Become

Then Saul ordered his servants, “Speak to David privately and tell him, ‘Behold, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become his son-in-law.’”

When the servants reported these terms to David, he was pleased to become the king’s son-in-law. Before the wedding day arrived,

David and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as payment in full to become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David in marriage.

On hearing that Nabal was dead, David said, “Blessed be the LORD, who has upheld my cause against the reproach of Nabal and has restrained His servant from evil. For the LORD has brought the wickedness of Nabal down upon his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife.

“Why do you consult me,” asked Samuel, “since the LORD has turned away from you and become your enemy?

But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with Achish and told him, “Send that man back and let him return to the place you assigned him. He must not go down with us into battle only to become our adversary during the war. What better way for him to regain the favor of his master than with the heads of our men?

For You have established Your people Israel as Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God.

When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah and twelve thousand men from Tob.

“Why do you have these?” asked the king. Ziba replied, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is to refresh those who become exhausted in the wilderness.”

Ahithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to take care of the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become a stench to your father, then the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”

…honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd for David and his people to eat. For they said, “The people have become hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.”

He was most honored among the Thirty, but he did not become one of the Three. And David appointed him over his guard.

Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, “Have you not heard that Adonijah son of Haggith has become king, and our lord David does not know it?

Go at once to King David and say, ‘My lord the king, did you not swear to your maidservant, “Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne”? Why then has Adonijah become king?’

But now, behold, Adonijah has become king, and you, my lord the king, do not know it.

When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to his own land, whether far or near,

…then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.

And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’

Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the boy.”

(In the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king over Judah.)

You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has become proud. Glory in that and stay at home. Why should you stir up trouble so that you fall—you and Judah with you?”

So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. And they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,

…because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.

Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children, so their whole clan did not become as numerous as the sons of Judah.

Now David had said, “Whoever is the first to strike down a Jebusite will become chief commander.” And Joab son of Zeruiah went up first, and he became the chief.

He was most honored among the Thirty, but he did not become one of the Three. And David appointed him over his guard.

For You have made Your people Israel Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God.

When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Aram-naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.

When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to a land far or near,

And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’

Nevertheless, they will become his servants, so that they may learn the difference between serving Me and serving the kings of other lands.”

But did you not drive out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites? And did you not make priests for yourselves as do the peoples of other lands? Now whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams can become a priest of things that are not gods.

You have said, ‘Look, I have defeated Edom,’ and your heart has become proud and boastful. Now stay at home. Why should you stir up trouble so that you fall—you and Judah with you?”

The Ammonites brought tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread as far as the border of Egypt, for he had become exceedingly powerful.

…shall we again break Your commandments and intermarry with the peoples who commit these abominations? Would You not become so angry with us as to wipe us out, leaving no remnant or survivor?

…that read: “It is reported among the nations—and Geshem agrees—that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and this is why you are building the wall. According to these reports, you are to become their king,

Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I drove him away from me.

For the conduct of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to despise their husbands and say, ‘King Xerxes ordered Queen Vashti to be brought before him, but she did not come.’

Then let the young woman who pleases the king become queen in place of Vashti.” This suggestion pleased the king, and he acted accordingly.

But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!

…he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.

You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.

He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.

…when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.

I will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by the LORD: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.

All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.

All have turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

They will fall to the power of the sword; they will become a portion for foxes.

I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,

May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.

I have become a portent to many, but You are my strong refuge.

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.

Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.

The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation.

I will give You thanks, for You have answered me, and You have become my salvation.

The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—

Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.

One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.

He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.

He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.

The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless for the upright.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he become wise in his own eyes.

Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.

When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.

I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So I have become in his eyes like one who brings peace.

Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.

I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.

“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.

See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!

Your silver has become dross; your fine wine is diluted with water.

For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.

The strong man will become tinder and his work will be a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the flames.

I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.

For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.

They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.

And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”

They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!”

They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!”

And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”

This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.

The princes of Zoan have become fools; the princes of Memphis are deceived. The cornerstones of her tribes have led Egypt astray.

Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured.

So now, do not mock, or your shackles will become heavier. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of destruction against the whole land.

In a very short time, will not Lebanon become an orchard, and the orchard seem like a forest?

But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.

For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—

Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.

Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.

The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.

Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill made low; the uneven ground will become smooth, and the rugged land a plain.

But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”

Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and My justice will become a light to the nations; I will bring it about quickly.