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Lexicon :: Strong's G165 - aiōn

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αἰών
Transliteration
aiōn (Key)
Pronunciation
ahee-ohn'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as ἀεί (G104)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:197,31

Trench's Synonyms: lix. κόσμος, αἰών.

Strong’s Definitions

αἰών aiṓn, ahee-ohn'; from the same as G104; properly, an age; by extension, perpetuity (also past); by implication, the world; specially (Jewish) a Messianic period (present or future):—age, course, eternal, (for) ever(-more), (n-)ever, (beginning of the , while the) world (began, without end). Compare G5550.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 128x

The KJV translates Strong's G165 in the following manner: ever (71x), world (38x), never (with G3364) (with G1519) (with G3588) (6x), evermore (4x), age (2x), eternal (2x), miscellaneous (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 128x
The KJV translates Strong's G165 in the following manner: ever (71x), world (38x), never (with G3364) (with G1519) (with G3588) (6x), evermore (4x), age (2x), eternal (2x), miscellaneous (5x).
  1. for ever, an unbroken age, perpetuity of time, eternity

  2. the worlds, universe

  3. period of time, age

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
αἰών aiṓn, ahee-ohn'; from the same as G104; properly, an age; by extension, perpetuity (also past); by implication, the world; specially (Jewish) a Messianic period (present or future):—age, course, eternal, (for) ever(-more), (n-)ever, (beginning of the , while the) world (began, without end). Compare G5550.
STRONGS G165:
αἰών, -ῶνος, , (as if αἰὲν — poetic for ἀείὤν, so teaches Aristotle, de caelo 1, 11, 9, vol. i., p. 279a, 27; [so Proclus book iv. in Plato, Timaeo, p. 241; and others]; but more probable is the conjecture [cf. Etym. Magn. 41, 11] that αἰών is so connected with ἄημι to breathe, blow, as to denote properly that which causes life, vital force; cf. Harless on Ephesians 2:2). [But αἰών (=αἰϝών) is now generally connected with αἰεί, ἀεί, Sanskrit êvas (aivas), Latin aevum, Gothic aivs, German ewig, English aye, ever; cf. Curtius, § 585; Fick, Part i., p. 27; Vanicek, p. 79; Benfey, Wurzellex, i., p. 7f; Schleicher, Compend. edition 2, p. 400; Pott, Etymologicum Forsch., edition 2, 2:2, p. 442; Ebeling, Lex. Homer under the word; Liddell and Scott, under the word ἀεί; Cremer, edd, 2, 3, 4 (although in edition 1 he agreed with Prof. Grimm); Pott and Fick, however, connect it with Sanskrit âyus rather than êvas, although both these forms are derived from i to go (see Pott, Sehleicher, Fick, Vanicek, as above).]
In Greek authors:
1. age (Latin aevum, which is αἰών with the Aeolic digamma), a human lifetime (in Homer, Herodotus, Pindar, Tragic poets), life itself (Homer Iliad 5, 685 μὲ καὶ λίποι αἰών etc.).
2. an unbroken age, perpetuity of time, eternity, (Plato, Tim., p. 37 d. 38 a.; Tim. Locr., p. 97 d. [quoted below]; Plutarch, others).
With this signification the Hebrew and Rabbinic idea of the word עוֹלָם (of which in the Sept. αἰών is the equivalent) combines in the Biblical and ecclesiastical writings.
Hence, in the N. T. used:
1.
