Lexicon :: Strong's G4788 - sygkleiō

Sarai said to Abram, “Since the LORD has prevented me from bearing children, go to my slave; perhaps through her I can build a family.” And Abram agreed to what Sarai said.

for the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household on account of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

“Pharaoh will say of the Israelites: They are wandering around the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.

Now Jericho was strongly fortified because of the Israelites ​— ​no one leaving or entering.

Her rival would taunt her severely just to provoke her, because the LORD had kept Hannah from conceiving.

The interior of the sanctuary was thirty feet long, thirty feet wide, and thirty feet high; he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid the cedar altar.

the pure gold lampstands in front of the inner sanctuary, five on the right and five on the left; the gold flowers, lamps, and tongs;

All of King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, since it was considered as nothing in Solomon’s time,

and this is the reason he rebelled against the king: Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the opening in the wall of the city of his father David.

He deported all Jerusalem and all the commanders and all the best soldiers ​— ​ten thousand captives including all the craftsmen and metalsmiths. Except for the poorest people of the land, no one remained.

The king of Babylon brought captive into Babylon all seven thousand of the best soldiers and one thousand craftsmen and metalsmiths ​— ​all strong and fit for war.

For that night did not shut

the doors of my mother’s womb,

and hide sorrow from my eyes.

Why is life given to a man whose path is hidden,

whom God has hedged in?

They are uncaring;[fn]

their mouths speak arrogantly.

and have not handed me over to the enemy.

You have set my feet in a spacious place.

Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers,

and assure me, “I am your deliverance.”

He cleared a path for his anger.

He did not spare them from death

but delivered their lives to the plague.

He surrendered his people to the sword

because he was enraged with his heritage.

When you walk, your steps will not be hindered;

when you run, you will not stumble.

The LORD says this to Cyrus, his anointed,

whose right hand I have grasped

to subdue nations before him

and disarm[fn] kings,

to open doors before him,

and even city gates will not be shut:

The cities of the Negev are under siege;

no one can help them.

All of Judah has been taken into exile,

taken completely into exile.

“‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I am about to repel the weapons of war in your hands, those you are using to fight the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans[fn] who are besieging you outside the wall, and I will bring them into the center of this city.

“Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine, and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live and will retain his life like the spoils of war.

“Take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Face it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign for the house of Israel.

The LORD says:

I will not relent from punishing Gaza

for three crimes, even four,

because they exiled a whole community,

handing them over to Edom.

The LORD says:

I will not relent from punishing Tyre

for three crimes, even four,

because they handed over

a whole community of exiles to Edom

and broke[fn] a treaty of brotherhood.

Do not stand at the crossroads[fn]

to cut off their fugitives,

and do not hand over their survivors

in the day of distress.

“I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle a useless fire on my altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the LORD of Armies, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.