726 verses contain “dev” (in the KJV: 354, in the BSB: 496) — showing 701–726
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For the thoughts of
mortal men are
miserable, and our
devices are but uncertain.
And also those
merciless murderers of children, and
devourers of man’s flesh, and the feasts of blood,
For
verily desire of gain
devised that, and the
workman built it by his skill.
For the
devising of idols was the beginning of spiritual
fornication, and the invention of them the corruption of life.
For whilst they were yet
mourning and making
lamentation at the graves of the dead, they added another
foolish device, and pursued them as fugitives, whom they had intreated to be gone.
Devise not a lie against thy brother; neither do the like to thy friend.
Such as
forsake the Lord shall fall into it; and it shall burn in them, and not be
quenched; it shall be sent upon them as a lion, and
devour them as a
leopard.
Eat as it becometh a man, those things which are set before thee; and
devour note, lest thou be
hated.
Till he have rendered to every man according to his deeds, and to the works of men according to their
devices; till he have judged the cause of his people, and made them to
rejoice in his mercy.
The
belly devoureth all meats, yet is one meat better than another.
He seeketh out the deep, and the heart, and considereth their
crafty devices: for the Lord knoweth all that may be known, and he beholdeth the signs of the world.
It devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the grass as fire.
And hast delivered me, according to the multitude of they
mercies and greatness of thy name, from the teeth of them that were ready to
devour me, and out of the hands of such as sought after my life, and from the
manifold afflictions which I had;
For ye
provoked him that made you by sacrificing unto
devils, and not to God.
For fire shall come upon her from the
Everlasting, long to
endure; and she shall be inhabited of
devils for a great time.
So the king was
wroth, and called for his priests, and said unto them, If ye tell me not who this is that
devoureth these expences, ye shall die.
But if ye can
certify me that
Bel devoureth them, then Daniel shall die: for he hath spoken
blasphemy against
Bel. And Daniel said unto the king, Let it be according to thy word.
And in the den there were seven lions, and they had given them every day two carcases, and two sheep: which then were not given to them, to the intent they might
devour Daniel.
And he drew him out, and cast those that were the cause of his destruction into the den: and they were
devoured in a moment before his face.
So this
device pleased them well.
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.
And upon the beasts were there strong towers of wood, which covered every one of them, and were
girt fast unto them with
devices: there were also upon every one two and thirty strong men, that fought upon them, beside the Indian that ruled him.
And in these he made
cunning devices, about the which he set great pillars, and upon the pillars he made all their armour for a perpetual memory, and by the armour ships carved, that they might be seen of all that sail on the sea.
For when our fathers were led into Persia, the priests that were then
devout took the fire of the altar
privily, and
hid it in an hollow place of a pit without water, where they kept it sure, so that the place was unknown to all men.
And as touching the Jews, whom he had judged not worthy so much as to be buried, but to be cast out with their children to be
devoured of the fowls and wild beasts, he would make them all equals to the citizens of Athens: