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γῆς — 1062x G1093 γῆ
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Occurrences: 1062 times in 989 verses
Speech: Noun
Parsing: Genitive Singular Feminine
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:11 - Then God said, “Let the land sprout with vegetation—every sort of seed-bearing plant, and trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. These seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came.” And that is what happened.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:12 - The land produced vegetation—all sorts of seed-bearing plants, and trees with seed-bearing fruit. Their seeds produced plants and trees of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:14 - Then God said, “Let lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night. Let them be signs to mark the seasons, days, and years.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:15 - Let these lights in the sky shine down on the earth.” And that is what happened.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:17 - God set these lights in the sky to light the earth,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:20 - Then God said, “Let the waters swarm with fish and other life. Let the skies be filled with birds of every kind.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:22 - Then God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply. Let the fish fill the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:24 - Then God said, “Let the earth produce every sort of animal, each producing offspring of the same kind—livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and wild animals.” And that is what happened.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:25 - God made all sorts of wild animals, livestock, and small animals, each able to produce offspring of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:26 - Then God said, “Let us make human beings[fn] in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:28 - Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29 - Then God said, “Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:30 - And I have given every green plant as food for all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, and the small animals that scurry along the ground—everything that has life.” And that is what happened.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:4 - This is the account of the creation of the heavens and the earth. When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:5 - neither wild plants nor grains were growing on the earth. For the LORD God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there were no people to cultivate the soil.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:6 - Instead, springs[fn] came up from the ground and watered all the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:7 - Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils, and the man became a living person.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:9 - The LORD God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:12 - The gold of that land is exceptionally pure; aromatic resin and onyx stone are also found there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:19 - So the LORD God formed from the ground all the wild animals and all the birds of the sky. He brought them to the man[fn] to see what he would call them, and the man chose a name for each one.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:1 - The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the LORD God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:14 - Then the LORD God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this, you are cursed
more than all animals, domestic and wild.
You will crawl on your belly,
groveling in the dust as long as you live.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:3 - When it was time for the harvest, Cain presented some of his crops as a gift to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:10 - But the LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:11 - Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has swallowed your brother's blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:12 - No longer will the ground yield good crops for you, no matter how hard you work! From now on you will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:14 - You have banished me from the land and from your presence; you have made me a homeless wanderer. Anyone who finds me will kill me!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:29 - Lamech named his son Noah, for he said, “May he bring us relief[fn] from our work and the painful labor of farming this ground that the LORD has cursed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:1 - Then the people began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:4 - In those days, and for some time after, giant Nephilites lived on the earth, for whenever the sons of God had intercourse with women, they gave birth to children who became the heroes and famous warriors of ancient times.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:5 - The LORD observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:6 - So the LORD was sorry he had ever made them and put them on the earth. It broke his heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:7 - And the LORD said, “I will wipe this human race I have created from the face of the earth. Yes, and I will destroy every living thing—all the people, the large animals, the small animals that scurry along the ground, and even the birds of the sky. I am sorry I ever made them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:12 - God observed all this corruption in the world, for everyone on earth was corrupt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:17 - “Look! I am about to cover the earth with a flood that will destroy every living thing that breathes. Everything on earth will die.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:20 - Pairs of every kind of bird, and every kind of animal, and every kind of small animal that scurries along the ground, will come to you to be kept alive.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:4 - Seven days from now I will make the rains pour down on the earth. And it will rain for forty days and forty nights, until I have wiped from the earth all the living things I have created.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:6 - Noah was 600 years old when the flood covered the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:8 - With them were all the various kinds of animals—those approved for eating and for sacrifice and those that were not—along with all the birds and the small animals that scurry along the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:10 - After seven days, the waters of the flood came and covered the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:12 - The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:14 - With them in the boat were pairs of every kind of animal—domestic and wild, large and small—along with birds of every kind.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:17 - For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:18 - As the waters rose higher and higher above the ground, the boat floated safely on the surface.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:19 - Finally, the water covered even the highest mountains on the earth,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:21 - All the living things on earth died—birds, domestic animals, wild animals, small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:23 - God wiped out every living thing on the earth—people, livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and the birds of the sky. All were destroyed. The only people who survived were Noah and those with him in the boat.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:24 - And the floodwaters covered the earth for 150 days.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:3 - So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth. After 150 days,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:7 - and released a raven. The bird flew back and forth until the floodwaters on the earth had dried up.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:8 - He also released a dove to see if the water had receded and it could find dry ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:9 - But the dove could find no place to land because the water still covered the ground. So it returned to the boat, and Noah held out his hand and drew the dove back inside.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:11 - This time the dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the floodwaters were almost gone.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:13 - Noah was now 601 years old. On the first day of the new year, ten and a half months after the flood began,[fn] the floodwaters had almost dried up from the earth. Noah lifted back the covering of the boat and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:17 - Release all the animals—the birds, the livestock, and the small animals that scurry along the ground—so they can be fruitful and multiply throughout the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:19 - And all of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:22 - As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:2 - All the animals of the earth, all the birds of the sky, all the small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the fish in the sea will look on you with fear and terror. I have placed them in your power.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:10 - and with all the animals that were on the boat with you—the birds, the livestock, and all the wild animals—every living creature on earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:13 - I have placed my rainbow in the clouds. It is the sign of my covenant with you and with all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:16 - When I see the rainbow in the clouds, I will remember the eternal covenant between God and every living creature on earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:17 - Then God said to Noah, “Yes, this rainbow is the sign of the covenant I am confirming with all the creatures on earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:20 - After the flood, Noah began to cultivate the ground, and he planted a vineyard.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:8 - Cush was also the ancestor of Nimrod, who was the first heroic warrior on earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:11 - From there he expanded his territory to Assyria,[fn] building the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:32 - These are the clans that descended from Noah's sons, arranged by nation according to their lines of descent. All the nations of the earth descended from these clans after the great flood.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4 - Then they said, “Come, let's build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:8 - In that way, the LORD scattered them all over the world, and they stopped building the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:9 - That is why the city was called Babel,[fn] because that is where the LORD confused the people with different languages. In this way he scattered them all over the world.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:1 - The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father's family, and go to the land that I will show you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:3 - I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10 - At that time a severe famine struck the land of Canaan, forcing Abram to go down to Egypt, where he lived as a foreigner.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:16 - And I will give you so many descendants that, like the dust of the earth, they cannot be counted!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:18 - “For Abraham will certainly become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:25 - He utterly destroyed them, along with the other cities and villages of the plain, wiping out all the people and every bit of vegetation.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:28 - He looked out across the plain toward Sodom and Gomorrah and watched as columns of smoke rose from the cities like smoke from a furnace.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:31 - One day the older daughter said to her sister, “There are no men left anywhere in this entire area, so we can't get married like everyone else. And our father will soon be too old to have children.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:21 - and he settled in the wilderness of Paran. His mother arranged for him to marry a woman from the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:18 - And through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed—all because you have obeyed me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:7 - Then Abraham bowed low before the Hittites
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:12 - Abraham again bowed low before the citizens of the land,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:13 - and he replied to Ephron as everyone listened. “No, listen to me. I will buy it from you. Let me pay the full price for the field so I can bury my dead there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:3 - Swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not allow my son to marry one of these local Canaanite women.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:7 - For the LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and my native land, solemnly promised to give this land to my descendants.[fn] He will send his angel ahead of you, and he will see to it that you find a wife there for my son.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:1 - A severe famine now struck the land, as had happened before in Abraham's time. So Isaac moved to Gerar, where Abimelech, king of the Philistines, lived.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:4 - I will cause your descendants to become as numerous as the stars of the sky, and I will give them all these lands. And through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:15 - So the Philistines filled up all of Isaac's wells with dirt. These were the wells that had been dug by the servants of his father, Abraham.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:22 - Abandoning that one, Isaac moved on and dug another well. This time there was no dispute over it, so Isaac named the place Rehoboth (which means “open space”), for he said, “At last the LORD has created enough space for us to prosper in this land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:28 - “From the dew of heaven
and the richness of the earth,
may God always give you abundant harvests of grain
and bountiful new wine.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:39 - Finally, his father, Isaac, said to him,
“You will live away from the richness of the earth,
and away from the dew of the heaven above.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:46 - Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I'm sick and tired of these local Hittite women! I would rather die than see Jacob marry one of them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth! They will spread out in all directions—to the west and the east, to the north and the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13 - I am the God who appeared to you at Bethel,[fn] the place where you anointed the pillar of stone and made your vow to me. Now get ready and leave this country and return to the land of your birth.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:2 - But when the local prince, Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, saw Dinah, he seized her and raped her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:21 - “These men are our friends,” they said. “Let's invite them to live here among us and trade freely. Look, the land is large enough to hold them. We can take their daughters as wives and let them marry ours.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:6 - Esau took his wives, his children, and his entire household, along with his livestock and cattle—all the wealth he had acquired in the land of Canaan—and moved away from his brother, Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:34 - When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:15 - For I was kidnapped from my homeland, the land of the Hebrews, and now I'm here in prison, but I did nothing to deserve it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:31 - This famine will be so severe that even the memory of the good years will be erased.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:33 - “Therefore, Pharaoh should find an intelligent and wise man and put him in charge of the entire land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:34 - Then Pharaoh should appoint supervisors over the land and let them collect one-fifth of all the crops during the seven good years.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:41 - Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I hereby put you in charge of the entire land of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:43 - Then he had Joseph ride in the chariot reserved for his second-in-command. And wherever Joseph went, the command was shouted, “Kneel down!” So Pharaoh put Joseph in charge of all Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:56 - So with severe famine everywhere, Joseph opened up the storehouses and distributed grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe throughout the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:6 - Since Joseph was governor of all Egypt and in charge of selling grain to all the people, it was to him that his brothers came. When they arrived, they bowed before him with their faces to the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:7 - Joseph recognized his brothers instantly, but he pretended to be a stranger and spoke harshly to them. “Where are you from?” he demanded.
“From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We have come to buy food.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:12 - “Yes, you are!” Joseph insisted. “You have come to see how vulnerable our land has become.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:30 - “The man who is governor of the land spoke very harshly to us,” they told him. “He accused us of being spies scouting the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:33 - “Then the man who is governor of the land told us, ‘This is how I will find out if you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers here with me, and take grain for your starving families and go on home.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:1 - But the famine continued to ravage the land of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:11 - So their father, Jacob, finally said to them, “If it can't be avoided, then at least do this. Pack your bags with the best products of this land. Take them down to the man as gifts—balm, honey, gum, aromatic resin, pistachio nuts, and almonds.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:8 - Didn't we return the money we found in our sacks? We brought it back all the way from the land of Canaan. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master's house?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:6 - This famine that has ravaged the land for two years will last five more years, and there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:7 - God has sent me ahead of you to keep you and your families alive and to preserve many survivors.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:8 - So it was God who sent me here, not you! And he is the one who made me an adviser[fn] to Pharaoh—the manager of his entire palace and the governor of all Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:9 - “Now hurry back to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me master over all the land of Egypt. So come down to me immediately!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:18 - Then get your father and all of your families, and return here to me. I will give you the very best land in Egypt, and you will eat from the best that the land produces.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:19 - Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Take wagons from the land of Egypt to carry your little children and your wives, and bring your father here.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:26 - “Joseph is still alive!” they told him. “And he is governor of all the land of Egypt!” Jacob was stunned at the news—he couldn't believe it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:1 - Then Joseph went to see Pharaoh and told him, “My father and my brothers have arrived from the land of Canaan. They have come with all their flocks and herds and possessions, and they are now in the region of Goshen.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:15 - When the people of Egypt and Canaan ran out of money, all the Egyptians came to Joseph. “Our money is gone!” they cried. “But please give us food, or we will die before your very eyes!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:22 - The only land he did not buy was the land belonging to the priests. They received an allotment of food directly from Pharaoh, so they didn't need to sell their land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:26 - Joseph then issued a decree still in effect in the land of Egypt, that Pharaoh should receive one-fifth of all the crops grown on his land. Only the land belonging to the priests was not given to Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:27 - Meanwhile, the people of Israel settled in the region of Goshen in Egypt. There they acquired property, and they were fruitful, and their population grew rapidly.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 - “Long ago, as I was returning from Paddan-aram, Rachel died in the land of Canaan. We were still on the way, some distance from Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). So with great sorrow I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:12 - Joseph moved the boys, who were at their grandfather's knees, and he bowed with his face to the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:16 - the Angel who has redeemed me from all harm—
may he bless these boys.
May they preserve my name
and the names of Abraham and Isaac.
And may their descendants multiply greatly
throughout the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:25 - May the God of your father help you;
may the Almighty bless you
with the blessings of the heavens above,
and blessings of the watery depths below,
and blessings of the breasts and womb.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:7 - So Joseph went up to bury his father. He was accompanied by all of Pharaoh's officials, all the senior members of Pharaoh's household, and all the senior officers of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:11 - The local residents, the Canaanites, watched them mourning at the threshing floor of Atad. Then they renamed that place (which is near the Jordan) Abel-mizraim,[fn] for they said, “This is a place of deep mourning for these Egyptians.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:24 - “Soon I will die,” Joseph told his brothers, “but God will surely come to help you and lead you out of this land of Egypt. He will bring you back to the land he solemnly promised to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:10 - We must make a plan to keep them from growing even more. If we don't, and if war breaks out, they will join our enemies and fight against us. Then they will escape from the country.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:8 - So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey—the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:10 - Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh. You must lead my people Israel out of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:11 - But Moses protested to God, “Who am I to appear before Pharaoh? Who am I to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:1 - Then the LORD told Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh. When he feels the force of my strong hand, he will let the people go. In fact, he will force them to leave his land!”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:11 - “Go back to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and tell him to let the people of Israel leave his country.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:13 - But the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them orders for the Israelites and for Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. The LORD commanded Moses and Aaron to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:26 - The Aaron and Moses named in this list are the same ones to whom the LORD said, “Lead the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt like an army.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:2 - Tell Aaron everything I command you, and Aaron must command Pharaoh to let the people of Israel leave his country.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:4 - Even then Pharaoh will refuse to listen to you. So I will bring down my fist on Egypt. Then I will rescue my forces—my people, the Israelites—from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:16 - So the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Raise your staff and strike the ground. The dust will turn into swarms of gnats throughout the land of Egypt.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:17 - So Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded them. When Aaron raised his hand and struck the ground with his staff, gnats infested the entire land, covering the Egyptians and their animals. All the dust in the land of Egypt turned into gnats.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:22 - But this time I will spare the region of Goshen, where my people live. No flies will be found there. Then you will know that I am the LORD and that I am present even in the heart of your land.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:23 - I will make a clear distinction between[fn] my people and your people. This miraculous sign will happen tomorrow.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:5 - The LORD has already set the time for the plague to begin. He has declared that he will strike the land tomorrow.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:15 - By now I could have lifted my hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the face of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:22 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Lift your hand toward the sky so hail may fall on the people, the livestock, and all the plants throughout the land of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:23 - So Moses lifted his staff toward the sky, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning flashed toward the earth. The LORD sent a tremendous hailstorm against all the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:5 - They will cover the land so that you won't be able to see the ground. They will devour what little is left of your crops after the hailstorm, including all the trees growing in the fields.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:6 - They will overrun your palaces and the homes of your officials and all the houses in Egypt. Never in the history of Egypt have your ancestors seen a plague like this one!” And with that, Moses turned and left Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:12 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Raise your hand over the land of Egypt to bring on the locusts. Let them cover the land and devour every plant that survived the hailstorm.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:15 - For the locusts covered the whole country and darkened the land. They devoured every plant in the fields and all the fruit on the trees that had survived the hailstorm. Not a single leaf was left on the trees and plants throughout the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:10 - Moses and Aaron performed these miracles in Pharaoh's presence, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he wouldn't let the Israelites leave the country.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:17 - “Celebrate this Festival of Unleavened Bread, for it will remind you that I brought your forces out of the land of Egypt on this very day. This festival will be a permanent law for you; celebrate this day from generation to generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:19 - During those seven days, there must be no trace of yeast in your homes. Anyone who eats anything made with yeast during this week will be cut off from the community of Israel. These regulations apply both to the foreigners living among you and to the native-born Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:33 - All the Egyptians urged the people of Israel to get out of the land as quickly as possible, for they thought, “We will all die!”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:41 - In fact, it was on the last day of the 430th year that all the LORD's forces left the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:42 - On this night the LORD kept his promise to bring his people out of the land of Egypt. So this night belongs to him, and it must be commemorated every year by all the Israelites, from generation to generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:48 - “If there are foreigners living among you who want to celebrate the LORD's Passover, let all their males be circumcised. Only then may they celebrate the Passover with you like any native-born Israelite. But no uncircumcised male may ever eat the Passover meal.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:51 - On that very day the LORD brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt like an army.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:3 - So Moses said to the people, “This is a day to remember forever—the day you left Egypt, the place of your slavery. Today the LORD has brought you out by the power of his mighty hand. (Remember, eat no food containing yeast.)
