Lexicon :: Strong's G2722 - katechō

Abraham looked up and saw a ram[fn] caught in the thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.

But he responded to them, “Do not delay me, since the LORD has made my journey a success. Send me away so that I may go to my master.”

and had him thrown into prison, where the king’s prisoners were confined. So Joseph was there in prison.

“If you are honest, let one of you[fn] be confined to the guardhouse, while the rest of you go and take grain to relieve the hunger of your households.

“Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel ​— ​you swore to them by yourself and declared, ‘I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and will give your offspring all this land that I have promised, and they will inherit it forever.’ ”

“Go through the camp and tell the people, ‘Get provisions ready for yourselves, for within three days you will be crossing the Jordan to go in and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you to inherit.’ ”

“would you be willing to wait for them to grow up? Would you restrain yourselves from remarrying?[fn] No, my daughters, my life is much too bitter for you to share,[fn] because the LORD’s hand has turned against me.”

“Then he begged me, ‘Stand over me and kill me, for I’m mortally wounded,[fn] but my life still lingers.’

Abner said to him, “Turn to your right or left, seize one of the young soldiers, and take whatever you can get from him.” But Asahel would not stop chasing him.

“when the person told me, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ he thought he was a bearer of good news, but I seized him and put him to death at Ziklag. That was my reward to him for his news!

When they came to Nacon’s threshing floor, Uzzah reached out to the ark of God and took hold of it because the oxen had stumbled.

It was reported to Solomon, “Look, Adonijah fears King Solomon, and he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let King Solomon first[fn] swear to me that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’ ”

The news reached Joab. Since he had supported Adonijah but not Absalom, Joab fled to the LORD’s tabernacle and took hold of the horns of the altar.

the masons, and the stonecutters ​— ​and would use it to buy timber and quarried stone to repair the damage to the LORD’s temple and for all expenses for temple repairs.

When they came to Chidon’s threshing floor, Uzzah reached out to hold the ark because the oxen had stumbled.

When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the abhorrent idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He renovated the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.

Next to them Meremoth son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz, made repairs. Beside them Meshullam son of Berechiah, son of Meshezabel, made repairs. Next to them Zadok son of Baana made repairs.

Trouble and distress terrify him,

overwhelming him like a king prepared for battle.

When he is at work to the north, I cannot see him;

when he turns south, I cannot find him.

he may heap it up, but the righteous will wear it,

and the innocent will divide up his silver.

If he put his mind to it

and withdrew the spirit and breath he gave,

The descendants of his servants will inherit it,

and those who love his name will live in it.

Look at them ​— ​the wicked!

They are always at ease,

and they increase their wealth.

Fury seizes me because of the wicked

who reject your instruction.

even there your hand will lead me;

your right hand will hold on to me.

A man who finds a wife finds a good thing

and obtains favor from the LORD.

Laziness induces deep sleep,

and a lazy person will go hungry.

All of them are skilled with swords

and trained in warfare.

Each has his sword at his side

to guard against the terror of the night.

God is enthroned above the circle of the earth;

its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.

He stretches out the heavens like thin cloth

and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

We have heard about it,

and our hands have become weak.

Distress has seized us —

pain, like a woman in labor.

What will you say when he appoints

close friends as leaders over you,

ones you yourself trained?

Won’t labor pains seize you,

as they do a woman in labor?

Ask and see

whether a male can give birth.

Why then do I see every man

with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor

and every face turned pale?

Cut off the sower from Babylon

as well as him who wields the sickle at harvest time.

Because of the oppressor’s sword,

each will turn to his own people,

each will flee to his own land.

“Son of man, those who live in the[fn] ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one person, yet he received possession of the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.’

“But the holy ones of the Most High will receive the kingdom and possess it forever, yes, forever and ever.’

“until the Ancient of Days arrived and a judgment was given in favor of the holy ones of the Most High, for the time had come, and the holy ones took possession of the kingdom.