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Occurrences: 11012 times in 7637 verses

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Gen 1:1 - In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

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Gen 1:6 - And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.”

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Gen 1:11 - Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.

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Gen 1:12 - The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

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Gen 1:14 - And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years,

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Gen 1:15 - and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so.

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Gen 1:17 - God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth,

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Gen 1:22 - God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”

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Gen 1:29 - Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

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Gen 1:30 - And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.

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Gen 2:2 - By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.

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Gen 2:3 - Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

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Gen 2:8 - Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.

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Gen 2:9 - The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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Gen 2:15 - The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

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Gen 2:16 - And the LORD God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;

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Gen 3:1 - Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?”

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Gen 3:3 - but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' ”

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Gen 3:5 - “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

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Gen 3:8 - Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

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Gen 3:10 - He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

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Gen 3:16 - To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

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Gen 3:17 - To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,' “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.

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Gen 3:19 - By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

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Gen 4:8 - Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let's go out to the field.”[fn] While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

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Gen 4:16 - So Cain went out from the LORD's presence and lived in the land of Nod,[fn] east of Eden.

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Gen 4:20 - Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock.

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Gen 6:3 - Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with[fn] humans forever, for they are mortal[fn]; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

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Gen 6:4 - The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

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Gen 6:5 - The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.

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Gen 6:9 - This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.

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Gen 6:17 - I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.

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Gen 7:1 - The LORD then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

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Gen 7:11 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

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Gen 7:13 - On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.

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Gen 7:15 - Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.

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Gen 7:23 - Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.

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Gen 8:1 - But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.

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Gen 8:4 - and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

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Gen 8:5 - The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

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Gen 8:11 - When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.

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Gen 8:13 - By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

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Gen 8:14 - By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.

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Gen 9:4 - “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.

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Gen 9:6 - “Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind.

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Gen 9:13 - I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

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Gen 9:14 - Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,

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Gen 9:15 - I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.

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Gen 9:16 - Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”

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Gen 9:21 - When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.

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Gen 9:27 - May God extend Japheth's[fn] territory; may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.”

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Gen 10:5 - (From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)

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Gen 10:10 - The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in[fn] Shinar.[fn]

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Gen 10:20 - These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.

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Gen 10:25 - Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg,[fn] because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.

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Gen 10:31 - These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.

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Gen 11:2 - As people moved eastward,[fn] they found a plain in Shinar[fn] and settled there.

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Gen 11:28 - While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth.

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Gen 11:32 - Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Harran.

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Gen 12:3 - I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”[fn]

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Gen 12:5 - He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

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Gen 12:9 - Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.

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Gen 13:12 - Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.

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Gen 13:13 - Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.

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Gen 13:18 - So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the LORD.

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Gen 14:1 - At the time when Amraphel was king of Shinar,[fn] Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of Goyim,

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Gen 14:5 - In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim

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Gen 14:6 - and the Horites in the hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran near the desert.

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Gen 14:7 - Then they turned back and went to En Mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who were living in Hazezon Tamar.

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Gen 14:8 - Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboyim and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) marched out and drew up their battle lines in the Valley of Siddim

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Gen 14:12 - They also carried off Abram's nephew Lot and his possessions, since he was living in Sodom.

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Gen 14:15 - During the night Abram divided his men to attack them and he routed them, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.

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Gen 15:1 - After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield,[fn] your very great reward.[fn]”

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Gen 15:13 - Then the LORD said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there.

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Gen 15:15 - You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.

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Gen 15:18 - On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi[fn] of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates—

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Gen 16:3 - So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.

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Gen 16:4 - He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

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Gen 16:5 - Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the LORD judge between you and me.”

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Gen 16:6 - “Your slave is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.

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Gen 16:7 - The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.

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Gen 16:11 - The angel of the LORD also said to her: “You are now pregnant and you will give birth to a son. You shall name him Ishmael,[fn] for the LORD has heard of your misery.

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Gen 17:11 - You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.

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Gen 17:17 - Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, “Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?”

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Gen 17:21 - But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year.”

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Gen 17:23 - On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him.

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Gen 17:26 - Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on that very day.

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Gen 18:9 - “Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked him. “There, in the tent,” he said.

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Gen 18:12 - So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?”

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Gen 18:13 - Then the LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?'

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Gen 18:18 - Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.[fn]

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Gen 18:24 - What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare[fn] the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it?

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Gen 18:26 - The LORD said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

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Gen 19:2 - “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant's house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”

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Gen 19:12 - The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,

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Gen 19:16 - When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the LORD was merciful to them.

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Gen 19:17 - As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don't look back, and don't stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”

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Gen 19:25 - Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.

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Gen 19:29 - So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.

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Gen 19:30 - Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.

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Gen 19:33 - That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

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Gen 19:35 - So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

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Gen 20:1 - Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar,

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Gen 20:3 - But God came to Abimelek in a dream one night and said to him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman.”

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Gen 20:5 - Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister,' and didn't she also say, ‘He is my brother'? I have done this with a clear conscience and clean hands.”

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Gen 20:6 - Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her.

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Gen 20:11 - Abraham replied, “I said to myself, ‘There is surely no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.'

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Gen 20:18 - for the LORD had kept all the women in Abimelek's household from conceiving because of Abraham's wife Sarah.

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Gen 21:7 - And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

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Gen 21:12 - But God said to him, “Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring[fn] will be reckoned.

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Gen 21:20 - God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer.

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Gen 21:21 - While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.

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Gen 21:22 - At that time Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do.

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Gen 21:23 - Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants. Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you.”

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Gen 21:32 - After the treaty had been made at Beersheba, Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces returned to the land of the Philistines.

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Gen 21:34 - And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for a long time.

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Gen 22:13 - Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram[fn] caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.

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Gen 22:14 - So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”

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Gen 22:18 - and through your offspring[fn] all nations on earth will be blessed,[fn] because you have obeyed me.”

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Gen 23:2 - She died at Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep over her.

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Gen 23:6 - “Sir, listen to us. You are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb for burying your dead.”

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Gen 23:9 - so he will sell me the cave of Machpelah, which belongs to him and is at the end of his field. Ask him to sell it to me for the full price as a burial site among you.”

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Gen 23:10 - Ephron the Hittite was sitting among his people and he replied to Abraham in the hearing of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.

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Gen 23:11 - “No, my lord,” he said. “Listen to me; I give[fn] you the field, and I give[fn] you the cave that is in it. I give[fn] it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead.”

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Gen 23:17 - So Ephron's field in Machpelah near Mamre—both the field and the cave in it, and all the trees within the borders of the field—was deeded

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Gen 23:19 - Afterward Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre (which is at Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

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Gen 23:20 - So the field and the cave in it were deeded to Abraham by the Hittites as a burial site.

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Gen 24:3 - I want you to swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,

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Gen 24:14 - May it be that when I say to a young woman, ‘Please let down your jar that I may have a drink,' and she says, ‘Drink, and I'll water your camels too'—let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”

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Gen 24:15 - Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milkah, who was the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor.

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Gen 24:37 - And my master made me swear an oath, and said, ‘You must not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,

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Gen 24:44 - and if she says to me, “Drink, and I'll draw water for your camels too,” let her be the one the LORD has chosen for my master's son.'

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Gen 24:45 - “Before I finished praying in my heart, Rebekah came out, with her jar on her shoulder. She went down to the spring and drew water, and I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.'

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Gen 24:48 - and I bowed down and worshiped the LORD. I praised the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right road to get the granddaughter of my master's brother for his son.

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Gen 24:52 - When Abraham's servant heard what they said, he bowed down to the ground before the LORD.

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Gen 24:62 - Now Isaac had come from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev.

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Gen 24:65 - and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?” “He is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.

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Gen 25:8 - Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man and full of years; and he was gathered to his people.

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Gen 25:16 - These were the sons of Ishmael, and these are the names of the twelve tribal rulers according to their settlements and camps.

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Gen 25:21 - Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The LORD answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.

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Gen 25:22 - The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the LORD.

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Gen 25:23 - The LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

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Gen 25:24 - When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb.

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Gen 26:1 - Now there was a famine in the land—besides the previous famine in Abraham's time—and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistines in Gerar.

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Gen 26:2 - The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live.

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Gen 26:3 - Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.

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Gen 26:4 - I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring[fn] all nations on earth will be blessed,[fn]

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Gen 26:6 - So Isaac stayed in Gerar.

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Gen 26:12 - Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the LORD blessed him.

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Gen 26:15 - So all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth.

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Gen 26:17 - So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar, where he settled.

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Gen 26:19 - Isaac's servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there.

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Gen 26:24 - That night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.”

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Gen 26:32 - That day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug. They said, “We've found water!”

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Gen 27:15 - Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.

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Gen 27:41 - Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

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Gen 27:45 - When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I'll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

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Gen 28:6 - Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”

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Gen 28:11 - When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.

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Gen 28:12 - He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

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Gen 28:14 - Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.[fn]

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Gen 28:15 - I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

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Gen 28:16 - When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it.”

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Gen 28:20 - Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear

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Gen 29:2 - There he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large.

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Gen 29:26 - Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one.

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Gen 29:34 - Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named Levi.[fn]

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Gen 30:11 - Then Leah said, “What good fortune!”[fn] So she named him Gad.[fn]

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Gen 30:14 - During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son's mandrakes.”

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Gen 30:20 - Then Leah said, “God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.[fn]

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Gen 30:32 - Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb and every spotted or speckled goat. They will be my wages.

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Gen 30:33 - And my honesty will testify for me in the future, whenever you check on the wages you have paid me. Any goat in my possession that is not speckled or spotted, or any lamb that is not dark-colored, will be considered stolen.”

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Gen 30:35 - That same day he removed all the male goats that were streaked or spotted, and all the speckled or spotted female goats (all that had white on them) and all the dark-colored lambs, and he placed them in the care of his sons.

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Gen 30:38 - Then he placed the peeled branches in all the watering troughs, so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat and came to drink,

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Gen 30:40 - Jacob set apart the young of the flock by themselves, but made the rest face the streaked and dark-colored animals that belonged to Laban. Thus he made separate flocks for himself and did not put them with Laban's animals.

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Gen 30:41 - Whenever the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches,

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Gen 31:6 - You know that I've worked for your father with all my strength,

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Gen 31:10 - “In breeding season I once had a dream in which I looked up and saw that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled or spotted.

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Gen 31:13 - I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to me. Now leave this land at once and go back to your native land.' ”

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Gen 31:14 - Then Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we still have any share in the inheritance of our father's estate?

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Gen 31:18 - and he drove all his livestock ahead of him, along with all the goods he had accumulated in Paddan Aram,[fn] to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.

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Gen 31:23 - Taking his relatives with him, he pursued Jacob for seven days and caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

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Gen 31:25 - Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there too.

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Gen 31:33 - So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent and into the tent of the two female servants, but he found nothing. After he came out of Leah's tent, he entered Rachel's tent.

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Gen 31:35 - Rachel said to her father, “Don't be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence; I'm having my period.” So he searched but could not find the household gods.

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Gen 31:41 - It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.

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Gen 31:54 - He offered a sacrifice there in the hill country and invited his relatives to a meal. After they had eaten, they spent the night there.

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Gen 32:10 - I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps.

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Gen 32:19 - He also instructed the second, the third and all the others who followed the herds: “You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.

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Gen 32:20 - And be sure to say, ‘Your servant Jacob is coming behind us.' ” For he thought, “I will pacify him with these gifts I am sending on ahead; later, when I see him, perhaps he will receive me.”

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Gen 32:21 - So Jacob's gifts went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp.

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Gen 32:25 - When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.

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Gen 33:2 - He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in the rear.

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Gen 33:14 - So let my lord go on ahead of his servant, while I move along slowly at the pace of the flocks and herds before me and the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.”

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Gen 33:16 - So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir.

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Gen 33:18 - After Jacob came from Paddan Aram,[fn] he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in Canaan and camped within sight of the city.

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Gen 34:5 - When Jacob heard that his daughter Dinah had been defiled, his sons were in the fields with his livestock; so he did nothing about it until they came home.

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Gen 34:7 - Meanwhile, Jacob's sons had come in from the fields as soon as they heard what had happened. They were shocked and furious, because Shechem had done an outrageous thing in[fn] Israel by sleeping with Jacob's daughter—a thing that should not be done.

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Gen 34:10 - You can settle among us; the land is open to you. Live in it, trade[fn] in it, and acquire property in it.”

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Gen 34:15 - We will enter into an agreement with you on one condition only: that you become like us by circumcising all your males.

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Gen 34:19 - The young man, who was the most honored of all his father's family, lost no time in doing what they said, because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter.

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Gen 34:22 - But the men will agree to live with us as one people only on the condition that our males be circumcised, as they themselves are.

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Gen 34:23 - Won't their livestock, their property and all their other animals become ours? So let us agree to their terms, and they will settle among us.”

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Gen 34:25 - Three days later, while all of them were still in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting city, killing every male.

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Gen 34:26 - They put Hamor and his son Shechem to the sword and took Dinah from Shechem's house and left.

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Gen 34:27 - The sons of Jacob came upon the dead bodies and looted the city where[fn] their sister had been defiled.

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Gen 34:28 - They seized their flocks and herds and donkeys and everything else of theirs in the city and out in the fields.

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Gen 34:29 - They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children, taking as plunder everything in the houses.

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Gen 34:30 - Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me obnoxious to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land. We are few in number, and if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

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Gen 35:1 - Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”

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Gen 35:3 - Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.”

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Gen 35:4 - So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem.

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Gen 35:6 - Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

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Gen 35:7 - There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel,[fn] because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

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Gen 35:9 - After Jacob returned from Paddan Aram,[fn] God appeared to him again and blessed him.

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Gen 35:14 - Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had talked with him, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it.

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Gen 35:15 - Jacob called the place where God had talked with him Bethel.[fn]

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Gen 35:16 - Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty.

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Gen 35:17 - And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, “Don't despair, for you have another son.”

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Gen 35:18 - As she breathed her last—for she was dying—she named her son Ben-Oni.[fn] But his father named him Benjamin.[fn]

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Gen 35:19 - So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

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Gen 35:22 - While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it. Jacob had twelve sons:

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Gen 35:26 - The sons of Leah's servant Zilpah: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

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Gen 35:27 - Jacob came home to his father Isaac in Mamre, near Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

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Gen 36:5 - and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in Canaan.

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Gen 36:6 - Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the members of his household, as well as his livestock and all his other animals and all the goods he had acquired in Canaan, and moved to a land some distance from his brother Jacob.

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Gen 36:8 - So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the hill country of Seir.

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Gen 36:9 - This is the account of the family line of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.

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Gen 36:16 - Korah,[fn] Gatam and Amalek. These were the chiefs descended from Eliphaz in Edom; they were grandsons of Adah.

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Gen 36:17 - The sons of Esau's son Reuel: Chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. These were the chiefs descended from Reuel in Edom; they were grandsons of Esau's wife Basemath.

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Gen 36:21 - Dishon, Ezer and Dishan. These sons of Seir in Edom were Horite chiefs.

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Gen 36:24 - The sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is the Anah who discovered the hot springs[fn] in the desert while he was grazing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.

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Gen 36:30 - Dishon, Ezer and Dishan. These were the Horite chiefs, according to their divisions, in the land of Seir.

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Gen 36:31 - These were the kings who reigned in Edom before any Israelite king reigned:

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Gen 36:32 - Bela son of Beor became king of Edom. His city was named Dinhabah.

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Gen 36:35 - When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, succeeded him as king. His city was named Avith.

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Gen 36:40 - These were the chiefs descended from Esau, by name, according to their clans and regions: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,

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Gen 36:43 - Magdiel and Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they occupied. This is the family line of Esau, the father of the Edomites.

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Gen 37:1 - Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.

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Gen 37:7 - We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”

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Gen 37:13 - and Israel said to Joseph, “As you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I am going to send you to them.” “Very well,” he replied.

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Gen 37:15 - a man found him wandering around in the fields and asked him, “What are you looking for?”

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Gen 37:17 - “They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let's go to Dothan.' ” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan.

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Gen 37:22 - “Don't shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the wilderness, but don't lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.

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Gen 37:29 - When Reuben returned to the cistern and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes.

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Gen 38:1 - At that time, Judah left his brothers and went down to stay with a man of Adullam named Hirah.

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Gen 38:5 - She gave birth to still another son and named him Shelah. It was at Kezib that she gave birth to him.

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Gen 38:11 - Judah then said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father's household until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, just like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father's household.

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Gen 38:14 - she took off her widow's clothes, covered herself with a veil to disguise herself, and then sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife.

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Gen 38:18 - He said, “What pledge should I give you?” “Your seal and its cord, and the staff in your hand,” she answered. So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.

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Gen 38:20 - Meanwhile Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get his pledge back from the woman, but he did not find her.

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Gen 38:21 - He asked the men who lived there, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “There hasn't been any shrine prostitute here,” they said.

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Gen 38:24 - About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as a result she is now pregnant.” Judah said, “Bring her out and have her burned to death!”

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Gen 38:25 - As she was being brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law. “I am pregnant by the man who owns these,” she said. And she added, “See if you recognize whose seal and cord and staff these are.”

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Gen 38:27 - When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb.

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Gen 38:28 - As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his wrist and said, “This one came out first.”

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Gen 39:2 - The LORD was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master.

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Gen 39:3 - When his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD gave him success in everything he did,

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Gen 39:5 - From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the LORD blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing of the LORD was on everything Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field.

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Gen 39:8 - But he refused. “With me in charge,” he told her, “my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care.

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Gen 39:9 - No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?”

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Gen 39:11 - One day he went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the household servants was inside.

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Gen 39:12 - She caught him by his cloak and said, “Come to bed with me!” But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house.

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Gen 39:13 - When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house,

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Gen 39:14 - she called her household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us! He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed.

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Gen 39:15 - When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

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Gen 39:20 - Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined. But while Joseph was there in the prison,

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Gen 39:22 - So the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for all that was done there.

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Gen 39:23 - The warden paid no attention to anything under Joseph's care, because the LORD was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.

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Gen 40:3 - and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined.

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Gen 40:4 - The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he attended them. After they had been in custody for some time,

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Gen 40:5 - each of the two men—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were being held in prison—had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own.

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Gen 40:7 - So he asked Pharaoh's officials who were in custody with him in his master's house, “Why do you look so sad today?”

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Gen 40:9 - So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream. He said to him, “In my dream I saw a vine in front of me,

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Gen 40:10 - and on the vine were three branches. As soon as it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters ripened into grapes.

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Gen 40:11 - Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh's cup and put the cup in his hand.”

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Gen 40:14 - But when all goes well with you, remember me and show me kindness; mention me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison.

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Gen 40:17 - In the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

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Gen 40:20 - Now the third day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a feast for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials:

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Gen 41:2 - when out of the river there came up seven cows, sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds.

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Gen 41:5 - He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stalk.

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Gen 41:10 - Pharaoh was once angry with his servants, and he imprisoned me and the chief baker in the house of the captain of the guard.

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Gen 41:11 - Each of us had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own.

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Gen 41:17 - Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile,

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Gen 41:18 - when out of the river there came up seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds.

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Gen 41:19 - After them, seven other cows came up—scrawny and very ugly and lean. I had never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt.

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Gen 41:22 - “In my dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, growing on a single stalk.

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Gen 41:29 - Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt,

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Gen 41:30 - but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will ravage the land.

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Gen 41:35 - They should collect all the food of these good years that are coming and store up the grain under the authority of Pharaoh, to be kept in the cities for food.

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Gen 41:36 - This food should be held in reserve for the country, to be used during the seven years of famine that will come upon Egypt, so that the country may not be ruined by the famine.”

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Gen 41:38 - So Pharaoh asked them, “Can we find anyone like this man, one in whom is the spirit of God[fn]?”

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Gen 41:47 - During the seven years of abundance the land produced plentifully.

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Gen 41:48 - Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities. In each city he put the food grown in the fields surrounding it.

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Gen 41:52 - The second son he named Ephraim[fn] and said, “It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”

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Gen 41:53 - The seven years of abundance in Egypt came to an end,

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Gen 41:54 - and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the other lands, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food.

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Gen 41:57 - And all the world came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe everywhere.

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Gen 42:1 - When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you just keep looking at each other?”

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Gen 42:2 - He continued, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”

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Gen 42:5 - So Israel's sons were among those who went to buy grain, for there was famine in the land of Canaan also.

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Gen 42:13 - But they replied, “Your servants were twelve brothers, the sons of one man, who lives in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”

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Gen 42:15 - And this is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

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Gen 42:17 - And he put them all in custody for three days.

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Gen 42:19 - If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, while the rest of you go and take grain back for your starving households.

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Gen 42:21 - They said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw how distressed he was when he pleaded with us for his life, but we would not listen; that's why this distress has come on us.”

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Gen 42:28 - “My silver has been returned,” he said to his brothers. “Here it is in my sack.” Their hearts sank and they turned to each other trembling and said, “What is this that God has done to us?”

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Gen 42:30 - “The man who is lord over the land spoke harshly to us and treated us as though we were spying on the land.

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Gen 42:32 - We were twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in Canaan.'

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Gen 42:33 - “Then the man who is lord over the land said to us, ‘This is how I will know whether you are honest men: Leave one of your brothers here with me, and take food for your starving households and go.

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Gen 42:35 - As they were emptying their sacks, there in each man's sack was his pouch of silver! When they and their father saw the money pouches, they were frightened.

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Gen 42:38 - But Jacob said, “My son will not go down there with you; his brother is dead and he is the only one left. If harm comes to him on the journey you are taking, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in sorrow.”

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Gen 43:11 - Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your bags and take them down to the man as a gift—a little balm and a little honey, some spices and myrrh, some pistachio nuts and almonds.

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Gen 43:12 - Take double the amount of silver with you, for you must return the silver that was put back into the mouths of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake.

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Gen 43:15 - So the men took the gifts and double the amount of silver, and Benjamin also. They hurried down to Egypt and presented themselves to Joseph.

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Gen 43:18 - Now the men were frightened when they were taken to his house. They thought, “We were brought here because of the silver that was put back into our sacks the first time. He wants to attack us and overpower us and seize us as slaves and take our donkeys.”

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Gen 43:19 - So they went up to Joseph's steward and spoke to him at the entrance to the house.

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Gen 43:21 - But at the place where we stopped for the night we opened our sacks and each of us found his silver—the exact weight—in the mouth of his sack. So we have brought it back with us.

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Gen 43:23 - “It's all right,” he said. “Don't be afraid. Your God, the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks; I received your silver.” Then he brought Simeon out to them.

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Gen 43:26 - When Joseph came home, they presented to him the gifts they had brought into the house, and they bowed down before him to the ground.

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Gen 44:5 - Isn't this the cup my master drinks from and also uses for divination? This is a wicked thing you have done.' ”

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Gen 44:8 - We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found inside the mouths of our sacks. So why would we steal silver or gold from your master's house?

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Gen 44:12 - Then the steward proceeded to search, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

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Gen 44:29 - If you take this one from me too and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in misery.'

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Gen 44:31 - sees that the boy isn't there, he will die. Your servants will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave in sorrow.

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Gen 45:6 - For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping.

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Gen 45:10 - You shall live in the region of Goshen and be near me—you, your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and all you have.

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Gen 45:13 - Tell my father about all the honor accorded me in Egypt and about everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.”

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Gen 45:24 - Then he sent his brothers away, and as they were leaving he said to them, “Don't quarrel on the way!”

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Gen 46:2 - And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, “Jacob! Jacob!” “Here I am,” he replied.

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Gen 46:6 - So Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt, taking with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan.

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Gen 46:12 - The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez and Zerah (but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan). The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.

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Gen 46:15 - These were the sons Leah bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram,[fn] besides his daughter Dinah. These sons and daughters of his were thirty-three in all.

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Gen 46:20 - In Egypt, Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.[fn]

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Gen 46:27 - With the two sons[fn] who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob's family, which went to Egypt, were seventy[fn] in all.

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Gen 46:31 - Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, “I will go up and speak to Pharaoh and will say to him, ‘My brothers and my father's household, who were living in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

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Gen 46:34 - you should answer, ‘Your servants have tended livestock from our boyhood on, just as our fathers did.' Then you will be allowed to settle in the region of Goshen, for all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”

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Gen 47:1 - Joseph went and told Pharaoh, “My father and brothers, with their flocks and herds and everything they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen.”

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Gen 47:4 - They also said to him, “We have come to live here for a while, because the famine is severe in Canaan and your servants' flocks have no pasture. So now, please let your servants settle in Goshen.”

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Gen 47:5 - Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you,

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Gen 47:6 - and the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best part of the land. Let them live in Goshen. And if you know of any among them with special ability, put them in charge of my own livestock.”

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Gen 47:11 - So Joseph settled his father and his brothers in Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh directed.

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Gen 47:13 - There was no food, however, in the whole region because the famine was severe; both Egypt and Canaan wasted away because of the famine.

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Gen 47:14 - Joseph collected all the money that was to be found in Egypt and Canaan in payment for the grain they were buying, and he brought it to Pharaoh's palace.

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Gen 47:17 - So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for their horses, their sheep and goats, their cattle and donkeys. And he brought them through that year with food in exchange for all their livestock.

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Gen 47:18 - When that year was over, they came to him the following year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord the fact that since our money is gone and our livestock belongs to you, there is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

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Gen 47:22 - However, he did not buy the land of the priests, because they received a regular allotment from Pharaoh and had food enough from the allotment Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land.

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Gen 47:24 - But when the crop comes in, give a fifth of it to Pharaoh. The other four-fifths you may keep as seed for the fields and as food for yourselves and your households and your children.”

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Gen 47:27 - Now the Israelites settled in Egypt in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and were fruitful and increased greatly in number.

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Gen 47:28 - Jacob lived in Egypt seventeen years, and the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.

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Gen 47:29 - When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called for his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise that you will show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,

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Gen 47:30 - but when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me where they are buried.” “I will do as you say,” he said.

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Gen 48:3 - Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty[fn] appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there he blessed me

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Gen 48:5 - “Now then, your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here will be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.

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Gen 48:6 - Any children born to you after them will be yours; in the territory they inherit they will be reckoned under the names of their brothers.

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Gen 48:7 - As I was returning from Paddan,[fn] to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan while we were still on the way, a little distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).

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Gen 48:13 - And Joseph took both of them, Ephraim on his right toward Israel's left hand and Manasseh on his left toward Israel's right hand, and brought them close to him.

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Gen 48:16 - the Angel who has delivered me from all harm —may he bless these boys. May they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they increase greatly on the earth.”

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Gen 48:20 - He blessed them that day and said, “In your[fn] name will Israel pronounce this blessing: ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.' ” So he put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh.

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Gen 48:22 - And to you I give one more ridge of land[fn] than to your brothers, the ridge I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.”

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Gen 49:6 - Let me not enter their council, let me not join their assembly, for they have killed men in their anger and hamstrung oxen as they pleased.

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Gen 49:7 - Cursed be their anger, so fierce, and their fury, so cruel! I will scatter them in Jacob and disperse them in Israel.

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Gen 49:11 - He will tether his donkey to a vine, his colt to the choicest branch; he will wash his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

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Gen 49:16 - “Dan[fn] will provide justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

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Gen 49:21 - “Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns.[fn]

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Gen 49:29 - Then he gave them these instructions: “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

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Gen 49:30 - the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.

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Gen 49:32 - The field and the cave in it were bought from the Hittites.[fn]”

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Gen 50:5 - ‘My father made me swear an oath and said, “I am about to die; bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.' ”

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Gen 50:8 - besides all the members of Joseph's household and his brothers and those belonging to his father's household. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.

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Gen 50:11 - When the Canaanites who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning.” That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim.[fn]

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Gen 50:13 - They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.

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Gen 50:22 - Joseph stayed in Egypt, along with all his father's family. He lived a hundred and ten years

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Gen 50:25 - And Joseph made the Israelites swear an oath and said, “God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

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Gen 50:26 - So Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. And after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

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Exo 1:5 - The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy[fn] in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.

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Exo 1:11 - So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

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Exo 1:14 - They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.

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Exo 2:2 - and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.

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Exo 2:5 - Then Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it.

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Exo 2:6 - She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.

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Exo 2:11 - One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

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Exo 2:12 - Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

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Exo 2:15 - When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.

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Exo 2:22 - Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,[fn] saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”

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Exo 3:2 - There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.

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Exo 3:5 - “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

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Exo 3:7 - The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.

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Exo 3:12 - And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you[fn] will worship God on this mountain.”

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Exo 3:16 - “Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.

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Exo 3:20 - So I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go.

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Exo 4:2 - Then the LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied.

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Exo 4:4 - Then the LORD said to him, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.” So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand.

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Exo 4:14 - Then the LORD's anger burned against Moses and he said, “What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and he will be glad to see you.

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Exo 4:17 - But take this staff in your hand so you can perform the signs with it.”

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Exo 4:18 - Then Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Let me return to my own people in Egypt to see if any of them are still alive.” Jethro said, “Go, and I wish you well.”

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Exo 4:19 - Now the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill you are dead.”

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Exo 4:20 - So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey and started back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.

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Exo 4:21 - The LORD said to Moses, “When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.

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Exo 4:24 - At a lodging place on the way, the LORD met Moses[fn] and was about to kill him.

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Exo 4:27 - The LORD said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.

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Exo 5:1 - Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness.' ”

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Exo 5:9 - Make the work harder for the people so that they keep working and pay no attention to lies.”

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Exo 5:12 - So the people scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble to use for straw.

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Exo 5:19 - The Israelite overseers realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You are not to reduce the number of bricks required of you for each day.”

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Exo 6:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: Because of my mighty hand he will let them go; because of my mighty hand he will drive them out of his country.”

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Exo 6:4 - I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners.

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Exo 6:6 - “Therefore, say to the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.

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Exo 6:8 - And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD.' ”

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Exo 6:28 - Now when the LORD spoke to Moses in Egypt,

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Exo 7:3 - But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt,

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Exo 7:15 - Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes out to the river. Confront him on the bank of the Nile, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.

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Exo 7:16 - Then say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to you: Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the wilderness. But until now you have not listened.

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Exo 7:17 - This is what the LORD says: By this you will know that I am the LORD: With the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood.

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Exo 7:18 - The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink; the Egyptians will not be able to drink its water.' ”

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Exo 7:19 - The LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over the streams and canals, over the ponds and all the reservoirs—and they will turn to blood.' Blood will be everywhere in Egypt, even in vessels[fn] of wood and stone.”

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Exo 7:20 - Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded. He raised his staff in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was changed into blood.

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Exo 7:21 - The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. Blood was everywhere in Egypt.

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Exo 8:3 - The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs.

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Exo 8:9 - Moses said to Pharaoh, “I leave to you the honor of setting the time for me to pray for you and your officials and your people that you and your houses may be rid of the frogs, except for those that remain in the Nile.”

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Exo 8:11 - The frogs will leave you and your houses, your officials and your people; they will remain only in the Nile.”

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Exo 8:16 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the ground,' and throughout the land of Egypt the dust will become gnats.”

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Exo 8:17 - They did this, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with the staff and struck the dust of the ground, gnats came on people and animals. All the dust throughout the land of Egypt became gnats.

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Exo 8:18 - But when the magicians tried to produce gnats by their secret arts, they could not. Since the gnats were on people and animals everywhere,

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Exo 8:20 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and confront Pharaoh as he goes to the river and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.

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Exo 8:22 - “ ‘But on that day I will deal differently with the land of Goshen, where my people live; no swarms of flies will be there, so that you will know that I, the LORD, am in this land.

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Exo 8:23 - I will make a distinction[fn] between my people and your people. This sign will occur tomorrow.' ”

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Exo 8:25 - Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God here in the land.”

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Exo 8:28 - Pharaoh said, “I will let you go to offer sacrifices to the LORD your God in the wilderness, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me.”

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Exo 9:3 - the hand of the LORD will bring a terrible plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys and camels and on your cattle, sheep and goats.

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Exo 9:4 - But the LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and that of Egypt, so that no animal belonging to the Israelites will die.' ”

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Exo 9:5 - The LORD set a time and said, “Tomorrow the LORD will do this in the land.”

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Exo 9:9 - It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on people and animals throughout the land.”

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Exo 9:10 - So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh. Moses tossed it into the air, and festering boils broke out on people and animals.

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Exo 9:11 - The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils that were on them and on all the Egyptians.

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Exo 9:14 - or this time I will send the full force of my plagues against you and against your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

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Exo 9:16 - But I have raised you up[fn] for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

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Exo 9:18 - Therefore, at this time tomorrow I will send the worst hailstorm that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded till now.

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Exo 9:19 - Give an order now to bring your livestock and everything you have in the field to a place of shelter, because the hail will fall on every person and animal that has not been brought in and is still out in the field, and they will die.' ”

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Exo 9:21 - But those who ignored the word of the LORD left their slaves and livestock in the field.

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Exo 9:24 - hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.

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Exo 9:25 - Throughout Egypt hail struck everything in the fields—both people and animals; it beat down everything growing in the fields and stripped every tree.

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Exo 9:26 - The only place it did not hail was the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were.

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Exo 10:2 - that you may tell your children and grandchildren how I dealt harshly with the Egyptians and how I performed my signs among them, and that you may know that I am the LORD.”

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Exo 10:6 - They will fill your houses and those of all your officials and all the Egyptians—something neither your parents nor your ancestors have ever seen from the day they settled in this land till now.' ” Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh.

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Exo 10:15 - They covered all the ground until it was black. They devoured all that was left after the hail—everything growing in the fields and the fruit on the trees. Nothing green remained on tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.

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Exo 10:19 - And the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind, which caught up the locusts and carried them into the Red Sea.[fn] Not a locust was left anywhere in Egypt.

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Exo 10:23 - No one could see anyone else or move about for three days. Yet all the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.

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Exo 11:5 - Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well.

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Exo 11:7 - But among the Israelites not a dog will bark at any person or animal.' Then you will know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.

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Exo 11:9 - The LORD had said to Moses, “Pharaoh will refuse to listen to you—so that my wonders may be multiplied in Egypt.”

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Exo 11:10 - Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his country.

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Exo 12:1 - The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt,

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Exo 12:2 - “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.

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Exo 12:4 - If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat.

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Exo 12:7 - Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.

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Exo 12:9 - Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs.

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Exo 12:10 - Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it.

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Exo 12:11 - This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the LORD's Passover.

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Exo 12:12 - “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.

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Exo 12:13 - The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.

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Exo 12:16 - On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.

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Exo 12:17 - “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.

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Exo 12:19 - For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel.

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Exo 12:20 - Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread.”

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Exo 12:27 - then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.' ” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.

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Exo 12:29 - At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.

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Exo 12:30 - Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.

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Exo 12:34 - So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing.

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Exo 12:40 - Now the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt[fn] was 430 years.

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Exo 12:46 - “It must be eaten inside the house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones.

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Exo 12:49 - The same law applies both to the native-born and to the foreigner residing among you.”

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Exo 12:51 - And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.

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Exo 13:2 - “Consecrate to me every firstborn male. The first offspring of every womb among the Israelites belongs to me, whether human or animal.”

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Exo 13:3 - Then Moses said to the people, “Commemorate this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery, because the LORD brought you out of it with a mighty hand. Eat nothing containing yeast.

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Exo 13:4 - Today, in the month of Aviv, you are leaving.

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Exo 13:5 - When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites and Jebusites—the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you are to observe this ceremony in this month:

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Exo 13:7 - Eat unleavened bread during those seven days; nothing with yeast in it is to be seen among you, nor shall any yeast be seen anywhere within your borders.

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Exo 13:8 - On that day tell your son, ‘I do this because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.'

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Exo 13:9 - This observance will be for you like a sign on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that this law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For the LORD brought you out of Egypt with his mighty hand.

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Exo 13:12 - you are to give over to the LORD the first offspring of every womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock belong to the LORD.

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Exo 13:14 - “In days to come, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?' say to him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

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Exo 13:15 - When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed the firstborn of both people and animals in Egypt. This is why I sacrifice to the LORD the first male offspring of every womb and redeem each of my firstborn sons.'

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Exo 13:16 - And it will be like a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead that the LORD brought us out of Egypt with his mighty hand.”

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Exo 13:20 - After leaving Sukkoth they camped at Etham on the edge of the desert.

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Exo 13:21 - By day the LORD went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night.

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Exo 14:3 - Pharaoh will think, ‘The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert.'

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Exo 14:4 - And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue them. But I will gain glory for myself through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” So the Israelites did this.

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Exo 14:8 - The LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out boldly.

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Exo 14:11 - They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

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Exo 14:12 - Didn't we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians'? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!”

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Exo 14:17 - I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. And I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horsemen.

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Exo 14:18 - The Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen.”

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Exo 14:21 - Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided,

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Exo 14:24 - During the last watch of the night the LORD looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion.

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Exo 14:29 - But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.

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Exo 14:30 - That day the LORD saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore.

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Exo 15:4 - Pharaoh's chariots and his army he has hurled into the sea. The best of Pharaoh's officers are drowned in the Red Sea.[fn]

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Exo 15:6 - Your right hand, LORD, was majestic in power. Your right hand, LORD, shattered the enemy.

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Exo 15:8 - By the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up. The surging waters stood up like a wall; the deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea.

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Exo 15:10 - But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

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Exo 15:11 - Who among the gods is like you, LORD? Who is like you— majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders?

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Exo 15:19 - When Pharaoh's horses, chariots and horsemen[fn] went into the sea, the LORD brought the waters of the sea back over them, but the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.

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Exo 15:20 - Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron's sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her, with timbrels and dancing.

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Exo 15:22 - Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the Desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water.

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Exo 16:3 - The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the LORD's hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”

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Exo 16:7 - and in the morning you will see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we, that you should grumble against us?”

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Exo 16:8 - Moses also said, “You will know that it was the LORD when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the LORD.”

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Exo 16:10 - While Aaron was speaking to the whole Israelite community, they looked toward the desert, and there was the glory of the LORD appearing in the cloud.

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Exo 16:24 - So they saved it until morning, as Moses commanded, and it did not stink or get maggots in it.

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Exo 16:25 - “Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a sabbath to the LORD. You will not find any of it on the ground today.

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Exo 16:26 - Six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.”

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Exo 16:27 - Nevertheless, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather it, but they found none.

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Exo 16:31 - The people of Israel called the bread manna.[fn] It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.

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Exo 16:32 - Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Take an omer of manna and keep it for the generations to come, so they can see the bread I gave you to eat in the wilderness when I brought you out of Egypt.' ”

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Exo 17:1 - The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

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Exo 17:5 - The LORD answered Moses, “Go out in front of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.

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Exo 17:6 - I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

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Exo 17:7 - And he called the place Massah[fn] and Meribah[fn] because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the LORD saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”

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Exo 17:8 - The Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.

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Exo 17:9 - Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands.”

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Exo 17:13 - So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword.

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Exo 17:14 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.”

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Exo 17:16 - He said, “Because hands were lifted up against[fn] the throne of the LORD,[fn] the LORD will be at war against the Amalekites from generation to generation.”

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Exo 18:3 - and her two sons. One son was named Gershom,[fn] for Moses said, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land”;

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Exo 18:8 - Moses told his father-in-law about everything the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel's sake and about all the hardships they had met along the way and how the LORD had saved them.

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Exo 18:20 - Teach them his decrees and instructions, and show them the way they are to live and how they are to behave.

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Exo 19:9 - The LORD said to Moses, “I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear me speaking with you and will always put their trust in you.” Then Moses told the LORD what the people had said.

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Exo 19:13 - They are to be stoned or shot with arrows; not a hand is to be laid on them. No person or animal shall be permitted to live.' Only when the ram's horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”

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Exo 19:16 - On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled.

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Exo 19:18 - Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the LORD descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain[fn] trembled violently.

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Exo 20:4 - “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

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Exo 20:10 - but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns.

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Exo 20:11 - For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

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Exo 20:20 - Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning.”

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Exo 20:24 - “ ‘Make an altar of earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your sheep and goats and your cattle. Wherever I cause my name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you.

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Exo 20:26 - And do not go up to my altar on steps, or your private parts may be exposed.'

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Exo 21:8 - If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself,[fn] he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her.

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Exo 21:16 - “Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death, whether the victim has been sold or is still in the kidnapper's possession.

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Exo 21:20 - “Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result,

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Exo 21:22 - “If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely[fn] but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows.

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Exo 22:2 - “If a thief is caught breaking in at night and is struck a fatal blow, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed;

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Exo 22:4 - If the stolen animal is found alive in their possession—whether ox or donkey or sheep—they must pay back double.

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Exo 22:21 - “Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.

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Exo 22:27 - because that cloak is the only covering your neighbor has. What else can they sleep in? When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

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Exo 23:3 - and do not show favoritism to a poor person in a lawsuit.

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Exo 23:6 - “Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

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Exo 23:9 - “Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.

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Exo 23:15 - “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt. “No one is to appear before me empty-handed.

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Exo 23:16 - “Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. “Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.

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Exo 23:19 - “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. “Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

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Exo 23:20 - “See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.

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Exo 23:29 - But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you.

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Exo 23:31 - “I will establish your borders from the Red Sea[fn] to the Mediterranean Sea,[fn] and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out before you.

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Exo 23:33 - Do not let them live in your land or they will cause you to sin against me, because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare to you.”

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Exo 24:11 - But God did not raise his hand against these leaders of the Israelites; they saw God, and they ate and drank.

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Exo 24:18 - Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

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Exo 25:8 - “Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them.

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Exo 25:9 - Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you.

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Exo 25:14 - Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry it.

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Exo 25:15 - The poles are to remain in the rings of this ark; they are not to be removed.

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Exo 25:27 - The rings are to be close to the rim to hold the poles used in carrying the table.

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Exo 25:28 - Make the poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold and carry the table with them.

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Exo 25:29 - And make its plates and dishes of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls for the pouring out of offerings.

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Exo 25:33 - Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms are to be on one branch, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches extending from the lampstand.

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Exo 25:34 - And on the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms.

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Exo 25:40 - See that you make them according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.

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Exo 26:12 - As for the additional length of the tent curtains, the half curtain that is left over is to hang down at the rear of the tabernacle.

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Exo 26:30 - “Set up the tabernacle according to the plan shown you on the mountain.

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Exo 26:34 - Put the atonement cover on the ark of the covenant law in the Most Holy Place.

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Exo 27:7 - The poles are to be inserted into the rings so they will be on two sides of the altar when it is carried.

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Exo 27:8 - Make the altar hollow, out of boards. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.

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Exo 27:21 - In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law, Aaron and his sons are to keep the lamps burning before the LORD from evening till morning. This is to be a lasting ordinance among the Israelites for the generations to come.

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Exo 28:3 - Tell all the skilled workers to whom I have given wisdom in such matters that they are to make garments for Aaron, for his consecration, so he may serve me as priest.

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Exo 28:9 - “Take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel

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Exo 28:14 - and two braided chains of pure gold, like a rope, and attach the chains to the settings.

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Exo 28:17 - Then mount four rows of precious stones on it. The first row shall be carnelian, chrysolite and beryl;

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Exo 28:20 - the fourth row shall be topaz, onyx and jasper.[fn] Mount them in gold filigree settings.

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Exo 28:35 - Aaron must wear it when he ministers. The sound of the bells will be heard when he enters the Holy Place before the LORD and when he comes out, so that he will not die.

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Exo 28:36 - “Make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it as on a seal: holy to the Lord.

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Exo 29:2 - And from the finest wheat flour make round loaves without yeast, thick loaves without yeast and with olive oil mixed in, and thin loaves without yeast and brushed with olive oil.

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Exo 29:4 - Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water.

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Exo 29:26 - After you take the breast of the ram for Aaron's ordination, wave it before the LORD as a wave offering, and it will be your share.

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Exo 29:29 - “Aaron's sacred garments will belong to his descendants so that they can be anointed and ordained in them.

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Exo 29:30 - The son who succeeds him as priest and comes to the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place is to wear them seven days.

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Exo 29:31 - “Take the ram for the ordination and cook the meat in a sacred place.

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Exo 29:32 - At the entrance to the tent of meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket.

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Exo 29:33 - They are to eat these offerings by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no one else may eat them, because they are sacred.

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Exo 29:36 - Sacrifice a bull each day as a sin offering to make atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.

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Exo 29:40 - With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour mixed with a quarter of a hin[fn] of oil from pressed olives, and a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering.

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Exo 29:42 - “For the generations to come this burnt offering is to be made regularly at the entrance to the tent of meeting, before the LORD. There I will meet you and speak to you;

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Exo 29:43 - there also I will meet with the Israelites, and the place will be consecrated by my glory.

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Exo 29:45 - Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.

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Exo 30:4 - Make two gold rings for the altar below the molding—two on each of the opposite sides—to hold the poles used to carry it.

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Exo 30:6 - Put the altar in front of the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law—before the atonement cover that is over the tablets of the covenant law—where I will meet with you.

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Exo 30:12 - “When you take a census of the Israelites to count them, each one must pay the LORD a ransom for his life at the time he is counted. Then no plague will come on them when you number them.

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Exo 30:15 - The rich are not to give more than a half shekel and the poor are not to give less when you make the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives.

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Exo 30:35 - and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer. It is to be salted and pure and sacred.

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Exo 30:36 - Grind some of it to powder and place it in front of the ark of the covenant law in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you.

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Exo 30:38 - Whoever makes incense like it to enjoy its fragrance must be cut off from their people.”

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Exo 31:3 - and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills—

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Exo 31:13 - “Say to the Israelites, ‘You must observe my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and you for the generations to come, so you may know that I am the LORD, who makes you holy.

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Exo 31:14 - “ ‘Observe the Sabbath, because it is holy to you. Anyone who desecrates it is to be put to death; those who do any work on that day must be cut off from their people.

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Exo 31:17 - It will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever, for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.' ”

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Exo 31:18 - When the LORD finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

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Exo 32:2 - Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.”

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Exo 32:3 - So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron.

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Exo 32:4 - He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods,[fn] Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”

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Exo 32:11 - But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God. “LORD,” he said, “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?

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Exo 32:12 - Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth'? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people.

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Exo 32:15 - Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.

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Exo 32:16 - The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

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Exo 32:17 - When Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Moses, “There is the sound of war in the camp.”

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Exo 32:20 - And he took the calf the people had made and burned it in the fire; then he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it.

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Exo 32:28 - The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died.

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Exo 32:29 - Then Moses said, “You have been set apart to the LORD today, for you were against your own sons and brothers, and he has blessed you this day.”

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Exo 33:3 - Go up to the land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on the way.”

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Exo 33:4 - When the people heard these distressing words, they began to mourn and no one put on any ornaments.

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Exo 34:1 - The LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

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Exo 34:3 - No one is to come with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks and herds may graze in front of the mountain.”

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Exo 34:5 - Then the LORD came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the LORD.

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Exo 34:10 - Then the LORD said: “I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the LORD, will do for you.

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Exo 34:12 - Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you.

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Exo 34:13 - Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.[fn]

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Exo 34:18 - “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt.

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Exo 34:26 - “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. “Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.”

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Exo 34:29 - When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the LORD.

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Exo 34:32 - Afterward all the Israelites came near him, and he gave them all the commands the LORD had given him on Mount Sinai.

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Exo 35:2 - For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a day of sabbath rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it is to be put to death.

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Exo 35:3 - Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”

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Exo 35:10 - “All who are skilled among you are to come and make everything the LORD has commanded:

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Exo 35:19 - the woven garments worn for ministering in the sanctuary—both the sacred garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons when they serve as priests.”

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Exo 35:26 - And all the women who were willing and had the skill spun the goat hair.

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Exo 35:33 - to cut and set stones, to work in wood and to engage in all kinds of artistic crafts.

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Exo 35:34 - And he has given both him and Oholiab son of Ahisamak, of the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach others.

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Exo 36:1 - So Bezalel, Oholiab and every skilled person to whom the LORD has given skill and ability to know how to carry out all the work of constructing the sanctuary are to do the work just as the LORD has commanded.”

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Exo 36:2 - Then Moses summoned Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person to whom the LORD had given ability and who was willing to come and do the work.

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Exo 36:6 - Then Moses gave an order and they sent this word throughout the camp: “No man or woman is to make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.” And so the people were restrained from bringing more,

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Exo 36:36 - They made four posts of acacia wood for it and overlaid them with gold. They made gold hooks for them and cast their four silver bases.

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Exo 37:5 - And he inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry it.

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Exo 37:13 - They cast four gold rings for the table and fastened them to the four corners, where the four legs were.

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Exo 37:16 - And they made from pure gold the articles for the table—its plates and dishes and bowls and its pitchers for the pouring out of drink offerings.

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Exo 38:4 - They made a grating for the altar, a bronze network, to be under its ledge, halfway up the altar.

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Exo 38:8 - They made the bronze basin and its bronze stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

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Exo 39:1 - From the blue, purple and scarlet yarn they made woven garments for ministering in the sanctuary. They also made sacred garments for Aaron, as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Exo 39:10 - Then they mounted four rows of precious stones on it. The first row was carnelian, chrysolite and beryl;

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Exo 39:23 - with an opening in the center of the robe like the opening of a collar,[fn] and a band around this opening, so that it would not tear.

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Exo 39:32 - So all the work on the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was completed. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Exo 40:2 - “Set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, on the first day of the first month.

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Exo 40:9 - “Take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it; consecrate it and all its furnishings, and it will be holy.

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Exo 40:17 - So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month in the second year.

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Exo 40:26 - Moses placed the gold altar in the tent of meeting in front of the curtain

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Exo 40:38 - So the cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the Israelites during all their travels.

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Lev 2:4 - “ ‘If you bring a grain offering baked in an oven, it is to consist of the finest flour: either thick loaves made without yeast and with olive oil mixed in or thin loaves made without yeast and brushed with olive oil.

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Lev 2:5 - If your grain offering is prepared on a griddle, it is to be made of the finest flour mixed with oil, and without yeast.

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Lev 2:7 - If your grain offering is cooked in a pan, it is to be made of the finest flour and some olive oil.

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Lev 3:17 - “ ‘This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.' ”

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Lev 4:7 - The priest shall then put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense that is before the LORD in the tent of meeting. The rest of the bull's blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

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Lev 4:12 - that is, all the rest of the bull—he must take outside the camp to a place ceremonially clean, where the ashes are thrown, and burn it there in a wood fire on the ash heap.

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Lev 4:14 - and the sin they committed becomes known, the assembly must bring a young bull as a sin offering and present it before the tent of meeting.

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Lev 4:18 - He is to put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before the LORD in the tent of meeting. The rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

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Lev 4:23 - and the sin he has committed becomes known, he must bring as his offering a male goat without defect.

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Lev 4:24 - He is to lay his hand on the goat's head and slaughter it at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered before the LORD. It is a sin offering.

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Lev 4:27 - “ ‘If any member of the community sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the LORD's commands, when they realize their guilt

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Lev 4:28 - and the sin they have committed becomes known, they must bring as their offering for the sin they committed a female goat without defect.

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Lev 4:29 - They are to lay their hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it at the place of the burnt offering.

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Lev 4:33 - They are to lay their hand on its head and slaughter it for a sin offering at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.

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Lev 5:16 - They must make restitution for what they have failed to do in regard to the holy things, pay an additional penalty of a fifth of its value and give it all to the priest. The priest will make atonement for them with the ram as a guilt offering, and they will be forgiven.

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Lev 6:2 - “If anyone sins and is unfaithful to the LORD by deceiving a neighbor about something entrusted to them or left in their care or about something stolen, or if they cheat their neighbor,

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Lev 6:3 - or if they find lost property and lie about it, or if they swear falsely about any such sin that people may commit—

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Lev 6:16 - Aaron and his sons shall eat the rest of it, but it is to be eaten without yeast in the sanctuary area; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the tent of meeting.

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Lev 6:20 - “This is the offering Aaron and his sons are to bring to the LORD on the day he[fn] is anointed: a tenth of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.

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Lev 6:21 - It must be prepared with oil on a griddle; bring it well-mixed and present the grain offering broken[fn] in pieces as an aroma pleasing to the LORD.

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Lev 6:25 - “Say to Aaron and his sons: ‘These are the regulations for the sin offering: The sin offering is to be slaughtered before the LORD in the place the burnt offering is slaughtered; it is most holy.

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Lev 6:26 - The priest who offers it shall eat it; it is to be eaten in the sanctuary area, in the courtyard of the tent of meeting.

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Lev 6:27 - Whatever touches any of the flesh will become holy, and if any of the blood is spattered on a garment, you must wash it in the sanctuary area.

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Lev 6:28 - The clay pot the meat is cooked in must be broken; but if it is cooked in a bronze pot, the pot is to be scoured and rinsed with water.

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Lev 6:29 - Any male in a priest's family may eat it; it is most holy.

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Lev 6:30 - But any sin offering whose blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place must not be eaten; it must be burned up.

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Lev 7:2 - The guilt offering is to be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and its blood is to be splashed against the sides of the altar.

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Lev 7:6 - Any male in a priest's family may eat it, but it must be eaten in the sanctuary area; it is most holy.

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Lev 7:7 - “ ‘The same law applies to both the sin offering[fn] and the guilt offering: They belong to the priest who makes atonement with them.

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Lev 7:9 - Every grain offering baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who offers it,

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Lev 7:10 - and every grain offering, whether mixed with olive oil or dry, belongs equally to all the sons of Aaron.

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Lev 7:12 - “ ‘If they offer it as an expression of thankfulness, then along with this thank offering they are to offer thick loaves made without yeast and with olive oil mixed in, thin loaves made without yeast and brushed with oil, and thick loaves of the finest flour well-kneaded and with oil mixed in.

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Lev 7:15 - The meat of their fellowship offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day it is offered; they must leave none of it till morning.

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Lev 7:17 - Any meat of the sacrifice left over till the third day must be burned up.

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Lev 7:19 - “ ‘Meat that touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up. As for other meat, anyone ceremonially clean may eat it.

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Lev 7:26 - And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal.

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Lev 7:33 - The son of Aaron who offers the blood and the fat of the fellowship offering shall have the right thigh as his share.

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Lev 7:35 - This is the portion of the food offerings presented to the LORD that were allotted to Aaron and his sons on the day they were presented to serve the LORD as priests.

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Lev 7:38 - which the LORD gave Moses at Mount Sinai in the Desert of Sinai on the day he commanded the Israelites to bring their offerings to the LORD.

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Lev 8:7 - He put the tunic on Aaron, tied the sash around him, clothed him with the robe and put the ephod on him. He also fastened the ephod with a decorative waistband, which he tied around him.

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Lev 8:11 - He sprinkled some of the oil on the altar seven times, anointing the altar and all its utensils and the basin with its stand, to consecrate them.

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Lev 8:29 - Moses also took the breast, which was his share of the ordination ram, and waved it before the LORD as a wave offering, as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Lev 8:31 - Moses then said to Aaron and his sons, “Cook the meat at the entrance to the tent of meeting and eat it there with the bread from the basket of ordination offerings, as I was commanded: ‘Aaron and his sons are to eat it.'

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Lev 8:32 - Then burn up the rest of the meat and the bread.

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Lev 8:34 - What has been done today was commanded by the LORD to make atonement for you.

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Lev 9:4 - and an ox[fn] and a ram for a fellowship offering to sacrifice before the LORD, together with a grain offering mixed with olive oil. For today the LORD will appear to you.' ”

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Lev 9:6 - Then Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded you to do, so that the glory of the LORD may appear to you.”

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Lev 10:3 - Moses then said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD spoke of when he said: “ ‘Among those who approach me I will be proved holy; in the sight of all the people I will be honored.' ” Aaron remained silent.

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Lev 10:5 - So they came and carried them, still in their tunics, outside the camp, as Moses ordered.

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Lev 10:13 - Eat it in the sanctuary area, because it is your share and your sons' share of the food offerings presented to the LORD; for so I have been commanded.

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Lev 10:14 - But you and your sons and your daughters may eat the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented. Eat them in a ceremonially clean place; they have been given to you and your children as your share of the Israelites' fellowship offerings.

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Lev 10:17 - “Why didn't you eat the sin offering in the sanctuary area? It is most holy; it was given to you to take away the guilt of the community by making atonement for them before the LORD.

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Lev 10:18 - Since its blood was not taken into the Holy Place, you should have eaten the goat in the sanctuary area, as I commanded.”

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Lev 11:3 - You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud.

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Lev 11:9 - “ ‘Of all the creatures living in the water of the seas and the streams you may eat any that have fins and scales.

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Lev 11:10 - But all creatures in the seas or streams that do not have fins and scales—whether among all the swarming things or among all the other living creatures in the water—you are to regard as unclean.

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Lev 11:12 - Anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales is to be regarded as unclean by you.

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Lev 11:21 - There are, however, some flying insects that walk on all fours that you may eat: those that have jointed legs for hopping on the ground.

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Lev 11:24 - “ ‘You will make yourselves unclean by these; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean till evening.

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Lev 11:26 - “ ‘Every animal that does not have a divided hoof or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you; whoever touches the carcass of any of them will be unclean.

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Lev 11:27 - Of all the animals that walk on all fours, those that walk on their paws are unclean for you; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean till evening.

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Lev 11:32 - When one of them dies and falls on something, that article, whatever its use, will be unclean, whether it is made of wood, cloth, hide or sackcloth. Put it in water; it will be unclean till evening, and then it will be clean.

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Lev 11:34 - Any food you are allowed to eat that has come into contact with water from any such pot is unclean, and any liquid that is drunk from such a pot is unclean.

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Lev 11:42 - You are not to eat any creature that moves along the ground, whether it moves on its belly or walks on all fours or on many feet; it is unclean.

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Lev 11:43 - Do not defile yourselves by any of these creatures. Do not make yourselves unclean by means of them or be made unclean by them.

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Lev 11:44 - I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves along the ground.

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Lev 11:46 - “ ‘These are the regulations concerning animals, birds, every living thing that moves about in the water and every creature that moves along the ground.

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Lev 12:4 - Then the woman must wait thirty-three days to be purified from her bleeding. She must not touch anything sacred or go to the sanctuary until the days of her purification are over.

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Lev 12:5 - If she gives birth to a daughter, for two weeks the woman will be unclean, as during her period. Then she must wait sixty-six days to be purified from her bleeding.

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Lev 13:2 - “When anyone has a swelling or a rash or a shiny spot on their skin that may be a defiling skin disease,[fn] they must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons[fn] who is a priest.

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Lev 13:3 - The priest is to examine the sore on the skin, and if the hair in the sore has turned white and the sore appears to be more than skin deep, it is a defiling skin disease. When the priest examines that person, he shall pronounce them ceremonially unclean.

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Lev 13:4 - If the shiny spot on the skin is white but does not appear to be more than skin deep and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest is to isolate the affected person for seven days.

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Lev 13:5 - On the seventh day the priest is to examine them, and if he sees that the sore is unchanged and has not spread in the skin, he is to isolate them for another seven days.

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Lev 13:6 - On the seventh day the priest is to examine them again, and if the sore has faded and has not spread in the skin, the priest shall pronounce them clean; it is only a rash. They must wash their clothes, and they will be clean.