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:14 - “And in the future, your children will ask you, ‘What does all this mean?' Then you will tell them, ‘With the power of his mighty hand, the LORD brought us out of Egypt, the place of our slavery.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:17 - When Pharaoh finally let the people go, God did not lead them along the main road that runs through Philistine territory, even though that was the shortest route to the Promised Land. God said, “If the people are faced with a battle, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18 - So God led them in a roundabout way through the wilderness toward the Red Sea.[fn] Thus the Israelites left Egypt like an army ready for battle.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:1 - Then the whole community of Israel set out from Elim and journeyed into the wilderness of Sin,[fn] between Elim and Mount Sinai. They arrived there on the fifteenth day of the second month, one month after leaving the land of Egypt.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:6 - So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel, “By evening you will realize it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:14 - When the dew evaporated, a flaky substance as fine as frost blanketed the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:32 - Then Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: Fill a two-quart container with manna to preserve it for your descendants. Then later generations will be able to see the food I gave you in the wilderness when I set you free from Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:1 - Exactly two months after the Israelites left Egypt,[fn] they arrived in the wilderness of Sinai.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:2 - “I am the LORD your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of your slavery.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:4 - “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:12 - “Honor your father and mother. Then you will live a long, full life in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:24 - “Build for me an altar made of earth, and offer your sacrifices to me—your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats, and your cattle. Build my altar wherever I cause my name to be remembered, and I will come to you and bless you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:19 - “As you harvest your crops, bring the very best of the first harvest to the house of the LORD your God.
“You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:26 - There will be no miscarriages or infertility in your land, and I will give you long, full lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:29 - But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals would multiply and threaten you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:46 - and they will know that I am the LORD their God. I am the one who brought them out of the land of Egypt so that I could live among them. I am the LORD their God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:4 - Then Aaron took the gold, melted it down, and molded it into the shape of a calf. When the people saw it, they exclaimed, “O Israel, these are the gods who brought you out of the land of Egypt!”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:7 - The LORD told Moses, “Quick! Go down the mountain! Your people whom you brought from the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:8 - How quickly they have turned away from the way I commanded them to live! They have melted down gold and made a calf, and they have bowed down and sacrificed to it. They are saying, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:11 - But Moses tried to pacify the LORD his God. “O LORD!” he said. “Why are you so angry with your own people whom you brought from the land of Egypt with such great power and such a strong hand?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:12 - Why let the Egyptians say, ‘Their God rescued them with the evil intention of slaughtering them in the mountains and wiping them from the face of the earth'? Turn away from your fierce anger. Change your mind about this terrible disaster you have threatened against your people!
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:1 - The LORD said to Moses, “Get going, you and the people you brought up from the land of Egypt. Go up to the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I told them, ‘I will give this land to your descendants.'
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:16 - How will anyone know that you look favorably on me—on me and on your people—if you don't go with us? For your presence among us sets your people and me apart from all other people on the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:12 - “Be very careful never to make a treaty with the people who live in the land where you are going. If you do, you will follow their evil ways and be trapped.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:15 - “You must not make a treaty of any kind with the people living in the land. They lust after their gods, offering sacrifices to them. They will invite you to join them in their sacrificial meals, and you will go with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:24 - I will drive out the other nations ahead of you and expand your territory, so no one will covet and conquer your land while you appear before the LORD your God three times each year.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:26 - “As you harvest your crops, bring the very best of the first harvest to the house of the LORD your God.
“You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:27 - “If any of the common people sin by violating one of the LORD's commands, but they don't realize it, they are still guilty.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:2 - “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel.
“Of all the land animals, these are the ones you may use for food.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:21 - You may, however, eat winged insects that walk along the ground and have jointed legs so they can jump.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:29 - “Of the small animals that scurry along the ground, these are unclean for you: the mole rat, the rat, large lizards of all kinds,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:31 - All these small animals are unclean for you. If any of you touch the dead body of such an animal, you will be defiled until evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:41 - “All small animals that scurry along the ground are detestable, and you must never eat them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:42 - This includes all animals that slither along on their bellies, as well as those with four legs and those with many feet. All such animals that scurry along the ground are detestable, and you must never eat them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:43 - Do not defile yourselves by touching them. You must not make yourselves ceremonially unclean because of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:44 - For I am the LORD your God. You must consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. So do not defile yourselves with any of these small animals that scurry along the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:45 - For I, the LORD, am the one who brought you up from the land of Egypt, that I might be your God. Therefore, you must be holy because I am holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:46 - “These are the instructions regarding land animals, birds, marine creatures, and animals that scurry along the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:34 - “When you arrive in Canaan, the land I am giving you as your own possession, I may contaminate some of the houses in your land with mildew.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:3 - So do not act like the people in Egypt, where you used to live, or like the people of Canaan, where I am taking you. You must not imitate their way of life.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:27 - “All these detestable activities are practiced by the people of the land where I am taking you, and this is how the land has become defiled.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:9 - “When you harvest the crops of your land, do not harvest the grain along the edges of your fields, and do not pick up what the harvesters drop.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:36 - Your scales and weights must be accurate. Your containers for measuring dry materials or liquids must be accurate.[fn] I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:2 - “Give the people of Israel these instructions, which apply both to native Israelites and to the foreigners living in Israel.
“If any of them offer their children as a sacrifice to Molech, they must be put to death. The people of the community must stone them to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:4 - And if the people of the community ignore those who offer their children to Molech and refuse to execute them,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:25 - “You must therefore make a distinction between ceremonially clean and unclean animals, and between clean and unclean birds. You must not defile yourselves by eating any unclean animal or bird or creature that scurries along the ground. I have identified them as being unclean for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:24 - If an animal has damaged testicles or is castrated, you may not offer it to the LORD. You must never do this in your own land,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:33 - It was I who rescued you from the land of Egypt, that I might be your God. I am the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:22 - “When you harvest the crops of your land, do not harvest the grain along the edges of your fields, and do not pick up what the harvesters drop. Leave it for the poor and the foreigners living among you. I am the LORD your God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:39 - “Remember that this seven-day festival to the LORD—the Festival of Shelters—begins on the fifteenth day of the appointed month,[fn] after you have harvested all the produce of the land. The first day and the eighth day of the festival will be days of complete rest.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:43 - This will remind each new generation of Israelites that I made their ancestors live in shelters when I rescued them from the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - But you may eat whatever the land produces on its own during its Sabbath. This applies to you, your male and female servants, your hired workers, and the temporary residents who live with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:10 - Set this year apart as holy, a time to proclaim freedom throughout the land for all who live there. It will be a jubilee year for you, when each of you may return to the land that belonged to your ancestors and return to your own clan.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:18 - “If you want to live securely in the land, follow my decrees and obey my regulations.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:24 - “With every purchase of land you must grant the seller the right to buy it back.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:31 - But a house in a village—a settlement without fortified walls—will be treated like property in the countryside. Such a house may be bought back at any time, and it must be returned to the original owner in the Year of Jubilee.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:38 - I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:42 - The people of Israel are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, so they must never be sold as slaves.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:55 - For the people of Israel belong to me. They are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:5 - Your threshing season will overlap with the grape harvest, and your grape harvest will overlap with the season of planting grain. You will eat your fill and live securely in your own land.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:6 - “I will give you peace in the land, and you will be able to sleep with no cause for fear. I will rid the land of wild animals and keep your enemies out of your land.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:13 - I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the yoke of slavery from your neck so you can walk with your heads held high.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:22 - I will send wild animals that will rob you of your children and destroy your livestock. Your numbers will dwindle, and your roads will be deserted.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:42 - Then I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:45 - For their sakes I will remember my ancient covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of all the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24 - In the Year of Jubilee the field must be returned to the person from whom he purchased it, the one who inherited it as family property.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:30 - “One-tenth of the produce of the land, whether grain from the fields or fruit from the trees, belongs to the LORD and must be set apart to him as holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:1 - A year after Israel's departure from Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tabernacle[fn] in the wilderness of Sinai. On the first day of the second month[fn] of that year he said,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:17 - He must take some holy water in a clay jar and pour into it dust he has taken from the Tabernacle floor.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:1 - A year after Israel's departure from Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai. In the first month[fn] of that year he said,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:14 - And if foreigners living among you want to celebrate the Passover to the LORD, they must follow these same decrees and regulations. The same laws apply both to native-born Israelites and to the foreigners living among you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:31 - Now the LORD sent a wind that brought quail from the sea and let them fall all around the camp. For miles in every direction there were quail flying about three feet above the ground.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:3 - (Now Moses was very humble—more humble than any other person on earth.)
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:20 - Is the soil fertile or poor? Are there many trees? Do your best to bring back samples of the crops you see.” (It happened to be the season for harvesting the first ripe grapes.)
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:26 - to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community of Israel at Kadesh in the wilderness of Paran. They reported to the whole community what they had seen and showed them the fruit they had taken from the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:32 - So they spread this bad report about the land among the Israelites: “The land we traveled through and explored will devour anyone who goes to live there. All the people we saw were huge.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:9 - Do not rebel against the LORD, and don't be afraid of the people of the land. They are only helpless prey to us! They have no protection, but the LORD is with us! Don't be afraid of them!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:14 - Now if you destroy them, the Egyptians will send a report to the inhabitants of this land, who have already heard that you live among your people. They know, LORD, that you have appeared to your people face to face and that your pillar of cloud hovers over them. They know that you go before them in the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:36 - The ten men Moses had sent to explore the land—the ones who incited rebellion against the LORD with their bad report—
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:37 - were struck dead with a plague before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:19 - and you eat the crops that grow there, you must set some aside as a sacred offering to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:41 - I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt that I might be your God. I am the LORD your God!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:13 - Isn't it enough that you brought us out of Egypt, a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us here in this wilderness, and that you now treat us like your subjects?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:17 - Please let us travel through your land. We will be careful not to go through your fields and vineyards. We won't even drink water from your wells. We will stay on the king's road and never leave it until we have passed through your territory.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:23 - There, on the border of the land of Edom, the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:22 - “Let us travel through your land. We will be careful not to go through your fields and vineyards. We won't even drink water from your wells. We will stay on the king's road until we have passed through your territory.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:24 - But the Israelites slaughtered them with their swords and occupied their land from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River. They went only as far as the Ammonite border because the boundary of the Ammonites was fortified.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:5 - sent messengers to call Balaam son of Beor, who was living in his native land of Pethor[fn] near the Euphrates River.[fn] His message said: “Look, a vast horde of people has arrived from Egypt. They cover the face of the earth and are threatening me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:6 - Please come and curse these people for me because they are too powerful for me. Then perhaps I will be able to conquer them and drive them from the land. I know that blessings fall on any people you bless, and curses fall on people you curse.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:11 - ‘Look, a vast horde of people has arrived from Egypt, and they cover the face of the earth. Come and curse these people for me. Then perhaps I will be able to stand up to them and drive them from the land.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:29 - He said, “The men of Gad and Reuben who are armed for battle must cross the Jordan with you to fight for the LORD. If they do, give them the land of Gilead as their property when the land is conquered.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:33 - So Moses assigned land to the tribes of Gad, Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph. He gave them the territory of King Sihon of the Amorites and the land of King Og of Bashan—the whole land with its cities and surrounding lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:1 - This is the route the Israelites followed as they marched out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:37 - They left Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, at the border of Edom.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:38 - While they were at the foot of Mount Hor, Aaron the priest was directed by the LORD to go up the mountain, and there he died. This happened in midsummer, on the first day of the fifth month[fn] of the fortieth year after Israel's departure from Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:55 - But if you fail to drive out the people who live in the land, those who remain will be like splinters in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will harass you in the land where you live.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:32 - And never accept a ransom payment from someone who has fled to a city of refuge, allowing a slayer to return to his property before the death of the high priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:25 - They picked some of its fruit and brought it back to us. And they reported, ‘The land the LORD our God has given us is indeed a good land.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:27 - You complained in your tents and said, ‘The LORD must hate us. That's why he has brought us here from Egypt—to hand us over to the Amorites to be slaughtered.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:5 - Do not bother them, for I have given them all the hill country around Mount Seir as their property, and I will not give you even one square foot of their land.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:9 - the LORD warned us, ‘Do not bother the Moabites, the descendants of Lot, or start a war with them. I have given them Ar as their property, and I will not give you any of their land.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:19 - and enter the land of the Ammonites, the descendants of Lot. But do not bother them or start a war with them. I have given the land of Ammon to them as their property, and I will not give you any of their land.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:27 - ‘Let us travel through your land. We will stay on the main road and won't turn off into the fields on either side.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:24 - ‘O Sovereign LORD, you have only begun to show your greatness and the strength of your hand to me, your servant. Is there any god in heaven or on earth who can perform such great and mighty deeds as you do?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:10 - Never forget the day when you stood before the LORD your God at Mount Sinai,[fn] where he told me, ‘Summon the people before me, and I will personally instruct them. Then they will learn to fear me as long as they live, and they will teach their children to fear me also.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:14 - It was at that time that the LORD commanded me to teach you his decrees and regulations so you would obey them in the land you are about to enter and occupy.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:17 - an animal on the ground, a bird in the sky,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:18 - a small animal that scurries along the ground, or a fish in the deepest sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:25 - “In the future, when you have children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time, do not corrupt yourselves by making idols of any kind. This is evil in the sight of the LORD your God and will arouse his anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:26 - “Today I call on heaven and earth as witnesses against you. If you break my covenant, you will quickly disappear from the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy. You will live there only a short time; then you will be utterly destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32 - “Now search all of history, from the time God created people on the earth until now, and search from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything as great as this ever been seen or heard before?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:36 - He let you hear his voice from heaven so he could instruct you. He let you see his great fire here on earth so he could speak to you from it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:39 - “So remember this and keep it firmly in mind: The LORD is God both in heaven and on earth, and there is no other.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:40 - If you obey all the decrees and commands I am giving you today, all will be well with you and your children. I am giving you these instructions so you will enjoy a long life in the land the LORD your God is giving you for all time.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:45 - These are the laws, decrees, and regulations that Moses gave to the people of Israel when they left Egypt,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:46 - and as they camped in the valley near Beth-peor east of the Jordan River. (This land was formerly occupied by the Amorites under King Sihon, who ruled from Heshbon. But Moses and the Israelites destroyed him and his people when they came up from Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:6 - “I am the LORD your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of your slavery.