2,223 verses contain “Before” (in the KJV: 1,966, in the BSB: 1,341) — showing 2,201–2,223
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But the priests,
prostrating themselves
before the altar in their priests’
vestments, called unto heaven upon him that made a law concerning things given to he kept, that they should safely be preserved for such as had committed them to be kept.
Moreover two other young men appeared
before him, notable in strength, excellent in beauty, and comely in
apparel, who stood by him on either side; and
scourged him continually, and gave him many
sore stripes.
For unto him
appertained the gathering of the customs. Wherefore they were both called
before the king.
Now when the king came to Tyrus, three men that were sent from the senate
pleaded the cause
before him:
Insomuch that he discharged
Menelaus from the accusations, who notwithstanding was cause of all the mischief: and those poor men, who, if they had told their cause,
yea,
before the Scythians, should have been judged innocent, them he condemned to death.
In the end therefore he had an unhappy return, being accused
before Aretas the king of the Arabians,
fleeing from city to city, pursued of all men,
hated as a
forsaker of the laws, and being had in
abomination as an open enemy of his country and countrymen, he was cast out into Egypt.
They that led him changing the good will they bare him a little
before into hatred, because the
foresaid speeches proceeded, as they thought, from a
desperate mind.
So when the first was dead after this number, they brought the second to make him a
mocking stock: and when they had pulled off the skin of his head with the hair, they asked him,
Wilt thou eat,
before thou be punished throughout every member of thy body?
Others sold all that they had left, and
withal besought the Lord to deliver them, sold by the wicked Nicanor
before they met together:
And to set
before their eyes the injury that they had unjustly done to the holy place, and the cruel handling of the city,
whereof they made a
mockery, and also the taking away of the government of their forefathers:
For it was the day before the sabbath, and therefore they would no longer pursue them.
And the holy temple, which
before he had
spoiled, he would
garnish with goodly gifts, and restore all the holy vessels with many more, and out of his own revenue
defray the charges belonging to the sacrifices:
Whereupon being accused of the king’s friends
before Eupator, and called
traitor at every word because he had left
Cyprus, that Philometor had committed unto him, and departed to
Antiochus Epiphanes, and seeing that he was in no honourable place, he was so discouraged, that he poisoned himself and died.
Now
Timotheus, whom the Jews had overcome
before, when he had gathered a great multitude of foreign forces, and horses out of Asia not a few, came as though he would take
Jewry by force of arms.
And as they were at Jerusalem, there appeared
before them on
horseback one in white clothing,
shaking his armour of gold.
And the Jews shall use their own kind of meats and laws, as
before; and none of them any manner of ways shall be
molested for things ignorantly done.
But as for
Timotheus, they found him not in the places: for
before he had
dispatched any thing, he departed from thence, having left a very strong garrison in a certain hold.
Betook themselves unto prayer, and
besought him that the sin committed might wholly be put out of
remembrance. Besides, that noble
Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves from sin, forsomuch as they saw
before their eyes the things that came to pass for the sins of those that were slain.
And
Judas, being apart with the elders, determined,
before the king’s host should enter into
Judea, and get the city, to go forth and try the matter in fight by the help of the Lord.
Wherefore now also, O Lord of heaven, send a good angel
before us for a fear and
dread unto them;
So when he was there, and called them of his nation together, and set the priests before the altar, he sent for them that were of the tower,
And when he had cut out the tongue of that ungodly Nicanor, he commanded that they should give it by pieces unto the fowls, and
hang up the reward of his madness
before the temple.
And they ordained all with a common decree in no case to let that day pass without
solemnity, but to
celebrate the
thirtieth day of the
twelfth month, which in the
Syrian tongue is called
Adar, the day
before Mardocheus’ day.