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Lexicon :: Strong's H7812 - šāḥâ

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שָׁחָה
Transliteration
šāḥâ
Pronunciation
shaw-khaw'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 2360

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁחָה shâchâh, shaw-khaw'; a primitive root; to depress, i.e. prostrate (especially reflexive, in homage to royalty or God):—bow (self) down, crouch, fall down (flat), humbly beseech, do (make) obeisance, do reverence, make to stoop, worship.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 172x

The KJV translates Strong's H7812 in the following manner: worship (99x), bow (31x), bow down (18x), obeisance (9x), reverence (5x), fall down (3x), themselves (2x), stoop (1x), crouch (1x), miscellaneous (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 172x
The KJV translates Strong's H7812 in the following manner: worship (99x), bow (31x), bow down (18x), obeisance (9x), reverence (5x), fall down (3x), themselves (2x), stoop (1x), crouch (1x), miscellaneous (3x).

  1. to bow down

    1. (Qal) to bow down

    2. (Hiphil) to depress (fig)

    3. (Hithpael)

      1. to bow down, prostrate oneself

        1. before superior in homage

        2. before God in worship

        3. before false gods

        4. before angel

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁחָה shâchâh, shaw-khaw'; a primitive root; to depress, i.e. prostrate (especially reflexive, in homage to royalty or God):—bow (self) down, crouch, fall down (flat), humbly beseech, do (make) obeisance, do reverence, make to stoop, worship.
STRONGS H7812: Abbreviations
[שָׁחָה]172 verb bow down (Late Hebrew id.; Jewish-Aramaic שְׁחִי (rare); akin to שׁוח, שׁחח); —
Qal Imperative feminine singular שְׁחִי Isaiah 51:23 bow down.
Hiph. Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular suffix יַשְׁחֶ֑נָּה Proverbs 12:25, figurative, anxiety depresses it (that is לֵב; opposed to שִׂמֵּחַ).
Hithpa'lēl170 (Ges§ 75kk) Perfect 3rd person masculine singular הִשְׁתַּחֲוָה Ezekiel 46:2; 2nd person masculine singular הִשְׁתַּחֲוִ֫יתָ Deuteronomy 4:19 + 3 times; 1st person singular הִשְׁתַּחֲוֵ֫יתִי 1 Samuel 16:4 + 2 times; 3rd person masculine plural הִשְׁתַּחֲווּ Jeremiah 8:2, etc.; Imperfect יִשְׁתַּחֲוֶה 2 Samuel 15:32 + 3 times; apocopatic יִשְׁתַּ֫חוּ Isaiah 44:17 +; 3rd person masculine plural יִשְׁתַּחֲווּ Genesis 49:8 +; 2nd person feminine plural תִּשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֫יןָ Genesis 33:6; Genesis 37:7, etc.; Imperative feminine singular הִשְׁתַּחֲוִי Psalm 45:12; masculine plural הִשְׁתַּחֲווּ Psalm 29:2 +; Infinitive construct הִשְׁשַׁתַּחֲוֺת Genesis 37:10 +; suffix מִשְׁתַּחֲוֶי 2 Kings 5:18 (but Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate and modern חֲוֺתו-); Participle מִשְׁתַּחֲוֶה 2 Kings 19:27, etc.; מִשְׁתַּחֲוִיתֶּם Ezekiel 8:16, read וִים- all modern; —
1. bow down, prostrate oneself, before a monarch or superior, in homage, etc.:
a. with ל, after descriptive clause (especially with קדד, נפל 3b, which see.), 1 Samuel 24:9; Genesis 43:28 (J) 2 Samuel 14:4, 22; Ruth 2:10; 1 Kings 1:31; 2 Kings 4:37 + 6 times, + (after כָּרֵע) Esther 3:2 (twice in verse); Esther 3:5.
b. with ל, followed by phrase (לפני) על אפים ארצה 2 Samuel 14:33; 1 Kings 1:23; לאפים Genesis 48:12 (E) 2 Samuel 18:28; אפים Genesis 42:6 (E) + 4 times; omit אפים Genesis 33:3 (J) + 3 times; כַּפּוֹת עַל רַגְלַיִךְ Isaiah 60:14.
c. with לְ person only, Genesis 23:7 (P) Genesis 27:29 (twice in verse); Genesis 37:9 (E), Genesis 49:8; Exodus 11:8 (J) + 8 times; with לפני Genesis 23:12 (P); with אל Isaiah 45:14 (|| התפלּל); absolute Genesis 33:6, 7 (twice in verse) (J), Exodus 18:7 (E) 2 Samuel 9:8; 2 Samuel 16:4; Isaiah 49:7.
2. before God, in worship, etc.:
a. with לְ, after descriptive phrase: קדד ארצה Exodus 34:8 (J); ארצה omitted Genesis 24:26, 48 (J) + 4 times; כרע אפים ארצה 2 Chronicles 7:3; כרע 2 Chronicles 29:29; נפל ארצה Job 1:20; נפל לפני 2 Chronicles 20:18.
b. followed by phrase: אפים ארצה ל׳ קדד וישׁ׳ Nehemiah 8:6; ארצה ל׳ Genesis 24:52 (J); ונכרעה השׁ׳ Psalm 95:6; בְּהַדְרַת קֹדֶשׁ ל׳ השׁ׳ Psalm 29:2; Psalm 96:9 = 1 Chronicles 16:29; אֶלהֵֿיכָל (looking towards) Psalm 5:8; Psalm 138:2; לַהֲדֹם רגלים Psalm 99:5; Psalm 132:7.
c. with לְ only: 1 Samuel 1:28 (but read וַתַּנִּחֵהוּ Greek Version of the LXX and modern), 1 Samuel 15:25; Jeremiah 7:2; Psalm 66:4 + 9 times; with לפני Deuteronomy 26:10; Isaiah 66:23 + 4 times; with בְ local Isaiah 27:13; with לְ local Psalm 99:9; absolute Genesis 22:5 (E) Judges 7:15 + 5 times; accusative of location Exodus 33:10 (E) Jeremiah 26:2; Ezekiel 46:3; לפני (ה)מזבח Isaiah 36:7 = 2 Kings 18:22 2 Chronicles 32:12; with על location Genesis 47:31 (J) 1 Kings 1:47; Ezekiel 46:2; מֵרֶחֹק after off Exodus 24:1 (E).
d. before angel in theoph.: after clause with נפל, קדד, Joshua 5:14; Numbers 22:31; followed by אפים ארצה Genesis 19:1; ארצה Genesis 18:2 (all J).
3. before other gods: absolute Isaiah 2:20; Isaiah 44:15, 17; Isaiah 46:6; accusative of location 2 Kings 5:18 (3 times in verse); 2 Kings 19:37 = Isaiah 37:38; with לְ, Exodus 20:5 = Deuteronomy 5:9 (10 words), Exodus 23:24 (E), Numbers 25:2 (J), Joshua 23:7 (D), Deuteronomy 8:19; Deuteronomy 11:16; 1 Kings 16:31 + 34 times; with על, Leviticus 26:1 (H); לפני 2 Chronicles 25:14 (|| קטּר).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