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Lev 13:7 - But if the rash does spread in their skin after they have shown themselves to the priest to be pronounced clean, they must appear before the priest again.

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Lev 13:8 - The priest is to examine that person, and if the rash has spread in the skin, he shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease.

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Lev 13:9 - “When anyone has a defiling skin disease, they must be brought to the priest.

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Lev 13:10 - The priest is to examine them, and if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white and if there is raw flesh in the swelling,

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Lev 13:11 - it is a chronic skin disease and the priest shall pronounce them unclean. He is not to isolate them, because they are already unclean.

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Lev 13:12 - “If the disease breaks out all over their skin and, so far as the priest can see, it covers all the skin of the affected person from head to foot,

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Lev 13:14 - But whenever raw flesh appears on them, they will be unclean.

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Lev 13:18 - “When someone has a boil on their skin and it heals,

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Lev 13:19 - and in the place where the boil was, a white swelling or reddish-white spot appears, they must present themselves to the priest.

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Lev 13:20 - The priest is to examine it, and if it appears to be more than skin deep and the hair in it has turned white, the priest shall pronounce that person unclean. It is a defiling skin disease that has broken out where the boil was.

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Lev 13:21 - But if, when the priest examines it, there is no white hair in it and it is not more than skin deep and has faded, then the priest is to isolate them for seven days.

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Lev 13:22 - If it is spreading in the skin, the priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling disease.

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Lev 13:24 - “When someone has a burn on their skin and a reddish-white or white spot appears in the raw flesh of the burn,

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Lev 13:25 - the priest is to examine the spot, and if the hair in it has turned white, and it appears to be more than skin deep, it is a defiling disease that has broken out in the burn. The priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease.

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Lev 13:26 - But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in the spot and if it is not more than skin deep and has faded, then the priest is to isolate them for seven days.

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Lev 13:27 - On the seventh day the priest is to examine that person, and if it is spreading in the skin, the priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease.

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Lev 13:28 - If, however, the spot is unchanged and has not spread in the skin but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce them clean; it is only a scar from the burn.

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Lev 13:29 - “If a man or woman has a sore on their head or chin,

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Lev 13:30 - the priest is to examine the sore, and if it appears to be more than skin deep and the hair in it is yellow and thin, the priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease on the head or chin.

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Lev 13:31 - But if, when the priest examines the sore, it does not seem to be more than skin deep and there is no black hair in it, then the priest is to isolate the affected person for seven days.

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Lev 13:32 - On the seventh day the priest is to examine the sore, and if it has not spread and there is no yellow hair in it and it does not appear to be more than skin deep,

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Lev 13:34 - On the seventh day the priest is to examine the sore, and if it has not spread in the skin and appears to be no more than skin deep, the priest shall pronounce them clean. They must wash their clothes, and they will be clean.

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Lev 13:35 - But if the sore does spread in the skin after they are pronounced clean,

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Lev 13:36 - the priest is to examine them, and if he finds that the sore has spread in the skin, he does not need to look for yellow hair; they are unclean.

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Lev 13:37 - If, however, the sore is unchanged so far as the priest can see, and if black hair has grown in it, the affected person is healed. They are clean, and the priest shall pronounce them clean.

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Lev 13:38 - “When a man or woman has white spots on the skin,

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Lev 13:39 - the priest is to examine them, and if the spots are dull white, it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin; they are clean.

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Lev 13:42 - But if he has a reddish-white sore on his bald head or forehead, it is a defiling disease breaking out on his head or forehead.

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Lev 13:43 - The priest is to examine him, and if the swollen sore on his head or forehead is reddish-white like a defiling skin disease,

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Lev 13:44 - the man is diseased and is unclean. The priest shall pronounce him unclean because of the sore on his head.

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Lev 13:45 - “Anyone with such a defiling disease must wear torn clothes, let their hair be unkempt,[fn] cover the lower part of their face and cry out, ‘Unclean! Unclean!'

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Lev 13:47 - “As for any fabric that is spoiled with a defiling mold—any woolen or linen clothing,

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Lev 13:48 - any woven or knitted material of linen or wool, any leather or anything made of leather—

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Lev 13:49 - if the affected area in the fabric, the leather, the woven or knitted material, or any leather article, is greenish or reddish, it is a defiling mold and must be shown to the priest.

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Lev 13:51 - On the seventh day he is to examine it, and if the mold has spread in the fabric, the woven or knitted material, or the leather, whatever its use, it is a persistent defiling mold; the article is unclean.

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Lev 13:52 - He must burn the fabric, the woven or knitted material of wool or linen, or any leather article that has been spoiled; because the defiling mold is persistent, the article must be burned.

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Lev 13:53 - “But if, when the priest examines it, the mold has not spread in the fabric, the woven or knitted material, or the leather article,

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Lev 13:55 - After the article has been washed, the priest is to examine it again, and if the mold has not changed its appearance, even though it has not spread, it is unclean. Burn it, no matter which side of the fabric has been spoiled.

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Lev 13:57 - But if it reappears in the fabric, in the woven or knitted material, or in the leather article, it is a spreading mold; whatever has the mold must be burned.

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Lev 14:8 - “The person to be cleansed must wash their clothes, shave off all their hair and bathe with water; then they will be ceremonially clean. After this they may come into the camp, but they must stay outside their tent for seven days.

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Lev 14:10 - “On the eighth day they must bring two male lambs and one ewe lamb a year old, each without defect, along with three-tenths of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, and one log[fn] of oil.

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Lev 14:13 - He is to slaughter the lamb in the sanctuary area where the sin offering[fn] and the burnt offering are slaughtered. Like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most holy.

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Lev 14:17 - The priest is to put some of the oil remaining in his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.

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Lev 14:21 - “If, however, they are poor and cannot afford these, they must take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for them, together with a tenth of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of oil,

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Lev 14:27 - and with his right forefinger sprinkle some of the oil from his palm seven times before the LORD.

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Lev 14:32 - These are the regulations for anyone who has a defiling skin disease and who cannot afford the regular offerings for their cleansing.

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Lev 14:34 - “When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a spreading mold in a house in that land,

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Lev 14:35 - the owner of the house must go and tell the priest, ‘I have seen something that looks like a defiling mold in my house.'

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Lev 14:36 - The priest is to order the house to be emptied before he goes in to examine the mold, so that nothing in the house will be pronounced unclean. After this the priest is to go in and inspect the house.

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Lev 14:37 - He is to examine the mold on the walls, and if it has greenish or reddish depressions that appear to be deeper than the surface of the wall,

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Lev 14:39 - On the seventh day the priest shall return to inspect the house. If the mold has spread on the walls,

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Lev 14:40 - he is to order that the contaminated stones be torn out and thrown into an unclean place outside the town.

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Lev 14:43 - “If the defiling mold reappears in the house after the stones have been torn out and the house scraped and plastered,

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Lev 14:44 - the priest is to go and examine it and, if the mold has spread in the house, it is a persistent defiling mold; the house is unclean.

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Lev 14:47 - Anyone who sleeps or eats in the house must wash their clothes.

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Lev 14:48 - “But if the priest comes to examine it and the mold has not spread after the house has been plastered, he shall pronounce the house clean, because the defiling mold is gone.

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Lev 14:51 - Then he is to take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn and the live bird, dip them into the blood of the dead bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

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Lev 14:52 - He shall purify the house with the bird's blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop and the scarlet yarn.

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Lev 15:3 - Whether it continues flowing from his body or is blocked, it will make him unclean. This is how his discharge will bring about uncleanness:

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Lev 15:19 - “ ‘When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening.

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Lev 15:20 - “ ‘Anything she lies on during her period will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean.

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Lev 15:23 - Whether it is the bed or anything she was sitting on, when anyone touches it, they will be unclean till evening.

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Lev 15:25 - “ ‘When a woman has a discharge of blood for many days at a time other than her monthly period or has a discharge that continues beyond her period, she will be unclean as long as she has the discharge, just as in the days of her period.

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Lev 15:31 - “ ‘You must keep the Israelites separate from things that make them unclean, so they will not die in their uncleanness for defiling my dwelling place,[fn] which is among them.' ”

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Lev 15:32 - These are the regulations for a man with a discharge, for anyone made unclean by an emission of semen,

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Lev 15:33 - for a woman in her monthly period, for a man or a woman with a discharge, and for a man who has sexual relations with a woman who is ceremonially unclean.

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Lev 16:1 - The LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron who died when they approached the LORD.

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Lev 16:2 - The LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron that he is not to come whenever he chooses into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain in front of the atonement cover on the ark, or else he will die. For I will appear in the cloud over the atonement cover.

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Lev 16:3 - “This is how Aaron is to enter the Most Holy Place: He must first bring a young bull for a sin offering[fn] and a ram for a burnt offering.

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Lev 16:16 - In this way he will make atonement for the Most Holy Place because of the uncleanness and rebellion of the Israelites, whatever their sins have been. He is to do the same for the tent of meeting, which is among them in the midst of their uncleanness.

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Lev 16:17 - No one is to be in the tent of meeting from the time Aaron goes in to make atonement in the Most Holy Place until he comes out, having made atonement for himself, his household and the whole community of Israel.

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Lev 16:21 - He is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites—all their sins—and put them on the goat's head. He shall send the goat away into the wilderness in the care of someone appointed for the task.

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Lev 16:24 - He shall bathe himself with water in the sanctuary area and put on his regular garments. Then he shall come out and sacrifice the burnt offering for himself and the burnt offering for the people, to make atonement for himself and for the people.

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Lev 16:27 - The bull and the goat for the sin offerings, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; their hides, flesh and intestines are to be burned up.

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Lev 16:29 - “This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselves[fn] and not do any work—whether native-born or a foreigner residing among you—

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Lev 16:30 - because on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you. Then, before the LORD, you will be clean from all your sins.

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Lev 17:3 - Any Israelite who sacrifices an ox,[fn] a lamb or a goat in the camp or outside of it

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Lev 17:5 - This is so the Israelites will bring to the LORD the sacrifices they are now making in the open fields. They must bring them to the priest, that is, to the LORD, at the entrance to the tent of meeting and sacrifice them as fellowship offerings.

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Lev 17:8 - “Say to them: ‘Any Israelite or any foreigner residing among them who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice

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Lev 17:10 - “ ‘I will set my face against any Israelite or any foreigner residing among them who eats blood, and I will cut them off from the people.

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Lev 17:12 - Therefore I say to the Israelites, “None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner residing among you eat blood.”

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Lev 17:13 - “ ‘Any Israelite or any foreigner residing among you who hunts any animal or bird that may be eaten must drain out the blood and cover it with earth,

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Lev 17:15 - “ ‘Anyone, whether native-born or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then they will be clean.

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Lev 18:3 - You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices.

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Lev 18:4 - You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the LORD your God.

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Lev 18:5 - Keep my decrees and laws, for the person who obeys them will live by them. I am the LORD.

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Lev 18:19 - “ ‘Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.

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Lev 18:24 - “ ‘Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled.

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Lev 18:26 - But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the foreigners residing among you must not do any of these detestable things,

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Lev 18:28 - And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

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Lev 18:30 - Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the LORD your God.' ”

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Lev 19:6 - It shall be eaten on the day you sacrifice it or on the next day; anything left over until the third day must be burned up.

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Lev 19:15 - “ ‘Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.

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Lev 19:16 - “ ‘Do not go about spreading slander among your people. “ ‘Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor's life. I am the LORD.

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Lev 19:22 - With the ram of the guilt offering the priest is to make atonement for him before the LORD for the sin he has committed, and his sin will be forgiven.

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Lev 19:25 - But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. In this way your harvest will be increased. I am the LORD your God.

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Lev 19:28 - “ ‘Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.

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Lev 19:31 - “ ‘Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.

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Lev 19:33 - “ ‘When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them.

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Lev 19:34 - The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

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Lev 19:35 - “ ‘Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length, weight or quantity.

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Lev 20:2 - “Say to the Israelites: ‘Any Israelite or any foreigner residing in Israel who sacrifices any of his children to Molek is to be put to death. The members of the community are to stone him.

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Lev 20:4 - If the members of the community close their eyes when that man sacrifices one of his children to Molek and if they fail to put him to death,

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Lev 20:14 - “ ‘If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is wicked. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that no wickedness will be among you.

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Lev 20:15 - “ ‘If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he is to be put to death, and you must kill the animal.

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Lev 20:24 - But I said to you, “You will possess their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the nations.

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Lev 20:25 - “ ‘You must therefore make a distinction between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds. Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the ground—those that I have set apart as unclean for you.

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Lev 21:1 - The LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: ‘A priest must not make himself ceremonially unclean for any of his people who die,

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Lev 21:2 - except for a close relative, such as his mother or father, his son or daughter, his brother,

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Lev 21:4 - He must not make himself unclean for people related to him by marriage,[fn] and so defile himself.

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Lev 21:15 - so that he will not defile his offspring among his people. I am the LORD, who makes him holy.' ”

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Lev 21:17 - “Say to Aaron: ‘For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God.

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Lev 21:18 - No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed;

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Lev 21:19 - no man with a crippled foot or hand,

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Lev 21:20 - or who is a hunchback or a dwarf, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles.

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Lev 21:21 - No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the LORD. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God.

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Lev 22:5 - or if he touches any crawling thing that makes him unclean, or any person who makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be.

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Lev 22:8 - He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, and so become unclean through it. I am the LORD.

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Lev 22:16 - by allowing them to eat the sacred offerings and so bring upon them guilt requiring payment. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.' ”

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Lev 22:18 - “Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them: ‘If any of you—whether an Israelite or a foreigner residing in Israel—presents a gift for a burnt offering to the LORD, either to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering,

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Lev 22:20 - Do not bring anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.

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Lev 22:21 - When anyone brings from the herd or flock a fellowship offering to the LORD to fulfill a special vow or as a freewill offering, it must be without defect or blemish to be acceptable.

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Lev 22:25 - and you must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner and offer them as the food of your God. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and have defects.' ”

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Lev 22:28 - Do not slaughter a cow or a sheep and its young on the same day.

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Lev 22:32 - Do not profane my holy name, for I must be acknowledged as holy by the Israelites. I am the LORD, who made you holy

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Lev 23:3 - “ ‘There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the LORD.

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Lev 23:4 - “ ‘These are the LORD's appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times:

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Lev 23:5 - The LORD's Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

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Lev 23:6 - On the fifteenth day of that month the LORD's Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast.

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Lev 23:12 - On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the LORD a lamb a year old without defect,

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Lev 23:13 - together with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour mixed with olive oil—a food offering presented to the LORD, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin[fn] of wine.

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Lev 23:14 - You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.

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Lev 23:21 - On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.

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Lev 23:22 - “ ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you. I am the LORD your God.' ”

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Lev 23:28 - Do not do any work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.

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Lev 23:29 - Those who do not deny themselves on that day must be cut off from their people.

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Lev 23:30 - I will destroy from among their people anyone who does any work on that day.

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Lev 23:31 - You shall do no work at all. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.

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Lev 23:39 - “ ‘So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to the LORD for seven days; the first day is a day of sabbath rest, and the eighth day also is a day of sabbath rest.

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Lev 23:41 - Celebrate this as a festival to the LORD for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month.

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Lev 23:42 - Live in temporary shelters for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in such shelters

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Lev 23:43 - so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.' ”

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Lev 24:3 - Outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law in the tent of meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening till morning, continually. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.

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Lev 24:9 - It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in the sanctuary area, because it is a most holy part of their perpetual share of the food offerings presented to the LORD.”

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Lev 24:10 - Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.

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Lev 24:16 - anyone who blasphemes the name of the LORD is to be put to death. The entire assembly must stone them. Whether foreigner or native-born, when they blaspheme the Name they are to be put to death.

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Lev 24:23 - Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. The Israelites did as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Lev 25:1 - The LORD said to Moses at Mount Sinai,

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Lev 25:7 - as well as for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. Whatever the land produces may be eaten.

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Lev 25:9 - Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land.

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Lev 25:13 - “ ‘In this Year of Jubilee everyone is to return to their own property.

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Lev 25:20 - You may ask, “What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?”

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Lev 25:21 - I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years.

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Lev 25:29 - “ ‘Anyone who sells a house in a walled city retains the right of redemption a full year after its sale. During that time the seller may redeem it.

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Lev 25:30 - If it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the buyer and the buyer's descendants. It is not to be returned in the Jubilee.

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Lev 25:31 - But houses in villages without walls around them are to be considered as belonging to the open country. They can be redeemed, and they are to be returned in the Jubilee.

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Lev 25:33 - So the property of the Levites is redeemable—that is, a house sold in any town they hold—and is to be returned in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the Israelites.

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Lev 25:42 - Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves.

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Lev 25:43 - Do not rule over them ruthlessly, but fear your God.

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Lev 25:45 - You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property.

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Lev 25:46 - You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.

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Lev 25:53 - They are to be treated as workers hired from year to year; you must see to it that those to whom they owe service do not rule over them ruthlessly.

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Lev 25:54 - “ ‘Even if someone is not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee,

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Lev 26:1 - “ ‘Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God.

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Lev 26:4 - I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit.

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Lev 26:6 - “ ‘I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove wild beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country.

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Lev 26:11 - I will put my dwelling place[fn] among you, and I will not abhor you.

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Lev 26:12 - I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people.

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Lev 26:26 - When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.

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Lev 26:28 - then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over.

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Lev 26:32 - I myself will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled.

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Lev 26:34 - Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

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Lev 26:35 - All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.

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Lev 26:36 - “ ‘As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them.

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Lev 26:37 - They will stumble over one another as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies.

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Lev 26:38 - You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.

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Lev 26:39 - Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their ancestors' sins they will waste away.

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Lev 26:41 - which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin,

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Lev 26:43 - For the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected my laws and abhorred my decrees.

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Lev 26:44 - Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the LORD their God.

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Lev 26:46 - These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the LORD established at Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses.

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Lev 27:23 - the priest will determine its value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the owner must pay its value on that day as something holy to the LORD.

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Lev 27:24 - In the Year of Jubilee the field will revert to the person from whom it was bought, the one whose land it was.

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Lev 27:26 - “ ‘No one, however, may dedicate the firstborn of an animal, since the firstborn already belongs to the LORD; whether an ox[fn] or a sheep, it is the LORD's.

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Lev 27:32 - Every tithe of the herd and flock—every tenth animal that passes under the shepherd's rod—will be holy to the LORD.

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Lev 27:34 - These are the commands the LORD gave Moses at Mount Sinai for the Israelites.

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Num 1:1 - The LORD spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Desert of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. He said:

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Num 1:3 - You and Aaron are to count according to their divisions all the men in Israel who are twenty years old or more and able to serve in the army.

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Num 1:18 - and they called the whole community together on the first day of the second month. The people registered their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men twenty years old or more were listed by name, one by one,

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Num 1:19 - as the LORD commanded Moses. And so he counted them in the Desert of Sinai:

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Num 1:20 - From the descendants of Reuben the firstborn son of Israel: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, one by one, according to the records of their clans and families.

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Num 1:22 - From the descendants of Simeon: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were counted and listed by name, one by one, according to the records of their clans and families.

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Num 1:24 - From the descendants of Gad: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.

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Num 1:26 - From the descendants of Judah: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.

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Num 1:28 - From the descendants of Issachar: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.

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Num 1:30 - From the descendants of Zebulun: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.

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Num 1:32 - From the sons of Joseph: From the descendants of Ephraim: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.

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Num 1:34 - From the descendants of Manasseh: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.

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Num 1:36 - From the descendants of Benjamin: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.

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Num 1:38 - From the descendants of Dan: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.

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Num 1:40 - From the descendants of Asher: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.

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Num 1:42 - From the descendants of Naphtali: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.

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Num 1:45 - All the Israelites twenty years old or more who were able to serve in Israel's army were counted according to their families.

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Num 1:47 - The ancestral tribe of the Levites, however, was not counted along with the others.

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Num 1:49 - “You must not count the tribe of Levi or include them in the census of the other Israelites.

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Num 1:50 - Instead, appoint the Levites to be in charge of the tabernacle of the covenant law—over all its furnishings and everything belonging to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; they are to take care of it and encamp around it.

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Num 1:51 - Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall do it. Anyone else who approaches it is to be put to death.

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Num 1:52 - The Israelites are to set up their tents by divisions, each of them in their own camp under their standard.

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Num 1:53 - The Levites, however, are to set up their tents around the tabernacle of the covenant law so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are to be responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the covenant law.”

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Num 2:33 - The Levites, however, were not counted along with the other Israelites, as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Num 3:1 - This is the account of the family of Aaron and Moses at the time the LORD spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai.

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Num 3:4 - Nadab and Abihu, however, died before the LORD when they made an offering with unauthorized fire before him in the Desert of Sinai. They had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.

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Num 3:13 - for all the firstborn are mine. When I struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, I set apart for myself every firstborn in Israel, whether human or animal. They are to be mine. I am the LORD.”

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Num 3:14 - The LORD said to Moses in the Desert of Sinai,

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Num 3:25 - At the tent of meeting the Gershonites were responsible for the care of the tabernacle and tent, its coverings, the curtain at the entrance to the tent of meeting,

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Num 3:31 - They were responsible for the care of the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the articles of the sanctuary used in ministering, the curtain, and everything related to their use.

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Num 3:41 - Take the Levites for me in place of all the firstborn of the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites in place of all the firstborn of the livestock of the Israelites. I am the LORD.”

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Num 3:42 - So Moses counted all the firstborn of the Israelites, as the LORD commanded him.

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Num 3:48 - Give the money for the redemption of the additional Israelites to Aaron and his sons.”

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Num 4:3 - Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work at the tent of meeting.

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Num 4:4 - “This is the work of the Kohathites at the tent of meeting: the care of the most holy things.

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Num 4:5 - When the camp is to move, Aaron and his sons are to go in and take down the shielding curtain and put it over the ark of the covenant law.

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Num 4:7 - “Over the table of the Presence they are to spread a blue cloth and put on it the plates, dishes and bowls, and the jars for drink offerings; the bread that is continually there is to remain on it.

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Num 4:9 - “They are to take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand that is for light, together with its lamps, its wick trimmers and trays, and all its jars for the olive oil used to supply it.

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Num 4:12 - “They are to take all the articles used for ministering in the sanctuary, wrap them in a blue cloth, cover that with the durable leather and put them on a carrying frame.

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Num 4:14 - Then they are to place on it all the utensils used for ministering at the altar, including the firepans, meat forks, shovels and sprinkling bowls. Over it they are to spread a covering of the durable leather and put the poles in place.

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Num 4:15 - “After Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy furnishings and all the holy articles, and when the camp is ready to move, only then are the Kohathites to come and do the carrying. But they must not touch the holy things or they will die. The Kohathites are to carry those things that are in the tent of meeting.

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Num 4:16 - “Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest, is to have charge of the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the regular grain offering and the anointing oil. He is to be in charge of the entire tabernacle and everything in it, including its holy furnishings and articles.”

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Num 4:23 - Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work at the tent of meeting.

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Num 4:26 - the curtains of the courtyard surrounding the tabernacle and altar, the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard, the ropes and all the equipment used in the service of the tent. The Gershonites are to do all that needs to be done with these things.

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Num 4:28 - This is the service of the Gershonite clans at the tent of meeting. Their duties are to be under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.

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Num 4:31 - As part of all their service at the tent, they are to carry the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, posts and bases,

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Num 4:33 - This is the service of the Merarite clans as they work at the tent of meeting under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.”

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Num 4:35 - All the men from thirty to fifty years of age who came to serve in the work at the tent of meeting,

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Num 4:37 - This was the total of all those in the Kohathite clans who served at the tent of meeting. Moses and Aaron counted them according to the LORD's command through Moses.

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Num 4:39 - All the men from thirty to fifty years of age who came to serve in the work at the tent of meeting,

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Num 4:41 - This was the total of those in the Gershonite clans who served at the tent of meeting. Moses and Aaron counted them according to the LORD's command.

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Num 4:45 - This was the total of those in the Merarite clans. Moses and Aaron counted them according to the LORD's command through Moses.

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Num 4:47 - All the men from thirty to fifty years of age who came to do the work of serving and carrying the tent of meeting

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Num 4:49 - At the LORD's command through Moses, each was assigned his work and told what to carry. Thus they were counted, as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Num 5:3 - Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”

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Num 5:8 - But if that person has no close relative to whom restitution can be made for the wrong, the restitution belongs to the LORD and must be given to the priest, along with the ram with which atonement is made for the wrongdoer.

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Num 5:9 - All the sacred contributions the Israelites bring to a priest will belong to him.

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Num 5:17 - Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water.

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Num 5:18 - After the priest has had the woman stand before the LORD, he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder-offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse.

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Num 5:20 - But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”—

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Num 5:21 - here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the LORD cause you to become a curse[fn] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell.

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Num 5:27 - If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse.

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Num 6:11 - The priest is to offer one as a sin offering[fn] and the other as a burnt offering to make atonement for the Nazirite because they sinned by being in the presence of the dead body. That same day they are to consecrate their head again.

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Num 6:15 - together with their grain offerings and drink offerings, and a basket of bread made with the finest flour and without yeast—thick loaves with olive oil mixed in, and thin loaves brushed with olive oil.

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Num 7:10 - When the altar was anointed, the leaders brought their offerings for its dedication and presented them before the altar.

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Num 7:13 - His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels[fn] and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels,[fn] both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with the finest flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering;

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Num 7:19 - The offering he brought was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with the finest flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering;

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Num 7:25 - His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with the finest flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering;

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Num 7:31 - His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with the finest flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering;

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Num 7:37 - His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with the finest flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering;

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Num 7:43 - His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with the finest flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering;

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Num 7:49 - His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with the finest flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering;

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Num 7:55 - His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with the finest flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering;

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Num 7:61 - His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with the finest flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering;

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Num 7:67 - His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with the finest flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering;

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Num 7:73 - His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with the finest flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering;

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Num 7:79 - His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with the finest flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering;

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Num 7:85 - Each silver plate weighed a hundred and thirty shekels, and each sprinkling bowl seventy shekels. Altogether, the silver dishes weighed two thousand four hundred shekels,[fn] according to the sanctuary shekel.

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Num 7:89 - When Moses entered the tent of meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the atonement cover on the ark of the covenant law. In this way the LORD spoke to him.

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Num 8:8 - Have them take a young bull with its grain offering of the finest flour mixed with olive oil; then you are to take a second young bull for a sin offering.[fn]

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Num 8:17 - Every firstborn male in Israel, whether human or animal, is mine. When I struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, I set them apart for myself.

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Num 8:18 - And I have taken the Levites in place of all the firstborn sons in Israel.

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Num 8:19 - From among all the Israelites, I have given the Levites as gifts to Aaron and his sons to do the work at the tent of meeting on behalf of the Israelites and to make atonement for them so that no plague will strike the Israelites when they go near the sanctuary.”

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Num 8:22 - After that, the Levites came to do their work at the tent of meeting under the supervision of Aaron and his sons. They did with the Levites just as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Num 8:24 - “This applies to the Levites: Men twenty-five years old or more shall come to take part in the work at the tent of meeting,

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Num 8:26 - They may assist their brothers in performing their duties at the tent of meeting, but they themselves must not do the work. This, then, is how you are to assign the responsibilities of the Levites.”

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Num 9:1 - The LORD spoke to Moses in the Desert of Sinai in the first month of the second year after they came out of Egypt. He said,

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Num 9:5 - and they did so in the Desert of Sinai at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Num 9:6 - But some of them could not celebrate the Passover on that day because they were ceremonially unclean on account of a dead body. So they came to Moses and Aaron that same day

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Num 9:7 - and said to Moses, “We have become unclean because of a dead body, but why should we be kept from presenting the LORD's offering with the other Israelites at the appointed time?”

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Num 9:10 - “Tell the Israelites: ‘When any of you or your descendants are unclean because of a dead body or are away on a journey, they are still to celebrate the LORD's Passover,

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Num 9:11 - but they are to do it on the fourteenth day of the second month at twilight. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

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Num 9:13 - But if anyone who is ceremonially clean and not on a journey fails to celebrate the Passover, they must be cut off from their people for not presenting the LORD's offering at the appointed time. They will bear the consequences of their sin.

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Num 9:14 - “ ‘A foreigner residing among you is also to celebrate the LORD's Passover in accordance with its rules and regulations. You must have the same regulations for both the foreigner and the native-born.' ”

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Num 9:17 - Whenever the cloud lifted from above the tent, the Israelites set out; wherever the cloud settled, the Israelites encamped.

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Num 9:18 - At the LORD's command the Israelites set out, and at his command they encamped. As long as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle, they remained in camp.

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Num 9:23 - At the LORD's command they encamped, and at the LORD's command they set out. They obeyed the LORD's order, in accordance with his command through Moses.

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Num 10:3 - When both are sounded, the whole community is to assemble before you at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

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Num 10:4 - If only one is sounded, the leaders—the heads of the clans of Israel—are to assemble before you.

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Num 10:6 - At the sounding of a second blast, the camps on the south are to set out. The blast will be the signal for setting out.

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Num 10:9 - When you go into battle in your own land against an enemy who is oppressing you, sound a blast on the trumpets. Then you will be remembered by the LORD your God and rescued from your enemies.

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Num 10:10 - Also at your times of rejoicing—your appointed festivals and New Moon feasts—you are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, and they will be a memorial for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”

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Num 10:11 - On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle of the covenant law.

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Num 10:12 - Then the Israelites set out from the Desert of Sinai and traveled from place to place until the cloud came to rest in the Desert of Paran.

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Num 10:13 - They set out, this first time, at the LORD's command through Moses.

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Num 10:31 - But Moses said, “Please do not leave us. You know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.

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Num 10:34 - The cloud of the LORD was over them by day when they set out from the camp.

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Num 10:35 - Whenever the ark set out, Moses said, “Rise up, LORD! May your enemies be scattered; may your foes flee before you.”

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Num 10:36 - Whenever it came to rest, he said, “Return, LORD, to the countless thousands of Israel.”

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Num 11:1 - Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the LORD, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.

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Num 11:3 - So that place was called Taberah,[fn] because fire from the LORD had burned among them.

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Num 11:4 - The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, “If only we had meat to eat!

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Num 11:5 - We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost—also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.

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Num 11:8 - The people went around gathering it, and then ground it in a hand mill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into loaves. And it tasted like something made with olive oil.

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Num 11:12 - Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth? Why do you tell me to carry them in my arms, as a nurse carries an infant, to the land you promised on oath to their ancestors?

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Num 11:18 - “Tell the people: ‘Consecrate yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, when you will eat meat. The LORD heard you when you wailed, “If only we had meat to eat! We were better off in Egypt!” Now the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat it.

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Num 11:20 - but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have wailed before him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?” ' ”

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Num 11:21 - But Moses said, “Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and you say, ‘I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!'

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Num 11:25 - Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took some of the power of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but did not do so again.

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Num 11:26 - However, two men, whose names were Eldad and Medad, had remained in the camp. They were listed among the elders, but did not go out to the tent. Yet the Spirit also rested on them, and they prophesied in the camp.

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Num 11:27 - A young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”

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Num 11:33 - But while the meat was still between their teeth and before it could be consumed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague.

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Num 11:35 - From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth and stayed there.

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Num 12:5 - Then the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud; he stood at the entrance to the tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When the two of them stepped forward,

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Num 12:6 - he said, “Listen to my words: “When there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams.

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Num 12:7 - But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house.

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Num 12:8 - With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

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Num 12:16 - After that, the people left Hazeroth and encamped in the Desert of Paran.

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Num 13:19 - What kind of land do they live in? Is it good or bad? What kind of towns do they live in? Are they unwalled or fortified?

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Num 13:20 - How is the soil? Is it fertile or poor? Are there trees in it or not? Do your best to bring back some of the fruit of the land.” (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.)

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Num 13:29 - The Amalekites live in the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the Jordan.”

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Num 13:32 - And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size.

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Num 14:2 - All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, “If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this wilderness!

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Num 14:3 - Why is the LORD bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn't it be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

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Num 14:9 - Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not be afraid of the people of the land, because we will devour them. Their protection is gone, but the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them.”

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Num 14:10 - But the whole assembly talked about stoning them. Then the glory of the LORD appeared at the tent of meeting to all the Israelites.

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Num 14:11 - The LORD said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the signs I have performed among them?

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Num 14:14 - And they will tell the inhabitants of this land about it. They have already heard that you, LORD, are with these people and that you, LORD, have been seen face to face, that your cloud stays over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.

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Num 14:16 - ‘The LORD was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them on oath, so he slaughtered them in the wilderness.'

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Num 14:22 - not one of those who saw my glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness but who disobeyed me and tested me ten times—

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Num 14:24 - But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it.

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Num 14:25 - Since the Amalekites and the Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and set out toward the desert along the route to the Red Sea.[fn]”

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Num 14:29 - In this wilderness your bodies will fall—every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me.

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Num 14:31 - As for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected.

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Num 14:32 - But as for you, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.

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Num 14:33 - Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

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Num 14:35 - I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this wilderness; here they will die.”

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Num 14:37 - these men who were responsible for spreading the bad report about the land were struck down and died of a plague before the LORD.

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Num 14:43 - for the Amalekites and the Canaanites will face you there. Because you have turned away from the LORD, he will not be with you and you will fall by the sword.”

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Num 14:45 - Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and attacked them and beat them down all the way to Hormah.

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Num 15:3 - and you present to the LORD food offerings from the herd or the flock, as an aroma pleasing to the LORD—whether burnt offerings or sacrifices, for special vows or freewill offerings or festival offerings—

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Num 15:4 - then the person who brings an offering shall present to the LORD a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour mixed with a quarter of a hin[fn] of olive oil.

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Num 15:6 - “ ‘With a ram prepare a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour mixed with a third of a hin[fn] of olive oil,

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Num 15:9 - bring with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour mixed with half a hin[fn] of olive oil,

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Num 15:14 - For the generations to come, whenever a foreigner or anyone else living among you presents a food offering as an aroma pleasing to the LORD, they must do exactly as you do.

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Num 15:15 - The community is to have the same rules for you and for the foreigner residing among you; this is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the LORD:

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Num 15:16 - The same laws and regulations will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing among you.' ”

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Num 15:18 - “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land to which I am taking you

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Num 15:23 - any of the LORD's commands to you through him, from the day the LORD gave them and continuing through the generations to come—

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Num 15:29 - One and the same law applies to everyone who sins unintentionally, whether a native-born Israelite or a foreigner residing among you.

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Num 15:30 - “ ‘But anyone who sins defiantly, whether native-born or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD and must be cut off from the people of Israel.

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Num 15:31 - Because they have despised the LORD's word and broken his commands, they must surely be cut off; their guilt remains on them.' ”

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Num 15:32 - While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

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Num 15:39 - You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by chasing after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes.

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Num 16:3 - They came as a group to oppose Moses and Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is with them. Why then do you set yourselves above the LORD's assembly?”

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Num 16:13 - Isn't it enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? And now you also want to lord it over us!

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Num 16:26 - He warned the assembly, “Move back from the tents of these wicked men! Do not touch anything belonging to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”

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Num 16:28 - Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these things and that it was not my idea:

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Num 16:30 - But if the LORD brings about something totally new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the realm of the dead, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”

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Num 16:38 - the censers of the men who sinned at the cost of their lives. Hammer the censers into sheets to overlay the altar, for they were presented before the LORD and have become holy. Let them be a sign to the Israelites.”

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Num 16:40 - as the LORD directed him through Moses. This was to remind the Israelites that no one except a descendant of Aaron should come to burn incense before the LORD, or he would become like Korah and his followers.

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Num 16:42 - But when the assembly gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron and turned toward the tent of meeting, suddenly the cloud covered it and the glory of the LORD appeared.

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Num 16:47 - So Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly. The plague had already started among the people, but Aaron offered the incense and made atonement for them.

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Num 16:49 - But 14,700 people died from the plague, in addition to those who had died because of Korah.

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Num 17:4 - Place them in the tent of meeting in front of the ark of the covenant law, where I meet with you.

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Num 17:7 - Moses placed the staffs before the LORD in the tent of the covenant law.

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Num 18:5 - “You are to be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the altar, so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelites again.

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Num 18:10 - Eat it as something most holy; every male shall eat it. You must regard it as holy.

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Num 18:11 - “This also is yours: whatever is set aside from the gifts of all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I give this to you and your sons and daughters as your perpetual share. Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean may eat it.

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Num 18:13 - All the land's firstfruits that they bring to the LORD will be yours. Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean may eat it.

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Num 18:14 - “Everything in Israel that is devoted[fn] to the LORD is yours.

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Num 18:20 - The LORD said to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any share among them; I am your share and your inheritance among the Israelites.

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Num 18:21 - “I give to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as their inheritance in return for the work they do while serving at the tent of meeting.

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Num 18:23 - It is the Levites who are to do the work at the tent of meeting and bear the responsibility for any offenses they commit against it. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. They will receive no inheritance among the Israelites.

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Num 18:24 - Instead, I give to the Levites as their inheritance the tithes that the Israelites present as an offering to the LORD. That is why I said concerning them: ‘They will have no inheritance among the Israelites.' ”

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Num 18:26 - “Speak to the Levites and say to them: ‘When you receive from the Israelites the tithe I give you as your inheritance, you must present a tenth of that tithe as the LORD's offering.

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Num 18:31 - You and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere, for it is your wages for your work at the tent of meeting.

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Num 19:2 - “This is a requirement of the law that the LORD has commanded: Tell the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without defect or blemish and that has never been under a yoke.

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Num 19:13 - If they fail to purify themselves after touching a human corpse, they defile the LORD's tabernacle. They must be cut off from Israel. Because the water of cleansing has not been sprinkled on them, they are unclean; their uncleanness remains on them.

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Num 19:14 - “This is the law that applies when a person dies in a tent: Anyone who enters the tent and anyone who is in it will be unclean for seven days,

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Num 19:19 - The man who is clean is to sprinkle those who are unclean on the third and seventh days, and on the seventh day he is to purify them. Those who are being cleansed must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and that evening they will be clean.

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Num 20:1 - In the first month the whole Israelite community arrived at the Desert of Zin, and they stayed at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.

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Num 20:3 - They quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had died when our brothers fell dead before the LORD!

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Num 20:13 - These were the waters of Meribah,[fn] where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD and where he was proved holy among them.

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Num 20:15 - Our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived there many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors,

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Num 20:16 - but when we cried out to the LORD, he heard our cry and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt. “Now we are here at Kadesh, a town on the edge of your territory.

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Num 20:18 - But Edom answered: “You may not pass through here; if you try, we will march out and attack you with the sword.”

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Num 20:20 - Again they answered: “You may not pass through.” Then Edom came out against them with a large and powerful army.

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Num 20:23 - At Mount Hor, near the border of Edom, the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

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Num 21:4 - They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea,[fn] to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way;

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Num 21:5 - they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!”

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Num 21:10 - The Israelites moved on and camped at Oboth.

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Num 21:11 - Then they set out from Oboth and camped in Iye Abarim, in the wilderness that faces Moab toward the sunrise.

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Num 21:13 - They set out from there and camped alongside the Arnon, which is in the wilderness extending into Amorite territory. The Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

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Num 21:14 - That is why the Book of the Wars of the LORD says: “. . . Zahab[fn] in Suphah and the ravines, the Arnon

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Num 21:18 - about the well that the princes dug, that the nobles of the people sank— the nobles with scepters and staffs.” Then they went from the wilderness to Mattanah,

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Num 21:20 - and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.

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Num 21:25 - Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its surrounding settlements.

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Num 21:31 - So Israel settled in the land of the Amorites.

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Num 21:34 - The LORD said to Moses, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your hands, along with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.”

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Num 22:7 - The elders of Moab and Midian left, taking with them the fee for divination. When they came to Balaam, they told him what Balak had said.

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Num 22:18 - But Balaam answered them, “Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace, I could not do anything great or small to go beyond the command of the LORD my God.

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Num 22:23 - When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, it turned off the road into a field. Balaam beat it to get it back on the road.

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Num 22:24 - Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path through the vineyards, with walls on both sides.

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Num 22:26 - Then the angel of the LORD moved on ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn, either to the right or to the left.

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Num 22:29 - Balaam answered the donkey, “You have made a fool of me! If only I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now.”

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Num 22:31 - Then the LORD opened Balaam's eyes, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with his sword drawn. So he bowed low and fell facedown.

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Num 22:34 - Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, “I have sinned. I did not realize you were standing in the road to oppose me. Now if you are displeased, I will go back.”

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Num 23:3 - Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your offering while I go aside. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet with me. Whatever he reveals to me I will tell you.” Then he went off to a barren height.

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Num 23:9 - From the rocky peaks I see them, from the heights I view them. I see a people who live apart and do not consider themselves one of the nations.

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Num 23:10 - Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and may my final end be like theirs!”

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Num 23:21 - “No misfortune is seen in Jacob, no misery observed[fn] in Israel. The LORD their God is with them; the shout of the King is among them.

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Num 23:23 - There is no divination against[fn] Jacob, no evil omens against[fn] Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘See what God has done!'

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Num 24:2 - When Balaam looked out and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God came on him

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Num 24:4 - the prophecy of one who hears the words of God, who sees a vision from the Almighty,[fn] who falls prostrate, and whose eyes are opened:

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Num 24:16 - the prophecy of one who hears the words of God, who has knowledge from the Most High, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who falls prostrate, and whose eyes are opened:

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Num 24:18 - Edom will be conquered; Seir, his enemy, will be conquered, but Israel will grow strong.

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Num 24:21 - Then he saw the Kenites and spoke his message: “Your dwelling place is secure, your nest is set in a rock;

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Num 25:1 - While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women,

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Num 25:7 - When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand

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Num 25:9 - but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.

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Num 25:11 - “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites. Since he was as zealous for my honor among them as I am, I did not put an end to them in my zeal.

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Num 25:18 - They treated you as enemies when they deceived you in the Peor incident involving their sister Kozbi, the daughter of a Midianite leader, the woman who was killed when the plague came as a result of that incident.”

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Num 26:2 - “Take a census of the whole Israelite community by families—all those twenty years old or more who are able to serve in the army of Israel.”

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Num 26:3 - So on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them and said,

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Num 26:9 - and the sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan and Abiram. The same Dathan and Abiram were the community officials who rebelled against Moses and Aaron and were among Korah's followers when they rebelled against the LORD.

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Num 26:10 - The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them along with Korah, whose followers died when the fire devoured the 250 men. And they served as a warning sign.

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Num 26:19 - Er and Onan were sons of Judah, but they died in Canaan.

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Num 26:59 - the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, a descendant of Levi, who was born to the Levites[fn] in Egypt. To Amram she bore Aaron, Moses and their sister Miriam.

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Num 26:61 - But Nadab and Abihu died when they made an offering before the LORD with unauthorized fire.)

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Num 26:62 - All the male Levites a month old or more numbered 23,000. They were not counted along with the other Israelites because they received no inheritance among them.

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Num 26:63 - These are the ones counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest when they counted the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

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Num 26:64 - Not one of them was among those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Desert of Sinai.

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Num 26:65 - For the LORD had told those Israelites they would surely die in the wilderness, and not one of them was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

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Num 27:3 - “Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among Korah's followers, who banded together against the LORD, but he died for his own sin and left no sons.

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Num 27:4 - Why should our father's name disappear from his clan because he had no son? Give us property among our father's relatives.”

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Num 27:7 - “What Zelophehad's daughters are saying is right. You must certainly give them property as an inheritance among their father's relatives and give their father's inheritance to them.

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Num 27:12 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain in the Abarim Range and see the land I have given the Israelites.

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Num 27:13 - After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was,

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Num 27:14 - for when the community rebelled at the waters in the Desert of Zin, both of you disobeyed my command to honor me as holy before their eyes.” (These were the waters of Meribah Kadesh, in the Desert of Zin.)

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Num 27:18 - So the LORD said to Moses, “Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit of leadership,[fn] and lay your hand on him.

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Num 28:2 - “Give this command to the Israelites and say to them: ‘Make sure that you present to me at the appointed time my food offerings, as an aroma pleasing to me.'

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Num 28:5 - together with a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour mixed with a quarter of a hin[fn] of oil from pressed olives.

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Num 28:6 - This is the regular burnt offering instituted at Mount Sinai as a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the LORD.

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Num 28:7 - The accompanying drink offering is to be a quarter of a hin of fermented drink with each lamb. Pour out the drink offering to the LORD at the sanctuary.

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Num 28:9 - “ ‘On the Sabbath day, make an offering of two lambs a year old without defect, together with its drink offering and a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour mixed with olive oil.

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Num 28:10 - This is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.

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Num 28:11 - “ ‘On the first of every month, present to the LORD a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram and seven male lambs a year old, all without defect.

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Num 28:12 - With each bull there is to be a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour mixed with oil; with the ram, a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil;

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Num 28:13 - and with each lamb, a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil. This is for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the LORD.

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Num 28:16 - “ ‘On the fourteenth day of the first month the LORD's Passover is to be held.

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Num 28:20 - With each bull offer a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil; with the ram, two-tenths;

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Num 28:25 - On the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.

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Num 28:28 - With each bull there is to be a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil; with the ram, two-tenths;

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Num 29:3 - With the bull offer a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour mixed with olive oil; with the ram, two-tenths[fn];

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Num 29:9 - With the bull offer a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil; with the ram, two-tenths;

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Num 29:14 - With each of the thirteen bulls offer a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil; with each of the two rams, two-tenths;

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Num 29:35 - “ ‘On the eighth day hold a closing special assembly and do no regular work.

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Num 29:39 - “ ‘In addition to what you vow and your freewill offerings, offer these to the LORD at your appointed festivals: your burnt offerings, grain offerings, drink offerings and fellowship offerings.' ”

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Num 30:3 - “When a young woman still living in her father's household makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge

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Num 30:10 - “If a woman living with her husband makes a vow or obligates herself by a pledge under oath

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Num 30:16 - These are the regulations the LORD gave Moses concerning relationships between a man and his wife, and between a father and his young daughter still living at home.

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Num 31:6 - Moses sent them into battle, a thousand from each tribe, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, who took with him articles from the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling.

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Num 31:8 - Among their victims were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.

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Num 31:10 - They burned all the towns where the Midianites had settled, as well as all their camps.

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Num 31:16 - “They were the ones who followed Balaam's advice and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the LORD in the Peor incident, so that a plague struck the LORD's people.

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Num 31:17 - Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man,

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Num 31:23 - and anything else that can withstand fire must be put through the fire, and then it will be clean. But it must also be purified with the water of cleansing. And whatever cannot withstand fire must be put through that water.

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Num 31:30 - From the Israelites' half, select one out of every fifty, whether people, cattle, donkeys, sheep or other animals. Give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the LORD's tabernacle.”

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Num 32:5 - If we have found favor in your eyes,” they said, “let this land be given to your servants as our possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”

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Num 32:10 - The LORD's anger was aroused that day and he swore this oath:

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Num 32:13 - The LORD's anger burned against Israel and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation of those who had done evil in his sight was gone.

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Num 32:15 - If you turn away from following him, he will again leave all this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.”

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Num 32:17 - But we will arm ourselves for battle[fn] and go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them to their place. Meanwhile our women and children will live in fortified cities, for protection from the inhabitants of the land.

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Num 32:19 - We will not receive any inheritance with them on the other side of the Jordan, because our inheritance has come to us on the east side of the Jordan.”

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Num 32:22 - then when the land is subdued before the LORD, you may return and be free from your obligation to the LORD and to Israel. And this land will be your possession before the LORD.

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Num 32:26 - Our children and wives, our flocks and herds will remain here in the cities of Gilead.

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Num 32:29 - He said to them, “If the Gadites and Reubenites, every man armed for battle, cross over the Jordan with you before the LORD, then when the land is subdued before you, you must give them the land of Gilead as their possession.

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Num 32:30 - But if they do not cross over with you armed, they must accept their possession with you in Canaan.”

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Num 32:32 - We will cross over before the LORD into Canaan armed, but the property we inherit will be on this side of the Jordan.”

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Num 32:39 - The descendants of Makir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it and drove out the Amorites who were there.

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Num 33:1 - Here are the stages in the journey of the Israelites when they came out of Egypt by divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.

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Num 33:3 - The Israelites set out from Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first month, the day after the Passover. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians,

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Num 33:4 - who were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck down among them; for the LORD had brought judgment on their gods.

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Num 33:8 - They left Pi Hahiroth[fn] and passed through the sea into the desert, and when they had traveled for three days in the Desert of Etham, they camped at Marah.

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Num 33:9 - They left Marah and went to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.

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Num 33:13 - They left Dophkah and camped at Alush.

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Num 33:14 - They left Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

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Num 33:15 - They left Rephidim and camped in the Desert of Sinai.

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Num 33:16 - They left the Desert of Sinai and camped at Kibroth Hattaavah.

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Num 33:17 - They left Kibroth Hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.

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Num 33:18 - They left Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.

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Num 33:19 - They left Rithmah and camped at Rimmon Perez.

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Num 33:20 - They left Rimmon Perez and camped at Libnah.

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Num 33:36 - They left Ezion Geber and camped at Kadesh, in the Desert of Zin.

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Num 33:38 - At the LORD's command Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor, where he died on the first day of the fifth month of the fortieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt.

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Num 33:39 - Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.

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Num 33:40 - The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev of Canaan, heard that the Israelites were coming.

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Num 33:44 - They left Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim, on the border of Moab.

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Num 33:46 - They left Dibon Gad and camped at Almon Diblathaim.

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Num 33:52 - drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places.

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Num 33:53 - Take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.

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Num 33:54 - Distribute the land by lot, according to your clans. To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one. Whatever falls to them by lot will be theirs. Distribute it according to your ancestral tribes.

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Num 33:55 - “ ‘But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live.

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Num 34:29 - These are the men the LORD commanded to assign the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.

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Num 35:14 - Give three on this side of the Jordan and three in Canaan as cities of refuge.

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Num 35:15 - These six towns will be a place of refuge for Israelites and for foreigners residing among them, so that anyone who has killed another accidentally can flee there.

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Num 35:16 - “ ‘If anyone strikes someone a fatal blow with an iron object, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death.

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Num 35:17 - Or if anyone is holding a stone and strikes someone a fatal blow with it, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death.

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Num 35:18 - Or if anyone is holding a wooden object and strikes someone a fatal blow with it, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death.

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Num 35:21 - or if out of enmity one person hits another with their fist so that the other dies, that person is to be put to death; that person is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when they meet.

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Num 35:23 - or, without seeing them, drops on them a stone heavy enough to kill them, and they die, then since that other person was not an enemy and no harm was intended,

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Num 35:28 - The accused must stay in the city of refuge until the death of the high priest; only after the death of the high priest may they return to their own property.

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Num 35:29 - “ ‘This is to have the force of law for you throughout the generations to come, wherever you live.

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Num 35:34 - Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell, for I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.' ”

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Num 36:2 - They said, “When the LORD commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance to the Israelites by lot, he ordered you to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.

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Num 36:7 - No inheritance in Israel is to pass from one tribe to another, for every Israelite shall keep the tribal inheritance of their ancestors.

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Num 36:9 - No inheritance may pass from one tribe to another, for each Israelite tribe is to keep the land it inherits.”

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Num 36:13 - These are the commands and regulations the LORD gave through Moses to the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

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Deu 1:1 - These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—that is, in the Arabah—opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab.

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Deu 1:2 - (It takes eleven days to go from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by the Mount Seir road.)

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Deu 1:3 - In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.

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Deu 1:4 - This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, and at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth.

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Deu 1:5 - East of the Jordan in the territory of Moab, Moses began to expound this law, saying:

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Deu 1:6 - The LORD our God said to us at Horeb, “You have stayed long enough at this mountain.

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Deu 1:9 - At that time I said to you, “You are too heavy a burden for me to carry alone.

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Deu 1:16 - And I charged your judges at that time, “Hear the disputes between your people and judge fairly, whether the case is between two Israelites or between an Israelite and a foreigner residing among you.

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Deu 1:17 - Do not show partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be afraid of anyone, for judgment belongs to God. Bring me any case too hard for you, and I will hear it.”

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Deu 1:18 - And at that time I told you everything you were to do.

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Deu 1:22 - Then all of you came to me and said, “Let us send men ahead to spy out the land for us and bring back a report about the route we are to take and the towns we will come to.”

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Deu 1:25 - Taking with them some of the fruit of the land, they brought it down to us and reported, “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”

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Deu 1:27 - You grumbled in your tents and said, “The LORD hates us; so he brought us out of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us.

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Deu 1:30 - The LORD your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes,

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Deu 1:31 - and in the wilderness. There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.”

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Deu 1:32 - In spite of this, you did not trust in the LORD your God,

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Deu 1:33 - who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.

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Deu 1:44 - The Amorites who lived in those hills came out against you; they chased you like a swarm of bees and beat you down from Seir all the way to Hormah.

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Deu 1:46 - And so you stayed in Kadesh many days—all the time you spent there.

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Deu 2:4 - Give the people these orders: ‘You are about to pass through the territory of your relatives the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, but be very careful.

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Deu 2:5 - Do not provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, not even enough to put your foot on. I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his own.

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Deu 2:7 - The LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you, and you have not lacked anything.

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Deu 2:8 - So we went on past our relatives the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion Geber, and traveled along the desert road of Moab.

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Deu 2:9 - Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any part of their land. I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.”

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Deu 2:12 - Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land the LORD gave them as their possession.)

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Deu 2:19 - When you come to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them to war, for I will not give you possession of any land belonging to the Ammonites. I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.”

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Deu 2:22 - The LORD had done the same for the descendants of Esau, who lived in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day.

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Deu 2:23 - And as for the Avvites who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorites coming out from Caphtor[fn] destroyed them and settled in their place.)

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Deu 2:25 - This very day I will begin to put the terror and fear of you on all the nations under heaven. They will hear reports of you and will tremble and be in anguish because of you.”

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Deu 2:27 - “Let us pass through your country. We will stay on the main road; we will not turn aside to the right or to the left.

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Deu 2:29 - as the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, did for us—until we cross the Jordan into the land the LORD our God is giving us.”

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Deu 2:30 - But Sihon king of Heshbon refused to let us pass through. For the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done.

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Deu 2:34 - At that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed[fn] them—men, women and children. We left no survivors.

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Deu 2:36 - From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the gorge, even as far as Gilead, not one town was too strong for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.

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Deu 2:37 - But in accordance with the command of the LORD our God, you did not encroach on any of the land of the Ammonites, neither the land along the course of the Jabbok nor that around the towns in the hills.

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Deu 3:2 - The LORD said to me, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your hands, along with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.”

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Deu 3:4 - At that time we took all his cities. There was not one of the sixty cities that we did not take from them—the whole region of Argob, Og's kingdom in Bashan.

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Deu 3:8 - So at that time we took from these two kings of the Amorites the territory east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge as far as Mount Hermon.

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Deu 3:10 - We took all the towns on the plateau, and all Gilead, and all Bashan as far as Salekah and Edrei, towns of Og's kingdom in Bashan.

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Deu 3:11 - (Og king of Bashan was the last of the Rephaites. His bed was decorated with iron and was more than nine cubits long and four cubits wide.[fn] It is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

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Deu 3:12 - Of the land that we took over at that time, I gave the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory north of Aroer by the Arnon Gorge, including half the hill country of Gilead, together with its towns.

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Deu 3:18 - I commanded you at that time: “The LORD your God has given you this land to take possession of it. But all your able-bodied men, armed for battle, must cross over ahead of the other Israelites.

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Deu 3:19 - However, your wives, your children and your livestock (I know you have much livestock) may stay in the towns I have given you,

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Deu 3:20 - until the LORD gives rest to your fellow Israelites as he has to you, and they too have taken over the land that the LORD your God is giving them across the Jordan. After that, each of you may go back to the possession I have given you.”

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Deu 3:21 - At that time I commanded Joshua: “You have seen with your own eyes all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. The LORD will do the same to all the kingdoms over there where you are going.

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Deu 3:23 - At that time I pleaded with the LORD:

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Deu 3:24 - “Sovereign LORD, you have begun to show to your servant your greatness and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do the deeds and mighty works you do?

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Deu 3:29 - So we stayed in the valley near Beth Peor.

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Deu 4:4 - but all of you who held fast to the LORD your God are still alive today.

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Deu 4:5 - See, I have taught you decrees and laws as the LORD my God commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to take possession of it.

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Deu 4:7 - What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the LORD our God is near us whenever we pray to him?

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Deu 4:10 - Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when he said to me, “Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children.”

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Deu 4:14 - And the LORD directed me at that time to teach you the decrees and laws you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

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Deu 4:15 - You saw no form of any kind the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire. Therefore watch yourselves very carefully,

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Deu 4:18 - or like any creature that moves along the ground or any fish in the waters below.

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Deu 4:20 - But as for you, the LORD took you and brought you out of the iron-smelting furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of his inheritance, as you now are.

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Deu 4:21 - The LORD was angry with me because of you, and he solemnly swore that I would not cross the Jordan and enter the good land the LORD your God is giving you as your inheritance.

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Deu 4:22 - I will die in this land; I will not cross the Jordan; but you are about to cross over and take possession of that good land.

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Deu 4:27 - The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

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Deu 4:29 - But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.

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Deu 4:34 - Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by great and awesome deeds, like all the things the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

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Deu 4:37 - Because he loved your ancestors and chose their descendants after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence and his great strength,

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Deu 4:39 - Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.

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Deu 4:43 - The cities were these: Bezer in the wilderness plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.

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Deu 4:45 - These are the stipulations, decrees and laws Moses gave them when they came out of Egypt

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Deu 4:46 - and were in the valley near Beth Peor east of the Jordan, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon and was defeated by Moses and the Israelites as they came out of Egypt.

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Deu 5:1 - Moses summoned all Israel and said: Hear, Israel, the decrees and laws I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them.

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Deu 5:2 - The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

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Deu 5:4 - The LORD spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.

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Deu 5:5 - (At that time I stood between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain.) And he said:

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Deu 5:8 - “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

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Deu 5:14 - but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns, so that your male and female servants may rest, as you do.

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Deu 5:15 - Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

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Deu 5:22 - These are the commandments the LORD proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness; and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

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Deu 5:24 - And you said, “The LORD our God has shown us his glory and his majesty, and we have heard his voice from the fire. Today we have seen that a person can live even if God speaks with them.

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Deu 5:29 - Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!

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Deu 5:31 - But you stay here with me so that I may give you all the commands, decrees and laws you are to teach them to follow in the land I am giving them to possess.”

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Deu 5:33 - Walk in obedience to all that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.

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Deu 6:1 - These are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,

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Deu 6:4 - Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.[fn]

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Deu 6:6 - These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.

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Deu 6:7 - Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

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Deu 6:15 - for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land.

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Deu 6:16 - Do not put the LORD your God to the test as you did at Massah.

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Deu 6:21 - tell him: “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

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Deu 6:22 - Before our eyes the LORD sent signs and wonders—great and terrible—on Egypt and Pharaoh and his whole household.

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Deu 7:8 - But it was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

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Deu 7:14 - You will be blessed more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless, nor will any of your livestock be without young.

