Gen 41:20, Num 22:15, 1Sa 22:14, 2Ki 5:1, 1Ch 4:9, Isa 3:3-5, 5:13, 23:8-9 | ESV | STEP | And the thin , ugly cows ate up the first seven plump cows ,

Genesis 41:20

20 And the thin, ugly cows ate up the first seven plump cows,

Numbers 22:15

15 Once again Balak sent princes, more in number and more honorable than these.

1 Samuel 22:14

14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, “And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, and captain over ^{▼▼Septuagint, Targum; Hebrew and has turned aside to} your bodyguard, and honored in your house?

2 Kings 5:1

Naaman Healed of Leprosy

1 ^bNaaman, ^ccommander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper. ^{▼▼Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13}

1 Chronicles 4:9

9 Jabez was ^emore honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” ^{▼▼ Jabez sounds like the Hebrew for pain}

Isaiah 3:3-5

3 the captain of fifty
and the man of rank,
the counselor and the skillful magician
and the expert in charms.
4 ^gAnd I will make boys their princes,
and infants ^{▼▼Or caprice} shall rule over them.
5 ⁱAnd the people will oppress one another,
every one his fellow
and every one his neighbor;
the youth will be insolent to the elder,
and the despised to the honorable.

Isaiah 5:13

13 Therefore my people go into exile
^jfor lack of knowledge; ^{▼▼Or without their knowledge}
their ^lhonored men go hungry, ^{▼▼Or die of hunger}
and their multitude is parched with thirst.

Isaiah 23:8-9

8 Who has purposed this
against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants were princes,
whose traders were the honored of the earth?
9 The Lord of hosts has purposed it,
ⁿto defile the pompous pride of all glory, ^{▼▼The Hebrew words for glory and hosts sound alike}
to dishonor all the honored of the earth.