Acts 26:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For the effecting of which our twelve tribes have been working and waiting night and day with all their hearts. And in connection with this hope I am attacked by the Jews, O king!

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  • Jas 1:1 : 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends words of love to the twelve tribes of the Jews living in all parts of the earth.
  • Luke 22:30 : 30 So that you may take food and drink at my table in my kingdom, and be seated like kings, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
  • Acts 26:2 : 2 In my opinion I am happy, King Agrippa, to be able to give my answer before you today to all these things which the Jews say against me:
  • Phil 3:11 : 11 If in any way I may have the reward of life from the dead.
  • 1 Thess 3:10 : 10 Night and day requesting God again and again that we may see your face and make your faith complete.
  • 1 Tim 5:5 : 5 Now she who is truly a widow and without family puts her hope in God, giving herself to prayer day and night.
  • Ezra 6:17 : 17 And they gave as offerings at the opening of this house of God a hundred oxen, two hundred sheep, four hundred lambs; and for a sin-offering for all Israel, twelve he-goats, being the number of the tribes of Israel.
  • Matt 19:28 : 28 And Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you that in the time when all things are made new, and the Son of man is seated in his glory, you who have come after me will be seated on twelve seats, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
  • Luke 2:25 : 25 And there was then in Jerusalem a man whose name was Simeon; and he was an upright man, fearing God and waiting for the comfort of Israel: and the Holy Spirit was on him.
  • Luke 2:36-38 : 36 And there was one, Anna, a woman prophet, the daughter of Phanuel, of the family of Asher (she was very old, and after seven years of married life 37 She had been a widow for eighty-four years); she was in the Temple at all times, worshipping with prayers and going without food, night and day. 38 And coming up at that time, she gave praise to God, talking of him to all those who were waiting for the freeing of Jerusalem.
  • Luke 7:19-20 : 19 Then John sent two of his disciples to the Lord, saying, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another? 20 And when the men came to him they said, John the Baptist has sent us to you, saying, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another?
  • Ezra 8:35 : 35 And those who had been prisoners, who had come back from a strange land, made burned offerings to the God of Israel, twelve oxen for all Israel, ninety-six male sheep, seventy-seven lambs, twelve he-goats for a sin-offering: all this was a burned offering to the Lord.
  • Ps 134:1-2 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> Give praise to the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who take your places in the house of the Lord by night. 2 Give praise to the Lord, lifting up your hands in his holy place.
  • Ps 135:2 : 2 You who are in the house of the Lord, and in the open spaces of the house of our God,
  • Acts 20:31 : 31 So keep watch, having in mind that for three years without resting I was teaching every one of you, day and night, with weeping.
  • Rev 7:4-8 : 4 And there came to my ears the number of those who had the mark on their brows, a hundred and forty-four thousand, who were marked out of every tribe of the people of Israel. 5 Of the tribe of Judah were marked twelve thousand: of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand: of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand: 6 Of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand: of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand: of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand: 7 Of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand: of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand: of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand: 8 Of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand: of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand: of the tribe of Benjamin were marked twelve thousand.

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    2 In my opinion I am happy, King Agrippa, to be able to give my answer before you today to all these things which the Jews say against me:

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    4 All the Jews have knowledge of my way of life from my early years, as it was from the start among my nation, and at Jerusalem;

    5 And they are able to say, if they would give witness, that I was living as a Pharisee, in that division of our religion which is most regular in the keeping of the law.

    6 And now I am here to be judged because of the hope given by God's word to our fathers;

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    19 But when the Jews made protest against it, I had to put my cause into Caesar's hands; not because I have anything to say against my nation.

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    26 For the king has knowledge of these things, to whom I am talking freely; being certain that all this is common knowledge to him; for it has not been done in secret.

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    19 And it would have been better if they had come here to make a statement, if they have anything against me.

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