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«And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it? / Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Ammon, comforters, One half, shaved, spy
«And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.»
«And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: harlot, harlots, Jericho, lodged, nun, Rahab, shittim, spy
«And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Amorites, drove, spy
«But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: / And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: / To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.»
«And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain: / And see the land, what it is, and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; / And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds; / And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Canaan, go up, grapes, lean, Moses, southward, spy, tents, therein
«All seems infected that the infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: infected, jaundiced, spy
«And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: harlot, Rahab, spy
«But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land? / Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.»
«And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Dothan, fetch, spy

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