a. universally: in the phrases εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, לְעוֹלָם (Genesis 6:3), forever, John 6:51, 58; John 14:16; Hebrews 5:6; Hebrews 6:20, etc.; and strengthened εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνος, Hebrews 1:8 [from Psalm 44:7 (Ps. 45:7) Alexandrian LXX, cf. Winer's Grammar, § 36, 2] (Tobit 6:18; Psalm 82:18 (Ps. 83:18), etc.); εἰς αἰῶνα, Jude 1:13; εἰς ἡμέραν αἰῶνος unto the day which is eternity (genitive of apposition), 2 Peter 3:18 [cf. Sir. 18:10 (9)]; with a negation: never, John 4:14 [Lachmann in brackets]; John 8:51; 10:28; 11:26; 13:8; 1 Corinthians 8:13; or not for ever, not always, John 8:35; εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας, unto the ages, i. e., as long as time shall be (the plural denotes the individual ages whose sum is eternity): [Luke 1:33]; Romans 1:25; Romans 9:5; Romans 11:36; [Romans 16:27 R G Tr WH]; 2 Corinthians 11:31; Hebrews 13:8; εἰς πάντας τ. αἰῶνας, Jude 1:25; εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων (in which expression the endless future is divided up into various periods, the shorter of which are comprehended in the longer [cf. Winers Grammar, § 36, 2; among the various phrases to express duration composed of this word with preposition or adjuncts (which to the number of more than fifteen are to be found in the Sept., cf. Vaughan on Romans 1:25), this combination of the double plural seems to be peculiar to the N. T.]): [Romans 16:27 L T]; Galatians 1:5; [Philippians 4:20]; 1 Timothy 1:17; [2 Timothy 4:18; 1 Peter 4:11]; Revelation 1:6, 18; Revelation 4:9; Revelation 5:13; Revelation 7:12; Revelation 10:6; Revelation 11:15; Revelation 15:7; Revelation 19:3; Revelation 20:10; Revelation 22:5; εἰς αἰῶνας αἰώνων, Revelation 14:11; αἰὼν τῶν αἰώνων the (whole) age embracing the (shorter) ages, Ephesians 3:21 (cf. Meyer [or Ellicott] at the passage); ἀπὸ τῶν αἰώνων from the ages down, from eternity, Colossians 1:26; Ephesians 3:9; πρὸ τῶν αἰώνων before time was, before the foundation of the world, 1 Corinthians 2:7; πρόθεσις τῶν αἰώνων eternal purpose, Ephesians 3:11.
b. in hyperbolic and popular usage: ἀπὸ τοῦ αἰῶνος (מֵעוֹלָם Genesis 6:4, cf. Deuteronomy 32:7) from the most ancient time down (within the memory of man), from of old, Luke 1:70; Acts 3:21; Acts 15:18 (Tobit 4:12 οἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ αἰῶνος; οἱ ἀπʹ αἰῶνος Ῥωμαῖοι, Dion Cass. 63, 20, 2 cf. 5; Longinus, 34 τούς ἀπʹ αἰῶνος ῥήτορας); also ἐκ τοῦ αἰῶνος, John 9:32 (1 Esdr. 2:19, 22 (23); Diodorus 4:83 of the temple of Venus τήν, ἐξ αἰῶνος ἀρχήν λαβόν, 17, 1 τούς ἐξ αἰῶνος βασιλεῖς [excerpt. de legat, xl.], p. 632 τήν ἐξ αἰῶνος παραδεδομένην ἐλευθερίαν).
2. by metonymy of the container for the contained, οἱ αἰῶνες denotes the worlds, the universe, i. e. the aggregate of things contained in time [on the plural cf. Winers Grammar, 176 (166); Buttmann, 24 (21)]: Hebrews 1:2; Hebrews 11:3; and (?) 1 Timothy 1:17; [Revelation 15:3 WH text; cf. Psalm 144:13 (Ps. 145:13); Tobit 13:6, 10; Sir. 36:22; Philo de plant. Noë § 12 twice; de mundo § 7; Josephus, Antiquities 1, 18, 7; Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 61, 2; 35, 3 (πατὴρ τ. α.); 55, 6 (θεὸς τ. α.); Apostolic Constitutions 7, 34; see Abbot in Journal Society for Biblical Literature etc. i., p. 106 n.]. So αἰών in Wis. 13:9; Wis. 14:6; Wis. 18:4; the same use occurs in the Talmud, Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic; cf. Bleek, Hebräerbr. ii., 1, p. 36ff; Gesenius, Thesaurus ii., p. 1036; [cf. the use of οἱ αἰῶνες in the Fathers, equivalent to the world of mankind, e. g. Ignatius ad Eph. 19, 2]:
3. As the Jews distinguished הַזֶּה הָעוֹלָם the time before the Messiah, and הַבָּא הַעוֹלָם, the time after the advent of the Messiah (cf. Riehm, Lehrb. d. Hebräerbr., p. 204ff; [Schürer, § 29, 9]), so most of the N. T. writers distinguish αἰὼν οὗτος this age (also simply αἰών, Matthew 13:22; Mark 4:19 G L T Tr WH; ἐνεστὼς αἰών, Galatians 1:4; νῦν αἰών, 1 Timothy 6:17; [2 Timothy 4:10]; Titus 2:12), the time before the appointed return or truly Messianic advent of Christ (i. e., the παρουσία, which see), the period of instability, weakness, impiety, wickedness, calamity, misery — and αἰὼν μέλλων the future age (also αἰὼν ἐκεῖνος, Luke 20:35; αἰὼν ἐρχόμενος, Luke 18:30; Mark 10:30; οἱ αἰῶνες οἱ ἐπερχόμενοι, Ephesians 2:7), i. e., the age after the return of Christ in majesty, the period of the consummate establishment of the divine kingdom and all its blessings: Matthew 12:32; Ephesians 1:21; cf. Fritzsche on Romans, vol. 3:22f.
