Genesis 26:16

Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”

The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”

At that time, Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.

Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”

He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.

Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Didn’t you hate me, and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?”

saying, “Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”

and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.”

All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. Then he entered into the boat and returned.

and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.

Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.

There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.

His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.

Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.

Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, Yahweh has destroyed your works.” The ships were wrecked, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

However concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

In the multitude of people is the king’s glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.

for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him.

But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”

“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,

Joseph sent and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.

But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

“This Moses, whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

Behold, I give some of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie—behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear Yahweh our God’s voice any more, then we shall die.

She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”

For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.

They began to beg him to depart from their region.