Haller's Concordance: POSSESS
- And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it. Gen. 15:7
- But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it? Gen. 15:8
- I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore; thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies. Gen. 22:17
- Wishing prosperity to their sister, and saying: Thou art our sister, mayst thou increase to thousands of thousands; and may thy seed possess the gates of their enemies. Gen. 24:60
- And give the blessings of Abraham to thee, and to thy seed after thee: that thou mayst possess the land of thy sojournment, which he promised to thy grandfather. Gen. 28:4
- And dwell with us: the land is at your command, till, trade, and possess it. Gen. 34:10
- And their substance, and cattle, and all that they possess, shall be ours; only in this let us condescend, and by dwelling together, we shall make one people. Gen. 34:23
- ¤ Then Joseph went in and told Pharao, saying: My father and brethren, their sheep and their herds, and all that they possess, are come out of the land of Chanaan: and behold they stay in the land of Gessen. Gen. 47:1
- And brought you into the land, concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and I will give it you to possess: I am the Lord. Ex. 6:8
- By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, till thou be increased, and dost possess the land. Ex. 23:30
- Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thy own self, saying: I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven: and this whole land that I have spoken of, I will give to your seed, and you shall possess it for ever: Ex. 32:13
- Said: If I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, I beseech thee that thou wilt go with us, (for it is a stiffnecked people) and take away our iniquities and sin, and possess us. Ex. 34:9
- But to you I say: Possess their land which I will give you for an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from other people. Lev. 20:24
- If he redeem it not, and the whole year be fully out, the buyer shall possess it, and his posterity for ever, and it cannot be redeemed, not even in the jubilee. Lev. 25:30
- And by right of inheritance shall leave them to your posterity, and shall possess them for ever. But oppress not your brethren the children of Israel by might. Lev. 25:46
- And if he that had vowed, will redeem his field, he shall add the fifth part of the money of the estimation, and shall possess it. Lev. 27:19
- In the mean time Caleb, to still the murmuring of the people that rose against Moses, said: Let us go up and possess the land, for we shall be able to conquer it. Num. 13:30
- My servant Caleb, who being full of another spirit hath followed me, I will bring into this land which he hath gone round: and his seed shall possess it. Num. 14:24
- And the Lord said to Aaron: You shall possess nothing in their land, neither shall you have a portion among them: I am thy portion and inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel. Num. 18:20
- But only the sons of Levi may serve me in the tabernacle, and bear the sins of the people. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in your generations. They shall not possess any other thing, Num. 18:23
- And he shall possess Idumea: the inheritance of Seir shall come to their enemies, but Israel shall do manfully. Num. 24:18
- We will not return into our houses until the children of Israel possess their inheritance: Num. 32:18
- And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying: This shall be the land which you shall possess by lot, and which the Lord hath commanded to be given to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe. Num. 34:13
- Behold, said he, I have delivered it to you: go in and possess it, concerning which the Lord swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give it to them, and to their seed after them. Dt. 1:8
- See the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord our God hath spoken to thy fathers: fear not, nor be any way discouraged. Dt. 1:21
- Your children, of whom you said that they should be led away captives, and your sons who know not this day the difference of good and evil, they shall go in: and to them I will give the land, and they shall possess it. Dt. 1:39
- As he had done in favour of the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, destroying the Horrhites, and delivering their land to them, which they possess to this day. Dt. 2:22
- Arise ye, and pass the torrent Arnon: Behold I have delivered into thy hand Sehon king of Hesebon the Amorrhite, and begin thou to possess his land and make war against him. Dt. 2:24
- And the Lord said to me: Behold I have begun to deliver unto thee Sehon and his land, begin to possess it. Dt. 2:31
- Until the Lord give rest to your brethren, as he hath given to you: and they also possess the land, which he will give them beyond the Jordan: then shall every man return to his possession, which I have given you. Dt. 3:20
- ¤ And now, O Israel, hear the commandments and judgments which I teach thee: that doing them, thou mayst live, and entering in mayst possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers will give you. Dt. 4:1
- You know that I have taught you statutes and justices, as the Lord my God hath commanded me: so shall you do them in the land which you shall possess: Dt. 4:5
- And he commanded me at that time that I should teach you the ceremonies and judgments which you shall do in the land, that you shall possess. Dt. 4:14
- Behold I die in this land, I shall not pass over the Jordan: you shall pass, and possess the goodly land. Dt. 4:22
- I call this day heaven and earth to witness, that you shall quickly perish out of the land, which, when you have passed over the Jordan, you shall possess. You shall not dwell therein long, but the Lord will destroy you, Dt. 4:26
- ¤ These are the precepts, and ceremonies, and judgments, which the Lord your God commanded that I should teach you, and that you should do them in the land into which you pass over to possess it: Dt. 6:1
- And do that which is pleasing and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may be well with thee: and going in thou mayst possess the goodly land, concerning which the Lord swore to thy fathers, Dt. 6:18
- ¤ When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, which thou art going in to possess, and shall have destroyed many nations before thee, the Hethite, and the Gergezite, and the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, seven nations much more numerous than thou art, and stronger than thou: Dt. 7:1
- ¤ All the commandments, that I command thee this day, take great care to observe: that you may live, and be multiplied, and going in may possess the land, for which the Lord swore to your fathers. Dt. 8:1
- ¤ Hear, O Israel: Thou shalt go over the Jordan this day; to possess nations very great, and stronger than thyself, cities great, and walled up to the sky, Dt. 9:1
- Say not in thy heart, when the Lord thy God shall have destroyed them in thy sight: For my justice hath the Lord brought me in to possess this land, whereas these nations are destroyed for their wickedness. Dt. 9:4
- For it is not for thy justices, and the uprightness of thy heart that thou shalt go in to possess their lands: but because they have done wickedly, they are destroyed at thy coming in: and that the Lord might accomplish his word, which he promised by oath to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Dt. 9:5
- And when he sent you from Cadesbarne, saying: Go up, and possess the land that I have given you, and you slighted the commandment of the Lord your God, and did not believe him, neither would you hearken to his voice: Dt. 9:23
- And he said to me: Go, and walk before the people, that they may enter, and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers that I would give them. Dt. 10:11
- That you may keep all his commandments, which I command you this day, and may go in, and possess the land, to which you are entering, Dt. 11:8
- For the land, which thou goest to possess, is not like the land of Egypt, from whence thou camest out, where, when the seed is sown, waters are brought in to water it after the manner of gardens. Dt. 11:10
- The Lord will destroy all these nations before your face, and you shall possess them, which are greater and stronger than you. Dt. 11:23
- For you shall pass over the Jordan, to possess the land, which the Lord your God will give you, that you may have it and possess it. Dt. 11:31
- ¤ These are the precepts and judgments, that you must do in the land, which the Lord the God of thy fathers will give thee, to possess it all the days that thou shalt walk upon the earth. Dt. 12:1
- Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under every shady tree: Dt. 12:2
- When the Lord thy God shall have destroyed before thy face the nations, which thou shalt go in to possess, and when thou shalt possess them, and dwell in their land: Dt. 12:29
- Thou shalt follow justly after that which is just: that thou mayst live and possess the land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee. Dt. 16:20
- These nations, whose land thou shalt possess, hearken to soothsayers and diviners: but thou art otherwise instructed by the Lord thy God. Dt. 18:14
- ¤ When the Lord thy God hath destroyed the nations, whose land he will deliver to thee, and thou shalt possess it, and shalt dwell in the cities and houses thereof: Dt. 19:1
- That innocent blood may not be shed in the midst of the land which the Lord thy God will give thee to possess, lest thou be guilty of blood. Dt. 19:10
- Thou shalt not take nor remove thy neighbour's landmark, which thy predecessors have set in thy possession, which the Lord thy God will give thee in the land that thou shalt receive to possess. Dt. 19:14
- But to the stranger. To thy brother thou shalt lend that which he wanteth, without usury: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all thy works in the land, which thou shalt go in to possess. Dt. 23:20
- The former husband cannot take her again to wife: because she is defiled, and is become abominable before the Lord: lest thou cause thy land to sin, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to possess. Dt. 24:4
