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Bible Concordance: "were"
Word "were" found in 2133 verse(s), 68 chapter(s) and 58 book(s).
What the Bible says about "were":
2nd Kings 15:35
Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
2nd Kings 16:17
And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon the pavement of stones.
2nd Kings 17:2
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
2nd Kings 17:9
And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
2nd Kings 17:15
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
2nd Kings 18:5
He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
2nd Kings 18:17
And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.
2nd Kings 19:12
Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
2nd Kings 19:18
And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
2nd Kings 19:26
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
2nd Kings 19:35
And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
2nd Kings 21:11
Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
2nd Kings 23:3
And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
2nd Kings 23:4
And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
2nd Kings 23:7
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
2nd Kings 23:8
And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
2nd Kings 23:12
And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
2nd Kings 23:13
And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
2nd Kings 23:16
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
2nd Kings 23:19
And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
2nd Kings 23:20
And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
2nd Kings 23:24
Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
2nd Kings 24:16
And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
2nd Kings 25:4
And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
2nd Kings 25:5
And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
Proverbs 24:16
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
- that: 928 verses
- they: 715 verses
- them: 509 verses
- their: 360 verses
- with: 418 verses
- which: 374 verses
- unto: 409 verses
- there: 233 verses
- when: 270 verses
- Israel: 203 verses
- from: 221 verses
- came: 231 verses
- thousand: 149 verses
- sons: 206 verses
- children: 179 verses
- LORD: 201 verses
- people: 181 verses
- hundred: 156 verses
- house: 164 verses
- before: 156 verses
- upon: 150 verses
- said: 165 verses
- went: 150 verses
- shall: 91 verses
- these: 141 verses
- also: 129 verses
- made: 128 verses
- into: 129 verses
- have: 95 verses
- king: 124 verses
- numbered: 83 verses
- after: 119 verses
- this: 120 verses
- even: 106 verses
- come: 115 verses
- about: 98 verses
- those: 84 verses
- over: 94 verses
- four: 82 verses
- according: 79 verses
- land: 94 verses
- side: 61 verses
- thereof: 64 verses
- David: 90 verses
- things: 75 verses
- three: 80 verses
- thee: 65 verses
- against: 84 verses
- because: 83 verses
- every: 75 verses
- among: 81 verses
- days: 87 verses
- city: 73 verses
- fathers: 78 verses
- Then: 88 verses
- twenty: 76 verses
- took: 83 verses
- thou: 70 verses
- great: 83 verses
- pass: 82 verses
- brought: 80 verses
- twelve: 55 verses
- Judah: 79 verses
- five: 65 verses
- brethren: 82 verses
- cities: 62 verses
- seven: 68 verses
- whom: 51 verses
- Jerusalem: 76 verses
- priests: 63 verses
- down: 70 verses
- tribe: 38 verses