Hence, the things of 'this age' are mentioned in the N. T. with censure: αἰὼν οὗτος, by metonymy, men controlled by the thoughts and pursuits of this present time, Romans 12:2, the same who are called υἱοὶ τοῦ αἰ. τούτου in Luke 16:8; Luke 20:34; κατὰ τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ κόσμου τούτου conformably to the age to which this (wicked) world belongs, Ephesians 2:2 [cf. Trench, § 59 under the end]; ἀγαπᾶν τὸν νῦν αἰῶνα, 2 Timothy 4:10 (see ἀγαπάω); ἄρχοντες τοῦ αἰ. τούτου, 1 Corinthians 2:6 (see ἄρχων); θεὸς τοῦ αἰ. τούτου, the devil, who rules the thoughts and deeds of the men of this age, 2 Corinthians 4:4; αἱ μέριμναι τοῦ αἰῶνος, the anxieties for the things of this age, Mark 4:19; πλούσιος ἐν τῷ νῦν αἰῶνι, rich in worldly wealth, 1 Timothy 6:17; σοφία τοῦ αἰ. τούτ. such wisdom as belongs to this age — full of error, arrogant, hostile to the gospel, 1 Corinthians 2:6; συζητητὴς τοῦ αἰ. τούτ. disputer, sophist, such as we now find him, 1 Corinthians 1:20; συντέλεια τοῦ αἰ. τούτ., the end, or rather consummation, of the age preceding Christ's return, with which will be connected the resurrection of the dead, the last judgment, the demolition of this world and its restoration to a more excellent condition [cf. 4 Esdr. 7:43], Matthew 13:39f, 49; Matthew 24:3; Matthew 28:20; it is called συντέλεια τῶν αἰώνων in Hebrews 9:26 [so Test xii. Patr., test. Levi 10, test. Benj. 11 (cf. Vorstman, p. 133)]; τὰ τέλη τῶν αἰώνων the ends (last part) of the ages before the return of Christ, 1 Corinthians 10:11; δυνάμεις τοῦ μέλλοντος αἰῶνος, powers which present themselves from the future or divine order of things, i. e., the Holy Spirit, Hebrews 6:5; τοῦ αἰῶνος ἐκείνου τυχεῖν, to partake of the blessings of the future age, Luke 20:35. Among the N. T. writers James does not use the word αἰών.