- ¤ And when thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God will give thee to possess, and hast conquered it, and dwellest in it: Dt. 26:1
- May the Lord set the pestilence upon thee, until he consume thee out of the land, which thou shalt go in to possess. Dt. 28:21
- And as the Lord rejoiced upon you before doing good to you, and multiplying you: so he shall rejoice destroying and bringing you to nought, so that you shall be taken away from the land which thou shalt go in to possess. Dt. 28:63
- And will take thee to himself, and bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it: and blessing thee, he will make thee more numerous than were thy fathers. Dt. 30:5
- That thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and keep his commandments and ceremonies and judgments, and thou mayst live, and he may multiply thee, and bless thee in the land, which thou shalt go in to possess. Dt. 30:16
- I foretell thee this day that thou shalt perish, and shalt remain but a short time in the land, to which thou shalt pass over the Jordan, and shalt go in to possess it. Dt. 30:18
- The Lord thy God then will pass over before thee: he will destroy all these nations in thy sight, and thou shalt possess them: and this Josue shall go over before thee, as the Lord hath spoken. Dt. 31:3
- That their children also, who now are ignorant, may hear, and fear the Lord their God, all the days that they live in the land whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it. Dt. 31:13
- For they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one should live in them, and that doing them you may continue a long time in the land whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it. Dt. 32:47
- Go up into this mountain Abarim, (that is to say, of passages,) unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho: and see the land of Chanaan, which I will deliver to the children of Israel to possess, and die thou in the mountain. Dt. 32:49
- And To Nephtali he said: Nephtali shall enjoy abundance, and shall be full of the blessings of the Lord: he shall possess the sea and the south. Dt. 33:23
- Prepare you victuals: for after the third day you shall pass over the Jordan, and shall go in to possess the land, which the Lord your God will give you. Josu. 1:11
- Until the Lord give rest to your brethren, as he hath given you, and they also possess the land which the Lord your God will give them: and so you shall return into the land of your possession, and you shall dwell in it, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun. Josu. 1:15
- And the children of Joseph spoke to Josue, and said: Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to possess, whereas I am of so great a multitude, and the Lord hath blessed me? Josu. 17:14
- And Josue said to them: How long are you indolent and slack, and go not in to possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers hath given you? Josu. 18:3
- And first came up the lot of the children of Benjamin by their families, to possess the land between the children of Juda, and the children of Joseph. Josu. 18:11
- The Lord your God will destroy them, and take them away from before your face, and you shall possess the land as he hath promised you. Josu. 23:5
- So the Lord, the God of Israel, destroyed the Amorrhite, his people of Israel fighting against him, and wilt thou now possess this land? Judg. 11:23
- Arise, and let us go up to them: for we have seen the land which is exceeding rich and fruitful: neglect not, lose no time: let us go and possess it, there will be no difficulty. Judg. 18:9
- I would have thee to understand this, and would tell thee before all that sit here, and before the ancients of my people. If thou wilt take possession of it by the right of kindred: buy it, and possess it: but if it please thee not, tell me so, that I may know what I have to do. For there is no near kinsman besides thee, who art first, and me, who am second. But he answered: I will buy the field. Ruth 4:4
- Now then before all the assembly of Israel, in the hearing of our God, keep ye, and seek all the commandments of the Lord our God: that you may possess the good land, and may leave it to your children after you for ever. 1 Par. 28:8
- Then hear thou from heaven, O Lord, and forgive the sins of thy servants and of thy people Israel and teach them the good way in which they may walk: and give rain to thy land which thou hast given to thy people to possess. 2 Par. 6:27
- Which thou hast commanded by the hand of thy servants the prophets, saying: The land which you go to possess, is an unclean land, according to the uncleanness of the people, and of other lands, with their abominations, who have filled it from mouth to mouth with their filth. 1 Esd. 9:11
- And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren: and our children as their children. Behold we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters, and some of our daughters are bondwomen already, neither have we wherewith to redeem them, and our fields and our vineyards other men possess. 2 Esd. 5:5
