Judges 21:4 BSB — MannaFest

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10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַֽיְהִי֙	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
מִֽמָּחֳרָ֔ת	mi.mo.cho.Rat	from [the] next day	H4283 →
וַיַּשְׁכִּ֣ימוּ	vai.yash.Ki.mu	and they rose early	H7925 →
הָעָ֔ם	ha.'Am	the people	H5971 →
וַיִּבְנוּ־	vai.yiv.nu-	and they built	H1129 →
שָׁ֖ם	sham	there	H8033 →
מִזְבֵּ֑חַ	miz.Be.ach	an altar	H4196 →
וַיַּעֲל֥וּ	vai.ya.'a.Lu	and they offered up	H5927 →
עֹל֖וֹת	o.Lot	burnt offerings	H5930 →
וּשְׁלָמִֽים׃ פ	u.she.la.Mim	and peace offerings	H8002 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hosea 5:15
Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
leads to
- Isaiah 26:16
  O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer.
- Jeremiah 29:12–14
  Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
- Psalms 78:34
  When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
- Deuteronomy 4:29–31
  But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Leviticus 26:40–42
  But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—
Through
2 Samuel 24:25
And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then the LORD answered the prayers on behalf of the land, and the plague upon Israel was halted.
leads to
- 2 Samuel 21:14
  And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. After they had done everything the king had commanded,…
- Lamentations 3:32–33
  Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.
- 2 Samuel 24:14
  David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

2 Samuel 24:25And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then the LORD answered the prayers on behalf of the land, and the plague upon Israel was halted.Judges 6:24So Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and called it The LORD Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.1 Samuel 14:35Then Saul built an altar to the LORD; it was the first time he had built an altar to the LORD.1 Samuel 6:14The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there near a large rock. The people chopped up the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD.Exodus 20:24–25You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.2 Samuel 24:18And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”Psalms 78:34–35When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.Hosea 5:15Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”Hebrews 13:10We have an altar from which those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat.1 Kings 8:64On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to contain all these offerings.Judges 6:26Then build a proper altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold. And with the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down, take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering.”1 Kings 18:32And with the stones, Elijah built an altar in the name of the LORD. Then he dug a trench around the altar large enough to hold two seahs of seed.Leviticus 3:1“If one’s offering is a peace offering and he offers an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he must present it without blemish before the LORD.

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