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1 Kings 22:27

and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”

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ASV

and say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

KJV

And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

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17 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְאָמַרְתָּ֗ve.'a.mar.Taand you will sayH559 →
כֹּ֚הkohthusH3541 →
אָמַ֣ר'a.Marhe saysH559 →
הַמֶּ֔לֶךְha.Me.lekhthe kingH4428 →
שִׂ֥ימוּSi.muputH7760 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
זֶ֖הzehthis [one]H2088 →
בֵּ֣יתbeit[the] house ofH1004 →
הַכֶּ֑לֶאha.Ke.le'<the> imprisonmentH3608 →
וְהַאֲכִילֻ֨הוּve.ha.'a.khi.Lu.huand feed himH398 →
לֶ֤חֶםLe.chembreadH3899 →
לַ֙חַץ֙la.chatzoppressionH3906 →
וּמַ֣יִםu.Ma.yimand waterH4325 →
לַ֔חַץLa.chatzoppressionH3906 →
עַ֖ד'aduntilH5704 →
בֹּאִ֥יbo.'Icome IH935 →
בְשָׁלֽוֹם׃ve.sha.Lomin peaceH7965 →

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2 Chronicles 16:10Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.2 Chronicles 18:25–27And the king of Israel declared, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son,Galatians 4:16Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?1 Kings 22:8The king of Israel answered, “There is still one man who can ask the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good for me, but only bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” “The king should not say that!” Jehoshaphat replied.Revelation 2:10Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Look, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.Jeremiah 36:23And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.Isaiah 30:10They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.Luke 12:45–46But suppose that servant says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and he begins to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk.Jeremiah 37:15The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.Mark 6:17–28For Herod himself had ordered that John be arrested and bound and imprisoned, on account of his brother Philip’s wife Herodias, whom Herod had married.James 4:13–14Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”Jeremiah 29:26‘The LORD has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada, to be the chief officer in the house of the LORD, responsible for any madman who acts like a prophet—you must put him in stocks and neck irons.Lamentations 3:53–55They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.Ephesians 3:1For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles...Acts 5:18and arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.Luke 3:20Herod added this to them all: He locked John up in prison.Acts 26:10And that is what I did in Jerusalem. With authority from the chief priests I put many of the saints in prison, and when they were condemned to death, I cast my vote against them.Jeremiah 38:6So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

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