- And thou gavest them bread from heaven in their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock in their thirst, and thou saidst to them that they should go in, and possess the land, upon which thou hadst lifted up thy hand to give it them. 2 Esd. 9:15
- And thou didst multiply their children as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them to the land concerning which thou hadst said to their fathers, that they should go in and possess it. 2 Esd. 9:23
- But of late returning to the Lord their God, from the different places wherein they were scattered, they are come together and are gone up into all these mountains, and possess Jerusalem again, where their holies are. Jud. 5:23
- I have heard of my father that thou, O Lord, didst take Israel from among all nations, and our fathers from all their predecessors, to possess them as an everlasting inheritance, and thou hast done to them as thou hast promised. Esther 14:5
- Or with princes, that possess gold, and fill their houses with silver: Job 3:15
- And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the things he coveted, he shall not be able to possess them. Job 20:20
- In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it. Job 22:8
- And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction possess me. Job 30:16
- And the seed of his servants shall possess it; and they that love his name shall dwell therein. Ps. 69:36
- Who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an inheritance. Ps. 83:12
- A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth shall possess governments. Pr. 1:5
- The wise shall possess glory: the promotion of fools is disgrace. Pr. 3:35
- The childish shall possess folly, and the prudent shall look for knowledge. Pr. 14:18
- He that deceiveth the just in a wicked way, shall fall in his own destruction: and the upright shall possess his goods. Pr. 28:10
- Its continuance shall not be for a long time, but it shall possess the ways of the unjust: and the just shall not be burnt with its flame. Sir. 28:26
- My entrails were troubled in seeking her: therefore shall I possess a good possession. Sir. 51:29
- Receive ye discipline as a great sum of money, and possess abundance of gold by her. Sir. 51:36
- And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand the second time to possess the remnant of his people, which shall be left from the Assyrians, and from Egypt, and from Phetros, and from Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Sennaar, and from Emath, and from the islands of the sea. Isa. 11:11
- And the people shall take them, and bring them into their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall make them captives that had taken them, and shall subdue their oppressors. Isa. 14:2
- The bittern and ericius shall possess it: and the ibis and the raven shall dwell in it: and a line shall be stretched out upon it, to bring it to nothing, and a plummet, unto desolation. Isa. 34:11
- And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it to them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation they shall dwell therein. Isa. 34:17
- Thus saith the Lord: In an acceptable time I have heard thee, and in the day of salvation I have helped thee: and I have preserved thee, and given thee to be a covenant of the people, that thou mightest raise up the earth, and possess the inheritances that were destroyed: Isa. 49:8
- When thou shalt cry, let thy companies deliver thee, but the wind shall carry them all off, a breeze shall take them away, but he that putteth his trust in me, shall inherit the land, and shall possess my holy mount. Isa. 57:13
- Iniquity shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction in thy borders, and salvation shall possess thy walls, and praise thy gates. Isa. 60:18
- For behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Juda, saith the Lord: and I will cause them to return to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. Jer. 30:3
- And Hanameel my uncle's son came to me, according to the word of the Lord, to the entry of the prison, and said to me: Buy my field, which is in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and thou art next of kin to possess it. And I understood that this was the word of the Lord. Jer. 32:8
- Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will cause the noise of war to be heard in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and it shall be destroyed into a heap, and her daughters shall be burnt with fire, and Israel shall possess them that have possessed him, saith the Lord. Jer. 49:2
- And I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: and I will make the pride of the mighty to cease, and they shall possess their sanctuary. Ezec. 7:24
- And I will possess thee in the sight of the Gentiles, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. Ezec. 22:16
- Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: You that eat with the blood and lift up your eyes to your uncleannesses, and that shed blood: shall you possess the land by inheritance? Ezec. 33:25