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Deu 7:17 - You may say to yourselves, “These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?”

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Deu 7:21 - Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.

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Deu 8:2 - Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.

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Deu 8:6 - Observe the commands of the LORD your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him.

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Deu 8:12 - Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down,

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Deu 8:16 - He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you.

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Deu 8:17 - You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.”

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Deu 9:4 - After the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say to yourself, “The LORD has brought me here to take possession of this land because of my righteousness.” No, it is on account of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is going to drive them out before you.

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Deu 9:7 - Remember this and never forget how you aroused the anger of the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left Egypt until you arrived here, you have been rebellious against the LORD.

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Deu 9:8 - At Horeb you aroused the LORD's wrath so that he was angry enough to destroy you.

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Deu 9:9 - When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.

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Deu 9:10 - The LORD gave me two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God. On them were all the commandments the LORD proclaimed to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.

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Deu 9:19 - I feared the anger and wrath of the LORD, for he was angry enough with you to destroy you. But again the LORD listened to me.

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Deu 9:20 - And the LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I prayed for Aaron too.

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Deu 9:21 - Also I took that sinful thing of yours, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust and threw the dust into a stream that flowed down the mountain.

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Deu 9:22 - You also made the LORD angry at Taberah, at Massah and at Kibroth Hattaavah.

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Deu 9:26 - I prayed to the LORD and said, “Sovereign LORD, do not destroy your people, your own inheritance that you redeemed by your great power and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

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Deu 9:28 - Otherwise, the country from which you brought us will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to take them into the land he had promised them, and because he hated them, he brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.'

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Deu 9:29 - But they are your people, your inheritance that you brought out by your great power and your outstretched arm.”

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Deu 10:1 - At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden ark.[fn]

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Deu 10:2 - I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are to put them in the ark.”

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Deu 10:4 - The LORD wrote on these tablets what he had written before, the Ten Commandments he had proclaimed to you on the mountain, out of the fire, on the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me.

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Deu 10:8 - At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister and to pronounce blessings in his name, as they still do today.

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Deu 10:9 - That is why the Levites have no share or inheritance among their fellow Israelites; the LORD is their inheritance, as the LORD your God told them.)

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Deu 10:10 - Now I had stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, as I did the first time, and the LORD listened to me at this time also. It was not his will to destroy you.

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Deu 10:12 - And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

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Deu 10:14 - To the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it.

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Deu 10:19 - And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.

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Deu 10:21 - He is the one you praise; he is your God, who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own eyes.

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Deu 10:22 - Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

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Deu 11:3 - the signs he performed and the things he did in the heart of Egypt, both to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his whole country;

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Deu 11:5 - It was not your children who saw what he did for you in the wilderness until you arrived at this place,

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Deu 11:6 - and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth right in the middle of all Israel and swallowed them up with their households, their tents and every living thing that belonged to them.

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Deu 11:15 - I will provide grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.

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Deu 11:17 - Then the LORD's anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the LORD is giving you.

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Deu 11:19 - Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

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Deu 11:22 - If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him and to hold fast to him—

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Deu 11:30 - As you know, these mountains are across the Jordan, westward, toward the setting sun, near the great trees of Moreh, in the territory of those Canaanites living in the Arabah in the vicinity of Gilgal.

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Deu 11:31 - You are about to cross the Jordan to enter and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you. When you have taken it over and are living there,

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Deu 12:1 - These are the decrees and laws you must be careful to follow in the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess—as long as you live in the land.

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Deu 12:2 - Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains, on the hills and under every spreading tree, where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods.

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Deu 12:5 - But you are to seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling. To that place you must go;

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Deu 12:13 - Be careful not to sacrifice your burnt offerings anywhere you please.

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Deu 12:14 - Offer them only at the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribes, and there observe everything I command you.

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Deu 12:15 - Nevertheless, you may slaughter your animals in any of your towns and eat as much of the meat as you want, as if it were gazelle or deer, according to the blessing the LORD your God gives you. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.

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Deu 12:17 - You must not eat in your own towns the tithe of your grain and new wine and olive oil, or the firstborn of your herds and flocks, or whatever you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.

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Deu 12:18 - Instead, you are to eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites from your towns—and you are to rejoice before the LORD your God in everything you put your hand to.

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Deu 12:20 - When the LORD your God has enlarged your territory as he promised you, and you crave meat and say, “I would like some meat,” then you may eat as much of it as you want.

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Deu 12:21 - If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put his Name is too far away from you, you may slaughter animals from the herds and flocks the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and in your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want.

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Deu 12:22 - Eat them as you would gazelle or deer. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat.

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Deu 12:29 - The LORD your God will cut off before you the nations you are about to invade and dispossess. But when you have driven them out and settled in their land,

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Deu 12:31 - You must not worship the LORD your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

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Deu 13:1 - If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a sign or wonder,

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Deu 13:5 - That prophet or dreamer must be put to death for inciting rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery. That prophet or dreamer tried to turn you from the way the LORD your God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.

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Deu 13:6 - If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known,

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Deu 13:9 - You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people.

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Deu 13:10 - Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

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Deu 13:11 - Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again.

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Deu 13:12 - If you hear it said about one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you to live in

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Deu 13:14 - then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly. And if it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done among you,

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Deu 13:15 - you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. You must destroy it completely,[fn] both its people and its livestock.

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Deu 13:16 - You are to gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt,

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Deu 13:17 - and none of the condemned things[fn] are to be found in your hands. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger, will show you mercy, and will have compassion on you. He will increase your numbers, as he promised on oath to your ancestors—

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Deu 14:6 - You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud.

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Deu 14:9 - Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales.

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Deu 14:21 - Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to the foreigner residing in any of your towns, and they may eat it, or you may sell it to any other foreigner. But you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

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Deu 14:23 - Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the presence of the LORD your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the LORD your God always.

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Deu 14:25 - then exchange your tithe for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the place the LORD your God will choose.

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Deu 14:27 - And do not neglect the Levites living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own.

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Deu 14:28 - At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year's produce and store it in your towns,

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Deu 14:29 - so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

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Deu 15:4 - However, there need be no poor people among you, for in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, he will richly bless you,

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Deu 15:7 - If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward them.

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Deu 15:9 - Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: “The seventh year, the year for canceling debts, is near,” so that you do not show ill will toward the needy among your fellow Israelites and give them nothing. They may then appeal to the LORD against you, and you will be found guilty of sin.

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Deu 15:10 - Give generously to them and do so without a grudging heart; then because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you put your hand to.

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Deu 15:15 - Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you. That is why I give you this command today.

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Deu 15:18 - Do not consider it a hardship to set your servant free, because their service to you these six years has been worth twice as much as that of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.

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Deu 15:19 - Set apart for the LORD your God every firstborn male of your herds and flocks. Do not put the firstborn of your cows to work, and do not shear the firstborn of your sheep.

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Deu 15:20 - Each year you and your family are to eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place he will choose.

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Deu 15:21 - If an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

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Deu 15:22 - You are to eat it in your own towns. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it, as if it were gazelle or deer.

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Deu 16:1 - Observe the month of Aviv and celebrate the Passover of the LORD your God, because in the month of Aviv he brought you out of Egypt by night.

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Deu 16:2 - Sacrifice as the Passover to the LORD your God an animal from your flock or herd at the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for his Name.

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Deu 16:3 - Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left Egypt in haste—so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt.

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Deu 16:4 - Let no yeast be found in your possession in all your land for seven days. Do not let any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until morning.

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Deu 16:5 - You must not sacrifice the Passover in any town the LORD your God gives you

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Deu 16:6 - except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary[fn] of your departure from Egypt.

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Deu 16:7 - Roast it and eat it at the place the LORD your God will choose. Then in the morning return to your tents.

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Deu 16:8 - For six days eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day hold an assembly to the LORD your God and do no work.

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Deu 16:11 - And rejoice before the LORD your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites in your towns, and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows living among you.

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Deu 16:12 - Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and follow carefully these decrees.

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Deu 16:13 - Celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress.

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Deu 16:14 - Be joyful at your festival—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns.

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Deu 16:15 - For seven days celebrate the festival to the LORD your God at the place the LORD will choose. For the LORD your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.

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Deu 16:16 - Three times a year all your men must appear before the LORD your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed:

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Deu 16:18 - Appoint judges and officials for each of your tribes in every town the LORD your God is giving you, and they shall judge the people fairly.

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Deu 17:1 - Do not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep that has any defect or flaw in it, for that would be detestable to him.

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Deu 17:2 - If a man or woman living among you in one of the towns the LORD gives you is found doing evil in the eyes of the LORD your God in violation of his covenant,

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Deu 17:4 - and this has been brought to your attention, then you must investigate it thoroughly. If it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done in Israel,

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Deu 17:5 - take the man or woman who has done this evil deed to your city gate and stone that person to death.

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Deu 17:7 - The hands of the witnesses must be the first in putting that person to death, and then the hands of all the people. You must purge the evil from among you.

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Deu 17:8 - If cases come before your courts that are too difficult for you to judge—whether bloodshed, lawsuits or assaults—take them to the place the LORD your God will choose.

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Deu 17:9 - Go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office at that time. Inquire of them and they will give you the verdict.

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Deu 17:12 - Anyone who shows contempt for the judge or for the priest who stands ministering there to the LORD your God is to be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.

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Deu 17:14 - When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”

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Deu 17:19 - It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to revere the LORD his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees

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Deu 17:20 - and not consider himself better than his fellow Israelites and turn from the law to the right or to the left. Then he and his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in Israel.

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Deu 18:2 - They shall have no inheritance among their fellow Israelites; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them.

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Deu 18:5 - for the LORD your God has chosen them and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the LORD's name always.

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Deu 18:10 - Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft,

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Deu 18:16 - For this is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.”

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Deu 18:18 - I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him.

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Deu 18:21 - You may say to yourselves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD?”

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Deu 18:22 - If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be alarmed.

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Deu 19:1 - When the LORD your God has destroyed the nations whose land he is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their towns and houses,

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Deu 19:2 - then set aside for yourselves three cities in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

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Deu 19:9 - because you carefully follow all these laws I command you today—to love the LORD your God and to walk always in obedience to him—then you are to set aside three more cities.

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Deu 19:10 - Do this so that innocent blood will not be shed in your land, which the LORD your God is giving you as your inheritance, and so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.

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Deu 19:14 - Do not move your neighbor's boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

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Deu 19:17 - the two people involved in the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD before the priests and the judges who are in office at the time.

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Deu 19:20 - The rest of the people will hear of this and be afraid, and never again will such an evil thing be done among you.

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Deu 20:5 - The officers shall say to the army: “Has anyone built a new house and not yet begun to live in it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else may begin to live in it.

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Deu 20:6 - Has anyone planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else enjoy it.

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Deu 20:7 - Has anyone become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else marry her.”

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Deu 20:11 - If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you.

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Deu 20:13 - When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it.

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Deu 20:14 - As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the LORD your God gives you from your enemies.

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Deu 20:19 - When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees people, that you should besiege them?[fn]

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Deu 21:1 - If someone is found slain, lying in a field in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who the killer was,

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Deu 21:4 - and lead it down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted and where there is a flowing stream. There in the valley they are to break the heifer's neck.

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Deu 21:6 - Then all the elders of the town nearest the body shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,

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Deu 21:8 - Accept this atonement for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, LORD, and do not hold your people guilty of the blood of an innocent person.” Then the bloodshed will be atoned for,

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Deu 21:11 - if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife.

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Deu 21:13 - and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.

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Deu 21:21 - Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.

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Deu 21:23 - you must not leave the body hanging on the pole overnight. Be sure to bury it that same day, because anyone who is hung on a pole is under God's curse. You must not desecrate the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

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Deu 22:1 - If you see your fellow Israelite's ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it but be sure to take it back to its owner.

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Deu 22:4 - If you see your fellow Israelite's donkey or ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it. Help the owner get it to its feet.

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Deu 22:6 - If you come across a bird's nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young.

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Deu 22:8 - When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof.

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Deu 22:10 - Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.

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Deu 22:11 - Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

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Deu 22:12 - Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.

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Deu 22:21 - she shall be brought to the door of her father's house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father's house. You must purge the evil from among you.

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Deu 22:23 - If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her,

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Deu 22:24 - you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man's wife. You must purge the evil from among you.

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Deu 22:25 - But if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die.

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Deu 22:27 - for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed, there was no one to rescue her.

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Deu 23:4 - For they did not come to meet you with bread and water on your way when you came out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram Naharaim[fn] to pronounce a curse on you.

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Deu 23:7 - Do not despise an Edomite, for the Edomites are related to you. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you resided as foreigners in their country.

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Deu 23:10 - If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there.

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Deu 23:13 - As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement.

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Deu 23:14 - For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.

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Deu 23:16 - Let them live among you wherever they like and in whatever town they choose. Do not oppress them.

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Deu 23:20 - You may charge a foreigner interest, but not a fellow Israelite, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess.

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Deu 23:21 - If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to pay it, for the LORD your God will certainly demand it of you and you will be guilty of sin.

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Deu 23:22 - But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty.

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Deu 23:23 - Whatever your lips utter you must be sure to do, because you made your vow freely to the LORD your God with your own mouth.

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Deu 24:1 - If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house,

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Deu 24:4 - then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled. That would be detestable in the eyes of the LORD. Do not bring sin upon the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

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Deu 24:5 - If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.

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Deu 24:8 - In cases of defiling skin diseases,[fn] be very careful to do exactly as the Levitical priests instruct you. You must follow carefully what I have commanded them.

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Deu 24:9 - Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam along the way after you came out of Egypt.

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Deu 24:10 - When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into their house to get what is offered to you as a pledge.

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Deu 24:11 - Stay outside and let the neighbor to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you.

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Deu 24:12 - If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge in your possession.

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Deu 24:13 - Return their cloak by sunset so that your neighbor may sleep in it. Then they will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the LORD your God.

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Deu 24:14 - Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.

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Deu 24:15 - Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and are counting on it. Otherwise they may cry to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

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Deu 24:18 - Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this.

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Deu 24:19 - When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

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Deu 24:20 - When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow.

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Deu 24:22 - Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. That is why I command you to do this.

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Deu 25:7 - However, if a man does not want to marry his brother's wife, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and say, “My husband's brother refuses to carry on his brother's name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me.”

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Deu 25:10 - That man's line shall be known in Israel as The Family of the Unsandaled.

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Deu 25:13 - Do not have two differing weights in your bag—one heavy, one light.

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Deu 25:14 - Do not have two differing measures in your house—one large, one small.

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Deu 25:15 - You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

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Deu 25:17 - Remember what the Amalekites did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt.

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Deu 25:18 - When you were weary and worn out, they met you on your journey and attacked all who were lagging behind; they had no fear of God.

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Deu 25:19 - When the LORD your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!

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Deu 26:1 - When you have entered the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it,

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Deu 26:3 - and say to the priest in office at the time, “I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come to the land the LORD swore to our ancestors to give us.”

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Deu 26:5 - Then you shall declare before the LORD your God: “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down into Egypt with a few people and lived there and became a great nation, powerful and numerous.

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Deu 26:8 - So the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror and with signs and wonders.

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Deu 26:11 - Then you and the Levites and the foreigners residing among you shall rejoice in all the good things the LORD your God has given to you and your household.

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Deu 26:12 - When you have finished setting aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you shall give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.

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Deu 26:14 - I have not eaten any of the sacred portion while I was in mourning, nor have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor have I offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God; I have done everything you commanded me.

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Deu 26:16 - The LORD your God commands you this day to follow these decrees and laws; carefully observe them with all your heart and with all your soul.

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Deu 26:17 - You have declared this day that the LORD is your God and that you will walk in obedience to him, that you will keep his decrees, commands and laws—that you will listen to him.

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Deu 27:4 - And when you have crossed the Jordan, set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I command you today, and coat them with plaster.

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Deu 27:9 - Then Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, “Be silent, Israel, and listen! You have now become the people of the LORD your God.

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Deu 27:11 - On the same day Moses commanded the people:

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Deu 27:12 - When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph and Benjamin.

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Deu 27:13 - And these tribes shall stand on Mount Ebal to pronounce curses: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali.

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Deu 27:15 - “Cursed is anyone who makes an idol—a thing detestable to the LORD, the work of skilled hands—and sets it up in secret.”

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Deu 27:18 - “Cursed is anyone who leads the blind astray on the road.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

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Deu 27:26 - “Cursed is anyone who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

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Deu 28:3 - You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

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Deu 28:6 - You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

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Deu 28:7 - The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.

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Deu 28:8 - The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.

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Deu 28:9 - The LORD will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the LORD your God and walk in obedience to him.

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Deu 28:16 - You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

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Deu 28:19 - You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

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Deu 28:20 - The LORD will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.[fn]

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Deu 28:25 - The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth.

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Deu 28:27 - The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.

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Deu 28:29 - At midday you will grope about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.

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Deu 28:30 - You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.

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Deu 28:35 - The LORD will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

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Deu 28:37 - You will become a thing of horror, a byword and an object of ridicule among all the peoples where the LORD will drive you.

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Deu 28:40 - You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.

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Deu 28:41 - You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.

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Deu 28:43 - The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.

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Deu 28:46 - They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.

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Deu 28:47 - Because you did not serve the LORD your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity,

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Deu 28:48 - therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the LORD sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

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Deu 28:52 - They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the LORD your God is giving you.

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Deu 28:53 - Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you.

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Deu 28:54 - Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children,

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Deu 28:55 - and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities.

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Deu 28:56 - The most gentle and sensitive woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter

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Deu 28:57 - the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.

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Deu 28:58 - If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your God—

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Deu 28:60 - He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you.

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Deu 28:61 - The LORD will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.

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Deu 28:62 - You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the LORD your God.

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Deu 28:65 - Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart.

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Deu 28:68 - The LORD will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

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Deu 29:1 - These are the terms of the covenant the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.

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Deu 29:2 - Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials and to all his land.

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Deu 29:5 - Yet the LORD says, “During the forty years that I led you through the wilderness, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet.

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Deu 29:7 - When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to fight against us, but we defeated them.

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Deu 29:8 - We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

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Deu 29:11 - together with your children and your wives, and the foreigners living in your camps who chop your wood and carry your water.

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Deu 29:12 - You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the LORD your God, a covenant the LORD is making with you this day and sealing with an oath,

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Deu 29:16 - You yourselves know how we lived in Egypt and how we passed through the countries on the way here.

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Deu 29:18 - Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.

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Deu 29:19 - When such a person hears the words of this oath and they invoke a blessing on themselves, thinking, “I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own way,” they will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

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Deu 29:20 - The LORD will never be willing to forgive them; his wrath and zeal will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will fall on them, and the LORD will blot out their names from under heaven.

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Deu 29:21 - The LORD will single them out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

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Deu 29:23 - The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, which the LORD overthrew in fierce anger.

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Deu 29:27 - Therefore the LORD's anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book.

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Deu 29:28 - In furious anger and in great wrath the LORD uprooted them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now.”

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Deu 30:1 - When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart wherever the LORD your God disperses you among the nations,

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Deu 30:9 - Then the LORD your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The LORD will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your ancestors,

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Deu 30:10 - if you obey the LORD your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

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Deu 30:12 - It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”

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Deu 30:14 - No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.

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Deu 30:16 - For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

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Deu 31:6 - Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.”

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Deu 31:10 - Then Moses commanded them: “At the end of every seven years, in the year for canceling debts, during the Festival of Tabernacles,

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Deu 31:11 - when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God at the place he will choose, you shall read this law before them in their hearing.

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Deu 31:12 - Assemble the people—men, women and children, and the foreigners residing in your towns—so they can listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and follow carefully all the words of this law.

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Deu 31:15 - Then the LORD appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood over the entrance to the tent.

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Deu 31:17 - And in that day I will become angry with them and forsake them; I will hide my face from them, and they will be destroyed. Many disasters and calamities will come on them, and in that day they will ask, ‘Have not these disasters come on us because our God is not with us?'

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Deu 31:18 - And I will certainly hide my face in that day because of all their wickedness in turning to other gods.

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Deu 31:19 - “Now write down this song and teach it to the Israelites and have them sing it, so that it may be a witness for me against them.

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Deu 31:22 - So Moses wrote down this song that day and taught it to the Israelites.

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Deu 31:26 - “Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God. There it will remain as a witness against you.

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Deu 31:29 - For I know that after my death you are sure to become utterly corrupt and to turn from the way I have commanded you. In days to come, disaster will fall on you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD and arouse his anger by what your hands have made.”

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Deu 32:10 - In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye,

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Deu 32:16 - They made him jealous with their foreign gods and angered him with their detestable idols.

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Deu 32:20 - “I will hide my face from them,” he said, “and see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children who are unfaithful.

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Deu 32:21 - They made me jealous by what is no god and angered me with their worthless idols. I will make them envious by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.

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Deu 32:28 - They are a nation without sense, there is no discernment in them.

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Deu 32:34 - “Have I not kept this in reserve and sealed it in my vaults?

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Deu 32:35 - It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon them.”

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Deu 32:36 - The LORD will vindicate his people and relent concerning his servants when he sees their strength is gone and no one is left, slave or free.[fn]

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Deu 32:44 - Moses came with Joshua[fn] son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.

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Deu 32:48 - On that same day the LORD told Moses,

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Deu 32:49 - “Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo in Moab, across from Jericho, and view Canaan, the land I am giving the Israelites as their own possession.

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Deu 32:50 - There on the mountain that you have climbed you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.

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Deu 32:51 - This is because both of you broke faith with me in the presence of the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the Desert of Zin and because you did not uphold my holiness among the Israelites.

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Deu 33:5 - He was king over Jeshurun[fn] when the leaders of the people assembled, along with the tribes of Israel.

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Deu 33:6 - “Let Reuben live and not die, nor[fn] his people be few.”

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Deu 33:8 - About Levi he said: “Your Thummim and Urim belong to your faithful servant. You tested him at Massah; you contended with him at the waters of Meribah.

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Deu 33:10 - He teaches your precepts to Jacob and your law to Israel. He offers incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.

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Deu 33:16 - with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness and the favor of him who dwelt in the burning bush. Let all these rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince among[fn] his brothers.

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Deu 33:17 - In majesty he is like a firstborn bull; his horns are the horns of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even those at the ends of the earth. Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim; such are the thousands of Manasseh.”

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Deu 33:18 - About Zebulun he said: “Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and you, Issachar, in your tents.

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Deu 33:24 - About Asher he said: “Most blessed of sons is Asher; let him be favored by his brothers, and let him bathe his feet in oil.

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Deu 34:5 - And Moses the servant of the LORD died there in Moab, as the LORD had said.

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Deu 34:6 - He buried him[fn] in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is.

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Deu 34:7 - Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone.

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Deu 34:8 - The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning was over.

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Deu 34:10 - Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,

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Deu 34:11 - who did all those signs and wonders the LORD sent him to do in Egypt—to Pharaoh and to all his officials and to his whole land.

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Jos 1:7 - “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.

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Jos 1:8 - Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

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Jos 1:14 - Your wives, your children and your livestock may stay in the land that Moses gave you east of the Jordan, but all your fighting men, ready for battle, must cross over ahead of your fellow Israelites. You are to help them

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Jos 2:5 - At dusk, when it was time to close the city gate, they left. I don't know which way they went. Go after them quickly. You may catch up with them.”

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Jos 2:6 - (But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax she had laid out on the roof.)

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Jos 2:11 - When we heard of it, our hearts melted in fear and everyone's courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God is God in heaven above and on the earth below.

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Jos 2:12 - “Now then, please swear to me by the LORD that you will show kindness to my family, because I have shown kindness to you. Give me a sure sign

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Jos 2:19 - If any of them go outside your house into the street, their blood will be on their own heads; we will not be responsible. As for those who are in the house with you, their blood will be on our head if a hand is laid on them.

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Jos 2:24 - They said to Joshua, “The LORD has surely given the whole land into our hands; all the people are melting in fear because of us.”

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Jos 3:5 - Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do amazing things among you.”

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Jos 3:7 - And the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to exalt you in the eyes of all Israel, so they may know that I am with you as I was with Moses.

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Jos 3:8 - Tell the priests who carry the ark of the covenant: ‘When you reach the edge of the Jordan's waters, go and stand in the river.' ”

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Jos 3:10 - This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that he will certainly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites and Jebusites.

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Jos 3:13 - And as soon as the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—set foot in the Jordan, its waters flowing downstream will be cut off and stand up in a heap.”

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Jos 3:17 - The priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD stopped in the middle of the Jordan and stood on dry ground, while all Israel passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground.

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Jos 4:3 - and tell them to take up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, from right where the priests are standing, and carry them over with you and put them down at the place where you stay tonight.”

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Jos 4:8 - So the Israelites did as Joshua commanded them. They took twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, as the LORD had told Joshua; and they carried them over with them to their camp, where they put them down.

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Jos 4:9 - Joshua set up the twelve stones that had been[fn] in the middle of the Jordan at the spot where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant had stood. And they are there to this day.

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Jos 4:10 - Now the priests who carried the ark remained standing in the middle of the Jordan until everything the LORD had commanded Joshua was done by the people, just as Moses had directed Joshua. The people hurried over,

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Jos 4:14 - That day the LORD exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they stood in awe of him all the days of his life, just as they had stood in awe of Moses.

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Jos 4:19 - On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

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Jos 4:20 - And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan.

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Jos 4:24 - He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the LORD is powerful and so that you might always fear the LORD your God.”

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Jos 5:1 - Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the Jordan before the Israelites until they[fn] had crossed over, their hearts melted in fear and they no longer had the courage to face the Israelites.

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Jos 5:4 - Now this is why he did so: All those who came out of Egypt—all the men of military age—died in the wilderness on the way after leaving Egypt.

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Jos 5:6 - The Israelites had moved about in the wilderness forty years until all the men who were of military age when they left Egypt had died, since they had not obeyed the LORD. For the LORD had sworn to them that they would not see the land he had solemnly promised their ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Jos 5:8 - And after the whole nation had been circumcised, they remained where they were in camp until they were healed.

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Jos 5:9 - Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” So the place has been called Gilgal[fn] to this day.

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Jos 5:10 - On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover.

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Jos 5:11 - The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain.

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Jos 5:12 - The manna stopped the day after[fn] they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate the produce of Canaan.

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Jos 5:13 - Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?”

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Jos 6:2 - Then the LORD said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men.

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Jos 6:17 - The city and all that is in it are to be devoted[fn] to the LORD. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent.

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Jos 6:21 - They devoted the city to the LORD and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.

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Jos 6:24 - Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD's house.

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Jos 6:25 - But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her family and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho—and she lives among the Israelites to this day.

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Jos 6:26 - At that time Joshua pronounced this solemn oath: “Cursed before the LORD is the one who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho: “At the cost of his firstborn son he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.”

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Jos 7:13 - “Go, consecrate the people. Tell them, ‘Consecrate yourselves in preparation for tomorrow; for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: There are devoted things among you, Israel. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove them.

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Jos 7:15 - Whoever is caught with the devoted things shall be destroyed by fire, along with all that belongs to him. He has violated the covenant of the LORD and has done an outrageous thing in Israel!' ”

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Jos 7:21 - When I saw in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia,[fn] two hundred shekels[fn] of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels,[fn] I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”

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Jos 8:3 - So Joshua and the whole army moved out to attack Ai. He chose thirty thousand of his best fighting men and sent them out at night

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Jos 8:17 - Not a man remained in Ai or Bethel who did not go after Israel. They left the city open and went in pursuit of Israel.

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Jos 8:18 - Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Hold out toward Ai the javelin that is in your hand, for into your hand I will deliver the city.” So Joshua held out toward the city the javelin that was in his hand.

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Jos 8:19 - As soon as he did this, the men in the ambush rose quickly from their position and rushed forward. They entered the city and captured it and quickly set it on fire.

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Jos 8:24 - When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai in the fields and in the wilderness where they had chased them, and when every one of them had been put to the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and killed those who were in it.

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Jos 8:25 - Twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.

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Jos 8:27 - But Israel did carry off for themselves the livestock and plunder of this city, as the LORD had instructed Joshua.

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Jos 8:28 - So Joshua burned Ai[fn] and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolate place to this day.

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Jos 8:30 - Then Joshua built on Mount Ebal an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel,

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Jos 8:31 - as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses—an altar of uncut stones, on which no iron tool had been used. On it they offered to the LORD burnt offerings and sacrificed fellowship offerings.

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Jos 8:33 - All the Israelites, with their elders, officials and judges, were standing on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the LORD, facing the Levitical priests who carried it. Both the foreigners living among them and the native-born were there. Half of the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had formerly commanded when he gave instructions to bless the people of Israel.

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Jos 8:34 - Afterward, Joshua read all the words of the law—the blessings and the curses—just as it is written in the Book of the Law.

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Jos 9:1 - Now when all the kings west of the Jordan heard about these things—the kings in the hill country, in the western foothills, and along the entire coast of the Mediterranean Sea as far as Lebanon (the kings of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites)—

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Jos 9:5 - They put worn and patched sandals on their feet and wore old clothes. All the bread of their food supply was dry and moldy.

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Jos 9:7 - The Israelites said to the Hivites, “But perhaps you live near us, so how can we make a treaty with you?”

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Jos 9:9 - They answered: “Your servants have come from a very distant country because of the fame of the LORD your God. For we have heard reports of him: all that he did in Egypt,

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Jos 9:10 - and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites east of the Jordan—Sihon king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth.

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Jos 9:12 - This bread of ours was warm when we packed it at home on the day we left to come to you. But now see how dry and moldy it is.

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Jos 9:16 - Three days after they made the treaty with the Gibeonites, the Israelites heard that they were neighbors, living near them.

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Jos 9:22 - Then Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said, “Why did you deceive us by saying, ‘We live a long way from you,' while actually you live near us?

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Jos 9:26 - So Joshua saved them from the Israelites, and they did not kill them.

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Jos 9:27 - That day he made the Gibeonites woodcutters and water carriers for the assembly, to provide for the needs of the altar of the LORD at the place the LORD would choose. And that is what they are to this day.

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Jos 10:2 - He and his people were very much alarmed at this, because Gibeon was an important city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were good fighters.

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Jos 10:7 - So Joshua marched up from Gilgal with his entire army, including all the best fighting men.

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Jos 10:10 - The LORD threw them into confusion before Israel, so Joshua and the Israelites defeated them completely at Gibeon. Israel pursued them along the road going up to Beth Horon and cut them down all the way to Azekah and Makkedah.

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Jos 10:11 - As they fled before Israel on the road down from Beth Horon to Azekah, the LORD hurled large hailstones down on them, and more of them died from the hail than were killed by the swords of the Israelites.

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Jos 10:12 - On the day the LORD gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “Sun, stand still over Gibeon, and you, moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”

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Jos 10:13 - So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on[fn] its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar. The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.

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Jos 10:16 - Now the five kings had fled and hidden in the cave at Makkedah.

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Jos 10:17 - When Joshua was told that the five kings had been found hiding in the cave at Makkedah,

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Jos 10:28 - That day Joshua took Makkedah. He put the city and its king to the sword and totally destroyed everyone in it. He left no survivors. And he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

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Jos 10:30 - The LORD also gave that city and its king into Israel's hand. The city and everyone in it Joshua put to the sword. He left no survivors there. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

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Jos 10:32 - The LORD gave Lachish into Israel's hands, and Joshua took it on the second day. The city and everyone in it he put to the sword, just as he had done to Libnah.

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Jos 10:33 - Meanwhile, Horam king of Gezer had come up to help Lachish, but Joshua defeated him and his army—until no survivors were left.

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Jos 10:35 - They captured it that same day and put it to the sword and totally destroyed everyone in it, just as they had done to Lachish.

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Jos 10:37 - They took the city and put it to the sword, together with its king, its villages and everyone in it. They left no survivors. Just as at Eglon, they totally destroyed it and everyone in it.

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Jos 10:39 - They took the city, its king and its villages, and put them to the sword. Everyone in it they totally destroyed. They left no survivors. They did to Debir and its king as they had done to Libnah and its king and to Hebron.

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Jos 11:3 - to the Canaanites in the east and west; to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites and Jebusites in the hill country; and to the Hivites below Hermon in the region of Mizpah.

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Jos 11:6 - The LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, because by this time tomorrow I will hand all of them, slain, over to Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn their chariots.”

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Jos 11:7 - So Joshua and his whole army came against them suddenly at the Waters of Merom and attacked them,

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Jos 11:9 - Joshua did to them as the LORD had directed: He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.

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Jos 11:10 - At that time Joshua turned back and captured Hazor and put its king to the sword. (Hazor had been the head of all these kingdoms.)

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Jos 11:11 - Everyone in it they put to the sword. They totally destroyed[fn] them, not sparing anyone that breathed, and he burned Hazor itself.

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Jos 11:12 - Joshua took all these royal cities and their kings and put them to the sword. He totally destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.

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Jos 11:14 - The Israelites carried off for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but all the people they put to the sword until they completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed.

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Jos 11:19 - Except for the Hivites living in Gibeon, not one city made a treaty of peace with the Israelites, who took them all in battle.

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Jos 11:21 - At that time Joshua went and destroyed the Anakites from the hill country: from Hebron, Debir and Anab, from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua totally destroyed them and their towns.

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Jos 11:22 - No Anakites were left in Israelite territory; only in Gaza, Gath and Ashdod did any survive.

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Jos 11:23 - So Joshua took the entire land, just as the LORD had directed Moses, and he gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal divisions. Then the land had rest from war.

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Jos 12:2 - Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge—from the middle of the gorge—to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites. This included half of Gilead.

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Jos 12:4 - And the territory of Og king of Bashan, one of the last of the Rephaites, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei.

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Jos 12:6 - Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the Israelites conquered them. And Moses the servant of the LORD gave their land to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh to be their possession.

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Jos 12:7 - Here is a list of the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir. Joshua gave their lands as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel according to their tribal divisions.

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Jos 12:8 - The lands included the hill country, the western foothills, the Arabah, the mountain slopes, the wilderness and the Negev. These were the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. These were the kings:

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Jos 13:6 - “As for all the inhabitants of the mountain regions from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, that is, all the Sidonians, I myself will drive them out before the Israelites. Be sure to allocate this land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have instructed you,

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Jos 13:7 - and divide it as an inheritance among the nine tribes and half of the tribe of Manasseh.”

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Jos 13:8 - The other half of Manasseh,[fn] the Reubenites and the Gadites had received the inheritance that Moses had given them east of the Jordan, as he, the servant of the LORD, had assigned it to them.

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Jos 13:9 - It extended from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the middle of the gorge, and included the whole plateau of Medeba as far as Dibon,

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Jos 13:10 - and all the towns of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, out to the border of the Ammonites.

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Jos 13:12 - that is, the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who had reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei. (He was the last of the Rephaites.) Moses had defeated them and taken over their land.

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Jos 13:13 - But the Israelites did not drive out the people of Geshur and Maakah, so they continue to live among the Israelites to this day.

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Jos 13:14 - But to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance, since the food offerings presented to the LORD, the God of Israel, are their inheritance, as he promised them.

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Jos 13:16 - The territory from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the middle of the gorge, and the whole plateau past Medeba

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Jos 13:17 - to Heshbon and all its towns on the plateau, including Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,

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Jos 13:19 - Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on the hill in the valley,

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Jos 13:22 - In addition to those slain in battle, the Israelites had put to the sword Balaam son of Beor, who practiced divination.

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Jos 13:27 - and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Sukkoth and Zaphon with the rest of the realm of Sihon king of Heshbon (the east side of the Jordan, the territory up to the end of the Sea of Galilee[fn]).

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Jos 13:30 - The territory extending from Mahanaim and including all of Bashan, the entire realm of Og king of Bashan—all the settlements of Jair in Bashan, sixty towns,

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Jos 13:31 - half of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei (the royal cities of Og in Bashan). This was for the descendants of Makir son of Manasseh—for half of the sons of Makir, according to their clans.

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Jos 13:32 - This is the inheritance Moses had given when he was in the plains of Moab across the Jordan east of Jericho.

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Jos 14:1 - Now these are the areas the Israelites received as an inheritance in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel allotted to them.

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Jos 14:2 - Their inheritances were assigned by lot to the nine-and-a-half tribes, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.

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Jos 14:3 - Moses had granted the two-and-a-half tribes their inheritance east of the Jordan but had not granted the Levites an inheritance among the rest,

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Jos 14:4 - for Joseph's descendants had become two tribes—Manasseh and Ephraim. The Levites received no share of the land but only towns to live in, with pasturelands for their flocks and herds.

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Jos 14:6 - Now the people of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea about you and me.

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Jos 14:9 - So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the LORD my God wholeheartedly.'[fn]

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Jos 14:10 - “Now then, just as the LORD promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old!

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Jos 14:13 - Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance.

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Jos 14:14 - So Hebron has belonged to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite ever since, because he followed the LORD, the God of Israel, wholeheartedly.

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Jos 15:13 - In accordance with the LORD's command to him, Joshua gave to Caleb son of Jephunneh a portion in Judah—Kiriath Arba, that is, Hebron. (Arba was the forefather of Anak.)

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Jos 15:18 - One day when she came to Othniel, she urged him[fn] to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What can I do for you?”

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Jos 15:33 - In the western foothills: Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,

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Jos 15:48 - In the hill country: Shamir, Jattir, Sokoh,

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Jos 15:63 - Judah could not dislodge the Jebusites, who were living in Jerusalem; to this day the Jebusites live there with the people of Judah.

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Jos 16:10 - They did not dislodge the Canaanites living in Gezer; to this day the Canaanites live among the people of Ephraim but are required to do forced labor.

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Jos 17:1 - This was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph's firstborn, that is, for Makir, Manasseh's firstborn. Makir was the ancestor of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because the Makirites were great soldiers.

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Jos 17:4 - They went to Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said, “The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our relatives.” So Joshua gave them an inheritance along with the brothers of their father, according to the LORD's command.

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Jos 17:6 - because the daughters of the tribe of Manasseh received an inheritance among the sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the descendants of Manasseh.

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Jos 17:11 - Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh also had Beth Shan, Ibleam and the people of Dor, Endor, Taanach and Megiddo, together with their surrounding settlements (the third in the list is Naphoth[fn]).

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Jos 17:12 - Yet the Manassites were not able to occupy these towns, for the Canaanites were determined to live in that region.

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Jos 17:16 - The people of Joseph replied, “The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who live in the plain have chariots fitted with iron, both those in Beth Shan and its settlements and those in the Valley of Jezreel.”

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Jos 18:7 - The Levites, however, do not get a portion among you, because the priestly service of the LORD is their inheritance. And Gad, Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received their inheritance on the east side of the Jordan. Moses the servant of the LORD gave it to them.”

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Jos 18:8 - As the men started on their way to map out the land, Joshua instructed them, “Go and make a survey of the land and write a description of it. Then return to me, and I will cast lots for you here at Shiloh in the presence of the LORD.”

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Jos 18:10 - Joshua then cast lots for them in Shiloh in the presence of the LORD, and there he distributed the land to the Israelites according to their tribal divisions.

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Jos 19:9 - The inheritance of the Simeonites was taken from the share of Judah, because Judah's portion was more than they needed. So the Simeonites received their inheritance within the territory of Judah.

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Jos 19:47 - (When the territory of the Danites was lost to them, they went up and attacked Leshem, took it, put it to the sword and occupied it. They settled in Leshem and named it Dan after their ancestor.)

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Jos 19:48 - These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Dan, according to its clans.

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Jos 19:49 - When they had finished dividing the land into its allotted portions, the Israelites gave Joshua son of Nun an inheritance among them,

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Jos 19:50 - as the LORD had commanded. They gave him the town he asked for—Timnath Serah[fn] in the hill country of Ephraim. And he built up the town and settled there.

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Jos 19:51 - These are the territories that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel assigned by lot at Shiloh in the presence of the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting. And so they finished dividing the land.

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Jos 20:7 - So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

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Jos 20:8 - East of the Jordan (on the other side from Jericho) they designated Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau in the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead in the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan in the tribe of Manasseh.

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Jos 20:9 - Any of the Israelites or any foreigner residing among them who killed someone accidentally could flee to these designated cities and not be killed by the avenger of blood prior to standing trial before the assembly.

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Jos 21:2 - at Shiloh in Canaan and said to them, “The LORD commanded through Moses that you give us towns to live in, with pasturelands for our livestock.”

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Jos 21:3 - So, as the LORD had commanded, the Israelites gave the Levites the following towns and pasturelands out of their own inheritance:

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Jos 21:6 - The descendants of Gershon were allotted thirteen towns from the clans of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali and the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

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Jos 21:11 - They gave them Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), with its surrounding pastureland, in the hill country of Judah. (Arba was the forefather of Anak.)

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Jos 21:12 - But the fields and villages around the city they had given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.

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Jos 21:27 - The Levite clans of the Gershonites were given: from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan (a city of refuge for one accused of murder) and Be Eshterah, together with their pasturelands—two towns;

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Jos 21:32 - from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee (a city of refuge for one accused of murder), Hammoth Dor and Kartan, together with their pasturelands—three towns.

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Jos 21:36 - from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer, Jahaz,

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Jos 21:38 - from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead (a city of refuge for one accused of murder), Mahanaim,

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Jos 21:41 - The towns of the Levites in the territory held by the Israelites were forty-eight in all, together with their pasturelands.

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Jos 21:42 - Each of these towns had pasturelands surrounding it; this was true for all these towns.

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Jos 21:43 - So the LORD gave Israel all the land he had sworn to give their ancestors, and they took possession of it and settled there.

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Jos 22:4 - Now that the LORD your God has given them rest as he promised, return to your homes in the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side of the Jordan.

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Jos 22:7 - (To the half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given land in Bashan, and to the other half of the tribe Joshua gave land on the west side of the Jordan along with their fellow Israelites.) When Joshua sent them home, he blessed them,

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Jos 22:8 - saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth—with large herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze and iron, and a great quantity of clothing—and divide the plunder from your enemies with your fellow Israelites.”

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Jos 22:9 - So the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in Canaan to return to Gilead, their own land, which they had acquired in accordance with the command of the LORD through Moses.

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Jos 22:10 - When they came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an imposing altar there by the Jordan.

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Jos 22:11 - And when the Israelites heard that they had built the altar on the border of Canaan at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side,

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Jos 22:17 - Was not the sin of Peor enough for us? Up to this very day we have not cleansed ourselves from that sin, even though a plague fell on the community of the LORD!

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Jos 22:19 - If the land you possess is defiled, come over to the LORD's land, where the LORD's tabernacle stands, and share the land with us. But do not rebel against the LORD or against us by building an altar for yourselves, other than the altar of the LORD our God.

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Jos 22:22 - “The Mighty One, God, the LORD! The Mighty One, God, the LORD! He knows! And let Israel know! If this has been in rebellion or disobedience to the LORD, do not spare us this day.

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Jos 22:27 - On the contrary, it is to be a witness between us and you and the generations that follow, that we will worship the LORD at his sanctuary with our burnt offerings, sacrifices and fellowship offerings. Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to ours, ‘You have no share in the LORD.'

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Jos 22:29 - “Far be it from us to rebel against the LORD and turn away from him today by building an altar for burnt offerings, grain offerings and sacrifices, other than the altar of the LORD our God that stands before his tabernacle.”

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Jos 23:4 - Remember how I have allotted as an inheritance for your tribes all the land of the nations that remain—the nations I conquered—between the Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

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Jos 23:6 - “Be very strong; be careful to obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, without turning aside to the right or to the left.

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Jos 23:7 - Do not associate with these nations that remain among you; do not invoke the names of their gods or swear by them. You must not serve them or bow down to them.

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Jos 23:13 - then you may be sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares and traps for you, whips on your backs and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land, which the LORD your God has given you.

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Jos 23:16 - If you violate the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the LORD's anger will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land he has given you.”

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Jos 24:3 - But I took your father Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates and led him throughout Canaan and gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac,

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Jos 24:5 - “ ‘Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I afflicted the Egyptians by what I did there, and I brought you out.

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Jos 24:6 - When I brought your people out of Egypt, you came to the sea, and the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen[fn] as far as the Red Sea.[fn]

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Jos 24:7 - But they cried to the LORD for help, and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians; he brought the sea over them and covered them. You saw with your own eyes what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.

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Jos 24:12 - I sent the hornet ahead of you, which drove them out before you—also the two Amorite kings. You did not do it with your own sword and bow.

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Jos 24:13 - So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities you did not build; and you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.'

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Jos 24:14 - “Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.

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Jos 24:15 - But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”

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Jos 24:17 - It was the LORD our God himself who brought us and our parents up out of Egypt, from that land of slavery, and performed those great signs before our eyes. He protected us on our entire journey and among all the nations through which we traveled.

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Jos 24:23 - “Now then,” said Joshua, “throw away the foreign gods that are among you and yield your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel.”

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Jos 24:25 - On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he reaffirmed for them decrees and laws.

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Jos 24:27 - “See!” he said to all the people. “This stone will be a witness against us. It has heard all the words the LORD has said to us. It will be a witness against you if you are untrue to your God.”

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Jos 24:30 - And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath Serah[fn] in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

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Jos 24:32 - And Joseph's bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the tract of land that Jacob bought for a hundred pieces of silver[fn] from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. This became the inheritance of Joseph's descendants.

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Jos 24:33 - And Eleazar son of Aaron died and was buried at Gibeah, which had been allotted to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.

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Jdg 1:1 - After the death of Joshua, the Israelites asked the LORD, “Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Canaanites?”

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Jdg 1:2 - The LORD answered, “Judah shall go up; I have given the land into their hands.”

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Jdg 1:3 - The men of Judah then said to the Simeonites their fellow Israelites, “Come up with us into the territory allotted to us, to fight against the Canaanites. We in turn will go with you into yours.” So the Simeonites went with them.

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Jdg 1:4 - When Judah attacked, the LORD gave the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down ten thousand men at Bezek.

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Jdg 1:5 - It was there that they found Adoni-Bezek and fought against him, putting to rout the Canaanites and Perizzites.

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Jdg 1:8 - The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem also and took it. They put the city to the sword and set it on fire.

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Jdg 1:9 - After that, Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites living in the hill country, the Negev and the western foothills.

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Jdg 1:10 - They advanced against the Canaanites living in Hebron (formerly called Kiriath Arba) and defeated Sheshai, Ahiman and Talmai.

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Jdg 1:14 - One day when she came to Othniel, she urged him[fn] to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What can I do for you?”

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Jdg 1:16 - The descendants of Moses' father-in-law, the Kenite, went up from the City of Palms[fn] with the people of Judah to live among the inhabitants of the Desert of Judah in the Negev near Arad.

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Jdg 1:21 - The Benjamites, however, did not drive out the Jebusites, who were living in Jerusalem; to this day the Jebusites live there with the Benjamites.

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Jdg 1:25 - So he showed them, and they put the city to the sword but spared the man and his whole family.

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Jdg 1:27 - But Manasseh did not drive out the people of Beth Shan or Taanach or Dor or Ibleam or Megiddo and their surrounding settlements, for the Canaanites were determined to live in that land.

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Jdg 1:29 - Nor did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer, but the Canaanites continued to live there among them.

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Jdg 1:30 - Neither did Zebulun drive out the Canaanites living in Kitron or Nahalol, so these Canaanites lived among them, but Zebulun did subject them to forced labor.

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Jdg 1:32 - The Asherites lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land because they did not drive them out.

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Jdg 1:33 - Neither did Naphtali drive out those living in Beth Shemesh or Beth Anath; but the Naphtalites too lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, and those living in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath became forced laborers for them.

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Jdg 1:35 - And the Amorites were determined also to hold out in Mount Heres, Aijalon and Shaalbim, but when the power of the tribes of Joseph increased, they too were pressed into forced labor.

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Jdg 2:9 - And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath Heres[fn] in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

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Jdg 2:14 - In his anger against Israel the LORD gave them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist.

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Jdg 2:15 - Whenever Israel went out to fight, the hand of the LORD was against them to defeat them, just as he had sworn to them. They were in great distress.

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Jdg 2:20 - Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and said, “Because this nation has violated the covenant I ordained for their ancestors and has not listened to me,

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Jdg 2:22 - I will use them to test Israel and see whether they will keep the way of the LORD and walk in it as their ancestors did.”

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Jdg 2:23 - The LORD had allowed those nations to remain; he did not drive them out at once by giving them into the hands of Joshua.

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Jdg 3:1 - These are the nations the LORD left to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan

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Jdg 3:4 - They were left to test the Israelites to see whether they would obey the LORD's commands, which he had given their ancestors through Moses.

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Jdg 3:5 - The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

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Jdg 3:8 - The anger of the LORD burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim,[fn] to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years.

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Jdg 3:10 - The Spirit of the LORD came on him, so that he became Israel's judge[fn] and went to war. The LORD gave Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram into the hands of Othniel, who overpowered him.

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Jdg 3:15 - Again the Israelites cried out to the LORD, and he gave them a deliverer—Ehud, a left-handed man, the son of Gera the Benjamite. The Israelites sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.

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Jdg 3:20 - Ehud then approached him while he was sitting alone in the upper room of his palace[fn] and said, “I have a message from God for you.” As the king rose from his seat,

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Jdg 3:24 - After he had gone, the servants came and found the doors of the upper room locked. They said, “He must be relieving himself in the inner room of the palace.”

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Jdg 3:27 - When he arrived there, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went down with him from the hills, with him leading them.

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Jdg 3:28 - “Follow me,” he ordered, “for the LORD has given Moab, your enemy, into your hands.” So they followed him down and took possession of the fords of the Jordan that led to Moab; they allowed no one to cross over.

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Jdg 3:29 - At that time they struck down about ten thousand Moabites, all vigorous and strong; not one escaped.

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Jdg 3:30 - That day Moab was made subject to Israel, and the land had peace for eighty years.

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Jdg 4:2 - So the LORD sold them into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. Sisera, the commander of his army, was based in Harosheth Haggoyim.

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Jdg 4:4 - Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading[fn] Israel at that time.

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Jdg 4:5 - She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided.

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Jdg 4:7 - I will lead Sisera, the commander of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his troops to the Kishon River and give him into your hands.' ”

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Jdg 4:8 - Barak said to her, “If you go with me, I will go; but if you don't go with me, I won't go.”

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Jdg 4:9 - “Certainly I will go with you,” said Deborah. “But because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours, for the LORD will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman.” So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh.

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Jdg 4:14 - Then Deborah said to Barak, “Go! This is the day the LORD has given Sisera into your hands. Has not the LORD gone ahead of you?” So Barak went down Mount Tabor, with ten thousand men following him.

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Jdg 4:15 - At Barak's advance, the LORD routed Sisera and all his chariots and army by the sword, and Sisera got down from his chariot and fled on foot.

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Jdg 4:16 - Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harosheth Haggoyim, and all Sisera's troops fell by the sword; not a man was left.

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Jdg 4:18 - Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Come, my lord, come right in. Don't be afraid.” So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.

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Jdg 4:20 - “Stand in the doorway of the tent,” he told her. “If someone comes by and asks you, ‘Is anyone in there?' say ‘No.' ”

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Jdg 4:21 - But Jael, Heber's wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died.

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Jdg 4:22 - Just then Barak came by in pursuit of Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him. “Come,” she said, “I will show you the man you're looking for.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera with the tent peg through his temple—dead.

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Jdg 4:23 - On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites.

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Jdg 5:1 - On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this song:

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Jdg 5:2 - “When the princes in Israel take the lead, when the people willingly offer themselves— praise the LORD!

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Jdg 5:4 - “When you, LORD, went out from Seir, when you marched from the land of Edom, the earth shook, the heavens poured, the clouds poured down water.

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Jdg 5:6 - “In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned; travelers took to winding paths.

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Jdg 5:7 - Villagers in Israel would not fight; they held back until I, Deborah, arose, until I arose, a mother in Israel.

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Jdg 5:8 - God chose new leaders when war came to the city gates, but not a shield or spear was seen among forty thousand in Israel.

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Jdg 5:11 - the voice of the singers[fn] at the watering places. They recite the victories of the LORD, the victories of his villagers in Israel. “Then the people of the LORD went down to the city gates.

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Jdg 5:14 - Some came from Ephraim, whose roots were in Amalek; Benjamin was with the people who followed you. From Makir captains came down, from Zebulun those who bear a commander's[fn] staff.

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Jdg 5:15 - The princes of Issachar were with Deborah; yes, Issachar was with Barak, sent under his command into the valley. In the districts of Reuben there was much searching of heart.

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Jdg 5:17 - Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan. And Dan, why did he linger by the ships? Asher remained on the coast and stayed in his coves.

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Jdg 5:19 - “Kings came, they fought, the kings of Canaan fought. At Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo, they took no plunder of silver.

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Jdg 5:23 - ‘Curse Meroz,' said the angel of the LORD. ‘Curse its people bitterly, because they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.'

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Jdg 5:24 - “Most blessed of women be Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, most blessed of tent-dwelling women.

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Jdg 5:25 - He asked for water, and she gave him milk; in a bowl fit for nobles she brought him curdled milk.

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Jdg 5:27 - At her feet he sank, he fell; there he lay. At her feet he sank, he fell; where he sank, there he fell—dead.

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Jdg 5:29 - The wisest of her ladies answer her; indeed, she keeps saying to herself,

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Jdg 5:31 - “So may all your enemies perish, LORD! But may all who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had peace forty years.

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Jdg 6:1 - The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD, and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites.

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Jdg 6:2 - Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves and strongholds.

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Jdg 6:4 - They camped on the land and ruined the crops all the way to Gaza and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys.

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Jdg 6:5 - They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it.

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Jdg 6:10 - I said to you, ‘I am the LORD your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live.' But you have not listened to me.”

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Jdg 6:11 - The angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites.

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Jdg 6:13 - “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up out of Egypt?' But now the LORD has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.”

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Jdg 6:14 - The LORD turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian's hand. Am I not sending you?”

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Jdg 6:15 - “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.”

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Jdg 6:17 - Gideon replied, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me.

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Jdg 6:21 - Then the angel of the LORD touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of the staff that was in his hand. Fire flared from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread. And the angel of the LORD disappeared.

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Jdg 6:24 - So Gideon built an altar to the LORD there and called it The LORD Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

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Jdg 6:26 - Then build a proper kind of[fn] altar to the LORD your God on the top of this height. Using the wood of the Asherah pole that you cut down, offer the second[fn] bull as a burnt offering.”

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Jdg 6:32 - So because Gideon broke down Baal's altar, they gave him the name Jerub-Baal[fn] that day, saying, “Let Baal contend with him.”

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Jdg 6:33 - Now all the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples joined forces and crossed over the Jordan and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.

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Jdg 6:34 - Then the Spirit of the LORD came on Gideon, and he blew a trumpet, summoning the Abiezrites to follow him.

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Jdg 6:35 - He sent messengers throughout Manasseh, calling them to arms, and also into Asher, Zebulun and Naphtali, so that they too went up to meet them.

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Jdg 6:36 - Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand as you have promised—

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Jdg 6:37 - look, I will place a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you said.”

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Jdg 6:39 - Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me. Let me make just one more request. Allow me one more test with the fleece, but this time make the fleece dry and let the ground be covered with dew.”

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Jdg 6:40 - That night God did so. Only the fleece was dry; all the ground was covered with dew.

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Jdg 7:1 - Early in the morning, Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and all his men camped at the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.

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Jdg 7:2 - The LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, ‘My own strength has saved me.'

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Jdg 7:6 - Three hundred of them drank from cupped hands, lapping like dogs. All the rest got down on their knees to drink.

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Jdg 7:7 - The LORD said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men that lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hands. Let all the others go home.”

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Jdg 7:8 - So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites home but kept the three hundred, who took over the provisions and trumpets of the others. Now the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley.

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Jdg 7:9 - During that night the LORD said to Gideon, “Get up, go down against the camp, because I am going to give it into your hands.

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Jdg 7:11 - and listen to what they are saying. Afterward, you will be encouraged to attack the camp.” So he and Purah his servant went down to the outposts of the camp.

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Jdg 7:12 - The Midianites, the Amalekites and all the other eastern peoples had settled in the valley, thick as locusts. Their camels could no more be counted than the sand on the seashore.

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Jdg 7:13 - Gideon arrived just as a man was telling a friend his dream. “I had a dream,” he was saying. “A round loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent with such force that the tent overturned and collapsed.”

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Jdg 7:14 - His friend responded, “This can be nothing other than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has given the Midianites and the whole camp into his hands.”

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Jdg 7:15 - When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down and worshiped. He returned to the camp of Israel and called out, “Get up! The LORD has given the Midianite camp into your hands.”

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Jdg 7:16 - Dividing the three hundred men into three companies, he placed trumpets and empty jars in the hands of all of them, with torches inside.

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Jdg 7:17 - “Watch me,” he told them. “Follow my lead. When I get to the edge of the camp, do exactly as I do.

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Jdg 7:19 - Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guard. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars that were in their hands.

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Jdg 7:20 - The three companies blew the trumpets and smashed the jars. Grasping the torches in their left hands and holding in their right hands the trumpets they were to blow, they shouted, “A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!”

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Jdg 7:22 - When the three hundred trumpets sounded, the LORD caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other with their swords. The army fled to Beth Shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.

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Jdg 7:24 - Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against the Midianites and seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth Barah.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out and they seized the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth Barah.

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Jdg 7:25 - They also captured two of the Midianite leaders, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was by the Jordan.

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Jdg 8:1 - Now the Ephraimites asked Gideon, “Why have you treated us like this? Why didn't you call us when you went to fight Midian?” And they challenged him vigorously.

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Jdg 8:3 - God gave Oreb and Zeeb, the Midianite leaders, into your hands. What was I able to do compared to you?” At this, their resentment against him subsided.

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Jdg 8:6 - But the officials of Sukkoth said, “Do you already have the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna in your possession? Why should we give bread to your troops?”

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Jdg 8:7 - Then Gideon replied, “Just for that, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with desert thorns and briers.”

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Jdg 8:9 - So he said to the men of Peniel, “When I return in triumph, I will tear down this tower.”

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Jdg 8:10 - Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with a force of about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of the armies of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had fallen.

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Jdg 8:11 - Gideon went up by the route of the nomads east of Nobah and Jogbehah and attacked the unsuspecting army.

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Jdg 8:15 - Then Gideon came and said to the men of Sukkoth, “Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me by saying, ‘Do you already have the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna in your possession? Why should we give bread to your exhausted men?' ”

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Jdg 8:16 - He took the elders of the town and taught the men of Sukkoth a lesson by punishing them with desert thorns and briers.

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Jdg 8:18 - Then he asked Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men did you kill at Tabor?” “Men like you,” they answered, “each one with the bearing of a prince.”

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Jdg 8:21 - Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Come, do it yourself. ‘As is the man, so is his strength.' ” So Gideon stepped forward and killed them, and took the ornaments off their camels' necks.

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Jdg 8:22 - The Israelites said to Gideon, “Rule over us—you, your son and your grandson—because you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”

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Jdg 8:26 - The weight of the gold rings he asked for came to seventeen hundred shekels,[fn] not counting the ornaments, the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian or the chains that were on their camels' necks.

