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Keywords: ENVY,SIN
Description: Genesis 37:20
NET Translation: Come now, let’s kill him, throw him into one of the CISTERNs, and then say that a wild animal ate him. Then we’ll see how his dreams turn out!”
DARBY Translation: And now come and let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, An evil beast has devoured him; and we will see what becomes of his dreams.
KJV Translation: Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
Keywords: BROTHER,INTERCESSION
Description: Genesis 37:22
NET Translation: Reuben continued, “Don’t shed blood! Throw him into this CISTERN that is here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.” (Reuben said this so he could rescue Joseph from them and take him back to his father.)
DARBY Translation: And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood: cast him into this pit which is in the wilderness; but lay no hand upon him in order that he might deliver him out of their hand, to bring him to his father again.
KJV Translation: And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, [but] cast him into this pit that [is] in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.
Description: Genesis 37:24
NET Translation: Then they took him and threw him into the CISTERN. (Now the CISTERN was empty; there was no water in it.)
DARBY Translation: and they took him and cast him into the pit; now the pit was empty there was no water in it.
KJV Translation: And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit [was] empty, [there was] no water in it.
Keywords: COMMERCE,ISHMAELITES,JOSEPH,MERCHANT,MIDIANITES,MONEY,SERVANT
Description: Genesis 37:28
NET Translation: So when the Midianite merchants passed by, Joseph’s brothers pulled him out of the CISTERN and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The Ishmaelites then took Joseph to Egypt.
DARBY Translation: And Midianitish men, merchants, passed by; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty silver-pieces; and they brought Joseph to Egypt.
KJV Translation: Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty [pieces] of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.
Keywords: DECEPTION,FALSEHOOD,HYPOCRISY,JOSEPH,MOURNING,RENDING
Description: Genesis 37:29
NET Translation: Later Reuben returned to the CISTERN to find that Joseph was not in it! He tore his clothes,
DARBY Translation: And Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph [was] not in the pit; and he rent his garments,
KJV Translation: And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph [was] not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
Description: Leviticus 11:36
NET Translation: However, a spring or a CISTERN which collects water will be clean, but one who touches the creature’s carcass will be unclean.
DARBY Translation: Nevertheless, a spring or a well, a quantity of water, shall be clean. But he that toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.
KJV Translation: Nevertheless a fountain or pit, [wherein there is] plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.
Keywords: GRAPE,INGRATITUDE,OLIVE
Description: Deuteronomy 6:11
NET Translation: houses filled with choice things you did not accumulate, hewn-out CISTERNs you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—and you eat your fill,
DARBY Translation: and houses full of everything goodD1226 which thou filledst not, and wells digged which thou diggedst not, vineyards and oliveyards which thou plantedst not, and thou shalt have eaten and shalt be full;
KJV Translation: And houses full of all good [things], which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
Keywords: CAVE,COWARDICE
Description: 1 Samuel 13:6
NET Translation: The men of Israel realized they had a problem because their army was hard pressed. So the army hid in caves, thickets, cliffs, strongholds, and CISTERNs.
DARBY Translation: And the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed); and the people hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in cliffs, and in strongholds, and in pits.
KJV Translation: When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
Keywords: NAIOTH
Description: 1 Samuel 19:22
NET Translation: Finally Saul himself went to Ramah. When he arrived at the large CISTERN that is in Secu, he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” They said, “At Naioth in Ramah.”
DARBY Translation: Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Sechu; and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, at Naioth by Ramah.
KJV Translation: Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that [is] in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where [are] Samuel and David? And [one] said, Behold, [they be] at Naioth in Ramah.
Keywords: CITIZENS,LOYALTY
Description: 2 Samuel 23:15
NET Translation: David was thirsty and said, “How I wish someone would give me some water to drink from the CISTERN in Bethlehem near the gate!”
DARBY Translation: And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me to drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is in the gate!
KJV Translation: And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which [is] by the gate!
