'Happened' in the Bible
Then Gideon said to him, “O my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.”
When the sons of Ammon fought against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob;
The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan opposite Ephraim. And it happened when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, “Let me cross over,” the men of Gilead would say to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No,”
It so happened when they were in high spirits, that they said, “Call for Samson, that he may amuse us.” So they called for Samson from the prison, and he entertained them. And they made him stand between the pillars.
All who saw it said, “Nothing like this has ever happened or been seen from the day when the sons of Israel came up from the land of Egypt to this day. Consider it, take counsel and speak up!”
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- Befall (25 instances)
- Chance (89 instances)
- Encounter (23 instances)
- Find (583 instances)
- Hap (1 instance)
- Happen (374 instances)
- Happened (766 instances)
- Materialize (1 instance)
- Occur (33 instances)
- Pass (1244 instances)