Judges 19:5

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Now on the fourth day they got up early in the morning and he made ready to go away; but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, Take a little food to keep up your strength, and then go on your way.

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  • Gen 18:5 : 5 And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.
  • Judg 19:8 : 8 Then early on the morning of the fifth day he got up to go away; but the girl's father said, Keep up your strength; so the two of them had a meal, and the man and his woman and his servant did not go till after the middle of the day.
  • 1 Sam 14:27-29 : 27 But Jonathan, having no knowledge of the oath his father had put on the people, stretching out the rod which was in his hand, put the end of it in the honey, and put it to his mouth; then his eyes were made bright. 28 Then one of the people said to him, Your father put the people under an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed who takes any food this day. And the people were feeble, needing food. 29 Then Jonathan said, My father has made trouble come on the land: now see how bright my eyes have become because I have taken a little of this honey.
  • 1 Sam 30:12 : 12 And they gave him part of a cake of figs and some dry grapes; and after the food, his spirit came back to him, for he had had no food or drink for three days and nights.
  • 1 Kgs 13:7 : 7 And the king said to the man of God, Come with me to my house for food and rest, and I will give you a reward.
  • Ps 104:15 : 15 And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.
  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.
  • Acts 9:19 : 19 And when he had taken food his strength came back. And for some days he kept with the disciples who were in Damascus.

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  • Judg 19:6-10
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    91%

    6 So seating themselves they had food and drink, the two of them together; and the girl's father said to the man, If it is your pleasure, take your rest here tonight, and let your heart be glad.

    7 And the man got up to go away, but his father-in-law would not let him go, so he took his rest there again for the night.

    8 Then early on the morning of the fifth day he got up to go away; but the girl's father said, Keep up your strength; so the two of them had a meal, and the man and his woman and his servant did not go till after the middle of the day.

    9 And when they got up to go away, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, Now evening is coming on, so do not go tonight; see, the day is almost gone; take your rest here and let your heart be glad, and tomorrow early, go on your way back to your house.

    10 But the man would not be kept there that night, and he got up and went away and came opposite to Jebus (which is Jerusalem); and he had with him the two asses, ready for travelling, and his woman.

  • Judg 19:2-4
    3 verses
    88%

    2 And his servant-wife was angry with him, and went away from him to her father's house at Beth-lehem-judah, and was there for four months.

    3 Then her husband got up and went after her, with the purpose of talking kindly to her, and taking her back with him; he had with him his young man and two asses: and she took him into her father's house, and her father, when he saw him, came forward to him with joy.

    4 And his father-in-law, the girl's father, kept him there for three days; and they had food and drink and took their rest there.

  • Gen 18:4-6
    3 verses
    78%

    4 Let me get water for washing your feet, and take your rest under the tree:

    5 And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.

    6 Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

  • Gen 24:54-55
    2 verses
    75%

    54 Then he and the men who were with him had food and drink, and took their rest there that night; and in the morning he got up, and said, Let me now go back to my master.

    55 But her brother and her mother said, Let the girl be with us a week or ten days, and then she may go.

  • Ruth 3:13-14
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    73%

    13 Take your rest here tonight; and in the morning, if he will do for you what it is right for a relation to do, very well, let him do so: but if he will not, then by the living Lord I myself will do so.

    14 And she took her rest at his feet till the morning: and she got up before it was light enough for one to see another. And he said, Let it not come to anyone's knowledge that the woman came to the grain-floor.

  • 1 Sam 28:23
    73%

    23 But he would not, saying, I have no desire for food. But his servants, together with the woman, made him take food, and he gave way to them. So he got up from the earth, and took his seat on the bed.

  • Ruth 3:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17 And she said, He gave me these six measures of grain, saying, Do not go back to your mother-in-law with nothing in your hands.

    18 Then she said, Do nothing now, my daughter, till you see what will come of this; for the man will take no rest till he has put this thing through.

  • Gen 19:2-3
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    72%

    2 And he said, My masters, come now into your servant's house and take your rest there for the night, and let your feet be washed; and early in the morning you may go on your way. And they said, Not so, but we will take our night's rest in the street.

    3 But he made his request more strongly, so they went with him into his house; and he got food ready for them, and made unleavened bread, of which they took.

  • Gen 24:38
    72%

    38 But go to my father's house and to my relations for a wife for my son.

  • Judg 19:19-21
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    72%

    19 But we have dry grass and food for our asses, as well as bread and wine for me, and for the woman, and for the young man with us: we have no need of anything.

    20 And the old man said, Peace be with you; let all your needs be my care; only do not take your rest in the street.

    21 So he took them into his house and gave the asses food; and after washing their feet they took food and drink.

  • Gen 24:23
    71%

    23 And said to her, Whose daughter are you? is there room in your father's house for us?

  • Exod 2:20
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    20 And he said to his daughters, Where is he? why have you let the man go? make him come in and give him a meal.

  • Judg 19:28
    70%

    28 And he said to her, Get up and let us be going; but there was no answer; so he took her up and put her on the ass, and went on his way and came to his house.

  • Gen 26:30
    70%

    30 Then he made a feast for them, and they all had food and drink.

  • Gen 24:21
    70%

    21 And the man, looking at her, said nothing, waiting to see if the Lord had given his journey a good outcome.

  • Gen 38:16
    70%

    16 And turning to her by the roadside, he said to her, Let me come in to you; for he had no idea that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will you give me as my price?

  • Gen 19:15
    70%

    15 And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town.

  • Judg 19:26
    69%

    26 Then at the dawn of day the woman came, and, falling down at the door of the man's house where her master was, was stretched there till it was light.

  • Gen 24:40
    69%

    40 And he said, The Lord, whom I have ever kept before me, will send his angel with you, who will make it possible for you to get a wife for my son from my relations and my father's house;

  • 1 Kgs 13:15
    69%

    15 Then he said to him, Come back to the house with me and have a meal.

  • Gen 24:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18 And she said, Take a drink, my lord: and quickly letting down her vessel onto her hand, she gave him a drink.

    19 And having done so, she said, I will get water for your camels till they have had enough.

  • Gen 24:25
    69%

    25 And she said, We have a great store of dry grass and cattle-food, and there is room for you.

  • Judg 11:38
    69%

    38 And he said, Go then. So he sent her away for two months; and she went with her friends to the mountains, weeping for her sad fate.

  • Ruth 1:18
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    18 And when she saw that Ruth was strong in her purpose to go with her she said no more.

  • Acts 20:11
    69%

    11 And when he had gone up, and had taken the broken bread, he went on talking to them for a long time, even till dawn, and then he went away.

  • Luke 24:29
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    29 But they kept him back, saying, Do not go, for evening is near, the day is almost gone. And he went in with them.

  • Ruth 3:7
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    7 Now when Boaz had taken meat and drink, and his heart was glad, he went to take his rest at the end of the mass of grain; then she came softly and, uncovering his feet, went to rest.

  • 2 Kgs 4:23
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    23 And he said, Why are you going to him today? it is not a new moon or a Sabbath. But she said, It is well.

  • 1 Kgs 19:8
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    8 So he got up and took food and drink, and in the strength of that food he went on for forty days and nights, to Horeb, the mountain of God.