CONCORDANCE:String = sought
geneva@Genesis:29:32 @ And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the (note:)...appears that she had sought help ...(:note) LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will For children are a great cause of mutual love between man and wife. love me.
geneva@Genesis:43:30 @ And Ioseph made haste (...towarde his brother, and sought where ...) and entred into his chamber, and wept there.
geneva@Exodus:2:15 @ Now Pharaoh heard this matter, & sought to slay Moses: therefore Moses fled from Pharaoh, and dwelt in the lande of Midian, and hee sate downe by a well.
geneva@Exodus:4:24 @ And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and (note:)God punished him with sickness for neglecting his ordinances.(:note) sought to kill him.
geneva@Exodus:33:7 @ And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the (note:)That is, the tabernacle of the congregation: so called because the people turned to it, when they needed to be instructed of the Lord's will.(:note) Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, [that] every one which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which [was] without the camp.
geneva@Leviticus:10:16 ...And Moses diligently sought the ...[which were] (note:)And not consumed as Nadab and Abihu.(:note) left [alive], saying,
geneva@Numbers:35:23 @ Or any stone (whereby he might be slaine)...not his enemie, neither sought him ...
geneva@Judges:14:4 @ But his father and his mother knew not that it [was]...the LORD, that he sought an ...(note:)To fight against them for the deliverance of Israel.(:note) Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.
geneva@Judges:17:5 @ And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an (note:)He would serve both God and idols.(:note) ephod, and ...belonging to those who sought an ...(Jdg_18:5-6). teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
geneva@Judges:18:1 @ In those days [there was] no (note:)Meaning, no ordinary magistrate to punish vice according to God's word.(:note)...tribe of the Danites sought them ...[all their] inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.
geneva@1Samuel:13:14 @...continue: the LORD hath sought him ...(note:)That is, David.(:note) man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him [to be] captain over his people, because thou hast not kept [that] which the LORD commanded thee.
geneva@1Samuel:18:21 @ And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a (note:)...pretence of favour he sought his ...(:note) snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in [the one of] the twain.
geneva@1Samuel:19:1 @ And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should (note:)Before Saul sought David's life secretly, but now his hypocrisy grows to open cruelty.(:note) kill David.
geneva@1Samuel:23:14 @...of Ziph. And Saul sought him ...(note:)No power nor policy can prevail against God's children, but when he appoints the time.(:note) delivered him not into his hand.
geneva@2Samuel:3:17 @ And Abner had (note:)Rather for malice that he bore toward Ishbosheth, than for love he bore to David.(:note)...of Israel, saying, Ye sought for ...[to be] king over you:
geneva@2Samuel:4:8 @ And they brought the head of Ish-bosheth vnto Dauid to Hebron, and saide to the King, Beholde the head of Ish-...sonne thine enemie, who sought after ...
geneva@2Samuel:17:20 @ And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where [is] Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the (note:)The Chaldee text reads: Now they have passed the Jordan.(:note)...And when they had sought and ...[them], they returned to Jerusalem.
geneva@2Samuel:21:2 @ Then ye King called the Gibeonites and said vnto them. (...had sworne: but Saul sought to ...)
geneva@1Kings:1:3 ...So they sought for ...(note:)A city in the tribe of Issachar, (Jos_19:18).(:note) a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
geneva@2Kings:6:19 @ And Elisha said unto them, This [is] not the way, neither [is] this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led (note:)...and not because he sought his ...(:note) them to Samaria.
geneva@2Kings:17:2 @ And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, (note:)...others did, yet he sought help ...(:note) but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
geneva@2Kings:22:2 @ And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, and (note:)His zeal was prophesied of, and his name mentioned by Iddo the prophet, more than 300 years before, (1Ki_13:2)...eight years old, he sought the ...(2Ch_34:3).(:note) walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
geneva@1Chronicles:4:39 @ And they (note:)...time of Hezekiah they sought new ...(:note) went to the entrance of Gedor, [even] unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
geneva@1Chronicles:15:13 @ For because ye [did it]...us, for that we sought him ...(note:)According as he has appointed in the law.(:note) order.
geneva@1Chronicles:22:19 @ Now set (note:)...their labour, unless they sought with ...(:note) your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.
geneva@2Chronicles:1:5 @ Moreover the (note:)Which was for the burnt offerings, (Exo_27:1).(:note)...Solomon and the congregation sought unto ...
geneva@2Chronicles:14:7 @ Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about [them] walls, and towers, gates, and bars, [while] the land [is] yet (note:)While we have the full government of it.(:note)...us; because we have sought the ...[him], and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.
geneva@2Chronicles:15:4 @...God of Israel, and sought him, ...(note:)He shows that despite the wickedness of tyrants and their rage, yet God has his whom he hears in their tribulation as he delivered his from Zerah king of the Ethiopians, (2Ch_14:9, 2Ch_14:12) and out of all other dangers, when they called upon the Lord.(:note) was found of them.
