wherefore turnest thou thy face away, and forgettest our poverty and our affliction?

bes@Psalms:49:5 @ Wherefore (note:)Gr. shall(:note) should I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall compass me.

bes@Psalms:68:16 @ Wherefore do ye conceive evil, ye swelling mountains? this is the mountain which God has delighted to dwell in; yea, the Lord will dwell in it for ever.

bes@Psalms:74:11 @ Wherefore turnest thou away thine hand, and thy right hand from the midst of thy bosom for ever?

bes@Psalms:80:12 @ Wherefore hast thou broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?

bes@Psalms:88:14 @ Wherefore, O Lord, dost thou reject my (note:)Hebrews. and Alex. soul(:note) prayer, and turn thy face away from me?

bes@Psalms:116:10 @ Alleluia: (note:)2 Co strkjv@4:13(:note) I believed, wherefore I have spoken: but I was greatly afflicted.

bes@Isaiah:3:9 @ Wherefore now their glory has been brought low, and the shame of their countenance has withstood them, and they have proclaimed their sin as Sodom, and made it manifest.

bes@Isaiah:36:11 @ Then Eliakim and Somnas and Joach said to him, Speak to thy servants in the Syrian tongue; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jewish tongue: and wherefore speakest thou in the ears of the men on the wall?

bes@Isaiah:51:19 @ Wherefore these things are against thee; who shall sympathize with thee in thy grief? downfall, and destruction, famine, and sword: who shall comfort thee?

bes@Isaiah:55:2 @ Wherefore do ye value at the price of money, and give your labour (note:)See Col 2; ult.(:note) for that which will not satisfy? hearken to me, and ye shall eat that which is good, and your soul shall feast itself on good things.

bes@Isaiah:58:4 @ If ye fast for quarrels and strifes, and smite the lowly with your fists, wherefore do ye fast to me as ye do this day, so that your voice may be heard in crying?

bes@Isaiah:63:2 @ Wherefore are thy garments red, and thy raiment as if fresh from a trodden winepress?

bes@Jeremiah:2:29 @ Wherefore do ye speak unto me? ye all have been ungodly, and ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:2:31 @ Hear ye the word of the Lord: thus saith the Lord, Have I been a wilderness or a dry land to Israel? wherefore has my people said, We will not be ruled over, and will not come to thee any more?

bes@Jeremiah:5:19 @ And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that thou shalt say to them, Because ye served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

bes@Jeremiah:6:20 @ Wherefore do ye bring me frankincense from Saba, and cinnamon from a land afar off? your whole-burnt-offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices have not been pleasant to me.

bes@Jeremiah:8:5 @ Wherefore has this my people turned away with a shameless revolting, and strengthened themselves in their willfulness, and refused to return?

bes@Jeremiah:9:12 @ Who is the wise man, that he may understand this? and he that has the word of the mouth of the Lord addressed to him, let him tell you wherefore the land has been destroyed, has been ravaged by fire like a desert, so that no one passes through it.

bes@Jeremiah:13:22 @ And if thou shouldest say in thine heart, Wherefore have these things happened to me? Because of the abundance of thine iniquity have thy skirts been discovered, that thine heels might be exposed.

bes@Jeremiah:14:19 @ Hast thou utterly rejected Juda? and has thy soul departed from Sion? wherefore has thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we waited for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing, and behold trouble!

bes@Jeremiah:16:10 @ And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt report to this people all these words, and they shall say to thee, Wherefore has the Lord pronounced against us all these evils? what is our unrighteousness? and what is our sin which we have sinned before the Lord our God?

bes@Jeremiah:23:37 @ But wherefore, say ye, has the Lord our God spoken?

bes@Jeremiah:26:15 @ Wherefore has Apis fled from thee? thy choice calf has not remained; for the Lord has (note:)Gr. paralyzed(:note) utterly weakened him.

bes@Jeremiah:30:1 @ CONCERNING THE SONS OF AMMON thus saith the Lord, Are there no sons in Israel? or have they no one to succeed them? wherefore has Melchol inherited Galaad, and why shall their people dwell in their cities?

bes@Jeremiah:36:27 @ And now wherefore have ye reviled together Jeremias of Anathoth, who prophesied to you?

