Nehemiah 6:13 For this cause was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)
Nehemiah 11:23 for the command of the king 'is' upon them, and support 'is' for the singers, a matter of a day in its day. (YLT)
Nehemiah 11:24 Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Nehemiah 12:47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, are giving the portions of the singers, and of the gatekeepers, the matter of a day in its day, and are sanctifying to the Levites, and the Levites are sanctifying to the sons of Aaron. (YLT)
Esther 2:4 and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti." The thing pleased the king, and he did so. (See NAS)
Esther 2:23 When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a tree; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the king's presence. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)
Esther 8:5 She said, "If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right to the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king's provinces. (See NAS)
Esther 9:25 but when 'the matter' came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. (ASV)
Esther 9:26 Therefore they called these days " Purim, " from the word "Pur." Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)
Esther 9:31 to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Job 9:19 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice,'Who,' says he,'will summon me?' (WEB JPS NAS RSV NIV)
Job 19:28 If you say,'How we will persecute him!' because the root of the matter is found in me, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Job 22:28 You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways. (See RSV)
Job 26:14 Lo, these 'are' the borders of His way, And how little a matter is heard of Him, And the thunder of His might Who doth understand? (YLT)
Job 32:18 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. (KJV DBY WBS)
Job 41:12 I do not keep silent concerning his parts, And the matter of might, And the grace of his arrangement. (YLT)
Psalms 45:1 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. (KJV ASV DBY WBS)
Psalms 58:5 which doesn't listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be. (WEB)
Psalms 64:5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them? (KJV JPS DBY WBS)
Proverbs 11:13 A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Proverbs 16:20 He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he. (KJV WBS YLT)
Proverbs 17:9 He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 17:14 The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows. (See NIV)
Proverbs 18:13 He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him. (KJV WBS YLT)
Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Ecclesiastes 3:1 For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun. (See RSV)
Ecclesiastes 3:17 I said in my heart, 'The righteous and the wicked doth God judge, for a time 'is' to every matter and for every work there.' (YLT NAS RSV)
Ecclesiastes 3:18 I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves 'are' beasts. (YLT)
Ecclesiastes 5:2 Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great. (See NAS)
Ecclesiastes 5:8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Ecclesiastes 6:3 If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he. (See NIV)
Ecclesiastes 7:8 The end of a thing is better than its start, and a gentle spirit is better than pride. (See NAS NIV)
Ecclesiastes 8:1 Who is like the wise man? and to whom is the sense of anything clear? A man's wisdom makes his face shining, and his hard face will be changed. (See NAS)
Ecclesiastes 8:3 Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him. (See NAS RSV)
Ecclesiastes 8:6 For to every matter there is a time and judgment; for the evil of man is great upon him. (JPS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 10:20 Don't curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don't curse the rich in your bedchamber: for a bird of the sky may carry your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Ecclesiastes 12:13 This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Isaiah 7:13 And he said, Hear then, house of David: Is it a small matter for you to weary men, that ye weary also my God? (DBY)
Isaiah 22:1 The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops? (See NAS)
Isaiah 43:26 Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right. (See NIV)
Isaiah 55:11 So will my word be which goes out of my mouth: it will not come back to me with nothing done, but it will give effect to my purpose, and do that for which I have sent it. (See NAS)
Jeremiah 38:27 Then came all the princes to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Jeremiah 52:34 And his allowance -- a continual allowance -- hath been given to him by the king of Babylon, the matter of a day in its day, till the day of his death -- all days of his life. (YLT)
Ezekiel 8:17 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and behold, they put the branch to their nose. (See NIV)
Ezekiel 9:11 Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as you have commanded me. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS)
Ezekiel 14:4 Therefore speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols; (See NAS)
Ezekiel 16:20 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Daniel 1:14 So he listened to them in this matter, and proved them ten days. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Daniel 1:20 In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Daniel 2:10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man on the earth who can show the king's matter, because no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Daniel 2:15 he answered Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so urgent from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel. (See NAS RSV NIV)
Daniel 2:17 Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions: (See NAS RSV NIV)
Daniel 2:23 I thank you, and praise you, you God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we desired of you; for you have made known to us the king's matter. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Daniel 3:16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Daniel 4:17 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men. (KJV JPS WBS)
Daniel 5:15 Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me its interpretation; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing. (See RSV)
Daniel 5:26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and brought it to an end; (See RSV)
Daniel 6:5 Then said these men: 'We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him in the matter of the law of his God.' (JPS)
Daniel 6:14 Then the king, when he hath heard the matter, is greatly displeased at himself, and on Daniel he hath set the heart to deliver him, and till the going up of the sun he was arranging to deliver him. (YLT)
Daniel 7:1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed: then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)
Daniel 7:28 Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Daniel 9:23 At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went forth, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved: therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision. (WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT)
Habakkuk 1:10 Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it. (See NAS)