geneva@2Chronicles:15:15 @...all their heart, and sought him ...(note:)As long as they served him correctly, so long did he preserve and prosper them.(:note) found of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about.
geneva@2Chronicles:16:12 @ And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease [was] (note:)God plagued his rebellion and by this declared that it is nothing to begin well, unless we continue to the end, that is, zealous of God's glory and put our whole trust in him.(:note) exceeding [great]...in his disease he sought not ...He shows that it is useless to seek the physicians unless we first seek God to purge our sins, which are the chief cause of all our diseases, and later use the help of the physicians as a means by which God works. physicians.
geneva@2Chronicles:17:3 @ And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the (note:)That is, his virtues meaning before he had committed with Bathsheba, and against Uriah.(:note)...his father David, and sought not ...Did not seek help from strange Gods. Baalim;
geneva@2Chronicles:22:9 ...And he sought Ahaziah: ...(for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he [is] the son of (note:)This was the just plague of God because he joined himself with God's enemies: yet God to declare the worthiness of Jehoshaphat his grandfather moved them to give him the honour of burial.(:note) Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.
geneva@2Chronicles:25:15 @...him, Why hast thou sought after ...(note:)He proves that whatever cannot save himself nor his worshipper is no god but an idol.(:note) deliver their own people out of thine hand?
geneva@2Chronicles:25:20 @ But Amaziah would not hear; for (note:)Thus God often plagues by those means on which men must rely, to teach them to seek help only from him, and to show his judgments, he moves their hearts to follow that which will lead to their destruction.(:note) it [came] of God, that he might deliver them into the hand [of their enemies], because they sought after the gods of Edom.
geneva@2Chronicles:26:5 ...And he sought God ...(note:)This was not the Zechariah that was the son of Jehoiada, but some other prophet of that name.(:note) Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as For God never forsakes any who seek him, and therefore man is the cause of his own destruction. he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.
geneva@2Chronicles:28:19 @ For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of (note:)...forsook the Lord and sought help ...{{See 2Ch_15:17}} for when Judah was called Israel.(:note) Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.
geneva@Nehemiah:5:14 @ Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, [that is], twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the (note:)...declares that he rather sought the ...(:note) bread of the governor.
geneva@Nehemiah:12:27 @...wall at Ierusalem they sought the ...& with songs, cymbales, violes and with harpes.
geneva@Esther:2:11 @ And Mordecai walked (note:)...her, and therefore often sought to ...(:note) every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.
geneva@Esther:2:15 @ Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, (note:)...command her beauty but sought the ...(:note) appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
geneva@Esther:2:21 @...door, were wroth, and sought to ...(note:)Meaning, to kill him.(:note) hand on the king Ahasuerus.
geneva@Esther:3:6 @ Now he thought it too litle to lay hands onely on Mordecai: &...people of Mordecai, Haman sought to ...
geneva@Job:6:13 @ [Is] not my (note:)Have I not sought to help myself as much as was possible?(:note) help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
geneva@Job:30:12 @ Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the (note:)That is, they sought by all means how they might destroy me.(:note) ways of their destruction.
geneva@Job:35:9 @ By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make [the oppressed] (note:)...cry, who if he sought God ...(:note) to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
geneva@Psalms:23:5 @ Thou preparest a (note:)Even though his enemies sought to destroy him, yet God delivers him, and deals most liberally with him in spite of them.(:note) table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou As was the manner of great feasts. anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
geneva@Psalms:34:4 ...I sought the ...(note:)Which I conceived for the danger I was in.(:note) fears.
geneva@Psalms:35:25 @ Let them not say in their hearts, (note:)...have that which we sought for, ...(:note) Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
geneva@Psalms:37:36 @ Yet he (note:)So that the prosperity of the wicked is but as a cloud, which vanishes away in a moment.(:note) passed away, and, lo, he [was] not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
geneva@Psalms:55:12 @ For [it was] not an (note:)...my open enemy had sought by ...(:note) enemy [that] reproached me; then I could have borne [it]: neither [was it] he that hated me [that] did magnify [himself] against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
geneva@Psalms:69:12 @ They that (note:)The more he sought to win them to God, the more they were against him both the poor and the rich.(:note) sit in the gate speak against me; and I [was] the song of the drunkards.
geneva@Psalms:73:25 @ Whom have I in (note:)He sought neither help nor comfort of any save God only.(:note) heaven [but thee]? and [there is] none upon earth [that] I desire beside thee.
geneva@Psalms:78:34 @ When he (note:)...their hypocrisy, that they sought God ...(:note)...slew them, then they sought him: ...