bes@Jeremiah:39:3 @ in which king Sedekias had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

bes@Jeremiah:51:7 @ And now thus has the Lord Almighty said, Wherefore do ye commit these great evils against your souls? to cut off man and woman of you, infant and suckling from the midst of Juda, to the end that not one of you should be left;

bes@Lamentations:5:20 @ Wherefore wilt thou (note:)See Hebrews.(:note) utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?

bes@Ezekiel:21:7 @ And it shall come to pass, if they shall say to thee, Wherefore dost thou groan? that thou shalt say, For the report; because it comes: and every heart shall break, and all hands shall become feeble, and all flesh and every spirit shall faint, and all thighs shall be defiled with moisture: behold, it comes, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:23:28 @ Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hands of those whom thou hatest, from whom thy soul is alienated.

bes@Daniel:2:15 @ Chief magistrate of the king, wherefore has the preemptory command proceeded from the king? So Arioch made known the matter to Daniel.

bes@Daniel:3:29 @ Wherefore I publish a decree: Every people, tribe, or language, that shall speak reproachfully against the God of Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago shall be destroyed, and their houses shall be plundered: because there is no other God who shall be able to deliver thus.

bes@Daniel:10:20 @ And he said, Knowest thou, wherefore I am come to thee? and now I will return to fight with the prince of the Persians: and I was going in, and the prince of the Greeks came.

bes@Hosea:5:14 @ Wherefore I am as a panther to Ephraim, and as a lion to the house of Juda: and I will tear, and go away; and I will take, and there shall be none to deliver.

bes@Hosea:7:6 @ Wherefore their hearts are inflamed as an oven, while they rage all the night: Ephraim is satisfied with sleep; the morning is come; he is burnt up as a flame of fire.

bes@Hosea:8:6 @ Whereas the workman made it, and it is not God; wherefore thy calf, Samaria, was a deceiver:

bes@Hosea:9:12 @ For even if they should rear their children, yet shall they be utterly bereaved: wherefore also there is woe to them, though my flesh is of them.

bes@Hosea:9:16 @ Ephraim is sick, he is dried up at his roots, he shall in no wise any more bear fruit: wherefore even if they should beget children, I will kill the desired fruit of their womb.

bes@Hosea:10:13 @ Wherefore have ye passed over ungodliness in silence, and reaped the sins of it? ye have eaten false fruit; for thou has trusted in thy sins, in the abundance of thy power.

bes@Amos:5:4 @ Wherefore thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live.

bes@Amos:5:18 @ Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! (note:)Lit. wherefore is this day, etc.(:note) what is this day of the Lord to you? whereas it is darkness, and not light.

bes@Amos:5:22 @ Wherefore if ye should bring me your whole-burnt-sacrifices and meat-offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I have respect to your (note:)See Heb(:note) grand peace-offerings.

bes@Habakkuk:1:3 @ Wherefore hast thou shown me troubles and griefs to look upon, misery and ungodliness? judgement is before me, and the judge receives a reward.

bes@Habakkuk:1:6 @ Wherefore, behold, I stir up the Chaldeans, the bitter and hasty nation, that walks upon the breadth of the earth, to inherit tabernacles not his own.

bes@Habakkuk:1:13 @ His eye is too pure to behold evil doings, and to look upon grievous afflictions: wherefore dost thou look upon despisers? wilt thou be silent when the ungodly swallows up the just?

bes@Malachi:2:14 @ Yet ye said, Wherefore? Because the Lord has borne witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, whom thou has forsaken, and yet she was thy partner, and the wife of thy covenant.

bes@Jdt:9:3 @ Wherefore thou gavest their rulers to be slain, so that they dyed their bed in blood, being deceived, and smotest the servants with their lords, and the lords upon their thrones;

bes@Jdt:11:3 @ But now tell me wherefore thou art fled from them, and art come unto us: for thou art come for safeguard; be of good comfort, thou shalt live this night, and hereafter:

bes@Jdt:11:16 @ Wherefore I thine handmaid, knowing all this, am fled from their presence; and God hath sent me to work things with thee, whereat all the earth shall be astonished, and whosoever shall hear it.

bes@Wis:3:13 @ Their offspring is cursed. Wherefore blessed is the barren that is undefiled, which hath not known the sinful bed: she shall have fruit in the visitation of souls.

bes@Wis:6:11 @ Wherefore set your affection upon my words; desire them, and ye shall be instructed.

bes@Wis:7:7 @ Wherefore I prayed, and understanding was given me: I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came to me.

bes@Wis:12:23 @ Wherefore, whereas men have lived dissolutely and unrighteously, thou hast tormented them with their own abominations.

bes@Tob:3:4 @ For they obeyed not thy commandments: wherefore thou hast delivered us for a spoil, and unto captivity, and unto death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed.

bes@Tob:3:9 @ Wherefore dost thou beat us for them? if they be dead, go thy ways after them, let us never see of thee either son or daughter.

bes@Tob:4:2 @ And said with himself, I have wished for death; wherefore do I not call for my son Tobias that I may signify to him of the money before I die?

bes@Tob:6:14 @ And now I am the only son of my father, and I am afraid, lest if I go in unto her, I die, as the other before: for a wicked spirit loveth her, which hurteth no body, but those which come unto her; wherefore I also fear lest I die, and bring my father’s and my mother’s life because of me to the grave with sorrow: for they have no other son to bury them.

bes@Tob:6:15 @ Then the angel said unto him, Dost thou not remember the precepts which thy father gave thee, that thou shouldest marry a wife of thine own kindred? wherefore hear me, O my brother; for she shall be given thee to wife; and make thou no reckoning of the evil spirit; for this same night shall she be given thee in marriage.

bes@Tob:12:18 @ For not of any favour of mine, but by the will of our God I came; wherefore praise him for ever.

bes@Tob:14:11 @ Wherefore now, my son, consider what alms doeth, and how righteousness doth deliver. When he had said these things, he gave up the ghost in the bed, being an hundred and eight and fifty years old; and he buried him honourably.

bes@Sir:39:17 @ And none may say, What is this? wherefore is that? for at time convenient they shall all be sought out: at his commandment the waters stood as an heap, and at the words of his mouth the receptacles of waters.

bes@Sir:39:21 @ A man need not to say, What is this? wherefore is that? for he hath made all things for their uses.

bes@Sir:43:27 @ We may speak much, and yet come short: wherefore in sum, he is all.

bes@Sir:47:22 @ But the Lord will never leave off his mercy, neither shall any of his works perish, neither will he abolish the posterity of his elect, and the seed of him that loveth him he will not take away: wherefore he gave a remnant unto Jacob, and out of him a root unto David.

bes@Sir:51:24 @ Wherefore are ye slow, and what say ye to these things, seeing your souls are very thirsty?

bes@Bar:1:20 @ Wherefore the evils cleaved unto us, and the curse, which the Lord appointed by Moses his servant at the time that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that floweth with milk and honey, like as it is to see this day.

bes@Bar:2:9 @ Wherefore the Lord watched over us for evil, and the Lord hath brought it upon us: for the Lord is righteous in all his works which he hath commanded us.

bes@Bar:6:64 @ Wherefore it is neither to be supposed nor said that they are gods, seeing, they are able neither to judge causes, nor to do good unto men.

bes@1Macc:1:6 @ Wherefore he called his servants, such as were honourable, and had been brought up with him from his youth, and parted his kingdom among them, while he was yet alive.

bes@1Macc:1:17 @ Wherefore he entered into Egypt with a great multitude, with chariots, and elephants, and horsemen, and a great navy,

bes@1Macc:1:63 @ Wherefore the rather to die, that they might not be defiled with meats, and that they might not profane the holy covenant: so then they died.

bes@1Macc:2:7 @ He said, Woe is me! wherefore was I born to see this misery of my people, and of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it was delivered into the hand of the enemy, and the sanctuary into the hand of strangers?

bes@1Macc:2:24 @ Which thing when Mattathias saw, he was inflamed with zeal, and his reins trembled, neither could he forbear to shew his anger according to judgement: wherefore he ran, and slew him upon the altar.

bes@1Macc:2:64 @ Wherefore, ye my sons, be valiant and shew yourselves men in the behalf of the law; for by it shall ye obtain glory.

bes@1Macc:3:6 @ Wherefore the wicked shrunk for fear of him, and all the workers of iniquity were troubled, because salvation prospered in his hand.

bes@1Macc:3:12 @ Wherefore Judas took their spoils, and Apollonius’ sword also, and therewith he fought all his life long.

bes@1Macc:3:22 @ Wherefore the Lord himself will overthrow them before our face: and as for you, be ye not afraid of them.

bes@1Macc:3:27 @ Now when king Antiochus heard these things, he was full of indignation: wherefore he sent and gathered together all the forces of his realm, even a very strong army.

bes@1Macc:3:31 @ Wherefore, being greatly perplexed in his mind, he determined to go into Persia, there to take the tributes of the countries, and to gather much money.

