Devour……you….me….then who?…. from the Holy Bible (KJV)

Which devour widows’ houses,
and for a pretence make long prayers: 
these shall receive greater damnation. – Mar 12:40 

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I am no preacher, but, am a prime sinner and living in this world in HIS mercy. For a sinner like me too, when I read “The Holy Bible” KJV,  the following verses were given in the context of “Devour” from the Old Testament.

Gen 31:15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us,
and hath quite devoured also our money.

Gen 37:20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him,
and cast him into some pit,
and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him:
and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

Gen 37:33 And he knew it, and said,  It is my son’s coat;
an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.

Gen 41:7 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears.
And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold,  it was a dream.

Gen 41:24 And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears:
and I told  this unto the magicians; but  there was none that could declare  it to me.

Gen 49:27 Benjamin shall ravin  as a wolf: in the morning he shall
devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

Exo 24:17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD  was like
devouring fire on the top of the mount
in the eyes of the children of Israel.

Lev 10:2 And there went out fire from the LORD,
and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.

Num 26:10 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah,
when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men:
and they became a sign.

Deu 31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will
forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured,
and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day,
Are not these evils come upon us, because our God  is not among us?

Deu 32:24  They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat,
and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them,
with the poison of serpents of the dust.

Deu 32:42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh;
and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives,
from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.

Jdg 9:15 And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you,
then come  and put your trust in my shadow:
and if not, let fire come out of the bramble,
and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

Jdg 9:20 But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech,
and devourthe men of Shechem,
and the house of Millo;
and let fire come out from the men of Shechem,
and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.

2Sa 2:26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever?
knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end?
how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?

2Sa 11:25 Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab,
Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another:
make thy battle more strong against the city,
and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

2Sa 18:8 For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country:
and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

2Sa 22:9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,
and fire out of his mouth devoured:
coals were kindled by it.

2Ch 7:13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain,
or if I command the locusts to devour the land,
or if I send pestilence among my people;

Job 18:13 It shall devour the strength of his skin:
even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

Psa 18:8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,
and fire out of his mouth devoured:
coals were kindled by it.

Psa 21:9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger:
the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath,
and the fire shall devour them.

Psa 50:3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him,
and it shall be very tempestuous round
about him.

Psa 52:4 Thou lovest all devouring words,
O  thou deceitful tongue.

Psa 78:45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them,
which devoured them;
and frogs, which destroyed them.

Psa 79:7 For they have devoured Jacob,
and laid waste his dwelling place.

Psa 80:13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it,
and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

Psa 105:35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land,
and devoured the fruit of their ground.

Pro 19:28 An ungodly witness scorneth judgment:
and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.

Pro 20:25  It is a snare to the man who devoureth  that which is holy,
and after vows to make enquiry.

Pro 30:14  There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords,
and their jaw teeth  as knives,
to devour the poor from off the
earth, and the needy from  among men.

Isa 1:7 Your country  is desolate,
your cities  are burned with fire:
your land, strangers devour it in your presence,
and  it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Isa 1:20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword:
for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken  it.

Isa 5:24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble,
and the flame consumeth the chaff,
so their root shall be as rottenness,
and their blossom shall go up as dust:
because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts,
and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isa 9:12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind;
and they shall devour Israel with open mouth.
For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand  is stretched out still.

Isa 9:18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the
briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest,
and they shall mount up  like the lifting up of smoke.

Isa 10:17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire,
and his Holy One for a flame:
and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

Isa 24:6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that
dwell therein are desolate:
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

Isa 26:11 LORD,  when thy hand is lifted up,
they will not see:  but they shall see,
and be ashamed for  their envy at the people;
yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.

Isa 29:6 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder,
and with earthquake,
and great noise, with storm
and tempest,
and the flame of  devouring fire.

Isa 30:27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far,
burning  with his anger,
and the burden  thereof is heavy:
his lips are full of indignation,
and his tongue as a devouring fire:

Isa 30:30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard,
and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of  his anger,
and  with the flame of a devouring fire,  with scattering, and
tempest, and hailstones.

Isa 31:8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man;
and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him:
but he shall flee from the sword,
and his young men shall be discomfited.

Isa 33:11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble:
your breath,  as fire, shall devour you.

