211 verses contain “promise” (in the KJV: 137, in the BSB: 178) — showing 201–211
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but thy
merciful promise is unmeasurable and unsearchable;
Now when king Alexander had heard what
promises Demetrius had sent unto
Jonathan: when also it was told him of the battles and noble acts which he and his brethren had done, and of the pains that they had
endured,
I also will write unto them words of encouragement, and
promise them
dignities and gifts, that I may have their aid.
Then
Jonathan desired the king, that he would make
Judea free from tribute, as also the three governments, with the country of Samaria; and he
promised him three hundred talents.
As he
promised in the law, will shortly have mercy upon us, and gather us together out of every land under heaven into the holy place: for he hath delivered us out of great troubles, and hath
purified the place.
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.
So
Menelaus got the principality: but as for the money that he had
promised unto the king, he took no good order for it,
albeit Sostratis the ruler of the castle required it:
But
Menelaus, being now
convicted,
promised Ptolemee the son of Dorymenes to give him much money, if he would
pacify the king toward him.
And when he had
exhorted her with many words, she
promised him that she would counsel her son.
And persuaded them to agree to all reasonable conditions, and
promised that he would
persuade the king that he must needs be a friend unto them.