4,840 verses contain “Then” (in the KJV: 2,747, in the BSB: 3,065) — showing 4,401–4,500
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Then I answered and said, How, and when shall these things come to pass? wherefore are our years few and evil?
Then answered I and said, O Lord that bearest rule, even we all are full of impiety.
Then said I, No, Lord, that can she not. And he said unto me, In the grave the chambers of souls are like the womb of a woman:
Then answered I and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, and if it be possible, and if I be meet therefore,
Shew me then whether there be more to come than is past, or more past than is to come.
Then said he unto me, Consider with thyself; as the rain is more than the drops, and as the fire is greater than the smoke; but the drops and the smoke remain behind: so the quantity which is past did more exceed.
Then I prayed, and said, May I live, thinkest thou, until that time? or what shall happen in those days?
And salt waters shall be found in the sweet, and all friends shall destroy one another; then shall wit hide itself, and understanding withdraw itself into his secret chamber,
And shall be sought of many, and yet not be found: then shall unrighteousness and incontinency be multiplied upon earth.
Then I awaked, and an extreme fearfulness went through all my body, and my mind was troubled, so that it fainted.
Then said I unto him, Go thy ways from me, and come not nigh me. And he heard what I said, and went from me.
And I said, Speak on, my Lord. Then said he unto me, Thou art sore troubled in mind for Israel’s sake: lovest thou that people better than he that made them?
Open me the places that are closed, and bring me forth the winds that in them are shut up, shew me the image of a voice: and then I will declare to thee the thing that thou labourest to know.
As for me, I am unwise: how may I then speak of these things whereof thou askest me?
Then said he unto me, Like as thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people.
Then answered he me, and said, The creature may not haste above the maker; neither may the world hold them at once that shall be created therein.
Then said he unto me, Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.
Then did I consider these things, and they all were made through me alone, and through none other: by me also they shall be ended, and by none other.
Then answered I and said, What shall be the parting asunder of the times? or when shall be the end of the first, and the beginning of it that followeth?
I answered then and said, O Lord that bearest rule, if I have found favour in thy sight,
And then was the spirit, and darkness and silence were on every side; the sound of man’s voice was not yet formed.
Then commandedst thou a fair light to come forth of thy treasures, that thy work might appear.
And I said, Speak on, my God. Then said he unto me, The sea is set in a wide place, that it might be deep and great.
Who then could go into the sea to look upon it, and to rule it? if he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad?
And I said, It is so, Lord. Then said he unto me, Even so also is Israel’s portion.
Because for their sakes I made the world: and when Adam transgressed my statutes, then was decreed that now is done.
Then were the entrances of this world made narrow, full of sorrow and travail: they are but few and evil, full of perils,: and very painful.
If then they that live labour not to enter these strait and vain things, they can never receive those that are laid up for them.
Then answered I and said, O Lord that bearest rule, thou hast ordained in thy law, that the righteous should inherit these things, but that the ungodly should perish.
Then said I, Abraham prayed first for the Sodomites, and Moses for the fathers that sinned in the wilderness:
I answered then and said, This is my first and last saying, that it had been better not to have given the earth unto Adam: or else, when it was given him, to have restrained him from sinning.
Then answered he me, and said, This is the condition of the battle, which man that is born upon the earth shall fight;
I answered then, and said, I know, Lord, that the most High is called merciful, in that he hath mercy upon them which are not yet come into the world,
Then answered he me, and said, Some things hast thou spoken aright, and according unto thy words it shall be.
I answered then and said, If I have found grace, let me speak.
Then answered he me, and said, Things present are for the present, and things to cometh for such as be to come.
These things have I not shewed unto all men, but unto thee, and a few like thee. Then answered I and said,
He answered me then, and said, Measure thou the time diligently in itself: and when thou seest part of the signs past, which I have told thee before,
Then shalt thou understand, that it is the very same time, wherein the Highest will begin to visit the world which he made.
Then shalt thou well understand, that the most High spake of those things from the days that were before thee, even from the beginning.
