Job 29:25

Bishops' Bible (1568)

When I agreed vnto their way, I was the chiefe, and sate as a king with his armie about him: and when they were in heauinesse, I was their comfortour.

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  • Judg 11:8 : 8 And the elders of Gilead sayde vnto Iephthah: Therfore we turne agayne to thee nowe, that thou mayest go with vs, & fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head ouer all the inhabitauntes of Gilead.
  • Isa 35:3-4 : 3 And therfore strength the weake handes, and comfort the feeble knees. 4 Say vnto them that are of a fearfull heart, be of good cheare and feare not, beholde your God commeth to take vengeaunce, and you shall see the rewarde that God geueth: God commeth his owne selfe, and wyll delyuer you.
  • Isa 61:1-3 : 1 The spirite of the Lord is vpon me: for the Lord hath annoynted me, and sent me to preache good tidinges vnto the poore, that I might binde vp the wounded heartes, that I might preache deliueraunce to the captiue, and open the prison to the that are bounde: 2 That I might declare the acceptable yere of the Lorde, and the day of the vengeaunce of our God: that I might comfort all them that are in heauinesse: 3 That I might geue vnto them that mourne in Sion, that I might geue I say beautie in steede of asshes, ioyfull oyntment for sighing, pleasaunt rayment for an heauie minde, that they might be called trees of righteousnesse, a planting of the Lorde for hym to reioyce in.
  • 2 Cor 1:3-4 : 3 Blessed be God, the father of our Lorde Iesus Christe, whiche is the father of mercies, & the God of al comfort: 4 Which comforted vs in all our tribulation, insomuch that we are able to comfort them which are in any maner trouble, with the comfort wherwith we our selues are comforted of God.
  • Gen 14:14-17 : 14 When Abram hearde that his brother was taken, he armed his exercised seruauntes whiche were borne in his owne house, three hundreth & eyghteen, and folowed on them vntyll Dan. 15 And he and his seruauntes were parted in companies agaynst the by nyght, and smote them, and pursued them vnto Hoba, which lyeth on the left hand of Damascus. 16 And recouered all the goodes, and also brought agayne his brother Lot, & his goodes, the wome also, & the people. 17 After that he returned agayne from the slaughter of Chodorlaomer, and of the kynges that were with hym, came the kyng of Sodome foorth to meete hym in the valey Sauch, which is the kynges dale.
  • Gen 41:40 : 40 Thou therfore shalt be ouer my house, and accordyng to thy worde shall all my people be ruled: only in the kynges seate wyll I be aboue thee.
  • 1 Thess 3:2-3 : 2 And sent Timotheus, our brother and minister of God, and felowe labourer in the Gospell of Christe, to stablishe you & to comfort you concernyng your faith. 3 That no man shoulde be moued in these afflictions: For ye your selues knowe, that we are appoynted therevnto.
  • Deut 33:5 : 5 And he was in Israel king, when the heades of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together.
  • 2 Cor 7:5-7 : 5 For when we were come into Macedonia, our flesshe had no rest, but we were troubled on euery syde: Outward was fyghtyng, inward was feare. 6 Neuerthelesse, God that comforteth the humble, comforted vs by the commyng of Titus. 7 And not by his comming only, but also by the consolatio whiche we receaued of you, when he tolde vs your desire, your wepyng, your feruent mynde towarde me, so that I reioyced the more.
  • 2 Sam 5:2 : 2 And in time past whe Saul was our king, thou leddest Israel in and out: and the Lord hath sayd to thee, thou shalt feede my people Israel, & thou shalt be a captayne ouer Israel.
  • 1 Chr 13:1-4 : 1 And Dauid counsailed with the captaynes of thousandes and hundredes, and with al the Lordes, 2 And sayde vnto all the congregation of Israel: If it seeme you good, & to be of the Lord our God, we will send abrode vnto our brethren that are left in all the lande of Israel, and with them also to the priestes and Leuites which are in their suburbes, to gather them together vnto vs: 3 And we will bring againe the arke of our God to vs: for we regarded it not in the dayes of Saul. 4 And all the congregation was content that he should do so: for the thing seemed good in the eyes of all the people.
  • Job 1:3 : 3 His substaunce also was seuen thousand sheepe, and three thousand camels, fiue hundred yoke of oxen, and fiue hundred shee asses, and a very great householde: so that he was one of the most principall men among all them of the east countrey.
  • Job 4:3-4 : 3 Beholde, thou hast ben an instructer of many, & hast strenghtned the weery handes: 4 Thy wordes haue set vp him that was falling, thou hast refreshed the weake knees.
  • Job 31:37 : 37 I will tell hym the number of my goinges, & go vnto him as to a prince.

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