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Jdg 8:27 - Gideon made the gold into an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his town. All Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family.

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Jdg 8:28 - Thus Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. During Gideon's lifetime, the land had peace forty years.

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Jdg 8:29 - Jerub-Baal son of Joash went back home to live.

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Jdg 8:31 - His concubine, who lived in Shechem, also bore him a son, whom he named Abimelek.

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Jdg 8:32 - Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

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Jdg 9:2 - “Ask all the citizens of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you: to have all seventy of Jerub-Baal's sons rule over you, or just one man?' Remember, I am your flesh and blood.”

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Jdg 9:3 - When the brothers repeated all this to the citizens of Shechem, they were inclined to follow Abimelek, for they said, “He is related to us.”

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Jdg 9:4 - They gave him seventy shekels[fn] of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith, and Abimelek used it to hire reckless scoundrels, who became his followers.

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Jdg 9:6 - Then all the citizens of Shechem and Beth Millo gathered beside the great tree at the pillar in Shechem to crown Abimelek king.

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Jdg 9:9 - “But the olive tree answered, ‘Should I give up my oil, by which both gods and humans are honored, to hold sway over the trees?'

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Jdg 9:15 - “The thornbush said to the trees, ‘If you really want to anoint me king over you, come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, then let fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!'

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Jdg 9:16 - “Have you acted honorably and in good faith by making Abimelek king? Have you been fair to Jerub-Baal and his family? Have you treated him as he deserves?

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Jdg 9:19 - So have you acted honorably and in good faith toward Jerub-Baal and his family today? If you have, may Abimelek be your joy, and may you be his, too!

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Jdg 9:21 - Then Jotham fled, escaping to Beer, and he lived there because he was afraid of his brother Abimelek.

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Jdg 9:23 - God stirred up animosity between Abimelek and the citizens of Shechem so that they acted treacherously against Abimelek.

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Jdg 9:25 - In opposition to him these citizens of Shechem set men on the hilltops to ambush and rob everyone who passed by, and this was reported to Abimelek.

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Jdg 9:26 - Now Gaal son of Ebed moved with his clan into Shechem, and its citizens put their confidence in him.

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Jdg 9:29 - If only this people were under my command! Then I would get rid of him. I would say to Abimelek, ‘Call out your whole army!' ”[fn]

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Jdg 9:32 - Now then, during the night you and your men should come and lie in wait in the fields.

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Jdg 9:39 - So Gaal led out[fn] the citizens of Shechem and fought Abimelek.

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Jdg 9:41 - Then Abimelek stayed in Arumah, and Zebul drove Gaal and his clan out of Shechem.

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Jdg 9:43 - So he took his men, divided them into three companies and set an ambush in the fields. When he saw the people coming out of the city, he rose to attack them.

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Jdg 9:44 - Abimelek and the companies with him rushed forward to a position at the entrance of the city gate. Then two companies attacked those in the fields and struck them down.

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Jdg 9:45 - All that day Abimelek pressed his attack against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he destroyed the city and scattered salt over it.

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Jdg 9:48 - he and all his men went up Mount Zalmon. He took an ax and cut off some branches, which he lifted to his shoulders. He ordered the men with him, “Quick! Do what you have seen me do!”

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Jdg 9:49 - So all the men cut branches and followed Abimelek. They piled them against the stronghold and set it on fire with the people still inside. So all the people in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women, also died.

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Jdg 9:51 - Inside the city, however, was a strong tower, to which all the men and women—all the people of the city—had fled. They had locked themselves in and climbed up on the tower roof.

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Jdg 9:52 - Abimelek went to the tower and attacked it. But as he approached the entrance to the tower to set it on fire,

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Jdg 10:1 - After the time of Abimelek, a man of Issachar named Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.

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Jdg 10:2 - He led[fn] Israel twenty-three years; then he died, and was buried in Shamir.

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Jdg 10:4 - He had thirty sons, who rode thirty donkeys. They controlled thirty towns in Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth Jair.[fn]

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Jdg 10:5 - When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.

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Jdg 10:7 - he became angry with them. He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and the Ammonites,

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Jdg 10:8 - who that year shattered and crushed them. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites on the east side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.

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Jdg 10:9 - The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin and Ephraim; Israel was in great distress.

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Jdg 10:14 - Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you when you are in trouble!”

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Jdg 10:15 - But the Israelites said to the LORD, “We have sinned. Do with us whatever you think best, but please rescue us now.”

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Jdg 10:16 - Then they got rid of the foreign gods among them and served the LORD. And he could bear Israel's misery no longer.

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Jdg 10:17 - When the Ammonites were called to arms and camped in Gilead, the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.

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Jdg 10:18 - The leaders of the people of Gilead said to each other, “Whoever will take the lead in attacking the Ammonites will be head over all who live in Gilead.”

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Jdg 11:1 - Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead; his mother was a prostitute.

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Jdg 11:2 - Gilead's wife also bore him sons, and when they were grown up, they drove Jephthah away. “You are not going to get any inheritance in our family,” they said, “because you are the son of another woman.”

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Jdg 11:3 - So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where a gang of scoundrels gathered around him and followed him.

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Jdg 11:5 - the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob.

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Jdg 11:6 - “Come,” they said, “be our commander, so we can fight the Ammonites.”

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Jdg 11:8 - The elders of Gilead said to him, “Nevertheless, we are turning to you now; come with us to fight the Ammonites, and you will be head over all of us who live in Gilead.”

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Jdg 11:9 - Jephthah answered, “Suppose you take me back to fight the Ammonites and the LORD gives them to me—will I really be your head?”

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Jdg 11:11 - So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and commander over them. And he repeated all his words before the LORD in Mizpah.

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Jdg 11:12 - Then Jephthah sent messengers to the Ammonite king with the question: “What do you have against me that you have attacked my country?”

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Jdg 11:13 - The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah's messengers, “When Israel came up out of Egypt, they took away my land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, all the way to the Jordan. Now give it back peaceably.”

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Jdg 11:16 - But when they came up out of Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea[fn] and on to Kadesh.

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Jdg 11:17 - Then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Give us permission to go through your country,' but the king of Edom would not listen. They sent also to the king of Moab, and he refused. So Israel stayed at Kadesh.

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Jdg 11:18 - “Next they traveled through the wilderness, skirted the lands of Edom and Moab, passed along the eastern side of the country of Moab, and camped on the other side of the Arnon. They did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was its border.

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Jdg 11:21 - “Then the LORD, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and his whole army into Israel's hands, and they defeated them. Israel took over all the land of the Amorites who lived in that country,

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Jdg 11:26 - For three hundred years Israel occupied Heshbon, Aroer, the surrounding settlements and all the towns along the Arnon. Why didn't you retake them during that time?

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Jdg 11:27 - I have not wronged you, but you are doing me wrong by waging war against me. Let the LORD, the Judge, decide the dispute this day between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”

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Jdg 11:30 - And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD: “If you give the Ammonites into my hands,

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Jdg 11:31 - whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the LORD's, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.”

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Jdg 11:32 - Then Jephthah went over to fight the Ammonites, and the LORD gave them into his hands.

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Jdg 11:34 - When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing to the sound of timbrels! She was an only child. Except for her he had neither son nor daughter.

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Jdg 11:35 - When he saw her, he tore his clothes and cried, “Oh no, my daughter! You have brought me down and I am devastated. I have made a vow to the LORD that I cannot break.”

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Jdg 11:36 - “My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me just as you promised, now that the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.

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Jdg 11:39 - After the two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she was a virgin. From this comes the Israelite tradition

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Jdg 11:40 - that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.

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Jdg 12:1 - The Ephraimite forces were called out, and they crossed over to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why did you go to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We're going to burn down your house over your head.”

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Jdg 12:3 - When I saw that you wouldn't help, I took my life in my hands and crossed over to fight the Ammonites, and the LORD gave me the victory over them. Now why have you come up today to fight me?”

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Jdg 12:4 - Jephthah then called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, “You Gileadites are renegades from Ephraim and Manasseh.”

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Jdg 12:6 - they said, “All right, say ‘Shibboleth.' ” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time.

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Jdg 12:7 - Jephthah led[fn] Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in a town in Gilead.

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Jdg 12:10 - Then Ibzan died and was buried in Bethlehem.

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Jdg 12:12 - Then Elon died and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.

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Jdg 12:15 - Then Abdon son of Hillel died and was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.

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Jdg 13:1 - Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD, so the LORD delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.

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Jdg 13:3 - The angel of the LORD appeared to her and said, “You are barren and childless, but you are going to become pregnant and give birth to a son.

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Jdg 13:5 - You will become pregnant and have a son whose head is never to be touched by a razor because the boy is to be a Nazirite, dedicated to God from the womb. He will take the lead in delivering Israel from the hands of the Philistines.”

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Jdg 13:7 - But he said to me, ‘You will become pregnant and have a son. Now then, drink no wine or other fermented drink and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite of God from the womb until the day of his death.' ”

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Jdg 13:8 - Then Manoah prayed to the LORD: “Pardon your servant, Lord. I beg you to let the man of God you sent to us come again to teach us how to bring up the boy who is to be born.”

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Jdg 13:9 - God heard Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman while she was out in the field; but her husband Manoah was not with her.

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Jdg 13:20 - As the flame blazed up from the altar toward heaven, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. Seeing this, Manoah and his wife fell with their faces to the ground.

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Jdg 13:25 - and the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him while he was in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

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Jdg 14:1 - Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman.

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Jdg 14:2 - When he returned, he said to his father and mother, “I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.”

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Jdg 14:3 - His father and mother replied, “Isn't there an acceptable woman among your relatives or among all our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me. She's the right one for me.”

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Jdg 14:4 - (His parents did not know that this was from the LORD, who was seeking an occasion to confront the Philistines; for at that time they were ruling over Israel.)

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Jdg 14:6 - The Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his father nor his mother what he had done.

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Jdg 14:8 - Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion's carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey.

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Jdg 14:11 - When the people saw him, they chose thirty men to be his companions.

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Jdg 14:12 - “Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can give me the answer within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.

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Jdg 14:15 - On the fourth[fn] day, they said to Samson's wife, “Coax your husband into explaining the riddle for us, or we will burn you and your father's household to death. Did you invite us here to steal our property?”

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Jdg 14:17 - She cried the whole seven days of the feast. So on the seventh day he finally told her, because she continued to press him. She in turn explained the riddle to her people.

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Jdg 14:18 - Before sunset on the seventh day the men of the town said to him, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” Samson said to them, “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle.”

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Jdg 15:1 - Later on, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. He said, “I'm going to my wife's room.” But her father would not let him go in.

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Jdg 15:4 - So he went out and caught three hundred foxes and tied them tail to tail in pairs. He then fastened a torch to every pair of tails,

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Jdg 15:5 - lit the torches and let the foxes loose in the standing grain of the Philistines. He burned up the shocks and standing grain, together with the vineyards and olive groves.

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Jdg 15:6 - When the Philistines asked, “Who did this?” they were told, “Samson, the Timnite's son-in-law, because his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.

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Jdg 15:8 - He attacked them viciously and slaughtered many of them. Then he went down and stayed in a cave in the rock of Etam.

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Jdg 15:9 - The Philistines went up and camped in Judah, spreading out near Lehi.

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Jdg 15:12 - They said to him, “We've come to tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson said, “Swear to me that you won't kill me yourselves.”

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Jdg 15:14 - As he approached Lehi, the Philistines came toward him shouting. The Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him. The ropes on his arms became like charred flax, and the bindings dropped from his hands.

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Jdg 15:15 - Finding a fresh jawbone of a donkey, he grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.

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Jdg 15:16 - Then Samson said, “With a donkey's jawbone I have made donkeys of them.[fn] With a donkey's jawbone I have killed a thousand men.”

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Jdg 15:18 - Because he was very thirsty, he cried out to the LORD, “You have given your servant this great victory. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

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Jdg 15:19 - Then God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned and he revived. So the spring was called En Hakkore,[fn] and it is still there in Lehi.

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Jdg 15:20 - Samson led[fn] Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

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Jdg 16:5 - The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, “See if you can lure him into showing you the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him so we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels[fn] of silver.”

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Jdg 16:6 - So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”

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Jdg 16:7 - Samson answered her, “If anyone ties me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I'll become as weak as any other man.”

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Jdg 16:8 - Then the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him with them.

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Jdg 16:9 - With men hidden in the room, she called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” But he snapped the bowstrings as easily as a piece of string snaps when it comes close to a flame. So the secret of his strength was not discovered.

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Jdg 16:10 - Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have made a fool of me; you lied to me. Come now, tell me how you can be tied.”

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Jdg 16:11 - He said, “If anyone ties me securely with new ropes that have never been used, I'll become as weak as any other man.”

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Jdg 16:12 - So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them. Then, with men hidden in the room, she called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” But he snapped the ropes off his arms as if they were threads.

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Jdg 16:13 - Delilah then said to Samson, “All this time you have been making a fool of me and lying to me. Tell me how you can be tied.” He replied, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the fabric on the loom and tighten it with the pin, I'll become as weak as any other man.” So while he was sleeping, Delilah took the seven braids of his head, wove them into the fabric

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Jdg 16:14 - and[fn] tightened it with the pin. Again she called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” He awoke from his sleep and pulled up the pin and the loom, with the fabric.

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Jdg 16:15 - Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,' when you won't confide in me? This is the third time you have made a fool of me and haven't told me the secret of your great strength.”

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Jdg 16:18 - When Delilah saw that he had told her everything, she sent word to the rulers of the Philistines, “Come back once more; he has told me everything.” So the rulers of the Philistines returned with the silver in their hands.

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Jdg 16:21 - Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain in the prison.

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Jdg 16:23 - Now the rulers of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate, saying, “Our god has delivered Samson, our enemy, into our hands.”

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Jdg 16:24 - When the people saw him, they praised their god, saying, “Our god has delivered our enemy into our hands, the one who laid waste our land and multiplied our slain.”

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Jdg 16:29 - Then Samson reached toward the two central pillars on which the temple stood. Bracing himself against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other,

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Jdg 16:30 - Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived.

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Jdg 16:31 - Then his brothers and his father's whole family went down to get him. They brought him back and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led[fn] Israel twenty years.

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Jdg 17:2 - said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels[fn] of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse—I have that silver with me; I took it.” Then his mother said, “The LORD bless you, my son!”

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Jdg 17:4 - So after he returned the silver to his mother, she took two hundred shekels[fn] of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who used them to make the idol. And it was put in Micah's house.

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Jdg 17:6 - In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.

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Jdg 17:12 - Then Micah installed the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in his house.

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Jdg 18:1 - In those days Israel had no king. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking a place of their own where they might settle, because they had not yet come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.

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Jdg 18:5 - Then they said to him, “Please inquire of God to learn whether our journey will be successful.”

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Jdg 18:6 - The priest answered them, “Go in peace. Your journey has the LORD's approval.”

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Jdg 18:7 - So the five men left and came to Laish, where they saw that the people were living in safety, like the Sidonians, at peace and secure. And since their land lacked nothing, they were prosperous.[fn] Also, they lived a long way from the Sidonians and had no relationship with anyone else.[fn]

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Jdg 18:9 - They answered, “Come on, let's attack them! We have seen the land, and it is very good. Aren't you going to do something? Don't hesitate to go there and take it over.

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Jdg 18:10 - When you get there, you will find an unsuspecting people and a spacious land that God has put into your hands, a land that lacks nothing whatever.”

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Jdg 18:12 - On their way they set up camp near Kiriath Jearim in Judah. This is why the place west of Kiriath Jearim is called Mahaneh Dan[fn] to this day.

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Jdg 18:14 - Then the five men who had spied out the land of Laish said to their fellow Danites, “Do you know that one of these houses has an ephod, some household gods and an image overlaid with silver? Now you know what to do.”

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Jdg 18:19 - They answered him, “Be quiet! Don't say a word. Come with us, and be our father and priest. Isn't it better that you serve a tribe and clan in Israel as priest rather than just one man's household?”

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Jdg 18:20 - The priest was very pleased. He took the ephod, the household gods and the idol and went along with the people.

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Jdg 18:27 - Then they took what Micah had made, and his priest, and went on to Laish, against a people at peace and secure. They attacked them with the sword and burned down their city.

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Jdg 18:28 - There was no one to rescue them because they lived a long way from Sidon and had no relationship with anyone else. The city was in a valley near Beth Rehob. The Danites rebuilt the city and settled there.

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Jdg 18:31 - They continued to use the idol Micah had made, all the time the house of God was in Shiloh.

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Jdg 19:1 - In those days Israel had no king. Now a Levite who lived in a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim took a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

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Jdg 19:11 - When they were near Jebus and the day was almost gone, the servant said to his master, “Come, let's stop at this city of the Jebusites and spend the night.”

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Jdg 19:13 - He added, “Come, let's try to reach Gibeah or Ramah and spend the night in one of those places.”

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Jdg 19:15 - There they stopped to spend the night. They went and sat in the city square, but no one took them in for the night.

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Jdg 19:16 - That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was living in Gibeah (the inhabitants of the place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the fields.

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Jdg 19:17 - When he looked and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going? Where did you come from?”

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Jdg 19:20 - “You are welcome at my house,” the old man said. “Let me supply whatever you need. Only don't spend the night in the square.”

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Jdg 19:24 - Look, here is my virgin daughter, and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But as for this man, don't do such an outrageous thing.”

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Jdg 20:2 - The leaders of all the people of the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God's people, four hundred thousand men armed with swords.

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Jdg 20:6 - I took my concubine, cut her into pieces and sent one piece to each region of Israel's inheritance, because they committed this lewd and outrageous act in Israel.

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Jdg 20:9 - But now this is what we'll do to Gibeah: We'll go up against it in the order decided by casting lots.

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Jdg 20:10 - We'll take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred from a thousand, and a thousand from ten thousand, to get provisions for the army. Then, when the army arrives at Gibeah[fn] in Benjamin, it can give them what they deserve for this outrageous act done in Israel.”

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Jdg 20:12 - The tribes of Israel sent messengers throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What about this awful crime that was committed among you?

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Jdg 20:13 - Now turn those wicked men of Gibeah over to us so that we may put them to death and purge the evil from Israel.” But the Benjamites would not listen to their fellow Israelites.

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Jdg 20:15 - At once the Benjamites mobilized twenty-six thousand swordsmen from their towns, in addition to seven hundred able young men from those living in Gibeah.

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Jdg 20:18 - The Israelites went up to Bethel[fn] and inquired of God. They said, “Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Benjamites?” The LORD replied, “Judah shall go first.”

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Jdg 20:21 - The Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down twenty-two thousand Israelites on the battlefield that day.

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Jdg 20:22 - But the Israelites encouraged one another and again took up their positions where they had stationed themselves the first day.

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Jdg 20:23 - The Israelites went up and wept before the LORD until evening, and they inquired of the LORD. They said, “Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites?” The LORD answered, “Go up against them.”

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Jdg 20:24 - Then the Israelites drew near to Benjamin the second day.

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Jdg 20:25 - This time, when the Benjamites came out from Gibeah to oppose them, they cut down another eighteen thousand Israelites, all of them armed with swords.

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Jdg 20:26 - Then all the Israelites, the whole army, went up to Bethel, and there they sat weeping before the LORD. They fasted that day until evening and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the LORD.

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Jdg 20:27 - And the Israelites inquired of the LORD. (In those days the ark of the covenant of God was there,

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Jdg 20:28 - with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, ministering before it.) They asked, “Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites, or not?” The LORD responded, “Go, for tomorrow I will give them into your hands.”

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Jdg 20:29 - Then Israel set an ambush around Gibeah.

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Jdg 20:30 - They went up against the Benjamites on the third day and took up positions against Gibeah as they had done before.

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Jdg 20:31 - The Benjamites came out to meet them and were drawn away from the city. They began to inflict casualties on the Israelites as before, so that about thirty men fell in the open field and on the roads—the one leading to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.

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Jdg 20:33 - All the men of Israel moved from their places and took up positions at Baal Tamar, and the Israelite ambush charged out of its place on the west[fn] of Gibeah.[fn]

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Jdg 20:35 - The LORD defeated Benjamin before Israel, and on that day the Israelites struck down 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.

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Jdg 20:37 - Those who had been in ambush made a sudden dash into Gibeah, spread out and put the whole city to the sword.

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Jdg 20:39 - and then the Israelites would counterattack. The Benjamites had begun to inflict casualties on the Israelites (about thirty), and they said, “We are defeating them as in the first battle.”

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Jdg 20:42 - So they fled before the Israelites in the direction of the wilderness, but they could not escape the battle. And the Israelites who came out of the towns cut them down there.

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Jdg 20:45 - As they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, the Israelites cut down five thousand men along the roads. They kept pressing after the Benjamites as far as Gidom and struck down two thousand more.

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Jdg 20:46 - On that day twenty-five thousand Benjamite swordsmen fell, all of them valiant fighters.

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Jdg 20:47 - But six hundred of them turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.

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Jdg 20:48 - The men of Israel went back to Benjamin and put all the towns to the sword, including the animals and everything else they found. All the towns they came across they set on fire.

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Jdg 21:1 - The men of Israel had taken an oath at Mizpah: “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”

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Jdg 21:3 - “LORD, God of Israel,” they cried, “why has this happened to Israel? Why should one tribe be missing from Israel today?”

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Jdg 21:4 - Early the next day the people built an altar and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings.

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Jdg 21:5 - Then the Israelites asked, “Who from all the tribes of Israel has failed to assemble before the LORD?” For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to assemble before the LORD at Mizpah was to be put to death.

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Jdg 21:7 - “How can we provide wives for those who are left, since we have taken an oath by the LORD not to give them any of our daughters in marriage?”

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Jdg 21:10 - So the assembly sent twelve thousand fighting men with instructions to go to Jabesh Gilead and put to the sword those living there, including the women and children.

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Jdg 21:12 - They found among the people living in Jabesh Gilead four hundred young women who had never slept with a man, and they took them to the camp at Shiloh in Canaan.

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Jdg 21:13 - Then the whole assembly sent an offer of peace to the Benjamites at the rock of Rimmon.

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Jdg 21:14 - So the Benjamites returned at that time and were given the women of Jabesh Gilead who had been spared. But there were not enough for all of them.

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Jdg 21:15 - The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a gap in the tribes of Israel.

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Jdg 21:19 - But look, there is the annual festival of the LORD in Shiloh, which lies north of Bethel, east of the road that goes from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”

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Jdg 21:20 - So they instructed the Benjamites, saying, “Go and hide in the vineyards

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Jdg 21:21 - and watch. When the young women of Shiloh come out to join in the dancing, rush from the vineyards and each of you seize one of them to be your wife. Then return to the land of Benjamin.

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Jdg 21:22 - When their fathers or brothers complain to us, we will say to them, ‘Do us the favor of helping them, because we did not get wives for them during the war. You will not be guilty of breaking your oath because you did not give your daughters to them.' ”

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Jdg 21:23 - So that is what the Benjamites did. While the young women were dancing, each man caught one and carried her off to be his wife. Then they returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the towns and settled in them.

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Jdg 21:24 - At that time the Israelites left that place and went home to their tribes and clans, each to his own inheritance.

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Jdg 21:25 - In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.

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Rth 1:1 - In the days when the judges ruled,[fn] there was a famine in the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab.

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Rth 1:6 - When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there.

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Rth 1:7 - With her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah.

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Rth 1:9 - May the LORD grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband.” Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud

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Rth 1:11 - But Naomi said, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands?

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Rth 1:13 - would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the LORD's hand has turned against me!”

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Rth 1:20 - “Don't call me Naomi,[fn]” she told them. “Call me Mara,[fn] because the Almighty[fn] has made my life very bitter.

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Rth 1:22 - So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning.

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Rth 2:2 - And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.” Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.”

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Rth 2:3 - So she went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters. As it turned out, she was working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelek.

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Rth 2:7 - She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves behind the harvesters.' She came into the field and has remained here from morning till now, except for a short rest in the shelter.”

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Rth 2:8 - So Boaz said to Ruth, “My daughter, listen to me. Don't go and glean in another field and don't go away from here. Stay here with the women who work for me.

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Rth 2:10 - At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me—a foreigner?”

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Rth 2:13 - “May I continue to find favor in your eyes, my lord,” she said. “You have put me at ease by speaking kindly to your servant—though I do not have the standing of one of your servants.”

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Rth 2:14 - At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here. Have some bread and dip it in the wine vinegar.” When she sat down with the harvesters, he offered her some roasted grain. She ate all she wanted and had some left over.

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Rth 2:17 - So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah.[fn]

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Rth 2:22 - Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It will be good for you, my daughter, to go with the women who work for him, because in someone else's field you might be harmed.”

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Rth 3:4 - When he lies down, note the place where he is lying. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down. He will tell you what to do.”

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Rth 3:7 - When Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits, he went over to lie down at the far end of the grain pile. Ruth approached quietly, uncovered his feet and lay down.

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Rth 3:8 - In the middle of the night something startled the man; he turned—and there was a woman lying at his feet!

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Rth 4:5 - Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the[fn] dead man's widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property.”

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Rth 4:7 - (Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel.)

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Rth 4:11 - Then the elders and all the people at the gate said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the family of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.

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Rth 4:14 - The women said to Naomi: “Praise be to the LORD, who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel!

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1Sa 1:1 - There was a certain man from Ramathaim, a Zuphite[fn] from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

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1Sa 1:7 - This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat.

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1Sa 1:9 - Once when they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his chair by the doorpost of the LORD's house.

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1Sa 1:13 - Hannah was praying in her heart, and her lips were moving but her voice was not heard. Eli thought she was drunk

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1Sa 1:18 - She said, “May your servant find favor in your eyes.” Then she went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast.

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1Sa 1:21 - When her husband Elkanah went up with all his family to offer the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow,

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1Sa 1:23 - “Do what seems best to you,” her husband Elkanah told her. “Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the LORD make good his[fn] word.” So the woman stayed at home and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

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1Sa 1:24 - After he was weaned, she took the boy with her, young as he was, along with a three-year-old bull,[fn] an ephah[fn] of flour and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh.

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1Sa 1:26 - and she said to him, “Pardon me, my lord. As surely as you live, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD.

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1Sa 2:1 - Then Hannah prayed and said: “My heart rejoices in the LORD; in the LORD my horn[fn] is lifted high. My mouth boasts over my enemies, for I delight in your deliverance.

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1Sa 2:5 - Those who were full hire themselves out for food, but those who were hungry are hungry no more. She who was barren has borne seven children, but she who has had many sons pines away.

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1Sa 2:9 - He will guard the feet of his faithful servants, but the wicked will be silenced in the place of darkness. “It is not by strength that one prevails;

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1Sa 2:10 - those who oppose the LORD will be broken. The Most High will thunder from heaven; the LORD will judge the ends of the earth. “He will give strength to his king and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

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1Sa 2:13 - Now it was the practice of the priests that, whenever any of the people offered a sacrifice, the priest's servant would come with a three-pronged fork in his hand while the meat was being boiled

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1Sa 2:14 - and would plunge the fork into the pan or kettle or caldron or pot. Whatever the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh.

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1Sa 2:19 - Each year his mother made him a little robe and took it to him when she went up with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.

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1Sa 2:27 - Now a man of God came to Eli and said to him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Did I not clearly reveal myself to your ancestor's family when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh?

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1Sa 2:32 - and you will see distress in my dwelling. Although good will be done to Israel, no one in your family line will ever reach old age.

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1Sa 2:33 - Every one of you that I do not cut off from serving at my altar I will spare only to destroy your sight and sap your strength, and all your descendants will die in the prime of life.

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1Sa 2:34 - “ ‘And what happens to your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will be a sign to you—they will both die on the same day.

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1Sa 2:35 - I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who will do according to what is in my heart and mind. I will firmly establish his priestly house, and they will minister before my anointed one always.

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1Sa 2:36 - Then everyone left in your family line will come and bow down before him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread and plead, “Appoint me to some priestly office so I can have food to eat.” ' ”

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1Sa 3:1 - The boy Samuel ministered before the LORD under Eli. In those days the word of the LORD was rare; there were not many visions.

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1Sa 3:2 - One night Eli, whose eyes were becoming so weak that he could barely see, was lying down in his usual place.

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1Sa 3:3 - The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the house of the LORD, where the ark of God was.

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1Sa 3:8 - A third time the LORD called, “Samuel!” And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.” Then Eli realized that the LORD was calling the boy.

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1Sa 3:9 - So Eli told Samuel, “Go and lie down, and if he calls you, say, ‘Speak, LORD, for your servant is listening.' ” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

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1Sa 3:11 - And the LORD said to Samuel: “See, I am about to do something in Israel that will make the ears of everyone who hears about it tingle.

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1Sa 3:12 - At that time I will carry out against Eli everything I spoke against his family—from beginning to end.

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1Sa 3:13 - For I told him that I would judge his family forever because of the sin he knew about; his sons blasphemed God,[fn] and he failed to restrain them.

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1Sa 3:14 - Therefore I swore to the house of Eli, ‘The guilt of Eli's house will never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.' ”

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1Sa 3:17 - “What was it he said to you?” Eli asked. “Do not hide it from me. May God deal with you, be it ever so severely, if you hide from me anything he told you.”

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1Sa 3:21 - The LORD continued to appear at Shiloh, and there he revealed himself to Samuel through his word.

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1Sa 4:1 - And Samuel's word came to all Israel. Now the Israelites went out to fight against the Philistines. The Israelites camped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines at Aphek.

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1Sa 4:2 - The Philistines deployed their forces to meet Israel, and as the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand of them on the battlefield.

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1Sa 4:3 - When the soldiers returned to camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why did the LORD bring defeat on us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the LORD's covenant from Shiloh, so that he may go with us and save us from the hand of our enemies.”

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1Sa 4:6 - Hearing the uproar, the Philistines asked, “What's all this shouting in the Hebrew camp?” When they learned that the ark of the LORD had come into the camp,

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1Sa 4:8 - We're doomed! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? They are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.

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1Sa 4:12 - That same day a Benjamite ran from the battle line and went to Shiloh with his clothes torn and dust on his head.

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1Sa 4:17 - The man who brought the news replied, “Israel fled before the Philistines, and the army has suffered heavy losses. Also your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”

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1Sa 4:20 - As she was dying, the women attending her said, “Don't despair; you have given birth to a son.” But she did not respond or pay any attention.

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1Sa 4:22 - She said, “The Glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.”

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1Sa 5:5 - That is why to this day neither the priests of Dagon nor any others who enter Dagon's temple at Ashdod step on the threshold.

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1Sa 5:6 - The LORD's hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity; he brought devastation on them and afflicted them with tumors.[fn]

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1Sa 5:9 - But after they had moved it, the LORD's hand was against that city, throwing it into a great panic. He afflicted the people of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors.[fn]

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1Sa 5:11 - So they called together all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send the ark of the god of Israel away; let it go back to its own place, or it[fn] will kill us and our people.” For death had filled the city with panic; God's hand was very heavy on it.

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1Sa 6:1 - When the ark of the LORD had been in Philistine territory seven months,

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1Sa 6:2 - the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the LORD? Tell us how we should send it back to its place.”

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1Sa 6:7 - “Now then, get a new cart ready, with two cows that have calved and have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up.

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1Sa 6:8 - Take the ark of the LORD and put it on the cart, and in a chest beside it put the gold objects you are sending back to him as a guilt offering. Send it on its way,

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1Sa 6:10 - So they did this. They took two such cows and hitched them to the cart and penned up their calves.

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1Sa 6:12 - Then the cows went straight up toward Beth Shemesh, keeping on the road and lowing all the way; they did not turn to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed them as far as the border of Beth Shemesh.

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1Sa 6:13 - Now the people of Beth Shemesh were harvesting their wheat in the valley, and when they looked up and saw the ark, they rejoiced at the sight.

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1Sa 6:14 - The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and there it stopped beside a large rock. The people chopped up the wood of the cart and sacrificed the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD.

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1Sa 6:15 - The Levites took down the ark of the LORD, together with the chest containing the gold objects, and placed them on the large rock. On that day the people of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the LORD.

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1Sa 6:18 - And the number of the gold rats was according to the number of Philistine towns belonging to the five rulers—the fortified towns with their country villages. The large rock on which the Levites set the ark of the LORD is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.

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1Sa 6:19 - But God struck down some of the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, putting seventy[fn] of them to death because they looked into the ark of the LORD. The people mourned because of the heavy blow the LORD had dealt them.

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1Sa 7:1 - So the men of Kiriath Jearim came and took up the ark of the LORD. They brought it to Abinadab's house on the hill and consecrated Eleazar his son to guard the ark of the LORD.

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1Sa 7:2 - The ark remained at Kiriath Jearim a long time—twenty years in all. Then all the people of Israel turned back to the LORD.

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1Sa 7:3 - So Samuel said to all the Israelites, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths and commit yourselves to the LORD and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

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1Sa 7:6 - When they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the LORD.” Now Samuel was serving as leader[fn] of Israel at Mizpah.

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1Sa 7:10 - While Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to engage Israel in battle. But that day the LORD thundered with loud thunder against the Philistines and threw them into such a panic that they were routed before the Israelites.

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1Sa 7:16 - From year to year he went on a circuit from Bethel to Gilgal to Mizpah, judging Israel in all those places.

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1Sa 8:2 - The name of his firstborn was Joel and the name of his second was Abijah, and they served at Beersheba.

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1Sa 8:3 - But his sons did not follow his ways. They turned aside after dishonest gain and accepted bribes and perverted justice.

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1Sa 8:5 - They said to him, “You are old, and your sons do not follow your ways; now appoint a king to lead[fn] us, such as all the other nations have.”

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1Sa 8:6 - But when they said, “Give us a king to lead us,” this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD.

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1Sa 8:11 - He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots.

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1Sa 8:18 - When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you in that day.”

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1Sa 9:2 - Kish had a son named Saul, as handsome a young man as could be found anywhere in Israel, and he was a head taller than anyone else.

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1Sa 9:6 - But the servant replied, “Look, in this town there is a man of God; he is highly respected, and everything he says comes true. Let's go there now. Perhaps he will tell us what way to take.”

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1Sa 9:8 - The servant answered him again. “Look,” he said, “I have a quarter of a shekel[fn] of silver. I will give it to the man of God so that he will tell us what way to take.”

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1Sa 9:9 - (Formerly in Israel, if someone went to inquire of God, they would say, “Come, let us go to the seer,” because the prophet of today used to be called a seer.)

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1Sa 9:12 - “He is,” they answered. “He's ahead of you. Hurry now; he has just come to our town today, for the people have a sacrifice at the high place.

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1Sa 9:13 - As soon as you enter the town, you will find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people will not begin eating until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice; afterward, those who are invited will eat. Go up now; you should find him about this time.”

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1Sa 9:17 - When Samuel caught sight of Saul, the LORD said to him, “This is the man I spoke to you about; he will govern my people.”

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1Sa 9:19 - “I am the seer,” Samuel replied. “Go up ahead of me to the high place, for today you are to eat with me, and in the morning I will send you on your way and will tell you all that is in your heart.

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1Sa 9:22 - Then Samuel brought Saul and his servant into the hall and seated them at the head of those who were invited—about thirty in number.

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1Sa 9:24 - So the cook took up the thigh with what was on it and set it in front of Saul. Samuel said, “Here is what has been kept for you. Eat, because it was set aside for you for this occasion from the time I said, ‘I have invited guests.' ” And Saul dined with Samuel that day.

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1Sa 9:25 - After they came down from the high place to the town, Samuel talked with Saul on the roof of his house.

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1Sa 10:1 - Then Samuel took a flask of olive oil and poured it on Saul's head and kissed him, saying, “Has not the LORD anointed you ruler over his inheritance?[fn]

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1Sa 10:2 - When you leave me today, you will meet two men near Rachel's tomb, at Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you set out to look for have been found. And now your father has stopped thinking about them and is worried about you. He is asking, “What shall I do about my son?” '

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1Sa 10:9 - As Saul turned to leave Samuel, God changed Saul's heart, and all these signs were fulfilled that day.

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1Sa 10:10 - When he and his servant arrived at Gibeah, a procession of prophets met him; the Spirit of God came powerfully upon him, and he joined in their prophesying.

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1Sa 10:11 - When all those who had formerly known him saw him prophesying with the prophets, they asked each other, “What is this that has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”

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1Sa 10:12 - A man who lived there answered, “And who is their father?” So it became a saying: “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

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1Sa 10:22 - So they inquired further of the LORD, “Has the man come here yet?” And the LORD said, “Yes, he has hidden himself among the supplies.”

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1Sa 10:23 - They ran and brought him out, and as he stood among the people he was a head taller than any of the others.

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1Sa 10:24 - Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the man the LORD has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people.” Then the people shouted, “Long live the king!”

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1Sa 10:25 - Samuel explained to the people the rights and duties of kingship. He wrote them down on a scroll and deposited it before the LORD. Then Samuel dismissed the people to go to their own homes.

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1Sa 11:2 - But Nahash the Ammonite replied, “I will make a treaty with you only on the condition that I gouge out the right eye of every one of you and so bring disgrace on all Israel.”

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1Sa 11:7 - He took a pair of oxen, cut them into pieces, and sent the pieces by messengers throughout Israel, proclaiming, “This is what will be done to the oxen of anyone who does not follow Saul and Samuel.” Then the terror of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out together as one.

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1Sa 11:8 - When Saul mustered them at Bezek, the men of Israel numbered three hundred thousand and those of Judah thirty thousand.

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1Sa 11:11 - The next day Saul separated his men into three divisions; during the last watch of the night they broke into the camp of the Ammonites and slaughtered them until the heat of the day. Those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

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1Sa 11:13 - But Saul said, “No one will be put to death today, for this day the LORD has rescued Israel.”

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1Sa 11:15 - So all the people went to Gilgal and made Saul king in the presence of the LORD. There they sacrificed fellowship offerings before the LORD, and Saul and all the Israelites held a great celebration.

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1Sa 12:2 - Now you have a king as your leader. As for me, I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have been your leader from my youth until this day.

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1Sa 12:5 - Samuel said to them, “The LORD is witness against you, and also his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand.” “He is witness,” they said.

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1Sa 12:7 - Now then, stand here, because I am going to confront you with evidence before the LORD as to all the righteous acts performed by the LORD for you and your ancestors.

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1Sa 12:8 - “After Jacob entered Egypt, they cried to the LORD for help, and the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place.

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1Sa 12:9 - “But they forgot the LORD their God; so he sold them into the hand of Sisera, the commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines and the king of Moab, who fought against them.

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1Sa 12:16 - “Now then, stand still and see this great thing the LORD is about to do before your eyes!

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1Sa 12:18 - Then Samuel called on the LORD, and that same day the LORD sent thunder and rain. So all the people stood in awe of the LORD and of Samuel.

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1Sa 12:20 - “Do not be afraid,” Samuel replied. “You have done all this evil; yet do not turn away from the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.

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1Sa 12:24 - But be sure to fear the LORD and serve him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things he has done for you.

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1Sa 13:2 - Saul chose three thousand men from Israel; two thousand were with him at Mikmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah in Benjamin. The rest of the men he sent back to their homes.

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1Sa 13:3 - Jonathan attacked the Philistine outpost at Geba, and the Philistines heard about it. Then Saul had the trumpet blown throughout the land and said, “Let the Hebrews hear!”

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1Sa 13:4 - So all Israel heard the news: “Saul has attacked the Philistine outpost, and now Israel has become obnoxious to the Philistines.” And the people were summoned to join Saul at Gilgal.

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1Sa 13:5 - The Philistines assembled to fight Israel, with three thousand[fn] chariots, six thousand charioteers, and soldiers as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Mikmash, east of Beth Aven.

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1Sa 13:6 - When the Israelites saw that their situation was critical and that their army was hard pressed, they hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in pits and cisterns.

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1Sa 13:7 - Some Hebrews even crossed the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul remained at Gilgal, and all the troops with him were quaking with fear.

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1Sa 13:11 - “What have you done?” asked Samuel. Saul replied, “When I saw that the men were scattering, and that you did not come at the set time, and that the Philistines were assembling at Mikmash,

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1Sa 13:16 - Saul and his son Jonathan and the men with them were staying in Gibeah[fn] in Benjamin, while the Philistines camped at Mikmash.

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1Sa 13:19 - Not a blacksmith could be found in the whole land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears!”

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1Sa 13:22 - So on the day of the battle not a soldier with Saul and Jonathan had a sword or spear in his hand; only Saul and his son Jonathan had them.

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1Sa 13:23 - Now a detachment of Philistines had gone out to the pass at Mikmash.

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1Sa 14:1 - One day Jonathan son of Saul said to his young armor-bearer, “Come, let's go over to the Philistine outpost on the other side.” But he did not tell his father.

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1Sa 14:2 - Saul was staying on the outskirts of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree in Migron. With him were about six hundred men,

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1Sa 14:3 - among whom was Ahijah, who was wearing an ephod. He was a son of Ichabod's brother Ahitub son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD's priest in Shiloh. No one was aware that Jonathan had left.

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1Sa 14:6 - Jonathan said to his young armor-bearer, “Come, let's go over to the outpost of those uncircumcised men. Perhaps the LORD will act in our behalf. Nothing can hinder the LORD from saving, whether by many or by few.”

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1Sa 14:14 - In that first attack Jonathan and his armor-bearer killed some twenty men in an area of about half an acre.

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1Sa 14:15 - Then panic struck the whole army—those in the camp and field, and those in the outposts and raiding parties—and the ground shook. It was a panic sent by God.[fn]

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1Sa 14:16 - Saul's lookouts at Gibeah in Benjamin saw the army melting away in all directions.

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1Sa 14:18 - Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring the ark of God.” (At that time it was with the Israelites.)[fn]

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1Sa 14:19 - While Saul was talking to the priest, the tumult in the Philistine camp increased more and more. So Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand.”

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1Sa 14:22 - When all the Israelites who had hidden in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were on the run, they joined the battle in hot pursuit.

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1Sa 14:23 - So on that day the LORD saved Israel, and the battle moved on beyond Beth Aven.

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1Sa 14:24 - Now the Israelites were in distress that day, because Saul had bound the people under an oath, saying, “Cursed be anyone who eats food before evening comes, before I have avenged myself on my enemies!” So none of the troops tasted food.

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1Sa 14:27 - But Jonathan had not heard that his father had bound the people with the oath, so he reached out the end of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it into the honeycomb. He raised his hand to his mouth, and his eyes brightened.[fn]

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1Sa 14:30 - How much better it would have been if the men had eaten today some of the plunder they took from their enemies. Would not the slaughter of the Philistines have been even greater?”

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1Sa 14:31 - That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Mikmash to Aijalon, they were exhausted.

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1Sa 14:33 - Then someone said to Saul, “Look, the men are sinning against the LORD by eating meat that has blood in it.” “You have broken faith,” he said. “Roll a large stone over here at once.”

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1Sa 14:34 - Then he said, “Go out among the men and tell them, ‘Each of you bring me your cattle and sheep, and slaughter them here and eat them. Do not sin against the LORD by eating meat with blood still in it.' ” So everyone brought his ox that night and slaughtered it there.

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1Sa 14:36 - Saul said, “Let us go down and pursue the Philistines by night and plunder them till dawn, and let us not leave one of them alive.” “Do whatever seems best to you,” they replied. But the priest said, “Let us inquire of God here.”

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1Sa 14:37 - So Saul asked God, “Shall I go down and pursue the Philistines? Will you give them into Israel's hand?” But God did not answer him that day.

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1Sa 14:38 - Saul therefore said, “Come here, all you who are leaders of the army, and let us find out what sin has been committed today.

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1Sa 14:41 - Then Saul prayed to the LORD, the God of Israel, “Why have you not answered your servant today? If the fault is in me or my son Jonathan, respond with Urim, but if the men of Israel are at fault,[fn] respond with Thummim.” Jonathan and Saul were taken by lot, and the men were cleared.

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1Sa 14:43 - Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.” So Jonathan told him, “I tasted a little honey with the end of my staff. And now I must die!”

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1Sa 14:45 - But the men said to Saul, “Should Jonathan die—he who has brought about this great deliverance in Israel? Never! As surely as the LORD lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for he did this today with God's help.” So the men rescued Jonathan, and he was not put to death.

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1Sa 15:2 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt.

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1Sa 15:4 - So Saul summoned the men and mustered them at Telaim—two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand from Judah.

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1Sa 15:5 - Saul went to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the ravine.

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1Sa 15:6 - Then he said to the Kenites, “Go away, leave the Amalekites so that I do not destroy you along with them; for you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites moved away from the Amalekites.

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1Sa 15:8 - He took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and all his people he totally destroyed with the sword.

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1Sa 15:14 - But Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of sheep in my ears? What is this lowing of cattle that I hear?”

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1Sa 15:18 - And he sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and completely destroy those wicked people, the Amalekites; wage war against them until you have wiped them out.'

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1Sa 15:20 - “But I did obey the LORD,” Saul said. “I went on the mission the LORD assigned me. I completely destroyed the Amalekites and brought back Agag their king.

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1Sa 15:21 - The soldiers took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of what was devoted to God, in order to sacrifice them to the LORD your God at Gilgal.”

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1Sa 15:33 - But Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so will your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel put Agag to death before the LORD at Gilgal.

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1Sa 16:1 - The LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have chosen one of his sons to be king.”

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1Sa 16:2 - But Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears about it, he will kill me.” The LORD said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.'

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1Sa 16:6 - When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and thought, “Surely the LORD's anointed stands here before the LORD.”

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1Sa 16:9 - Jesse then had Shammah pass by, but Samuel said, “Nor has the LORD chosen this one.”

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1Sa 16:10 - Jesse had seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel said to him, “The LORD has not chosen these.”

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1Sa 16:11 - So he asked Jesse, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse answered. “He is tending the sheep.” Samuel said, “Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives.”

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1Sa 16:13 - So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon David. Samuel then went to Ramah.

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1Sa 16:16 - Let our lord command his servants here to search for someone who can play the lyre. He will play when the evil spirit from God comes on you, and you will feel better.”

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1Sa 16:19 - Then Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me your son David, who is with the sheep.”

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1Sa 16:20 - So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them with his son David to Saul.

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1Sa 16:22 - Then Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, “Allow David to remain in my service, for I am pleased with him.”

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1Sa 16:23 - Whenever the spirit from God came on Saul, David would take up his lyre and play. Then relief would come to Saul; he would feel better, and the evil spirit would leave him.

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1Sa 17:1 - Now the Philistines gathered their forces for war and assembled at Sokoh in Judah. They pitched camp at Ephes Dammim, between Sokoh and Azekah.

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1Sa 17:2 - Saul and the Israelites assembled and camped in the Valley of Elah and drew up their battle line to meet the Philistines.

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1Sa 17:10 - Then the Philistine said, “This day I defy the armies of Israel! Give me a man and let us fight each other.”

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1Sa 17:34 - But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock,

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1Sa 17:39 - David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them. “I cannot go in these,” he said to Saul, “because I am not used to them.” So he took them off.

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1Sa 17:40 - Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd's bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine.

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1Sa 17:43 - He said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

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1Sa 17:45 - David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

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1Sa 17:46 - This day the LORD will deliver you into my hands, and I'll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.

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1Sa 17:47 - All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give all of you into our hands.”

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1Sa 17:52 - Then the men of Israel and Judah surged forward with a shout and pursued the Philistines to the entrance of Gath[fn] and to the gates of Ekron. Their dead were strewn along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron.

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1Sa 17:54 - David took the Philistine's head and brought it to Jerusalem; he put the Philistine's weapons in his own tent.

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1Sa 18:6 - When the men were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out from all the towns of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs and with timbrels and lyres.

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1Sa 18:7 - As they danced, they sang: “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.”

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1Sa 18:8 - Saul was very angry; this refrain displeased him greatly. “They have credited David with tens of thousands,” he thought, “but me with only thousands. What more can he get but the kingdom?”

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1Sa 18:14 - In everything he did he had great success, because the LORD was with him.

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1Sa 18:20 - Now Saul's daughter Michal was in love with David, and when they told Saul about it, he was pleased.

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1Sa 18:22 - Then Saul ordered his attendants: “Speak to David privately and say, ‘Look, the king likes you, and his attendants all love you; now become his son-in-law.' ”

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1Sa 18:23 - They repeated these words to David. But David said, “Do you think it is a small matter to become the king's son-in-law? I'm only a poor man and little known.”

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1Sa 18:25 - Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king wants no other price for the bride than a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies.' ” Saul's plan was to have David fall by the hands of the Philistines.

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1Sa 18:26 - When the attendants told David these things, he was pleased to become the king's son-in-law. So before the allotted time elapsed,

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1Sa 18:27 - David took his men with him and went out and killed two hundred Philistines and brought back their foreskins. They counted out the full number to the king so that David might become the king's son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.

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1Sa 19:3 - I will go out and stand with my father in the field where you are. I'll speak to him about you and will tell you what I find out.”

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1Sa 19:5 - He took his life in his hands when he killed the Philistine. The LORD won a great victory for all Israel, and you saw it and were glad. Why then would you do wrong to an innocent man like David by killing him for no reason?”

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1Sa 19:8 - Once more war broke out, and David went out and fought the Philistines. He struck them with such force that they fled before him.

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1Sa 19:9 - But an evil[fn] spirit from the LORD came on Saul as he was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand. While David was playing the lyre,

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1Sa 19:11 - Saul sent men to David's house to watch it and to kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, warned him, “If you don't run for your life tonight, tomorrow you'll be killed.”

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1Sa 19:18 - When David had fled and made his escape, he went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there.

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1Sa 19:19 - Word came to Saul: “David is in Naioth at Ramah”;

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1Sa 19:22 - Finally, he himself left for Ramah and went to the great cistern at Seku. And he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” “Over in Naioth at Ramah,” they said.

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1Sa 19:23 - So Saul went to Naioth at Ramah. But the Spirit of God came even on him, and he walked along prophesying until he came to Naioth.

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1Sa 19:24 - He stripped off his garments, and he too prophesied in Samuel's presence. He lay naked all that day and all that night. This is why people say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

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1Sa 20:1 - Then David fled from Naioth at Ramah and went to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my crime? How have I wronged your father, that he is trying to kill me?”

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1Sa 20:3 - But David took an oath and said, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said to himself, ‘Jonathan must not know this or he will be grieved.' Yet as surely as the LORD lives and as you live, there is only a step between me and death.”

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1Sa 20:5 - So David said, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon feast, and I am supposed to dine with the king; but let me go and hide in the field until the evening of the day after tomorrow.

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1Sa 20:8 - As for you, show kindness to your servant, for you have brought him into a covenant with you before the LORD. If I am guilty, then kill me yourself! Why hand me over to your father?”

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1Sa 20:15 - and do not ever cut off your kindness from my family—not even when the LORD has cut off every one of David's enemies from the face of the earth.”

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1Sa 20:19 - The day after tomorrow, toward evening, go to the place where you hid when this trouble began, and wait by the stone Ezel.

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1Sa 20:24 - So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon feast came, the king sat down to eat.

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1Sa 20:26 - Saul said nothing that day, for he thought, “Something must have happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”

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1Sa 20:29 - He said, ‘Let me go, because our family is observing a sacrifice in the town and my brother has ordered me to be there. If I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away to see my brothers.' That is why he has not come to the king's table.”

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1Sa 20:34 - Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger; on that second day of the feast he did not eat, because he was grieved at his father's shameful treatment of David.

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1Sa 20:36 - and he said to the boy, “Run and find the arrows I shoot.” As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.

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1Sa 20:42 - Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for we have sworn friendship with each other in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘The LORD is witness between you and me, and between your descendants and my descendants forever.' ” Then David left, and Jonathan went back to the town.[fn]

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1Sa 21:2 - David answered Ahimelek the priest, “The king sent me on a mission and said to me, ‘No one is to know anything about the mission I am sending you on.' As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place.

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1Sa 21:5 - David replied, “Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual whenever[fn] I set out. The men's bodies are holy even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!”

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1Sa 21:7 - Now one of Saul's servants was there that day, detained before the LORD; he was Doeg the Edomite, Saul's chief shepherd.

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1Sa 21:8 - David asked Ahimelek, “Don't you have a spear or a sword here? I haven't brought my sword or any other weapon, because the king's mission was urgent.”

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1Sa 21:9 - The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want it, take it; there is no sword here but that one.” David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”

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1Sa 21:10 - That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath.

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1Sa 21:11 - But the servants of Achish said to him, “Isn't this David, the king of the land? Isn't he the one they sing about in their dances: “ ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands'?”

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1Sa 21:12 - David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of Achish king of Gath.

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1Sa 21:13 - So he pretended to be insane in their presence; and while he was in their hands he acted like a madman, making marks on the doors of the gate and letting saliva run down his beard.

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1Sa 22:2 - All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their commander. About four hundred men were with him.

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1Sa 22:4 - So he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him as long as David was in the stronghold.

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1Sa 22:5 - But the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold. Go into the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.

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1Sa 22:6 - Now Saul heard that David and his men had been discovered. And Saul was seated, spear in hand, under the tamarisk tree on the hill at Gibeah, with all his officials standing at his side.

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1Sa 22:8 - Is that why you have all conspired against me? No one tells me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is concerned about me or tells me that my son has incited my servant to lie in wait for me, as he does today.”

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1Sa 22:11 - Then the king sent for the priest Ahimelek son of Ahitub and all the men of his family, who were the priests at Nob, and they all came to the king.

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1Sa 22:14 - Ahimelek answered the king, “Who of all your servants is as loyal as David, the king's son-in-law, captain of your bodyguard and highly respected in your household?

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1Sa 22:15 - Was that day the first time I inquired of God for him? Of course not! Let not the king accuse your servant or any of his father's family, for your servant knows nothing at all about this whole affair.”

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1Sa 22:18 - The king then ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests.” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck them down. That day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.

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1Sa 22:19 - He also put to the sword Nob, the town of the priests, with its men and women, its children and infants, and its cattle, donkeys and sheep.

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1Sa 22:22 - Then David said to Abiathar, “That day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, I knew he would be sure to tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of your whole family.

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1Sa 23:1 - When David was told, “Look, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and are looting the threshing floors,”

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1Sa 23:2 - he inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?” The LORD answered him, “Go, attack the Philistines and save Keilah.”

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1Sa 23:3 - But David's men said to him, “Here in Judah we are afraid. How much more, then, if we go to Keilah against the Philistine forces!”

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1Sa 23:5 - So David and his men went to Keilah, fought the Philistines and carried off their livestock. He inflicted heavy losses on the Philistines and saved the people of Keilah.

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1Sa 23:6 - (Now Abiathar son of Ahimelek had brought the ephod down with him when he fled to David at Keilah.)

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1Sa 23:14 - David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hills of the Desert of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God did not give David into his hands.

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1Sa 23:15 - While David was at Horesh in the Desert of Ziph, he learned that[fn] Saul had come out to take his life.

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1Sa 23:16 - And Saul's son Jonathan went to David at Horesh and helped him find strength in God.

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1Sa 23:18 - The two of them made a covenant before the LORD. Then Jonathan went home, but David remained at Horesh.

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1Sa 23:19 - The Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hakilah, south of Jeshimon?

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1Sa 23:22 - Go and get more information. Find out where David usually goes and who has seen him there. They tell me he is very crafty.

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1Sa 23:23 - Find out about all the hiding places he uses and come back to me with definite information. Then I will go with you; if he is in the area, I will track him down among all the clans of Judah.”

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1Sa 23:24 - So they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Desert of Maon, in the Arabah south of Jeshimon.

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1Sa 23:25 - Saul and his men began the search, and when David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Desert of Maon. When Saul heard this, he went into the Desert of Maon in pursuit of David.

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1Sa 23:29 - And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.[fn]

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1Sa 24:1 - After Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, “David is in the Desert of En Gedi.”

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1Sa 24:4 - The men said, “This is the day the LORD spoke of when he said[fn] to you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hands for you to deal with as you wish.' ” Then David crept up unnoticed and cut off a corner of Saul's robe.

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1Sa 24:7 - With these words David sharply rebuked his men and did not allow them to attack Saul. And Saul left the cave and went his way.

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1Sa 24:10 - This day you have seen with your own eyes how the LORD delivered you into my hands in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but I spared you; I said, ‘I will not lay my hand on my lord, because he is the LORD's anointed.'

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1Sa 24:11 - See, my father, look at this piece of your robe in my hand! I cut off the corner of your robe but did not kill you. See that there is nothing in my hand to indicate that I am guilty of wrongdoing or rebellion. I have not wronged you, but you are hunting me down to take my life.

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1Sa 24:19 - When a man finds his enemy, does he let him get away unharmed? May the LORD reward you well for the way you treated me today.

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1Sa 24:20 - I know that you will surely be king and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hands.

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1Sa 24:21 - Now swear to me by the LORD that you will not kill off my descendants or wipe out my name from my father's family.”

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1Sa 25:1 - Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David moved down into the Desert of Paran.[fn]

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1Sa 25:2 - A certain man in Maon, who had property there at Carmel, was very wealthy. He had a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.

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1Sa 25:3 - His name was Nabal and his wife's name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband was surly and mean in his dealings—he was a Calebite.

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1Sa 25:4 - While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep.

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1Sa 25:7 - “ ‘Now I hear that it is sheep-shearing time. When your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat them, and the whole time they were at Carmel nothing of theirs was missing.

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1Sa 25:8 - Ask your own servants and they will tell you. Therefore be favorable toward my men, since we come at a festive time. Please give your servants and your son David whatever you can find for them.' ”

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1Sa 25:9 - When David's men arrived, they gave Nabal this message in David's name. Then they waited.

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1Sa 25:15 - Yet these men were very good to us. They did not mistreat us, and the whole time we were out in the fields near them nothing was missing.

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1Sa 25:20 - As she came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, there were David and his men descending toward her, and she met them.

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1Sa 25:21 - David had just said, “It's been useless—all my watching over this fellow's property in the wilderness so that nothing of his was missing. He has paid me back evil for good.

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1Sa 25:24 - She fell at his feet and said: “Pardon your servant, my lord, and let me speak to you; hear what your servant has to say.

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1Sa 25:28 - “Please forgive your servant's presumption. The LORD your God will certainly make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because you fight the LORD's battles, and no wrongdoing will be found in you as long as you live.

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1Sa 25:29 - Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life, the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the LORD your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling.

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1Sa 25:32 - David said to Abigail, “Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me.

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1Sa 25:33 - May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands.

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1Sa 25:36 - When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until daybreak.

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1Sa 25:37 - Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him and he became like a stone.

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1Sa 26:1 - The Ziphites went to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding on the hill of Hakilah, which faces Jeshimon?”

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1Sa 26:2 - So Saul went down to the Desert of Ziph, with his three thousand select Israelite troops, to search there for David.

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1Sa 26:3 - Saul made his camp beside the road on the hill of Hakilah facing Jeshimon, but David stayed in the wilderness. When he saw that Saul had followed him there,

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1Sa 26:5 - Then David set out and went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the commander of the army, had lain down. Saul was lying inside the camp, with the army encamped around him.

