Searched

Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.

Rachel said to her father, “Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period.” So Laban searched but could not find the household idols.

You have searched all my goods! Have you found anything that belongs to you? Put it here before my brothers and yours, that they may judge between the two of us.

The steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest—and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.

Later, Moses searched carefully for the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it had been burned up. He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s remaining sons, and asked,

So the spies went out into the hill country and stayed there three days, until their pursuers had returned without finding them, having searched all along the road.

And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.

And when Saul learned that David had fled to Gath, he no longer searched for him.

When Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” “They have crossed over the brook,” she replied. The men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.

Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful girl, and they found Abishag the Shunammite and brought her to the king.

But when they pressed him to the point of embarrassment, he said, “Send them.” And they sent fifty men, who searched for three days but did not find Elijah.

As for the Hebronites, Jerijah was the chief of the Hebronites, according to the genealogies of his ancestors. In the fortieth year of David’s reign the records were searched, and strong, capable men were found among the Hebronites at Jazer in Gilead.

These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.

Now I assembled these exiles at the canal that flows to Ahava, and we camped there three days. And when I searched among the people and priests, I found no Levites there.

These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.

…then He looked at wisdom and appraised it; He established it and searched it out.

Indeed, I waited while you spoke; I listened to your reasoning; as you searched for words,

…yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.

When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.

As the heavens are high and the earth is deep, so the hearts of kings cannot be searched.

Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also taught the people knowledge; he pondered, searched out, and arranged many proverbs.

The Teacher searched to find delightful sayings and to record accurate words of truth.

This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.

I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.

On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.

I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.

You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.

After Herod had searched for him unsuccessfully, he examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent some time there.

Indeed, when he arrived in Rome, he searched diligently until he found me.

Concerning this salvation, the prophets who foretold the grace to come to you searched and investigated carefully,