- You stood on your swords, you have committed abominations, and every one hath defiled his neighbour's wife; and shall you possess the land by inheritance? Ezec. 33:26
- Because thou hast said: The two nations, and the two lands shall be mine, and I will possess them by inheritance: whereas the Lord was there. Ezec. 35:10
- And I will bring men upon you, my people Israel, and they shall possess thee for their inheritance: and thou shalt be their inheritance, and shalt no more henceforth be without them. Ezec. 36:12
- To take spoils, and lay hold on the prey, to lay thy hand upon them that had been wasted, and afterwards restored, and upon the people that is gathered together out of the nations, which hath begun to possess and to dwell in the midst of the earth. Ezec. 38:12
- And five and twenty thousand of length, and ten thousand of breadth shall be for the Levites, that minister in the house: they shall possess twenty store chambers. Ezec. 45:5
- Thus saith the Lord God: If the prince give a gift to any of his sons: the inheritance of it shall go to his children, they shall possess it by inheritance. Ezec. 46:16
- Thus saith the Lord God: This is the border, by which you shall possess the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: for Joseph hath a double portion. Ezec. 47:13
- And you shall possess it, every man in like manner as his brother: concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for a possession. Ezec. 47:14
- But the saints of the most high God shall take the kingdom: and they shall possess the kingdom for ever and ever. Dan. 7:18
- And he shall set his face to come to possess all his kingdom, and he shall make upright conditions with him: and he shall give him a daughter of women, to overthrow it: and she shall not stand, neither shall she be for him. Dan. 11:17
- It is I that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and I led you forty years through the wilderness, that you might possess the land of the Amorrhite. Amso 2:10
- And flight shall perish from the swift, and the valiant shall not possess his strength, neither shall the strong save his life. Amso 2:14
- That we may possess the needy for money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell the refuse of the corn? Amso 8:6
- That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all nations, because my name is invoked upon them: saith the Lord that doth these things. Amso 9:12
- And in mount Sion shall be salvation, and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess those that possessed them. Abd. 1:17
- And they that are toward the south, shall inherit the mount of Esau, and they that are in the plains, the Philistines: and they shall possess the country of Ephraim, and the country of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Galaad. Abd. 1:19
- And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel, all the places of the Chanaanites even to Sarepta: and the captivity of Jerusalem that is in Bosphorus, shall possess the cities of the south. Abd. 1:20
- For behold, I will raise up the Chaldeans, a bitter and swift nation, marching upon the breadth of the earth, to possess the dwelling places that are not their own. Hab. 1:6
- Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha, the dryness of thorns, and heaps of salt, and a desert even for ever: the remnant of my people shall make a spoil of them, and the residue of my nation shall possess them. Soph. 2:9
- And the Lord shall possess Juda his portion in the sanctified land: and he shall yet choose Jerusalem. Zach. 2:12
- But there shall be the seed of peace: the vine shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew: and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things. Zach. 8:12
- Behold the Lord shall possess her, and shall strike her strength in the sea, and she shall be devoured with fire. Zach. 9:4
- Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land. Mt. 5:5
- Do not possess gold, nor silver, nor money in your purses: Mt. 10:9
- And every one that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall possess life everlasting. Mt. 19:29
- Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Mt. 25:34
- And behold a certain lawyer stood up, tempting him and saying, Master, what must I do to possess eternal life? Lk. 10:25
- Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth. Lk. 12:33
- I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess. Lk. 18:12
- And a certain ruler asked him, saying: Good master, what shall I do to possess everlasting life? Lk. 18:18
- In your patience you shall possess your souls. Lk. 21:19
- Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers: Nor the effeminate nor liers with mankind, 1 Cor. 6:9
- Nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor railers nor extortioners shall possess the kingdom of God. 1 Cor. 6:10
- Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot possess the kingdom of God: neither shall corruption possess incorruption. 1 Cor. 15:50
- That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour, 1 Th. 4:4
- He that shall overcome shall possess these things. And I will be his God: and he shall be my son. Apoc. 21:7