18:2; 19:1; 22:5; 23:7; 23:12; 24:26; 24:48; 24:52; 27:29; 33:3; 33:6; 33:6; 33:7; 37:7; 37:9; 37:10; 42:6; 43:28; 47:31; 48:12; 49:8; 49:8

Exodus

11:8; 18:7; 20:5; 23:24; 24:1; 33:10; 34:8

Leviticus

26:1

Numbers

22:31; 25:2

Deuteronomy

4:19; 5:9; 8:19; 11:16; 26:10

Joshua

5:14; 23:7

Judges

7:15

Ruth

2:10

1 Samuel

1:28; 15:25; 16:4; 24:9

2 Samuel

9:8; 14:4; 14:22; 14:33; 15:32; 16:4; 18:28

1 Kings

1:23; 1:31; 1:47; 16:31

2 Kings

4:37; 5:18; 5:18; 18:22; 19:27; 19:37

1 Chronicles

16:29

2 Chronicles

7:3; 20:18; 25:14; 29:29; 32:12

Nehemiah

8:6

Esther

3:2; 3:5

Job

1:20

Psalms

5:8; 29:2; 29:2; 45:12; 66:4; 95:6; 96:9; 99:5; 99:9; 132:7; 138:2

Proverbs

12:25

Isaiah

2:20; 27:13; 36:7; 37:38; 44:15; 44:17; 44:17; 45:14; 46:6; 49:7; 51:23; 60:14; 66:23

Jeremiah

7:2; 8:2; 26:2

Ezekiel

8:16; 46:2; 46:2; 46:3

H7812

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Strong's Number H7812 matches the Hebrew שָׁחָה (šāḥâ),
which occurs 175 times in 166 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 4 (Rth 2:10–1Ch 29:20)

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:10 - Then she fell on her face, bowing H7812 to the ground and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your sight that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:3 - Now this man would go up from his city yearly to worship H7812 and to sacrifice to the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:19 - Then they arose early in the morning and worshiped H7812 before the LORD, and returned again to their house in Ramah. And Elkanah [fn]had relations with Hannah his wife, and the LORD remembered her.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:28 - “So I have also [fn]dedicated him to the LORD; as long as he lives he is [fn]dedicated to the LORD.” And he worshiped H7812 the LORD there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:36 - ‘Everyone who is left in your house will come and bow H7812 down H7812 to him for a [fn]piece of silver or a loaf of bread and say, “Please [fn]assign me to one of the priest’s offices so that I may eat a piece of bread.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:25 - “Now therefore, please pardon my sin and return with me, that I may worship H7812 the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:30 - Then he said, “I have sinned; but please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and go back with me, that I may worship H7812 the LORD your God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:31 - So Samuel went back following Saul, and Saul worshiped H7812 the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:41 - When the lad was gone, David rose from the south side and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed H7812 three times. And they kissed each other and wept together, but David wept the more.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 24:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:8 - Now afterward David arose and went out of the cave and called after Saul, saying, “My lord the king!” And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the ground and prostrated H7812 himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:23 - When Abigail saw David, she hurried and dismounted from her donkey, and fell on her face before David and bowed H7812 herself to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:41 - She arose and bowed H7812 with her face to the ground and said, “Behold, your maidservant is a maid to wash the feet of my lord’s servants.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 28:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:14 - He said to her, “What is his form?” And she said, “An old man is coming up, and he is wrapped with a robe.” And Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground and did homage. H7812