Then shall they be in pitiful case, which now have abused my ways: and they that have cast them away despitefully shall dwell in torments.
Then answered I and said,
For then every one obeyed: but now the manners of them which are created in this world that is made are corrupted by a perpetual seed, and by a law which is unsearchable rid themselves.
Let the multitude perish then, which was born in vain; and let my grape be kept, and my plant; for with great labour have I made it perfect.
And pray unto the Highest continually, then will I come and talk with thee.
Then let I my thoughts go that I was in, and turned me unto her,
Then we all overthrew the lights, and all my neighbours rose up to comfort me: so I took my rest unto the second day at night.
And it came to pass, when they had all left off to comfort me, to the end I might be quiet; then rose I up by night and fled, and came hither into this field, as thou seest.
Then left I the meditations wherein I was, and spake to her in anger, saying,
Then say I unto thee, Like as thou hast brought forth with labour; even so the earth also hath given her fruit, namely, man, ever since the beginning unto him that made her.
Go thy way then into the city to thine husband.
And I looked, and, behold, the woman appeared unto me no more, but there was a city builded, and a large place shewed itself from the foundations: then was I afraid, and cried with a loud voice, and said,
He answered me then, and said, Hear me, and I shall inform thee, and tell thee wherefore thou art afraid: for the Highest will reveal many secret things unto thee.
But after thirty years Solomon builded the city and offered offerings: and then bare the barren a son.
And then shalt thou hear as much as thine ears may comprehend.
Then saw I a dream, and, behold, there came up from the sea an eagle, which had twelve feathered wings, and three heads.
Then came there a voice unto it, and said,
Then arose the third, and reigned as the other before, and appeared no more also.
So went it with all the residue one after another, as that every one reigned, and then appeared no more.
Then I beheld, and, lo, in process of time the feathers that followed stood up upon the right side, that they might rule also; and some of them ruled, but within a while they appeared no more:
Then saw I also that two little feathers divided themselves from the six, and remained under the head that was upon the right side: for the four continued in their place.
And then I saw that the two other heads were joined with it.
Then I head a voice, which said unto me, Look before thee, and consider the thing that thou seest.
Comfort me then, and shew me thy servant the interpretation and plain difference of this fearful vision, that thou mayest perfectly comfort my soul.
That after the time of that kingdom there shall arise great strivings, and it shall stand in peril of failing: nevertheless it shall not then fall, but shall be restored again to his beginning.
For we are not better than they that died there. And they wept with a loud voice. Then answered I them, and said,
And the time shall be when these things shall come to pass, and the signs shall happen which I shewed thee before, and then shall my Son be declared, whom thou sawest as a man ascending.
For the most High then shewed signs for them, and held still the flood, till they were passed over.
Then dwelt they there until the latter time; and now when they shall begin to come,
And then shall he shew them great wonders.
Then said I, O Lord that bearest rule, shew me this: Wherefore have I seen the man coming up from the midst of the sea?
Then went I forth into the field, giving praise and thanks greatly unto the most High because of his wonders which he did in time;
Then answered I before thee, and said,
Then went I forth, as he commanded, and gathered all the people together, and said,
Then was the land, even the land of Sion, parted among you by lot: but your fathers, and ye yourselves, have done unrighteousness, and have not kept the ways which the Highest commanded you.
For after death shall the judgment come, when we shall live again: and then shall the names of the righteous be manifest, and the works of the ungodly shall be declared.
Then opened I my mouth, and, behold, he reached me a full cup, which was full as it were with water, but the colour of it was like fire.
And then shall the dragons have the upper hand, remembering their nature; and if they shall turn themselves, conspiring together in great power to persecute them,
And then shall there come great storms from the south, and from the north, and another part from the west.
Then shall they be known, who are my chosen; and they shall be tried as the gold in the fire.
Then before I had tasted of any meat, I started up, and took him up into a room until the going down of the sun.
Then she prayed toward the window, and said, Blessed art thou, O Lord my God, and thine holy and glorious name is blessed and honourable for ever: let all thy works praise thee for ever.