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1Sa 26:7 - So David and Abishai went to the army by night, and there was Saul, lying asleep inside the camp with his spear stuck in the ground near his head. Abner and the soldiers were lying around him.

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1Sa 26:15 - David said, “You're a man, aren't you? And who is like you in Israel? Why didn't you guard your lord the king? Someone came to destroy your lord the king.

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1Sa 26:18 - And he added, “Why is my lord pursuing his servant? What have I done, and what wrong am I guilty of?

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1Sa 26:19 - Now let my lord the king listen to his servant's words. If the LORD has incited you against me, then may he accept an offering. If, however, people have done it, may they be cursed before the LORD! They have driven me today from my share in the LORD's inheritance and have said, ‘Go, serve other gods.'

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1Sa 26:20 - Now do not let my blood fall to the ground far from the presence of the LORD. The king of Israel has come out to look for a flea—as one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

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1Sa 26:21 - Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Come back, David my son. Because you considered my life precious today, I will not try to harm you again. Surely I have acted like a fool and have been terribly wrong.”

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1Sa 26:24 - As surely as I valued your life today, so may the LORD value my life and deliver me from all trouble.”

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1Sa 27:1 - But David thought to himself, “One of these days I will be destroyed by the hand of Saul. The best thing I can do is to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will give up searching for me anywhere in Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”

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1Sa 27:3 - David and his men settled in Gath with Achish. Each man had his family with him, and David had his two wives: Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, the widow of Nabal.

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1Sa 27:5 - Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let a place be assigned to me in one of the country towns, that I may live there. Why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”

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1Sa 27:6 - So on that day Achish gave him Ziklag, and it has belonged to the kings of Judah ever since.

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1Sa 27:7 - David lived in Philistine territory a year and four months.

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1Sa 27:11 - He did not leave a man or woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he thought, “They might inform on us and say, ‘This is what David did.' ” And such was his practice as long as he lived in Philistine territory.

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1Sa 27:12 - Achish trusted David and said to himself, “He has become so obnoxious to his people, the Israelites, that he will be my servant for life.”

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1Sa 28:1 - In those days the Philistines gathered their forces to fight against Israel. Achish said to David, “You must understand that you and your men will accompany me in the army.”

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1Sa 28:3 - Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in his own town of Ramah. Saul had expelled the mediums and spiritists from the land.

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1Sa 28:6 - He inquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him by dreams or Urim or prophets.

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1Sa 28:7 - Saul then said to his attendants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, so I may go and inquire of her.” “There is one in Endor,” they said.

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1Sa 28:8 - So Saul disguised himself, putting on other clothes, and at night he and two men went to the woman. “Consult a spirit for me,” he said, “and bring up for me the one I name.”

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1Sa 28:10 - Saul swore to her by the LORD, “As surely as the LORD lives, you will not be punished for this.”

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1Sa 28:15 - Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” “I am in great distress,” Saul said. “The Philistines are fighting against me, and God has departed from me. He no longer answers me, either by prophets or by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what to do.”

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1Sa 28:17 - The LORD has done what he predicted through me. The LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hands and given it to one of your neighbors—to David.

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1Sa 28:18 - Because you did not obey the LORD or carry out his fierce wrath against the Amalekites, the LORD has done this to you today.

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1Sa 28:20 - Immediately Saul fell full length on the ground, filled with fear because of Samuel's words. His strength was gone, for he had eaten nothing all that day and all that night.

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1Sa 28:21 - When the woman came to Saul and saw that he was greatly shaken, she said, “Look, your servant has obeyed you. I took my life in my hands and did what you told me to do.

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1Sa 28:22 - Now please listen to your servant and let me give you some food so you may eat and have the strength to go on your way.”

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1Sa 28:24 - The woman had a fattened calf at the house, which she butchered at once. She took some flour, kneaded it and baked bread without yeast.

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1Sa 29:1 - The Philistines gathered all their forces at Aphek, and Israel camped by the spring in Jezreel.

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1Sa 29:3 - The commanders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish replied, “Is this not David, who was an officer of Saul king of Israel? He has already been with me for over a year, and from the day he left Saul until now, I have found no fault in him.”

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1Sa 29:4 - But the Philistine commanders were angry with Achish and said, “Send the man back, that he may return to the place you assigned him. He must not go with us into battle, or he will turn against us during the fighting. How better could he regain his master's favor than by taking the heads of our own men?

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1Sa 29:5 - Isn't this the David they sang about in their dances: “ ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands'?”

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1Sa 29:6 - So Achish called David and said to him, “As surely as the LORD lives, you have been reliable, and I would be pleased to have you serve with me in the army. From the day you came to me until today, I have found no fault in you, but the rulers don't approve of you.

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1Sa 29:7 - Now turn back and go in peace; do nothing to displease the Philistine rulers.”

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1Sa 29:8 - “But what have I done?” asked David. “What have you found against your servant from the day I came to you until now? Why can't I go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”

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1Sa 29:9 - Achish answered, “I know that you have been as pleasing in my eyes as an angel of God; nevertheless, the Philistine commanders have said, ‘He must not go up with us into battle.'

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1Sa 29:10 - Now get up early, along with your master's servants who have come with you, and leave in the morning as soon as it is light.”

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1Sa 30:1 - David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it,

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1Sa 30:2 - and had taken captive the women and everyone else in it, both young and old. They killed none of them, but carried them off as they went on their way.

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1Sa 30:3 - When David and his men reached Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.

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1Sa 30:4 - So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep.

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1Sa 30:6 - David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.

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1Sa 30:10 - Two hundred of them were too exhausted to cross the valley, but David and the other four hundred continued the pursuit.

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1Sa 30:11 - They found an Egyptian in a field and brought him to David. They gave him water to drink and food to eat—

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1Sa 30:12 - part of a cake of pressed figs and two cakes of raisins. He ate and was revived, for he had not eaten any food or drunk any water for three days and three nights.

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1Sa 30:14 - We raided the Negev of the Kerethites, some territory belonging to Judah and the Negev of Caleb. And we burned Ziklag.”

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1Sa 30:16 - He led David down, and there they were, scattered over the countryside, eating, drinking and reveling because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from Judah.

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1Sa 30:21 - Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him and who were left behind at the Besor Valley. They came out to meet David and the men with him. As David and his men approached, he asked them how they were.

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1Sa 30:27 - David sent it to those who were in Bethel, Ramoth Negev and Jattir;

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1Sa 30:28 - to those in Aroer, Siphmoth, Eshtemoa

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1Sa 30:29 - and Rakal; to those in the towns of the Jerahmeelites and the Kenites;

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1Sa 30:30 - to those in Hormah, Bor Ashan, Athak

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1Sa 30:31 - and Hebron; and to those in all the other places where he and his men had roamed.

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1Sa 31:1 - Now the Philistines fought against Israel; the Israelites fled before them, and many fell dead on Mount Gilboa.

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1Sa 31:4 - Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through, or these uncircumcised fellows will come and run me through and abuse me.” But his armor-bearer was terrified and would not do it; so Saul took his own sword and fell on it.

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1Sa 31:6 - So Saul and his three sons and his armor-bearer and all his men died together that same day.

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1Sa 31:7 - When the Israelites along the valley and those across the Jordan saw that the Israelite army had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their towns and fled. And the Philistines came and occupied them.

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1Sa 31:10 - They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.

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2Sa 1:1 - After the death of Saul, David returned from striking down the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag two days.

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2Sa 1:2 - On the third day a man arrived from Saul's camp with his clothes torn and dust on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the ground to pay him honor.

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2Sa 1:6 - “I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,” the young man said, “and there was Saul, leaning on his spear, with the chariots and their drivers in hot pursuit.

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2Sa 1:9 - “Then he said to me, ‘Stand here by me and kill me! I'm in the throes of death, but I'm still alive.'

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2Sa 1:12 - They mourned and wept and fasted till evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the army of the LORD and for the nation of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

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2Sa 1:20 - “Tell it not in Gath, proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines be glad, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised rejoice.

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2Sa 1:21 - “Mountains of Gilboa, may you have neither dew nor rain, may no showers fall on your terraced fields.[fn] For there the shield of the mighty was despised, the shield of Saul—no longer rubbed with oil.

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2Sa 1:23 - Saul and Jonathan— in life they were loved and admired, and in death they were not parted. They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

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2Sa 1:25 - “How the mighty have fallen in battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights.

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2Sa 2:1 - In the course of time, David inquired of the LORD. “Shall I go up to one of the towns of Judah?” he asked. The LORD said, “Go up.” David asked, “Where shall I go?” “To Hebron,” the LORD answered.

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2Sa 2:3 - David also took the men who were with him, each with his family, and they settled in Hebron and its towns.

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2Sa 2:11 - The length of time David was king in Hebron over Judah was seven years and six months.

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2Sa 2:15 - So they stood up and were counted off—twelve men for Benjamin and Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, and twelve for David.

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2Sa 2:16 - Then each man grabbed his opponent by the head and thrust his dagger into his opponent's side, and they fell down together. So that place in Gibeon was called Helkath Hazzurim.[fn]

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2Sa 2:17 - The battle that day was very fierce, and Abner and the Israelites were defeated by David's men.

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2Sa 2:18 - The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai and Asahel. Now Asahel was as fleet-footed as a wild gazelle.

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2Sa 2:23 - But Asahel refused to give up the pursuit; so Abner thrust the butt of his spear into Asahel's stomach, and the spear came out through his back. He fell there and died on the spot. And every man stopped when he came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died.

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2Sa 2:32 - They took Asahel and buried him in his father's tomb at Bethlehem. Then Joab and his men marched all night and arrived at Hebron by daybreak.

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2Sa 3:2 - Sons were born to David in Hebron: His firstborn was Amnon the son of Ahinoam of Jezreel;

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2Sa 3:5 - and the sixth, Ithream the son of David's wife Eglah. These were born to David in Hebron.

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2Sa 3:6 - During the war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner had been strengthening his own position in the house of Saul.

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2Sa 3:9 - May God deal with Abner, be it ever so severely, if I do not do for David what the LORD promised him on oath

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2Sa 3:14 - Then David sent messengers to Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, demanding, “Give me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for the price of a hundred Philistine foreskins.”

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2Sa 3:18 - Now do it! For the LORD promised David, ‘By my servant David I will rescue my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines and from the hand of all their enemies.' ”

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2Sa 3:19 - Abner also spoke to the Benjamites in person. Then he went to Hebron to tell David everything that Israel and the whole tribe of Benjamin wanted to do.

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2Sa 3:21 - Then Abner said to David, “Let me go at once and assemble all Israel for my lord the king, so that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may rule over all that your heart desires.” So David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.

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2Sa 3:22 - Just then David's men and Joab returned from a raid and brought with them a great deal of plunder. But Abner was no longer with David in Hebron, because David had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.

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2Sa 3:23 - When Joab and all the soldiers with him arrived, he was told that Abner son of Ner had come to the king and that the king had sent him away and that he had gone in peace.

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2Sa 3:24 - So Joab went to the king and said, “What have you done? Look, Abner came to you. Why did you let him go? Now he is gone!

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2Sa 3:27 - Now when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into an inner chamber, as if to speak with him privately. And there, to avenge the blood of his brother Asahel, Joab stabbed him in the stomach, and he died.

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2Sa 3:29 - May his blood fall on the head of Joab and on his whole family! May Joab's family never be without someone who has a running sore or leprosy[fn] or who leans on a crutch or who falls by the sword or who lacks food.”

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2Sa 3:30 - (Joab and his brother Abishai murdered Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.)

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2Sa 3:34 - Your hands were not bound, your feet were not fettered. You fell as one falls before the wicked.” And all the people wept over him again.

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2Sa 3:37 - So on that day all the people there and all Israel knew that the king had no part in the murder of Abner son of Ner.

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2Sa 3:38 - Then the king said to his men, “Do you not realize that a commander and a great man has fallen in Israel this day?

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2Sa 4:1 - When Ish-Bosheth son of Saul heard that Abner had died in Hebron, he lost courage, and all Israel became alarmed.

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2Sa 4:4 - (Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in both feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she hurried to leave, he fell and became disabled. His name was Mephibosheth.)

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2Sa 4:5 - Now Rekab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, set out for the house of Ish-Bosheth, and they arrived there in the heat of the day while he was taking his noonday rest.

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2Sa 4:7 - They had gone into the house while he was lying on the bed in his bedroom. After they stabbed and killed him, they cut off his head. Taking it with them, they traveled all night by way of the Arabah.

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2Sa 4:10 - when someone told me, ‘Saul is dead,' and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and put him to death in Ziklag. That was the reward I gave him for his news!

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2Sa 4:11 - How much more—when wicked men have killed an innocent man in his own house and on his own bed—should I not now demand his blood from your hand and rid the earth of you!”

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2Sa 4:12 - So David gave an order to his men, and they killed them. They cut off their hands and feet and hung the bodies by the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-Bosheth and buried it in Abner's tomb at Hebron.

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2Sa 5:3 - When all the elders of Israel had come to King David at Hebron, the king made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel.

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2Sa 5:4 - David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years.

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2Sa 5:5 - In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.

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2Sa 5:8 - On that day David had said, “Anyone who conquers the Jebusites will have to use the water shaft to reach those ‘lame and blind' who are David's enemies.[fn]” That is why they say, “The ‘blind and lame' will not enter the palace.”

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2Sa 5:9 - David then took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built up the area around it, from the terraces[fn] inward.

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2Sa 5:14 - These are the names of the children born to him there: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,

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2Sa 5:22 - Once more the Philistines came up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim;

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2Sa 5:24 - As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the poplar trees, move quickly, because that will mean the LORD has gone out in front of you to strike the Philistine army.”

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2Sa 6:2 - He and all his men went to Baalah[fn] in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name,[fn] the name of the LORD Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim on the ark.

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2Sa 6:3 - They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart

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2Sa 6:5 - David and all Israel were celebrating with all their might before the LORD, with castanets,[fn] harps, lyres, timbrels, sistrums and cymbals.

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2Sa 6:8 - Then David was angry because the LORD's wrath had broken out against Uzzah, and to this day that place is called Perez Uzzah.[fn]

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2Sa 6:9 - David was afraid of the LORD that day and said, “How can the ark of the LORD ever come to me?”

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2Sa 6:12 - Now King David was told, “The LORD has blessed the household of Obed-Edom and everything he has, because of the ark of God.” So David went to bring up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David with rejoicing.

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2Sa 6:14 - Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the LORD with all his might,

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2Sa 6:16 - As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, she despised him in her heart.

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2Sa 6:18 - After he had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD Almighty.

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2Sa 6:20 - When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, going around half-naked in full view of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!”

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2Sa 6:22 - I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor.”

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2Sa 7:1 - After the king was settled in his palace and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies around him,

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2Sa 7:2 - he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.”

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2Sa 7:3 - Nathan replied to the king, “Whatever you have in mind, go ahead and do it, for the LORD is with you.”

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2Sa 7:6 - I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought the Israelites up out of Egypt to this day. I have been moving from place to place with a tent as my dwelling.

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2Sa 7:7 - Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their rulers whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?” '

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2Sa 7:9 - I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make your name great, like the names of the greatest men on earth.

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2Sa 7:14 - I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with a rod wielded by men, with floggings inflicted by human hands.

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2Sa 7:22 - “How great you are, Sovereign LORD! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.

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2Sa 7:23 - And who is like your people Israel—the one nation on earth that God went out to redeem as a people for himself, and to make a name for himself, and to perform great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt?[fn]

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2Sa 8:2 - David also defeated the Moabites. He made them lie down on the ground and measured them off with a length of cord. Every two lengths of them were put to death, and the third length was allowed to live. So the Moabites became subject to David and brought him tribute.

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2Sa 8:5 - When the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand of them.

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2Sa 8:6 - He put garrisons in the Aramean kingdom of Damascus, and the Arameans became subject to him and brought tribute. The LORD gave David victory wherever he went.

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2Sa 8:7 - David took the gold shields that belonged to the officers of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.

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2Sa 8:8 - From Tebah[fn] and Berothai, towns that belonged to Hadadezer, King David took a great quantity of bronze.

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2Sa 8:10 - he sent his son Joram[fn] to King David to greet him and congratulate him on his victory in battle over Hadadezer, who had been at war with Tou. Joram brought with him articles of silver, of gold and of bronze.

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2Sa 8:13 - And David became famous after he returned from striking down eighteen thousand Edomites[fn] in the Valley of Salt.

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2Sa 8:14 - He put garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites became subject to David. The LORD gave David victory wherever he went.

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2Sa 9:4 - “Where is he?” the king asked. Ziba answered, “He is at the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar.”

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2Sa 9:13 - And Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king's table; he was lame in both feet.

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2Sa 10:2 - David thought, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father. When David's men came to the land of the Ammonites,

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2Sa 10:4 - So Hanun seized David's envoys, shaved off half of each man's beard, cut off their garments at the buttocks, and sent them away.

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2Sa 10:5 - When David was told about this, he sent messengers to meet the men, for they were greatly humiliated. The king said, “Stay at Jericho till your beards have grown, and then come back.”

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2Sa 10:8 - The Ammonites came out and drew up in battle formation at the entrance of their city gate, while the Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maakah were by themselves in the open country.

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2Sa 10:10 - He put the rest of the men under the command of Abishai his brother and deployed them against the Ammonites.

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2Sa 10:12 - Be strong, and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God. The LORD will do what is good in his sight.”

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2Sa 11:1 - In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king's men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.

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2Sa 11:5 - The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”

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2Sa 11:11 - Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents,[fn] and my commander Joab and my lord's men are camped in the open country. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and make love to my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!”

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2Sa 11:12 - Then David said to him, “Stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.

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2Sa 11:14 - In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.

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2Sa 11:15 - In it he wrote, “Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.”

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2Sa 11:16 - So while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest defenders were.

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2Sa 11:19 - He instructed the messenger: “When you have finished giving the king this account of the battle,

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2Sa 11:21 - Who killed Abimelek son of Jerub-Besheth[fn]? Didn't a woman drop an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?' If he asks you this, then say to him, ‘Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.' ”

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2Sa 11:22 - The messenger set out, and when he arrived he told David everything Joab had sent him to say.

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2Sa 11:25 - David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Don't let this upset you; the sword devours one as well as another. Press the attack against the city and destroy it.' Say this to encourage Joab.”

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2Sa 11:27 - After the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the LORD.

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2Sa 12:1 - The LORD sent Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said, “There were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor.

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2Sa 12:3 - but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him.

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2Sa 12:8 - I gave your master's house to you, and your master's wives into your arms. I gave you all Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more.

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2Sa 12:9 - Why did you despise the word of the LORD by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

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2Sa 12:14 - But because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for[fn] the LORD, the son born to you will die.”

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2Sa 12:16 - David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the nights lying in sackcloth[fn] on the ground.

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2Sa 12:18 - On the seventh day the child died. David's attendants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, “While the child was still living, he wouldn't listen to us when we spoke to him. How can we now tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate.”

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2Sa 12:22 - He answered, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. I thought, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let the child live.'

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2Sa 12:25 - and because the LORD loved him, he sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah.[fn]

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2Sa 12:26 - Meanwhile Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal citadel.

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2Sa 12:27 - Joab then sent messengers to David, saying, “I have fought against Rabbah and taken its water supply.

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2Sa 12:29 - So David mustered the entire army and went to Rabbah, and attacked and captured it.

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2Sa 12:31 - and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws and with iron picks and axes, and he made them work at brickmaking.[fn] David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then he and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.

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2Sa 13:2 - Amnon became so obsessed with his sister Tamar that he made himself ill. She was a virgin, and it seemed impossible for him to do anything to her.

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2Sa 13:6 - So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to him, “I would like my sister Tamar to come and make some special bread in my sight, so I may eat from her hand.”

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2Sa 13:12 - “No, my brother!” she said to him. “Don't force me! Such a thing should not be done in Israel! Don't do this wicked thing.

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2Sa 13:13 - What about me? Where could I get rid of my disgrace? And what about you? You would be like one of the wicked fools in Israel. Please speak to the king; he will not keep me from being married to you.”

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2Sa 13:20 - Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has that Amnon, your brother, been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister; he is your brother. Don't take this thing to heart.” And Tamar lived in her brother Absalom's house, a desolate woman.

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2Sa 13:23 - Two years later, when Absalom's sheepshearers were at Baal Hazor near the border of Ephraim, he invited all the king's sons to come there.

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2Sa 13:28 - Absalom ordered his men, “Listen! When Amnon is in high spirits from drinking wine and I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon down,' then kill him. Don't be afraid. Haven't I given you this order? Be strong and brave.”

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2Sa 13:30 - While they were on their way, the report came to David: “Absalom has struck down all the king's sons; not one of them is left.”

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2Sa 13:34 - Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. Now the man standing watch looked up and saw many people on the road west of him, coming down the side of the hill. The watchman went and told the king, “I see men in the direction of Horonaim, on the side of the hill.”[fn]

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2Sa 14:3 - Then go to the king and speak these words to him.” And Joab put the words in her mouth.

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2Sa 14:6 - I your servant had two sons. They got into a fight with each other in the field, and no one was there to separate them. One struck the other and killed him.

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2Sa 14:19 - The king asked, “Isn't the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything my lord the king says. Yes, it was your servant Joab who instructed me to do this and who put all these words into the mouth of your servant.

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2Sa 14:20 - Your servant Joab did this to change the present situation. My lord has wisdom like that of an angel of God—he knows everything that happens in the land.”

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2Sa 14:22 - Joab fell with his face to the ground to pay him honor, and he blessed the king. Joab said, “Today your servant knows that he has found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his servant's request.”

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2Sa 14:25 - In all Israel there was not a man so highly praised for his handsome appearance as Absalom. From the top of his head to the sole of his foot there was no blemish in him.

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2Sa 14:26 - Whenever he cut the hair of his head—he used to cut his hair once a year because it became too heavy for him—he would weigh it, and its weight was two hundred shekels[fn] by the royal standard.

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2Sa 14:28 - Absalom lived two years in Jerusalem without seeing the king's face.

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2Sa 14:30 - Then he said to his servants, “Look, Joab's field is next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire.” So Absalom's servants set the field on fire.

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2Sa 14:31 - Then Joab did go to Absalom's house, and he said to him, “Why have your servants set my field on fire?”

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2Sa 14:32 - Absalom said to Joab, “Look, I sent word to you and said, ‘Come here so I can send you to the king to ask, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there!” ' Now then, I want to see the king's face, and if I am guilty of anything, let him put me to death.”

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2Sa 15:4 - And Absalom would add, “If only I were appointed judge in the land! Then everyone who has a complaint or case could come to me and I would see that they receive justice.”

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2Sa 15:5 - Also, whenever anyone approached him to bow down before him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him and kiss him.

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2Sa 15:7 - At the end of four[fn] years, Absalom said to the king, “Let me go to Hebron and fulfill a vow I made to the LORD.

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2Sa 15:8 - While your servant was living at Geshur in Aram, I made this vow: ‘If the LORD takes me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the LORD in Hebron.[fn]' ”

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2Sa 15:10 - Then Absalom sent secret messengers throughout the tribes of Israel to say, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpets, then say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron.' ”

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2Sa 15:12 - While Absalom was offering sacrifices, he also sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, to come from Giloh, his hometown. And so the conspiracy gained strength, and Absalom's following kept on increasing.

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2Sa 15:14 - Then David said to all his officials who were with him in Jerusalem, “Come! We must flee, or none of us will escape from Absalom. We must leave immediately, or he will move quickly to overtake us and bring ruin on us and put the city to the sword.”

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2Sa 15:17 - So the king set out, with all the people following him, and they halted at the edge of the city.

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2Sa 15:18 - All his men marched past him, along with all the Kerethites and Pelethites; and all the six hundred Gittites who had accompanied him from Gath marched before the king.

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2Sa 15:23 - The whole countryside wept aloud as all the people passed by. The king also crossed the Kidron Valley, and all the people moved on toward the wilderness.

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2Sa 15:25 - Then the king said to Zadok, “Take the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the LORD's eyes, he will bring me back and let me see it and his dwelling place again.

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2Sa 15:26 - But if he says, ‘I am not pleased with you,' then I am ready; let him do to me whatever seems good to him.”

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2Sa 15:27 - The king also said to Zadok the priest, “Do you understand? Go back to the city with my blessing. Take your son Ahimaaz with you, and also Abiathar's son Jonathan. You and Abiathar return with your two sons.

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2Sa 15:28 - I will wait at the fords in the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”

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2Sa 15:30 - But David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went; his head was covered and he was barefoot. All the people with him covered their heads too and were weeping as they went up.

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2Sa 15:31 - Now David had been told, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David prayed, “LORD, turn Ahithophel's counsel into foolishness.”

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2Sa 15:36 - Their two sons, Ahimaaz son of Zadok and Jonathan son of Abiathar, are there with them. Send them to me with anything you hear.”

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2Sa 16:2 - The king asked Ziba, “Why have you brought these?” Ziba answered, “The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on, the bread and fruit are for the men to eat, and the wine is to refresh those who become exhausted in the wilderness.”

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2Sa 16:3 - The king then asked, “Where is your master's grandson?” Ziba said to him, “He is staying in Jerusalem, because he thinks, ‘Today the Israelites will restore to me my grandfather's kingdom.' ”

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2Sa 16:4 - Then the king said to Ziba, “All that belonged to Mephibosheth is now yours.” “I humbly bow,” Ziba said. “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king.”

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2Sa 16:6 - He pelted David and all the king's officials with stones, though all the troops and the special guard were on David's right and left.

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2Sa 16:7 - As he cursed, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you murderer, you scoundrel!

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2Sa 16:8 - The LORD has repaid you for all the blood you shed in the household of Saul, in whose place you have reigned. The LORD has given the kingdom into the hands of your son Absalom. You have come to ruin because you are a murderer!”

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2Sa 16:12 - It may be that the LORD will look upon my misery and restore to me his covenant blessing instead of his curse today.”

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2Sa 16:13 - So David and his men continued along the road while Shimei was going along the hillside opposite him, cursing as he went and throwing stones at him and showering him with dirt.

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2Sa 16:23 - Now in those days the advice Ahithophel gave was like that of one who inquires of God. That was how both David and Absalom regarded all of Ahithophel's advice.

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2Sa 17:4 - This plan seemed good to Absalom and to all the elders of Israel.

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2Sa 17:5 - But Absalom said, “Summon also Hushai the Arkite, so we can hear what he has to say as well.”

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2Sa 17:8 - You know your father and his men; they are fighters, and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Besides, your father is an experienced fighter; he will not spend the night with the troops.

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2Sa 17:9 - Even now, he is hidden in a cave or some other place. If he should attack your troops first,[fn] whoever hears about it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the troops who follow Absalom.'

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2Sa 17:11 - “So I advise you: Let all Israel, from Dan to Beersheba—as numerous as the sand on the seashore—be gathered to you, with you yourself leading them into battle.

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2Sa 17:12 - Then we will attack him wherever he may be found, and we will fall on him as dew settles on the ground. Neither he nor any of his men will be left alive.

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2Sa 17:16 - Now send a message at once and tell David, ‘Do not spend the night at the fords in the wilderness; cross over without fail, or the king and all the people with him will be swallowed up.' ”

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2Sa 17:17 - Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En Rogel. A female servant was to go and inform them, and they were to go and tell King David, for they could not risk being seen entering the city.

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2Sa 17:18 - But a young man saw them and told Absalom. So the two of them left at once and went to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.

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2Sa 17:23 - When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his house in order and then hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father's tomb.

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2Sa 17:29 - honey and curds, sheep, and cheese from cows' milk for David and his people to eat. For they said, “The people have become exhausted and hungry and thirsty in the wilderness.”

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2Sa 18:2 - David sent out his troops, a third under the command of Joab, a third under Joab's brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. The king told the troops, “I myself will surely march out with you.”

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2Sa 18:3 - But the men said, “You must not go out; if we are forced to flee, they won't care about us. Even if half of us die, they won't care; but you are worth ten thousand of us.[fn] It would be better now for you to give us support from the city.”

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2Sa 18:4 - The king answered, “I will do whatever seems best to you.” So the king stood beside the gate while all his men marched out in units of hundreds and of thousands.

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2Sa 18:6 - David's army marched out of the city to fight Israel, and the battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.

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2Sa 18:7 - There Israel's troops were routed by David's men, and the casualties that day were great—twenty thousand men.

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2Sa 18:8 - The battle spread out over the whole countryside, and the forest swallowed up more men that day than the sword.

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2Sa 18:9 - Now Absalom happened to meet David's men. He was riding his mule, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom's hair got caught in the tree. He was left hanging in midair, while the mule he was riding kept on going.

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2Sa 18:10 - When one of the men saw what had happened, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree.”

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2Sa 18:12 - But the man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels[fn] were weighed out into my hands, I would not lay a hand on the king's son. In our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.[fn]'

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2Sa 18:13 - And if I had put my life in jeopardy[fn]—and nothing is hidden from the king—you would have kept your distance from me.”

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2Sa 18:14 - Joab said, “I'm not going to wait like this for you.” So he took three javelins in his hand and plunged them into Absalom's heart while Absalom was still alive in the oak tree.

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2Sa 18:16 - Then Joab sounded the trumpet, and the troops stopped pursuing Israel, for Joab halted them.

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2Sa 18:17 - They took Absalom, threw him into a big pit in the forest and piled up a large heap of rocks over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled to their homes.

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2Sa 18:18 - During his lifetime Absalom had taken a pillar and erected it in the King's Valley as a monument to himself, for he thought, “I have no son to carry on the memory of my name.” He named the pillar after himself, and it is called Absalom's Monument to this day.

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2Sa 18:20 - “You are not the one to take the news today,” Joab told him. “You may take the news another time, but you must not do so today, because the king's son is dead.”

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2Sa 18:25 - The watchman called out to the king and reported it. The king said, “If he is alone, he must have good news.” And the runner came closer and closer.

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2Sa 18:28 - Then Ahimaaz called out to the king, “All is well!” He bowed down before the king with his face to the ground and said, “Praise be to the LORD your God! He has delivered up those who lifted their hands against my lord the king.”

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2Sa 18:33 - The king was shaken. He went up to the room over the gateway and wept. As he went, he said: “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you—O Absalom, my son, my son!”[fn]

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2Sa 19:2 - And for the whole army the victory that day was turned into mourning, because on that day the troops heard it said, “The king is grieving for his son.”

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2Sa 19:3 - The men stole into the city that day as men steal in who are ashamed when they flee from battle.

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2Sa 19:6 - You love those who hate you and hate those who love you. You have made it clear today that the commanders and their men mean nothing to you. I see that you would be pleased if Absalom were alive today and all of us were dead.

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2Sa 19:7 - Now go out and encourage your men. I swear by the LORD that if you don't go out, not a man will be left with you by nightfall. This will be worse for you than all the calamities that have come on you from your youth till now.”

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2Sa 19:8 - So the king got up and took his seat in the gateway. When the men were told, “The king is sitting in the gateway,” they all came before him. Meanwhile, the Israelites had fled to their homes.

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2Sa 19:9 - Throughout the tribes of Israel, all the people were arguing among themselves, saying, “The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies; he is the one who rescued us from the hand of the Philistines. But now he has fled the country to escape from Absalom;

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2Sa 19:10 - and Absalom, whom we anointed to rule over us, has died in battle. So why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?”

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2Sa 19:18 - They crossed at the ford to take the king's household over and to do whatever he wished. When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell prostrate before the king

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2Sa 19:19 - and said to him, “May my lord not hold me guilty. Do not remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king put it out of his mind.

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2Sa 19:24 - Mephibosheth, Saul's grandson, also went down to meet the king. He had not taken care of his feet or trimmed his mustache or washed his clothes from the day the king left until the day he returned safely.

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2Sa 19:27 - And he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. My lord the king is like an angel of God; so do whatever you wish.

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2Sa 19:28 - All my grandfather's descendants deserved nothing but death from my lord the king, but you gave your servant a place among those who eat at your table. So what right do I have to make any more appeals to the king?”

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2Sa 19:30 - Mephibosheth said to the king, “Let him take everything, now that my lord the king has returned home safely.”

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2Sa 19:32 - Now Barzillai was very old, eighty years of age. He had provided for the king during his stay in Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.

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2Sa 19:33 - The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me and stay with me in Jerusalem, and I will provide for you.”

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2Sa 19:37 - Let your servant return, that I may die in my own town near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Kimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king. Do for him whatever you wish.”

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2Sa 19:38 - The king said, “Kimham shall cross over with me, and I will do for him whatever you wish. And anything you desire from me I will do for you.”

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2Sa 19:43 - Then the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, “We have ten shares in the king; so we have a greater claim on David than you have. Why then do you treat us with contempt? Weren't we the first to speak of bringing back our king?” But the men of Judah pressed their claims even more forcefully than the men of Israel.

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2Sa 20:1 - Now a troublemaker named Sheba son of Bikri, a Benjamite, happened to be there. He sounded the trumpet and shouted, “We have no share in David, no part in Jesse's son! Every man to his tent, Israel!”

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2Sa 20:3 - When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the palace and put them in a house under guard. He provided for them but had no sexual relations with them. They were kept in confinement till the day of their death, living as widows.

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2Sa 20:8 - While they were at the great rock in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was wearing his military tunic, and strapped over it at his waist was a belt with a dagger in its sheath. As he stepped forward, it dropped out of its sheath.

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2Sa 20:10 - Amasa was not on his guard against the dagger in Joab's hand, and Joab plunged it into his belly, and his intestines spilled out on the ground. Without being stabbed again, Amasa died. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bikri.

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2Sa 20:12 - Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the road, and the man saw that all the troops came to a halt there. When he realized that everyone who came up to Amasa stopped, he dragged him from the road into a field and threw a garment over him.

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2Sa 20:14 - Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel Beth Maakah and through the entire region of the Bikrites,[fn] who gathered together and followed him.

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2Sa 20:15 - All the troops with Joab came and besieged Sheba in Abel Beth Maakah. They built a siege ramp up to the city, and it stood against the outer fortifications. While they were battering the wall to bring it down,

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2Sa 20:18 - She continued, “Long ago they used to say, ‘Get your answer at Abel,' and that settled it.

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2Sa 20:19 - We are the peaceful and faithful in Israel. You are trying to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why do you want to swallow up the LORD's inheritance?”

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2Sa 20:22 - Then the woman went to all the people with her wise advice, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bikri and threw it to Joab. So he sounded the trumpet, and his men dispersed from the city, each returning to his home. And Joab went back to the king in Jerusalem.

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2Sa 21:1 - During the reign of David, there was a famine for three successive years; so David sought the face of the LORD. The LORD said, “It is on account of Saul and his blood-stained house; it is because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

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2Sa 21:2 - The king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not a part of Israel but were survivors of the Amorites; the Israelites had sworn to spare them, but Saul in his zeal for Israel and Judah had tried to annihilate them.)

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2Sa 21:3 - David asked the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? How shall I make atonement so that you will bless the LORD's inheritance?”

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2Sa 21:4 - The Gibeonites answered him, “We have no right to demand silver or gold from Saul or his family, nor do we have the right to put anyone in Israel to death.” “What do you want me to do for you?” David asked.

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2Sa 21:5 - They answered the king, “As for the man who destroyed us and plotted against us so that we have been decimated and have no place anywhere in Israel,

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2Sa 21:6 - let seven of his male descendants be given to us to be killed and their bodies exposed before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul—the LORD's chosen one.” So the king said, “I will give them to you.”

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2Sa 21:9 - He handed them over to the Gibeonites, who killed them and exposed their bodies on a hill before the LORD. All seven of them fell together; they were put to death during the first days of the harvest, just as the barley harvest was beginning.

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2Sa 21:10 - Rizpah daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest till the rain poured down from the heavens on the bodies, she did not let the birds touch them by day or the wild animals by night.

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2Sa 21:12 - he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh Gilead. (They had stolen their bodies from the public square at Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hung them after they struck Saul down on Gilboa.)

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2Sa 21:14 - They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the tomb of Saul's father Kish, at Zela in Benjamin, and did everything the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer in behalf of the land.

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2Sa 21:16 - And Ishbi-Benob, one of the descendants of Rapha, whose bronze spearhead weighed three hundred shekels[fn] and who was armed with a new sword, said he would kill David.

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2Sa 21:18 - In the course of time, there was another battle with the Philistines, at Gob. At that time Sibbekai the Hushathite killed Saph, one of the descendants of Rapha.

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2Sa 21:19 - In another battle with the Philistines at Gob, Elhanan son of Jair[fn] the Bethlehemite killed the brother of[fn] Goliath the Gittite, who had a spear with a shaft like a weaver's rod.

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2Sa 21:20 - In still another battle, which took place at Gath, there was a huge man with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He also was descended from Rapha.

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2Sa 21:22 - These four were descendants of Rapha in Gath, and they fell at the hands of David and his men.

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2Sa 22:1 - David sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

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2Sa 22:7 - “In my distress I called to the LORD; I called out to my God. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came to his ears.

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2Sa 22:9 - Smoke rose from his nostrils; consuming fire came from his mouth, burning coals blazed out of it.

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2Sa 22:12 - He made darkness his canopy around him— the dark[fn] rain clouds of the sky.

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2Sa 22:16 - The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of breath from his nostrils.

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2Sa 22:19 - They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the LORD was my support.

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2Sa 22:20 - He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me.

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2Sa 22:30 - With your help I can advance against a troop[fn]; with my God I can scale a wall.

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2Sa 22:35 - He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

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2Sa 22:50 - Therefore I will praise you, LORD, among the nations; I will sing the praises of your name.

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2Sa 23:2 - “The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me; his word was on my tongue.

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2Sa 23:3 - The God of Israel spoke, the Rock of Israel said to me: ‘When one rules over people in righteousness, when he rules in the fear of God,

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2Sa 23:4 - he is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings grass from the earth.'

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2Sa 23:5 - “If my house were not right with God, surely he would not have made with me an everlasting covenant, arranged and secured in every part; surely he would not bring to fruition my salvation and grant me my every desire.

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2Sa 23:7 - Whoever touches thorns uses a tool of iron or the shaft of a spear; they are burned up where they lie.”

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2Sa 23:9 - Next to him was Eleazar son of Dodai the Ahohite. As one of the three mighty warriors, he was with David when they taunted the Philistines gathered at Pas Dammim[fn] for battle. Then the Israelites retreated,

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2Sa 23:10 - but Eleazar stood his ground and struck down the Philistines till his hand grew tired and froze to the sword. The LORD brought about a great victory that day. The troops returned to Eleazar, but only to strip the dead.

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2Sa 23:12 - But Shammah took his stand in the middle of the field. He defended it and struck the Philistines down, and the LORD brought about a great victory.

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2Sa 23:13 - During harvest time, three of the thirty chief warriors came down to David at the cave of Adullam, while a band of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.

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2Sa 23:14 - At that time David was in the stronghold, and the Philistine garrison was at Bethlehem.

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2Sa 23:15 - David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”

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2Sa 23:16 - So the three mighty warriors broke through the Philistine lines, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem and carried it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out before the LORD.

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2Sa 23:17 - “Far be it from me, LORD, to do this!” he said. “Is it not the blood of men who went at the risk of their lives?” And David would not drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty warriors.

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2Sa 23:18 - Abishai the brother of Joab son of Zeruiah was chief of the Three.[fn] He raised his spear against three hundred men, whom he killed, and so he became as famous as the Three.

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2Sa 23:20 - Benaiah son of Jehoiada, a valiant fighter from Kabzeel, performed great exploits. He struck down Moab's two mightiest warriors. He also went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion.

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2Sa 23:21 - And he struck down a huge Egyptian. Although the Egyptian had a spear in his hand, Benaiah went against him with a club. He snatched the spear from the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear.

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2Sa 23:22 - Such were the exploits of Benaiah son of Jehoiada; he too was as famous as the three mighty warriors.

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2Sa 23:24 - Among the Thirty were: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan son of Dodo from Bethlehem,

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2Sa 24:1 - Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.”

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2Sa 24:3 - But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”

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2Sa 24:5 - After crossing the Jordan, they camped near Aroer, south of the town in the gorge, and then went through Gad and on to Jazer.

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2Sa 24:8 - After they had gone through the entire land, they came back to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

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2Sa 24:13 - So Gad went to David and said to him, “Shall there come on you three[fn] years of famine in your land? Or three months of fleeing from your enemies while they pursue you? Or three days of plague in your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should answer the one who sent me.”

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2Sa 24:14 - David said to Gad, “I am in deep distress. Let us fall into the hands of the LORD, for his mercy is great; but do not let me fall into human hands.”

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2Sa 24:15 - So the LORD sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the end of the time designated, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.

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2Sa 24:16 - When the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was afflicting the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the LORD was then at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

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2Sa 24:17 - When David saw the angel who was striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “I have sinned; I, the shepherd,[fn] have done wrong. These are but sheep. What have they done? Let your hand fall on me and my family.”

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2Sa 24:18 - On that day Gad went to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

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2Sa 24:22 - Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take whatever he wishes and offer it up. Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and here are threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.

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2Sa 24:24 - But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels[fn] of silver for them.

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2Sa 24:25 - David built an altar to the LORD there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then the LORD answered his prayer in behalf of the land, and the plague on Israel was stopped.

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1Ki 1:17 - She said to him, “My lord, you yourself swore to me your servant by the LORD your God: ‘Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne.'

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1Ki 1:30 - I will surely carry out this very day what I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel: Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place.”

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1Ki 1:40 - And all the people went up after him, playing pipes and rejoicing greatly, so that the ground shook with the sound.

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1Ki 1:45 - and Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon. From there they have gone up cheering, and the city resounds with it. That's the noise you hear.

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1Ki 1:51 - Then Solomon was told, “Adonijah is afraid of King Solomon and is clinging to the horns of the altar. He says, ‘Let King Solomon swear to me today that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.' ”

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1Ki 1:52 - Solomon replied, “If he shows himself to be worthy, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground; but if evil is found in him, he will die.”

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1Ki 2:2 - “I am about to go the way of all the earth,” he said. “So be strong, act like a man,

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1Ki 2:3 - and observe what the LORD your God requires: Walk in obedience to him, and keep his decrees and commands, his laws and regulations, as written in the Law of Moses. Do this so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you go

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1Ki 2:4 - and that the LORD may keep his promise to me: ‘If your descendants watch how they live, and if they walk faithfully before me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.'

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1Ki 2:5 - “Now you yourself know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to the two commanders of Israel's armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. He killed them, shedding their blood in peacetime as if in battle, and with that blood he stained the belt around his waist and the sandals on his feet.

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1Ki 2:6 - Deal with him according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray head go down to the grave in peace.

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1Ki 2:7 - “But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai of Gilead and let them be among those who eat at your table. They stood by me when I fled from your brother Absalom.

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1Ki 2:8 - “And remember, you have with you Shimei son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim, who called down bitter curses on me the day I went to Mahanaim. When he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD: ‘I will not put you to death by the sword.'

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1Ki 2:9 - But now, do not consider him innocent. You are a man of wisdom; you will know what to do to him. Bring his gray head down to the grave in blood.”

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1Ki 2:10 - Then David rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David.

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1Ki 2:11 - He had reigned forty years over Israel—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three in Jerusalem.

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1Ki 2:25 - So King Solomon gave orders to Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he struck down Adonijah and he died.

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1Ki 2:26 - To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but I will not put you to death now, because you carried the ark of the Sovereign LORD before my father David and shared all my father's hardships.”

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1Ki 2:27 - So Solomon removed Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD, fulfilling the word the LORD had spoken at Shiloh about the house of Eli.

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1Ki 2:32 - The LORD will repay him for the blood he shed, because without my father David knowing it he attacked two men and killed them with the sword. Both of them—Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel's army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah's army—were better men and more upright than he.

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1Ki 2:34 - So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up and struck down Joab and killed him, and he was buried at his home out in the country.

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1Ki 2:35 - The king put Benaiah son of Jehoiada over the army in Joab's position and replaced Abiathar with Zadok the priest.

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1Ki 2:36 - Then the king sent for Shimei and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and live there, but do not go anywhere else.

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1Ki 2:37 - The day you leave and cross the Kidron Valley, you can be sure you will die; your blood will be on your own head.”

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1Ki 2:38 - Shimei answered the king, “What you say is good. Your servant will do as my lord the king has said.” And Shimei stayed in Jerusalem for a long time.

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1Ki 2:39 - But three years later, two of Shimei's slaves ran off to Achish son of Maakah, king of Gath, and Shimei was told, “Your slaves are in Gath.”

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1Ki 2:42 - the king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by the LORD and warn you, ‘On the day you leave to go anywhere else, you can be sure you will die'? At that time you said to me, ‘What you say is good. I will obey.'

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1Ki 3:3 - Solomon showed his love for the LORD by walking according to the instructions given him by his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

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1Ki 3:4 - The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for that was the most important high place, and Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.

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1Ki 3:5 - At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said, “Ask for whatever you want me to give you.”

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1Ki 3:6 - Solomon answered, “You have shown great kindness to your servant, my father David, because he was faithful to you and righteous and upright in heart. You have continued this great kindness to him and have given him a son to sit on his throne this very day.

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1Ki 3:8 - Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people, too numerous to count or number.

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1Ki 3:9 - So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?”

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1Ki 3:13 - Moreover, I will give you what you have not asked for—both wealth and honor—so that in your lifetime you will have no equal among kings.

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1Ki 3:14 - And if you walk in obedience to me and keep my decrees and commands as David your father did, I will give you a long life.”

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1Ki 3:15 - Then Solomon awoke—and he realized it had been a dream. He returned to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord's covenant and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then he gave a feast for all his court.

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1Ki 3:17 - One of them said, “Pardon me, my lord. This woman and I live in the same house, and I had a baby while she was there with me.

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1Ki 3:18 - The third day after my child was born, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one in the house but the two of us.

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1Ki 3:20 - So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I your servant was asleep. She put him by her breast and put her dead son by my breast.

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1Ki 3:26 - The woman whose son was alive was deeply moved out of love for her son and said to the king, “Please, my lord, give her the living baby! Don't kill him!” But the other said, “Neither I nor you shall have him. Cut him in two!”

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1Ki 3:28 - When all Israel heard the verdict the king had given, they held the king in awe, because they saw that he had wisdom from God to administer justice.

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1Ki 4:7 - Solomon had twelve district governors over all Israel, who supplied provisions for the king and the royal household. Each one had to provide supplies for one month in the year.

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1Ki 4:8 - These are their names: Ben-Hur—in the hill country of Ephraim;

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1Ki 4:9 - Ben-Deker—in Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh and Elon Bethhanan;

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1Ki 4:13 - Ben-Geber—in Ramoth Gilead (the settlements of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead were his, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan and its sixty large walled cities with bronze gate bars);

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1Ki 4:15 - Ahimaaz—in Naphtali (he had married Basemath daughter of Solomon);

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1Ki 4:16 - Baana son of Hushai—in Asher and in Aloth;

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1Ki 4:17 - Jehoshaphat son of Paruah—in Issachar;

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1Ki 4:18 - Shimei son of Ela—in Benjamin;

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1Ki 4:19 - Geber son of Uri—in Gilead (the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and the country of Og king of Bashan). He was the only governor over the district.

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1Ki 4:22 - Solomon's daily provisions were thirty cors[fn] of the finest flour and sixty cors[fn] of meal,

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1Ki 4:33 - He spoke about plant life, from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of walls. He also spoke about animals and birds, reptiles and fish.

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1Ki 4:34 - From all nations people came to listen to Solomon's wisdom, sent by all the kings of the world, who had heard of his wisdom.[fn]

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1Ki 5:14 - He sent them off to Lebanon in shifts of ten thousand a month, so that they spent one month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.

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1Ki 5:15 - Solomon had seventy thousand carriers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hills,

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1Ki 6:1 - In the four hundred and eightieth[fn] year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the temple of the LORD.

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1Ki 6:2 - The temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high.[fn]

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1Ki 6:3 - The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple extended the width of the temple, that is twenty cubits,[fn] and projected ten cubits[fn] from the front of the temple.

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1Ki 6:6 - The lowest floor was five cubits[fn] wide, the middle floor six cubits[fn] and the third floor seven.[fn] He made offset ledges around the outside of the temple so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls.

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1Ki 6:7 - In building the temple, only blocks dressed at the quarry were used, and no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool was heard at the temple site while it was being built.

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1Ki 6:10 - And he built the side rooms all along the temple. The height of each was five cubits, and they were attached to the temple by beams of cedar.

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1Ki 6:15 - He lined its interior walls with cedar boards, paneling them from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and covered the floor of the temple with planks of juniper.

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1Ki 6:19 - He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.

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1Ki 6:23 - For the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim out of olive wood, each ten cubits high.

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1Ki 6:24 - One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing five cubits—ten cubits from wing tip to wing tip.

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1Ki 6:25 - The second cherub also measured ten cubits, for the two cherubim were identical in size and shape.

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1Ki 6:26 - The height of each cherub was ten cubits.

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1Ki 6:27 - He placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple, with their wings spread out. The wing of one cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the other touched the other wall, and their wings touched each other in the middle of the room.

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1Ki 6:34 - He also made two doors out of juniper wood, each having two leaves that turned in sockets.

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1Ki 7:6 - He made a colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty wide.[fn] In front of it was a portico, and in front of that were pillars and an overhanging roof.

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1Ki 7:8 - And the palace in which he was to live, set farther back, was similar in design. Solomon also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had married.

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1Ki 7:10 - The foundations were laid with large stones of good quality, some measuring ten cubits[fn] and some eight.[fn]

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1Ki 7:14 - whose mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali and whose father was from Tyre and a skilled craftsman in bronze. Huram was filled with wisdom, with understanding and with knowledge to do all kinds of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and did all the work assigned to him.

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1Ki 7:23 - He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits[fn] to measure around it.

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1Ki 7:24 - Below the rim, gourds encircled it—ten to a cubit. The gourds were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.

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1Ki 7:27 - He also made ten movable stands of bronze; each was four cubits long, four wide and three high.[fn]

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1Ki 7:32 - The four wheels were under the panels, and the axles of the wheels were attached to the stand. The diameter of each wheel was a cubit and a half.

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1Ki 7:40 - He also made the pots[fn] and shovels and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished all the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of the LORD:

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1Ki 7:46 - The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan.

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1Ki 7:48 - Solomon also made all the furnishings that were in the LORD's temple: the golden altar; the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence;

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1Ki 8:1 - Then King Solomon summoned into his presence at Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the LORD's covenant from Zion, the City of David.

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1Ki 8:2 - All the Israelites came together to King Solomon at the time of the festival in the month of Ethanim, the seventh month.

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1Ki 8:4 - and they brought up the ark of the LORD and the tent of meeting and all the sacred furnishings in it. The priests and Levites carried them up,

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1Ki 8:9 - There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.

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1Ki 8:15 - Then he said: “Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who with his own hand has fulfilled what he promised with his own mouth to my father David. For he said,

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1Ki 8:16 - ‘Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city in any tribe of Israel to have a temple built so that my Name might be there, but I have chosen David to rule my people Israel.'

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1Ki 8:21 - I have provided a place there for the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD that he made with our ancestors when he brought them out of Egypt.”

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1Ki 8:23 - and said: “LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above or on earth below—you who keep your covenant of love with your servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way.

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1Ki 8:24 - You have kept your promise to your servant David my father; with your mouth you have promised and with your hand you have fulfilled it—as it is today.

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1Ki 8:30 - Hear the supplication of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven, your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.

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1Ki 8:31 - “When anyone wrongs their neighbor and is required to take an oath and they come and swear the oath before your altar in this temple,

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1Ki 8:33 - “When your people Israel have been defeated by an enemy because they have sinned against you, and when they turn back to you and give praise to your name, praying and making supplication to you in this temple,

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1Ki 8:35 - “When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and when they pray toward this place and give praise to your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them,

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1Ki 8:36 - then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them the right way to live, and send rain on the land you gave your people for an inheritance.

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1Ki 8:37 - “When famine or plague comes to the land, or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or when an enemy besieges them in any of their cities, whatever disaster or disease may come,

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1Ki 8:44 - “When your people go to war against their enemies, wherever you send them, and when they pray to the LORD toward the city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name,

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1Ki 8:47 - and if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors and say, ‘We have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly';

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1Ki 8:48 - and if they turn back to you with all their heart and soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and pray to you toward the land you gave their ancestors, toward the city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name;

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1Ki 8:52 - “May your eyes be open to your servant's plea and to the plea of your people Israel, and may you listen to them whenever they cry out to you.

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1Ki 8:53 - For you singled them out from all the nations of the world to be your own inheritance, just as you declared through your servant Moses when you, Sovereign LORD, brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

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1Ki 8:56 - “Praise be to the LORD, who has given rest to his people Israel just as he promised. Not one word has failed of all the good promises he gave through his servant Moses.

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1Ki 8:58 - May he turn our hearts to him, to walk in obedience to him and keep the commands, decrees and laws he gave our ancestors.

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1Ki 8:59 - And may these words of mine, which I have prayed before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, that he may uphold the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel according to each day's need,

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1Ki 8:61 - And may your hearts be fully committed to the LORD our God, to live by his decrees and obey his commands, as at this time.”

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1Ki 8:65 - So Solomon observed the festival at that time, and all Israel with him—a vast assembly, people from Lebo Hamath to the Wadi of Egypt. They celebrated it before the LORD our God for seven days and seven days more, fourteen days in all.

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1Ki 8:66 - On the following day he sent the people away. They blessed the king and then went home, joyful and glad in heart for all the good things the LORD had done for his servant David and his people Israel.

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1Ki 9:2 - the LORD appeared to him a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

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1Ki 9:4 - “As for you, if you walk before me faithfully with integrity of heart and uprightness, as David your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws,

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1Ki 9:5 - I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.'

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1Ki 9:10 - At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built these two buildings—the temple of the LORD and the royal palace—

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1Ki 9:11 - King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had supplied him with all the cedar and juniper and gold he wanted.

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1Ki 9:15 - Here is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted to build the LORD's temple, his own palace, the terraces,[fn] the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer.

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1Ki 9:20 - There were still people left from the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these peoples were not Israelites).

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1Ki 9:24 - After Pharaoh's daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace Solomon had built for her, he constructed the terraces.

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1Ki 9:26 - King Solomon also built ships at Ezion Geber, which is near Elath in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.[fn]

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1Ki 9:27 - And Hiram sent his men—sailors who knew the sea—to serve in the fleet with Solomon's men.

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1Ki 10:1 - When the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon and his relationship to the LORD, she came to test Solomon with hard questions.

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1Ki 10:2 - Arriving at Jerusalem with a very great caravan—with camels carrying spices, large quantities of gold, and precious stones—she came to Solomon and talked with him about all that she had on her mind.

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1Ki 10:5 - the food on his table, the seating of his officials, the attending servants in their robes, his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he made at[fn] the temple of the LORD, she was overwhelmed.

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1Ki 10:6 - She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your achievements and your wisdom is true.

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1Ki 10:7 - But I did not believe these things until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half was told me; in wisdom and wealth you have far exceeded the report I heard.

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1Ki 10:9 - Praise be to the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD's eternal love for Israel, he has made you king to maintain justice and righteousness.”

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1Ki 10:14 - The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents,[fn]

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1Ki 10:21 - All King Solomon's goblets were gold, and all the household articles in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. Nothing was made of silver, because silver was considered of little value in Solomon's days.

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1Ki 10:22 - The king had a fleet of trading ships[fn] at sea along with the ships of Hiram. Once every three years it returned, carrying gold, silver and ivory, and apes and baboons.

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1Ki 10:24 - The whole world sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart.

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1Ki 10:26 - Solomon accumulated chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses,[fn] which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.

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1Ki 10:27 - The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the foothills.

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1Ki 10:28 - Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue[fn]—the royal merchants purchased them from Kue at the current price.

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1Ki 11:4 - As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been.

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1Ki 11:12 - Nevertheless, for the sake of David your father, I will not do it during your lifetime. I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

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1Ki 11:14 - Then the LORD raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom.

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1Ki 11:15 - Earlier when David was fighting with Edom, Joab the commander of the army, who had gone up to bury the dead, had struck down all the men in Edom.

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1Ki 11:16 - Joab and all the Israelites stayed there for six months, until they had destroyed all the men in Edom.

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1Ki 11:20 - The sister of Tahpenes bore him a son named Genubath, whom Tahpenes brought up in the royal palace. There Genubath lived with Pharaoh's own children.

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1Ki 11:21 - While he was in Egypt, Hadad heard that David rested with his ancestors and that Joab the commander of the army was also dead. Then Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me go, that I may return to my own country.”

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1Ki 11:25 - Rezon was Israel's adversary as long as Solomon lived, adding to the trouble caused by Hadad. So Rezon ruled in Aram and was hostile toward Israel.

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1Ki 11:29 - About that time Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, and Ahijah the prophet of Shiloh met him on the way, wearing a new cloak. The two of them were alone out in the country,

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1Ki 11:32 - But for the sake of my servant David and the city of Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, he will have one tribe.

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1Ki 11:33 - I will do this because they have[fn] forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Molek the god of the Ammonites, and have not walked in obedience to me, nor done what is right in my eyes, nor kept my decrees and laws as David, Solomon's father, did.

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1Ki 11:36 - I will give one tribe to his son so that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put my Name.

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1Ki 11:37 - However, as for you, I will take you, and you will rule over all that your heart desires; you will be king over Israel.

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1Ki 11:38 - If you do whatever I command you and walk in obedience to me and do what is right in my eyes by obeying my decrees and commands, as David my servant did, I will be with you. I will build you a dynasty as enduring as the one I built for David and will give Israel to you.

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1Ki 11:40 - Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam fled to Egypt, to Shishak the king, and stayed there until Solomon's death.

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1Ki 11:41 - As for the other events of Solomon's reign—all he did and the wisdom he displayed—are they not written in the book of the annals of Solomon?

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1Ki 11:42 - Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

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1Ki 11:43 - Then he rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son succeeded him as king.

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1Ki 12:7 - They replied, “If today you will be a servant to these people and serve them and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your servants.”

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1Ki 12:11 - My father laid on you a heavy yoke; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.' ”

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1Ki 12:12 - Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, “Come back to me in three days.”

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1Ki 12:14 - he followed the advice of the young men and said, “My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.”

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1Ki 12:15 - So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word the LORD had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.

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1Ki 12:16 - When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What share do we have in David, what part in Jesse's son? To your tents, Israel! Look after your own house, David!” So the Israelites went home.

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1Ki 12:18 - King Rehoboam sent out Adoniram,[fn] who was in charge of forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam, however, managed to get into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem.

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1Ki 12:25 - Then Jeroboam fortified Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. From there he went out and built up Peniel.[fn]

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1Ki 12:26 - Jeroboam thought to himself, “The kingdom will now likely revert to the house of David.

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1Ki 12:27 - If these people go up to offer sacrifices at the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem, they will again give their allegiance to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah. They will kill me and return to King Rehoboam.”

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1Ki 12:29 - One he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan.