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:8 - “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind, or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:16 - “Honor your father and mother, as the LORD your God commanded you. Then you will live a long, full life in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:33 - Stay on the path that the LORD your God has commanded you to follow. Then you will live long and prosperous lives in the land you are about to enter and occupy.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:4 - “Listen, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:12 - be careful not to forget the LORD, who rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:15 - for the LORD your God, who lives among you, is a jealous God. His anger will flare up against you, and he will wipe you from the face of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:6 - For you are a holy people, who belong to the LORD your God. Of all the people on earth, the LORD your God has chosen you to be his own special treasure.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:13 - He will love you and bless you, and he will give you many children. He will give fertility to your land and your animals. When you arrive in the land he swore to give your ancestors, you will have large harvests of grain, new wine, and olive oil, and great herds of cattle, sheep, and goats.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:10 - When you have eaten your fill, be sure to praise the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:14 - Do not become proud at that time and forget the LORD your God, who rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:12 - Then the LORD said to me, ‘Get up! Go down immediately, for the people you brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned away from the way I commanded them to live! They have melted gold and made an idol for themselves!'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:26 - I prayed to the LORD and said, ‘O Sovereign LORD, do not destroy them. They are your own people. They are your special possession, whom you redeemed from Egypt by your mighty power and your strong hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:29 - But they are your people and your special possession, whom you brought out of Egypt by your great strength and powerful arm.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:9 - If you obey, you will enjoy a long life in the land the LORD swore to give to your ancestors and to you, their descendants—a land flowing with milk and honey!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:17 - If you do, the LORD's anger will burn against you. He will shut up the sky and hold back the rain, and the ground will fail to produce its harvests. Then you will quickly die in that good land the LORD is giving you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:21 - so that as long as the sky remains above the earth, you and your children may flourish in the land the LORD swore to give your ancestors.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:25 - No one will be able to stand against you, for the LORD your God will cause the people to fear and dread you, as he promised, wherever you go in the whole land.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:1 - “These are the decrees and regulations you must be careful to obey when you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. You must obey them as long as you live.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:10 - But you will soon cross the Jordan River and live in the land the LORD your God is giving you. When he gives you rest from all your enemies and you're living safely in the land,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:19 - And be very careful never to neglect the Levites as long as you live in your land.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:5 - The false prophets or visionaries who try to lead you astray must be put to death, for they encourage rebellion against the LORD your God, who redeemed you from slavery and brought you out of the land of Egypt. Since they try to lead you astray from the way the LORD your God commanded you to live, you must put them to death. In this way you will purge the evil from among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:7 - They might suggest that you worship the gods of peoples who live nearby or who come from the ends of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:10 - Stone the guilty ones to death because they have tried to draw you away from the LORD your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of slavery.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:2 - You have been set apart as holy to the LORD your God, and he has chosen you from all the nations of the earth to be his own special treasure.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:11 - There will always be some in the land who are poor. That is why I am commanding you to share freely with the poor and with other Israelites in need.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:3 - Eat it with bread made without yeast. For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast, as when you escaped from Egypt in such a hurry. Eat this bread—the bread of suffering—so that as long as you live you will remember the day you departed from Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:2 - Then you must set apart three cities of refuge in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:3 - Survey the territory,[fn] and divide the land the LORD your God is giving you into three districts, with one of these cities in each district. Then anyone who has killed someone can flee to one of the cities of refuge for safety.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:1 - “When you go out to fight your enemies and you face horses and chariots and an army greater than your own, do not be afraid. The LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, is with you!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:8 - O LORD, forgive your people Israel whom you have redeemed. Do not charge your people with the guilt of murdering an innocent person.' Then they will be absolved of the guilt of this person's blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:6 - “If you happen to find a bird's nest in a tree or on the ground, and there are young ones or eggs in it with the mother sitting in the nest, do not take the mother with the young.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:20 - You may charge interest to foreigners, but you may not charge interest to Israelites, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything you do in the land you are about to enter and occupy.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:15 - Yes, always use honest weights and measures, so that you may enjoy a long life in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:2 - put some of the first produce from each crop you harvest into a basket and bring it to the designated place of worship—the place the LORD your God chooses for his name to be honored.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:10 - And now, O LORD, I have brought you the first portion of the harvest you have given me from the ground.' Then place the produce before the LORD your God, and bow to the ground in worship before him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:12 - “Every third year you must offer a special tithe of your crops. In this year of the special tithe you must give your tithes to the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows, so that they will have enough to eat in your towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:1 - “If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully keep all his commands that I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the world.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:4 - Your children and your crops
will be blessed.
The offspring of your herds and flocks
will be blessed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:8 - “The LORD will guarantee a blessing on everything you do and will fill your storehouses with grain. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:10 - Then all the nations of the world will see that you are a people claimed by the LORD, and they will stand in awe of you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:11 - “The LORD will give you prosperity in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, blessing you with many children, numerous livestock, and abundant crops.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:18 - Your children and your crops
will be cursed.
The offspring of your herds and flocks
will be cursed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:21 - The LORD will afflict you with diseases until none of you are left in the land you are about to enter and occupy.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:25 - “The LORD will cause you to be defeated by your enemies. You will attack your enemies from one direction, but you will scatter from them in seven! You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:26 - Your corpses will be food for all the scavenging birds and wild animals, and no one will be there to chase them away.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:33 - A foreign nation you have never heard about will eat the crops you worked so hard to grow. You will suffer under constant oppression and harsh treatment.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:42 - Swarms of insects will destroy your trees and crops.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:49 - “The LORD will bring a distant nation against you from the end of the earth, and it will swoop down on you like a vulture. It is a nation whose language you do not understand,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:51 - Its armies will devour your livestock and crops, and you will be destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, olive oil, calves, or lambs, and you will starve to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:56 - The most tender and delicate woman among you—so delicate she would not so much as touch the ground with her foot—will be selfish toward the husband she loves and toward her own son or daughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:63 - “Just as the LORD has found great pleasure in causing you to prosper and multiply, the LORD will find pleasure in destroying you. You will be torn from the land you are about to enter and occupy.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:64 - For the LORD will scatter you among all the nations from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship foreign gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods made of wood and stone!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:22 - “Then the generations to come, both your own descendants and the foreigners who come from distant lands, will see the devastation of the land and the diseases the LORD inflicts on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:25 - “And the answer will be, ‘This happened because the people of the land abandoned the covenant that the LORD, the God of their ancestors, made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:28 - In great anger and fury the LORD uprooted his people from their land and banished them to another land, where they still live today!'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:9 - “The LORD your God will then make you successful in everything you do. He will give you many children and numerous livestock, and he will cause your fields to produce abundant harvests, for the LORD will again delight in being good to you as he was to your ancestors.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:18 - then I warn you now that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live a long, good life in the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:20 - You can make this choice by loving the LORD your God, obeying him, and committing yourself firmly to him. This[fn] is the key to your life. And if you love and obey the LORD, you will live long in the land the LORD swore to give your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:13 - Do this so that your children who have not known these instructions will hear them and will learn to fear the LORD your God. Do this as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:16 - The LORD said to Moses, “You are about to die and join your ancestors. After you are gone, these people will begin to worship foreign gods, the gods of the land where they are going. They will abandon me and break my covenant that I have made with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13 - He let them ride over the highlands
and feast on the crops of the fields.
He nourished them with honey from the rock
and olive oil from the stony ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:24 - I will weaken them with famine,
burning fever, and deadly disease.
I will send the fangs of wild beasts
and poisonous snakes that glide in the dust.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:47 - These instructions are not empty words—they are your life! By obeying them you will enjoy a long life in the land you will occupy when you cross the Jordan River.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:16 - with the best gifts of the earth and its bounty,
and the favor of the one who appeared in the burning bush.
May these blessings rest on Joseph's head,
crowning the brow of the prince among his brothers.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:17 - Joseph has the majesty of a young bull;
he has the horns of a wild ox.
He will gore distant nations,
driving them to the ends of the earth.
This is my blessing for the multitudes of Ephraim
and the thousands of Manasseh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:28 - So Israel will live in safety,
prosperous Jacob in security,
in a land of grain and new wine,
while the heavens drop down dew.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:10 - For we have heard how the LORD made a dry path for you through the Red Sea[fn] when you left Egypt. And we know what you did to Sihon and Og, the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan River, whose people you completely destroyed.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:11 - No wonder our hearts have melted in fear! No one has the courage to fight after hearing such things. For the LORD your God is the supreme God of the heavens above and the earth below.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:11 - Look, the Ark of the Covenant, which belongs to the Lord of the whole earth, will lead you across the Jordan River!
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:13 - The priests will carry the Ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth. As soon as their feet touch the water, the flow of water will be cut off upstream, and the river will stand up like a wall.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:7 - Then you can tell them, ‘They remind us that the Jordan River stopped flowing when the Ark of the LORD's Covenant went across.' These stones will stand as a memorial among the people of Israel forever.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:18 - As soon as the priests carrying the Ark of the LORD's Covenant came up out of the riverbed and their feet were on high ground, the water of the Jordan returned and overflowed its banks as before.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:24 - He did this so all the nations of the earth might know that the LORD's hand is powerful, and so you might fear the LORD your God forever.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:6 - The Israelites had traveled in the wilderness for forty years until all the men who were old enough to fight in battle when they left Egypt had died. For they had disobeyed the LORD, and the LORD vowed he would not let them enter the land he had sworn to give us—a land flowing with milk and honey.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:11 - The very next day they began to eat unleavened bread and roasted grain harvested from the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:12 - No manna appeared on the day they first ate from the crops of the land, and it was never seen again. So from that time on the Israelites ate from the crops of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:9 - For when the Canaanites and all the other people living in the land hear about it, they will surround us and wipe our name off the face of the earth. And then what will happen to the honor of your great name?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:6 - When they arrived at the camp of Israel at Gilgal, they told Joshua and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land to ask you to make a peace treaty with us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:9 - They answered, “Your servants have come from a very distant country. We have heard of the might of the LORD your God and of all he did in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:1 - These are the kings east of the Jordan River who had been killed by the Israelites and whose land was taken. Their territory extended from the Arnon Gorge to Mount Hermon and included all the land east of the Jordan Valley.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:25 - Their territory included Jazer, all the towns of Gilead, and half of the land of Ammon, as far as the town of Aroer just west of[fn] Rabbah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:8 - The boundary then passed through the valley of Ben-Hinnom, along the southern slopes of the Jebusites, where the city of Jerusalem is located. Then it went west to the top of the mountain above the valley of Hinnom, and on up to the northern end of the valley of Rephaim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:11 - The rest of Israel heard that the people of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had built an altar at Geliloth at the edge of the land of Canaan, on the west side of the Jordan River.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:32 - Then Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, and the other leaders left the tribes of Reuben and Gad in Gilead and returned to the land of Canaan to tell the Israelites what had happened.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:13 - then know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive them out of your land. Instead, they will be a snare and a trap to you, a whip for your backs and thorny brambles in your eyes, and you will vanish from this good land the LORD your God has given you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:14 - “Soon I will die, going the way of everything on earth. Deep in your hearts you know that every promise of the LORD your God has come true. Not a single one has failed!
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:15 - But as surely as the LORD your God has given you the good things he promised, he will also bring disaster on you if you disobey him. He will completely destroy you from this good land he has given you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:15 - But if you refuse to serve the LORD, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me and my family, we will serve the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:12 - They abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt. They went after other gods, worshiping the gods of the people around them. And they angered the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:4 - camping in the land and destroying crops as far away as Gaza. They left the Israelites with nothing to eat, taking all the sheep, goats, cattle, and donkeys.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:37 - But again Gaal said, “No, people are coming down from the hills.[fn] And another group is coming down the road past the Diviners' Oak.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:17 - they sent messengers to the king of Edom asking for permission to pass through his land. But their request was denied. Then they asked the king of Moab for similar permission, but he wouldn't let them pass through either. So the people of Israel stayed in Kadesh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:18 - “Finally, they went around Edom and Moab through the wilderness. They traveled along Moab's eastern border and camped on the other side of the Arnon River. But they never once crossed the Arnon River into Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:19 - “Then Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, who ruled from Heshbon, asking for permission to cross through his land to get to their destination.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:30 - Then they set up the carved image, and they appointed Jonathan son of Gershom, son of Moses,[fn] as their priest. This family continued as priests for the tribe of Dan until the Exile.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:21 - The next year Elkanah and his family went on their annual trip to offer a sacrifice to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:8 - He lifts the poor from the dust
and the needy from the garbage dump.
He sets them among princes,
placing them in seats of honor.
For all the earth is the LORD's,
and he has set the world in order.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:10 - Those who fight against the LORD will be shattered.
He thunders against them from heaven;
the LORD judges throughout the earth.
He gives power to his king;
he increases the strength[fn] of his anointed one.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:21 - The LORD continued to appear at Shiloh and gave messages to Samuel there at the Tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:5 - Make these things to show honor to the God of Israel. Perhaps then he will stop afflicting you, your gods, and your land.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:4 - So Saul took one of the servants and traveled through the hill country of Ephraim, the land of Shalishah, the Shaalim area, and the entire land of Benjamin, but they couldn't find the donkeys anywhere.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:16 - “About this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin. Anoint him to be the leader of my people, Israel. He will rescue them from the Philistines, for I have looked down on my people in mercy and have heard their cry.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:44 - “Come over here, and I'll give your flesh to the birds and wild animals!” Goliath yelled.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:46 - Today the LORD will conquer you, and I will kill you and cut off your head. And then I will give the dead bodies of your men to the birds and wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel!
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:15 - treat my family with this faithful love, even when the LORD destroys all your enemies from the face of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:31 - As long as that son of Jesse is alive, you'll never be king. Now go and get him so I can kill him!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:11 - But the officers of Achish were unhappy about his being there. “Isn't this David, the king of the land?” they asked. “Isn't he the one the people honor with dances, singing,
‘Saul has killed his thousands,
and David his ten thousands'?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:23 - Discover his hiding places, and come back when you are sure. Then I'll go with you. And if he is in the area at all, I'll track him down, even if I have to search every hiding place in Judah!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:8 - David and his men spent their time raiding the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites—people who had lived near Shur, toward the land of Egypt, since ancient times.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:3 - Meanwhile, Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him. He was buried in Ramah, his hometown. And Saul had banned from the land of Israel all mediums and those who consult the spirits of the dead.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:9 - “Are you trying to get me killed?” the woman demanded. “You know that Saul has outlawed all the mediums and all who consult the spirits of the dead. Why are you setting a trap for me?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:13 - “Don't be afraid!” the king told her. “What do you see?”