bes@1Macc:3:46 @ Wherefore the Israelites assembled themselves together, and came to Maspha, over against Jerusalem; for in Maspha was the place where they prayed aforetime in Israel.

bes@1Macc:4:13 @ Wherefore they went out of the camp to battle; but they that were with Judas sounded their trumpets.

bes@1Macc:4:45 @ They thought it best to pull it down, lest it should be a reproach to them, because the heathen had defiled it: wherefore they pulled it down,

bes@1Macc:5:2 @ Wherefore they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that was among them, and thereupon they began to slay and destroy the people.

bes@1Macc:5:34 @ Then the host of Timotheus, knowing that it was Maccabeus, fled from him: wherefore he smote them with a great slaughter; so that there were killed of them that day about eight thousand men.

bes@1Macc:5:49 @ Wherefore Judas commanded a proclamation to be made throughout the host, that every man should pitch his tent in the place where he was.

bes@1Macc:5:57 @ Wherefore they said, Let us also get us a name, and go fight against the heathen that are round about us.

bes@1Macc:6:3 @ Wherefore he came and sought to take the city, and to spoil it; but he was not able, because they of the city, having had warning thereof,

bes@1Macc:6:10 @ Wherefore he called for all his friends, and said unto them, The sleep is gone from mine eyes, and my heart faileth for very care.

bes@1Macc:6:19 @ Wherefore Judas, purposing to destroy them, called all the people together to besiege them.

bes@1Macc:6:27 @ Wherefore if thou dost not prevent them quickly, they will do the greater things than these, neither shalt thou be able to rule them.

bes@1Macc:6:41 @ Wherefore all that heard the noise of their multitude, and the marching of the company, and the rattling of the harness, were moved: for the army was very great and mighty.

bes@1Macc:6:45 @ Wherefore he ran upon him courageously through the midst of the battle, slaying on the right hand and on the left, so that they were divided from him on both sides.

bes@1Macc:6:57 @ Wherefore he went in all haste, and said to the king and the captains of the host and the company, We decay daily, and our victuals are but small, and the place we lay siege unto is strong, and the affairs of the kingdom lie upon us:

bes@1Macc:6:60 @ So the king and the princes were content: wherefore he sent unto them to make peace; and they accepted thereof.

bes@1Macc:7:3 @ Wherefore, when he knew it, he said, Let me not see their faces.

bes@1Macc:7:18 @ Wherefore the fear and dread of them fell upon all the people, who said, There is neither truth nor righteousness in them; for they have broken the covenant and oath that they made.

bes@1Macc:8:31 @ And as touching the evils that Demetrius doeth to the Jews, we have written unto him, saying, Wherefore thou made thy yoke heavy upon our friends and confederates the Jews?

bes@1Macc:9:46 @ Wherefore cry ye now unto heaven, that ye may be delivered from the hand of your enemies.

bes@1Macc:9:61 @ Wherefore they took of the men of the country, that were authors of that mischief, about fifty persons, and slew them.

bes@1Macc:9:69 @ Wherefore he was very wroth at the wicked men that gave him counsel to come into the country, inasmuch as he slew many of them, and purposed to return into his own country.

bes@1Macc:10:6 @ Wherefore he gave him authority to gather together an host, and to provide weapons, that he might aid him in battle: he commanded also that the hostages that were in the tower should be delivered him.

bes@1Macc:10:20 @ Wherefore now this day we ordain thee to be the high priest of thy nation, and to be called the king’s friend; (and therewithal he sent him a purple robe and a crown of gold:) and require thee to take our part, and keep friendship with us.

bes@1Macc:10:27 @ Wherefore now continue ye still to be faithful unto us, and we will well recompense you for the things ye do in our behalf,

bes@1Macc:10:73 @ Wherefore now thou shalt not be able to abide the horsemen and so great a power in the plain, where is neither stone nor flint, nor place to flee unto.

bes@1Macc:11:12 @ Wherefore he took his daughter from him, and gave her to Demetrius, and forsook Alexander, so that their hatred was openly known.

bes@1Macc:11:34 @ Wherefore we have ratified unto them the borders of Judea, with the three governments of Apherema and Lydda and Ramathem, that are added unto Judea from the country of Samaria, and all things appertaining unto them, for all such as do sacrifice in Jerusalem, instead of the payments which the king received of them yearly aforetime out of the fruits of the earth and of trees.

