And Saul said to his servants: Provide me then some man that can play well, and bring him to me.
Have we need of madmen, that you have brought in this fellow, to play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
And Abner said to Joab: Let the young men rise, and play before us. And Joab answered: Let them rise.
I will both play and make myself meaner than I have done: and I will be little in my own eyes: and with the handmaids of whom thou speakest, I shall appear more glorious.
When Abimelech came from Gerara to visit him there, with Ochozath, his counsellor, and Phicol, the commander of his army,
Isaac asked them, What means your visit? Here is a man you have treated as an enemy, and driven him away from you.
These were his directions, You are to tell my lord Esau this, from his brother Jacob: I have been living abroad, on a visit to Laban, and am but just returned.
A time came when Dina, Lia’s daughter, went out to visit some of the women who dwelt in that country.
He went, too, to visit his father Isaac at Mambre, the city of Arbee, also called Hebron; here, as strangers, Abraham and Isaac had dwelt.
having thus won the favour of king Pharao when he was only thirty years old; and there was no part of Egypt he did not visit.
Soon after this, Joseph was told that his father had fallen sick, and took his two sons, Ephraim and Manasses, to visit him.
and the Lord said to him, The time has come now when I mean to visit thee, wrapped in a dark cloud, so that all the people may hear me talking with thee, and obey thee without question henceforward. And when Moses had told him of the people’s promise,
Samson paid a visit to Thamnatha, and there was a woman there, a Philistine, that took his eye;
Some time had passed, and they were cutting the wheat already, when Samson went to visit his wife, bringing a kid from his herd as a present to her. But now her father would not let him pass into her inner room, as his wont had been;
So they turned aside a little to visit the lodging of the young Levite that was priest in Michas’ household, and gave him friendly greeting.
So the other told him how they were returning to their home on the slopes of the Ephraim, after a visit to Bethlehem-Juda; the House of the Lord✻ was their next halting-place. But no one will give us shelter here, said he,
Once, on such a visit to Silo, when eating and drinking was done, Anna rose up from her place and went to the temple door, where the priest Heli was sitting.
Pray give me leave, said he; a yearly sacrifice is being offered in the city, and one of my brothers has summoned me there. Do me the favour, then, to let me go with all speed and visit my brethren.
So Amnon lay down, and feigned to fall sick, and said to the king, when he came to visit him, Pray send my sister Tamar to boil me two mouthfuls of gruel, here in my presence, and give them me with her own hand.
And when he came on a visit from Tyre to see the townships Solomon had allotted to him, he liked them but little;