[On the word in its relation to κόσμος see Trench, § 59: Its biblical sense and its relation to עוֹלָם are discussed by Stuart, Exeget. Essays on Words relating to Future Punishment, Andover, 1830 (and Presbyterian Publishing Committee, Philadelphia); Tayler Lewis in Lange's Commentary on Ecclesiastes, pp. 44-51; J. W. Hanson, Aion-Aionios (pp. 174), Chicago, 1880. See especially E. Abbot, Literature of the Doctrine of a Future Life, etc. (New York, 1867), Index of subjects, under the word. For its meanings in ecclesiastical writings see Suicer, Thesaurus Eccl. i. col. 140ff, cf. ii. col 1609; Huet, Origeniana (Appendix to Vol. iv. of De la Rue's Origen) book ii. c. ii. quaest. 11, § 26. Its use in Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristotle, Plato, Tim. Locr., is exhibited in detail by E. S. Goodwin in the Christ. Exam. for March and May, 1831, March and May, 1832. "On αἰών as the complete period, either of each particular life or of all existence, see Aristotle, cael. 1, 9, 15; on αἰών and χρόνος, cf. Philo [quis rer. div. her. § 34] i. 496, 18f; [de mut. nom. § 47] i. 619, 10f." Liddell and Scott, edition 6; see also Philo de alleg. leg. iii. 8; quod deus immut. § 6 at the end; de secular § 11; de praem, et poen. § 15; and (de mund, opif. § 7) especially J. G. Müller, Philo's Lehre v. d. Weltschöpfung, p. 168 (Berl. 1864). Schmidt (chapter 44) gives the distinction, for substance, as follows: both words denote the abstract idea of time and with special reference to its extent or duration; χρόνος is the general designation for time, which can be divided up into portions, each of which is in its turn a χρόνος; on the other hand, αἰών, which in the concrete and simple language of Homer (Pindar and the Tragedians) denotes the allotted lifetime, even the life, of the individual (Iliad 4, 478 μινυνθάδιος δέ οἱ αἰών etc.), in Attic prose differs from χρόνος by denoting time unlimited and boundless, which is not conceived of as divisible into αἰῶνες (contrast here biblical usage and see below), but rather into χρόνοι. In philosophical speech it is without beginning also. Cf. Tim. Locr. 97 c. d. χρόνω δὲ τὰ μέρεα τάσδε τὰς περιόδως λέγοντι, ἅς ἐκόσμησεν θεὸς σὺν κόσμῳ· οὐ γὰρ ἦν πρὸ κόσμω ἄστρα· διόπερ οὐδ’ ἐνιαυτὸς οὐδ’ ὠρᾶν περίοδοι, αἷς μετρέεταί γεννατὸς χρόνος οὗτος. εὶκὼν δέ ἐστι τῶ ἀγεννάτω χρόνω, ὅν αἰῶνα ποταγορεύομες· ὡς γὰρ ποτ’ ἀΐδιον παράδειγμα, τὸν ἰδανικὸν κόσμον, ὅδε ὠρανὸς ἐγεννάθη, οὕτως ὡς πρὸς παράδειγμα, τὸν αἰῶνα, ὅδε χρόνος σὺν κόσμῳ ἐδαμιουργήθη — after Plato, Timaeus, p. 37 d. (where see Stallbaum's note and references); Isocrates 8, 34 τοὺς δὲ μετ’ εὐσεβείας κ. δικαιοσύνης ζῶντας (ὁρῶ) ἐν τε τοῖς παροῦσι χρόνοις ἀσφαλῶς διάγοντας καὶ περὶ τοῦ σύμπαντος αἰῶνος ἡδίους τὰς ἐλπίδας ἔχοντας. The adjective ἄχρονος independent of time, above and beyond all time, is synonymous with αἰώνιος; where time (with its subdivisions and limitations) ends eternity begins: Nonnus, metaph, evang. Johan. 