geneva@Psalms:83:4 @ They have said, Come, and let us (note:)...Church as prisoner: but sought to ...(:note) cut them off from [being] a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
geneva@Psalms:86:14 @ O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent [men] have (note:)He shows that there can be no moderation or equity where proud tyrants reign, and that the lack of God's fear is as a privilege to all vice and cruelty.(:note) sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
geneva@Psalms:111:2 @ The works of the LORD [are] (note:)He shows that God's works are a sufficient reason for us to praise him, but chiefly his benefits toward his Church.(:note) great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
geneva@Psalms:119:94 @ I [am] (note:)He proves by effect that he is God's child, because he seeks to understand his word.(:note)...me; for I have sought thy ...
geneva@Proverbs:1:28 @ Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not (note:)Because they sought not with an affection to God, but for ease of their own grief.(:note) find me:
geneva@Ecclesiastes:2:3 ...I sought in ...(note:)Even though I gave myself to pleasures, yet I thought to keep wisdom and the fear of God in my heart, and govern my affairs by the same.(:note) wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what [was] that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:29 @...upright; but they have sought out ...(note:)And so are cause for their own destruction.(:note) devices.
geneva@Songs:3:1 @ By (note:)The Church by night, that is, in troubles, seeks Christ, but is not incontinently heard.(:note)...my soul loveth: I sought him, ...
geneva@Songs:3:2 @ I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will (note:)Showing that although we are not heard at first, yet we must still continue in prayer, till we feel comfort.(:note)...my soul loveth: I sought him, ...
geneva@Isaiah:50:11 @ Behold, all ye that kindle (note:)You have sought consolation by your own devises, and have refused the light and consolation which God has offered: therefore you will remain in sorrow and not be comforted.(:note) a fire, that surround [yourselves] with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks [that] ye have kindled. This shall ye have of my hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
geneva@Isaiah:57:9 @ And thou wentest (note:)...when they failed you sought the ...(:note) to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase [thyself even] to hell.
geneva@Isaiah:62:12 @ And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A (note:)That is, one over whom God has had a singular care to recover her when she was lost.(:note) city not forsaken.
geneva@Isaiah:65:1 ...I am sought by ...[them that] (note:)Meaning, the Gentiles who know not God, would seek him, when he had moved their heart with his Holy Spirit, (Rom_10:20).(:note) asked not [for me]; I am found by [them that] sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, to a nation [that] was not called by my name.
geneva@Isaiah:65:10 @ And (note:)Which was a plentiful place in Judea to feed sheep, as Achor was for cattle.(:note)...my people that have sought... me.
geneva@Jeremiah:10:21 @ For the shepherds (note:)The governors and ministers.(:note)...senseless, and have not sought the ...
geneva@Jeremiah:40:14 @ And said to him, Dost thou certainly know that (note:)...of entertaining Ishmael, he sought only ...(:note) Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.
geneva@Jeremiah:44:30 @ Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will (note:)He shows the means by which they would be destroyed to assure them of the certainty of the plague and yet they remain still in their obstinacy till they perish: for Josephus writes that five years after the taking of Jerusalem, Nebuchadnezzar the younger having overcome the Moabites and the Ammonites went against Egypt and slew the king and so brought these Jews and others into Babylon.(:note)...his enemy, and that sought his ...
geneva@Lamentations:1:19 @ I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: my priests and my elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they (note:)That is, they died for hunger.(:note) sought their food to relieve their souls.
geneva@Ezekiel:17:7 @ There was also (note:)...Egypt from whom Zedekiah sought comfort ...(:note) another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.
geneva@Ezekiel:20:14 @ But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned before the (note:)...else that I had sought a ...(:note) nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
geneva@Ezekiel:22:30 ...And I sought for ...(note:)Who would show himself zealous in my cause by resisting vice, (Isa_59:16) also pray to me to withhold my plagues, (Psa_106:23).(:note) make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
geneva@Ezekiel:34:4 @ The (note:)He describes the office and duty of a good pastor who ought to love and comfort his flock and not be cruel toward them.(:note) diseased ye have not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up [that which was]...away, neither have ye sought that ...
geneva@Daniel:2:13 @ And the decree went forth that the wise [men] should be slain; and they (note:)Which declares that God would not have his servant united in the company of these sorcerers and astrologers, whose arts were wicked, and therefore justly ought to die, even though the king did it upon a rage and not from zeal.(:note) sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.
geneva@Daniel:3:1 @ Nebuchadnezzar the king made (note:)...religion, and so rather sought his ...(:note) an image of gold, whose height [was] threescore cubits, [and] the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
geneva@Daniel:3:12 @ There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, (note:)...the malicious flatterers who sought nothing ...(:note) Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
geneva@Daniel:4:36 @ At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and (note:)By whom it seems that he had been put from his kingdom before.(:note) my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me.
