Haller's Concordance: FORMER
- And having at length obtained the marriage he wished for, he preferred the love of the latter before the former, and served with him other seven years. Gen. 29:30
- After which Pharao will remember thy service, and will restore thee to thy former place: and thou shalt present him the cup according to thy office, as before thou was wont to do. Gen. 40:13
- And devoured all the beauty of the former. Pharao awaked after his rest: Gen. 41:7
- And they devoured and consumed the former, Gen. 41:20
- And they devoured the beauty of the former: I told this dream to the conjecturers, and there is no man that can expound it. Gen. 41:24
- If they will not believe thee, saith he, nor hear the voice of the former sign, they will believe the word of the latter sign. Ex. 4:8
- And when Moses had stretched forth his hand towards the sea, it returned at the first break of day to the former place: and as the Egyptians were fleeing away, the waters came upon them, and the Lord shut them up in the middle of the waves. Ex. 14:27
- ¤ And after this he said: Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the former, and I will write upon them the words, which were in the tables, which thou brokest. Ex. 34:1
- But the calf itself he shall carry forth without the camp, and shall burn it as he did the former calf: because it is for the sin of the multitude. Lev. 4:21
- Shall put off his former vestments, and being clothed with others, shall carry them forth without the camp, and shall cause them to be consumed to dust in a very clean place. Lev. 6:11
- But if there be a shining whiteness in the skin, and not lower than the other flesh, and the hair be of the former colour, the priest shall shut him up seven days. Lev. 13:4
- But if the hair be of the former colour, and the scar somewhat obscure, and be not lower than the flesh that is near it: he shall shut him up seven days. Lev. 13:21
- And when he shall see that the former colour is not returned, nor yet the leprosy spread, he shall judge it unclean: and shall burn it with fire, for the leprosy has taken hold of the outside of the garment, or through the whole. Lev. 13:55
- And thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth year, and shalt proclaim remission to all the inhabitants of thy land: for it is the year of jubilee. Every man shall return to his possession, and every one shall go back to his former family: Lev. 25:10
- And I will remember my former covenant, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, in the sight of the Gentiles, to be their God. I am the Lord. Lev. 26:45
- But in the jubilee, it shall return to the former owner, who had sold it, and had it in the lot of his possession. Lev. 27:24
- And shall consecrate to the Lord the days of his separation, offering a lamb of one year for sin: yet so that the former days be made void, because his sanctification was profaned. Num. 6:12
- ¤ At that time the Lord said to me: Hew thee two tables of stone like the former, and come up to me into the mount: and thou shalt make an ark of wood, Dt. 10:1
- And I made an ark of setim wood. And when I had hewn two tables of stone like the former, I went up into the mount, having them in my hands. Dt. 10:3
- 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 Juda going forward against the Chanaanite, that dwelt in Hebron, (the name whereof was in former times Cariath-Arbe) slew Sesai, and Ahiman, and Tholmai: Judg. 1:10
- But he called upon the Lord, saying: O Lord God remember me, and restore to me now my former strength, O my God, that I may revenge myself on my enemies, and for the loss of my two eyes I may take one revenge. Judg. 16:28
- And he said: Blessed art thou of the Lord, my daughter, and thy latter kindness has surpassed the former: because thou hast not followed young men either poor or rich. Ruth 3:10
- Now this in former times was the manner in Israel between kinsmen, that if at any time one yielded his right to another: that the grant might be sure, the man put off his shoe and gave it to his neighbour; this was a testimony of cession of right in Israel. Ruth 4:7
- And make up the number of soldiers that have been slain of thine, and horses, according to the former horses, and chariots, according to the chariots which thou hadst before: and we will fight against them in the plains, and thou shalt see that we shall overcome them. He believed their counsel, and did so. 3 Ki. 20:25
- And the workmen were diligent, and the breach of the walls was closed up by their hands, and they set up the house of the Lord in its former state, and made it stand firm. 2 Par. 24:13
- And they said to them: You shall not bring in the captives hither, lest we sin against the Lord. Why will you add to our sins, and heap up upon our former offences? for the sin is great, and the fierce anger of the Lord hangeth over Israel. 2 Par. 28:13
- But many of the priests and the Levites, and the chief of the fathers and the ancients that had seen the former temple; when they had the foundation of this temple before their eyes, wept with a loud voice: and many shouting for joy, lifted up their voice. 1 Esd. 3:12
- But the former governors that had been before me, were chargeable to the people, and took of them in bread, and wine, and in money every day forty sicles: and their officers also oppressed the people. But I did not so for the fear of God. 2 Esd. 5:15