1:1, ἄχρονος ἦν, ἀκίχητος, ἐν ἀρρήτω λόγος ἀρχῇ. Thoroughly Platonic in cast are the definitions of Gregory of Nazianzus (orat. xxxviii. 8) αἰὼν γὰρ οὔτε χρόνος οὔτε χρόνου τι μέρος· οὐδὲ γάρ μετρητόν, ἀλλ’ ὅπερ, ἡμῖν χρόνος ἡλίου φορᾷ μετρούμενος, τοῦτο τοῖς ἀϊδίοις αἰών, τὸ συμπαρεκτεινόμενον τοῖς οὖσιν οἷον τι χρονικὸν κίνημα καὶ διάστημα (Suicer as above). So Clement of Alexandria, strom., i. 13, p. 756 a., Migne edition, γ’ οὖν αἰὼν τοῦ χρόνου τὸ μέλλον καὶ τὸ ἐνεστὼς, αὐτὰρ δὴ καὶ τὸ παρῳχηκὸς ἀκαριαίως συνίστησι. Instances from extra-biblical writings of the use of αἰών in the plural are: τὸν ἀπ’ αἰώνων μύθον, Anthol. vol iii., part ii., p. 55, Jacobs edition; εἰς αἰῶνας, ibid. vol. iv. epigr. 492; ἐκ περιτροπῆς αἰώνων, Josephus, b. j. 3, 8, 5; εἰς αἰῶνας διαμένει, Sextus Empiricus, adv. Phys. i. 62. The discussions which have been raised respecting the word may give interest to additional references to its use by Philo and Josephus. Philo: πᾶς (ἅπας, σύμπας) or πᾶς (etc.) αἰών: de alleg. leg. iii. § 70; de cherub. § 1 (a noteworthy passage, cf. de congressu erud. § 11 and references under the word θάνατος); de sacrif. Ab. et Caini § 11; quod det. pot. § 48; quod deus immut. § 1, § 24; de plantat. § 27; de sobrietate § 13; de migr. Abr. § 2; de secular § 9; de mut. nom. § 34; de somn. ii., § 15, § 31, § 38; de legat. ad Gaium § 38; () μακρὸς αἰ.: de sacrif. Ab et Caini § 21; de ebrietate § 47; de secular § 20; αἰ. μήκιστος: de sobrietate § 5; de secular § 21; ἄπειρος αἰ.: de legat, ad Gaium § 11; ἔμπροσθεν αἰ.: de praem, et. poen. § 6; αἰ. πολύς: de Abrah. § 46; τίς αἰ.: de merc. meretr. § 1; δἰ αἰ.: de cherub. § 26; de plantat. § 27; εἰς τὸν αἰ.: de gigant. § 5; ἐν (τῷ) αἰ.: de mut. nom. § 2 (twice) (note the restriction); quod deus immut. § 6; ἐξ αἰ.: de somn. 1 § 3; ἐπ’ αἰ.: de plantat. § 12 (twice); de mundo § 7; πρὸ αἰ.: de mut. nom. § 2; πρὸς αἰ.: de mut. nom. § 11; () αἰ.: de secular § 18; de alleg. leg. iii. § 70; de cherub. § 22; de migr. Abr. § 22; de somn. i., § 18, § 22; de Josepho § 5; de vita Moys. ii. § 3; de decalogo § 14; de victimis § 3; fragment in Mang. 2:660 (Richter vi., p. 219); de plantat. § 12 (bis); de mundo § 7. Josephus: () πᾶς αἰών: Antiquities 1, 18, 7; 3, 8, 10; contra Apion 2, 11, 3; 2, 22, 1; μακρὸς αἰ.: Antiquities 2, 7, 3; πολὺς αἰ.: contra Apion 2, 31, 1; τοσοῦτος αἰ.: contra Apion 1, 8, 4; πλῆθος αἰῶνος: Antiquities prooem. § 3; ἀπ’ αἰ.: b. j. prooem. § 4; δι’ αἰ.: Antiquities 1, 18, 8; 4, 6, 4; b. j. 6, 2, 1; εἰς (τὸν) αἰ.: Antiquities 4, 8, 18; 5, 1, 27; 7, 9, 5; 7, 14, 5; ἐξ αἰ.: b. j. 5, 10, 5; () αἰ.: Antiquities 19, 2, 2; b. j. 1, 21, 10; plural (see above) 3, 8, 5. See αἰώνιος.]