“I see a god[fn] coming up out of the earth,” she said.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:14 - “What does he look like?” Saul asked.
“He is an old man wrapped in a robe,” she replied. Saul realized it was Samuel, and he fell to the ground before him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:23 - But Saul refused to eat anything. Then his advisers joined the woman in urging him to eat, so he finally yielded and got up from the ground and sat on the couch.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:16 - So he led David to them, and they found the Amalekites spread out across the fields, eating and drinking and dancing with joy because of the vast amount of plunder they had taken from the Philistines and the land of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:11 - How much more should I reward evil men who have killed an innocent man in his own house and on his own bed? Shouldn't I hold you responsible for his blood and rid the earth of you?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:25 - So David did what the LORD commanded, and he struck down the Philistines all the way from Gibeon[fn] to Gezer.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:9 - I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have destroyed all your enemies before your eyes. Now I will make your name as famous as anyone who has ever lived on the earth!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:12 - from Edom,[fn] Moab, Ammon, Philistia, and Amalek—and from Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:16 - David begged God to spare the child. He went without food and lay all night on the bare ground.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:17 - The elders of his household pleaded with him to get up and eat with them, but he refused.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:20 - Then David got up from the ground, washed himself, put on lotions,[fn] and changed his clothes. He went to the Tabernacle and worshiped the LORD. After that, he returned to the palace and was served food and ate.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:7 - Now the rest of the family is demanding, ‘Let us have your son. We will execute him for murdering his brother. He doesn't deserve to inherit his family's property.' They want to extinguish the only coal I have left, and my husband's name and family will disappear from the face of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:14 - All of us must die eventually. Our lives are like water spilled out on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God does not just sweep life away; instead, he devises ways to bring us back when we have been separated from him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:8 - The battle raged all across the countryside, and more men died because of the forest than were killed by the sword.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:9 - During the battle, Absalom happened to come upon some of David's men. He tried to escape on his mule, but as he rode beneath the thick branches of a great tree, his hair[fn] got caught in the tree. His mule kept going and left him dangling in the air.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:9 - And throughout all the tribes of Israel there was much discussion and argument going on. The people were saying, “The king rescued us from our enemies and saved us from the Philistines, but Absalom chased him out of the country.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43 - I ground them as fine as the dust of the earth;
I trampled them[fn] in the gutter like dirt.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:4 - is like the light of morning at sunrise,
like a morning without clouds,
like the gleaming of the sun
on new grass after rain.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:2 - “I am going where everyone on earth must someday go. Take courage and be a man.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:34 - And kings from every nation sent their ambassadors to listen to the wisdom of Solomon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:46 - The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:9 - Nothing was in the Ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Mount Sinai,[fn] where the LORD made a covenant with the people of Israel when they left the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:21 - And I have prepared a place there for the Ark, which contains the covenant that the LORD made with our ancestors when he brought them out of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:23 - and he prayed, “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you in all of heaven above or on the earth below. You keep your covenant and show unfailing love to all who walk before you in wholehearted devotion.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:27 - “But will God really live on earth? Why, even the highest heavens cannot contain you. How much less this Temple I have built!
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:40 - Then they will fear you as long as they live in the land you gave to our ancestors.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:48 - If they turn to you with their whole heart and soul in the land of their enemies and pray toward the land you gave to their ancestors—toward this city you have chosen, and toward this Temple I have built to honor your name—
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:51 - for they are your people—your special possession—whom you brought out of the iron-smelting furnace of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:53 - For when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt, O Sovereign LORD, you told your servant Moses that you had set Israel apart from all the nations of the earth to be your own special possession.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:60 - Then people all over the earth will know that the LORD alone is God and there is no other.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:7 - then I will uproot Israel from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have made holy to honor my name. I will make Israel an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:12 - The king used the sandalwood to make railings for the Temple of the LORD and the royal palace, and to construct lyres and harps for the musicians. Never before or since has there been such a supply of sandalwood.)
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:15 - This did not include the additional revenue he received from merchants and traders, all the kings of Arabia, and the governors of the land.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:23 - So King Solomon became richer and wiser than any other king on earth.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:24 - People from every nation came to consult him and to hear the wisdom God had given him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:26 - Solomon built up a huge force of chariots and horses.[fn] He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. He stationed some of them in the chariot cities and some near him in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:28 - So on the advice of his counselors, the king made two gold calves. He said to the people,[fn] “It is too much trouble for you to worship in Jerusalem. Look, Israel, these are the gods who brought you out of Egypt!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:34 - This became a great sin and resulted in the utter destruction of Jeroboam's dynasty from the face of the earth.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:12 - He banished the male and female shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols[fn] his ancestors had made.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:20 - Ben-hadad agreed to King Asa's request and sent the commanders of his army to attack the towns of Israel. They conquered the towns of Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and all Kinnereth, and all the land of Naphtali.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:2 - “I lifted you out of the dust to make you ruler of my people Israel, but you have followed the evil example of Jeroboam. You have provoked my anger by causing my people Israel to sin.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:28 - When Omri died, he was buried in Samaria. Then his son Ahab became the next king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:7 - But after a while the brook dried up, for there was no rainfall anywhere in the land.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:14 - For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: There will always be flour and olive oil left in your containers until the time when the LORD sends rain and the crops grow again!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:1 - Later on, in the third year of the drought, the LORD said to Elijah, “Go and present yourself to King Ahab. Tell him that I will soon send rain!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:2 - At this time Aramean raiders had invaded the land of Israel, and among their captives was a young girl who had been given to Naaman's wife as a maid.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:4 - So Naaman told the king what the young girl from Israel had said.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:17 - Then Naaman said, “All right, but please allow me to load two of my mules with earth from this place, and I will take it back home with me. From now on I will never again offer burnt offerings or sacrifices to any other god except the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:19 - “Go in peace,” Elisha said. So Naaman started home again.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:3 - After the famine ended she returned from the land of the Philistines, and she went to see the king about getting back her house and land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:3 - Joash remained hidden in the Temple of the LORD for six years while Athaliah ruled over the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:14 - When she arrived, she saw the newly crowned king standing in his place of authority by the pillar, as was the custom at times of coronation. The commanders and trumpeters were surrounding him, and people from all over the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets. When Athaliah saw all this, she tore her clothes in despair and shouted, “Treason! Treason!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:18 - And all the people of the land went over to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They demolished the altars and smashed the idols to pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.
Jehoiada the priest stationed guards at the Temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:19 - Then the commanders, the Carite mercenaries, the palace guards, and all the people of the land escorted the king from the Temple of the LORD. They went through the gate of the guards and into the palace, and the king took his seat on the royal throne.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:20 - So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was peaceful because Athaliah had been killed at the king's palace.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:5 - The LORD struck the king with leprosy,[fn] which lasted until the day he died. He lived in isolation in a separate house. The king's son Jotham was put in charge of the royal palace, and he governed the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:7 - This disaster came upon the people of Israel because they worshiped other gods. They sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them safely out of Egypt and had rescued them from the power of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:23 - until the LORD finally swept them away from his presence, just as all his prophets had warned. So Israel was exiled from their land to Assyria, where they remain to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:26 - So a message was sent to the king of Assyria: “The people you have sent to live in the towns of Samaria do not know the religious customs of the God of the land. He has sent lions among them to destroy them because they have not worshiped him correctly.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:27 - The king of Assyria then commanded, “Send one of the exiled priests back to Samaria. Let him live there and teach the new residents the religious customs of the God of the land.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:36 - But worship only the LORD, who brought you out of Egypt with great strength and a powerful arm. Bow down to him alone, and offer sacrifices only to him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:15 - And Hezekiah prayed this prayer before the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, you are enthroned between the mighty cherubim! You alone are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You alone created the heavens and the earth.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:19 - Now, O LORD our God, rescue us from his power; then all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you alone, O LORD, are God.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:14 - Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did those men want? Where were they from?”
Hezekiah replied, “They came from the distant land of Babylon.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:8 - If the Israelites will be careful to obey my commands—all the laws my servant Moses gave them—I will not send them into exile from this land that I gave their ancestors.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:24 - But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah the next king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30 - Josiah's officers took his body back in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the land anointed Josiah's son Jehoahaz and made him the next king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:35 - In order to get the silver and gold demanded as tribute by Pharaoh Neco, Jehoiakim collected a tax from the people of Judah, requiring them to pay in proportion to their wealth.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:7 - The king of Egypt did not venture out of his country after that, for the king of Babylon captured the entire area formerly claimed by Egypt—from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:14 - King Nebuchadnezzar took all of Jerusalem captive, including all the commanders and the best of the soldiers, craftsmen, and artisans—10,000 in all. Only the poorest people were left in the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:15 - Nebuchadnezzar led King Jehoiachin away as a captive to Babylon, along with the queen mother, his wives and officials, and all Jerusalem's elite.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:3 - By July 18 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah's reign,[fn] the famine in the city had become very severe, and the last of the food was entirely gone.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:12 - But the captain of the guard allowed some of the poorest people to stay behind in Judah to care for the vineyards and fields.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:19 - And from among the people still hiding in the city, he took an officer who had been in charge of the Judean army; five of the king's personal advisers; the army commander's chief secretary, who was in charge of recruitment; and sixty other citizens.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:21 - And there at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon had them all put to death. So the people of Judah were sent into exile from their land.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:10 - Cush was also the ancestor of Nimrod, who was the first heroic warrior on earth.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:45 - When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:25 - But these tribes were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors. They worshiped the gods of the nations that God had destroyed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:8 - I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have destroyed all your enemies before your eyes. Now I will make your name as famous as anyone who has ever lived on the earth!
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:21 - What other nation on earth is like your people Israel? What other nation, O God, have you redeemed from slavery to be your own people? You made a great name for yourself when you redeemed your people from Egypt. You performed awesome miracles and drove out the nations that stood in their way.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:16 - David looked up and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth with his sword drawn, reaching out over Jerusalem. So David and the leaders of Israel put on burlap to show their deep distress and fell face down on the ground.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:8 - “But the LORD said to me, ‘You have killed many men in the battles you have fought. And since you have shed so much blood in my sight, you will not be the one to build a Temple to honor my name.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:12 - Abiezer from Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin was commander of the ninth division of 24,000 troops, which was on duty during the ninth month.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:11 - Yours, O LORD, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty. Everything in the heavens and on earth is yours, O LORD, and this is your kingdom. We adore you as the one who is over all things.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:15 - We are here for only a moment, visitors and strangers in the land as our ancestors were before us. Our days on earth are like a passing shadow, gone so soon without a trace.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:30 - These accounts include the mighty deeds of his reign and everything that happened to him and to Israel and to all the surrounding kingdoms.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:9 - O LORD God, please continue to keep your promise to David my father, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:17 - The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:10 - Nothing was in the Ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Mount Sinai,[fn] where the LORD made a covenant with the people of Israel when they left Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:5 - ‘From the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have never chosen a city among any of the tribes of Israel as the place where a Temple should be built to honor my name. Nor have I chosen a king to lead my people Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:14 - He prayed, “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you in all of heaven and earth. You keep your covenant and show unfailing love to all who walk before you in wholehearted devotion.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:18 - “But will God really live on earth among people? Why, even the highest heavens cannot contain you. How much less this Temple I have built!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:28 - “If there is a famine in the land or a plague or crop disease or attacks of locusts or caterpillars, or if your people's enemies are in the land besieging their towns—whatever disaster or disease there is—
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:31 - Then they will fear you and walk in your ways as long as they live in the land you gave to our ancestors.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:32 - “In the future, foreigners who do not belong to your people Israel will hear of you. They will come from distant lands when they hear of your great name and your strong hand and your powerful arm. And when they pray toward this Temple,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:33 - then hear from heaven where you live, and grant what they ask of you. In this way, all the people of the earth will come to know and fear you, just as your own people Israel do. They, too, will know that this Temple I have built honors your name.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:38 - If they turn to you with their whole heart and soul in the land of their captivity and pray toward the land you gave to their ancestors—toward this city you have chosen, and toward this Temple I have built to honor your name—
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:20 - then I will uproot the people from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have made holy to honor my name. I will make it an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:22 - “And the answer will be, ‘Because his people abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, and they worshiped other gods instead and bowed down to them. That is why he has brought all these disasters on them.'”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:14 - This did not include the additional revenue he received from merchants and traders. All the kings of Arabia and the governors of the provinces also brought gold and silver to Solomon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:23 - Kings from every nation came to consult him and to hear the wisdom God had given him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:26 - He ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates River[fn] in the north to the land of the Philistines and the border of Egypt in the south.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:28 - Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt[fn] and many other countries.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:8 - But they will become his subjects, so they will know the difference between serving me and serving earthly rulers.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:9 - But you have chased away the priests of the LORD (the descendants of Aaron) and the Levites, and you have appointed your own priests, just like the pagan nations. You let anyone become a priest these days! Whoever comes to be dedicated with a young bull and seven rams can become a priest of these so-called gods of yours!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:7 - Asa told the people of Judah, “Let us build towns and fortify them with walls, towers, gates, and bars. The land is still ours because we sought the LORD our God, and he has given us peace on every side.” So they went ahead with these projects and brought them to completion.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:8 - When Asa heard this message from Azariah the prophet,[fn] he took courage and removed all the detestable idols from the land of Judah and Benjamin and in the towns he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. And he repaired the altar of the LORD, which stood in front of the entry room of the LORD's Temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:6 - He was deeply committed to[fn] the ways of the LORD. He removed the pagan shrines and Asherah poles from Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:10 - Then the fear of the LORD fell over all the surrounding kingdoms so that none of them wanted to declare war on Jehoshaphat.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:3 - Even so, there is some good in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles throughout the land, and you have committed yourself to seeking God.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:10 - “And now see what the armies of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir are doing. You would not let our ancestors invade those nations when Israel left Egypt, so they went around them and did not destroy them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:24 - So when the army of Judah arrived at the lookout point in the wilderness, all they saw were dead bodies lying on the ground as far as they could see. Not a single one of the enemy had escaped.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:29 - When all the surrounding kingdoms heard that the LORD himself had fought against the enemies of Israel, the fear of God came over them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:12 - Joash remained hidden in the Temple of God for six years while Athaliah ruled over the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:17 - And all the people went over to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They demolished the altars and smashed the idols, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:20 - Then the commanders, nobles, rulers, and all the people of the land escorted the king from the Temple of the LORD. They went through the upper gate and into the palace, and they seated the king on the royal throne.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:21 - So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was peaceful because Athaliah had been killed.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:1 - All the people of Judah had crowned Amaziah's sixteen-year-old son, Uzziah, as king in place of his father.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:21 - So King Uzziah had leprosy until the day he died. He lived in isolation in a separate house, for he was excluded from the Temple of the LORD. His son Jotham was put in charge of the royal palace, and he governed the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:25 - The entire assembly of Judah rejoiced, including the priests, the Levites, all who came from the land of Israel, the foreigners who came to the festival, and all those who lived in Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:13 - “Surely you must realize what I and the other kings of Assyria before me have done to all the people of the earth! Were any of the gods of those nations able to rescue their people from my power?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:17 - The king also sent letters scorning the LORD, the God of Israel. He wrote, “Just as the gods of all the other nations failed to rescue their people from my power, so the God of Hezekiah will also fail.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:19 - These officers talked about the God of Jerusalem as though he were one of the pagan gods, made by human hands.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:31 - However, when ambassadors arrived from Babylon to ask about the remarkable events that had taken place in the land, God withdrew from Hezekiah in order to test him and to see what was really in his heart.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:8 - If the Israelites will be careful to obey my commands—all the laws, decrees, and regulations given through Moses—I will not send them into exile from this land that I set aside for your ancestors.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:25 - But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah the next king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7 - He destroyed the pagan altars and the Asherah poles, and he crushed the idols into dust. He cut down all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Finally, he returned to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33 - So Josiah removed all detestable idols from the entire land of Israel and required everyone to worship the LORD their God. And throughout the rest of his lifetime, they did not turn away from the LORD, the God of their ancestors.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:1 - Then the people of the land took Josiah's son Jehoahaz and made him the next king in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:4 - The king of Egypt then installed Eliakim, the brother of Jehoahaz, as the next king of Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim. Then Neco took Jehoahaz to Egypt as a prisoner.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:14 - Likewise, all the leaders of the priests and the people became more and more unfaithful. They followed all the pagan practices of the surrounding nations, desecrating the Temple of the LORD that had been consecrated in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:23 - “This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: “The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has appointed me to build him a Temple at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Any of you who are the LORD's people may go there for this task. And may the LORD your God be with you!”