- These: 64 verses
- hand: 66 verses
- away: 66 verses
- forth: 71 verses
- other: 57 verses
- together: 65 verses
- round: 55 verses
- earth: 61 verses
- behold: 65 verses
- saying: 70 verses
- Moses: 57 verses
- heard: 59 verses
- waters: 45 verses
- will: 35 verses
- families: 56 verses
- hath: 44 verses
- Jesus: 63 verses
- Levites: 55 verses
- like: 44 verses
- than: 33 verses
- might: 44 verses
- many: 54 verses
- found: 47 verses
- years: 54 verses
- work: 38 verses
- cubits: 35 verses
- month: 44 verses
- then: 37 verses
- done: 50 verses
- name: 43 verses
- themselves: 47 verses
- gold: 41 verses
- host: 38 verses
- fifty: 36 verses
- until: 46 verses
- Egypt: 45 verses
- sword: 42 verses
- left: 48 verses
- cast: 46 verses
- number: 44 verses
- should: 46 verses
- could: 44 verses
- Saul: 38 verses
- chief: 45 verses
- neither: 44 verses
- gathered: 50 verses
- called: 37 verses
- king's: 40 verses
- gate: 39 verses
- your: 44 verses
- more: 37 verses
- under: 43 verses
- time: 45 verses
- would: 43 verses
- place: 43 verses
- eyes: 39 verses
- first: 44 verses
- stood: 42 verses
- sent: 48 verses
- written: 25 verses
- pillars: 27 verses
- Jordan: 30 verses
- servants: 44 verses
- both: 42 verses
- thirty: 39 verses
- high: 36 verses
- born: 39 verses
- silver: 29 verses
- Philistines: 30 verses
- fire: 42 verses
- trees: 27 verses
- words: 37 verses
- vessels: 26 verses
- where: 34 verses
- dead: 30 verses
- what: 32 verses
- afraid: 37 verses
- Christ: 24 verses
- women: 38 verses
- field: 29 verses
- toward: 26 verses
- hands: 36 verses
- sealed: 9 verses
- father: 37 verses
- kings: 33 verses
- mighty: 35 verses
- little: 28 verses
- Lord: 32 verses
- gave: 33 verses
- another: 34 verses
- heaven: 33 verses
- They: 28 verses
- forty: 27 verses
- smote: 35 verses
- Benjamin: 33 verses
- priest: 35 verses
- therefore: 34 verses
- upward: 27 verses
- names: 30 verses
- slew: 32 verses
- very: 27 verses
- taken: 34 verses
- princes: 31 verses
- burnt: 31 verses
- delivered: 29 verses
- fled: 26 verses
- throughout: 26 verses
- chambers: 24 verses
- Aaron: 29 verses
- without: 28 verses
- power: 24 verses
- wilderness: 32 verses
- word: 29 verses
- returned: 33 verses
- threescore: 25 verses
- make: 24 verses
- spake: 32 verses
- able: 26 verses
- captains: 29 verses
- died: 28 verses
- righteousness: 4 verses
- saith: 26 verses
- again: 31 verses
- heads: 26 verses
- places: 24 verses
- heart: 23 verses
- none: 24 verses
- camp: 20 verses
- eight: 23 verses
- second: 30 verses
- being: 22 verses
- offering: 24 verses
- Jacob: 22 verses
- bare: 25 verses
- third: 27 verses
- fell: 28 verses
- passed: 25 verses
- carried: 20 verses
- thing: 20 verses
- Babylon: 21 verses
- told: 30 verses
- souls: 20 verses
- seen: 19 verses
- rest: 26 verses
- battle: 22 verses
- gone: 26 verses
- same: 23 verses
- much: 25 verses
- daughters: 26 verses
- dwelt: 27 verses
- opened: 22 verses
- Manasseh: 27 verses
- above: 28 verses
- court: 18 verses
- present: 21 verses
- therein: 19 verses
- feet: 23 verses
- filled: 24 verses
- mouth: 21 verses
- river: 20 verses
- slain: 23 verses
- door: 19 verses
- When: 24 verses
- whole: 20 verses
- commanded: 24 verses
- lifted: 19 verses
- Solomon: 18 verses
- give: 20 verses
- given: 24 verses
- death: 18 verses
- daughter: 23 verses
- mercy: 7 verses
- through: 18 verses
- That: 14 verses
- Thus: 23 verses
- flesh: 14 verses
- inhabitants: 18 verses
- morning: 23 verses