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1Ki 12:32 - He instituted a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival held in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. This he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves he had made. And at Bethel he also installed priests at the high places he had made.

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1Ki 12:33 - On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, he offered sacrifices on the altar he had built at Bethel. So he instituted the festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to make offerings.

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1Ki 13:1 - By the word of the LORD a man of God came from Judah to Bethel, as Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make an offering.

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1Ki 13:2 - By the word of the LORD he cried out against the altar: “Altar, altar! This is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who make offerings here, and human bones will be burned on you.' ”

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1Ki 13:3 - That same day the man of God gave a sign: “This is the sign the LORD has declared: The altar will be split apart and the ashes on it will be poured out.”

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1Ki 13:4 - When King Jeroboam heard what the man of God cried out against the altar at Bethel, he stretched out his hand from the altar and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward the man shriveled up, so that he could not pull it back.

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1Ki 13:5 - Also, the altar was split apart and its ashes poured out according to the sign given by the man of God by the word of the LORD.

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1Ki 13:8 - But the man of God answered the king, “Even if you were to give me half your possessions, I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water here.

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1Ki 13:9 - For I was commanded by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.' ”

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1Ki 13:10 - So he took another road and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel.

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1Ki 13:11 - Now there was a certain old prophet living in Bethel, whose sons came and told him all that the man of God had done there that day. They also told their father what he had said to the king.

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1Ki 13:12 - Their father asked them, “Which way did he go?” And his sons showed him which road the man of God from Judah had taken.

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1Ki 13:16 - The man of God said, “I cannot turn back and go with you, nor can I eat bread or drink water with you in this place.

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1Ki 13:17 - I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.' ”

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1Ki 13:18 - The old prophet answered, “I too am a prophet, as you are. And an angel said to me by the word of the LORD: ‘Bring him back with you to your house so that he may eat bread and drink water.' ” (But he was lying to him.)

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1Ki 13:19 - So the man of God returned with him and ate and drank in his house.

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1Ki 13:22 - You came back and ate bread and drank water in the place where he told you not to eat or drink. Therefore your body will not be buried in the tomb of your ancestors.' ”

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1Ki 13:24 - As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying on the road, with both the donkey and the lion standing beside it.

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1Ki 13:25 - Some people who passed by saw the body lying there, with the lion standing beside the body, and they went and reported it in the city where the old prophet lived.

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1Ki 13:28 - Then he went out and found the body lying on the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. The lion had neither eaten the body nor mauled the donkey.

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1Ki 13:30 - Then he laid the body in his own tomb, and they mourned over him and said, “Alas, my brother!”

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1Ki 13:31 - After burying him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.

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1Ki 13:32 - For the message he declared by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the towns of Samaria will certainly come true.”

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1Ki 14:21 - Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name. His mother's name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite.

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1Ki 14:22 - Judah did evil in the eyes of the LORD. By the sins they committed they stirred up his jealous anger more than those who were before them had done.

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1Ki 14:24 - There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

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1Ki 14:25 - In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

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1Ki 14:29 - As for the other events of Rehoboam's reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

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1Ki 14:31 - And Rehoboam rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David. His mother's name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite. And Abijah[fn] his son succeeded him as king.

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1Ki 15:1 - In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijah[fn] became king of Judah,

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1Ki 15:3 - He committed all the sins his father had done before him; his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his forefather had been.

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1Ki 15:8 - And Abijah rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. And Asa his son succeeded him as king.

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1Ki 15:9 - In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa became king of Judah,

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1Ki 15:10 - and he reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years. His grandmother's name was Maakah daughter of Abishalom.

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1Ki 15:13 - He even deposed his grandmother Maakah from her position as queen mother, because she had made a repulsive image for the worship of Asherah. Asa cut it down and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

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1Ki 15:18 - Asa then took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the LORD's temple and of his own palace. He entrusted it to his officials and sent them to Ben-Hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, the king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus.

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1Ki 15:22 - Then King Asa issued an order to all Judah—no one was exempt—and they carried away from Ramah the stones and timber Baasha had been using there. With them King Asa built up Geba in Benjamin, and also Mizpah.

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1Ki 15:23 - As for all the other events of Asa's reign, all his achievements, all he did and the cities he built, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? In his old age, however, his feet became diseased.

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1Ki 15:24 - Then Asa rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the city of his father David. And Jehoshaphat his son succeeded him as king.

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1Ki 15:25 - Nadab son of Jeroboam became king of Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years.

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1Ki 15:26 - He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, following the ways of his father and committing the same sin his father had caused Israel to commit.

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1Ki 15:27 - Baasha son of Ahijah from the tribe of Issachar plotted against him, and he struck him down at Gibbethon, a Philistine town, while Nadab and all Israel were besieging it.

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1Ki 15:28 - Baasha killed Nadab in the third year of Asa king of Judah and succeeded him as king.

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1Ki 15:29 - As soon as he began to reign, he killed Jeroboam's whole family. He did not leave Jeroboam anyone that breathed, but destroyed them all, according to the word of the LORD given through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.

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1Ki 15:30 - This happened because of the sins Jeroboam had committed and had caused Israel to commit, and because he aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel.

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1Ki 15:31 - As for the other events of Nadab's reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?

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1Ki 15:33 - In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king of all Israel in Tirzah, and he reigned twenty-four years.

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1Ki 15:34 - He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, following the ways of Jeroboam and committing the same sin Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.

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1Ki 16:1 - Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu son of Hanani concerning Baasha:

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1Ki 16:2 - “I lifted you up from the dust and appointed you ruler over my people Israel, but you followed the ways of Jeroboam and caused my people Israel to sin and to arouse my anger by their sins.

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1Ki 16:4 - Dogs will eat those belonging to Baasha who die in the city, and birds will feed on those who die in the country.”

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1Ki 16:5 - As for the other events of Baasha's reign, what he did and his achievements, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?

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1Ki 16:6 - Baasha rested with his ancestors and was buried in Tirzah. And Elah his son succeeded him as king.

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1Ki 16:7 - Moreover, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani to Baasha and his house, because of all the evil he had done in the eyes of the LORD, arousing his anger by the things he did, becoming like the house of Jeroboam—and also because he destroyed it.

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1Ki 16:8 - In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah son of Baasha became king of Israel, and he reigned in Tirzah two years.

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1Ki 16:9 - Zimri, one of his officials, who had command of half his chariots, plotted against him. Elah was in Tirzah at the time, getting drunk in the home of Arza, the palace administrator at Tirzah.

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1Ki 16:11 - As soon as he began to reign and was seated on the throne, he killed off Baasha's whole family. He did not spare a single male, whether relative or friend.

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1Ki 16:13 - because of all the sins Baasha and his son Elah had committed and had caused Israel to commit, so that they aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, by their worthless idols.

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1Ki 16:14 - As for the other events of Elah's reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?

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1Ki 16:15 - In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned in Tirzah seven days. The army was encamped near Gibbethon, a Philistine town.

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1Ki 16:16 - When the Israelites in the camp heard that Zimri had plotted against the king and murdered him, they proclaimed Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that very day there in the camp.

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1Ki 16:18 - When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the royal palace and set the palace on fire around him. So he died,

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1Ki 16:19 - because of the sins he had committed, doing evil in the eyes of the LORD and following the ways of Jeroboam and committing the same sin Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.

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1Ki 16:20 - As for the other events of Zimri's reign, and the rebellion he carried out, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?

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1Ki 16:22 - But Omri's followers proved stronger than those of Tibni son of Ginath. So Tibni died and Omri became king.

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1Ki 16:23 - In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned twelve years, six of them in Tirzah.

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1Ki 16:26 - He followed completely the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat, committing the same sin Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit, so that they aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, by their worthless idols.

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1Ki 16:27 - As for the other events of Omri's reign, what he did and the things he achieved, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?

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1Ki 16:28 - Omri rested with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria. And Ahab his son succeeded him as king.

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1Ki 16:29 - In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria over Israel twenty-two years.

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1Ki 16:31 - He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him.

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1Ki 16:32 - He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he built in Samaria.

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1Ki 16:34 - In Ahab's time, Hiel of Bethel rebuilt Jericho. He laid its foundations at the cost of his firstborn son Abiram, and he set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, in accordance with the word of the LORD spoken by Joshua son of Nun.

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1Ki 17:3 - “Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan.

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1Ki 17:5 - So he did what the LORD had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there.

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1Ki 17:11 - As she was going to get it, he called, “And bring me, please, a piece of bread.”

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1Ki 17:12 - “As surely as the LORD your God lives,” she replied, “I don't have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die.”

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1Ki 17:13 - Elijah said to her, “Don't be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son.

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1Ki 17:16 - For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the LORD spoken by Elijah.

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1Ki 17:17 - Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse, and finally stopped breathing.

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1Ki 17:19 - “Give me your son,” Elijah replied. He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed.

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1Ki 17:24 - Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD from your mouth is the truth.”

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1Ki 18:1 - After a long time, in the third year, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the land.”

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1Ki 18:2 - So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria,

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1Ki 18:4 - While Jezebel was killing off the LORD's prophets, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them in two caves, fifty in each, and had supplied them with food and water.)

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1Ki 18:6 - So they divided the land they were to cover, Ahab going in one direction and Obadiah in another.

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1Ki 18:7 - As Obadiah was walking along, Elijah met him. Obadiah recognized him, bowed down to the ground, and said, “Is it really you, my lord Elijah?”

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1Ki 18:13 - Haven't you heard, my lord, what I did while Jezebel was killing the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred of the LORD's prophets in two caves, fifty in each, and supplied them with food and water.

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1Ki 18:18 - “I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you and your father's family have. You have abandoned the LORD's commands and have followed the Baals.

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1Ki 18:24 - Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD. The god who answers by fire—he is God.” Then all the people said, “What you say is good.”

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1Ki 18:25 - Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one of the bulls and prepare it first, since there are so many of you. Call on the name of your god, but do not light the fire.”

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1Ki 18:26 - So they took the bull given them and prepared it. Then they called on the name of Baal from morning till noon. “Baal, answer us!” they shouted. But there was no response; no one answered. And they danced around the altar they had made.

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1Ki 18:27 - At noon Elijah began to taunt them. “Shout louder!” he said. “Surely he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or busy, or traveling. Maybe he is sleeping and must be awakened.”

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1Ki 18:28 - So they shouted louder and slashed themselves with swords and spears, as was their custom, until their blood flowed.

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1Ki 18:32 - With the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD, and he dug a trench around it large enough to hold two seahs[fn] of seed.

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1Ki 18:36 - At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: “LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command.

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1Ki 18:37 - Answer me, LORD, answer me, so these people will know that you, LORD, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again.”

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1Ki 18:38 - Then the fire of the LORD fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.

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1Ki 18:44 - The seventh time the servant reported, “A cloud as small as a man's hand is rising from the sea.” So Elijah said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.' ”

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1Ki 19:1 - Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

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1Ki 19:4 - while he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.”

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1Ki 19:8 - So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

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1Ki 19:10 - He replied, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”

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1Ki 19:11 - The LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.

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1Ki 19:12 - After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.

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1Ki 19:13 - When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

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1Ki 19:14 - He replied, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”

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1Ki 19:18 - Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”

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1Ki 19:19 - So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him.

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1Ki 19:21 - So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and slaughtered them. He burned the plowing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became his servant.

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1Ki 20:9 - So he replied to Ben-Hadad's messengers, “Tell my lord the king, ‘Your servant will do all you demanded the first time, but this demand I cannot meet.' ” They left and took the answer back to Ben-Hadad.

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1Ki 20:12 - Ben-Hadad heard this message while he and the kings were drinking in their tents,[fn] and he ordered his men: “Prepare to attack.” So they prepared to attack the city.

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1Ki 20:14 - “But who will do this?” asked Ahab. The prophet replied, “This is what the LORD says: ‘The junior officers under the provincial commanders will do it.' ” “And who will start the battle?” he asked. The prophet answered, “You will.”

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1Ki 20:16 - They set out at noon while Ben-Hadad and the 32 kings allied with him were in their tents getting drunk.

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1Ki 20:17 - The junior officers under the provincial commanders went out first. Now Ben-Hadad had dispatched scouts, who reported, “Men are advancing from Samaria.”

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1Ki 20:21 - The king of Israel advanced and overpowered the horses and chariots and inflicted heavy losses on the Arameans.

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1Ki 20:29 - For seven days they camped opposite each other, and on the seventh day the battle was joined. The Israelites inflicted a hundred thousand casualties on the Aramean foot soldiers in one day.

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1Ki 20:34 - “I will return the cities my father took from your father,” Ben-Hadad offered. “You may set up your own market areas in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” Ahab said, “On the basis of a treaty I will set you free.” So he made a treaty with him, and let him go.

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1Ki 20:35 - By the word of the LORD one of the company of the prophets said to his companion, “Strike me with your weapon,” but he refused.

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1Ki 21:9 - In those letters she wrote: “Proclaim a day of fasting and seat Naboth in a prominent place among the people.

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1Ki 21:11 - So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth's city did as Jezebel directed in the letters she had written to them.

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1Ki 21:12 - They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth in a prominent place among the people.

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1Ki 21:18 - “Go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who rules in Samaria. He is now in Naboth's vineyard, where he has gone to take possession of it.

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1Ki 21:19 - Say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Have you not murdered a man and seized his property?' Then say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: In the place where dogs licked up Naboth's blood, dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!' ”

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1Ki 21:21 - He says, ‘I am going to bring disaster on you. I will wipe out your descendants and cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel—slave or free.[fn]

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1Ki 21:23 - “And also concerning Jezebel the LORD says: ‘Dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of[fn] Jezreel.'

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1Ki 21:24 - “Dogs will eat those belonging to Ahab who die in the city, and the birds will feed on those who die in the country.”

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1Ki 21:27 - When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted. He lay in sackcloth and went around meekly.

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1Ki 21:28 - Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite:

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1Ki 21:29 - “Have you noticed how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself, I will not bring this disaster in his day, but I will bring it on his house in the days of his son.”

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1Ki 22:2 - But in the third year Jehoshaphat king of Judah went down to see the king of Israel.

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1Ki 22:10 - Dressed in their royal robes, the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting on their thrones at the threshing floor by the entrance of the gate of Samaria, with all the prophets prophesying before them.

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1Ki 22:11 - Now Zedekiah son of Kenaanah had made iron horns and he declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you will gore the Arameans until they are destroyed.' ”

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1Ki 22:13 - The messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the other prophets without exception are predicting success for the king. Let your word agree with theirs, and speak favorably.”

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1Ki 22:16 - The king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear to tell me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?”

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1Ki 22:17 - Then Micaiah answered, “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd, and the LORD said, ‘These people have no master. Let each one go home in peace.' ”

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1Ki 22:20 - And the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab into attacking Ramoth Gilead and going to his death there?' “One suggested this, and another that.

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1Ki 22:21 - Finally, a spirit came forward, stood before the LORD and said, ‘I will entice him.'

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1Ki 22:22 - “ ‘By what means?' the LORD asked. “ ‘I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,' he said. “ ‘You will succeed in enticing him,' said the LORD. ‘Go and do it.'

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1Ki 22:23 - “So now the LORD has put a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours. The LORD has decreed disaster for you.”

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1Ki 22:24 - Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah went up and slapped Micaiah in the face. “Which way did the spirit from[fn] the LORD go when he went from me to speak to you?” he asked.

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1Ki 22:25 - Micaiah replied, “You will find out on the day you go to hide in an inner room.”

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1Ki 22:27 - and say, ‘This is what the king says: Put this fellow in prison and give him nothing but bread and water until I return safely.' ”

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1Ki 22:28 - Micaiah declared, “If you ever return safely, the LORD has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Mark my words, all you people!”

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1Ki 22:35 - All day long the battle raged, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans. The blood from his wound ran onto the floor of the chariot, and that evening he died.

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1Ki 22:37 - So the king died and was brought to Samaria, and they buried him there.

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1Ki 22:38 - They washed the chariot at a pool in Samaria (where the prostitutes bathed),[fn] and the dogs licked up his blood, as the word of the LORD had declared.

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1Ki 22:39 - As for the other events of Ahab's reign, including all he did, the palace he built and adorned with ivory, and the cities he fortified, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?

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1Ki 22:42 - Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. His mother's name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.

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1Ki 22:43 - In everything he followed the ways of his father Asa and did not stray from them; he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. The high places, however, were not removed, and the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.[fn]

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1Ki 22:45 - As for the other events of Jehoshaphat's reign, the things he achieved and his military exploits, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

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1Ki 22:50 - Then Jehoshaphat rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the city of David his father. And Jehoram his son succeeded him as king.

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1Ki 22:51 - Ahaziah son of Ahab became king of Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years.

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1Ki 22:52 - He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, because he followed the ways of his father and mother and of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.

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2Ki 1:1 - After Ahab's death, Moab rebelled against Israel.

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2Ki 1:2 - Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers, saying to them, “Go and consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, to see if I will recover from this injury.”

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2Ki 1:3 - But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going off to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?'

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2Ki 1:6 - “A man came to meet us,” they replied. “And he said to us, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, “This is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending messengers to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!” ' ”

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2Ki 1:13 - So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. “Man of God,” he begged, “please have respect for my life and the lives of these fifty men, your servants!

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2Ki 1:14 - See, fire has fallen from heaven and consumed the first two captains and all their men. But now have respect for my life!”

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2Ki 1:16 - He told the king, “This is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel for you to consult that you have sent messengers to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Because you have done this, you will never leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!”

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2Ki 1:18 - As for all the other events of Ahaziah's reign, and what he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?

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2Ki 2:1 - When the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal.

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2Ki 2:3 - The company of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and asked, “Do you know that the LORD is going to take your master from you today?” “Yes, I know,” Elisha replied, “so be quiet.”

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2Ki 2:5 - The company of the prophets at Jericho went up to Elisha and asked him, “Do you know that the LORD is going to take your master from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied, “so be quiet.”

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2Ki 2:8 - Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up and struck the water with it. The water divided to the right and to the left, and the two of them crossed over on dry ground.

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2Ki 2:9 - When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?” “Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” Elisha replied.

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2Ki 2:11 - As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.

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2Ki 2:15 - The company of the prophets from Jericho, who were watching, said, “The spirit of Elijah is resting on Elisha.” And they went to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.

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2Ki 2:16 - “Look,” they said, “we your servants have fifty able men. Let them go and look for your master. Perhaps the Spirit of the LORD has picked him up and set him down on some mountain or in some valley.” “No,” Elisha replied, “do not send them.”

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2Ki 2:18 - When they returned to Elisha, who was staying in Jericho, he said to them, “Didn't I tell you not to go?”

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2Ki 2:23 - From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. “Get out of here, baldy!” they said. “Get out of here, baldy!”

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2Ki 2:24 - He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.

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2Ki 3:1 - Joram[fn] son of Ahab became king of Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned twelve years.

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2Ki 3:2 - He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father and mother had done. He got rid of the sacred stone of Baal that his father had made.

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2Ki 3:3 - Nevertheless he clung to the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit; he did not turn away from them.

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2Ki 3:4 - Now Mesha king of Moab raised sheep, and he had to pay the king of Israel a tribute of a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.

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2Ki 3:5 - But after Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

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2Ki 3:6 - So at that time King Joram set out from Samaria and mobilized all Israel.

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2Ki 3:7 - He also sent this message to Jehoshaphat king of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to fight against Moab?” “I will go with you,” he replied. “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”

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2Ki 3:9 - So the king of Israel set out with the king of Judah and the king of Edom. After a roundabout march of seven days, the army had no more water for themselves or for the animals with them.

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2Ki 3:10 - “What!” exclaimed the king of Israel. “Has the LORD called us three kings together only to deliver us into the hands of Moab?”

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2Ki 3:18 - This is an easy thing in the eyes of the LORD; he will also deliver Moab into your hands.

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2Ki 3:19 - You will overthrow every fortified city and every major town. You will cut down every good tree, stop up all the springs, and ruin every good field with stones.”

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2Ki 4:2 - Elisha replied to her, “How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?” “Your servant has nothing there at all,” she said, “except a small jar of olive oil.”

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2Ki 4:7 - She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left.”

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2Ki 4:10 - Let's make a small room on the roof and put in it a bed and a table, a chair and a lamp for him. Then he can stay there whenever he comes to us.”

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2Ki 4:13 - Elisha said to him, “Tell her, ‘You have gone to all this trouble for us. Now what can be done for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?' ” She replied, “I have a home among my own people.”

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2Ki 4:17 - But the woman became pregnant, and the next year about that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.

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2Ki 4:29 - Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand and run. Don't greet anyone you meet, and if anyone greets you, do not answer. Lay my staff on the boy's face.”

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2Ki 4:35 - Elisha turned away and walked back and forth in the room and then got on the bed and stretched out on him once more. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

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2Ki 4:38 - Elisha returned to Gilgal and there was a famine in that region. While the company of the prophets was meeting with him, he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot and cook some stew for these prophets.”

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2Ki 4:39 - One of them went out into the fields to gather herbs and found a wild vine and picked as many of its gourds as his garment could hold. When he returned, he cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.

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2Ki 4:40 - The stew was poured out for the men, but as they began to eat it, they cried out, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.

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2Ki 4:41 - Elisha said, “Get some flour.” He put it into the pot and said, “Serve it to the people to eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.

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2Ki 5:1 - Now Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy.[fn]

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2Ki 5:3 - She said to her mistress, “If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.”

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2Ki 5:5 - “By all means, go,” the king of Aram replied. “I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman left, taking with him ten talents[fn] of silver, six thousand shekels[fn] of gold and ten sets of clothing.

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2Ki 5:8 - When Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his robes, he sent him this message: “Why have you torn your robes? Have the man come to me and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.”

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2Ki 5:9 - So Naaman went with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elisha's house.

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2Ki 5:10 - Elisha sent a messenger to say to him, “Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.”

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2Ki 5:11 - But Naaman went away angry and said, “I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy.

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2Ki 5:12 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn't I wash in them and be cleansed?” So he turned and went off in a rage.

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2Ki 5:14 - So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy.

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2Ki 5:15 - Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God. He stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the world except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.”

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2Ki 5:18 - But may the LORD forgive your servant for this one thing: When my master enters the temple of Rimmon to bow down and he is leaning on my arm and I have to bow there also—when I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the LORD forgive your servant for this.”

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2Ki 5:23 - “By all means, take two talents,” said Naaman. He urged Gehazi to accept them, and then tied up the two talents of silver in two bags, with two sets of clothing. He gave them to two of his servants, and they carried them ahead of Gehazi.

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2Ki 5:24 - When Gehazi came to the hill, he took the things from the servants and put them away in the house. He sent the men away and they left.

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2Ki 5:26 - But Elisha said to him, “Was not my spirit with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to take money or to accept clothes—or olive groves and vineyards, or flocks and herds, or male and female slaves?

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2Ki 5:27 - Naaman's leprosy will cling to you and to your descendants forever.” Then Gehazi went from Elisha's presence and his skin was leprous—it had become as white as snow.

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2Ki 6:1 - The company of the prophets said to Elisha, “Look, the place where we meet with you is too small for us.

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2Ki 6:8 - Now the king of Aram was at war with Israel. After conferring with his officers, he said, “I will set up my camp in such and such a place.”

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2Ki 6:9 - The man of God sent word to the king of Israel: “Beware of passing that place, because the Arameans are going down there.”

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2Ki 6:12 - “None of us, my lord the king,” said one of his officers, “but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”

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2Ki 6:13 - “Go, find out where he is,” the king ordered, “so I can send men and capture him.” The report came back: “He is in Dothan.”

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2Ki 6:20 - After they entered the city, Elisha said, “LORD, open the eyes of these men so they can see.” Then the LORD opened their eyes and they looked, and there they were, inside Samaria.

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2Ki 6:22 - “Do not kill them,” he answered. “Would you kill those you have captured with your own sword or bow? Set food and water before them so that they may eat and drink and then go back to their master.”

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2Ki 6:25 - There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey's head sold for eighty shekels[fn] of silver, and a quarter of a cab[fn] of seed pods[fn] for five shekels.[fn]

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2Ki 6:32 - Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Don't you see how this murderer is sending someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold it shut against him. Is not the sound of his master's footsteps behind him?”

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2Ki 7:1 - Elisha replied, “Hear the word of the LORD. This is what the LORD says: About this time tomorrow, a seah[fn] of the finest flour will sell for a shekel[fn] and two seahs[fn] of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.”

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2Ki 7:2 - The officer on whose arm the king was leaning said to the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” answered Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it!”

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2Ki 7:4 - If we say, ‘We'll go into the city'—the famine is there, and we will die. And if we stay here, we will die. So let's go over to the camp of the Arameans and surrender. If they spare us, we live; if they kill us, then we die.”

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2Ki 7:5 - At dusk they got up and went to the camp of the Arameans. When they reached the edge of the camp, no one was there,

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2Ki 7:7 - So they got up and fled in the dusk and abandoned their tents and their horses and donkeys. They left the camp as it was and ran for their lives.

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2Ki 7:12 - The king got up in the night and said to his officers, “I will tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving; so they have left the camp to hide in the countryside, thinking, ‘They will surely come out, and then we will take them alive and get into the city.' ”

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2Ki 7:15 - They followed them as far as the Jordan, and they found the whole road strewn with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown away in their headlong flight. So the messengers returned and reported to the king.

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2Ki 7:17 - Now the king had put the officer on whose arm he leaned in charge of the gate, and the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died, just as the man of God had foretold when the king came down to his house.

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2Ki 7:18 - It happened as the man of God had said to the king: “About this time tomorrow, a seah of the finest flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.”

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2Ki 7:19 - The officer had said to the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?” The man of God had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”

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2Ki 7:20 - And that is exactly what happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.

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2Ki 8:2 - The woman proceeded to do as the man of God said. She and her family went away and stayed in the land of the Philistines seven years.

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2Ki 8:8 - he said to Hazael, “Take a gift with you and go to meet the man of God. Consult the LORD through him; ask him, ‘Will I recover from this illness?' ”

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2Ki 8:9 - Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him as a gift forty camel-loads of all the finest wares of Damascus. He went in and stood before him, and said, “Your son Ben-Hadad king of Aram has sent me to ask, ‘Will I recover from this illness?' ”

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2Ki 8:12 - “Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the harm you will do to the Israelites,” he answered. “You will set fire to their fortified places, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little children to the ground, and rip open their pregnant women.”

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2Ki 8:15 - But the next day he took a thick cloth, soaked it in water and spread it over the king's face, so that he died. Then Hazael succeeded him as king.

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2Ki 8:16 - In the fifth year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel, when Jehoshaphat was king of Judah, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat began his reign as king of Judah.

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2Ki 8:17 - He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years.

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2Ki 8:18 - He followed the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for he married a daughter of Ahab. He did evil in the eyes of the LORD.

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2Ki 8:20 - In the time of Jehoram, Edom rebelled against Judah and set up its own king.

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2Ki 8:22 - To this day Edom has been in rebellion against Judah. Libnah revolted at the same time.

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2Ki 8:24 - Jehoram rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David. And Ahaziah his son succeeded him as king.

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2Ki 8:25 - In the twelfth year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.

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2Ki 8:26 - Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.

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2Ki 8:27 - He followed the ways of the house of Ahab and did evil in the eyes of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was related by marriage to Ahab's family.

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2Ki 8:28 - Ahaziah went with Joram son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth Gilead. The Arameans wounded Joram;

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2Ki 8:29 - so King Joram returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramoth[fn] in his battle with Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to see Joram son of Ahab, because he had been wounded.

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2Ki 9:1 - The prophet Elisha summoned a man from the company of the prophets and said to him, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take this flask of olive oil with you and go to Ramoth Gilead.

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2Ki 9:2 - When you get there, look for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi. Go to him, get him away from his companions and take him into an inner room.

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2Ki 9:8 - The whole house of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab every last male in Israel—slave or free.[fn]

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2Ki 9:10 - As for Jezebel, dogs will devour her on the plot of ground at Jezreel, and no one will bury her.' ” Then he opened the door and ran.

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2Ki 9:13 - They quickly took their cloaks and spread them under him on the bare steps. Then they blew the trumpet and shouted, “Jehu is king!”

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2Ki 9:14 - So Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. (Now Joram and all Israel had been defending Ramoth Gilead against Hazael king of Aram,

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2Ki 9:15 - but King Joram[fn] had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds the Arameans had inflicted on him in the battle with Hazael king of Aram.) Jehu said, “If you desire to make me king, don't let anyone slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel.”

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2Ki 9:16 - Then he got into his chariot and rode to Jezreel, because Joram was resting there and Ahaziah king of Judah had gone down to see him.

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2Ki 9:17 - When the lookout standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu's troops approaching, he called out, “I see some troops coming.” “Get a horseman,” Joram ordered. “Send him to meet them and ask, ‘Do you come in peace?' ”

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2Ki 9:20 - The lookout reported, “He has reached them, but he isn't coming back either. The driving is like that of Jehu son of Nimshi—he drives like a maniac.”

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2Ki 9:21 - “Hitch up my chariot,” Joram ordered. And when it was hitched up, Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah rode out, each in his own chariot, to meet Jehu. They met him at the plot of ground that had belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite.

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2Ki 9:24 - Then Jehu drew his bow and shot Joram between the shoulders. The arrow pierced his heart and he slumped down in his chariot.

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2Ki 9:25 - Jehu said to Bidkar, his chariot officer, “Pick him up and throw him on the field that belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite. Remember how you and I were riding together in chariots behind Ahab his father when the LORD spoke this prophecy against him:

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2Ki 9:26 - ‘Yesterday I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons, declares the LORD, and I will surely make you pay for it on this plot of ground, declares the LORD.'[fn] Now then, pick him up and throw him on that plot, in accordance with the word of the LORD.”

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2Ki 9:27 - When Ahaziah king of Judah saw what had happened, he fled up the road to Beth Haggan.[fn] Jehu chased him, shouting, “Kill him too!” They wounded him in his chariot on the way up to Gur near Ibleam, but he escaped to Megiddo and died there.

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2Ki 9:28 - His servants took him by chariot to Jerusalem and buried him with his ancestors in his tomb in the City of David.

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2Ki 9:29 - (In the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king of Judah.)

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2Ki 9:31 - As Jehu entered the gate, she asked, “Have you come in peace, you Zimri, you murderer of your master?”[fn]

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2Ki 9:35 - But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing except her skull, her feet and her hands.

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2Ki 9:36 - They went back and told Jehu, who said, “This is the word of the LORD that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite: On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs will devour Jezebel's flesh.[fn]

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2Ki 9:37 - Jezebel's body will be like dung on the ground in the plot at Jezreel, so that no one will be able to say, ‘This is Jezebel.' ”

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2Ki 10:1 - Now there were in Samaria seventy sons of the house of Ahab. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria: to the officials of Jezreel,[fn] to the elders and to the guardians of Ahab's children. He said,

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2Ki 10:3 - choose the best and most worthy of your master's sons and set him on his father's throne. Then fight for your master's house.”

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2Ki 10:5 - So the palace administrator, the city governor, the elders and the guardians sent this message to Jehu: “We are your servants and we will do anything you say. We will not appoint anyone as king; you do whatever you think best.”

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2Ki 10:7 - When the letter arrived, these men took the princes and slaughtered all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu in Jezreel.

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2Ki 10:9 - The next morning Jehu went out. He stood before all the people and said, “You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master and killed him, but who killed all these?

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2Ki 10:10 - Know, then, that not a word the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab will fail. The LORD has done what he announced through his servant Elijah.”

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2Ki 10:11 - So Jehu killed everyone in Jezreel who remained of the house of Ahab, as well as all his chief men, his close friends and his priests, leaving him no survivor.

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2Ki 10:12 - Jehu then set out and went toward Samaria. At Beth Eked of the Shepherds,

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2Ki 10:15 - After he left there, he came upon Jehonadab son of Rekab, who was on his way to meet him. Jehu greeted him and said, “Are you in accord with me, as I am with you?” “I am,” Jehonadab answered. “If so,” said Jehu, “give me your hand.” So he did, and Jehu helped him up into the chariot.

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2Ki 10:16 - Jehu said, “Come with me and see my zeal for the LORD.” Then he had him ride along in his chariot.

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2Ki 10:17 - When Jehu came to Samaria, he killed all who were left there of Ahab's family; he destroyed them, according to the word of the LORD spoken to Elijah.

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2Ki 10:19 - Now summon all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests. See that no one is missing, because I am going to hold a great sacrifice for Baal. Anyone who fails to come will no longer live.” But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to destroy the servants of Baal.

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2Ki 10:21 - Then he sent word throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; not one stayed away. They crowded into the temple of Baal until it was full from one end to the other.

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2Ki 10:25 - As soon as Jehu had finished making the burnt offering, he ordered the guards and officers: “Go in and kill them; let no one escape.” So they cut them down with the sword. The guards and officers threw the bodies out and then entered the inner shrine of the temple of Baal.

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2Ki 10:29 - However, he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.

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2Ki 10:30 - The LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in accomplishing what is right in my eyes and have done to the house of Ahab all I had in mind to do, your descendants will sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.”

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2Ki 10:31 - Yet Jehu was not careful to keep the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam, which he had caused Israel to commit.

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2Ki 10:32 - In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael overpowered the Israelites throughout their territory

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2Ki 10:35 - Jehu rested with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son succeeded him as king.

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2Ki 10:36 - The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.

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2Ki 11:2 - But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram[fn] and sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the royal princes, who were about to be murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah; so he was not killed.

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2Ki 11:3 - He remained hidden with his nurse at the temple of the LORD for six years while Athaliah ruled the land.

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2Ki 11:4 - In the seventh year Jehoiada sent for the commanders of units of a hundred, the Carites and the guards and had them brought to him at the temple of the LORD. He made a covenant with them and put them under oath at the temple of the LORD. Then he showed them the king's son.

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2Ki 11:5 - He commanded them, saying, “This is what you are to do: You who are in the three companies that are going on duty on the Sabbath—a third of you guarding the royal palace,

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2Ki 11:6 - a third at the Sur Gate, and a third at the gate behind the guard, who take turns guarding the temple—

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2Ki 11:7 - and you who are in the other two companies that normally go off Sabbath duty are all to guard the temple for the king.

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2Ki 11:8 - Station yourselves around the king, each of you with weapon in hand. Anyone who approaches your ranks[fn] is to be put to death. Stay close to the king wherever he goes.”

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2Ki 11:10 - Then he gave the commanders the spears and shields that had belonged to King David and that were in the temple of the LORD.

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2Ki 11:11 - The guards, each with weapon in hand, stationed themselves around the king—near the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.

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2Ki 11:14 - She looked and there was the king, standing by the pillar, as the custom was. The officers and the trumpeters were beside the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her robes and called out, “Treason! Treason!”

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2Ki 11:15 - Jehoiada the priest ordered the commanders of units of a hundred, who were in charge of the troops: “Bring her out between the ranks[fn] and put to the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest had said, “She must not be put to death in the temple of the LORD.”

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2Ki 11:20 - All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was calm, because Athaliah had been slain with the sword at the palace.

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2Ki 11:21 - Joash[fn] was seven years old when he began to reign.[fn]

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2Ki 12:1 - In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash[fn] became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother's name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

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2Ki 12:3 - The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

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2Ki 12:4 - Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money that is brought as sacred offerings to the temple of the LORD—the money collected in the census, the money received from personal vows and the money brought voluntarily to the temple.

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2Ki 12:6 - But by the twenty-third year of King Joash the priests still had not repaired the temple.

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2Ki 12:9 - Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid. He placed it beside the altar, on the right side as one enters the temple of the LORD. The priests who guarded the entrance put into the chest all the money that was brought to the temple of the LORD.

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2Ki 12:10 - Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal secretary and the high priest came, counted the money that had been brought into the temple of the LORD and put it into bags.

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2Ki 12:11 - When the amount had been determined, they gave the money to the men appointed to supervise the work on the temple. With it they paid those who worked on the temple of the LORD—the carpenters and builders,

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2Ki 12:13 - The money brought into the temple was not spent for making silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets or any other articles of gold or silver for the temple of the LORD;

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2Ki 12:14 - it was paid to the workers, who used it to repair the temple.

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2Ki 12:15 - They did not require an accounting from those to whom they gave the money to pay the workers, because they acted with complete honesty.

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2Ki 12:16 - The money from the guilt offerings and sin offerings[fn] was not brought into the temple of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.

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2Ki 12:18 - But Joash king of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his predecessors—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—and the gifts he himself had dedicated and all the gold found in the treasuries of the temple of the LORD and of the royal palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram, who then withdrew from Jerusalem.

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2Ki 12:20 - His officials conspired against him and assassinated him at Beth Millo, on the road down to Silla.

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2Ki 12:21 - The officials who murdered him were Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer. He died and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. And Amaziah his son succeeded him as king.

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2Ki 13:1 - In the twenty-third year of Joash son of Ahaziah king of Judah, Jehoahaz son of Jehu became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned seventeen years.

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2Ki 13:2 - He did evil in the eyes of the LORD by following the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit, and he did not turn away from them.

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2Ki 13:3 - So the LORD's anger burned against Israel, and for a long time he kept them under the power of Hazael king of Aram and Ben-Hadad his son.

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2Ki 13:5 - The LORD provided a deliverer for Israel, and they escaped from the power of Aram. So the Israelites lived in their own homes as they had before.

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2Ki 13:6 - But they did not turn away from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, which he had caused Israel to commit; they continued in them. Also, the Asherah pole[fn] remained standing in Samaria.

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2Ki 13:9 - Jehoahaz rested with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria. And Jehoash[fn] his son succeeded him as king.

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2Ki 13:10 - In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash son of Jehoahaz became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned sixteen years.

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2Ki 13:11 - He did evil in the eyes of the LORD and did not turn away from any of the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit; he continued in them.

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2Ki 13:13 - Jehoash rested with his ancestors, and Jeroboam succeeded him on the throne. Jehoash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

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2Ki 13:17 - “Open the east window,” he said, and he opened it. “Shoot!” Elisha said, and he shot. “The LORD's arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram!” Elisha declared. “You will completely destroy the Arameans at Aphek.”

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2Ki 13:20 - Elisha died and was buried. Now Moabite raiders used to enter the country every spring.

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2Ki 13:21 - Once while some Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders; so they threw the man's body into Elisha's tomb. When the body touched Elisha's bones, the man came to life and stood up on his feet.

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2Ki 13:25 - Then Jehoash son of Jehoahaz recaptured from Ben-Hadad son of Hazael the towns he had taken in battle from his father Jehoahaz. Three times Jehoash defeated him, and so he recovered the Israelite towns.

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2Ki 14:1 - In the second year of Jehoash[fn] son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah began to reign.

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2Ki 14:2 - He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother's name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem.

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2Ki 14:3 - He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father David had done. In everything he followed the example of his father Joash.

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2Ki 14:4 - The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

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2Ki 14:5 - After the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king.

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2Ki 14:6 - Yet he did not put the children of the assassins to death, in accordance with what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses where the LORD commanded: “Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.”[fn]

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2Ki 14:7 - He was the one who defeated ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and captured Sela in battle, calling it Joktheel, the name it has to this day.

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2Ki 14:9 - But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.' Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle underfoot.

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2Ki 14:10 - You have indeed defeated Edom and now you are arrogant. Glory in your victory, but stay at home! Why ask for trouble and cause your own downfall and that of Judah also?”

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2Ki 14:11 - Amaziah, however, would not listen, so Jehoash king of Israel attacked. He and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth Shemesh in Judah.

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2Ki 14:13 - Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh. Then Jehoash went to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section about four hundred cubits long.[fn]

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2Ki 14:14 - He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the temple of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace. He also took hostages and returned to Samaria.

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2Ki 14:15 - As for the other events of the reign of Jehoash, what he did and his achievements, including his war against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?

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2Ki 14:16 - Jehoash rested with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. And Jeroboam his son succeeded him as king.

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2Ki 14:19 - They conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish, but they sent men after him to Lachish and killed him there.

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2Ki 14:20 - He was brought back by horse and was buried in Jerusalem with his ancestors, in the City of David.

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2Ki 14:23 - In the fifteenth year of Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam son of Jehoash king of Israel became king in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years.

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2Ki 14:25 - He was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from Lebo Hamath to the Dead Sea,[fn] in accordance with the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, spoken through his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.

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2Ki 14:28 - As for the other events of Jeroboam's reign, all he did, and his military achievements, including how he recovered for Israel both Damascus and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?

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2Ki 15:1 - In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah[fn] son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.

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2Ki 15:2 - He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother's name was Jekoliah; she was from Jerusalem.

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2Ki 15:3 - He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.

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2Ki 15:4 - The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

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2Ki 15:5 - The LORD afflicted the king with leprosy[fn] until the day he died, and he lived in a separate house.[fn] Jotham the king's son had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.

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2Ki 15:7 - Azariah rested with his ancestors and was buried near them in the City of David. And Jotham his son succeeded him as king.

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2Ki 15:8 - In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah son of Jeroboam became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned six months.

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2Ki 15:9 - He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, as his predecessors had done. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit.

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2Ki 15:13 - Shallum son of Jabesh became king in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned in Samaria one month.

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2Ki 15:14 - Then Menahem son of Gadi went from Tirzah up to Samaria. He attacked Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria, assassinated him and succeeded him as king.

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2Ki 15:16 - At that time Menahem, starting out from Tirzah, attacked Tiphsah and everyone in the city and its vicinity, because they refused to open their gates. He sacked Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant women.

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2Ki 15:17 - In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem son of Gadi became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria ten years.

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2Ki 15:18 - He did evil in the eyes of the LORD. During his entire reign he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit.

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2Ki 15:19 - Then Pul[fn] king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem gave him a thousand talents[fn] of silver to gain his support and strengthen his own hold on the kingdom.

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2Ki 15:20 - Menahem exacted this money from Israel. Every wealthy person had to contribute fifty shekels[fn] of silver to be given to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria withdrew and stayed in the land no longer.

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2Ki 15:23 - In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah son of Menahem became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned two years.

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2Ki 15:24 - Pekahiah did evil in the eyes of the LORD. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit.

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2Ki 15:25 - One of his chief officers, Pekah son of Remaliah, conspired against him. Taking fifty men of Gilead with him, he assassinated Pekahiah, along with Argob and Arieh, in the citadel of the royal palace at Samaria. So Pekah killed Pekahiah and succeeded him as king.

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2Ki 15:27 - In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah son of Remaliah became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twenty years.

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2Ki 15:28 - He did evil in the eyes of the LORD. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit.

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2Ki 15:29 - In the time of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maakah, Janoah, Kedesh and Hazor. He took Gilead and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and deported the people to Assyria.

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2Ki 15:30 - Then Hoshea son of Elah conspired against Pekah son of Remaliah. He attacked and assassinated him, and then succeeded him as king in the twentieth year of Jotham son of Uzziah.

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2Ki 15:32 - In the second year of Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel, Jotham son of Uzziah king of Judah began to reign.

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2Ki 15:33 - He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. His mother's name was Jerusha daughter of Zadok.

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2Ki 15:34 - He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah had done.

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2Ki 15:35 - The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there. Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the temple of the LORD.

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2Ki 15:37 - (In those days the LORD began to send Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah.)

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2Ki 15:38 - Jotham rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David, the city of his father. And Ahaz his son succeeded him as king.

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2Ki 16:1 - In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

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2Ki 16:2 - Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. Unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God.

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2Ki 16:3 - He followed the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, engaging in the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

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2Ki 16:4 - He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.

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2Ki 16:6 - At that time, Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram by driving out the people of Judah. Edomites then moved into Elath and have lived there to this day.

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2Ki 16:8 - And Ahaz took the silver and gold found in the temple of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent it as a gift to the king of Assyria.

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2Ki 16:10 - Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria. He saw an altar in Damascus and sent to Uriah the priest a sketch of the altar, with detailed plans for its construction.

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2Ki 16:18 - He took away the Sabbath canopy[fn] that had been built at the temple and removed the royal entryway outside the temple of the LORD, in deference to the king of Assyria.

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2Ki 16:20 - Ahaz rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David. And Hezekiah his son succeeded him as king.

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2Ki 17:1 - In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned nine years.

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2Ki 17:2 - He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, but not like the kings of Israel who preceded him.

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2Ki 17:4 - But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was a traitor, for he had sent envoys to So[fn] king of Egypt, and he no longer paid tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore Shalmaneser seized him and put him in prison.

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2Ki 17:5 - The king of Assyria invaded the entire land, marched against Samaria and laid siege to it for three years.

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2Ki 17:6 - In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in the towns of the Medes.

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2Ki 17:9 - The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city they built themselves high places in all their towns.

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2Ki 17:11 - At every high place they burned incense, as the nations whom the LORD had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that aroused the LORD's anger.

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2Ki 17:13 - The LORD warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and seers: “Turn from your evil ways. Observe my commands and decrees, in accordance with the entire Law that I commanded your ancestors to obey and that I delivered to you through my servants the prophets.”

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2Ki 17:17 - They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire. They practiced divination and sought omens and sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of the LORD, arousing his anger.

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2Ki 17:18 - So the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them from his presence. Only the tribe of Judah was left,

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2Ki 17:19 - and even Judah did not keep the commands of the LORD their God. They followed the practices Israel had introduced.

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2Ki 17:20 - Therefore the LORD rejected all the people of Israel; he afflicted them and gave them into the hands of plunderers, until he thrust them from his presence.

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2Ki 17:22 - The Israelites persisted in all the sins of Jeroboam and did not turn away from them

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2Ki 17:23 - until the LORD removed them from his presence, as he had warned through all his servants the prophets. So the people of Israel were taken from their homeland into exile in Assyria, and they are still there.

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2Ki 17:24 - The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Kuthah, Avva, Hamath and Sepharvaim and settled them in the towns of Samaria to replace the Israelites. They took over Samaria and lived in its towns.

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2Ki 17:25 - When they first lived there, they did not worship the LORD; so he sent lions among them and they killed some of the people.

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2Ki 17:26 - It was reported to the king of Assyria: “The people you deported and resettled in the towns of Samaria do not know what the god of that country requires. He has sent lions among them, which are killing them off, because the people do not know what he requires.”

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2Ki 17:28 - So one of the priests who had been exiled from Samaria came to live in Bethel and taught them how to worship the LORD.

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2Ki 17:29 - Nevertheless, each national group made its own gods in the several towns where they settled, and set them up in the shrines the people of Samaria had made at the high places.

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2Ki 17:31 - the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire as sacrifices to Adrammelek and Anammelek, the gods of Sepharvaim.

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2Ki 17:32 - They worshiped the LORD, but they also appointed all sorts of their own people to officiate for them as priests in the shrines at the high places.

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2Ki 17:36 - But the LORD, who brought you up out of Egypt with mighty power and outstretched arm, is the one you must worship. To him you shall bow down and to him offer sacrifices.

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2Ki 18:1 - In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.

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2Ki 18:2 - He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother's name was Abijah[fn] daughter of Zechariah.

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2Ki 18:3 - He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done.

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2Ki 18:5 - Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him.

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2Ki 18:7 - And the LORD was with him; he was successful in whatever he undertook. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.

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2Ki 18:9 - In King Hezekiah's fourth year, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and laid siege to it.

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2Ki 18:10 - At the end of three years the Assyrians took it. So Samaria was captured in Hezekiah's sixth year, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel.

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2Ki 18:11 - The king of Assyria deported Israel to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in towns of the Medes.

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2Ki 18:15 - So Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the temple of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace.

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2Ki 18:16 - At this time Hezekiah king of Judah stripped off the gold with which he had covered the doors and doorposts of the temple of the LORD, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

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2Ki 18:17 - The king of Assyria sent his supreme commander, his chief officer and his field commander with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They came up to Jerusalem and stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman's Field.

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2Ki 18:20 - You say you have the counsel and the might for war—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me?

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2Ki 18:22 - But if you say to me, “We are depending on the LORD our God”—isn't he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem”?

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2Ki 18:26 - Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

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2Ki 18:30 - Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'

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2Ki 18:35 - Who of all the gods of these countries has been able to save his land from me? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”

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2Ki 19:4 - It may be that the LORD your God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the LORD your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant that still survives.”

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2Ki 19:7 - Listen! When he hears a certain report, I will make him want to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.' ”

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2Ki 19:12 - Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors deliver them—the gods of Gozan, Harran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar?

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2Ki 19:15 - And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD: “LORD, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

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2Ki 19:23 - By your messengers you have ridiculed the Lord. And you have said, “With my many chariots I have ascended the heights of the mountains, the utmost heights of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the choicest of its junipers. I have reached its remotest parts, the finest of its forests.

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2Ki 19:26 - Their people, drained of power, are dismayed and put to shame. They are like plants in the field, like tender green shoots, like grass sprouting on the roof, scorched before it grows up.

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2Ki 19:28 - Because you rage against me and because your insolence has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will make you return by the way you came.'

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2Ki 19:33 - By the way that he came he will return; he will not enter this city,

declares the LORD.

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2Ki 19:35 - That night the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!

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2Ki 19:36 - So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

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2Ki 19:37 - One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.

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2Ki 20:1 - In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”

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2Ki 20:3 - “Remember, LORD, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

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2Ki 20:4 - Before Isaiah had left the middle court, the word of the LORD came to him:

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2Ki 20:11 - Then the prophet Isaiah called on the LORD, and the LORD made the shadow go back the ten steps it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.

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2Ki 20:12 - At that time Marduk-Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent Hezekiah letters and a gift, because he had heard of Hezekiah's illness.

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2Ki 20:13 - Hezekiah received the envoys and showed them all that was in his storehouses—the silver, the gold, the spices and the fine olive oil—his armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.

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2Ki 20:15 - The prophet asked, “What did they see in your palace?” “They saw everything in my palace,” Hezekiah said. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”

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2Ki 20:17 - The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.

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2Ki 20:18 - And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

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2Ki 20:19 - “The word of the LORD you have spoken is good,” Hezekiah replied. For he thought, “Will there not be peace and security in my lifetime?”

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2Ki 20:21 - Hezekiah rested with his ancestors. And Manasseh his son succeeded him as king.

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2Ki 21:1 - Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother's name was Hephzibah.

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2Ki 21:2 - He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, following the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

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2Ki 21:4 - He built altars in the temple of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my Name.”

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2Ki 21:5 - In the two courts of the temple of the LORD, he built altars to all the starry hosts.

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2Ki 21:6 - He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced divination, sought omens, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the LORD, arousing his anger.

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2Ki 21:7 - He took the carved Asherah pole he had made and put it in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name forever.

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2Ki 21:9 - But the people did not listen. Manasseh led them astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.

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2Ki 21:10 - The LORD said through his servants the prophets:

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2Ki 21:11 - “Manasseh king of Judah has committed these detestable sins. He has done more evil than the Amorites who preceded him and has led Judah into sin with his idols.

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2Ki 21:15 - they have done evil in my eyes and have aroused my anger from the day their ancestors came out of Egypt until this day.”

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2Ki 21:16 - Moreover, Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end—besides the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, so that they did evil in the eyes of the LORD.

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2Ki 21:18 - Manasseh rested with his ancestors and was buried in his palace garden, the garden of Uzza. And Amon his son succeeded him as king.

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2Ki 21:19 - Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years. His mother's name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah.

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2Ki 21:20 - He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done.

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2Ki 21:21 - He followed completely the ways of his father, worshiping the idols his father had worshiped, and bowing down to them.

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2Ki 21:22 - He forsook the LORD, the God of his ancestors, and did not walk in obedience to him.

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2Ki 21:23 - Amon's officials conspired against him and assassinated the king in his palace.

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2Ki 21:26 - He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza. And Josiah his son succeeded him as king.

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2Ki 22:1 - Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother's name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath.

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2Ki 22:2 - He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and followed completely the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left.

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2Ki 22:3 - In the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah sent the secretary, Shaphan son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the temple of the LORD. He said:

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2Ki 22:4 - “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him get ready the money that has been brought into the temple of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.

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2Ki 22:5 - Have them entrust it to the men appointed to supervise the work on the temple. And have these men pay the workers who repair the temple of the LORD—

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2Ki 22:7 - But they need not account for the money entrusted to them, because they are honest in their dealings.”

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2Ki 22:8 - Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the temple of the LORD.” He gave it to Shaphan, who read it.

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2Ki 22:9 - Then Shaphan the secretary went to the king and reported to him: “Your officials have paid out the money that was in the temple of the LORD and have entrusted it to the workers and supervisors at the temple.”

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2Ki 22:13 - “Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for the people and for all Judah about what is written in this book that has been found. Great is the LORD's anger that burns against us because those who have gone before us have not obeyed the words of this book; they have not acted in accordance with all that is written there concerning us.”

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2Ki 22:14 - Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Akbor, Shaphan and Asaiah went to speak to the prophet Huldah, who was the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the New Quarter.

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2Ki 22:17 - Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods and aroused my anger by all the idols their hands have made,[fn] my anger will burn against this place and will not be quenched.'

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2Ki 22:20 - Therefore I will gather you to your ancestors, and you will be buried in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster I am going to bring on this place.' ” So they took her answer back to the king.

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2Ki 23:2 - He went up to the temple of the LORD with the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the prophets—all the people from the least to the greatest. He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant, which had been found in the temple of the LORD.

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2Ki 23:3 - The king stood by the pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the LORD—to follow the LORD and keep his commands, statutes and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, thus confirming the words of the covenant written in this book. Then all the people pledged themselves to the covenant.

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2Ki 23:4 - The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests next in rank and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal and Asherah and all the starry hosts. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron Valley and took the ashes to Bethel.

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2Ki 23:5 - He did away with the idolatrous priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem—those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations and to all the starry hosts.

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2Ki 23:6 - He took the Asherah pole from the temple of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem and burned it there. He ground it to powder and scattered the dust over the graves of the common people.

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2Ki 23:7 - He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the temple of the LORD, the quarters where women did weaving for Asherah.

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2Ki 23:8 - Josiah brought all the priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He broke down the gateway at the entrance of the Gate of Joshua, the city governor, which was on the left of the city gate.

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2Ki 23:9 - Although the priests of the high places did not serve at the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.

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2Ki 23:10 - He desecrated Topheth, which was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, so no one could use it to sacrifice their son or daughter in the fire to Molek.

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2Ki 23:11 - He removed from the entrance to the temple of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court[fn] near the room of an official named Nathan-Melek. Josiah then burned the chariots dedicated to the sun.

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2Ki 23:12 - He pulled down the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof near the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts of the temple of the LORD. He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley.

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2Ki 23:15 - Even the altar at Bethel, the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin—even that altar and high place he demolished. He burned the high place and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole also.

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2Ki 23:16 - Then Josiah looked around, and when he saw the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to defile it, in accordance with the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who foretold these things.

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2Ki 23:19 - Just as he had done at Bethel, Josiah removed all the shrines at the high places that the kings of Israel had built in the towns of Samaria and that had aroused the LORD's anger.

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2Ki 23:23 - But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to the LORD in Jerusalem.

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2Ki 23:24 - Furthermore, Josiah got rid of the mediums and spiritists, the household gods, the idols and all the other detestable things seen in Judah and Jerusalem. This he did to fulfill the requirements of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the temple of the LORD.

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2Ki 23:25 - Neither before nor after Josiah was there a king like him who turned to the LORD as he did—with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, in accordance with all the Law of Moses.

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2Ki 23:26 - Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the heat of his fierce anger, which burned against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to arouse his anger.

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2Ki 23:29 - While Josiah was king, Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went up to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out to meet him in battle, but Necho faced him and killed him at Megiddo.

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2Ki 23:30 - Josiah's servants brought his body in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.

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2Ki 23:31 - Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

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2Ki 23:32 - He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, just as his predecessors had done.

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2Ki 23:33 - Pharaoh Necho put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents[fn] of silver and a talent[fn] of gold.

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2Ki 23:36 - Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother's name was Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah; she was from Rumah.

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2Ki 23:37 - And he did evil in the eyes of the LORD, just as his predecessors had done.

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2Ki 24:1 - During Jehoiakim's reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded the land, and Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years. But then he turned against Nebuchadnezzar and rebelled.

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2Ki 24:2 - The LORD sent Babylonian,[fn] Aramean, Moabite and Ammonite raiders against him to destroy Judah, in accordance with the word of the LORD proclaimed by his servants the prophets.

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2Ki 24:3 - Surely these things happened to Judah according to the LORD's command, in order to remove them from his presence because of the sins of Manasseh and all he had done,

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2Ki 24:8 - Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother's name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan; she was from Jerusalem.

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2Ki 24:9 - He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father had done.

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2Ki 24:10 - At that time the officers of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon advanced on Jerusalem and laid siege to it,

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2Ki 24:12 - Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his attendants, his nobles and his officials all surrendered to him. In the eighth year of the reign of the king of Babylon, he took Jehoiachin prisoner.

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2Ki 24:13 - As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar removed the treasures from the temple of the LORD and from the royal palace, and cut up the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made for the temple of the LORD.

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2Ki 24:18 - Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

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2Ki 24:20 - It was because of the LORD's anger that all this happened to Jerusalem and Judah, and in the end he thrust them from his presence. Now Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

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2Ki 25:1 - So in the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. He encamped outside the city and built siege works all around it.

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2Ki 25:2 - The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

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2Ki 25:3 - By the ninth day of the fourth[fn] month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.

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2Ki 25:5 - but the Babylonian[fn] army pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered,

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2Ki 25:7 - They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon.

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2Ki 25:8 - On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, an official of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

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2Ki 25:11 - Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the rest of the populace and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon.

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2Ki 25:13 - The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea that were at the temple of the LORD and they carried the bronze to Babylon.

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2Ki 25:14 - They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, dishes and all the bronze articles used in the temple service.

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2Ki 25:19 - Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men, and five royal advisers. He also took the secretary who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land and sixty of the conscripts who were found in the city.

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2Ki 25:21 - There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed. So Judah went into captivity, away from her land.

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2Ki 25:22 - Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to be over the people he had left behind in Judah.

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2Ki 25:24 - Gedaliah took an oath to reassure them and their men. “Do not be afraid of the Babylonian officials,” he said. “Settle down in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.”

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2Ki 25:25 - In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was of royal blood, came with ten men and assassinated Gedaliah and also the men of Judah and the Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.

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2Ki 25:27 - In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the year Awel-Marduk became king of Babylon, he released Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison. He did this on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month.

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2Ki 25:28 - He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat of honor higher than those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

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2Ki 25:30 - Day by day the king gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance as long as he lived.

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1Ch 1:46 - When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, succeeded him as king. His city was named Avith.

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1Ch 2:22 - Segub was the father of Jair, who controlled twenty-three towns in Gilead.

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1Ch 3:1 - These were the sons of David born to him in Hebron: The firstborn was Amnon the son of Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second, Daniel the son of Abigail of Carmel;

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1Ch 3:4 - These six were born to David in Hebron, where he reigned seven years and six months. David reigned in Jerusalem thirty-three years,

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1Ch 3:5 - and these were the children born to him there: Shammua,[fn] Shobab, Nathan and Solomon. These four were by Bathsheba[fn] daughter of Ammiel.

