Treasury of Scripture
Amos 2679. BC
1325. An.Ex.Is.166. cried unto
Judges 3:9 And when the children of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them...
Psalm 50:15 And call on me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.
Psalm 78:34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.
Psalm 90:15 Make us glad according to the days wherein you have afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
Jeremiah 29:12,13 Then shall you call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you...
Jeremiah 33:3 Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not.
a Benjamite, or the son of Jemini. left-handed. Heb. shut of his right hand. This Hebrew phrase intimates that, either through disease or disuse, he made little or no use of the right hand, but of his left only, and so was the less fit for war, because he would most likely wield a dagger awkwardly; yet God chose this left-handed man to be the minister of his retributive justice. It was God's right hand that gained Israel the victory, Ps.
44:3; not the right hand of the instruments he employed.
Judges 20:16 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left handed; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.
1 Chronicles 12:2 They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow...
sent a present
1 Samuel 10:27 But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought no presents. But he held his peace.
Proverbs 18:16 A man's gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.
Proverbs 19:6 Many will entreat the favor of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that gives gifts.
Proverbs 21:14 A gift in secret pacifies anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
Isaiah 36:16 Listen not to Hezekiah: for thus said the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me...