Isa 33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites.
Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?
who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

Isa 42:14 I have long time holden my peace;
I have been still,  and refrained myself:
now will I cry like a travailing woman;
I will destroy and devour at once.

Isa 56:9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour,
yea, all ye beasts in the forest.

Jer 2:3 Israel  was holiness unto the LORD,
and the firstfruits of his increase:
all that devour him shall offend;
evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.

Jer 2:30 In vain have I smitten your children;
they received no correction:
your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Jer 3:24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth;
their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Jer 5:14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts,
Because ye speak this word, behold,
I will make my words in thy mouth fire,
and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

Jer 8:16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan:
the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones;
for they are come, and have devoured the land,
and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.

Jer 10:25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not,
and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob,
and devoured him, and consumed him,
and have made his habitation desolate.

Jer 12:9 Mine heritage  is unto me  as a speckled bird,
the birds round about  are against her;
come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field,
come to devour.

Jer 12:12 The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness:
for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land
even to the  other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.

Jer 15:3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay,
and the dogs to tear,
and the fowls of the heaven,
and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

Jer 17:27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day,
and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day;
then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof,
and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem,
and it shall not be quenched.

Jer 21:14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD:
and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof,
and it shall devour all things round about it.

Jer 30:16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured;
and all thine adversaries,
every one of them, shall go into captivity;
and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil,
and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.

Jer 46:10 For this  is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of  vengeance,
that he may avenge him of his adversaries:
and the sword shall devour,
and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood:
for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

Jer 46:14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes:
say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee;
for the sword shall devour round about thee.

Jer 48:45 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force:
but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon,
and a flame from the midst of Sihon,
and shall devour the corner of Moab,
and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

Jer 50:7 All that found them have devoured them:
and their adversaries said,
We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD,
the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

Jer 50:17 Israel  is a scattered sheep;
the lions have driven  him away:
first the king of Assyria hath devoured him;
and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

Jer 50:32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up:
and I will kindle a fire in his cities,
and it shall devour all round  about him.

Jer 51:34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me,
he hath crushed me,
he hath made me an empty vessel,
he hath swallowed me up like a dragon,
he hath filled his belly with my delicates,
he hath cast me out.

Lam 2:3 He hath cut off in  his fierce anger all the horn of Israel:
he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy,
and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire,
which devoureth round about.

Lam 4:11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury;
he hath poured out his fierce anger,
and hath kindled a fire in Zion,
and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

Eze 7:15 The sword  is without, and the pestilence and the famine within:
he that  is in the field shall die with the sword;
and he that  is in the city,
famine and pestilence shall devour him.

Eze 15:4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth  both the ends of it,
and the midst of it is burned.
Is it meet for  any work?

Eze 15:5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work:
how much less shall it be meet yet for  any work,
when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?

Eze 15:7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from  one fire,
and  another fire shall devour them;
and ye shall know that I  am the LORD,
when I set my face against them.

Eze 16:20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters,
whom thou hast borne unto me,
and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured.
Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,

Eze 19:3 And she brought up one of her whelps:
it became a young lion,
and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

Eze 19:6 And he went up and down among the lions,
he became a young lion,
and learned to catch the prey,  and devoured men.

Eze 19:14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches,
which hath devoured her fruit,
so that she hath no strong rod  to be a sceptre to rule.
This  is a lamentation,
and shall be for a lamentation.

Eze 20:47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD;
Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee,
and it shall devour every green tree in thee,
and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched,
and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

Eze 22:25  There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof,
like a roaring lion ravening the prey;
they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure
and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.

Eze 23:25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee:
they shall take away thy nose and thine ears;
and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters;
and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.

Eze 23:37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands,
and with their idols have they committed adultery,
and have also caused their sons,
whom they bare unto me,
to pass for them through  the fire, to devour them.

Eze 28:18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities,
by the iniquity of thy traffick;
therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee,
and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth
in the sight of all them that behold thee.

Eze 33:27 Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
As I live, surely they that  are in the wastes shall fall by the sword,
and him that  is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured,
and they that  be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.

Eze 34:28 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen,
neither shall the beast of the land devour them;
but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make  them afraid.

Eze 36:13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you,
Thou  land devourest up men,
and hast bereaved thy nations;

Eze 36:14 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more,
neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.