- And Sanaballat sent his servant to me the fifth time according to the former word, and he had a letter in his hand written in this manner: 2 Esd. 6:5
- ¤ That night the king passed without sleep, and he commanded the histories and chronicles of former times to be brought him. And when they were reading them before him, Esther 6:1
- And said: If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and my request be not disagreeable to him, I beseech thee, that the former letters of Aman the traitor and enemy of the Jews, by which he commanded that they should be destroyed in all the king's provinces, may be reversed by new letters. Esther 8:5
- And these letters which were sent in the king's name, were sealed with his ring, and sent by posts: who were to run through all the provinces, to prevent the former letters with new messages. Esther 8:10
- In so much, that if thy former things were small thy latter things would be multiplied exceedingly. Job 8:7
- For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers: Job 8:8
- Remember not our former iniquities: let thy mercies speedily prevent us, for we are become exceeding poor. Ps. 79:8
- There is no remembrance of former things: nor indeed of those things which hereafter are to come, shall there be any remembrance with them that shall be in the latter end. Eccl. 1:11
- Say not: What thinkest thou is the cause that former times were better than they are now? for this manner of question is foolish. Eccl. 7:10
- ¤ My son, hast thou sinned? do so no more: but for thy former sins also pray that they may be forgiven thee. Sir. 21:1
- Give testimony to them that are thy creatures from the beginning, and raise up the prophecies which the former prophets spoke in thy name. Sir. 36:17
- Let them come, and tell us all things that are to come: tell us the former things what they were: and we will set our heart upon them and shall know the latter end of them, and tell us the things that are to come. Isa. 41:22
- All the nations are assembled together, and the tribes are gathered: who among you can declare this, and shall make us hear the former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, let them be justified, and hear, and say: It is truth. Isa. 43:9
- Remember not former things, and look not on things of old. Isa. 43:18
- Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God beside, neither is there the like to me: Isa. 46:9
- The former things of old, I have declared, and they went forth out of my mouth, and I have made them to be heard: I did them suddenly and they came to pass. Isa. 48:3
- In which he that is blessed upon the earth, shall be blessed in God, amen: and he that sweareth in the earth, shall swear by God, amen: because the former distresses are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes. Isa. 65:16
- For behold I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former things shall not be in remembrance, and they shall not come upon the heart. Isa. 65:17
- They are returned to the former iniquities of their fathers, who refused to hear my words: so these likewise have gone after strange gods, to serve them: the house of Israel, and the house of Juda have made void my covenant, which I made with their fathers. Jer. 11:10
- But thou shalt die in peace, and according to the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings that were before thee, so shall they burn thee: and they shall mourn for thee, saying: Alas, Lord: for I have spoken the word, saith the Lord. Jer. 34:5
- Take thee again another volume: and write in it all the former words that were in the first volume which Joakim the king of Juda hath burnt. Jer. 36:28
- And the little chambers thereof three on this side, and three on that side: and the front thereof, and the porch thereof according to the measure of the former gate, fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad. Ezec. 40:21
- And he brought me out to the way of the south, and behold the gate that looked to the south: and he measured the front thereof, and the porch thereof according to the former measures. Ezec. 40:24
- And he brought me into the inner court at the south gate: and he measured the gate according to the former measures. Ezec. 40:28
- And he brought me into the inner court by the way of the east: and he measured the gate according to the former measures. Ezec. 40:32
- And he brought me into the gate that looked to the north: and he measured according to the former measures. Ezec. 40:35
- And the ten horns of the same kingdom, shall be ten kings: and another shall rise up after them, and he shall be mightier than the former, and he shall bring down three kings. Dan. 7:24
- At the time appointed he shall return, and he shall come to the south, but the latter time shall not be like the former. Dan. 11:29
- Be not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cried, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye from your evil ways, and from your wicked thoughts: but they did not give ear, neither did they hearken to me, saith the Lord. Zach. 1:4
- Are not these the words which the Lord spoke by the hand of the former prophets, when Jerusalem as yet was inhabited, and was wealthy, both itself and the cities round about it, and there were inhabitants towards the south, and in the plain? Zach. 7:7