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:2 - “This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: “The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has appointed me to build him a Temple at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:4 - Then the local residents tried to discourage and frighten the people of Judah to keep them from their work.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:11 - “This was their answer: ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the Temple that was built here many years ago by a great king of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:21 - The Passover meal was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile and by the others in the land who had turned from their immoral customs to worship the LORD, the God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:12 - Don't let your daughters marry their sons! Don't take their daughters as wives for your sons. Don't ever promote the peace and prosperity of those nations. If you follow these instructions, you will be strong and will enjoy the good things the land produces, and you will leave this prosperity to your children forever.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:2 - Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, a descendant of Elam, said to Ezra, “We have been unfaithful to our God, for we have married these pagan women of the land. But in spite of this there is hope for Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:11 - So now confess your sin to the LORD, the God of your ancestors, and do what he demands. Separate yourselves from the people of the land and from these pagan women.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:10 - You displayed miraculous signs and wonders against Pharaoh, his officials, and all his people, for you knew how arrogantly they were treating our ancestors. You have a glorious reputation that has never been forgotten.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:24 - “They went in and took possession of the land. You subdued whole nations before them. Even the Canaanites, who inhabited the land, were powerless! Your people could deal with these nations and their kings as they pleased.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:30 - In your love, you were patient with them for many years. You sent your Spirit, who warned them through the prophets. But still they wouldn't listen! So once again you allowed the peoples of the land to conquer them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:28 - Then the rest of the people—the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, Temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the pagan people of the land in order to obey the Law of God, together with their wives, sons, daughters, and all who were old enough to understand—
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:30 - “We promise not to let our daughters marry the pagan people of the land, and not to let our sons marry their daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:31 - “We also promise that if the people of the land should bring any merchandise or grain to be sold on the Sabbath or on any other holy day, we will refuse to buy it. Every seventh year we will let our land rest, and we will cancel all debts owed to us.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:35 - “We promise to bring the first part of every harvest to the LORD's Temple year after year—whether it be a crop from the soil or from our fruit trees.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:37 - We will store the produce in the storerooms of the Temple of our God. We will bring the best of our flour and other grain offerings, the best of our fruit, and the best of our new wine and olive oil. And we promise to bring to the Levites a tenth of everything our land produces, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our rural towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 10:1 - King Xerxes imposed a tribute throughout his empire, even to the distant coastlands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:3 - He owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 teams of oxen, and 500 female donkeys. He also had many servants. He was, in fact, the richest person in that entire area.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:8 - Then the LORD asked Satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:10 - You have always put a wall of protection around him and his home and his property. You have made him prosper in everything he does. Look how rich he is!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:3 - Then the LORD asked Satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil. And he has maintained his integrity, even though you urged me to harm him without cause.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:9 - His wife said to him, “Are you still trying to maintain your integrity? Curse God and die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:14 - I would rest with the world's kings and prime ministers,
whose great buildings now lie in ruins.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:6 - But evil does not spring from the soil,
and trouble does not sprout from the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:1 - “Is not all human life a struggle?
Our lives are like that of a hired hand,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:5 - My body is covered with maggots and scabs.
My skin breaks open, oozing with pus.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:9 - For we were born but yesterday and know nothing.
Our days on earth are as fleeting as a shadow.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:19 - That's the end of its life,
and others spring up from the earth to replace it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:9 - It is broader than the earth
and wider than the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:17 - He leads counselors away, stripped of good judgment;
wise judges become fools.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:19 - He leads priests away, stripped of status;
he overthrows those with long years in power.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:24 - He strips kings of understanding
and leaves them wandering in a pathless wasteland.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:5 - You have decided the length of our lives.
You know how many months we will live,
and we are not given a minute longer.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:19 - as water wears away the stones
and floods wash away the soil,
so you destroy people's hope.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:17 - All memory of their existence will fade from the earth,
no one will remember their names.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:25 - “But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,
and he will stand upon the earth at last.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:4 - “Don't you realize that from the beginning of time,
ever since people were first placed on the earth,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:26 - But both are buried in the same dust,
both eaten by the same maggots.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:8 - You probably think the land belongs to the powerful
and only the privileged have a right to it!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:4 - The poor are pushed off the path;
the needy must hide together for safety.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:13 - “Wicked people rebel against the light.
They refuse to acknowledge its ways
or stay in its paths.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:18 - “But they disappear like foam down a river.
Everything they own is cursed,
and they are afraid to enter their own vineyards.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:19 - The grave[fn] consumes sinners
just as drought and heat consume snow.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:2 - They know where to dig iron from the earth
and how to smelt copper from rock.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:8 - They are nameless fools,
outcasts from society.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:8 - then let someone else eat the crops I have planted.
Let all that I have planted be uprooted.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:39 - or if I have stolen its crops
or murdered its owners,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:11 - Where is the one who makes us smarter than the animals
and wiser than the birds of the sky?'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:3 - It rolls across the heavens,
and his lightning flashes in every direction.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:6 - “He directs the snow to fall on the earth
and tells the rain to pour down.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:12 - The clouds churn about at his direction.
They do whatever he commands throughout the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:17 - When you are sweltering in your clothes
and the south wind dies down and everything is still,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:13 - Have you made daylight spread to the ends of the earth,
to bring an end to the night's wickedness?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:14 - As the light approaches,
the earth takes shape like clay pressed beneath a seal;
it is robed in brilliant colors.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:25 - When it rises, the mighty are afraid,
gripped by terror.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:33 - Nothing on earth is its equal,
no other creature so fearless.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 1:4 - But not the wicked!
They are like worthless chaff, scattered by the wind.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:2 - The kings of the earth prepare for battle;
the rulers plot together
against the LORD
and against his anointed one.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:8 - Only ask, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance,
the whole earth as your possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:16 - The LORD is king forever and ever!
The godless nations will vanish from the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:18 - You will bring justice to the orphans and the oppressed,
so mere people can no longer terrify them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:14 - By the power of your hand, O LORD,
destroy those who look to this world for their reward.
But satisfy the hunger of your treasured ones.
May their children have plenty,
leaving an inheritance for their descendants.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:10 - You will wipe their children from the face of the earth;
they will never have descendants.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:27 - The whole earth will acknowledge the LORD and return to him.
All the families of the nations will bow down before him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:29 - Let the rich of the earth feast and worship.
Bow before him, all who are mortal,
all whose lives will end as dust.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:16 - But the LORD turns his face against those who do evil;
he will erase their memory from the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:6 - my God!
Now I am deeply discouraged,
but I will remember you—
even from distant Mount Hermon, the source of the Jordan,
from the land of Mount Mizar.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:8 - Come, see the glorious works of the LORD:
See how he brings destruction upon the world.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:9 - He causes wars to end throughout the earth.
He breaks the bow and snaps the spear;
he burns the shields with fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 47:7 - For God is the King over all the earth.
Praise him with a psalm.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 47:9 - The rulers of the world have gathered together
with the people of the God of Abraham.
For all the kings of the earth belong to God.
He is highly honored everywhere.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:2 - It is high and magnificent;
the whole earth rejoices to see it!
Mount Zion, the holy mountain,[fn]
is the city of the great King!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:10 - As your name deserves, O God,
you will be praised to the ends of the earth.
Your strong right hand is filled with victory.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:5 - But God will strike you down once and for all.
He will pull you from your home
and uproot you from the land of the living.
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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:13 - Destroy them in your anger!
Wipe them out completely!
Then the whole world will know
that God reigns in Israel.[fn]
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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:2 - From the ends of the earth,
I cry to you for help
when my heart is overwhelmed.
Lead me to the towering rock of safety,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:9 - But those plotting to destroy me will come to ruin.
They will go down into the depths of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:5 - You faithfully answer our prayers with awesome deeds,
O God our savior.
You are the hope of everyone on earth,
even those who sail on distant seas.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 67:7 - Yes, God will bless us,
and people all over the world will fear him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:32 - Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth.
Sing praises to the Lord.
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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:20 - You have allowed me to suffer much hardship,
but you will restore me to life again
and lift me up from the depths of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:21 - You will restore me to even greater honor
and comfort me once again.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:16 - May there be abundant grain throughout the land,
flourishing even on the hilltops.
May the fruit trees flourish like the trees of Lebanon,
and may the people thrive like grass in a field.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:17 - May the king's name endure forever;
may it continue as long as the sun shines.
May all nations be blessed through him
and bring him praise.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:9 - They boast against the very heavens,
and their words strut throughout the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:25 - Whom have I in heaven but you?
I desire you more than anything on earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:8 - Then they thought, “Let's destroy everything!”
So they burned down all the places where God was worshiped.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:12 - You, O God, are my king from ages past,
bringing salvation to the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:17 - You set the boundaries of the earth,
and you made both summer and winter.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:20 - Remember your covenant promises,
for the land is full of darkness and violence!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 75:8 - For the LORD holds a cup in his hand
that is full of foaming wine mixed with spices.
He pours out the wine in judgment,
and all the wicked must drink it,
draining it to the dregs.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 76:9 - You stand up to judge those who do evil, O God,
and to rescue the oppressed of the earth.
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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 76:12 - For he breaks the pride of princes,
and the kings of the earth fear him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:2 - They have left the bodies of your servants
as food for the birds of heaven.
The flesh of your godly ones
has become food for the wild animals.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:5 - He made it a law for Israel[fn]
when he attacked Egypt to set us free.
I heard an unknown voice say,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:10 - For it was I, the LORD your God,
who rescued you from the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it with good things.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 82:5 - But these oppressors know nothing;
they are so ignorant!
They wander about in darkness,
while the whole world is shaken to the core.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 85:11 - Truth springs up from the earth,
and righteousness smiles down from heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:27 - I will make him my firstborn son,
the mightiest king on earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:4 - He holds in his hands the depths of the earth
and the mightiest mountains.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:5 - The mountains melt like wax before the LORD,
before the Lord of all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 98:3 - He has remembered his promise to love and be faithful to Israel.
The ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:6 - I will search for faithful people
to be my companions.
Only those who are above reproach
will be allowed to serve me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:8 - My daily task will be to ferret out the wicked
and free the city of the LORD from their grip.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:15 - Then the nations will tremble before the LORD.
The kings of the earth will tremble before his glory.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:11 - For his unfailing love toward those who fear him
is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:14 - You cause grass to grow for the livestock
and plants for people to use.
You allow them to produce food from the earth—
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:30 - When you give them your breath,[fn] life is created,
and you renew the face of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:35 - Let all sinners vanish from the face of the earth;
let the wicked disappear forever.
Let all that I am praise the LORD.
Praise the LORD!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:35 - They ate up everything green in the land,
destroying all the crops in their fields.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:15 - May the LORD always remember these sins,
and may his name disappear from human memory.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 110:6 - He will punish the nations
and fill their lands with corpses;
he will shatter heads over the whole earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 113:7 - He lifts the poor from the dust
and the needy from the garbage dump.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:119 - You skim off the wicked of the earth like scum;
no wonder I love to obey your laws!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:7 - He causes the clouds to rise over the whole earth.
He sends the lightning with the rain
and releases the wind from his storehouses.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:4 - But how can we sing the songs of the LORD
while in a pagan land?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 138:4 - Every king in all the earth will thank you, LORD,
for all of them will hear your words.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:15 - You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:11 - Don't let liars prosper here in our land.
Cause great disasters to fall on the violent.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:7 - Like rocks brought up by a plow,
the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:6 - The LORD supports the humble,
but he brings the wicked down into the dust.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:7 - Praise the LORD from the earth,
you creatures of the ocean depths,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:11 - kings of the earth and all people,
rulers and judges of the earth,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:13 - Let them all praise the name of the LORD.
For his name is very great;
his glory towers over the earth and heaven!
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:12 - Let's swallow them alive, like the grave[fn];
let's swallow them whole, like those who go down to the pit of death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:21 - For only the godly will live in the land,
and those with integrity will remain in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:22 - But the wicked will be removed from the land,
and the treacherous will be uprooted.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:16 - Rulers lead with my help,
and nobles make righteous judgments.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:29 - I was there when he set the limits of the seas,
so they would not spread beyond their boundaries.
And when he marked off the earth's foundations,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:6 - There is treasure in the house of the godly,
but the earnings of the wicked bring trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:24 - Sensible people keep their eyes glued on wisdom,
but a fool's eyes wander to the ends of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:25 - Good news from far away
is like cold water to the thirsty.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:4 - Who but God goes up to heaven and comes back down?
Who holds the wind in his fists?
Who wraps up the oceans in his cloak?
Who has created the whole wide world?
What is his name—and his son's name?
Tell me if you know!
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:14 - They have teeth like swords
and fangs like knives.
They devour the poor from the earth
and the needy from among humanity.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:24 - There are four things on earth that are small but unusually wise:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:23 - Her husband is well known at the city gates,
where he sits with the other civic leaders.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:2 - [fn]Don't make rash promises, and don't be hasty in bringing matters before God. After all, God is in heaven, and you are here on earth. So let your words be few.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:9 - Even the king milks the land for his own profit![fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:14 - And this is not all that is meaningless in our world. In this life, good people are often treated as though they were wicked, and wicked people are often treated as though they were good. This is so meaningless!
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:16 - In my search for wisdom and in my observation of people's burdens here on earth, I discovered that there is ceaseless activity, day and night.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:7 - I have even seen servants riding horseback like princes—and princes walking like servants!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:19 - If you will only obey me,
you will have plenty to eat.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:19 - When the LORD rises to shake the earth,
his enemies will crawl into holes in the ground.
They will hide in caves in the rocks
from the terror of the LORD
and the glory of his majesty.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:2 - But in that day, the branch[fn] of the LORD
will be beautiful and glorious;
the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory
of all who survive in Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:8 - What sorrow for you who buy up house after house and field after field,
until everyone is evicted and you live alone in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:26 - He will send a signal to distant nations far away
and whistle to those at the ends of the earth.