- drew: 18 verses
- know: 18 verses
- posts: 16 verses
- turned: 21 verses
- Jews: 22 verses
- Those: 13 verses
- been: 19 verses
- disciples: 21 verses
- tables: 11 verses
- whose: 25 verses
- book: 15 verses
- works: 16 verses
- world: 18 verses
- beside: 22 verses
- destroyed: 19 verses
- sight: 16 verses
- water: 20 verses
- hast: 17 verses
- captain: 23 verses
- multitude: 24 verses
- faces: 12 verses
- What: 13 verses
- Joseph: 20 verses
- service: 17 verses
- congregation: 21 verses
- generations: 23 verses
- sheep: 19 verses
- mount: 17 verses
- firstborn: 19 verses
- temple: 17 verses
- holy: 20 verses
- while: 19 verses
- departed: 20 verses
- good: 14 verses
- valley: 18 verses
- laid: 22 verses
- right: 21 verses
- night: 20 verses
- face: 19 verses
- Jonathan: 17 verses
- followed: 16 verses
- midst: 17 verses
- mine: 21 verses
- life: 17 verses
- wife: 20 verses
- brass: 19 verses
- tabernacle: 17 verses
- ashamed: 15 verses
- voice: 19 verses
- such: 19 verses
- arose: 24 verses
- oxen: 16 verses
- palm: 13 verses
- evil: 22 verses
- certain: 17 verses
- going: 13 verses
- having: 17 verses
- part: 15 verses
- year: 19 verses
- half: 15 verses
- arches: 10 verses
- shalt: 13 verses
- began: 19 verses
- thine: 17 verses
- windows: 11 verses
- long: 14 verses
- gods: 15 verses
- knew: 20 verses
- thus: 16 verses
- himself: 17 verses
- broken: 17 verses
- head: 18 verses
- Therefore: 16 verses
- some: 16 verses
- fear: 17 verses
- rose: 19 verses
- within: 15 verses
- brother: 20 verses
- sockets: 11 verses
- young: 19 verses
- prophets: 20 verses
- shew: 13 verses
- father's: 17 verses
- peace: 18 verses
- reckoned: 12 verses
- seed: 7 verses
- wheels: 10 verses
- money: 17 verses
- body: 11 verses
- spirit: 15 verses
- take: 19 verses
- manner: 16 verses
- commandment: 16 verses
- offerings: 15 verses
- bring: 19 verses
- Hebron: 17 verses
- servant: 19 verses
- between: 17 verses
- Ishmael: 14 verses
- cherubims: 14 verses
- full: 16 verses
- north: 14 verses
- stone: 17 verses
- glory: 9 verses
- white: 10 verses
- wrought: 15 verses
- Joab: 18 verses
- doors: 14 verses
- Even: 10 verses
- chapiters: 12 verses
- throne: 10 verses
- valour: 15 verses
- entered: 16 verses
- Reuben: 15 verses
- divided: 13 verses
- wall: 17 verses
- covenant: 14 verses
- Amorites: 15 verses
- offered: 14 verses
- wings: 12 verses
- south: 16 verses
- ground: 17 verses
- Ephraim: 17 verses
- course: 14 verses
- east: 16 verses
- only: 12 verses
- brake: 16 verses
- males: 10 verses
- suburbs: 11 verses
- porters: 14 verses
- concerning: 13 verses
- till: 17 verses
- living: 12 verses
- Ammon: 13 verses
- Syrians: 13 verses
- horses: 12 verses
- border: 11 verses
- well: 15 verses
- hope: 3 verses
- walls: 11 verses
- Jehoiada: 13 verses
- tree: 12 verses
- small: 11 verses
- Because: 14 verses
- appointed: 18 verses
- stand: 14 verses
- Samuel: 14 verses
- amazed: 14 verses
- stones: 14 verses
- near: 13 verses
- lions: 7 verses
- kingdom: 14 verses
- speak: 14 verses
- strong: 15 verses
- officers: 13 verses
- cattle: 11 verses
- nations: 15 verses
- Jericho: 15 verses
- country: 14 verses
- covered: 12 verses
- Also: 12 verses
- though: 13 verses
- Gedaliah: 14 verses
- prepared: 10 verses
- Moreover: 13 verses
- strangers: 14 verses
- cubit: 8 verses
- hosts: 11 verses
- sought: 11 verses
- mother: 14 verses
- Joshua: 14 verses
- faith: 9 verses
- scattered: 13 verses
- Issachar: 9 verses
- porch: 11 verses
- devils: 10 verses