bes@1Macc:11:38 @ After this, when king Demetrius saw that the land was quiet before him, and that no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces, every one to his own place, except certain bands of strangers, whom he had gathered from the isles of the heathen: wherefore all the forces of his fathers hated him.

bes@1Macc:11:46 @ Wherefore the king fled into the court, but they of the city kept the passages of the city, and began to fight.

bes@1Macc:11:49 @ So when they of the city saw that the Jews had got the city as they would, their courage was abated: wherefore they made supplication to the king, and cried, saying,

bes@1Macc:11:61 @ From whence he went to Gaza, but they of Gaza shut him out; wherefore he laid siege unto it, and burned the suburbs thereof with fire, and spoiled them.

bes@1Macc:12:18 @ Wherefore now ye shall do well to give us an answer thereto.

bes@1Macc:12:27 @ Wherefore so soon as the sun was down, Jonathan commanded his men to watch, and to be in arms, that all the night long they might be ready to fight: also he sent forth sentinels round about the host.

bes@1Macc:12:31 @ Wherefore Jonathan turned to the Arabians, who were called Zabadeans, and smote them, and took their spoils.

bes@1Macc:12:34 @ For he had heard that they would deliver the hold unto them that took Demetrius’ part; wherefore he set a garrison there to keep it.

bes@1Macc:12:40 @ Howbeit he was afraid that Jonathan would not suffer him, and that he would fight against him; wherefore he sought a way how to take Jonathan, that he might kill him. So he removed, and came to Bethsan.

bes@1Macc:12:52 @ Whereupon they all came into the land of Judea peaceably, and there they bewailed Jonathan, and them that were with him, and they were sore afraid; wherefore all Israel made great lamentation.

bes@1Macc:13:16 @ Wherefore now send an hundred talents of silver, and two of his sons for hostages, that when he is at liberty he may not revolt from us, and we will let him go.

bes@1Macc:13:22 @ Wherefore Tryphon made ready all his horsemen to come that night: but there fell a very great snow, by reason whereof he came not. So he departed, and came into the country of Galaad.

bes@1Macc:13:49 @ They also of the tower in Jerusalem were kept so strait, that they could neither come forth, nor go into the country, nor buy, nor sell: wherefore they were in great distress for want of victuals, and a great number of them perished through famine.

bes@1Macc:14:21 @ The ambassadors that were sent unto our people certified us of your glory and honour: wherefore we were glad of their coming,

bes@1Macc:15:11 @ Wherefore being pursued by king Antiochus, he fled unto Dora, which lieth by the sea side:

bes@1Macc:15:34 @ Wherefore we, having opportunity, hold the inheritance of our fathers.

bes@1Macc:16:2 @ Wherefore Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas and John, and said unto them, I, and my brethren, and my father’s house, have ever from my youth unto this day fought against the enemies of Israel; and things have prospered so well in our hands, that we have delivered Israel oftentimes.

bes@1Macc:16:10 @ So they fled even unto the towers in the fields of Azotus; wherefore he burned it with fire: so that there were slain of them about two thousand men. Afterward he returned into the land of Judea in peace.

bes@1Macc:16:13 @ Wherefore his heart being lifted up, he thought to get the country to himself, and thereupon consulted deceitfully against Simon and his sons to destroy them.

bes@2Macc:2:15 @ Wherefore if ye have need thereof, send some to fetch them unto you.

bes@2Macc:3:9 @ And when he was come to Jerusalem, and had been courteously received of the high priest of the city, he told him what intelligence was given of the money, and declared wherefore he came, and asked if these things were so indeed.

bes@2Macc:3:14 @ So at the day which he appointed he entered in to order this matter: wherefore there was no small agony throughout the whole city.

bes@2Macc:4:28 @ For unto him appertained the gathering of the customs. Wherefore they were both called before the king.

bes@2Macc:4:34 @ Wherefore Menelaus, taking Andronicus apart, prayed, him to get Onias into his hands; who being persuaded thereunto, and coming to Onias in deceit, gave him his right hand with oaths; and though he were suspected by him, yet persuaded he him to come forth of the sanctuary: whom forthwith he shut up without regard of justice.

bes@2Macc:4:49 @ Wherefore even they of Tyrus, moved with hatred of that wicked deed, caused them to be honourably buried.

bes@2Macc:5:4 @ Wherefore every man prayed that that apparition might turn to good.