They will come racing toward Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:12 - until the LORD has sent everyone away,
and the entire land of Israel lies deserted.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:22 - Nevertheless, there will be enough milk for everyone because so few people will be left in the land. They will eat their fill of yogurt and honey.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:9 - “Huddle together, you nations, and be terrified.
Listen, all you distant lands.
Prepare for battle, but you will be crushed!
Yes, prepare for battle, but you will be crushed!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:19 - Someone may say to you, “Let's ask the mediums and those who consult the spirits of the dead. With their whisperings and mutterings, they will tell us what to do.” But shouldn't people ask God for guidance? Should the living seek guidance from the dead?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:4 - He will give justice to the poor
and make fair decisions for the exploited.
The earth will shake at the force of his word,
and one breath from his mouth will destroy the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:12 - He will raise a flag among the nations
and assemble the exiles of Israel.
He will gather the scattered people of Judah
from the ends of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:16 - He will make a highway for the remnant of his people,
the remnant coming from Assyria,
just as he did for Israel long ago
when they returned from Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:5 - They come from distant countries,
from beyond the farthest horizons.
They are the LORD's weapons to carry out his anger.
With them he will destroy the whole land.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:1 - But the LORD will have mercy on the descendants of Jacob. He will choose Israel as his special people once again. He will bring them back to settle once again in their own land. And people from many different nations will come and join them there and unite with the people of Israel.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:2 - The nations of the world will help the LORD's people to return, and those who come to live in their land will serve them. Those who captured Israel will themselves be captured, and Israel will rule over its enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:9 - “In the place of the dead[fn] there is excitement
over your arrival.
The spirits of world leaders and mighty kings long dead
stand up to see you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:15 - Instead, you will be brought down to the place of the dead,
down to its lowest depths.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:25 - I will break the Assyrians when they are in Israel;
I will trample them on my mountains.
My people will no longer be their slaves
nor bow down under their heavy loads.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:4 - Let our refugees stay among you.
Hide them from our enemies until the terror is past.”
When oppression and destruction have ended
and enemy raiders have disappeared,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:1 - Listen, Ethiopia[fn]—land of fluttering sails[fn]
that lies at the headwaters of the Nile,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:2 - that sends ambassadors
in swift boats down the river.
Go, swift messengers!
Take a message to a tall, smooth-skinned people,
who are feared far and wide
for their conquests and destruction,
and whose land is divided by rivers.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:6 - Your mighty army will be left dead in the fields
for the mountain vultures and wild animals.
The vultures will tear at the corpses all summer.
The wild animals will gnaw at the bones all winter.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:3 - The Egyptians will lose heart,
and I will confuse their plans.
They will plead with their idols for wisdom
and call on spirits, mediums, and those who consult the spirits of the dead.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:1 - This message came to me concerning Babylon—the desert by the sea[fn]:
Disaster is roaring down on you from the desert,
like a whirlwind sweeping in from the Negev.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:1 - This message came to me concerning Tyre:
Weep, O ships of Tarshish,
for the harbor and houses of Tyre are gone!
The rumors you heard in Cyprus[fn]
are all true.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:8 - Who has brought this disaster on Tyre,
that great creator of kingdoms?
Her traders were all princes,
her merchants were nobles.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:9 - The LORD of Heaven's Armies has done it
to destroy your pride
and bring low all earth's nobility.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:4 - The earth mourns and dries up,
and the crops waste away and wither.
Even the greatest people on earth waste away.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:11 - Mobs gather in the streets, crying out for wine.
Joy has turned to gloom.
Gladness has been banished from the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:14 - But all who are left shout and sing for joy.
Those in the west praise the LORD's majesty.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:16 - We hear songs of praise from the ends of the earth,
songs that give glory to the Righteous One!
But my heart is heavy with grief.
Weep for me, for I wither away.
Deceit still prevails,
and treachery is everywhere.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:17 - Terror and traps and snares will be your lot,
you people of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:18 - Those who flee in terror will fall into a trap,
and those who escape the trap will be caught in a snare.
Destruction falls like rain from the heavens;
the foundations of the earth shake.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:21 - In that day the LORD will punish the gods in the heavens
and the proud rulers of the nations on earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:8 - He will swallow up death forever![fn]
The Sovereign LORD will wipe away all tears.
He will remove forever all insults and mockery
against his land and people.
The LORD has spoken!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:1 - In that day, everyone in the land of Judah will sing this song:
Our city is strong!
We are surrounded by the walls of God's salvation.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:9 - All night long I search for you;
in the morning I earnestly seek for God.
For only when you come to judge the earth
will people learn what is right.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:10 - Your kindness to the wicked
does not make them do good.
Although others do right, the wicked keep doing wrong
and take no notice of the LORD's majesty.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:15 - O LORD, you have made our nation great;
yes, you have made us great.
You have extended our borders,
and we give you the glory!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:18 - We, too, writhe in agony,
but nothing comes of our suffering.
We have not given salvation to the earth,
nor brought life into the world.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:21 - Look! The LORD is coming from heaven
to punish the people of the earth for their sins.
The earth will no longer hide those who have been killed.
They will be brought out for all to see.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:4 - Then deep from the earth you will speak;
from low in the dust your words will come.
Your voice will whisper from the ground
like a ghost conjured up from the grave.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:23 - Then the LORD will bless you with rain at planting time. There will be wonderful harvests and plenty of pastureland for your livestock.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:20 - Now, O LORD our God, rescue us from his power; then all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you alone, O LORD, are God.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:11 - I said, “Never again will I see the LORD GOD
while still in the land of the living.
Never again will I see my friends
or be with those who live in this world.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:3 - Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did those men want? Where were they from?”
Hezekiah replied, “They came from the distant land of Babylon.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:21 - Haven't you heard? Don't you understand?
Are you deaf to the words of God—
the words he gave before the world began?
Are you so ignorant?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:22 - God sits above the circle of the earth.
The people below seem like grasshoppers to him!
He spreads out the heavens like a curtain
and makes his tent from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:28 - Have you never heard?
Have you never understood?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of all the earth.
He never grows weak or weary.
No one can measure the depths of his understanding.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:5 - The lands beyond the sea watch in fear.
Remote lands tremble and mobilize for war.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:9 - I have called you back from the ends of the earth,
saying, ‘You are my servant.'
For I have chosen you
and will not throw you away.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:24 - But no! You are less than nothing and can do nothing at all.
Those who choose you pollute themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:4 - He will not falter or lose heart
until justice prevails throughout the earth.
Even distant lands beyond the sea will wait for his instruction.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:10 - Sing a new song to the LORD!
Sing his praises from the ends of the earth!
Sing, all you who sail the seas,
all you who live in distant coastlands.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:6 - I will say to the north and south,
‘Bring my sons and daughters back to Israel
from the distant corners of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:23 - Sing, O heavens, for the LORD has done this wondrous thing.
Shout for joy, O depths of the earth!
Break into song,
O mountains and forests and every tree!
For the LORD has redeemed Jacob
and is glorified in Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:19 - I publicly proclaim bold promises.
I do not whisper obscurities in some dark corner.
I would not have told the people of Israel[fn] to seek me
if I could not be found.
I, the LORD, speak only what is true
and declare only what is right.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:22 - Let all the world look to me for salvation!
For I am God; there is no other.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:11 - I will call a swift bird of prey from the east—
a leader from a distant land to come and do my bidding.
I have said what I would do,
and I will do it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:16 - Come closer, and listen to this.
From the beginning I have told you plainly what would happen.”
And now the Sovereign LORD and his Spirit
have sent me with this message.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:19 - Your descendants would have been like the sands along the seashore—
too many to count!
There would have been no need for your destruction,
or for cutting off your family name.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:20 - Yet even now, be free from your captivity!
Leave Babylon and the Babylonians.[fn]
Sing out this message!
Shout it to the ends of the earth!
The LORD has redeemed his servants,
the people of Israel.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:6 - He says, “You will do more than restore the people of Israel to me.
I will make you a light to the Gentiles,
and you will bring my salvation to the ends of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:12 - See, my people will return from far away,
from lands to the north and west,
and from as far south as Egypt.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:23 - Kings and queens will serve you
and care for all your needs.
They will bow to the earth before you
and lick the dust from your feet.
Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Those who trust in me will never be put to shame.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:10 - The LORD has demonstrated his holy power
before the eyes of all the nations.
All the ends of the earth will see
the victory of our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:8 - Unjustly condemned,
he was led away.[fn]
No one cared that he died without descendants,
that his life was cut short in midstream.[fn]
But he was struck down
for the rebellion of my people.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:9 - For just as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so my ways are higher than your ways
and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:14 - Then the LORD will be your delight.
I will give you great honor
and satisfy you with the inheritance I promised to your ancestor Jacob.
I, the LORD, have spoken!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:7 - Give the LORD no rest until he completes his work,
until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:11 - The LORD has sent this message to every land:
“Tell the people of Israel,[fn]
‘Look, your Savior is coming.
See, he brings his reward with him as he comes.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:11 - Then they remembered those days of old
when Moses led his people out of Egypt.
They cried out, “Where is the one who brought Israel through the sea,
with Moses as their shepherd?
Where is the one who sent his Holy Spirit
to be among his people?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:16 - All who invoke a blessing or take an oath
will do so by the God of truth.
For I will put aside my anger
and forget the evil of earlier days.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:15 - Listen! I am calling the armies of the kingdoms of the north to come to Jerusalem. I, the LORD, have spoken!
“They will set their thrones
at the gates of the city.
They will attack its walls
and all the other towns of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:18 - For see, today I have made you strong
like a fortified city that cannot be captured,
like an iron pillar or a bronze wall.
You will stand against the whole land—
the kings, officials, priests, and people of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6 - They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD
who brought us safely out of Egypt
and led us through the barren wilderness—
a land of deserts and pits,
a land of drought and death,
where no one lives or even travels?'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:16 - “And when your land is once more filled with people,” says the LORD, “you will no longer wish for ‘the good old days' when you possessed the Ark of the LORD's Covenant. You will not miss those days or even remember them, and there will be no need to rebuild the Ark.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:18 - In those days the people of Judah and Israel will return together from exile in the north. They will return to the land I gave their ancestors as an inheritance forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:5 - “Shout to Judah, and broadcast to Jerusalem!
Tell them to sound the alarm throughout the land:
‘Run for your lives!
Flee to the fortified cities!'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:16 - “Warn the surrounding nations
and announce this to Jerusalem:
The enemy is coming from a distant land,
raising a battle cry against the towns of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:30 - A horrible and shocking thing
has happened in this land—
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:20 - There's no use offering me sweet frankincense from Sheba.
Keep your fragrant calamus imported from distant lands!
I will not accept your burnt offerings.
Your sacrifices have no pleasing aroma for me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:22 - This is what the LORD says:
“Look! A great army coming from the north!
A great nation is rising against you from far-off lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:20 - So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “I will pour out my terrible fury on this place. Its people, animals, trees, and crops will be consumed by the unquenchable fire of my anger.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:22 - When I led your ancestors out of Egypt, it was not burnt offerings and sacrifices I wanted from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:25 - From the day your ancestors left Egypt until now, I have continued to send my servants, the prophets—day in and day out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:33 - The bodies of my people will be food for the vultures and wild animals, and no one will be left to scare them away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:2 - They will spread out their bones on the ground before the sun, moon, and stars—the gods my people have loved, served, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up again or buried but will be scattered on the ground like manure.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:19 - Listen to the weeping of my people;
it can be heard all across the land.
“Has the LORD abandoned Jerusalem?[fn]” the people ask.
“Is her King no longer there?”
“Oh, why have they provoked my anger with their carved idols
and their worthless foreign gods?” says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:3 - “My people bend their tongues like bows
to shoot out lies.
They refuse to stand up for the truth.
They only go from bad to worse.
They do not know me,”
says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:22 - This is what the LORD says:
“Bodies will be scattered across the fields like clumps of manure,
like bundles of grain after the harvest.
No one will be left to bury them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:24 - But those who wish to boast
should boast in this alone:
that they truly know me and understand that I am the LORD
who demonstrates unfailing love
and who brings justice and righteousness to the earth,
and that I delight in these things.
I, the LORD, have spoken!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:11 - Say this to those who worship other gods: “Your so-called gods, who did not make the heavens and earth, will vanish from the earth and from under the heavens.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:13 - When he speaks in the thunder,
the heavens roar with rain.
He causes the clouds to rise over the earth.
He sends the lightning with the rain
and releases the wind from his storehouses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:22 - Listen! Hear the terrifying roar of great armies
as they roll down from the north.
The towns of Judah will be destroyed
and become a haunt for jackals.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:4 - For I said to your ancestors when I brought them out of the iron-smelting furnace of Egypt, “If you obey me and do whatever I command you, then you will be my people, and I will be your God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:19 - I was like a lamb being led to the slaughter. I had no idea that they were planning to kill me! “Let's destroy this man and all his words,” they said. “Let's cut him down, so his name will be forgotten forever.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:12 - On all the bare hilltops,
destroying armies can be seen.
The sword of the LORD devours people
from one end of the nation to the other.
No one will escape!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:14 - Now this is what the LORD says: “I will uproot from their land all the evil nations reaching out for the possession I gave my people Israel. And I will uproot Judah from among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:2 - “Judah wilts;
commerce at the city gates grinds to a halt.
All the people sit on the ground in mourning,
and a great cry rises from Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:4 - The ground is parched
and cracked for lack of rain.
The farmers are deeply troubled;
they, too, cover their heads.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:8 - O Hope of Israel, our Savior in times of trouble,
why are you like a stranger to us?
Why are you like a traveler passing through the land,
stopping only for the night?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:13 - Then I said, “O Sovereign LORD, their prophets are telling them, ‘All is well—no war or famine will come. The LORD will surely send you peace.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:15 - Therefore, this is what the LORD says: I will punish these lying prophets, for they have spoken in my name even though I never sent them. They say that no war or famine will come, but they themselves will die by war and famine!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:3 - “I will send four kinds of destroyers against them,” says the LORD. “I will send the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, the vultures to devour, and the wild animals to finish up what is left.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:4 - Because of the wicked things Manasseh son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem, I will make my people an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:4 - They will die from terrible diseases. No one will mourn for them or bury them, and they will lie scattered on the ground like manure. They will die from war and famine, and their bodies will be food for the vultures and wild animals.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:13 - So I will throw you out of this land and send you into a foreign land where you and your ancestors have never been. There you can worship idols day and night—and I will grant you no favors!'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:14 - “But the time is coming,” says the LORD, “when people who are taking an oath will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who rescued the people of Israel from the land of Egypt.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:15 - Instead, they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the people of Israel back to their own land from the land of the north and from all the countries to which he had exiled them.' For I will bring them back to this land that I gave their ancestors.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 - LORD, you are my strength and fortress,
my refuge in the day of trouble!
Nations from around the world
will come to you and say,
“Our ancestors left us a foolish heritage,
for they worshiped worthless idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:13 - O LORD, the hope of Israel,
all who turn away from you will be disgraced.