Keywords: CITIZENS,CONSECRATION,LOYALTY,UNSELFISHNESS
Description: 2 Samuel 23:16
NET Translation: So the three elite warriors broke through the Philistine forces and drew some water from the CISTERN in Bethlehem near the gate. They carried it back to David, but he refused to drink it. He poured it out as a drink offering to the Lord
DARBY Translation: And the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, which is in the gate, and took it, and brought it to David; however he would not drink of it, but poured it out to Jehovah.
KJV Translation: And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that [was] by the gate, and took [it], and brought [it] to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
Keywords: BENAIAH,KABZEEL,LION,MOABITES,PIT,SNOW
Description: 2 Samuel 23:20
NET Translation: Benaiah son of Jehoiada was a brave warrior from Kabzeel who performed great exploits. He struck down the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in a CISTERN on a snowy day.
DARBY Translation: And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, son of a valiant man, great in exploits, of Kabzeel: he it was that smote two lionsD2061 of Moab; and he went down and smote a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day.
KJV Translation: And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many actsK1731, he slew two lionlike menK1732of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:
Keywords: WATER
Description: 2 Kings 3:16
NET Translation: and he said, “This is what the Lord has said, ‘Make many CISTERNs in this valley,’
DARBY Translation: And he said, Thus saith Jehovah: Make this valley full of ditchesD2225.
KJV Translation: And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.
Keywords: AHAZIAH
Description: 2 Kings 10:14
NET Translation: He said, “Capture them alive!” So they captured them alive and then executed all forty-two of them by the CISTERN at Beth Eked. He left no survivors.
DARBY Translation: And he said, Take them alive! And they took them alive, and slew them at the well of the meeting-place, forty-two men; and he left not one of them remaining.
KJV Translation: And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, [even] two and forty men; neither left he any of them.
Keywords: CISTERN
Description: 2 Kings 18:31
NET Translation: Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says, ‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own CISTERN,
DARBY Translation: Hearken not to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: Make peaceD2299 with me, and come out to me; and eat every one of his vine and every one of his fig-tree, and drink every one the waters of his own CISTERND2300;
KJV Translation: Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make [an agreement] with me by a present, and come out to me, and [then] eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his CISTERN:
Description: 1 Chronicles 11:17
NET Translation: David was thirsty and said, “How I wish someone would give me some water to drink from the CISTERN in Bethlehem near the city gate!”
DARBY Translation: And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me to drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is in the gate!
KJV Translation: And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that [is] at the gate!
Description: 1 Chronicles 11:18
NET Translation: So the three elite warriors broke through the Philistine forces and drew some water from the CISTERN in Bethlehem near the city gate. They carried it back to David, but David refused to drink it. He poured it out as a drink offering to the Lord
DARBY Translation: And the three broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, which is in the gate, and took it, and brought it to David; David however would not drink of it, but poured it out to Jehovah.
KJV Translation: And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that [was] by the gate, and took [it], and brought [it] to David: but David would not drink [of] it, but poured it out to the LORD,
Keywords: BENAIAH,KABZEEL,MOABITES
Description: 1 Chronicles 11:22
NET Translation: Benaiah son of Jehoiada was a brave warrior from Kabzeel who performed great exploits. He struck down the two sons of Ariel of Moab; he also went down and killed a lion inside a CISTERN on a snowy day.
DARBY Translation: Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, great in exploits, of Kabzeel: he it was that smote two lionsD2403 of Moab; and he went down and smote a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day.
KJV Translation: Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many actsK2327; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
Keywords: AGRICULTURE,CARMEL,FORT,GRAPE,JERUSALEM,KING,SHEPHERD,TOWER,UZZIAH,WELLS
Description: 2 Chronicles 26:10
NET Translation: He built towers in the wilderness and dug many CISTERNs, for he owned many herds in the foothills and on the plain. He had workers in the fields and vineyards in the hills and in Carmel, for he loved agriculture.
DARBY Translation: And he built towers in the desert and digged many CISTERNs; for he had much cattle, both in the lowlandD2598 and on the plateau, husbandmen [also] and vinedressers on the mountains and in Carmel; for he loved husbandry.