geneva@Daniel:6:4 @ Then the presidents and princes (note:)Thus the wicked cannot abide the graces of God in others, but seek by every occasion to deface them: therefore against such assaults there is no better remedy than to walk upright in the fear of God, and to have a good conscience.(:note) sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he [was] faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.
geneva@Daniel:8:15 @ And it came to pass, when I, [even]...seen the vision, and sought for ...(note:)Who was Christ who in this manner declared himself to the old fathers, how he would be God manifest in flesh.(:note) as the appearance of a man.
geneva@Hosea:4:12 @ My (note:)...his people: for they sought help ...(:note) people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the They are carried away with madness. spirit of whoredoms hath caused [them] to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
geneva@Hosea:8:4 @ They have set up (note:)...Jeroboam, by whom they sought their ...(:note) kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew [it] not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
geneva@Haggai:1:4 @ [Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your (note:)Showing that they sought not only their necessities, but their very pleasures before God's honour.(:note) cieled houses, and this house [lie] waste?
geneva@Zechariah:3:2 @ And the (note:)That is, Christ speaks to God as the mediator of his Church, that he would rebuke Satan: and here he shows himself to be the continual preserver of his Church.(:note) LORD said to Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: [is] not this a ...captivity, and now Satan sought to ... brand plucked out of the fire?
geneva@Zechariah:6:7 @ And the (note:)That is, those of different colours, which ask permission, to signify that Satan has no power to hurt or afflict, until God gives it to him; (Job_1:12).(:note)...bay went forth, and sought to ...
geneva@Mark:12:12 @ And they (note:)They were greedy and very desirous.(:note) sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.
geneva@Mark:14:1 @ After (note:)By the will of God, against the counsel of men, it came to pass that Christ should be put to death upon the solemn day of the passover, that in all respects the truth of his sacrifice might agree to the symbol of the passover.(:note) two days was [the feast of]...priests and the scribes sought how ...[him] to death.
geneva@Luke:22:6 @...And he promised, and sought opportunity ...(note:)Without tumult, doing it without the knowledge of the people who used to follow him: and therefore they indeed waited patiently until they knew he was alone in the garden.(:note) absence of the multitude.
geneva@John:5:18 ...Therefore the Jews sought the ...(note:)That is, his alone and no one else's, which they gather from his saying, «And I work», applying this word «work» to himself which properly belongs to God, and therefore makes himself equal to God.(:note) his Father, making himself equal with God.
geneva@Romans:9:32 @ Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by the (note:)Seeking to attain righteousness, they followed the law of righteousness.(:note) works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
geneva@Romans:10:20 @ But Esaias is very (note:)Speaks without fear.(:note)...found of them that sought me ...
geneva@Romans:11:9 @ And David saith, (note:)...out of which they sought life, ...(:note) Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
geneva@2Corinthians:11:9 @ And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all [things] I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, (note:)...which they have already sought for, ...(:note) and [so] will I keep [myself].
geneva@2Corinthians:11:12 @ But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they (note:)...them for nothing, they sought another ...(:note) glory, they may be found even as we.
geneva@Hebrews:12:17 @ For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no (note:)There was no room left for his repentance: and it appears by the effects, what his repentance really was, for when he left his father's presence, he threatened to kill his brother.(:note)...of repentance, though he sought it ...
geneva@2Peter:3:1 @ This (note:)...holiness, is to be sought for ...(:note) second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in [both] which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
geneva@Jdt:1:18 @ {\cf2 And if the King Sennacherib had slaine any, when he was come and fled from Iudea, I buried them priuilie (for in his wrath he killed many)...found when they were sought for ...}
geneva@Tob:8:2 @ {\cf2 I haue loued her, & sought her fro my youth: I desired to marry her, such loue had I vnto her beauty.}
geneva@Sir:47:25 @ {\cf2 For they sought out all wickednesse, till the vengeance came vpon them.}
geneva@Sir:51:14 @ {\cf2 I praied for her before the Temple, & sought after her vnto farre countreis, & shee was as a grape that waxeth ripe out of the flower.}
geneva@Sir:51:15 @ {\cf2 Mine heart reioyced in her: my foote walked in the right way, &...from my youth vp sought I ...}
geneva@1Macc:9:26 @ {\cf2 These sought out, and made search for Iudas friends, & brought the vnto Bacchides, which auenged himselfe vpon them, and mocked them.}
geneva@1Macc:14:35 @ {\cf2 Now when the people saw the faithfulnes of Simon, and to what glory hee thought to bring his nation vnto, they made him their gouernour, and the chiefe Priest, because hee had done all these things, and for the vprightnes, and fidelitie that he had kept to his nation, & that sought by all meanes to exalt his people.}
geneva@2Macc:10:17 @ {\...and slewe all that sought against ...& slewe no lesse then twentie thousand.}