They will be buried in the dust of the earth,
for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:26 - And from all around Jerusalem, from the towns of Judah and Benjamin, from the western foothills[fn] and the hill country and the Negev, the people will come with their burnt offerings and sacrifices. They will bring their grain offerings, frankincense, and thanksgiving offerings to the LORD's Temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:7 - “‘For I will upset the careful plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will allow the people to be slaughtered by invading armies, and I will leave their dead bodies as food for the vultures and wild animals.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:3 - But I will gather together the remnant of my flock from the countries where I have driven them. I will bring them back to their own sheepfold, and they will be fruitful and increase in number.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:5 - “For the time is coming,”
says the LORD,
“when I will raise up a righteous descendant[fn]
from King David's line.
He will be a King who rules with wisdom.
He will do what is just and right throughout the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:7 - “In that day,” says the LORD, “when people are taking an oath, they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who rescued the people of Israel from the land of Egypt.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:8 - Instead, they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the people of Israel back to their own land from the land of the north and from all the countries to which he had exiled them.' Then they will live in their own land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:9 - I will make them an object of horror and a symbol of evil to every nation on earth. They will be disgraced and mocked, taunted and cursed, wherever I scatter them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:10 - And I will send war, famine, and disease until they have vanished from the land of Israel, which I gave to them and their ancestors.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:5 - Each time the message was this: ‘Turn from the evil road you are traveling and from the evil things you are doing. Only then will I let you live in this land that the LORD gave to you and your ancestors forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:26 - And I gave it to the kings of the northern countries, far and near, one after the other—all the kingdoms of the world. And finally, the king of Babylon[fn] himself drank from the cup of the LORD's anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:29 - I have begun to punish Jerusalem, the city that bears my name. Now should I let you go unpunished? No, you will not escape disaster. I will call for war against all the nations of the earth. I, the LORD of Heaven's Armies, have spoken!'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:31 - His cry of judgment will reach the ends of the earth,
for the LORD will bring his case against all the nations.
He will judge all the people of the earth,
slaughtering the wicked with the sword.
I, the LORD, have spoken!'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:32 - This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies says:
“Look! Disaster will fall upon nation after nation!
A great whirlwind of fury is rising
from the most distant corners of the earth!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:33 - In that day those the LORD has slaughtered will fill the earth from one end to the other. No one will mourn for them or gather up their bodies to bury them. They will be scattered on the ground like manure.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:6 - then I will destroy this Temple as I destroyed Shiloh, the place where the Tabernacle was located. And I will make Jerusalem an object of cursing in every nation on earth.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:17 - Then some of the wise old men stood and spoke to all the people assembled there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:20 - At this time Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim was also prophesying for the LORD. And he predicted the same terrible disaster against the city and nation as Jeremiah did.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:10 - They are all liars, and their lies will lead to your being driven out of your land. I will drive you out and send you far away to die.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:11 - But the people of any nation that submits to the king of Babylon will be allowed to stay in their own country to farm the land as usual. I, the LORD, have spoken!'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:8 - The ancient prophets who preceded you and me spoke against many nations, always warning of war, disaster, and disease.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:16 - Therefore, this is what the LORD says: ‘You must die. Your life will end this very year because you have rebelled against the LORD.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:7 - And work for the peace and prosperity of the city where I sent you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, for its welfare will determine your welfare.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:8 - For I will bring them from the north
and from the distant corners of the earth.
I will not forget the blind and lame,
the expectant mothers and women in labor.
A great company will return!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:16 - But now this is what the LORD says:
“Do not weep any longer,
for I will reward you,” says the LORD.
“Your children will come back to you
from the distant land of the enemy.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:32 - This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant, though I loved them as a husband loves his wife,” says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:37 - This is what the LORD says:
“Just as the heavens cannot be measured
and the foundations of the earth cannot be explored,
so I will not consider casting them away
for the evil they have done.
I, the LORD, have spoken!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:21 - “You brought Israel out of Egypt with mighty signs and wonders, with a strong hand and powerful arm, and with overwhelming terror.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:37 - I will certainly bring my people back again from all the countries where I will scatter them in my fury. I will bring them back to this very city and let them live in peace and safety.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:9 - Then this city will bring me joy, glory, and honor before all the nations of the earth! The people of the world will see all the good I do for my people, and they will tremble with awe at the peace and prosperity I provide for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:11 - the sounds of joy and laughter. The joyful voices of bridegrooms and brides will be heard again, along with the joyous songs of people bringing thanksgiving offerings to the LORD. They will sing,
‘Give thanks to the LORD of Heaven's Armies,
for the LORD is good.
His faithful love endures forever!' For I will restore the prosperity of this land to what it was in the past, says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:13 - “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your ancestors long ago when I rescued them from their slavery in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17 - “Therefore, this is what the LORD says: Since you have not obeyed me by setting your countrymen free, I will set you free to be destroyed by war, disease, and famine. You will be an object of horror to all the nations of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:20 - I will give you to your enemies, and they will kill you. Your bodies will be food for the vultures and wild animals.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:7 - And do not build houses or plant crops or vineyards, but always live in tents. If you follow these commands, you will live long, good lives in the land.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:15 - Time after time I sent you prophets, who told you, “Turn from your wicked ways, and start doing things right. Stop worshiping other gods so that you might live in peace here in the land I have given to you and your ancestors.” But you would not listen to me or obey me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:19 - Therefore, this is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Jehonadab son of Recab will always have descendants who serve me.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:2 - But neither King Zedekiah nor his attendants nor the people who were left in the land listened to what the LORD said through Jeremiah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:2 - Ishmael and his ten men suddenly jumped up, drew their swords, and killed Gedaliah, whom the king of Babylon had appointed governor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:8 - Why provoke my anger by burning incense to the idols you have made here in Egypt? You will only destroy yourselves and make yourselves an object of cursing and mockery for all the nations of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:21 - “Do you think the LORD did not know that you and your ancestors, your kings and officials, and all the people were burning incense to idols in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:10 - For this is the day of the Lord, the LORD of Heaven's Armies,
a day of vengeance on his enemies.
The sword will devour until it is satisfied,
yes, until it is drunk with your blood!
The Lord, the LORD of Heaven's Armies, will receive a sacrifice today
in the north country beside the Euphrates River.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:8 - “But now, flee from Babylon!
Leave the land of the Babylonians.
Like male goats at the head of the flock,
lead my people home again.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:9 - For I am raising up an army
of great nations from the north.
They will join forces to attack Babylon,
and she will be captured.
The enemies' arrows will go straight to the mark;
they will not miss!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:20 - In those days,” says the LORD,
“no sin will be found in Israel or in Judah,
for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:23 - Babylon, the mightiest hammer in all the earth,
lies broken and shattered.
Babylon is desolate among the nations!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:28 - Listen to the people who have escaped from Babylon,
as they tell in Jerusalem
how the LORD our God has taken vengeance
against those who destroyed his Temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:41 - “Look! A great army is coming from the north.
A great nation and many kings
are rising against you from far-off lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:16 - When he speaks in the thunder,
the heavens are filled with water.
He causes the clouds to rise over the earth.
He sends the lightning with the rain
and releases the wind from his storehouses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:27 - Raise a signal flag to the nations.
Sound the battle cry!
Mobilize them all against Babylon.
Prepare them to fight against her!
Bring out the armies of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.
Appoint a commander,
and bring a multitude of horses like swarming locusts!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:28 - Bring against her the armies of the nations—
led by the kings of the Medes
and all their captains and officers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:41 - “How Babylon[fn] is fallen—
great Babylon, praised throughout the earth!
Now she has become an object of horror
among the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:49 - “Just as Babylon killed the people of Israel
and others throughout the world,
so must her people be killed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:50 - Get out, all you who have escaped the sword!
Do not stand and watch—flee while you can!
Remember the LORD, though you are in a far-off land,
and think about your home in Jerusalem.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:6 - By July 18 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah's reign,[fn] the famine in the city had become very severe, and the last of the food was entirely gone.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:25 - And from among the people still hiding in the city, he took an officer who had been in charge of the Judean army; seven of the king's personal advisers; the army commander's chief secretary, who was in charge of recruitment; and sixty other citizens.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:15 - All who pass by jeer at you.
They scoff and insult beautiful Jerusalem,[fn] saying,
“Is this the city called ‘Most Beautiful in All the World'
and ‘Joy of All the Earth'?”
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:34 - If people crush underfoot
all the prisoners of the land,
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:12 - Not a king in all the earth—
no one in all the world—
would have believed that an enemy
could march through the gates of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:21 - Are you rejoicing in the land of Uz,
O people of Edom?
But you, too, must drink from the cup of the LORD's anger.
You, too, will be stripped naked in your drunkenness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:15 - As I looked at these beings, I saw four wheels touching the ground beside them, one wheel belonging to each.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:19 - When the living beings moved, the wheels moved with them. When they flew upward, the wheels went up, too.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:21 - When the beings moved, the wheels moved. When the beings stopped, the wheels stopped. When the beings flew upward, the wheels rose up, for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:2 - “Son of man, this is what the Sovereign LORD says to Israel:
“The end is here!
Wherever you look—
east, west, north, or south—
your land is finished.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:21 - I will give it as plunder to foreigners,
to the most wicked of nations,
and they will defile it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:27 - The king and the prince will stand helpless,
weeping in despair,
and the people's hands
will tremble with fear.
I will bring on them
the evil they have done to others,
and they will receive the punishment
they so richly deserve.
Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:3 - He reached out what seemed to be a hand and took me by the hair. Then the Spirit lifted me up into the sky and transported me to Jerusalem in a vision from God. I was taken to the north gate of the inner courtyard of the Temple, where there is a large idol that has made the LORD very jealous.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:16 - When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved with them. When they lifted their wings to fly, the wheels stayed beside them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:19 - And as I watched, the cherubim flew with their wheels to the east gate of the LORD's Temple. And the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:19 - Tell the people, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says concerning those living in Israel and Jerusalem: They will eat their food with trembling and sip their water in despair, for their land will be stripped bare because of their violence.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:22 - “Son of man, you've heard that proverb they quote in Israel: ‘Time passes, and prophecies come to nothing.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:17 - “Or suppose I were to bring war against the land, and I sent enemy armies to destroy both people and animals.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:3 - Give her this message from the Sovereign LORD: You are nothing but a Canaanite! Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:5 - He also took a seedling from the land
and planted it in fertile soil.
He placed it beside a broad river,
where it could grow like a willow tree.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:13 - He made a treaty with a member of the royal family and forced him to take an oath of loyalty. He also exiled Israel's most influential leaders,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:6 - I took a solemn oath that day that I would bring them out of Egypt to a land I had discovered and explored for them—a good land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the best of all lands anywhere.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:8 - “But they rebelled against me and would not listen. They did not get rid of the vile images they were obsessed with, or forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I threatened to pour out my fury on them to satisfy my anger while they were still in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:9 - But I didn't do it, for I acted to protect the honor of my name. I would not allow shame to be brought on my name among the surrounding nations who saw me reveal myself by bringing the Israelites out of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:10 - So I brought them out of Egypt and led them into the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:32 - “You say, ‘We want to be like the nations all around us, who serve idols of wood and stone.' But what you have in mind will never happen.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:36 - I will judge you there just as I did your ancestors in the wilderness after bringing them out of Egypt, says the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:32 - You will be fuel for the fire,
and your blood will be spilled in your own land.
You will be utterly wiped out,
your memory lost to history,
for I, the LORD, have spoken!”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:29 - Even common people oppress the poor, rob the needy, and deprive foreigners of justice.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:30 - “I looked for someone who might rebuild the wall of righteousness that guards the land. I searched for someone to stand in the gap in the wall so I wouldn't have to destroy the land, but I found no one.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:15 - Handsome belts encircled their waists, and flowing turbans crowned their heads. They were dressed like chariot officers from the land of Babylonia.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:27 - In this way, I will put a stop to the lewdness and prostitution you brought from Egypt. You will never again cast longing eyes on those things or fondly remember your time in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:48 - In this way, I will put an end to lewdness and idolatry in the land, and my judgment will be a warning to others not to follow their wicked example.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:20 - I will send you to the pit to join those who descended there long ago. Your city will lie in ruins, buried beneath the earth, like those in the pit who have entered the world of the dead. You will have no place of respect here in the land of the living.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:33 - The merchandise you traded
satisfied the desires of many nations.
Kings at the ends of the earth
were enriched by your trade.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:18 - You defiled your sanctuaries
with your many sins and your dishonest trade.
So I brought fire out from within you,
and it consumed you.
I reduced you to ashes on the ground
in the sight of all who were watching.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:25 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The people of Israel will again live in their own land, the land I gave my servant Jacob. For I will gather them from the distant lands where I have scattered them. I will reveal to the nations of the world my holiness among my people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:5 - I will leave you and all your fish
stranded in the wilderness to die.
You will lie unburied on the open ground,
for I have given you as food to the wild animals and birds.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - I will make Egypt desolate, and it will be surrounded by other desolate nations. Its cities will be empty and desolate for forty years, surrounded by other ruined cities. I will scatter the Egyptians to distant lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:13 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
I will smash the idols[fn] of Egypt
and the images at Memphis.[fn]
There will be no rulers left in Egypt;
terror will sweep the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:12 - A foreign army—the terror of the nations—has cut it down and left it fallen on the ground. Its branches are scattered across the mountains and valleys and ravines of the land. All those who lived in its shadow have gone away and left it lying there.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:14 - Let the tree of no other nation
proudly exult in its own prosperity,
though it be higher than the clouds
and it be watered from the depths.
For all are doomed to die,
to go down to the depths of the earth.
They will land in the pit
along with everyone else on earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:18 - “O Egypt, to which of the trees of Eden will you compare your strength and glory? You, too, will be brought down to the depths with all these other nations. You will lie there among the outcasts[fn] who have died by the sword. This will be the fate of Pharaoh and all his hordes. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:4 - I will leave you stranded on the land to die.
