Lexicon :: Strong's G1881 - epanistēmi

“But if someone hates his neighbor, lies in ambush for him, attacks him, and strikes him fatally, and flees to one of these cities,

“Do nothing to the young woman, because she is not guilty of an offense deserving death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.

LORD, bless his possessions,[fn]

and accept the work of his hands.

Break the back[fn] of his adversaries and enemies,

so that they cannot rise again.

“and now you have attacked my father’s family today, killed his seventy sons on top of a large stone, and made Abimelech, the son of his slave woman, king over the citizens of Shechem ‘because he is your brother’ ​— ​

He took the troops, divided them into three companies, and waited in ambush in the countryside. He looked, and the people were coming out of the city, so he arose against them and struck them down.

At that time Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes didn’t move[fn] because he couldn’t see.

“I went after it, struck it down, and rescued the lamb from its mouth. If it reared up against me, I would grab it by its fur,[fn] strike it down, and kill it.

“Now the whole clan has risen up against your servant and said, ‘Hand over the one who killed his brother so we may put him to death for the life of the brother he murdered. We will eliminate the heir! ’ They would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on earth.”

The king asked the Cushite, “Is the young man Absalom all right? ”

The Cushite replied, “I wish that the enemies of my lord the king, along with all who rise up against you with evil intent, would become like that young man.”

You have clothed me with strength for battle;

you subdue my adversaries beneath me.

So Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. March up and save me from the grasp of the king of Aram and of the king of Israel, who are rising up against me.”

The upright are appalled at this,

and the innocent are roused against the godless.

All of my best friends[fn] despise me,

and those I love have turned against me.

The heavens will expose his iniquity,

and the earth will rise up against him.

They were banished from human society;

people shouted at them as if they were thieves.

The rabble[fn] rise up at my right;

they trap[fn] my feet

and construct their siege ramp[fn] against me.

LORD, how my foes increase!

There are many who attack me.

You have clothed me with strength for battle;

you subdue my adversaries beneath me.

Though an army deploys against me,

my heart will not be afraid;

though a war breaks out against me,

I will still be confident.

Do not give me over to the will of my foes,

for false witnesses rise up against me,

breathing violence.

Through you we drive back our foes;

through your name we trample our enemies.

For strangers rise up against me,

and violent men intend to kill me.

They do not let God guide them.[fn]Selah

Rescue me from my enemies, my God;

protect me from those who rise up against me.

God, arrogant people have attacked me;

a gang of ruthless men intends to kill me.

They do not let you guide them.[fn]

My eyes look at my enemies;

when evildoers rise against me,

my ears hear them.

Though they curse, you will bless.

When they rise up, they will be put to shame,

but your servant will rejoice.

if the LORD had not been on our side

when people attacked us,

The LORD has raised up Rezin’s adversaries against him

and stirred up his enemies.

“I will rise up against them” ​— ​this is the declaration of the LORD of Armies ​— ​“and I will cut off from Babylon her reputation, remnant, offspring, and posterity” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration.

But he also is wise and brings disaster.

He does not go back on what he says;

he will rise up against the house of the wicked

and against the allies of evildoers.

The slander[fn] and murmuring of my opponents

attack me all day long.

Now I will tell you the truth.

“Three more kings will arise in Persia, and the fourth will be far richer than the others. By the power he gains through his riches, he will stir up everyone against the kingdom of Greece.

“In those times many will rise up against the king of the South. Violent ones among your own people will assert themselves to fulfill a vision, but they will fail.

Surely a son considers his father a fool,

a daughter opposes her mother,

and a daughter-in-law is against her mother-in-law;

a man’s enemies are the men of his own household.