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
6:3; 6:4
Leviticus
10
Deuteronomy
32:7
Psalms
44:7; 45:7; 83:18; 144:13; 145:13
Matthew
12:32; 13:22; 13:39; 13:49; 24:3; 28:20
Mark
4:19; 4:19; 10:30
Luke
1:33; 1:70; 16:8; 18:30; 20:34; 20:35; 20:35
John
4:14; 6:51; 6:58; 8:35; 8:51; 9:32; 10:28; 11:26; 13:8; 14:16
Acts
3:21; 15:18
Romans
1:25; 1:25; 9:5; 11:36; 12:2; 16:27; 16:27
1 Corinthians
1:20; 2:6; 2:6; 2:7; 8:13; 10:11
2 Corinthians
4:4; 11:31
Galatians
1:4; 1:5
Ephesians
1:21; 2:2; 2:2; 2:7; 3:9; 3:11; 3:21
Philippians
4:20
Colossians
1:26
1 Timothy
1:17; 1:17; 6:17; 6:17
2 Timothy
4:10; 4:10; 4:18
Titus
2:12
Hebrews
1:2; 1:8; 5:6; 6:5; 6:20; 9:26; 11:3; 13:8
1 Peter
4:11
2 Peter
3:18
Jude
1:13; 1:25
Revelation
1:6; 1:18; 4:9; 5:13; 7:12; 10:6; 11:15; 14:11; 15:3; 15:7; 19:3; 20:10; 22:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G165 matches the Greek αἰών (aiōn),
which occurs 414 times in 350 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 7 (Gen 3:22–1Ki 9:3)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:22 - And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:3 - Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with[fn] humans forever, for they are mortal[fn]; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:4 - The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:15 - All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring[fn] forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:24 - “Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:13 - Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:18 - “The LORD reigns for ever and ever.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:9 - The LORD said to Moses, “I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear me speaking with you and will always put their trust in you.” Then Moses told the LORD what the people had said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:6 - then his master must take him before the judges.[fn] He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:9 - and fasten caps on them. Then tie sashes on Aaron and his sons.[fn] The priesthood is theirs by a lasting ordinance. “Then you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:13 - Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.’ ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:15 - Anoint them just as you anointed their father, so they may serve me as priests. Their anointing will be to a priesthood that will continue throughout their generations.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:17 - “ ‘This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.’ ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:46 - You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:29 - Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:28 - Be careful to obey all these regulations I am giving you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:16 - You are to gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:17 - then take an awl and push it through his earlobe into the door, and he will become your servant for life. Do the same for your female servant.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:3 - No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, not even in the tenth generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:6 - Do not seek a treaty of friendship with them as long as you live.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:46 - They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:29 - The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:7 - Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:40 - I lift my hand to heaven and solemnly swear: As surely as I live forever,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:7 - tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:28 - So Joshua burned Ai[fn] and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolate place to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:9 - So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the LORD my God wholeheartedly.’[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:1 - The angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land I swore to give to your ancestors. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:22 - Hannah did not go. She said to her husband, “After the boy is weaned, I will take him and present him before the LORD, and he will live there always.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:30 - “Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that members of your family would minister before me forever.’ But now the LORD declares: ‘Far be it from me! Those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me will be disdained.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:13 - For I told him that I would judge his family forever because of the sin he knew about; his sons blasphemed God,[fn] and he failed to restrain them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:14 - Therefore I swore to the house of Eli, ‘The guilt of Eli’s house will never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.’ ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:13 - “You have done a foolish thing,” Samuel said. “You have not kept the command the LORD your God gave you; if you had, he would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:15 - and do not ever cut off your kindness from my family—not even when the LORD has cut off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:23 - And about the matter you and I discussed—remember, the LORD is witness between you and me forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:42 - Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for we have sworn friendship with each other in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘The LORD is witness between you and me, and between your descendants and my descendants forever.’ ” Then David left, and Jonathan went back to the town.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:12 - Achish trusted David and said to himself, “He has become so obnoxious to his people, the Israelites, that he will be my servant for life.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:28 - Later, when David heard about this, he said, “I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the LORD concerning the blood of Abner son of Ner.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:13 - He is the one who will build a house for my Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:16 - Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me[fn]; your throne will be established forever.’ ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:24 - You have established your people Israel as your very own forever, and you, LORD, have become their God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:25 - “And now, LORD God, keep forever the promise you have made concerning your servant and his house. Do as you promised,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:26 - so that your name will be great forever. Then people will say, ‘The LORD Almighty is God over Israel!’ And the house of your servant David will be established in your sight.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:29 - Now be pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever in your sight; for you, Sovereign LORD, have spoken, and with your blessing the house of your servant will be blessed forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:10 - Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:51 - “He gives his king great victories; he shows unfailing kindness to his anointed, to David and his descendants forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:31 - Then Bathsheba bowed down with her face to the ground, prostrating herself before the king, and said, “May my lord King David live forever!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:33 - May the guilt of their blood rest on the head of Joab and his descendants forever. But on David and his descendants, his house and his throne, may there be the LORD’s peace forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:45 - But King Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will remain secure before the LORD forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:3 - The LORD said to him: “I have heard the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

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