All the birds of the heavens will land on you,
and the wild animals of the whole earth
will gorge themselves on you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:18 - “Son of man, weep for the hordes of Egypt and for the other mighty nations.[fn] For I will send them down to the world below in company with those who descend to the pit.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:23 - Their graves are in the depths of the pit, and they are surrounded by their allies. They struck terror in the hearts of people everywhere, but now they have been slaughtered by the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:24 - “Elam lies there surrounded by the graves of all its hordes, those who were slaughtered by the sword. They struck terror in the hearts of people everywhere, but now they have descended as outcasts to the world below. Now they lie in the pit and share the shame of those who have gone before them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:26 - “Meshech and Tubal are there, surrounded by the graves of all their hordes. They once struck terror in the hearts of people everywhere. But now they are outcasts, all slaughtered by the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:32 - Although I have caused his terror to fall upon all the living, Pharaoh and his hordes will lie there among the outcasts who were slaughtered by the sword. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:2 - “Son of man, give your people this message: ‘When I bring an army against a country, the people of that land choose one of their own to be a watchman.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:24 - “Son of man, the scattered remnants of Judah living among the ruined cities keep saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he gained possession of the entire land. We are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:6 - They have wandered through all the mountains and all the hills, across the face of the earth, yet no one has gone to search for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:13 - I will bring them back home to their own land of Israel from among the peoples and nations. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel and by the rivers and in all the places where people live.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:25 - “I will make a covenant of peace with my people and drive away the dangerous animals from the land. Then they will be able to camp safely in the wildest places and sleep in the woods without fear.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:27 - The orchards and fields of my people will yield bumper crops, and everyone will live in safety. When I have broken their chains of slavery and rescued them from those who enslaved them, then they will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:28 - They will no longer be prey for other nations, and wild animals will no longer devour them. They will live in safety, and no one will frighten them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:29 - “And I will make their land famous for its crops, so my people will never again suffer from famines or the insults of foreign nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:14 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The whole world will rejoice when I make you desolate.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:17 - “Son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own land, they defiled it by the evil way they lived. To me their conduct was as unclean as a woman's menstrual cloth.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:20 - But when they were scattered among the nations, they brought shame on my holy name. For the nations said, ‘These are the people of the LORD, but he couldn't keep them safe in his own land!'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:28 - “And you will live in Israel, the land I gave your ancestors long ago. You will be my people, and I will be your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:25 - They will live in the land I gave my servant Jacob, the land where their ancestors lived. They and their children and their grandchildren after them will live there forever, generation after generation. And my servant David will be their prince forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:12 - I will go to those formerly desolate cities that are now filled with people who have returned from exile in many nations. I will capture vast amounts of plunder, for the people are rich with livestock and other possessions now. They think the whole world revolves around them!'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:19 - In my jealousy and blazing anger, I promise a mighty shaking in the land of Israel on that day.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:20 - All living things—the fish in the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals of the field, the small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the people on earth—will quake in terror at my presence. Mountains will be thrown down; cliffs will crumble; walls will fall to the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:13 - Everyone in Israel will help, for it will be a glorious victory for Israel when I demonstrate my glory on that day, says the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:14 - “After seven months, teams of men will be appointed to search the land for skeletons to bury, so the land will be made clean again.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:18 - Eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of princes as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all fattened animals from Bashan!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:6 - Since there were three levels and they did not have supporting columns as in the courtyards, each of the upper levels was set back from the level beneath it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:1 - “When you divide the land among the tribes of Israel, you must set aside a section for the LORD as his holy portion. This piece of land will be 8⅓ miles long and 6⅔ miles wide.[fn] The entire area will be holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:4 - This area will be holy, set aside for the priests who minister to the LORD in the sanctuary. They will use it for their homes, and my Temple will be located within it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:7 - “Two special sections of land will be set apart for the prince. One section will share a border with the east side of the sacred lands and city, and the second section will share a border on the west side. Then the far eastern and western borders of the prince's lands will line up with the eastern and western boundaries of the tribal areas.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:22 - On the day of Passover the prince will provide a young bull as a sin offering for himself and the people of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:3 - The common people will bow down and worship the LORD in front of this gateway on Sabbath days and the days of new moon celebrations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:9 - But when the people come in through the north gateway to worship the LORD during the religious festivals, they must leave by the south gateway. And those who entered through the south gateway must leave by the north gateway. They must never leave by the same gateway they came in, but must always use the opposite gateway.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:13 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “Divide the land in this way for the twelve tribes of Israel: The descendants of Joseph will be given two shares of land.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:15 - “These are the boundaries of the land: The northern border will run from the Mediterranean toward Hethlon, then on through Lebo-hamath to Zedad;
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:18 - “The eastern border starts at a point between Hauran and Damascus and runs south along the Jordan River between Israel and Gilead, past the Dead Sea[fn] and as far south as Tamar.[fn] This will be the eastern border.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:12 - It will be their special portion when the land is distributed, the most sacred land of all. Next to the priests' territory will lie the land where the other Levites will live.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:14 - None of this special land may ever be sold or traded or used by others, for it belongs to the LORD; it is set apart as holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:39 - “But after your kingdom comes to an end, another kingdom, inferior to yours, will rise to take your place. After that kingdom has fallen, yet a third kingdom, represented by bronze, will rise to rule the world.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:10 - “‘While I was lying in my bed, this is what I dreamed. I saw a large tree in the middle of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:11 - The tree grew very tall and strong, reaching high into the heavens for all the world to see.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:15 - But leave the stump and the roots in the ground, bound with a band of iron and bronze and surrounded by tender grass. Now let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and let him live with the wild animals among the plants of the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:22 - That tree, Your Majesty, is you. For you have grown strong and great; your greatness reaches up to heaven, and your rule to the ends of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:35 - All the people of the earth are nothing compared to him. He does as he pleases among the angels of heaven and among the people of the earth. No one can stop him or say to him, ‘What do you mean by doing these things?'
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:27 - He rescues and saves his people; he performs miraculous signs and wonders in the heavens and on earth. He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:4 - The first beast was like a lion with eagles' wings. As I watched, its wings were pulled off, and it was left standing with its two hind feet on the ground, like a human being. And it was given a human mind.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:17 - “These four huge beasts represent four kingdoms that will arise from the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:5 - While I was watching, suddenly a male goat appeared from the west, crossing the land so swiftly that he didn't even touch the ground. This goat, which had one very large horn between its eyes,
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:6 - We have refused to listen to your servants the prophets, who spoke on your authority to our kings and princes and ancestors and to all the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:15 - “O Lord our God, you brought lasting honor to your name by rescuing your people from Egypt in a great display of power. But we have sinned and are full of wickedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:19 - He will take refuge in his own fortresses but will stumble and fall and be seen no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:1 - “At that time Michael, the archangel[fn] who stands guard over your nation, will arise. Then there will be a time of anguish greater than any since nations first came into existence. But at that time every one of your people whose name is written in the book will be rescued.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:2 - Many of those whose bodies lie dead and buried will rise up, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting disgrace.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:11 - Then the people of Judah and Israel will unite together. They will choose one leader for themselves, and they will return from exile together. What a day that will be—the day of Jezreel[fn]—when God will again plant his people in his land.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:12 - I will destroy her grapevines and fig trees,
things she claims her lovers gave her.
I will let them grow into tangled thickets,
where only wild animals will eat the fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:15 - I will return her vineyards to her
and transform the Valley of Trouble[fn] into a gateway of hope.
She will give herself to me there,
as she did long ago when she was young,
when I freed her from her captivity in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:18 - On that day I will make a covenant
with all the wild animals and the birds of the sky
and the animals that scurry along the ground
so they will not harm you.
I will remove all weapons of war from the land,
all swords and bows,
so you can live unafraid
in peace and safety.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:23 - At that time I will plant a crop of Israelites
and raise them for myself.
I will show love
to those I called ‘Not loved.'[fn]
And to those I called ‘Not my people,'[fn]
I will say, ‘Now you are my people.'
And they will reply, ‘You are our God!'”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:1 - Hear the word of the LORD, O people of Israel!
The LORD has brought charges against you, saying:
“There is no faithfulness, no kindness,
no knowledge of God in your land.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:2 - You make vows and break them;
you kill and steal and commit adultery.
There is violence everywhere—
one murder after another.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:3 - That is why your land is in mourning,
and everyone is wasting away.
Even the wild animals, the birds of the sky,
and the fish of the sea are disappearing.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:1 - How prosperous Israel is—
a luxuriant vine loaded with fruit.
But the richer the people get,
the more pagan altars they build.
The more bountiful their harvests,
the more beautiful their sacred pillars.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:11 - Like a flock of birds, they will come from Egypt.
Trembling like doves, they will return from Assyria.
And I will bring them home again,”
says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:9 - “But I am the LORD your God,
who rescued you from slavery in Egypt.
And I will make you live in tents again,
as you do each year at the Festival of Shelters.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:4 - “I have been the LORD your God
ever since I brought you out of Egypt.
You must acknowledge no God but me,
for there is no other savior.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:30 - And I will cause wonders in the heavens and on the earth—
blood and fire and columns of smoke.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:11 - This is what the LORD says:
“The people of Edom have sinned again and again,
and I will not let them go unpunished!
They chased down their relatives, the Israelites, with swords,
showing them no mercy.
In their rage, they slashed them continually
and were unrelenting in their anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:7 - They trample helpless people in the dust
and shove the oppressed out of the way.
Both father and son sleep with the same woman,
corrupting my holy name.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:10 - It was I who rescued you from Egypt
and led you through the desert for forty years,
so you could possess the land of the Amorites.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:1 - Listen to this message that the LORD has spoken against you, O people of Israel and Judah—against the entire family I rescued from Egypt:
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:2 - “From among all the families on the earth,
I have been intimate with you alone.
That is why I must punish you
for all your sins.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:5 - Does a bird ever get caught in a trap
that has no bait?
Does a trap spring shut
when there's nothing to catch?
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:13 - For the LORD is the one who shaped the mountains,
stirs up the winds, and reveals his thoughts to mankind.
He turns the light of dawn into darkness
and treads on the heights of the earth.
The LORD God of Heaven's Armies is his name!
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:2 - “The virgin Israel has fallen,
never to rise again!
She lies abandoned on the ground,
with no one to help her up.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:8 - It is the LORD who created the stars,
the Pleiades and Orion.
He turns darkness into morning
and day into night.
He draws up water from the oceans
and pours it down as rain on the land.
The LORD is his name!
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:2 - In my vision the locusts ate every green plant in sight. Then I said, “O Sovereign LORD, please forgive us or we will not survive, for Israel[fn] is so small.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:11 - He is saying, ‘Jeroboam will soon be killed, and the people of Israel will be sent away into exile.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:17 - But this is what the LORD says:
‘Your wife will become a prostitute in this city,
and your sons and daughters will be killed.
Your land will be divided up,
and you yourself will die in a foreign land.
And the people of Israel will certainly become captives in exile,
far from their homeland.'”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:4 - Listen to this, you who rob the poor
and trample down the needy!
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:9 - “In that day,” says the Sovereign LORD,
“I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth while it is still day.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:5 - The Lord, the LORD of Heaven's Armies,
touches the land and it melts,
and all its people mourn.
The ground rises like the Nile River at floodtime,
and then it sinks again.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:6 - The LORD's home reaches up to the heavens,
while its foundation is on the earth.
He draws up water from the oceans
and pours it down as rain on the land.
The LORD is his name!
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:7 - “Are you Israelites more important to me
than the Ethiopians?[fn]” asks the LORD.
“I brought Israel out of Egypt,
but I also brought the Philistines from Crete[fn]
and led the Arameans out of Kir.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:8 - “I, the Sovereign LORD,
am watching this sinful nation of Israel.
I will destroy it
from the face of the earth.
But I will never completely destroy the family of Israel,[fn]
says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:15 - I will firmly plant them there
in their own land.
They will never again be uprooted
from the land I have given them,”
says the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:3 - Look! The LORD is coming!
He leaves his throne in heaven
and tramples the heights of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:13 - “Rise up and crush the nations, O Jerusalem!”[fn]
says the LORD.
“For I will give you iron horns and bronze hooves,
so you can trample many nations to pieces.
You will present their stolen riches to the LORD,
their wealth to the LORD of all the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:4 - And he will stand to lead his flock with the LORD's strength,
in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God.
Then his people will live there undisturbed,
for he will be highly honored around the world.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:11 - I will tear down your walls
and demolish your defenses.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:2 - And now, O mountains,
listen to the LORD's complaint!
He has a case against his people.
He will bring charges against Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:4 - For I brought you out of Egypt
and redeemed you from slavery.
I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to help you.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:2 - The godly people have all disappeared;
not one honest person is left on the earth.
They are all murderers,
setting traps even for their own brothers.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:13 - “I am your enemy!”
says the LORD of Heaven's Armies.
“Your chariots will soon go up in smoke.
Your young men[fn] will be killed in battle.
Never again will you plunder conquered nations.
The voices of your proud messengers will be heard no more.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:13 - Your troops will be as weak
and helpless as women.
The gates of your land will be opened wide to the enemy
and set on fire and burned.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:6 - I am raising up the Babylonians,[fn]
a cruel and violent people.
They will march across the world
and conquer other lands.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:8 - Because you have plundered many nations,
now all the survivors will plunder you.
You committed murder throughout the countryside
and filled the towns with violence.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:17 - You cut down the forests of Lebanon.
Now you will be cut down.
You destroyed the wild animals,
so now their terror will be yours.
You committed murder throughout the countryside
and filled the towns with violence.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:7 - I see the people of Cushan in distress,
and the nation of Midian trembling in terror.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:2 - “I will sweep away everything
from the face of the earth,” says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:3 - “I will sweep away people and animals alike.
I will sweep away the birds of the sky and the fish in the sea.
I will reduce the wicked to heaps of rubble,[fn]
and I will wipe humanity from the face of the earth,” says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:3 - Seek the LORD, all who are humble,
and follow his commands.
Seek to do what is right
and to live humbly.
Perhaps even yet the LORD will protect you—
protect you from his anger on that day of destruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:11 - The LORD will terrify them
as he destroys all the gods in the land.
Then nations around the world will worship the LORD,
each in their own land.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:14 - The proud city will become a pasture for flocks and herds,
and all sorts of wild animals will settle there.
The desert owl and screech owl will roost on its ruined columns,
their calls echoing through the gaping windows.
Rubble will block all the doorways,
and the cedar paneling will be exposed to the weather.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:20 - On that day I will gather you together
and bring you home again.
I will give you a good name, a name of distinction,
among all the nations of the earth,
as I restore your fortunes before their very eyes.
I, the LORD, have spoken!”
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:4 - But now the LORD says: Be strong, Zerubbabel. Be strong, Jeshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people still left in the land. And now get to work, for I am with you, says the LORD of Heaven's Armies.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:6 - The LORD says, “Come away! Flee from Babylon in the land of the north, for I have scattered you to the four winds.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:9 - Now look at the jewel I have set before Jeshua, a single stone with seven facets.[fn] I will engrave an inscription on it, says the LORD of Heaven's Armies, and I will remove the sins of this land in a single day.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:14 - Then he said to me, “They represent the two heavenly beings who stand in the court of the Lord of all the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:3 - Then he said to me, “This scroll contains the curse that is going out over the entire land. One side of the scroll says that those who steal will be banished from the land; the other side says that those who swear falsely will be banished from the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:9 - Then I looked up and saw two women flying toward us, gliding on the wind. They had wings like a stork, and they picked up the basket and flew into the sky.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:5 - The angel replied, “These are the four spirits[fn] of heaven who stand before the Lord of all the earth. They are going out to do his work.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:5 - “Say to all your people and your priests, ‘During these seventy years of exile, when you fasted and mourned in the summer and in early autumn,[fn] was it really for me that you were fasting?
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:7 - “This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies says: You can be sure that I will rescue my people from the east and from the west.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:10 - I will remove the battle chariots from Israel[fn]
and the warhorses from Jerusalem.
I will destroy all the weapons used in battle,
and your king will bring peace to the nations.
His realm will stretch from sea to sea
and from the Euphrates River[fn] to the ends of the earth.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:16 - On that day the LORD their God will rescue his people,
just as a shepherd rescues his sheep.
They will sparkle in his land
like jewels in a crown.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:10 - I will bring them back from Egypt
and gather them from Assyria.
I will resettle them in Gilead and Lebanon
until there is no more room for them all.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:3 - On that day I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock. All the nations will gather against it to try to move it, but they will only hurt themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:2 - “And on that day,” says the LORD of Heaven's Armies, “I will erase idol worship throughout the land, so that even the names of the idols will be forgotten. I will remove from the land both the false prophets and the spirit of impurity that came with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:17 - Any nation in the world that refuses to come to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Heaven's Armies, will have no rain.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:11 - Your crops will be abundant, for I will guard them from insects and disease.[fn] Your grapes will not fall from the vine before they are ripe,” says the LORD of Heaven's Armies.
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