KJV Translation: Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wellsCISTERNs." href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">K2658: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen [also], and vine dressers in the mountains, and in CarmelK2659: for he loved husbandryK2660.
Keywords: GOD,INGRATITUDE
Description: Nehemiah 9:25
NET Translation: They captured fortified cities and fertile land. They took possession of houses full of all sorts of good things—wells previously dug, vineyards, olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance. They ate until they were full and grew fat. They enjoyed to the full your great goodness.
DARBY Translation: And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goodD2805 things, wells digged, vineyards and olive-gardens, and fruit trees in abundance. And they did eat and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodnessD2806.
KJV Translation: And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wellsCISTERNs." href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">K2908digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit treesK2909in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
Keywords: CHASTITY,CISTERN,HUSBAND,WATER
Description: Proverbs 5:15
NET Translation: Drink water from your own CISTERN and running water from your own well.
DARBY Translation: Drink waters out of thine own CISTERN, and running waters out of thine own well.
KJV Translation: Drink waters out of thine own CISTERN, and running waters out of thine own well.
Keywords: BOWL,CISTERN,CORD,GOLD,SILVER,WHEEL
Description: Ecclesiastes 12:6
NET Translation: before the silver cord is removed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the well, or the water wheel is broken at the CISTERN—
DARBY Translation: before the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be shattered at the fountain, or the wheel be broken at the CISTERN;
KJV Translation: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the CISTERN.
Keywords: BOTTLE,HEARTH
Description: Isaiah 30:14
NET Translation: It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a CISTERN.”
DARBY Translation: And he shall break it as the breaking of a potter's vessel, that is broken in pieces unsparingly; and in the pieces of it there shall not be found a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to scoop water out of the CISTERN.
KJV Translation: And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vesselK4782that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water [withal] out of the pit.
Keywords: CISTERN
Description: Isaiah 36:16
NET Translation: Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says, ‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own CISTERN,
DARBY Translation: Hearken not to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: Make peaceD4907 with me and come out to me; and eat every one of his vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink every one the waters of his own CISTERND4908;
KJV Translation: Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make [an agreement] with me [by] a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own CISTERN;
Keywords: CISTERN,CONFIDENCE,FOUNTAIN,SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS
Description: Jeremiah 2:13
NET Translation: “Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: They have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, and they have dug CISTERNs for themselves, cracked CISTERNs that cannot even hold water.
DARBY Translation: For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, to hew them out CISTERNs, broken CISTERNs that hold no water.
KJV Translation: For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out CISTERNs, broken CISTERNs, that can hold no water.
Keywords: MOURNING
Description: Jeremiah 14:3
NET Translation: The leading men of the cities send their servants for water. They go to the CISTERNs, but they do not find any water there. They return with their containers empty. Disappointed and dismayed, they bury their faces in their hands.
DARBY Translation: And their nobles send their little onesD5266 for water: they come to the pits, they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed, they are confounded, and have covered their heads.
KJV Translation: And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, [and] found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
Keywords: CRIMINALS,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN
Description: Jeremiah 37:16
NET Translation: So Jeremiah was put in prison in a cell in the dungeon in Jonathan’s house. He was kept there for a long time.
DARBY Translation: When Jeremiah was come into the dungeonCISTERN,' Isa. 36.16. see ch. 41.9 and en. 37.20." href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">D5406 and into the vaults, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,
KJV Translation: When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabinsK5285, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
Keywords: MALICE,GEDALIAH,PROPHECIES CONCERNING ISRAEL,JEHUCAL,MALCHIAH,MATTAN,PASHUR,PERSECUTION,SHELEMIAH,SHEPHATIAH
Description: Jeremiah 38:1
NET Translation: Now Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jehucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malkijah had heard the things that Jeremiah had been telling the people. They had heard him say,
DARBY Translation: And Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchijah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,
KJV Translation: Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,
Verse Intro: Officials Charge Jeremiah with Treason and He is Imprisoned in a Muddy CISTERN
Keywords: DUNGEON,GOD,HAMMELECH,IMPRISONMENT,JEREMIAH,PRISONERS,RULERS
Description: Jeremiah 38:6
NET Translation: So the officials took Jeremiah and put him in the CISTERN of Malkijah, one of the royal princes, that was in the courtyard of the guardhouse. There was no water in the CISTERN, only mud. So when they lowered Jeremiah into the CISTERN with ropes he sank in the mud.