bes@2Macc:6:27 @ Wherefore now, manfully changing this life, I will shew myself such an one as mine age requireth,

bes@2Macc:7:8 @ But he answered in his own language, and said, No. Wherefore he also received the next torment in order, as the former did.

bes@2Macc:8:11 @ Wherefore immediately he sent to the cities upon the sea coast, proclaiming a sale of the captive Jews, and promising that they should have fourscore and ten bodies for one talent, not expecting the vengeance that was to follow upon him from the Almighty God.

bes@2Macc:11:25 @ Wherefore our mind is, that this nation shall be in rest, and we have determined to restore them their temple, that they may live according to the customs of their forefathers.

bes@2Macc:11:30 @ Wherefore they that will depart shall have safe conduct till the thirtieth day of Xanthicus with security.

bes@2Macc:12:15 @ Wherefore Judas with his company, calling upon the great Lord of the world, who without rams or engines of war did cast down Jericho in the time of Joshua, gave a fierce assault against the walls,

bes@2Macc:12:40 @ Now under the coats of every one that was slain they found things consecrated to the idols of the Jamnites, which is forbidden the Jews by the law. Then every man saw that this was the cause wherefore they were slain.

bes@2Macc:14:9 @ Wherefore, O king, seeing knowest all these things, be careful for the country, and our nation, which is pressed on every side, according to the clemency that thou readily shewest unto all.

bes@2Macc:14:19 @ Wherefore he sent Posidonius, and Theodotus, and Mattathias, to make peace.

bes@2Macc:15:8 @ Wherefore he exhorted his people not to fear the coming of the heathen against them, but to remember the help which in former times they had received from heaven, and now to expect the victory and aid, which should come unto them from the Almighty.

bes@2Macc:15:23 @ Wherefore now also, O Lord of heaven, send a good angel before us for a fear and dread unto them;

bes@AddDaniel:1:7 @ Wherefore all that thou hast brought upon us, and every thing that thou hast done to us, thou hast done in true judgement.

bes@PrMan:1:13 @ wherefore, I humbly beseech thee, forgive me, O Lord, forgive me, and destroy me not with mine iniquities. Be not angry with me for ever, by reserving evil for me; neither condemn me to the lower parts of the earth. For thou art the God, even the God of them that repent;

bes@3Macc:2:27 @ His purpose was to indict a public stigma upon our race; wherefore he erected a pillar at the tower-porch, and caused the following inscription to be engraved upon it:

bes@4Macc:3:12 @ Wherefore his body-guards being troubled at this longing of the king, two valiant young soldiers, reverencing the desire of the king, put on their panoplies, and taking a pitcher, got over the ramparts of the enemies:

bes@4Macc:3:16 @ Wherefore, setting up reasoning in opposition to his desire, he poured out the draught to God.

bes@4Macc:5:7 @ For wherefore, since nature has conferred upon you the most excellent flesh of this animal, do you loathe it?

bes@4Macc:5:17 @ wherefore we consider that we ought not in any point to transgress the law.

bes@4Macc:5:25 @ Wherefore it is that we eat not the unclean; for believing that the law was established by God, we are convinced that the Creator of the world, in giving his laws, sympathises with our nature.

bes@4Macc:6:12 @ Wherefore, partly in pity for his old age,

bes@4Macc:6:22 @ Wherefore do you, O children of Abraham, die nobly for your religion.

bes@4Macc:12:12 @ Wherefore the divine vengeance is reserving thee for eternal fire and torments, which shall cling to thee for all time.

bes@4Macc:12:16 @ Wherefore, he continued, I myself, being about to die,

bes@4Macc:18:22 @ Wherefore divine retribution pursued and will pursue the pestilent wretch.

bes@1Esd:1:40 @ Wherefore against him Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came up, and bound him with a chain of brass, and carried him into Babylon.

bes@1Esd:2:24 @ Wherefore now we do declare unto thee, O lord the king, that if this city be built again, and the walls thereof set up anew, thou shalt from henceforth have no passage into Celosyria and Phenice.

bes@1Esd:4:25 @ Wherefore a man loveth his wife better than father or mother.

bes@1Esd:5:66 @ Wherefore when the enemies of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin heard it, they came to know what that noise of trumpets should mean.

bes@Sus:1:50 @ Wherefore all the people turned again in haste, and the elders said unto him, Come, sit down among us, and shew it us, seeing God hath given thee the honour of an elder.