- And they made their heart as the adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts sent in his spirit by the hand of the former prophets: so a great indignation came from the Lord of hosts. Zach. 7:12
- But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people according to the former days, saith the Lord of hosts. Zach. 8:11
- And all the land shall return even to the desert, from the hill to Remmon to the south of Jerusalem: and she shall be exalted, and shall dwell in her own place, from the gate of Benjamin even to the place of the former gate, and even to the gate of the corners: and from the tower of Hananeel even to the king's winepresses. Zach. 14:10
- Then they took whole stones, according to the law and built a new altar, according to the former: 1 Ma. 4:47
- We have chosen, therefore, Numenius the son of Antiochus, and Antipater, the son of Jason, and have sent them to the Romans, to renew with them the former amity and alliance. 1 Ma. 12:16
- And we registered what was said by them in the councils of the people, in this manner: Numenius, the son of Antiochus, and Antipater, the son of Jason, ambassadors of the Jews, came to us to renew the former friendship with us. 1 Ma. 14:22
- Forasmuch as certain pestilent men have usurped the kingdom of our fathers, and my purpose is to challenge the kingdom, and to restore it to its former estate; and I have chosen a great army, and have built ships of war. 1 Ma. 15:3
- The ambassadors of the Jews, our friends, came to us, to renew the former friendship and alliance, being sent from Simon, the high priest, and the people of the Jews. 1 Ma. 15:17
- Again he sent other servants, more than the former; and they did to them in like manner. Mt. 21:36
- But they answered and said: John the Baptist; but some say Elias: and others say that one of the former prophets is risen again. Lk. 9:19
- ‡ ¤ The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, of all things which Jesus began to do and to teach, Acts 1:1
- And when there had been much disputing, Peter, rising up, said to them: Men, brethren, you know that in former days God made choice among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. Acts 15:7
- Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins, through the forbearance of God, Rom. 3:25
- To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error. Eph. 4:22
- There is indeed a setting aside of the former commandment, because of the weakness and unprofitableness thereof: Heb. 7:18
- For if that former had been faultless, there should not indeed a place have been sought for a second. Heb. 8:7
- Now in saying a new, he hath made the former old. And that which decayeth and groweth old is near its end. Heb. 8:13
- ¤ The former indeed had also justifications of divine service and a worldly sanctuary. Heb. 9:1
- The Holy Ghost signifying this: That the way into the Holies was not yet made manifest, whilst the former tabernacle was yet standing. Heb. 9:8
- And therefore he is the mediator of the new testament: that by means of his death for the redemption of those transgressions which were under the former testament, they that are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance. Heb. 9:15
- But call to mind the former days, wherein, being illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions. Heb. 10:32
- As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former desires of your ignorance, 1 Pet. 1:14
- For if, flying from the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they be again entangled in them and overcome: their latter state is become unto them worse than the former. 2 Pet. 2:20
- I know thy works and thy faith and thy charity and thy ministry and thy patience and thy last works, which are more than the former. Apoc. 2:19
- And he executed all the power of the former beast in his sight. And he caused the earth and them that dwell therein to adore the first beast, whose wound to death was healed. Apoc. 13:12
- And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes: and death shall be no more. Nor mourning, nor crying, nor sorrow shall be any more, for the former things are passed away. Apoc. 21:4
- And it came to passe, when they began to be multiplied, that dwelt vpon the earth, & multiplied children and peoples and manie nations: and they begane againe to doe impietie more then the former. 4 Esd. 3:12
- And he sayd to me: I wil resemble my iudgement to a crowne. As there shal not be slacknes of the last, so neither swiftnes of the former. 4 Esd. 5:42
- And I answered, and sayd: What separation of times shal there be? and when shal the end of the former be, and the begynning of that which foloweth? 4 Esd. 6:7
- and hasten not with the former times to thinke vayne thinges, that thou hasten not from the last times. 4 Esd. 6:34
- and the world shal be turned into the old silence seuen dayes, as in the former iudgementes, so that none shal be leaft. 4 Esd. 7:30
- And it came to passe, when it reigned, & the end of it also came, that it appeared not as the former. 4 Esd. 11:14
- And the third lifted vp it selfe, and held the principalitie as also the former: and that also appeared not. 4 Esd. 11:18
- And they that were second did sooner vanish away then the former. 4 Esd. 11:27
- The former thinges which thou hast written, set abrode, and let the worthie and vnworthiereade: but the last seuentie bookes thou shalt keepe, that thou mayest deliuer them to the wyse of thy people. 4 Esd. 14:46