843 verses contain “ass” (in the KJV: 530, in the BSB: 531) — showing 801–843
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For in all things, O Lord, thou
didst magnify thy people, and
glorify them, neither
didst thou lightly regard them: but
didst assist them in every time and place.
As the wild ass is the lion’s prey in the wilderness: so the rich eat up the poor.
Shall not the
dew asswage the heat? so is a word better than a gift.
Fodder, a
wand, and burdens, are for the
ass; and bread, correction, and work, for a servant.
Therefore he
assured him by an oath, that he would
bless the nations in his seed, and that he would multiply him as the dust of the earth, and
exalt his seed as the stars, and cause them to
inherit from sea to sea, and from the river unto the utmost part of the land.
He
smote the host of the
Assyrians, and his angel destroyed them.
And of the twelve prophets let the
memorial be blessed, and let their bones
flourish again out of their place: for they comforted Jacob, and delivered them by
assured hope.
And it came to pass the next day, when the people were
assembled to her husband Joacim, the two elders came also full of
mischievous imagination against
Susanna to put her to death;
Then the assembly believed them as those that were the elders and judges of the people: so they condemned her to death.
With that all the
assembly cried out with a loud voice, and praised God, who saveth them that trust in him.
Then came there unto him a company of
Assideans who were mighty men of Israel, even all such as were
voluntarily devoted unto the law.
Wherefore the Israelites
assembled themselves together, and came to Maspha, over against Jerusalem; for in Maspha was the place where they prayed
aforetime in Israel.
And lo, the heathen are assembled together against us to destroy us: what things they imagine against us, thou knowest.
And
Judas said, arm
yourselves, and be
valiant men, and see that ye be in
readiness against the morning, that ye may fight with these nations, that are
assembled together against us to destroy us and our sanctuary:
Then said
Judas to the men that were with him, Fear ye not their multitude, neither be ye afraid of their
assault.
Upon this all the host
assembled themselves together, and went up into mount
Sion.
Then the heathen that were at Galaad assembled themselves together against the Israelites that were in their quarters, to destroy them; but they fled to the fortress of Dathema.
And sent letters unto
Judas and his brethren, The heathen that are round about us are
assembled together against us to destroy us:
Now when
Judas and the people heard these words, there
assembled a great congregation together, to
consult what they should do for their brethren, that were in trouble, and
assaulted of them.
And
betimes in the morning they looked up, and, behold, there was an innumerable people bearing ladders and other engines of war, to take the fortress: for they
assaulted them.
This done,
Judas turned aside to Maspha; and after he had
assaulted it he took and
slew all the males therein, and received the spoils thereof and and burnt it with fire.
So
Judas sent men to
espy the host, who brought him word, saying, All the heathen that be round about us are
assembled unto them, even a very great host.
So the soldiers pitched, and
assaulted the city all that day and all that night, till at the length the city was delivered into his hands:
Insomuch as the people
assembled unto them with joyful acclamations.
These went through
Idumea, and pitched against Bethsura, which they
assaulted many days, making engines of war; but they of Bethsura came out, and burned them with fire, and fought
valiantly.
Then did there
assemble unto Alcimus and Bacchides a company of
scribes, to require justice.
Now the
Assideans were the first among the children of Israel that sought peace of them:
O Lord, when they that were sent from the king of the
Assyrians blasphemed, thine angel went out, and
smote an hundred
fourscore and five thousand of them.
At that time certain
pestilent fellows of Israel, men of a wicked life,
assembled themselves against him, to
accuse him: but the king would not hear them.
Grant us peace, and let the Jews cease from
assaulting us and the city.
Also that it should be lawful for none of the people or priests to break any of these things, or to
gainsay his words, or to gather an
assembly in the country without him, or to be clothed in purple, or wear a
buckle of gold;
So
Antiochus the king camped against Dora the second day,
assaulting it continually, and making engines, by which means he shut up Tryphon, that he could neither go out nor in.
Beside this, he promised to
assign an hundred and fifty more, if he might have licence to set him up a place for exercise, and for the training up of youth in the fashions of the heathen, and to write them of Jerusalem by the name of Antiochians.
Now when there was gone forth a false rumour, as though
Antiochus had been dead,
Jason took at the least a thousand men, and suddenly made an
assault upon the city; and they that were upon the walls being put back, and the city at length taken,
Menelaus fled into the castle:
Now
Antiochus, thinking himself
despised, and
suspecting it to be a reproachful speech, whilst the youngest was yet alive, did not only
exhort him by words, but also
assured him with oaths, that he would make him both a rich and a happy man, if he would turn from the laws of his fathers; and that also he would take him for his friend, and trust him with affairs.
Then
Judas Maccabeus, and they that were with him, went
privily into the towns, and called their kinsfolks together, and took unto them all such as continued in the Jews’ religion, and
assembled about six thousand men.
And
assaulting them strongly, they won the holds, and kept off all that fought upon the wall, and
slew all that fell into their hands, and killed no fewer than twenty thousand.
Nevertheless upon the fifth day early twenty young men of Maccabeus’ company, inflamed with anger because of the blasphemies,
assaulted the wall manly, and with a fierce courage killed all that they met
withal.
Wherefore
Judas with his company, calling upon the great Lord of the world, who without rams or engines of war did cast down
Jericho in the time of Joshua, gave a fierce
assault against the walls,
So when he had
assured them with many words that he would restore them without
hurt, according to the agreement, they let him go for the saving of their brethren.