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1Ch 4:22 - Jokim, the men of Kozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and Jashubi Lehem. (These records are from ancient times.)

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1Ch 4:23 - They were the potters who lived at Netaim and Gederah; they stayed there and worked for the king.

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1Ch 4:28 - They lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar Shual,

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1Ch 4:29 - Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad,

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1Ch 4:38 - The men listed above by name were leaders of their clans. Their families increased greatly,

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1Ch 4:41 - The men whose names were listed came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the Hamites in their dwellings and also the Meunites who were there and completely destroyed[fn] them, as is evident to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks.

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1Ch 5:1 - The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (he was the firstborn, but when he defiled his father's marriage bed, his rights as firstborn were given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel; so he could not be listed in the genealogical record in accordance with his birthright,

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1Ch 5:2 - and though Judah was the strongest of his brothers and a ruler came from him, the rights of the firstborn belonged to Joseph)—

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1Ch 5:7 - Their relatives by clans, listed according to their genealogical records: Jeiel the chief, Zechariah,

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1Ch 5:8 - and Bela son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel. They settled in the area from Aroer to Nebo and Baal Meon.

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1Ch 5:9 - To the east they occupied the land up to the edge of the desert that extends to the Euphrates River, because their livestock had increased in Gilead.

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1Ch 5:10 - During Saul's reign they waged war against the Hagrites, who were defeated at their hands; they occupied the dwellings of the Hagrites throughout the entire region east of Gilead.

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1Ch 5:11 - The Gadites lived next to them in Bashan, as far as Salekah:

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1Ch 5:12 - Joel was the chief, Shapham the second, then Janai and Shaphat, in Bashan.

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1Ch 5:16 - The Gadites lived in Gilead, in Bashan and its outlying villages, and on all the pasturelands of Sharon as far as they extended.

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1Ch 5:17 - All these were entered in the genealogical records during the reigns of Jotham king of Judah and Jeroboam king of Israel.

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1Ch 5:20 - They were helped in fighting them, and God delivered the Hagrites and all their allies into their hands, because they cried out to him during the battle. He answered their prayers, because they trusted in him.

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1Ch 5:23 - The people of the half-tribe of Manasseh were numerous; they settled in the land from Bashan to Baal Hermon, that is, to Senir (Mount Hermon).

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1Ch 5:25 - But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors and prostituted themselves to the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.

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1Ch 6:10 - Johanan the father of Azariah (it was he who served as priest in the temple Solomon built in Jerusalem),

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1Ch 6:15 - Jozadak was deported when the LORD sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

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1Ch 6:31 - These are the men David put in charge of the music in the house of the LORD after the ark came to rest there.

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1Ch 6:32 - They ministered with music before the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, until Solomon built the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem. They performed their duties according to the regulations laid down for them.

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1Ch 6:39 - and Heman's associate Asaph, who served at his right hand: Asaph son of Berekiah, the son of Shimea,

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1Ch 6:54 - These were the locations of their settlements allotted as their territory (they were assigned to the descendants of Aaron who were from the Kohathite clan, because the first lot was for them):

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1Ch 6:55 - They were given Hebron in Judah with its surrounding pasturelands.

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1Ch 6:62 - The descendants of Gershon, clan by clan, were allotted thirteen towns from the tribes of Issachar, Asher and Naphtali, and from the part of the tribe of Manasseh that is in Bashan.

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1Ch 6:65 - From the tribes of Judah, Simeon and Benjamin they allotted the previously named towns.

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1Ch 6:67 - In the hill country of Ephraim they were given Shechem (a city of refuge), and Gezer,[fn]

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1Ch 6:76 - and from the tribe of Naphtali they received Kedesh in Galilee, Hammon and Kiriathaim, together with their pasturelands.

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1Ch 6:78 - from the tribe of Reuben across the Jordan east of Jericho they received Bezer in the wilderness, Jahzah,

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1Ch 7:2 - The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam and Samuel—heads of their families. During the reign of David, the descendants of Tola listed as fighting men in their genealogy numbered 22,600.

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1Ch 7:21 - Zabad his son and Shuthelah his son. Ezer and Elead were killed by the native-born men of Gath, when they went down to seize their livestock.

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1Ch 7:23 - Then he made love to his wife again, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. He named him Beriah,[fn] because there had been misfortune in his family.

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1Ch 7:24 - His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth Horon as well as Uzzen Sheerah.

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1Ch 7:29 - Along the borders of Manasseh were Beth Shan, Taanach, Megiddo and Dor, together with their villages. The descendants of Joseph son of Israel lived in these towns.

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1Ch 8:8 - Sons were born to Shaharaim in Moab after he had divorced his wives Hushim and Baara.

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1Ch 8:28 - All these were heads of families, chiefs as listed in their genealogy, and they lived in Jerusalem.

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1Ch 8:29 - Jeiel[fn] the father[fn] of Gibeon lived in Gibeon. His wife's name was Maakah,

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1Ch 8:32 - and Mikloth, who was the father of Shimeah. They too lived near their relatives in Jerusalem.

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1Ch 9:1 - All Israel was listed in the genealogies recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. They were taken captive to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.

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1Ch 9:2 - Now the first to resettle on their own property in their own towns were some Israelites, priests, Levites and temple servants.

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1Ch 9:3 - Those from Judah, from Benjamin, and from Ephraim and Manasseh who lived in Jerusalem were:

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1Ch 9:16 - Obadiah son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun; and Berekiah son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.

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1Ch 9:18 - being stationed at the King's Gate on the east, up to the present time. These were the gatekeepers belonging to the camp of the Levites.

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1Ch 9:22 - Altogether, those chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds numbered 212. They were registered by genealogy in their villages. The gatekeepers had been assigned to their positions of trust by David and Samuel the seer.

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1Ch 9:23 - They and their descendants were in charge of guarding the gates of the house of the LORD—the house called the tent of meeting.

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1Ch 9:25 - Their fellow Levites in their villages had to come from time to time and share their duties for seven-day periods.

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1Ch 9:26 - But the four principal gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted with the responsibility for the rooms and treasuries in the house of God.

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1Ch 9:28 - Some of them were in charge of the articles used in the temple service; they counted them when they were brought in and when they were taken out.

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1Ch 9:31 - A Levite named Mattithiah, the firstborn son of Shallum the Korahite, was entrusted with the responsibility for baking the offering bread.

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1Ch 9:33 - Those who were musicians, heads of Levite families, stayed in the rooms of the temple and were exempt from other duties because they were responsible for the work day and night.

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1Ch 9:34 - All these were heads of Levite families, chiefs as listed in their genealogy, and they lived in Jerusalem.

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1Ch 9:35 - Jeiel the father[fn] of Gibeon lived in Gibeon. His wife's name was Maakah,

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1Ch 9:38 - Mikloth was the father of Shimeam. They too lived near their relatives in Jerusalem.

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1Ch 10:1 - Now the Philistines fought against Israel; the Israelites fled before them, and many fell dead on Mount Gilboa.

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1Ch 10:3 - The fighting grew fierce around Saul, and when the archers overtook him, they wounded him.

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1Ch 10:4 - Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through, or these uncircumcised fellows will come and abuse me.” But his armor-bearer was terrified and would not do it; so Saul took his own sword and fell on it.

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1Ch 10:6 - So Saul and his three sons died, and all his house died together.

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1Ch 10:7 - When all the Israelites in the valley saw that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their towns and fled. And the Philistines came and occupied them.

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1Ch 10:8 - The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

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1Ch 10:10 - They put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung up his head in the temple of Dagon.

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1Ch 10:12 - all their valiant men went and took the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. Then they buried their bones under the great tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.

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1Ch 10:13 - Saul died because he was unfaithful to the LORD; he did not keep the word of the LORD and even consulted a medium for guidance,

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1Ch 11:1 - All Israel came together to David at Hebron and said, “We are your own flesh and blood.

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1Ch 11:3 - When all the elders of Israel had come to King David at Hebron, he made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel, as the LORD had promised through Samuel.

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1Ch 11:6 - David had said, “Whoever leads the attack on the Jebusites will become commander-in-chief.” Joab son of Zeruiah went up first, and so he received the command.

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1Ch 11:7 - David then took up residence in the fortress, and so it was called the City of David.

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1Ch 11:10 - These were the chiefs of David's mighty warriors—they, together with all Israel, gave his kingship strong support to extend it over the whole land, as the LORD had promised—

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1Ch 11:11 - this is the list of David's mighty warriors: Jashobeam,[fn] a Hakmonite, was chief of the officers[fn]; he raised his spear against three hundred men, whom he killed in one encounter.

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1Ch 11:12 - Next to him was Eleazar son of Dodai the Ahohite, one of the three mighty warriors.

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1Ch 11:13 - He was with David at Pas Dammim when the Philistines gathered there for battle. At a place where there was a field full of barley, the troops fled from the Philistines.

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1Ch 11:14 - But they took their stand in the middle of the field. They defended it and struck the Philistines down, and the LORD brought about a great victory.

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1Ch 11:15 - Three of the thirty chiefs came down to David to the rock at the cave of Adullam, while a band of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.

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1Ch 11:16 - At that time David was in the stronghold, and the Philistine garrison was at Bethlehem.

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1Ch 11:17 - David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”

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1Ch 11:18 - So the Three broke through the Philistine lines, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem and carried it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out to the LORD.

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1Ch 11:19 - “God forbid that I should do this!” he said. “Should I drink the blood of these men who went at the risk of their lives?” Because they risked their lives to bring it back, David would not drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty warriors.

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1Ch 11:20 - Abishai the brother of Joab was chief of the Three. He raised his spear against three hundred men, whom he killed, and so he became as famous as the Three.

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1Ch 11:22 - Benaiah son of Jehoiada, a valiant fighter from Kabzeel, performed great exploits. He struck down Moab's two mightiest warriors. He also went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion.

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1Ch 11:23 - And he struck down an Egyptian who was five cubits[fn] tall. Although the Egyptian had a spear like a weaver's rod in his hand, Benaiah went against him with a club. He snatched the spear from the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear.

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1Ch 11:24 - Such were the exploits of Benaiah son of Jehoiada; he too was as famous as the three mighty warriors.

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1Ch 12:1 - These were the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he was banished from the presence of Saul son of Kish (they were among the warriors who helped him in battle;

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1Ch 12:2 - they were armed with bows and were able to shoot arrows or to sling stones right-handed or left-handed; they were relatives of Saul from the tribe of Benjamin):

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1Ch 12:4 - and Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty warrior among the Thirty, who was a leader of the Thirty; Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, Jozabad the Gederathite,[fn]

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1Ch 12:15 - It was they who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks, and they put to flight everyone living in the valleys, to the east and to the west.

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1Ch 12:17 - David went out to meet them and said to them, “If you have come to me in peace to help me, I am ready for you to join me. But if you have come to betray me to my enemies when my hands are free from violence, may the God of our ancestors see it and judge you.”

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1Ch 12:19 - Some of the tribe of Manasseh defected to David when he went with the Philistines to fight against Saul. (He and his men did not help the Philistines because, after consultation, their rulers sent him away. They said, “It will cost us our heads if he deserts to his master Saul.”)

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1Ch 12:20 - When David went to Ziklag, these were the men of Manasseh who defected to him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu and Zillethai, leaders of units of a thousand in Manasseh.

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1Ch 12:21 - They helped David against raiding bands, for all of them were brave warriors, and they were commanders in his army.

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1Ch 12:31 - from half the tribe of Manasseh, designated by name to come and make David king—18,000;

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1Ch 12:33 - from Zebulun, experienced soldiers prepared for battle with every type of weapon, to help David with undivided loyalty—50,000;

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1Ch 12:34 - from Naphtali—1,000 officers, together with 37,000 men carrying shields and spears;

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1Ch 12:37 - and from east of the Jordan, from Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, armed with every type of weapon—120,000.

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1Ch 12:38 - All these were fighting men who volunteered to serve in the ranks. They came to Hebron fully determined to make David king over all Israel. All the rest of the Israelites were also of one mind to make David king.

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1Ch 12:40 - Also, their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules and oxen. There were plentiful supplies of flour, fig cakes, raisin cakes, wine, olive oil, cattle and sheep, for there was joy in Israel.

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1Ch 13:2 - He then said to the whole assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you and if it is the will of the LORD our God, let us send word far and wide to the rest of our people throughout the territories of Israel, and also to the priests and Levites who are with them in their towns and pasturelands, to come and join us.

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1Ch 13:4 - The whole assembly agreed to do this, because it seemed right to all the people.

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1Ch 13:8 - David and all the Israelites were celebrating with all their might before God, with songs and with harps, lyres, timbrels, cymbals and trumpets.

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1Ch 13:11 - Then David was angry because the LORD's wrath had broken out against Uzzah, and to this day that place is called Perez Uzzah.[fn]

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1Ch 13:12 - David was afraid of God that day and asked, “How can I ever bring the ark of God to me?”

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1Ch 13:14 - The ark of God remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house for three months, and the LORD blessed his household and everything he had.

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1Ch 14:3 - In Jerusalem David took more wives and became the father of more sons and daughters.

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1Ch 14:4 - These are the names of the children born to him there: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,

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1Ch 14:9 - Now the Philistines had come and raided the Valley of Rephaim;

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1Ch 14:11 - So David and his men went up to Baal Perazim, and there he defeated them. He said, “As waters break out, God has broken out against my enemies by my hand.” So that place was called Baal Perazim.[fn]

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1Ch 14:12 - The Philistines had abandoned their gods there, and David gave orders to burn them in the fire.

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1Ch 14:13 - Once more the Philistines raided the valley;

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1Ch 14:14 - so David inquired of God again, and God answered him, “Do not go directly after them, but circle around them and attack them in front of the poplar trees.

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1Ch 14:15 - As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the poplar trees, move out to battle, because that will mean God has gone out in front of you to strike the Philistine army.”

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1Ch 14:17 - So David's fame spread throughout every land, and the LORD made all the nations fear him.

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1Ch 15:1 - After David had constructed buildings for himself in the City of David, he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.

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1Ch 15:13 - It was because you, the Levites, did not bring it up the first time that the LORD our God broke out in anger against us. We did not inquire of him about how to do it in the prescribed way.”

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1Ch 15:15 - And the Levites carried the ark of God with the poles on their shoulders, as Moses had commanded in accordance with the word of the LORD.

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1Ch 15:16 - David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their fellow Levites as musicians to make a joyful sound with musical instruments: lyres, harps and cymbals.

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1Ch 15:19 - The musicians Heman, Asaph and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals;

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1Ch 15:20 - Zechariah, Jaaziel,[fn] Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah and Benaiah were to play the lyres according to alamoth,[fn]

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1Ch 15:21 - and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel and Azaziah were to play the harps, directing according to sheminith.[fn]

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1Ch 15:25 - So David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of units of a thousand went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of Obed-Edom, with rejoicing.

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1Ch 15:26 - Because God had helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD, seven bulls and seven rams were sacrificed.

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1Ch 15:27 - Now David was clothed in a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who were carrying the ark, and as were the musicians, and Kenaniah, who was in charge of the singing of the choirs. David also wore a linen ephod.

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1Ch 15:28 - So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouts, with the sounding of rams' horns and trumpets, and of cymbals, and the playing of lyres and harps.

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1Ch 15:29 - As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David dancing and celebrating, she despised him in her heart.

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1Ch 16:1 - They brought the ark of God and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and they presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before God.

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1Ch 16:2 - After David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD.

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1Ch 16:5 - Asaph was the chief, and next to him in rank were Zechariah, then Jaaziel,[fn] Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom and Jeiel. They were to play the lyres and harps, Asaph was to sound the cymbals,

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1Ch 16:6 - and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests were to blow the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.

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1Ch 16:7 - That day David first appointed Asaph and his associates to give praise to the LORD in this manner:

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1Ch 16:8 - Give praise to the LORD, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done.

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1Ch 16:10 - Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

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1Ch 16:14 - He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.

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1Ch 16:19 - When they were but few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it,

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1Ch 16:22 - “Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm.”

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1Ch 16:27 - Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his dwelling place.

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1Ch 16:29 - Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring an offering and come before him. Worship the LORD in the splendor of his[fn] holiness.

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1Ch 16:31 - Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad; let them say among the nations, “The LORD reigns!”

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1Ch 16:32 - Let the sea resound, and all that is in it; let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them!

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1Ch 16:35 - Cry out, “Save us, God our Savior; gather us and deliver us from the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name, and glory in your praise.”

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1Ch 16:39 - David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon

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1Ch 16:40 - to present burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offering regularly, morning and evening, in accordance with everything written in the Law of the LORD, which he had given Israel.

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1Ch 17:1 - After David was settled in his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent.”

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1Ch 17:2 - Nathan replied to David, “Whatever you have in mind, do it, for God is with you.”

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1Ch 17:3 - But that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying:

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1Ch 17:4 - “Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in.

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1Ch 17:5 - I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt to this day. I have moved from one tent site to another, from one dwelling place to another.

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1Ch 17:6 - Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their leaders[fn] whom I commanded to shepherd my people, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?” '

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1Ch 17:8 - I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make your name like the names of the greatest men on earth.

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1Ch 17:14 - I will set him over my house and my kingdom forever; his throne will be established forever.' ”

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1Ch 17:20 - “There is no one like you, LORD, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.

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1Ch 18:5 - When the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand of them.

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1Ch 18:6 - He put garrisons in the Aramean kingdom of Damascus, and the Arameans became subject to him and brought him tribute. The LORD gave David victory wherever he went.

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1Ch 18:12 - Abishai son of Zeruiah struck down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

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1Ch 18:13 - He put garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites became subject to David. The LORD gave David victory wherever he went.

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1Ch 19:5 - When someone came and told David about the men, he sent messengers to meet them, for they were greatly humiliated. The king said, “Stay at Jericho till your beards have grown, and then come back.”

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1Ch 19:9 - The Ammonites came out and drew up in battle formation at the entrance to their city, while the kings who had come were by themselves in the open country.

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1Ch 19:11 - He put the rest of the men under the command of Abishai his brother, and they were deployed against the Ammonites.

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1Ch 19:13 - Be strong, and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God. The LORD will do what is good in his sight.”

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1Ch 20:1 - In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, Joab led out the armed forces. He laid waste the land of the Ammonites and went to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. Joab attacked Rabbah and left it in ruins.

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1Ch 20:2 - David took the crown from the head of their king[fn]—its weight was found to be a talent[fn] of gold, and it was set with precious stones—and it was placed on David's head. He took a great quantity of plunder from the city

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1Ch 20:3 - and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws and with iron picks and axes. David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then David and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.

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1Ch 20:4 - In the course of time, war broke out with the Philistines, at Gezer. At that time Sibbekai the Hushathite killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the Rephaites, and the Philistines were subjugated.

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1Ch 20:6 - In still another battle, which took place at Gath, there was a huge man with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He also was descended from Rapha.

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1Ch 20:8 - These were descendants of Rapha in Gath, and they fell at the hands of David and his men.

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1Ch 21:1 - Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.

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1Ch 21:4 - The king's word, however, overruled Joab; so Joab left and went throughout Israel and then came back to Jerusalem.

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1Ch 21:6 - But Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the numbering, because the king's command was repulsive to him.

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1Ch 21:12 - three years of famine, three months of being swept away[fn] before your enemies, with their swords overtaking you, or three days of the sword of the LORD—days of plague in the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel.' Now then, decide how I should answer the one who sent me.”

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1Ch 21:14 - So the LORD sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.

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1Ch 21:15 - And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the LORD was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah[fn] the Jebusite.

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1Ch 21:16 - David looked up and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand extended over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.

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1Ch 21:17 - David said to God, “Was it not I who ordered the fighting men to be counted? I, the shepherd,[fn] have sinned and done wrong. These are but sheep. What have they done? LORD my God, let your hand fall on me and my family, but do not let this plague remain on your people.”

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1Ch 21:18 - Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

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1Ch 21:19 - So David went up in obedience to the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the LORD.

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1Ch 21:22 - David said to him, “Let me have the site of your threshing floor so I can build an altar to the LORD, that the plague on the people may be stopped. Sell it to me at the full price.”

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1Ch 21:24 - But King David replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying the full price. I will not take for the LORD what is yours, or sacrifice a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”

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1Ch 21:25 - So David paid Araunah six hundred shekels[fn] of gold for the site.

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1Ch 21:26 - David built an altar to the LORD there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He called on the LORD, and the LORD answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.

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1Ch 21:28 - At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there.

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1Ch 21:29 - The tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time on the high place at Gibeon.

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1Ch 22:2 - So David gave orders to assemble the foreigners residing in Israel, and from among them he appointed stonecutters to prepare dressed stone for building the house of God.

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1Ch 22:9 - But you will have a son who will be a man of peace and rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. His name will be Solomon,[fn] and I will grant Israel peace and quiet during his reign.

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1Ch 22:10 - He is the one who will build a house for my Name. He will be my son, and I will be his father. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.'

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1Ch 22:15 - You have many workers: stonecutters, masons and carpenters, as well as those skilled in every kind of work

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1Ch 22:16 - in gold and silver, bronze and iron—craftsmen beyond number. Now begin the work, and the LORD be with you.”

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1Ch 22:18 - He said to them, “Is not the LORD your God with you? And has he not granted you rest on every side? For he has given the inhabitants of the land into my hands, and the land is subject to the LORD and to his people.

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1Ch 23:5 - Four thousand are to be gatekeepers and four thousand are to praise the LORD with the musical instruments I have provided for that purpose.”

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1Ch 23:25 - For David had said, “Since the LORD, the God of Israel, has granted rest to his people and has come to dwell in Jerusalem forever,

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1Ch 23:27 - According to the last instructions of David, the Levites were counted from those twenty years old or more.

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1Ch 23:28 - The duty of the Levites was to help Aaron's descendants in the service of the temple of the LORD: to be in charge of the courtyards, the side rooms, the purification of all sacred things and the performance of other duties at the house of God.

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1Ch 23:31 - and whenever burnt offerings were presented to the LORD on the Sabbaths, at the New Moon feasts and at the appointed festivals. They were to serve before the LORD regularly in the proper number and in the way prescribed for them.

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1Ch 23:32 - And so the Levites carried out their responsibilities for the tent of meeting, for the Holy Place and, under their relatives the descendants of Aaron, for the service of the temple of the LORD.

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1Ch 24:5 - They divided them impartially by casting lots, for there were officials of the sanctuary and officials of God among the descendants of both Eleazar and Ithamar.

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1Ch 25:1 - David, together with the commanders of the army, set apart some of the sons of Asaph, Heman and Jeduthun for the ministry of prophesying, accompanied by harps, lyres and cymbals. Here is the list of the men who performed this service:

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1Ch 25:3 - As for Jeduthun, from his sons: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei,[fn] Hashabiah and Mattithiah, six in all, under the supervision of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied, using the harp in thanking and praising the LORD.

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1Ch 25:5 - (All these were sons of Heman the king's seer. They were given him through the promises of God to exalt him. God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.)

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1Ch 25:6 - All these men were under the supervision of their father for the music of the temple of the LORD, with cymbals, lyres and harps, for the ministry at the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun and Heman were under the supervision of the king.

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1Ch 26:8 - All these were descendants of Obed-Edom; they and their sons and their relatives were capable men with the strength to do the work—descendants of Obed-Edom, 62 in all.

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1Ch 26:12 - These divisions of the gatekeepers, through their leaders, had duties for ministering in the temple of the LORD, just as their relatives had.

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1Ch 26:31 - As for the Hebronites, Jeriah was their chief according to the genealogical records of their families. In the fortieth year of David's reign a search was made in the records, and capable men among the Hebronites were found at Jazer in Gilead.

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1Ch 27:21 - over the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead: Iddo son of Zechariah; over Benjamin: Jaasiel son of Abner;

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1Ch 27:24 - Joab son of Zeruiah began to count the men but did not finish. God's wrath came on Israel on account of this numbering, and the number was not entered in the book[fn] of the annals of King David.

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1Ch 27:25 - Azmaveth son of Adiel was in charge of the royal storehouses. Jonathan son of Uzziah was in charge of the storehouses in the outlying districts, in the towns, the villages and the watchtowers.

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1Ch 27:27 - Shimei the Ramathite was in charge of the vineyards. Zabdi the Shiphmite was in charge of the produce of the vineyards for the wine vats.

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1Ch 27:28 - Baal-Hanan the Gederite was in charge of the olive and sycamore-fig trees in the western foothills. Joash was in charge of the supplies of olive oil.

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1Ch 27:29 - Shitrai the Sharonite was in charge of the herds grazing in Sharon. Shaphat son of Adlai was in charge of the herds in the valleys.

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1Ch 28:1 - David summoned all the officials of Israel to assemble at Jerusalem: the officers over the tribes, the commanders of the divisions in the service of the king, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, and the officials in charge of all the property and livestock belonging to the king and his sons, together with the palace officials, the warriors and all the brave fighting men.

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1Ch 28:2 - King David rose to his feet and said: “Listen to me, my fellow Israelites, my people. I had it in my heart to build a house as a place of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, for the footstool of our God, and I made plans to build it.

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1Ch 28:4 - “Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me from my whole family to be king over Israel forever. He chose Judah as leader, and from the tribe of Judah he chose my family, and from my father's sons he was pleased to make me king over all Israel.

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1Ch 28:5 - Of all my sons—and the LORD has given me many—he has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.

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1Ch 28:6 - He said to me: ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

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1Ch 28:8 - “So now I charge you in the sight of all Israel and of the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God: Be careful to follow all the commands of the LORD your God, that you may possess this good land and pass it on as an inheritance to your descendants forever.

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1Ch 28:9 - “And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands every desire and every thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever.

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1Ch 28:12 - He gave him the plans of all that the Spirit had put in his mind for the courts of the temple of the LORD and all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of the temple of God and for the treasuries for the dedicated things.

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1Ch 28:19 - “All this,” David said, “I have in writing as a result of the LORD's hand on me, and he enabled me to understand all the details of the plan.”

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1Ch 28:21 - The divisions of the priests and Levites are ready for all the work on the temple of God, and every willing person skilled in any craft will help you in all the work. The officials and all the people will obey your every command.”

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1Ch 29:1 - Then King David said to the whole assembly: “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great, because this palatial structure is not for man but for the LORD God.

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1Ch 29:3 - Besides, in my devotion to the temple of my God I now give my personal treasures of gold and silver for the temple of my God, over and above everything I have provided for this holy temple:

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1Ch 29:4 - three thousand talents[fn] of gold (gold of Ophir) and seven thousand talents[fn] of refined silver, for the overlaying of the walls of the buildings,

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1Ch 29:9 - The people rejoiced at the willing response of their leaders, for they had given freely and wholeheartedly to the LORD. David the king also rejoiced greatly.

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1Ch 29:11 - Yours, LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, LORD, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all.

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1Ch 29:12 - Wealth and honor come from you; you are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all.

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1Ch 29:17 - I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity. All these things I have given willingly and with honest intent. And now I have seen with joy how willingly your people who are here have given to you.

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1Ch 29:18 - LORD, the God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Israel, keep these desires and thoughts in the hearts of your people forever, and keep their hearts loyal to you.

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1Ch 29:22 - They ate and drank with great joy in the presence of the LORD that day. Then they acknowledged Solomon son of David as king a second time, anointing him before the LORD to be ruler and Zadok to be priest.

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1Ch 29:27 - He ruled over Israel forty years—seven in Hebron and thirty-three in Jerusalem.

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1Ch 29:28 - He died at a good old age, having enjoyed long life, wealth and honor. His son Solomon succeeded him as king.

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1Ch 29:29 - As for the events of King David's reign, from beginning to end, they are written in the records of Samuel the seer, the records of Nathan the prophet and the records of Gad the seer,

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2Ch 1:3 - and Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon, for God's tent of meeting was there, which Moses the LORD's servant had made in the wilderness.

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2Ch 1:6 - Solomon went up to the bronze altar before the LORD in the tent of meeting and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it.

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2Ch 1:7 - That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask for whatever you want me to give you.”

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2Ch 1:11 - God said to Solomon, “Since this is your heart's desire and you have not asked for wealth, possessions or honor, nor for the death of your enemies, and since you have not asked for a long life but for wisdom and knowledge to govern my people over whom I have made you king,

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2Ch 1:12 - therefore wisdom and knowledge will be given you. And I will also give you wealth, possessions and honor, such as no king who was before you ever had and none after you will have.”

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2Ch 1:13 - Then Solomon went to Jerusalem from the high place at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting. And he reigned over Israel.

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2Ch 1:14 - Solomon accumulated chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses,[fn] which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.

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2Ch 1:15 - The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the foothills.

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2Ch 1:17 - They imported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels[fn] of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty.[fn] They also exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and of the Arameans.

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2Ch 2:2 - He conscripted 70,000 men as carriers and 80,000 as stonecutters in the hills and 3,600 as foremen over them.

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2Ch 2:3 - Solomon sent this message to Hiram[fn] king of Tyre: “Send me cedar logs as you did for my father David when you sent him cedar to build a palace to live in.

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2Ch 2:4 - Now I am about to build a temple for the Name of the LORD my God and to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense before him, for setting out the consecrated bread regularly, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening and on the Sabbaths, at the New Moons and at the appointed festivals of the LORD our God. This is a lasting ordinance for Israel.

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2Ch 2:7 - “Send me, therefore, a man skilled to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, and in purple, crimson and blue yarn, and experienced in the art of engraving, to work in Judah and Jerusalem with my skilled workers, whom my father David provided.

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2Ch 2:11 - Hiram king of Tyre replied by letter to Solomon: “Because the LORD loves his people, he has made you their king.”

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2Ch 2:14 - whose mother was from Dan and whose father was from Tyre. He is trained to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, and with purple and blue and crimson yarn and fine linen. He is experienced in all kinds of engraving and can execute any design given to him. He will work with your skilled workers and with those of my lord, David your father.

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2Ch 2:17 - Solomon took a census of all the foreigners residing in Israel, after the census his father David had taken; and they were found to be 153,600.

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2Ch 3:1 - Then Solomon began to build the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah[fn] the Jebusite, the place provided by David.

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2Ch 3:2 - He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

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2Ch 3:10 - For the Most Holy Place he made a pair of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them with gold.

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2Ch 3:14 - He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim worked into it.

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2Ch 3:16 - He made interwoven chains[fn] and put them on top of the pillars. He also made a hundred pomegranates and attached them to the chains.

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2Ch 4:3 - Below the rim, figures of bulls encircled it—ten to a cubit.[fn] The bulls were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.

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2Ch 4:6 - He then made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. In them the things to be used for the burnt offerings were rinsed, but the Sea was to be used by the priests for washing.

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2Ch 4:7 - He made ten gold lampstands according to the specifications for them and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.

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2Ch 4:8 - He made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. He also made a hundred gold sprinkling bowls.

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2Ch 4:11 - And Huram also made the pots and shovels and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of God:

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2Ch 4:13 - the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network, decorating the bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars);

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2Ch 4:16 - the pots, shovels, meat forks and all related articles. All the objects that Huram-Abi made for King Solomon for the temple of the LORD were of polished bronze.

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2Ch 4:17 - The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan.[fn]

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2Ch 5:1 - When all the work Solomon had done for the temple of the LORD was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated—the silver and gold and all the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of God's temple.

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2Ch 5:3 - And all the Israelites came together to the king at the time of the festival in the seventh month.

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2Ch 5:5 - and they brought up the ark and the tent of meeting and all the sacred furnishings in it. The Levitical priests carried them up;

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2Ch 5:10 - There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.

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2Ch 5:11 - The priests then withdrew from the Holy Place. All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions.

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2Ch 5:12 - All the Levites who were musicians—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets.

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2Ch 5:13 - The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the LORD. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, the singers raised their voices in praise to the LORD and sang: “He is good; his love endures forever.” Then the temple of the LORD was filled with the cloud,

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2Ch 6:1 - Then Solomon said, “The LORD has said that he would dwell in a dark cloud;

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2Ch 6:4 - Then he said: “Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who with his hands has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to my father David. For he said,

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2Ch 6:5 - ‘Since the day I brought my people out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city in any tribe of Israel to have a temple built so that my Name might be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over my people Israel.

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2Ch 6:6 - But now I have chosen Jerusalem for my Name to be there, and I have chosen David to rule my people Israel.'

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2Ch 6:11 - There I have placed the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD that he made with the people of Israel.”

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2Ch 6:13 - Now he had made a bronze platform, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high,[fn] and had placed it in the center of the outer court. He stood on the platform and then knelt down before the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.

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2Ch 6:14 - He said: “LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth—you who keep your covenant of love with your servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way.

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2Ch 6:15 - You have kept your promise to your servant David my father; with your mouth you have promised and with your hand you have fulfilled it—as it is today.

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2Ch 6:16 - “Now, LORD, the God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father the promises you made to him when you said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants are careful in all they do to walk before me according to my law, as you have done.'

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2Ch 6:21 - Hear the supplications of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.

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2Ch 6:22 - “When anyone wrongs their neighbor and is required to take an oath and they come and swear the oath before your altar in this temple,

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2Ch 6:24 - “When your people Israel have been defeated by an enemy because they have sinned against you and when they turn back and give praise to your name, praying and making supplication before you in this temple,

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2Ch 6:26 - “When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and when they pray toward this place and give praise to your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them,

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2Ch 6:27 - then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them the right way to live, and send rain on the land you gave your people for an inheritance.

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2Ch 6:34 - “When your people go to war against their enemies, wherever you send them, and when they pray to you toward this city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name,

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2Ch 6:37 - and if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captivity and say, ‘We have sinned, we have done wrong and acted wickedly';

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2Ch 6:38 - and if they turn back to you with all their heart and soul in the land of their captivity where they were taken, and pray toward the land you gave their ancestors, toward the city you have chosen and toward the temple I have built for your Name;

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2Ch 6:41 - “Now arise, LORD God, and come to your resting place, you and the ark of your might. May your priests, LORD God, be clothed with salvation, may your faithful people rejoice in your goodness.

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2Ch 7:2 - The priests could not enter the temple of the LORD because the glory of the LORD filled it.

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2Ch 7:6 - The priests took their positions, as did the Levites with the LORD's musical instruments, which King David had made for praising the LORD and which were used when he gave thanks, saying, “His love endures forever.” Opposite the Levites, the priests blew their trumpets, and all the Israelites were standing.

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2Ch 7:7 - Solomon consecrated the middle part of the courtyard in front of the temple of the LORD, and there he offered burnt offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings, because the bronze altar he had made could not hold the burnt offerings, the grain offerings and the fat portions.

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2Ch 7:8 - So Solomon observed the festival at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him—a vast assembly, people from Lebo Hamath to the Wadi of Egypt.

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2Ch 7:9 - On the eighth day they held an assembly, for they had celebrated the dedication of the altar for seven days and the festival for seven days more.

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2Ch 7:10 - On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people to their homes, joyful and glad in heart for the good things the LORD had done for David and Solomon and for his people Israel.

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2Ch 7:11 - When Solomon had finished the temple of the LORD and the royal palace, and had succeeded in carrying out all he had in mind to do in the temple of the LORD and in his own palace,

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2Ch 7:12 - the LORD appeared to him at night and said: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple for sacrifices.

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2Ch 7:13 - “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people,

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2Ch 7:18 - I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor to rule over Israel.'

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2Ch 7:20 - then I will uproot Israel from my land, which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

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2Ch 8:1 - At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of the LORD and his own palace,

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2Ch 8:4 - He also built up Tadmor in the desert and all the store cities he had built in Hamath.

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2Ch 8:6 - as well as Baalath and all his store cities, and all the cities for his chariots and for his horses[fn]—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.

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2Ch 8:8 - Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these people remaining in the land—whom the Israelites had not destroyed—to serve as slave labor, as it is to this day.

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2Ch 8:10 - They were also King Solomon's chief officials—two hundred and fifty officials supervising the men.

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2Ch 8:11 - Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said, “My wife must not live in the palace of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”

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2Ch 8:13 - according to the daily requirement for offerings commanded by Moses for the Sabbaths, the New Moons and the three annual festivals—the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles.

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2Ch 8:14 - In keeping with the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their duties, and the Levites to lead the praise and to assist the priests according to each day's requirement. He also appointed the gatekeepers by divisions for the various gates, because this was what David the man of God had ordered.

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2Ch 8:17 - Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and Elath on the coast of Edom.

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2Ch 8:18 - And Hiram sent him ships commanded by his own men, sailors who knew the sea. These, with Solomon's men, sailed to Ophir and brought back four hundred and fifty talents[fn] of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.

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2Ch 9:1 - When the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame, she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions. Arriving with a very great caravan—with camels carrying spices, large quantities of gold, and precious stones—she came to Solomon and talked with him about all she had on her mind.

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2Ch 9:4 - the food on his table, the seating of his officials, the attending servants in their robes, the cupbearers in their robes and the burnt offerings he made at[fn] the temple of the LORD, she was overwhelmed.

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2Ch 9:5 - She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your achievements and your wisdom is true.

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2Ch 9:8 - Praise be to the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on his throne as king to rule for the LORD your God. Because of the love of your God for Israel and his desire to uphold them forever, he has made you king over them, to maintain justice and righteousness.”

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2Ch 9:11 - The king used the algumwood to make steps for the temple of the LORD and for the royal palace, and to make harps and lyres for the musicians. Nothing like them had ever been seen in Judah.)

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2Ch 9:13 - The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents,[fn]

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2Ch 9:16 - He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold, with three hundred shekels[fn] of gold in each shield. The king put them in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.

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2Ch 9:19 - Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like it had ever been made for any other kingdom.

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2Ch 9:20 - All King Solomon's goblets were gold, and all the household articles in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. Nothing was made of silver, because silver was considered of little value in Solomon's day.

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2Ch 9:23 - All the kings of the earth sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart.

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2Ch 9:25 - Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horses,[fn] which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.

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2Ch 9:27 - The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the foothills.

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2Ch 9:29 - As for the other events of Solomon's reign, from beginning to end, are they not written in the records of Nathan the prophet, in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat?

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2Ch 9:31 - Then he rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son succeeded him as king.

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2Ch 10:2 - When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard this (he was in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), he returned from Egypt.

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2Ch 10:6 - Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How would you advise me to answer these people?” he asked.

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2Ch 10:7 - They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your servants.”

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2Ch 10:11 - My father laid on you a heavy yoke; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.' ”

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2Ch 10:14 - he followed the advice of the young men and said, “My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.”

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2Ch 10:15 - So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from God, to fulfill the word the LORD had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.

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2Ch 10:16 - When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What share do we have in David, what part in Jesse's son? To your tents, Israel! Look after your own house, David!” So all the Israelites went home.

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2Ch 10:17 - But as for the Israelites who were living in the towns of Judah, Rehoboam still ruled over them.

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2Ch 10:19 - So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.

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2Ch 11:5 - Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem and built up towns for defense in Judah:

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2Ch 11:11 - He strengthened their defenses and put commanders in them, with supplies of food, olive oil and wine.

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2Ch 11:13 - The priests and Levites from all their districts throughout Israel sided with him.

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2Ch 11:17 - They strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam son of Solomon three years, following the ways of David and Solomon during this time.

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2Ch 11:22 - Rehoboam appointed Abijah son of Maakah as crown prince among his brothers, in order to make him king.

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2Ch 11:23 - He acted wisely, dispersing some of his sons throughout the districts of Judah and Benjamin, and to all the fortified cities. He gave them abundant provisions and took many wives for them.

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2Ch 12:2 - Because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem in the fifth year of King Rehoboam.

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2Ch 12:3 - With twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen and the innumerable troops of Libyans, Sukkites and Cushites[fn] that came with him from Egypt,

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2Ch 12:4 - he captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

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2Ch 12:5 - Then the prophet Shemaiah came to Rehoboam and to the leaders of Judah who had assembled in Jerusalem for fear of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the LORD says, ‘You have abandoned me; therefore, I now abandon you to Shishak.' ”

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2Ch 12:7 - When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, this word of the LORD came to Shemaiah: “Since they have humbled themselves, I will not destroy them but will soon give them deliverance. My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak.

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2Ch 12:9 - When Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem, he carried off the treasures of the temple of the LORD and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields Solomon had made.

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2Ch 12:11 - Whenever the king went to the LORD's temple, the guards went with him, bearing the shields, and afterward they returned them to the guardroom.

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2Ch 12:12 - Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the LORD's anger turned from him, and he was not totally destroyed. Indeed, there was some good in Judah.

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2Ch 12:13 - King Rehoboam established himself firmly in Jerusalem and continued as king. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name. His mother's name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite.

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2Ch 12:15 - As for the events of Rehoboam's reign, from beginning to end, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer that deal with genealogies? There was continual warfare between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.

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2Ch 12:16 - Rehoboam rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. And Abijah his son succeeded him as king.

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2Ch 13:1 - In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam, Abijah became king of Judah,

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2Ch 13:2 - and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother's name was Maakah,[fn] a daughter[fn] of Uriel of Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

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2Ch 13:3 - Abijah went into battle with an army of four hundred thousand able fighting men, and Jeroboam drew up a battle line against him with eight hundred thousand able troops.

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2Ch 13:4 - Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim, in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, “Jeroboam and all Israel, listen to me!

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2Ch 13:9 - But didn't you drive out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and make priests of your own as the peoples of other lands do? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams may become a priest of what are not gods.

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2Ch 13:10 - “As for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him. The priests who serve the LORD are sons of Aaron, and the Levites assist them.

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2Ch 13:12 - God is with us; he is our leader. His priests with their trumpets will sound the battle cry against you. People of Israel, do not fight against the LORD, the God of your ancestors, for you will not succeed.”

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2Ch 13:15 - and the men of Judah raised the battle cry. At the sound of their battle cry, God routed Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

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2Ch 13:17 - Abijah and his troops inflicted heavy losses on them, so that there were five hundred thousand casualties among Israel's able men.

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2Ch 13:18 - The Israelites were subdued on that occasion, and the people of Judah were victorious because they relied on the LORD, the God of their ancestors.

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2Ch 14:1 - And Abijah rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. Asa his son succeeded him as king, and in his days the country was at peace for ten years.

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2Ch 14:6 - He built up the fortified cities of Judah, since the land was at peace. No one was at war with him during those years, for the LORD gave him rest.

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2Ch 14:7 - “Let us build up these towns,” he said to Judah, “and put walls around them, with towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours, because we have sought the LORD our God; we sought him and he has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.

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2Ch 14:8 - Asa had an army of three hundred thousand men from Judah, equipped with large shields and with spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand from Benjamin, armed with small shields and with bows. All these were brave fighting men.

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2Ch 14:9 - Zerah the Cushite marched out against them with an army of thousands upon thousands and three hundred chariots, and came as far as Mareshah.

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2Ch 14:10 - Asa went out to meet him, and they took up battle positions in the Valley of Zephathah near Mareshah.

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2Ch 14:11 - Then Asa called to the LORD his God and said, “LORD, there is no one like you to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us, LORD our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this vast army. LORD, you are our God; do not let mere mortals prevail against you.”

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2Ch 14:13 - and Asa and his army pursued them as far as Gerar. Such a great number of Cushites fell that they could not recover; they were crushed before the LORD and his forces. The men of Judah carried off a large amount of plunder.

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2Ch 15:2 - He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

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2Ch 15:3 - For a long time Israel was without the true God, without a priest to teach and without the law.

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2Ch 15:5 - In those days it was not safe to travel about, for all the inhabitants of the lands were in great turmoil.

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2Ch 15:6 - One nation was being crushed by another and one city by another, because God was troubling them with every kind of distress.

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2Ch 15:8 - When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of[fn] Oded the prophet, he took courage. He removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the towns he had captured in the hills of Ephraim. He repaired the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD's temple.

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2Ch 15:9 - Then he assembled all Judah and Benjamin and the people from Ephraim, Manasseh and Simeon who had settled among them, for large numbers had come over to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.

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2Ch 15:10 - They assembled at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa's reign.

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2Ch 15:11 - At that time they sacrificed to the LORD seven hundred head of cattle and seven thousand sheep and goats from the plunder they had brought back.

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2Ch 15:12 - They entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and soul.

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2Ch 15:14 - They took an oath to the LORD with loud acclamation, with shouting and with trumpets and horns.

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2Ch 15:15 - All Judah rejoiced about the oath because they had sworn it wholeheartedly. They sought God eagerly, and he was found by them. So the LORD gave them rest on every side.

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2Ch 15:16 - King Asa also deposed his grandmother Maakah from her position as queen mother, because she had made a repulsive image for the worship of Asherah. Asa cut it down, broke it up and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

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2Ch 15:17 - Although he did not remove the high places from Israel, Asa's heart was fully committed to the LORD all his life.

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2Ch 16:1 - In the thirty-sixth year of Asa's reign Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.

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2Ch 16:2 - Asa then took the silver and gold out of the treasuries of the LORD's temple and of his own palace and sent it to Ben-Hadad king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus.

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2Ch 16:5 - When Baasha heard this, he stopped building Ramah and abandoned his work.

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2Ch 16:6 - Then King Asa brought all the men of Judah, and they carried away from Ramah the stones and timber Baasha had been using. With them he built up Geba and Mizpah.

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2Ch 16:7 - At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him: “Because you relied on the king of Aram and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.

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2Ch 16:8 - Were not the Cushites[fn] and Libyans a mighty army with great numbers of chariots and horsemen[fn]? Yet when you relied on the LORD, he delivered them into your hand.

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2Ch 16:9 - For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. You have done a foolish thing, and from now on you will be at war.”

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2Ch 16:10 - Asa was angry with the seer because of this; he was so enraged that he put him in prison. At the same time Asa brutally oppressed some of the people.

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2Ch 16:11 - The events of Asa's reign, from beginning to end, are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

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2Ch 16:12 - In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was afflicted with a disease in his feet. Though his disease was severe, even in his illness he did not seek help from the LORD, but only from the physicians.

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2Ch 16:13 - Then in the forty-first year of his reign Asa died and rested with his ancestors.

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2Ch 16:14 - They buried him in the tomb that he had cut out for himself in the City of David. They laid him on a bier covered with spices and various blended perfumes, and they made a huge fire in his honor.

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2Ch 17:2 - He stationed troops in all the fortified cities of Judah and put garrisons in Judah and in the towns of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.

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2Ch 17:3 - The LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the ways of his father David before him. He did not consult the Baals

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2Ch 17:4 - but sought the God of his father and followed his commands rather than the practices of Israel.

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2Ch 17:5 - The LORD established the kingdom under his control; and all Judah brought gifts to Jehoshaphat, so that he had great wealth and honor.

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2Ch 17:6 - His heart was devoted to the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and the Asherah poles from Judah.

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2Ch 17:7 - In the third year of his reign he sent his officials Ben-Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel and Micaiah to teach in the towns of Judah.

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2Ch 17:9 - They taught throughout Judah, taking with them the Book of the Law of the LORD; they went around to all the towns of Judah and taught the people.

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2Ch 17:12 - Jehoshaphat became more and more powerful; he built forts and store cities in Judah

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2Ch 17:13 - and had large supplies in the towns of Judah. He also kept experienced fighting men in Jerusalem.

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2Ch 17:19 - These were the men who served the king, besides those he stationed in the fortified cities throughout Judah.

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2Ch 18:1 - Now Jehoshaphat had great wealth and honor, and he allied himself with Ahab by marriage.

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2Ch 18:9 - Dressed in their royal robes, the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting on their thrones at the threshing floor by the entrance of the gate of Samaria, with all the prophets prophesying before them.

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2Ch 18:10 - Now Zedekiah son of Kenaanah had made iron horns, and he declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘With these you will gore the Arameans until they are destroyed.' ”

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2Ch 18:12 - The messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the other prophets without exception are predicting success for the king. Let your word agree with theirs, and speak favorably.”

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2Ch 18:15 - The king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear to tell me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?”

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2Ch 18:16 - Then Micaiah answered, “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd, and the LORD said, ‘These people have no master. Let each one go home in peace.' ”

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2Ch 18:19 - And the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab king of Israel into attacking Ramoth Gilead and going to his death there?' “One suggested this, and another that.

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2Ch 18:20 - Finally, a spirit came forward, stood before the LORD and said, ‘I will entice him.' “ ‘By what means?' the LORD asked.

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2Ch 18:21 - “ ‘I will go and be a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,' he said. “ ‘You will succeed in enticing him,' said the LORD. ‘Go and do it.'

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2Ch 18:22 - “So now the LORD has put a deceiving spirit in the mouths of these prophets of yours. The LORD has decreed disaster for you.”

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2Ch 18:24 - Micaiah replied, “You will find out on the day you go to hide in an inner room.”

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2Ch 18:26 - and say, ‘This is what the king says: Put this fellow in prison and give him nothing but bread and water until I return safely.' ”

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2Ch 18:27 - Micaiah declared, “If you ever return safely, the LORD has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Mark my words, all you people!”

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2Ch 18:34 - All day long the battle raged, and the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot facing the Arameans until evening. Then at sunset he died.

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2Ch 19:1 - When Jehoshaphat king of Judah returned safely to his palace in Jerusalem,

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2Ch 19:3 - There is, however, some good in you, for you have rid the land of the Asherah poles and have set your heart on seeking God.”

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2Ch 19:4 - Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and turned them back to the LORD, the God of their ancestors.

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2Ch 19:5 - He appointed judges in the land, in each of the fortified cities of Judah.

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2Ch 19:8 - In Jerusalem also, Jehoshaphat appointed some of the Levites, priests and heads of Israelite families to administer the law of the LORD and to settle disputes. And they lived in Jerusalem.

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2Ch 19:9 - He gave them these orders: “You must serve faithfully and wholeheartedly in the fear of the LORD.

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2Ch 19:10 - In every case that comes before you from your people who live in the cities—whether bloodshed or other concerns of the law, commands, decrees or regulations—you are to warn them not to sin against the LORD; otherwise his wrath will come on you and your people. Do this, and you will not sin.

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2Ch 20:2 - Some people came and told Jehoshaphat, “A vast army is coming against you from Edom,[fn] from the other side of the Dead Sea. It is already in Hazezon Tamar” (that is, En Gedi).

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2Ch 20:3 - Alarmed, Jehoshaphat resolved to inquire of the LORD, and he proclaimed a fast for all Judah.

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2Ch 20:5 - Then Jehoshaphat stood up in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem at the temple of the LORD in the front of the new courtyard

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2Ch 20:6 - and said: “LORD, the God of our ancestors, are you not the God who is in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. Power and might are in your hand, and no one can withstand you.

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2Ch 20:8 - They have lived in it and have built in it a sanctuary for your Name, saying,

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2Ch 20:12 - Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”

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2Ch 20:14 - Then the Spirit of the LORD came on Jahaziel son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite and descendant of Asaph, as he stood in the assembly.

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2Ch 20:19 - Then some Levites from the Kohathites and Korahites stood up and praised the LORD, the God of Israel, with a very loud voice.

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2Ch 20:20 - Early in the morning they left for the Desert of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah and people of Jerusalem! Have faith in the LORD your God and you will be upheld; have faith in his prophets and you will be successful.”

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2Ch 20:21 - After consulting the people, Jehoshaphat appointed men to sing to the LORD and to praise him for the splendor of his[fn] holiness as they went out at the head of the army, saying: “Give thanks to the LORD, for his love endures forever.”

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2Ch 20:22 - As they began to sing and praise, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.

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2Ch 20:27 - Then, led by Jehoshaphat, all the men of Judah and Jerusalem returned joyfully to Jerusalem, for the LORD had given them cause to rejoice over their enemies.

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2Ch 20:28 - They entered Jerusalem and went to the temple of the LORD with harps and lyres and trumpets.

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2Ch 20:29 - The fear of God came on all the surrounding kingdoms when they heard how the LORD had fought against the enemies of Israel.

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2Ch 20:31 - So Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he became king of Judah, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. His mother's name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.

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2Ch 20:32 - He followed the ways of his father Asa and did not stray from them; he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.

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2Ch 20:34 - The other events of Jehoshaphat's reign, from beginning to end, are written in the annals of Jehu son of Hanani, which are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel.

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2Ch 20:36 - He agreed with him to construct a fleet of trading ships.[fn] After these were built at Ezion Geber,

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2Ch 21:1 - Then Jehoshaphat rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David. And Jehoram his son succeeded him as king.

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2Ch 21:3 - Their father had given them many gifts of silver and gold and articles of value, as well as fortified cities in Judah, but he had given the kingdom to Jehoram because he was his firstborn son.

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2Ch 21:4 - When Jehoram established himself firmly over his father's kingdom, he put all his brothers to the sword along with some of the officials of Israel.

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2Ch 21:5 - Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years.

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2Ch 21:6 - He followed the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for he married a daughter of Ahab. He did evil in the eyes of the LORD.

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2Ch 21:8 - In the time of Jehoram, Edom rebelled against Judah and set up its own king.

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2Ch 21:10 - To this day Edom has been in rebellion against Judah. Libnah revolted at the same time, because Jehoram had forsaken the LORD, the God of his ancestors.

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2Ch 21:11 - He had also built high places on the hills of Judah and had caused the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves and had led Judah astray.

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2Ch 21:12 - Jehoram received a letter from Elijah the prophet, which said: “This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘You have not followed the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or of Asa king of Judah.

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2Ch 21:13 - But you have followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and you have led Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab did. You have also murdered your own brothers, members of your own family, men who were better than you.

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2Ch 21:14 - So now the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives and everything that is yours, with a heavy blow.

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2Ch 21:15 - You yourself will be very ill with a lingering disease of the bowels, until the disease causes your bowels to come out.' ”

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2Ch 21:17 - They attacked Judah, invaded it and carried off all the goods found in the king's palace, together with his sons and wives. Not a son was left to him except Ahaziah,[fn] the youngest.

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2Ch 21:18 - After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.

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2Ch 21:19 - In the course of time, at the end of the second year, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great pain. His people made no funeral fire in his honor, as they had for his predecessors.

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2Ch 21:20 - Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He passed away, to no one's regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

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2Ch 22:1 - The people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, Jehoram's youngest son, king in his place, since the raiders, who came with the Arabs into the camp, had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.

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2Ch 22:2 - Ahaziah was twenty-two[fn] years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri.

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2Ch 22:3 - He too followed the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother encouraged him to act wickedly.

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2Ch 22:5 - He also followed their counsel when he went with Joram[fn] son of Ahab king of Israel to wage war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth Gilead. The Arameans wounded Joram;

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2Ch 22:6 - so he returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds they had inflicted on him at Ramoth[fn] in his battle with Hazael king of Aram. Then Ahaziah[fn] son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to see Joram son of Ahab because he had been wounded.

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2Ch 22:7 - Through Ahaziah's visit to Joram, God brought about Ahaziah's downfall. When Ahaziah arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.

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2Ch 22:9 - He then went in search of Ahaziah, and his men captured him while he was hiding in Samaria. He was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “He was a son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.” So there was no one in the house of Ahaziah powerful enough to retain the kingdom.

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2Ch 22:10 - When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to destroy the whole royal family of the house of Judah.

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2Ch 22:12 - He remained hidden with them at the temple of God for six years while Athaliah ruled the land.

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2Ch 23:1 - In the seventh year Jehoiada showed his strength. He made a covenant with the commanders of units of a hundred: Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zikri.

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2Ch 23:3 - the whole assembly made a covenant with the king at the temple of God. Jehoiada said to them, “The king's son shall reign, as the LORD promised concerning the descendants of David.

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2Ch 23:5 - a third of you at the royal palace and a third at the Foundation Gate, and all the others are to be in the courtyards of the temple of the LORD.

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2Ch 23:7 - The Levites are to station themselves around the king, each with weapon in hand. Anyone who enters the temple is to be put to death. Stay close to the king wherever he goes.”

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2Ch 23:9 - Then he gave the commanders of units of a hundred the spears and the large and small shields that had belonged to King David and that were in the temple of God.

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2Ch 23:10 - He stationed all the men, each with his weapon in his hand, around the king—near the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.

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2Ch 23:13 - She looked, and there was the king, standing by his pillar at the entrance. The officers and the trumpeters were beside the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets, and musicians with their instruments were leading the praises. Then Athaliah tore her robes and shouted, “Treason! Treason!”

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2Ch 23:14 - Jehoiada the priest sent out the commanders of units of a hundred, who were in charge of the troops, and said to them: “Bring her out between the ranks[fn] and put to the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest had said, “Do not put her to death at the temple of the LORD.”

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2Ch 23:18 - Then Jehoiada placed the oversight of the temple of the LORD in the hands of the Levitical priests, to whom David had made assignments in the temple, to present the burnt offerings of the LORD as written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and singing, as David had ordered.

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2Ch 24:1 - Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother's name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

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2Ch 24:8 - At the king's command, a chest was made and placed outside, at the gate of the temple of the LORD.

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2Ch 24:9 - A proclamation was then issued in Judah and Jerusalem that they should bring to the LORD the tax that Moses the servant of God had required of Israel in the wilderness.

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2Ch 24:13 - The men in charge of the work were diligent, and the repairs progressed under them. They rebuilt the temple of God according to its original design and reinforced it.

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2Ch 24:14 - When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada, and with it were made articles for the LORD's temple: articles for the service and for the burnt offerings, and also dishes and other objects of gold and silver. As long as Jehoiada lived, burnt offerings were presented continually in the temple of the LORD.

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2Ch 24:15 - Now Jehoiada was old and full of years, and he died at the age of a hundred and thirty.

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2Ch 24:16 - He was buried with the kings in the City of David, because of the good he had done in Israel for God and his temple.

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2Ch 24:18 - They abandoned the temple of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, and worshiped Asherah poles and idols. Because of their guilt, God's anger came on Judah and Jerusalem.

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2Ch 24:21 - But they plotted against him, and by order of the king they stoned him to death in the courtyard of the LORD's temple.

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2Ch 24:23 - At the turn of the year,[fn] the army of Aram marched against Joash; it invaded Judah and Jerusalem and killed all the leaders of the people. They sent all the plunder to their king in Damascus.

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2Ch 24:24 - Although the Aramean army had come with only a few men, the LORD delivered into their hands a much larger army. Because Judah had forsaken the LORD, the God of their ancestors, judgment was executed on Joash.

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2Ch 24:25 - When the Arameans withdrew, they left Joash severely wounded. His officials conspired against him for murdering the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they killed him in his bed. So he died and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

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2Ch 25:1 - Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother's name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem.

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2Ch 25:2 - He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not wholeheartedly.

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2Ch 25:3 - After the kingdom was firmly in his control, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king.

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2Ch 25:5 - Amaziah called the people of Judah together and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He then mustered those twenty years old or more and found that there were three hundred thousand men fit for military service, able to handle the spear and shield.

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2Ch 25:8 - Even if you go and fight courageously in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has the power to help or to overthrow.”

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2Ch 25:10 - So Amaziah dismissed the troops who had come to him from Ephraim and sent them home. They were furious with Judah and left for home in a great rage.

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2Ch 25:13 - Meanwhile the troops that Amaziah had sent back and had not allowed to take part in the war raided towns belonging to Judah from Samaria to Beth Horon. They killed three thousand people and carried off great quantities of plunder.

