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Genesis
  1. 33:12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.
  2. 49:8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.
Numbers
  1. 11:6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
  2. 22:32 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:
  3. 25:6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Joshua
  1. 6:5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.
1 Samuel
  1. 16:6 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD'S anointed is before him.
1 Kings
  1. 7:6 And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.
2 Kings
  1. 2:15 And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
1 Chronicles
  1. 24:6 And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
Job
  1. 42:10 And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Psalms
  1. 38:17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
  2. 39:1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
  3. 50:8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
  4. 51:3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
  5. 69:19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
  6. 73:22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
  7. 86:14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
  8. 88:1 O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
  9. 89:36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
  10. 119:30 I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
  11. 119:168 I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.
Proverbs
  1. 4:25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Isaiah
  1. 47:14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
  2. 49:16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
Ezekiel
  1. 44:22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
Zephaniah
  1. 2:2 Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger come upon you.
1 Timothy
  1. 6:13 I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;

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