- captivity: 13 verses
- There: 15 verses
- asses: 13 verses
- meat: 15 verses
- bread: 14 verses
- grown: 10 verses
- This: 16 verses
- hanged: 11 verses
- ever: 11 verses
- altar: 14 verses
- answered: 15 verses
- Spirit: 5 verses
- light: 10 verses
- saved: 7 verses
- troubled: 11 verses
- became: 12 verses
- steps: 10 verses
- measure: 9 verses
- destroy: 13 verses
- mountains: 11 verses
- fourscore: 12 verses
- image: 10 verses
- cried: 11 verses
- remained: 12 verses
- pure: 9 verses
- base: 7 verses
- singers: 14 verses
- each: 9 verses
- smitten: 12 verses
- blood: 12 verses
- looked: 14 verses
- Eleazar: 7 verses
- Jeremiah: 12 verses
- consumed: 12 verses
- fourth: 14 verses
- whether: 11 verses
- grass: 5 verses
- Levi: 11 verses
- gates: 9 verses
- love: 6 verses
- edge: 11 verses
- borders: 8 verses
- Samaria: 8 verses
- Gibeah: 10 verses
- entering: 13 verses
- ship: 11 verses
- villages: 9 verses
- beast: 11 verses
- remnant: 9 verses
- elders: 13 verses
- incense: 13 verses
- prophet: 14 verses
- healed: 10 verses
- scribe: 10 verses
- behind: 11 verses
- enemies: 12 verses
- astonished: 14 verses
- wherein: 11 verses
- family: 7 verses
- fulfilled: 11 verses
- genealogy: 7 verses
- utterly: 12 verses
- nine: 11 verses
- beasts: 11 verses
- sanctified: 9 verses
- Noah: 12 verses
- angel: 13 verses
- sick: 9 verses
- Thou: 10 verses
- Abimelech: 9 verses
- armies: 10 verses
- better: 9 verses
- known: 8 verses
- ships: 8 verses
- appearance: 7 verses
- burned: 12 verses
- inheritance: 9 verses
- broad: 9 verses
- ones: 9 verses
- greatly: 11 verses
- loins: 11 verses
- Johanan: 11 verses
- chosen: 9 verses
- John: 10 verses
- pomegranates: 6 verses
- nigh: 12 verses
- drinking: 8 verses
- fall: 8 verses
- idols: 10 verses
- Gentiles: 6 verses
- Pharaoh: 8 verses
- fields: 7 verses
- return: 9 verses
- length: 10 verses
- kept: 12 verses
- merchants: 9 verses
- assembled: 12 verses
- horns: 7 verses
- captive: 8 verses
- wait: 9 verses
- rings: 5 verses
- child: 10 verses
- scribes: 9 verses
- keep: 11 verses
- heavens: 10 verses
- defiled: 8 verses
- wind: 9 verses
- bound: 9 verses
- pitched: 9 verses
- pursued: 7 verses
- dried: 7 verses
- captives: 9 verses
- serve: 7 verses
- Simeon: 8 verses
- Israelites: 7 verses
- sitting: 9 verses
- Elisha: 9 verses
- Pharisees: 10 verses
- tribes: 9 verses
- duke: 4 verses
- committed: 10 verses
- wives: 12 verses
- clothed: 10 verses
- houses: 7 verses
- earthquake: 5 verses
- confounded: 6 verses
- army: 10 verses
- nothing: 9 verses
- breadth: 10 verses
- heavy: 8 verses
- received: 11 verses
- wrath: 7 verses
- Bethel: 8 verses
- heathen: 11 verses
- spoil: 8 verses
- eunuchs: 3 verses
- sanctuary: 11 verses
- joined: 7 verses
- seek: 11 verses
- caused: 8 verses
- wise: 6 verses
- woman: 11 verses
- leaves: 5 verses
- valiant: 10 verses
- times: 9 verses
- ready: 10 verses
- sore: 11 verses
- sister: 9 verses
- rulers: 10 verses
- help: 8 verses
- hour: 9 verses
- wood: 10 verses
- corners: 7 verses
- mind: 8 verses
- glad: 9 verses
- Shechem: 8 verses
- Esau: 7 verses
- corn: 6 verses
- months: 9 verses
- hooks: 8 verses
- anger: 10 verses
- evening: 11 verses
- Merari: 10 verses
- maketh: 3 verses
- spirits: 7 verses
- created: 6 verses
- Wherefore: 9 verses
- hearts: 8 verses
- iron: 10 verses
- Which: 10 verses
- ought: 5 verses
- fallen: 10 verses
- tribute: 9 verses
- possessed: 7 verses
- passover: 7 verses
- abominations: 10 verses