Eze 39:4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,
and the people that  is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort,
and  to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

Dan 7:5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side,
and  it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it:
and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.

Dan 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions,
and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible,
and strong exceedingly;
and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces,
and stamped the residue with the feet of it:
and it  was diverse from all the beasts that  were before it;
and it had ten horns.

Dan 7:19 Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast,
which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful,
whose teeth  were of iron, and his nails  of brass;
which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;

Dan 7:23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,
which shall be diverse from all kingdoms,
and shall devour the whole earth,
and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

Hos 5:7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD:
for they have begotten strange children:
now shall a month devour them with  their portions.

Hos 7:7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges;
all their kings are fallen:  there is none among them that calleth unto me.

Hos 7:9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth  it not:
yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him,
yet he knoweth not.

Hos 8:14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker,
and buildeth temples;
and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities:
but I will send a fire upon his cities,
and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

Hos 11:6 And the sword shall abide on his cities,
and shall consume his branches,
and devour  them, because of their own counsels.

Hos 13:8 I will meet them as a bear  that is bereaved  of her whelps,
and will rend the caul of their heart,
and there will I devour them like a lion:
the wild beast shall tear them.

Joe 1:19 O LORD, to thee will I cry:
for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness,
and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

Joe 1:20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee:
for the rivers of waters are dried up,
and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

Joe 2:3 A fire devoureth before them;
and behind them a flame burneth: the land  is as the garden of Eden before them,
and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea,
and nothing shall escape them.

Joe 2:5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap,
like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble,
as a strong people set in battle array.

Amo 1:4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael,
which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.

Amo 1:7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza,
which shall devour the palaces thereof:

Amo 1:10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus,
which shall devour the palaces thereof.

Amo 1:12 But I will send a fire upon Teman,
which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.

Amo 1:14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof,
with shouting in the day of battle,
with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:

Amo 2:2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth:
and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting,
and with the sound of the trumpet:

Amo 2:5 But I will send a fire upon Judah,
and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

Amo 4:9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew:
when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees
and your olive trees increased,
the palmerworm devoured  them:
yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

Amo 5:6 Seek the LORD, and ye shall live;
lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph,
and devour  it,
and  there be none to quench it in Bethel.

Amo 7:4 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and,
behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire,
and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.

Oba 1:18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire,
and the house of Joseph a flame,
and the house of Esau for stubble,
and they shall kindle in them,
and devour them;
and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau;
for the LORD hath spoken  it.

Nah 1:10 For while  they be folden together  as thorns,
and while they are drunken as drunkards,
they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

Nah 2:13 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts,
and I will burn her chariots in the smoke,
and the sword shall devour thy young lions:
and I will cut off thy prey from the earth,
and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

Nah 3:13 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee  are women:
the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies:
the fire shall devour thy bars.

Nah 3:15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off,
it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm:
make thyself many as the cankerworm,
make thyself many as the locusts.

Hab 1:13  Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil,
and canst not look on iniquity:
wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously,
and holdest thy tongue
when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

Hab 3:14 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages:
they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me:
their rejoicing  was as to devour the poor secretly.

Zep 1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’S wrath;
but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy:
for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

Zep 3:8 Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey:
for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms,
to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger:
for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

Zec 9:4 Behold, the Lord will cast her out,
and he will smite her power in the sea;
and she shall be devoured with fire.

Zec 9:15 The LORD of hosts shall defend them;
and they shall devour,
and subdue with sling stones;
and they shall drink,
and make a noise as through wine;
and they shall be filled like bowls,
and as the corners of the altar.

Zec 11:1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon,
that the fire may devour thy cedars.

Zec 12:6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the
wood,
and like a torch of fire in a sheaf;
and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left:
and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

Mal 3:11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes,
and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground;
neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.

WordWeb meaning for “Devour”

Verb: devour  di’vaw(-u)r

1. Destroy completely
   “Fire had devoured our home“
2. Enjoy avidly
   “She devoured his novels“
3. Eat immoderately
   “Some people can devour a pound of meat in the course of one meal“;
   – down, consume, go through
4. Eat greedily
   “he devoured three sandwiches“;
   – guttle, raven, pig

Derived forms: devoured, devouring, devours 

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