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:2 - On the third day, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn and [fn]dust on his head. And it came about when he came to David that he fell to the ground and prostrated H7812 himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 9:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:6 - Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, came to David and fell on his face and prostrated H7812 himself. And David said, “Mephibosheth.” And he said, “Here is your servant!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 9:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:8 - Again he prostrated H7812 himself and said, “What is your servant, that you should regard a dead dog like me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:20 - So David arose from the ground, washed, anointed himself, and changed his clothes; and he came into the house of the LORD and worshiped. H7812 Then he came to his own house, and when he requested, they set food before him and he ate.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:4 - Now when the woman of Tekoa [fn]spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and prostrated H7812 herself and said, “Help, O king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:22 - Joab fell on his face to the ground, prostrated H7812 himself and blessed the king; then Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, O my lord, the king, in that the king has performed the [fn]request of his servant.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:33 - So when Joab came to the king and told him, he called for Absalom. Thus he came to the king and prostrated H7812 himself on his face to the ground before the king, and the king kissed Absalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:5 - And when a man came near to prostrate H7812 himself before him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:32 - It happened as David was coming to the summit, where God was worshiped, H7812 that behold, Hushai the Archite met him with his [fn]coat torn and [fn]dust on his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:4 - So the king said to Ziba, “Behold, all that belongs to Mephibosheth is yours.” And Ziba said, “I prostrate H7812 myself; let me find favor in your sight, O my lord, the king!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:21 - Then Joab said to the Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen.” So the Cushite bowed H7812 to Joab and ran.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:28 - Ahimaaz called and said to the king, “[fn]All is well.” And he prostrated H7812 himself before the king with his face to the ground. And he said, “Blessed is the LORD your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted their hands against my lord the king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:20 - Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants crossing over toward him; and Araunah went out and bowed H7812 his face to the ground before the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:16 - Then Bathsheba bowed and prostrated H7812 herself [fn]before the king. And the king said, “What [fn]do you wish?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:23 - They told the king, saying, “Here is Nathan the prophet.” And when he came in before the king, he prostrated H7812 himself [fn]before the king with his face to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:31 - Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground, and prostrated H7812 herself [fn]before the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:47

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:47 - “Moreover, the king’s servants came to bless our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name and his throne greater than your throne!’ And the king bowed H7812 himself on the bed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:53

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:53 - So King Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and prostrated H7812 himself [fn]before King Solomon, and Solomon said to him, “Go to your house.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:19 - So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king arose to meet her, bowed H7812 before her, and sat on his throne; then he had a throne set for the king’s mother, and she sat on his right.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:6 - “But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship H7812 them,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:9 - “And they will say, ‘Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and adopted other gods and worshiped H7812 them and served them, therefore the LORD has brought all this adversity on them.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33 - because they have forsaken Me, and have worshiped H7812 Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon; and they have not walked in My ways, doing what is right in My sight and observing My statutes and My ordinances, as his father David did.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:31 - It came about, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went to serve Baal and worshiped H7812 him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:53

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:53 - So he served Baal and worshiped H7812 him and provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 2:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:15 - Now when the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho opposite him saw him, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they came to meet him and bowed H7812 themselves to the ground before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:37

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:37 - Then she went in and fell at his feet and bowed H7812 herself to the ground, and she took up her son and went out.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:18 - “In this matter may the LORD pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship H7812 there, and he leans on my hand and I bow H7812 myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow H7812 myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon your servant in this matter.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:16 - They forsook all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves molten images, even two calves, and made an [fn]Asherah and worshiped H7812 all the host of heaven and served Baal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:35 - with whom the LORD made a covenant and commanded them, saying, “You shall not fear other gods, nor bow H7812 down H7812 yourselves to them nor serve them nor sacrifice to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:36 - “But the LORD, who brought you up from the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, Him you shall fear, and to Him you shall bow H7812 yourselves down, H7812 and to Him you shall sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:22 - “But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship H7812 before this altar in Jerusalem’?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:37

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:37 - It came about as he was worshiping H7812 in the house of Nisroch his god, that [fn]Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son became king in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3 - For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal and made an [fn]Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped H7812 all the host of heaven and served them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:21 - For he walked in all the way that his father had walked, and served the idols that his father had served and worshiped H7812 them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:29 - Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name;
Bring an [fn]offering, and come before Him;
Worship H7812 the LORD in [fn]holy array.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:21 - As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out from the threshing floor and prostrated H7812 himself [fn]before David with his face to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:20 - Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless the LORD your God.” And all the assembly blessed the LORD, the God of their fathers, and bowed low and did H7812 homage H7812 to the LORD and to the king.

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