DARBY Translation: Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeonD5408 of Malchijah the son of HammelechD5409, which was in the court of the guard, and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
KJV Translation: Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of HammelechK5288, that [was] in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon [there was] no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
Keywords: BENJAMIN,EBED-MELECH,ETHIOPIA,EUNUCH,GATES,INTERCESSION,JEREMIAH,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PRISONERS
Description: Jeremiah 38:7
NET Translation: An Ethiopian, Ebed Melech, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put in the CISTERN. While the king was holding court at the Benjamin Gate,
DARBY Translation: And Ebed-melech the EthiopianD5410, a eunuch who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon now the king was sitting in the gate of Benjamin,
KJV Translation: Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
Verse Intro: Jeremiah Rescued from the Pit by Ebed Melech and returned to the Guard Courtyard
Description: Jeremiah 38:9
NET Translation: “Your royal Majesty, those men have been very wicked in all that they have done to the prophet Jeremiah. They have thrown him into a CISTERN and he is sure to die of starvation there because there is no food left in the city.”
DARBY Translation: My lord, O king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to the prophet Jeremiah, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he will die by reason of the famine in the place where he is; for there is no more bread in the city.
KJV Translation: My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to dieK5289for hunger in the place where he is: for [there is] no more bread in the city.
Keywords: CRIMINALS
Description: Jeremiah 38:10
NET Translation: Then the king gave Ebed Melech the Ethiopian the following order: “Take thirty men with you from here and go pull the prophet Jeremiah out of the CISTERN before he dies.”
DARBY Translation: And the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
KJV Translation: Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with theeK5290, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
Description: Jeremiah 38:11
NET Translation: So Ebed Melech took the men with him and went to a room under the treasure room in the palace. He got some worn-out clothes and old rags from there and let them down by ropes to Jeremiah in the CISTERN.
DARBY Translation: And Ebed-melech took the men under his order, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old shreds and worn-out clothes, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
KJV Translation: So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
Description: Jeremiah 38:13
NET Translation: So they pulled Jeremiah up from the CISTERN with ropes. Jeremiah, however, still remained confined to the courtyard of the guardhouse.
DARBY Translation: And they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and brought him up out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
KJV Translation: So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
Keywords: HYPOCRISY,NETHANIAH
Description: Jeremiah 41:7
NET Translation: But as soon as they were inside the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men who were with him slaughtered them and threw their bodies in a CISTERN.
DARBY Translation: And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, he and the men that were with him, slew them, [and cast them] into the midst of the pitD5422.
KJV Translation: And it was [so], when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, [and cast them] into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that [were] with him.
Keywords: BAASHA,NETHANIAH
Description: Jeremiah 41:9
NET Translation: Now the CISTERN where Ishmael threw all the dead bodies of those he had killed was a large one that King Asa had constructed as part of his defenses against King Baasha of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with dead bodies.
DARBY Translation: And the pitD5423 into which Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies ofD5424 the men whom he had slain by the side of Gedaliah was the one which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.
KJV Translation: Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of GedaliahK5305, [was] it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: [and] Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with [them that were] slain.
Description: Zephaniah 2:6
NET Translation: The seacoast will be used as pasture lands by the shepherds and as pens for their flocks.
DARBY Translation: and the sea-coast shall be cave-dwellingsCISTERNs.'" href="#" data-html="true" data-toggle="tooltip">D6468 for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
KJV Translation: And the sea coast shall be dwellings [and] cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.