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2Ch 25:16 - While he was still speaking, the king said to him, “Have we appointed you an adviser to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?” So the prophet stopped but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”

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2Ch 25:18 - But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.' Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle underfoot.

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2Ch 25:19 - You say to yourself that you have defeated Edom, and now you are arrogant and proud. But stay at home! Why ask for trouble and cause your own downfall and that of Judah also?”

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2Ch 25:21 - So Jehoash king of Israel attacked. He and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth Shemesh in Judah.

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2Ch 25:23 - Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah,[fn] at Beth Shemesh. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section about four hundred cubits[fn] long.

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2Ch 25:24 - He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the temple of God that had been in the care of Obed-Edom, together with the palace treasures and the hostages, and returned to Samaria.

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2Ch 25:27 - From the time that Amaziah turned away from following the LORD, they conspired against him in Jerusalem and he fled to Lachish, but they sent men after him to Lachish and killed him there.

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2Ch 25:28 - He was brought back by horse and was buried with his ancestors in the City of Judah.[fn]

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2Ch 26:3 - Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother's name was Jekoliah; she was from Jerusalem.

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2Ch 26:5 - He sought God during the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear[fn] of God. As long as he sought the LORD, God gave him success.

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2Ch 26:6 - He went to war against the Philistines and broke down the walls of Gath, Jabneh and Ashdod. He then rebuilt towns near Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines.

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2Ch 26:9 - Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate and at the angle of the wall, and he fortified them.

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2Ch 26:10 - He also built towers in the wilderness and dug many cisterns, because he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain. He had people working his fields and vineyards in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.

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2Ch 26:13 - Under their command was an army of 307,500 men trained for war, a powerful force to support the king against his enemies.

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2Ch 26:15 - In Jerusalem he made devices invented for use on the towers and on the corner defenses so that soldiers could shoot arrows and hurl large stones from the walls. His fame spread far and wide, for he was greatly helped until he became powerful.

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2Ch 26:16 - But after Uzziah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, and entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.

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2Ch 26:19 - Uzziah, who had a censer in his hand ready to burn incense, became angry. While he was raging at the priests in their presence before the incense altar in the LORD's temple, leprosy[fn] broke out on his forehead.

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2Ch 26:20 - When Azariah the chief priest and all the other priests looked at him, they saw that he had leprosy on his forehead, so they hurried him out. Indeed, he himself was eager to leave, because the LORD had afflicted him.

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2Ch 26:21 - King Uzziah had leprosy until the day he died. He lived in a separate house[fn]—leprous, and banned from the temple of the LORD. Jotham his son had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.

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2Ch 26:23 - Uzziah rested with his ancestors and was buried near them in a cemetery that belonged to the kings, for people said, “He had leprosy.” And Jotham his son succeeded him as king.

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2Ch 27:1 - Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. His mother's name was Jerusha daughter of Zadok.

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2Ch 27:3 - Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the temple of the LORD and did extensive work on the wall at the hill of Ophel.

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2Ch 27:4 - He built towns in the hill country of Judah and forts and towers in the wooded areas.

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2Ch 27:5 - Jotham waged war against the king of the Ammonites and conquered them. That year the Ammonites paid him a hundred talents[fn] of silver, ten thousand cors[fn] of wheat and ten thousand cors[fn] of barley. The Ammonites brought him the same amount also in the second and third years.

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2Ch 27:9 - Jotham rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. And Ahaz his son succeeded him as king.

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2Ch 28:1 - Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. Unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD.

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2Ch 28:3 - He burned sacrifices in the Valley of Ben Hinnom and sacrificed his children in the fire, engaging in the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

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2Ch 28:5 - Therefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hands of the king of Aram. The Arameans defeated him and took many of his people as prisoners and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hands of the king of Israel, who inflicted heavy casualties on him.

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2Ch 28:6 - In one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed a hundred and twenty thousand soldiers in Judah—because Judah had forsaken the LORD, the God of their ancestors.

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2Ch 28:9 - But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army when it returned to Samaria. He said to them, “Because the LORD, the God of your ancestors, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches to heaven.

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2Ch 28:15 - The men designated by name took the prisoners, and from the plunder they clothed all who were naked. They provided them with clothes and sandals, food and drink, and healing balm. All those who were weak they put on donkeys. So they took them back to their fellow Israelites at Jericho, the City of Palms, and returned to Samaria.

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2Ch 28:16 - At that time King Ahaz sent to the kings[fn] of Assyria for help.

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2Ch 28:17 - The Edomites had again come and attacked Judah and carried away prisoners,

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2Ch 28:21 - Ahaz took some of the things from the temple of the LORD and from the royal palace and from the officials and presented them to the king of Assyria, but that did not help him.

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2Ch 28:24 - Ahaz gathered together the furnishings from the temple of God and cut them in pieces. He shut the doors of the LORD's temple and set up altars at every street corner in Jerusalem.

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2Ch 28:25 - In every town in Judah he built high places to burn sacrifices to other gods and aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of his ancestors.

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2Ch 28:27 - Ahaz rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of Jerusalem, but he was not placed in the tombs of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son succeeded him as king.

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2Ch 29:1 - Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother's name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah.

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2Ch 29:3 - In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the temple of the LORD and repaired them.

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2Ch 29:7 - They also shut the doors of the portico and put out the lamps. They did not burn incense or present any burnt offerings at the sanctuary to the God of Israel.

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2Ch 29:9 - This is why our fathers have fallen by the sword and why our sons and daughters and our wives are in captivity.

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2Ch 29:11 - My sons, do not be negligent now, for the LORD has chosen you to stand before him and serve him, to minister before him and to burn incense.”

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2Ch 29:16 - The priests went into the sanctuary of the LORD to purify it. They brought out to the courtyard of the LORD's temple everything unclean that they found in the temple of the LORD. The Levites took it and carried it out to the Kidron Valley.

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2Ch 29:17 - They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and by the eighth day of the month they reached the portico of the LORD. For eight more days they consecrated the temple of the LORD itself, finishing on the sixteenth day of the first month.

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2Ch 29:18 - Then they went in to King Hezekiah and reported: “We have purified the entire temple of the LORD, the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the table for setting out the consecrated bread, with all its articles.

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2Ch 29:19 - We have prepared and consecrated all the articles that King Ahaz removed in his unfaithfulness while he was king. They are now in front of the LORD's altar.”

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2Ch 29:25 - He stationed the Levites in the temple of the LORD with cymbals, harps and lyres in the way prescribed by David and Gad the king's seer and Nathan the prophet; this was commanded by the LORD through his prophets.

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2Ch 29:26 - So the Levites stood ready with David's instruments, and the priests with their trumpets.

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2Ch 29:27 - Hezekiah gave the order to sacrifice the burnt offering on the altar. As the offering began, singing to the LORD began also, accompanied by trumpets and the instruments of David king of Israel.

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2Ch 29:30 - King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the Levites to praise the LORD with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with gladness and bowed down and worshiped.

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2Ch 29:35 - There were burnt offerings in abundance, together with the fat of the fellowship offerings and the drink offerings that accompanied the burnt offerings. So the service of the temple of the LORD was reestablished.

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2Ch 30:2 - The king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem decided to celebrate the Passover in the second month.

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2Ch 30:3 - They had not been able to celebrate it at the regular time because not enough priests had consecrated themselves and the people had not assembled in Jerusalem.

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2Ch 30:5 - They decided to send a proclamation throughout Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, calling the people to come to Jerusalem and celebrate the Passover to the LORD, the God of Israel. It had not been celebrated in large numbers according to what was written.

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2Ch 30:9 - If you return to the LORD, then your fellow Israelites and your children will be shown compassion by their captors and will return to this land, for the LORD your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face from you if you return to him.”

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2Ch 30:10 - The couriers went from town to town in Ephraim and Manasseh, as far as Zebulun, but people scorned and ridiculed them.

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2Ch 30:12 - Also in Judah the hand of God was on the people to give them unity of mind to carry out what the king and his officials had ordered, following the word of the LORD.

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2Ch 30:13 - A very large crowd of people assembled in Jerusalem to celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread in the second month.

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2Ch 30:14 - They removed the altars in Jerusalem and cleared away the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.

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2Ch 30:21 - The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem celebrated the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great rejoicing, while the Levites and priests praised the LORD every day with resounding instruments dedicated to the LORD.[fn]

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2Ch 30:23 - The whole assembly then agreed to celebrate the festival seven more days; so for another seven days they celebrated joyfully.

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2Ch 30:25 - The entire assembly of Judah rejoiced, along with the priests and Levites and all who had assembled from Israel, including the foreigners who had come from Israel and also those who resided in Judah.

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2Ch 30:26 - There was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the days of Solomon son of David king of Israel there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem.

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2Ch 31:1 - When all this had ended, the Israelites who were there went out to the towns of Judah, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. They destroyed the high places and the altars throughout Judah and Benjamin and in Ephraim and Manasseh. After they had destroyed all of them, the Israelites returned to their own towns and to their own property.

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2Ch 31:2 - Hezekiah assigned the priests and Levites to divisions—each of them according to their duties as priests or Levites—to offer burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, to minister, to give thanks and to sing praises at the gates of the LORD's dwelling.

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2Ch 31:3 - The king contributed from his own possessions for the morning and evening burnt offerings and for the burnt offerings on the Sabbaths, at the New Moons and at the appointed festivals as written in the Law of the LORD.

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2Ch 31:4 - He ordered the people living in Jerusalem to give the portion due the priests and Levites so they could devote themselves to the Law of the LORD.

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2Ch 31:6 - The people of Israel and Judah who lived in the towns of Judah also brought a tithe of their herds and flocks and a tithe of the holy things dedicated to the LORD their God, and they piled them in heaps.

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2Ch 31:7 - They began doing this in the third month and finished in the seventh month.

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2Ch 31:12 - Then they faithfully brought in the contributions, tithes and dedicated gifts. Konaniah, a Levite, was the overseer in charge of these things, and his brother Shimei was next in rank.

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2Ch 31:15 - Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah and Shekaniah assisted him faithfully in the towns of the priests, distributing to their fellow priests according to their divisions, old and young alike.

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2Ch 31:17 - And they distributed to the priests enrolled by their families in the genealogical records and likewise to the Levites twenty years old or more, according to their responsibilities and their divisions.

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2Ch 31:18 - They included all the little ones, the wives, and the sons and daughters of the whole community listed in these genealogical records. For they were faithful in consecrating themselves.

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2Ch 31:19 - As for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who lived on the farm lands around their towns or in any other towns, men were designated by name to distribute portions to every male among them and to all who were recorded in the genealogies of the Levites.

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2Ch 31:20 - This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah, doing what was good and right and faithful before the LORD his God.

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2Ch 31:21 - In everything that he undertook in the service of God's temple and in obedience to the law and the commands, he sought his God and worked wholeheartedly. And so he prospered.

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2Ch 32:9 - Later, when Sennacherib king of Assyria and all his forces were laying siege to Lachish, he sent his officers to Jerusalem with this message for Hezekiah king of Judah and for all the people of Judah who were there:

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2Ch 32:10 - “This is what Sennacherib king of Assyria says: On what are you basing your confidence, that you remain in Jerusalem under siege?

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2Ch 32:14 - Who of all the gods of these nations that my predecessors destroyed has been able to save his people from me? How then can your god deliver you from my hand?

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2Ch 32:21 - And the LORD sent an angel, who annihilated all the fighting men and the commanders and officers in the camp of the Assyrian king. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he went into the temple of his god, some of his sons, his own flesh and blood, cut him down with the sword.

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2Ch 32:22 - So the LORD saved Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib king of Assyria and from the hand of all others. He took care of them[fn] on every side.

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2Ch 32:24 - In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. He prayed to the LORD, who answered him and gave him a miraculous sign.

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2Ch 32:26 - Then Hezekiah repented of the pride of his heart, as did the people of Jerusalem; therefore the LORD's wrath did not come on them during the days of Hezekiah.

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2Ch 32:30 - It was Hezekiah who blocked the upper outlet of the Gihon spring and channeled the water down to the west side of the City of David. He succeeded in everything he undertook.

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2Ch 32:31 - But when envoys were sent by the rulers of Babylon to ask him about the miraculous sign that had occurred in the land, God left him to test him and to know everything that was in his heart.

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2Ch 32:32 - The other events of Hezekiah's reign and his acts of devotion are written in the vision of the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

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2Ch 32:33 - Hezekiah rested with his ancestors and was buried on the hill where the tombs of David's descendants are. All Judah and the people of Jerusalem honored him when he died. And Manasseh his son succeeded him as king.

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2Ch 33:1 - Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years.

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2Ch 33:4 - He built altars in the temple of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”

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2Ch 33:5 - In both courts of the temple of the LORD, he built altars to all the starry hosts.

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2Ch 33:6 - He sacrificed his children in the fire in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, practiced divination and witchcraft, sought omens, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the LORD, arousing his anger.

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2Ch 33:7 - He took the image he had made and put it in God's temple, of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name forever.

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2Ch 33:8 - I will not again make the feet of the Israelites leave the land I assigned to your ancestors, if only they will be careful to do everything I commanded them concerning all the laws, decrees and regulations given through Moses.”

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2Ch 33:9 - But Manasseh led Judah and the people of Jerusalem astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.

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2Ch 33:11 - So the LORD brought against them the army commanders of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh prisoner, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon.

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2Ch 33:14 - Afterward he rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David, west of the Gihon spring in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate and encircling the hill of Ophel; he also made it much higher. He stationed military commanders in all the fortified cities in Judah.

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2Ch 33:15 - He got rid of the foreign gods and removed the image from the temple of the LORD, as well as all the altars he had built on the temple hill and in Jerusalem; and he threw them out of the city.

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2Ch 33:20 - Manasseh rested with his ancestors and was buried in his palace. And Amon his son succeeded him as king.

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2Ch 33:21 - Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years.

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2Ch 33:24 - Amon's officials conspired against him and assassinated him in his palace.

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2Ch 34:1 - Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.

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2Ch 34:2 - He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and followed the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left.

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2Ch 34:3 - In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David. In his twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of high places, Asherah poles and idols.

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2Ch 34:6 - In the towns of Manasseh, Ephraim and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them,

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2Ch 34:8 - In the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign, to purify the land and the temple, he sent Shaphan son of Azaliah and Maaseiah the ruler of the city, with Joah son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the temple of the LORD his God.

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2Ch 34:9 - They went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the temple of God, which the Levites who were the gatekeepers had collected from the people of Manasseh, Ephraim and the entire remnant of Israel and from all the people of Judah and Benjamin and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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2Ch 34:10 - Then they entrusted it to the men appointed to supervise the work on the LORD's temple. These men paid the workers who repaired and restored the temple.

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2Ch 34:12 - The workers labored faithfully. Over them to direct them were Jahath and Obadiah, Levites descended from Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, descended from Kohath. The Levites—all who were skilled in playing musical instruments—

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2Ch 34:14 - While they were bringing out the money that had been taken into the temple of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the LORD that had been given through Moses.

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2Ch 34:15 - Hilkiah said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the temple of the LORD.” He gave it to Shaphan.

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2Ch 34:16 - Then Shaphan took the book to the king and reported to him: “Your officials are doing everything that has been committed to them.

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2Ch 34:17 - They have paid out the money that was in the temple of the LORD and have entrusted it to the supervisors and workers.”

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2Ch 34:21 - “Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for the remnant in Israel and Judah about what is written in this book that has been found. Great is the LORD's anger that is poured out on us because those who have gone before us have not kept the word of the LORD; they have not acted in accordance with all that is written in this book.”

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2Ch 34:22 - Hilkiah and those the king had sent with him[fn] went to speak to the prophet Huldah, who was the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath,[fn] the son of Hasrah,[fn] keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the New Quarter.

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2Ch 34:24 - ‘This is what the LORD says: I am going to bring disaster on this place and its people—all the curses written in the book that has been read in the presence of the king of Judah.

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2Ch 34:25 - Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods and aroused my anger by all that their hands have made,[fn] my anger will be poured out on this place and will not be quenched.'

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2Ch 34:27 - Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before God when you heard what he spoke against this place and its people, and because you humbled yourself before me and tore your robes and wept in my presence, I have heard you, declares the LORD.

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2Ch 34:28 - Now I will gather you to your ancestors, and you will be buried in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster I am going to bring on this place and on those who live here.' ” So they took her answer back to the king.

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2Ch 34:30 - He went up to the temple of the LORD with the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the Levites—all the people from the least to the greatest. He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant, which had been found in the temple of the LORD.

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2Ch 34:31 - The king stood by his pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the LORD—to follow the LORD and keep his commands, statutes and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, and to obey the words of the covenant written in this book.

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2Ch 34:32 - Then he had everyone in Jerusalem and Benjamin pledge themselves to it; the people of Jerusalem did this in accordance with the covenant of God, the God of their ancestors.

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2Ch 34:33 - Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the territory belonging to the Israelites, and he had all who were present in Israel serve the LORD their God. As long as he lived, they did not fail to follow the LORD, the God of their ancestors.

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2Ch 35:3 - He said to the Levites, who instructed all Israel and who had been consecrated to the LORD: “Put the sacred ark in the temple that Solomon son of David king of Israel built. It is not to be carried about on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel.

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2Ch 35:5 - “Stand in the holy place with a group of Levites for each subdivision of the families of your fellow Israelites, the lay people.

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2Ch 35:12 - They set aside the burnt offerings to give them to the subdivisions of the families of the people to offer to the LORD, as it is written in the Book of Moses. They did the same with the cattle.

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2Ch 35:13 - They roasted the Passover animals over the fire as prescribed, and boiled the holy offerings in pots, caldrons and pans and served them quickly to all the people.

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2Ch 35:14 - After this, they made preparations for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the descendants of Aaron, were sacrificing the burnt offerings and the fat portions until nightfall. So the Levites made preparations for themselves and for the Aaronic priests.

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2Ch 35:16 - So at that time the entire service of the LORD was carried out for the celebration of the Passover and the offering of burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, as King Josiah had ordered.

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2Ch 35:17 - The Israelites who were present celebrated the Passover at that time and observed the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days.

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2Ch 35:18 - The Passover had not been observed like this in Israel since the days of the prophet Samuel; and none of the kings of Israel had ever celebrated such a Passover as did Josiah, with the priests, the Levites and all Judah and Israel who were there with the people of Jerusalem.

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2Ch 35:19 - This Passover was celebrated in the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign.

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2Ch 35:22 - Josiah, however, would not turn away from him, but disguised himself to engage him in battle. He would not listen to what Necho had said at God's command but went to fight him on the plain of Megiddo.

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2Ch 35:26 - The other events of Josiah's reign and his acts of devotion in accordance with what is written in the Law of the LORD—

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2Ch 36:1 - And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.

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2Ch 36:2 - Jehoahaz[fn] was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.

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2Ch 36:5 - Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. He did evil in the eyes of the LORD his God.

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2Ch 36:6 - Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon attacked him and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.

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2Ch 36:7 - Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon articles from the temple of the LORD and put them in his temple[fn] there.

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2Ch 36:8 - The other events of Jehoiakim's reign, the detestable things he did and all that was found against him, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son succeeded him as king.

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2Ch 36:9 - Jehoiachin was eighteen[fn] years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days. He did evil in the eyes of the LORD.

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2Ch 36:11 - Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years.

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2Ch 36:13 - He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him take an oath in God's name. He became stiff-necked and hardened his heart and would not turn to the LORD, the God of Israel.

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2Ch 36:14 - Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people became more and more unfaithful, following all the detestable practices of the nations and defiling the temple of the LORD, which he had consecrated in Jerusalem.

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2Ch 36:15 - The LORD, the God of their ancestors, sent word to them through his messengers again and again, because he had pity on his people and on his dwelling place.

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2Ch 36:16 - But they mocked God's messengers, despised his words and scoffed at his prophets until the wrath of the LORD was aroused against his people and there was no remedy.

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2Ch 36:17 - He brought up against them the king of the Babylonians,[fn] who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and did not spare young men or young women, the elderly or the infirm. God gave them all into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar.

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2Ch 36:19 - They set fire to God's temple and broke down the wall of Jerusalem; they burned all the palaces and destroyed everything of value there.

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2Ch 36:22 - In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah, the LORD moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and also to put it in writing:

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2Ch 36:23 - “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: “ ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Any of his people among you may go up, and may the LORD their God be with them.' ”

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Ezr 1:1 - In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah, the LORD moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and also to put it in writing:

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Ezr 1:2 - “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: “ ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah.

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Ezr 1:3 - Any of his people among you may go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the LORD, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem, and may their God be with them.

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Ezr 1:4 - And in any locality where survivors may now be living, the people are to provide them with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with freewill offerings for the temple of God in Jerusalem.' ”

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Ezr 1:5 - Then the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and Levites—everyone whose heart God had moved—prepared to go up and build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.

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Ezr 1:6 - All their neighbors assisted them with articles of silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with valuable gifts, in addition to all the freewill offerings.

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Ezr 1:7 - Moreover, King Cyrus brought out the articles belonging to the temple of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and had placed in the temple of his god.[fn]

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Ezr 2:68 - When they arrived at the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families gave freewill offerings toward the rebuilding of the house of God on its site.

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Ezr 2:70 - The priests, the Levites, the musicians, the gatekeepers and the temple servants settled in their own towns, along with some of the other people, and the rest of the Israelites settled in their towns.

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Ezr 3:1 - When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns, the people assembled together as one in Jerusalem.

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Ezr 3:2 - Then Joshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings on it, in accordance with what is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.

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Ezr 3:3 - Despite their fear of the peoples around them, they built the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the LORD, both the morning and evening sacrifices.

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Ezr 3:4 - Then in accordance with what is written, they celebrated the Festival of Tabernacles with the required number of burnt offerings prescribed for each day.

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Ezr 3:6 - On the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, though the foundation of the LORD's temple had not yet been laid.

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Ezr 3:8 - In the second month of the second year after their arrival at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak and the rest of the people (the priests and the Levites and all who had returned from the captivity to Jerusalem) began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years old and older to supervise the building of the house of the LORD.

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Ezr 3:9 - Joshua and his sons and brothers and Kadmiel and his sons (descendants of Hodaviah[fn]) and the sons of Henadad and their sons and brothers—all Levites—joined together in supervising those working on the house of God.

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Ezr 3:10 - When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their vestments and with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their places to praise the LORD, as prescribed by David king of Israel.

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Ezr 3:11 - With praise and thanksgiving they sang to the LORD: “He is good; his love toward Israel endures forever.” And all the people gave a great shout of praise to the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.

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Ezr 3:12 - But many of the older priests and Levites and family heads, who had seen the former temple, wept aloud when they saw the foundation of this temple being laid, while many others shouted for joy.

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Ezr 4:6 - At the beginning of the reign of Xerxes,[fn] they lodged an accusation against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.

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Ezr 4:7 - And in the days of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel and the rest of his associates wrote a letter to Artaxerxes. The letter was written in Aramaic script and in the Aramaic language.[fn][fn]

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Ezr 4:10 - and the other people whom the great and honorable Ashurbanipal deported and settled in the city of Samaria and elsewhere in Trans-Euphrates.

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Ezr 4:15 - so that a search may be made in the archives of your predecessors. In these records you will find that this city is a rebellious city, troublesome to kings and provinces, a place with a long history of sedition. That is why this city was destroyed.

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Ezr 4:17 - The king sent this reply: To Rehum the commanding officer, Shimshai the secretary and the rest of their associates living in Samaria and elsewhere in Trans-Euphrates: Greetings.

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Ezr 4:19 - I issued an order and a search was made, and it was found that this city has a long history of revolt against kings and has been a place of rebellion and sedition.

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Ezr 4:23 - As soon as the copy of the letter of King Artaxerxes was read to Rehum and Shimshai the secretary and their associates, they went immediately to the Jews in Jerusalem and compelled them by force to stop.

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Ezr 4:24 - Thus the work on the house of God in Jerusalem came to a standstill until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

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Ezr 5:1 - Now Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the prophet, a descendant of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them.

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Ezr 5:2 - Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jozadak set to work to rebuild the house of God in Jerusalem. And the prophets of God were with them, supporting them.

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Ezr 5:3 - At that time Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and their associates went to them and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and to finish it?”

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Ezr 5:6 - This is a copy of the letter that Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and their associates, the officials of Trans-Euphrates, sent to King Darius.

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Ezr 5:7 - The report they sent him read as follows: To King Darius: Cordial greetings.

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Ezr 5:8 - The king should know that we went to the district of Judah, to the temple of the great God. The people are building it with large stones and placing the timbers in the walls. The work is being carried on with diligence and is making rapid progress under their direction.

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Ezr 5:13 - “However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, King Cyrus issued a decree to rebuild this house of God.

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Ezr 5:14 - He even removed from the temple[fn] of Babylon the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to the temple[fn] in Babylon. Then King Cyrus gave them to a man named Sheshbazzar, whom he had appointed governor,

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Ezr 5:15 - and he told him, ‘Take these articles and go and deposit them in the temple in Jerusalem. And rebuild the house of God on its site.'

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Ezr 5:16 - “So this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God in Jerusalem. From that day to the present it has been under construction but is not yet finished.”

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Ezr 5:17 - Now if it pleases the king, let a search be made in the royal archives of Babylon to see if King Cyrus did in fact issue a decree to rebuild this house of God in Jerusalem. Then let the king send us his decision in this matter.

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Ezr 6:1 - King Darius then issued an order, and they searched in the archives stored in the treasury at Babylon.

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Ezr 6:2 - A scroll was found in the citadel of Ecbatana in the province of Media, and this was written on it: Memorandum:

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Ezr 6:3 - In the first year of King Cyrus, the king issued a decree concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem: Let the temple be rebuilt as a place to present sacrifices, and let its foundations be laid. It is to be sixty cubits[fn] high and sixty cubits wide,

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Ezr 6:5 - Also, the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, are to be returned to their places in the temple in Jerusalem; they are to be deposited in the house of God.

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Ezr 6:6 - Now then, Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and you other officials of that province, stay away from there.

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Ezr 6:9 - Whatever is needed—young bulls, rams, male lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, and wheat, salt, wine and olive oil, as requested by the priests in Jerusalem—must be given them daily without fail,

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Ezr 6:12 - May God, who has caused his Name to dwell there, overthrow any king or people who lifts a hand to change this decree or to destroy this temple in Jerusalem. I Darius have decreed it. Let it be carried out with diligence.

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Ezr 6:14 - So the elders of the Jews continued to build and prosper under the preaching of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, a descendant of Iddo. They finished building the temple according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia.

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Ezr 6:16 - Then the people of Israel—the priests, the Levites and the rest of the exiles—celebrated the dedication of the house of God with joy.

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Ezr 6:18 - And they installed the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their groups for the service of God at Jerusalem, according to what is written in the Book of Moses.

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Ezr 6:22 - For seven days they celebrated with joy the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because the LORD had filled them with joy by changing the attitude of the king of Assyria so that he assisted them in the work on the house of God, the God of Israel.

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Ezr 7:1 - After these things, during the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

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Ezr 7:6 - this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a teacher well versed in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted him everything he asked, for the hand of the LORD his God was on him.

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Ezr 7:7 - Some of the Israelites, including priests, Levites, musicians, gatekeepers and temple servants, also came up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.

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Ezr 7:9 - He had begun his journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month, and he arrived in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month, for the gracious hand of his God was on him.

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Ezr 7:10 - For Ezra had devoted himself to the study and observance of the Law of the LORD, and to teaching its decrees and laws in Israel.

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Ezr 7:13 - Now I decree that any of the Israelites in my kingdom, including priests and Levites, who volunteer to go to Jerusalem with you, may go.

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Ezr 7:14 - You are sent by the king and his seven advisers to inquire about Judah and Jerusalem with regard to the Law of your God, which is in your hand.

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Ezr 7:15 - Moreover, you are to take with you the silver and gold that the king and his advisers have freely given to the God of Israel, whose dwelling is in Jerusalem,

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Ezr 7:16 - together with all the silver and gold you may obtain from the province of Babylon, as well as the freewill offerings of the people and priests for the temple of their God in Jerusalem.

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Ezr 7:17 - With this money be sure to buy bulls, rams and male lambs, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings, and sacrifice them on the altar of the temple of your God in Jerusalem.

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Ezr 7:18 - You and your fellow Israelites may then do whatever seems best with the rest of the silver and gold, in accordance with the will of your God.

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Ezr 7:19 - Deliver to the God of Jerusalem all the articles entrusted to you for worship in the temple of your God.

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Ezr 7:21 - Now I, King Artaxerxes, decree that all the treasurers of Trans-Euphrates are to provide with diligence whatever Ezra the priest, the teacher of the Law of the God of heaven, may ask of you—

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Ezr 7:23 - Whatever the God of heaven has prescribed, let it be done with diligence for the temple of the God of heaven. Why should his wrath fall on the realm of the king and of his sons?

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Ezr 7:24 - You are also to know that you have no authority to impose taxes, tribute or duty on any of the priests, Levites, musicians, gatekeepers, temple servants or other workers at this house of God.

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Ezr 7:25 - And you, Ezra, in accordance with the wisdom of your God, which you possess, appoint magistrates and judges to administer justice to all the people of Trans-Euphrates—all who know the laws of your God. And you are to teach any who do not know them.

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Ezr 7:27 - Praise be to the LORD, the God of our ancestors, who has put it into the king's heart to bring honor to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem in this way

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Ezr 7:28 - and who has extended his good favor to me before the king and his advisers and all the king's powerful officials. Because the hand of the LORD my God was on me, I took courage and gathered leaders from Israel to go up with me.

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Ezr 8:1 - These are the family heads and those registered with them who came up with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:

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Ezr 8:15 - I assembled them at the canal that flows toward Ahava, and we camped there three days. When I checked among the people and the priests, I found no Levites there.

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Ezr 8:17 - and I ordered them to go to Iddo, the leader in Kasiphia. I told them what to say to Iddo and his fellow Levites, the temple servants in Kasiphia, so that they might bring attendants to us for the house of our God.

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Ezr 8:20 - They also brought 220 of the temple servants—a body that David and the officials had established to assist the Levites. All were registered by name.

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Ezr 8:22 - I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers and horsemen to protect us from enemies on the road, because we had told the king, “The gracious hand of our God is on everyone who looks to him, but his great anger is against all who forsake him.”

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Ezr 8:27 - 20 bowls of gold valued at 1,000 darics,[fn] and two fine articles of polished bronze, as precious as gold.

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Ezr 8:29 - Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the LORD in Jerusalem before the leading priests and the Levites and the family heads of Israel.”

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Ezr 8:31 - On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he protected us from enemies and bandits along the way.

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Ezr 8:33 - On the fourth day, in the house of our God, we weighed out the silver and gold and the sacred articles into the hands of Meremoth son of Uriah, the priest. Eleazar son of Phinehas was with him, and so were the Levites Jozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui.

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Ezr 8:34 - Everything was accounted for by number and weight, and the entire weight was recorded at that time.

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Ezr 9:1 - After these things had been done, the leaders came to me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and the Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the neighboring peoples with their detestable practices, like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians and Amorites.

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Ezr 9:2 - They have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, and have mingled the holy race with the peoples around them. And the leaders and officials have led the way in this unfaithfulness.”

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Ezr 9:5 - Then, at the evening sacrifice, I rose from my self-abasement, with my tunic and cloak torn, and fell on my knees with my hands spread out to the LORD my God

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Ezr 9:7 - From the days of our ancestors until now, our guilt has been great. Because of our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been subjected to the sword and captivity, to pillage and humiliation at the hand of foreign kings, as it is today.

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Ezr 9:8 - “But now, for a brief moment, the LORD our God has been gracious in leaving us a remnant and giving us a firm place[fn] in his sanctuary, and so our God gives light to our eyes and a little relief in our bondage.

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Ezr 9:9 - Though we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage. He has shown us kindness in the sight of the kings of Persia: He has granted us new life to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, and he has given us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem.

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Ezr 9:11 - you gave through your servants the prophets when you said: ‘The land you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the corruption of its peoples. By their detestable practices they have filled it with their impurity from one end to the other.

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Ezr 9:13 - “What has happened to us is a result of our evil deeds and our great guilt, and yet, our God, you have punished us less than our sins deserved and have given us a remnant like this.

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Ezr 9:14 - Shall we then break your commands again and intermarry with the peoples who commit such detestable practices? Would you not be angry enough with us to destroy us, leaving us no remnant or survivor?

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Ezr 9:15 - LORD, the God of Israel, you are righteous! We are left this day as a remnant. Here we are before you in our guilt, though because of it not one of us can stand in your presence.”

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Ezr 10:3 - Now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all these women and their children, in accordance with the counsel of my lord and of those who fear the commands of our God. Let it be done according to the Law.

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Ezr 10:7 - A proclamation was then issued throughout Judah and Jerusalem for all the exiles to assemble in Jerusalem.

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Ezr 10:9 - Within the three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin had gathered in Jerusalem. And on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people were sitting in the square before the house of God, greatly distressed by the occasion and because of the rain.

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Ezr 10:13 - But there are many people here and it is the rainy season; so we cannot stand outside. Besides, this matter cannot be taken care of in a day or two, because we have sinned greatly in this thing.

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Ezr 10:14 - Let our officials act for the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at a set time, along with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us.”

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Ezr 10:16 - So the exiles did as was proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were family heads, one from each family division, and all of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to investigate the cases,

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Ezr 10:17 - and by the first day of the first month they finished dealing with all the men who had married foreign women.

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Neh 1:1 - The words of Nehemiah son of Hakaliah: In the month of Kislev in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa,

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Neh 1:3 - They said to me, “Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.”

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Neh 1:4 - When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven.

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Neh 1:8 - “Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,

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Neh 1:10 - “They are your servants and your people, whom you redeemed by your great strength and your mighty hand.

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Neh 2:1 - In the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was brought for him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had not been sad in his presence before,

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Neh 2:3 - but I said to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should my face not look sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

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Neh 2:13 - By night I went out through the Valley Gate toward the Jackal[fn] Well and the Dung Gate, examining the walls of Jerusalem, which had been broken down, and its gates, which had been destroyed by fire.

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Neh 2:15 - so I went up the valley by night, examining the wall. Finally, I turned back and reentered through the Valley Gate.

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Neh 2:17 - Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace.”

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Neh 2:20 - I answered them by saying, “The God of heaven will give us success. We his servants will start rebuilding, but as for you, you have no share in Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it.”

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Neh 3:13 - The Valley Gate was repaired by Hanun and the residents of Zanoah. They rebuilt it and put its doors with their bolts and bars in place. They also repaired a thousand cubits[fn] of the wall as far as the Dung Gate.

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Neh 3:26 - and the temple servants living on the hill of Ophel made repairs up to a point opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the projecting tower.

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Neh 4:4 - Hear us, our God, for we are despised. Turn their insults back on their own heads. Give them over as plunder in a land of captivity.

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Neh 4:8 - They all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and stir up trouble against it.

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Neh 4:10 - Meanwhile, the people in Judah said, “The strength of the laborers is giving out, and there is so much rubble that we cannot rebuild the wall.”

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Neh 4:13 - Therefore I stationed some of the people behind the lowest points of the wall at the exposed places, posting them by families, with their swords, spears and bows.

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Neh 4:17 - who were building the wall. Those who carried materials did their work with one hand and held a weapon in the other,

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Neh 4:18 - and each of the builders wore his sword at his side as he worked. But the man who sounded the trumpet stayed with me.

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Neh 4:20 - Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, join us there. Our God will fight for us!”

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Neh 4:22 - At that time I also said to the people, “Have every man and his helper stay inside Jerusalem at night, so they can serve us as guards by night and as workers by day.”

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Neh 5:2 - Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous; in order for us to eat and stay alive, we must get grain.”

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Neh 5:8 - and said: “As far as possible, we have bought back our fellow Jews who were sold to the Gentiles. Now you are selling your own people, only for them to be sold back to us!” They kept quiet, because they could find nothing to say.

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Neh 5:9 - So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn't you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our Gentile enemies?

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Neh 5:10 - I and my brothers and my men are also lending the people money and grain. But let us stop charging interest!

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Neh 5:14 - Moreover, from the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, until his thirty-second year—twelve years—neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor.

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Neh 5:15 - But the earlier governors—those preceding me—placed a heavy burden on the people and took forty shekels[fn] of silver from them in addition to food and wine. Their assistants also lorded it over the people. But out of reverence for God I did not act like that.

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Neh 5:16 - Instead, I devoted myself to the work on this wall. All my men were assembled there for the work; we[fn] did not acquire any land.

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Neh 5:18 - Each day one ox, six choice sheep and some poultry were prepared for me, and every ten days an abundant supply of wine of all kinds. In spite of all this, I never demanded the food allotted to the governor, because the demands were heavy on these people.

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Neh 6:1 - When word came to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left in it—though up to that time I had not set the doors in the gates—

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Neh 6:2 - Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages[fn] on the plain of Ono.” But they were scheming to harm me;

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Neh 6:5 - Then, the fifth time, Sanballat sent his aide to me with the same message, and in his hand was an unsealed letter

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Neh 6:6 - in which was written: “It is reported among the nations—and Geshem[fn] says it is true—that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and therefore you are building the wall. Moreover, according to these reports you are about to become their king

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Neh 6:7 - and have even appointed prophets to make this proclamation about you in Jerusalem: ‘There is a king in Judah!' Now this report will get back to the king; so come, let us meet together.”

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Neh 6:10 - One day I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home. He said, “Let us meet in the house of God, inside the temple, and let us close the temple doors, because men are coming to kill you—by night they are coming to kill you.”

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Neh 6:16 - When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and lost their self-confidence, because they realized that this work had been done with the help of our God.

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Neh 6:17 - Also, in those days the nobles of Judah were sending many letters to Tobiah, and replies from Tobiah kept coming to them.

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Neh 6:18 - For many in Judah were under oath to him, since he was son-in-law to Shekaniah son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berekiah.

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Neh 7:2 - I put in charge of Jerusalem my brother Hanani, along with Hananiah the commander of the citadel, because he was a man of integrity and feared God more than most people do.

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Neh 7:3 - I said to them, “The gates of Jerusalem are not to be opened until the sun is hot. While the gatekeepers are still on duty, have them shut the doors and bar them. Also appoint residents of Jerusalem as guards, some at their posts and some near their own houses.”

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Neh 7:4 - Now the city was large and spacious, but there were few people in it, and the houses had not yet been rebuilt.

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Neh 7:5 - So my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials and the common people for registration by families. I found the genealogical record of those who had been the first to return. This is what I found written there:

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Neh 7:73 - The priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the musicians and the temple servants, along with certain of the people and the rest of the Israelites, settled in their own towns. When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns,

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Neh 8:2 - So on the first day of the seventh month Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, which was made up of men and women and all who were able to understand.

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Neh 8:3 - He read it aloud from daybreak till noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate in the presence of the men, women and others who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.

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Neh 8:7 - The Levites—Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan and Pelaiah—instructed the people in the Law while the people were standing there.

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Neh 8:8 - They read from the Book of the Law of God, making it clear[fn] and giving the meaning so that the people understood what was being read.

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Neh 8:12 - Then all the people went away to eat and drink, to send portions of food and to celebrate with great joy, because they now understood the words that had been made known to them.

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Neh 8:13 - On the second day of the month, the heads of all the families, along with the priests and the Levites, gathered around Ezra the teacher to give attention to the words of the Law.

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Neh 8:14 - They found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh month

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Neh 8:15 - and that they should proclaim this word and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem: “Go out into the hill country and bring back branches from olive and wild olive trees, and from myrtles, palms and shade trees, to make temporary shelters”—as it is written.[fn]

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Neh 8:16 - So the people went out and brought back branches and built themselves temporary shelters on their own roofs, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God and in the square by the Water Gate and the one by the Gate of Ephraim.

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Neh 8:17 - The whole company that had returned from exile built temporary shelters and lived in them. From the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day, the Israelites had not celebrated it like this. And their joy was very great.

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Neh 8:18 - Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. They celebrated the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day, in accordance with the regulation, there was an assembly.

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Neh 9:1 - On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and putting dust on their heads.

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Neh 9:3 - They stood where they were and read from the Book of the Law of the LORD their God for a quarter of the day, and spent another quarter in confession and in worshiping the LORD their God.

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Neh 9:6 - You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.

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Neh 9:7 - “You are the LORD God, who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and named him Abraham.

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Neh 9:9 - “You saw the suffering of our ancestors in Egypt; you heard their cry at the Red Sea.[fn]

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Neh 9:10 - You sent signs and wonders against Pharaoh, against all his officials and all the people of his land, for you knew how arrogantly the Egyptians treated them. You made a name for yourself, which remains to this day.

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Neh 9:11 - You divided the sea before them, so that they passed through it on dry ground, but you hurled their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into mighty waters.

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Neh 9:12 - By day you led them with a pillar of cloud, and by night with a pillar of fire to give them light on the way they were to take.

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Neh 9:14 - You made known to them your holy Sabbath and gave them commands, decrees and laws through your servant Moses.

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Neh 9:17 - They refused to listen and failed to remember the miracles you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love. Therefore you did not desert them,

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Neh 9:19 - “Because of your great compassion you did not abandon them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud did not fail to guide them on their path, nor the pillar of fire by night to shine on the way they were to take.

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Neh 9:21 - For forty years you sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing, their clothes did not wear out nor did their feet become swollen.

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Neh 9:25 - They captured fortified cities and fertile land; they took possession of houses filled with all kinds of good things, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves and fruit trees in abundance. They ate to the full and were well-nourished; they reveled in your great goodness.

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Neh 9:26 - “But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they turned their backs on your law. They killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies.

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Neh 9:27 - So you delivered them into the hands of their enemies, who oppressed them. But when they were oppressed they cried out to you. From heaven you heard them, and in your great compassion you gave them deliverers, who rescued them from the hand of their enemies.

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Neh 9:28 - “But as soon as they were at rest, they again did what was evil in your sight. Then you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies so that they ruled over them. And when they cried out to you again, you heard from heaven, and in your compassion you delivered them time after time.

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Neh 9:29 - “You warned them in order to turn them back to your law, but they became arrogant and disobeyed your commands. They sinned against your ordinances, of which you said, ‘The person who obeys them will live by them.' Stubbornly they turned their backs on you, became stiff-necked and refused to listen.

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Neh 9:30 - For many years you were patient with them. By your Spirit you warned them through your prophets. Yet they paid no attention, so you gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.

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Neh 9:31 - But in your great mercy you did not put an end to them or abandon them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.

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Neh 9:32 - “Now therefore, our God, the great God, mighty and awesome, who keeps his covenant of love, do not let all this hardship seem trifling in your eyes—the hardship that has come on us, on our kings and leaders, on our priests and prophets, on our ancestors and all your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.

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Neh 9:35 - Even while they were in their kingdom, enjoying your great goodness to them in the spacious and fertile land you gave them, they did not serve you or turn from their evil ways.

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Neh 9:37 - Because of our sins, its abundant harvest goes to the kings you have placed over us. They rule over our bodies and our cattle as they please. We are in great distress.

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Neh 9:38 - “In view of all this, we are making a binding agreement, putting it in writing, and our leaders, our Levites and our priests are affixing their seals to it.”[fn]

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Neh 10:29 - all these now join their fellow Israelites the nobles, and bind themselves with a curse and an oath to follow the Law of God given through Moses the servant of God and to obey carefully all the commands, regulations and decrees of the LORD our Lord.

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Neh 10:31 - “When the neighboring peoples bring merchandise or grain to sell on the Sabbath, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on any holy day. Every seventh year we will forgo working the land and will cancel all debts.

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Neh 10:34 - “We—the priests, the Levites and the people—have cast lots to determine when each of our families is to bring to the house of our God at set times each year a contribution of wood to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the Law.

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Neh 10:36 - “As it is also written in the Law, we will bring the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, of our herds and of our flocks to the house of our God, to the priests ministering there.

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Neh 10:37 - “Moreover, we will bring to the storerooms of the house of our God, to the priests, the first of our ground meal, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees and of our new wine and olive oil. And we will bring a tithe of our crops to the Levites, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all the towns where we work.

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Neh 10:38 - A priest descended from Aaron is to accompany the Levites when they receive the tithes, and the Levites are to bring a tenth of the tithes up to the house of our God, to the storerooms of the treasury.

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Neh 11:1 - Now the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem. The rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of every ten of them to live in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the remaining nine were to stay in their own towns.

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Neh 11:2 - The people commended all who volunteered to live in Jerusalem.

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Neh 11:3 - These are the provincial leaders who settled in Jerusalem (now some Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants and descendants of Solomon's servants lived in the towns of Judah, each on their own property in the various towns,

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Neh 11:4 - while other people from both Judah and Benjamin lived in Jerusalem): From the descendants of Judah:Athaiah son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, a descendant of Perez;

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Neh 11:6 - The descendants of Perez who lived in Jerusalem totaled 468 men of standing.

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Neh 11:25 - As for the villages with their fields, some of the people of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and its surrounding settlements, in Dibon and its settlements, in Jekabzeel and its villages,

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Neh 11:26 - in Jeshua, in Moladah, in Beth Pelet,

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Neh 11:27 - in Hazar Shual, in Beersheba and its settlements,

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Neh 11:30 - Zanoah, Adullam and their villages, in Lachish and its fields, and in Azekah and its settlements. So they were living all the way from Beersheba to the Valley of Hinnom.

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Neh 12:7 - Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah and Jedaiah. These were the leaders of the priests and their associates in the days of Joshua.

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Neh 12:12 - In the days of Joiakim, these were the heads of the priestly families: of Seraiah's family, Meraiah; of Jeremiah's, Hananiah;

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Neh 12:17 - of Abijah's, Zikri; of Miniamin's and of Moadiah's, Piltai;

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Neh 12:22 - The family heads of the Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan and Jaddua, as well as those of the priests, were recorded in the reign of Darius the Persian.

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Neh 12:24 - And the leaders of the Levites were Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua son of Kadmiel, and their associates, who stood opposite them to give praise and thanksgiving, one section responding to the other, as prescribed by David the man of God.

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Neh 12:25 - Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon and Akkub were gatekeepers who guarded the storerooms at the gates.

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Neh 12:26 - They served in the days of Joiakim son of Joshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and of Ezra the priest, the teacher of the Law.

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Neh 12:27 - At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from where they lived and were brought to Jerusalem to celebrate joyfully the dedication with songs of thanksgiving and with the music of cymbals, harps and lyres.

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Neh 12:29 - from Beth Gilgal, and from the area of Geba and Azmaveth, for the musicians had built villages for themselves around Jerusalem.

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Neh 12:35 - as well as some priests with trumpets, and also Zechariah son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zakkur, the son of Asaph,

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Neh 12:36 - and his associates—Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah and Hanani—with musical instruments prescribed by David the man of God. Ezra the teacher of the Law led the procession.

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Neh 12:37 - At the Fountain Gate they continued directly up the steps of the City of David on the ascent to the wall and passed above the site of David's palace to the Water Gate on the east.

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Neh 12:39 - over the Gate of Ephraim, the Jeshanah[fn] Gate, the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate. At the Gate of the Guard they stopped.

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Neh 12:40 - The two choirs that gave thanks then took their places in the house of God; so did I, together with half the officials,

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Neh 12:41 - as well as the priests—Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah and Hananiah with their trumpets—

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Neh 12:43 - And on that day they offered great sacrifices, rejoicing because God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced. The sound of rejoicing in Jerusalem could be heard far away.

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Neh 12:44 - At that time men were appointed to be in charge of the storerooms for the contributions, firstfruits and tithes. From the fields around the towns they were to bring into the storerooms the portions required by the Law for the priests and the Levites, for Judah was pleased with the ministering priests and Levites.

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Neh 12:46 - For long ago, in the days of David and Asaph, there had been directors for the musicians and for the songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

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Neh 12:47 - So in the days of Zerubbabel and of Nehemiah, all Israel contributed the daily portions for the musicians and the gatekeepers. They also set aside the portion for the other Levites, and the Levites set aside the portion for the descendants of Aaron.

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Neh 13:1 - On that day the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people and there it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever be admitted into the assembly of God,

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Neh 13:2 - because they had not met the Israelites with food and water but had hired Balaam to call a curse down on them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into a blessing.)

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Neh 13:3 - When the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all who were of foreign descent.

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Neh 13:4 - Before this, Eliashib the priest had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God. He was closely associated with Tobiah,

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Neh 13:6 - But while all this was going on, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had returned to the king. Some time later I asked his permission

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Neh 13:7 - and came back to Jerusalem. Here I learned about the evil thing Eliashib had done in providing Tobiah a room in the courts of the house of God.

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Neh 13:14 - Remember me for this, my God, and do not blot out what I have so faithfully done for the house of my God and its services.

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Neh 13:15 - In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, together with wine, grapes, figs and all other kinds of loads. And they were bringing all this into Jerusalem on the Sabbath. Therefore I warned them against selling food on that day.

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Neh 13:16 - People from Tyre who lived in Jerusalem were bringing in fish and all kinds of merchandise and selling them in Jerusalem on the Sabbath to the people of Judah.

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Neh 13:19 - When evening shadows fell on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered the doors to be shut and not opened until the Sabbath was over. I stationed some of my own men at the gates so that no load could be brought in on the Sabbath day.

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Neh 13:21 - But I warned them and said, “Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you do this again, I will arrest you.” From that time on they no longer came on the Sabbath.

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Neh 13:23 - Moreover, in those days I saw men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab.

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Neh 13:25 - I rebuked them and called curses down on them. I beat some of the men and pulled out their hair. I made them take an oath in God's name and said: “You are not to give your daughters in marriage to their sons, nor are you to take their daughters in marriage for your sons or for yourselves.

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Neh 13:26 - Was it not because of marriages like these that Solomon king of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel, but even he was led into sin by foreign women.

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Neh 13:27 - Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women?”

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Neh 13:31 - I also made provision for contributions of wood at designated times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me with favor, my God.

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Est 1:1 - This is what happened during the time of Xerxes,[fn] the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush[fn]:

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Est 1:2 - At that time King Xerxes reigned from his royal throne in the citadel of Susa,

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Est 1:3 - and in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his nobles and officials. The military leaders of Persia and Media, the princes, and the nobles of the provinces were present.

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Est 1:5 - When these days were over, the king gave a banquet, lasting seven days, in the enclosed garden of the king's palace, for all the people from the least to the greatest who were in the citadel of Susa.

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Est 1:9 - Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.

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Est 1:10 - On the seventh day, when King Xerxes was in high spirits from wine, he commanded the seven eunuchs who served him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar and Karkas—

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Est 1:20 - Then when the king's edict is proclaimed throughout all his vast realm, all the women will respect their husbands, from the least to the greatest.”

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Est 1:22 - He sent dispatches to all parts of the kingdom, to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, proclaiming that every man should be ruler over his own household, using his native tongue.

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Est 2:3 - Let the king appoint commissioners in every province of his realm to bring all these beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king's eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let beauty treatments be given to them.

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Est 2:5 - Now there was in the citadel of Susa a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish,

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Est 2:7 - Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This young woman, who was also known as Esther, had a lovely figure and was beautiful. Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.

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Est 2:9 - She pleased him and won his favor. Immediately he provided her with her beauty treatments and special food. He assigned to her seven female attendants selected from the king's palace and moved her and her attendants into the best place in the harem.

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Est 2:12 - Before a young woman's turn came to go in to King Xerxes, she had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments prescribed for the women, six months with oil of myrrh and six with perfumes and cosmetics.

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Est 2:15 - When the turn came for Esther (the young woman Mordecai had adopted, the daughter of his uncle Abihail) to go to the king, she asked for nothing other than what Hegai, the king's eunuch who was in charge of the harem, suggested. And Esther won the favor of everyone who saw her.

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Est 2:19 - When the virgins were assembled a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate.

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Est 2:23 - And when the report was investigated and found to be true, the two officials were impaled on poles. All this was recorded in the book of the annals in the presence of the king.

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Est 3:2 - All the royal officials at the king's gate knelt down and paid honor to Haman, for the king had commanded this concerning him. But Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor.

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Est 3:3 - Then the royal officials at the king's gate asked Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the king's command?”

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Est 3:7 - In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the pur (that is, the lot) was cast in the presence of Haman to select a day and month. And the lot fell on[fn] the twelfth month, the month of Adar.

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Est 3:8 - Then Haman said to King Xerxes, “There is a certain people dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom who keep themselves separate. Their customs are different from those of all other people, and they do not obey the king's laws; it is not in the king's best interest to tolerate them.

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Est 3:13 - Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces with the order to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.

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Est 4:3 - In every province to which the edict and order of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

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Est 4:8 - He also gave him a copy of the text of the edict for their annihilation, which had been published in Susa, to show to Esther and explain it to her, and he told him to instruct her to go into the king's presence to beg for mercy and plead with him for her people.

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Est 4:13 - he sent back this answer: “Do not think that because you are in the king's house you alone of all the Jews will escape.

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Est 4:14 - For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”

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Est 4:16 - “Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”

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Est 5:1 - On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the palace, in front of the king's hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the hall, facing the entrance.

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Est 5:2 - When he saw Queen Esther standing in the court, he was pleased with her and held out to her the gold scepter that was in his hand. So Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter.

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Est 5:6 - As they were drinking wine, the king again asked Esther, “Now what is your petition? It will be given you. And what is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be granted.”

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Est 5:9 - Haman went out that day happy and in high spirits. But when he saw Mordecai at the king's gate and observed that he neither rose nor showed fear in his presence, he was filled with rage against Mordecai.

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Est 5:13 - But all this gives me no satisfaction as long as I see that Jew Mordecai sitting at the king's gate.”

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Est 6:2 - It was found recorded there that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's officers who guarded the doorway, who had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.

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Est 6:4 - The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the palace to speak to the king about impaling Mordecai on the pole he had set up for him.

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Est 6:5 - His attendants answered, “Haman is standing in the court.” “Bring him in,” the king ordered.

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Est 6:6 - When Haman entered, the king asked him, “What should be done for the man the king delights to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Who is there that the king would rather honor than me?”

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Est 6:10 - “Go at once,” the king commanded Haman. “Get the robe and the horse and do just as you have suggested for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate. Do not neglect anything you have recommended.”

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Est 7:2 - and as they were drinking wine on the second day, the king again asked, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be granted.”

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Est 7:7 - The king got up in a rage, left his wine and went out into the palace garden. But Haman, realizing that the king had already decided his fate, stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life.

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Est 7:8 - Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Will he even molest the queen while she is with me in the house?” As soon as the word left the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.

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Est 7:9 - Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said, “A pole reaching to a height of fifty cubits[fn] stands by Haman's house. He had it set up for Mordecai, who spoke up to help the king.” The king said, “Impale him on it!”

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Est 8:1 - That same day King Xerxes gave Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came into the presence of the king, for Esther had told how he was related to her.

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Est 8:5 - “If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if he regards me with favor and thinks it the right thing to do, and if he is pleased with me, let an order be written overruling the dispatches that Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, devised and wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king's provinces.

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Est 8:6 - For how can I bear to see disaster fall on my people? How can I bear to see the destruction of my family?”

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Est 8:9 - At once the royal secretaries were summoned—on the twenty-third day of the third month, the month of Sivan. They wrote out all Mordecai's orders to the Jews, and to the satraps, governors and nobles of the 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush.[fn] These orders were written in the script of each province and the language of each people and also to the Jews in their own script and language.

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Est 8:11 - The king's edict granted the Jews in every city the right to assemble and protect themselves; to destroy, kill and annihilate the armed men of any nationality or province who might attack them and their women and children,[fn] and to plunder the property of their enemies.

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Est 8:12 - The day appointed for the Jews to do this in all the provinces of King Xerxes was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar.

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Est 8:13 - A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued as law in every province and made known to the people of every nationality so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

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Est 8:14 - The couriers, riding the royal horses, went out, spurred on by the king's command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa.

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Est 8:15 - When Mordecai left the king's presence, he was wearing royal garments of blue and white, a large crown of gold and a purple robe of fine linen. And the city of Susa held a joyous celebration.

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Est 9:1 - On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the edict commanded by the king was to be carried out. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but now the tables were turned and the Jews got the upper hand over those who hated them.

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Est 9:2 - The Jews assembled in their cities in all the provinces of King Xerxes to attack those determined to destroy them. No one could stand against them, because the people of all the other nationalities were afraid of them.

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Est 9:4 - Mordecai was prominent in the palace; his reputation spread throughout the provinces, and he became more and more powerful.

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Est 9:6 - In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.

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Est 9:11 - The number of those killed in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king that same day.

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Est 9:12 - The king said to Queen Esther, “The Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman in the citadel of Susa. What have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given you. What is your request? It will also be granted.”

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Est 9:15 - The Jews in Susa came together on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they put to death in Susa three hundred men, but they did not lay their hands on the plunder.

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Est 9:16 - Meanwhile, the remainder of the Jews who were in the king's provinces also assembled to protect themselves and get relief from their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand of them but did not lay their hands on the plunder.

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Est 9:18 - The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and fourteenth, and then on the fifteenth they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy.

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Est 9:19 - That is why rural Jews—those living in villages—observe the fourteenth of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting, a day for giving presents to each other.

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Est 9:20 - Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews throughout the provinces of King Xerxes, near and far,

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Est 9:22 - as the time when the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month when their sorrow was turned into joy and their mourning into a day of celebration. He wrote them to observe the days as days of feasting and joy and giving presents of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

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Est 10:2 - And all his acts of power and might, together with a full account of the greatness of Mordecai, whom the king had promoted, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Media and Persia?

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Est 10:3 - Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews, and held in high esteem by his many fellow Jews, because he worked for the good of his people and spoke up for the welfare of all the Jews.

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Job 1:1 - In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.

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Job 1:5 - When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job's regular custom.

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Job 1:12 - The LORD said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

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Job 1:13 - One day when Job's sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house,

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Job 1:15 - and the Sabeans attacked and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”

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Job 1:17 - While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”

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Job 1:22 - In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.

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Job 2:1 - On another day the angels[fn] came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before him.

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Job 2:9 - His wife said to him, “Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!”

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Job 2:10 - He replied, “You are talking like a foolish[fn] woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

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Job 3:3 - “May the day of my birth perish, and the night that said, ‘A boy is conceived!'

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Job 3:11 - “Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb?

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Job 3:20 - “Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter of soul,

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Job 4:2 - “If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?

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Job 4:6 - Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?

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Job 4:12 - “A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it.

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Job 5:13 - He catches the wise in their craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are swept away.

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Job 5:15 - He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth; he saves them from the clutches of the powerful.

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Job 5:19 - From six calamities he will rescue you; in seven no harm will touch you.

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Job 5:20 - In famine he will deliver you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

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Job 5:26 - You will come to the grave in full vigor, like sheaves gathered in season.

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Job 6:2 - “If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales!

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Job 6:4 - The arrows of the Almighty are in me, my spirit drinks in their poison; God's terrors are marshaled against me.

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Job 6:6 - Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the sap of the mallow[fn]?

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Job 6:30 - Is there any wickedness on my lips? Can my mouth not discern malice?

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Job 7:5 - My body is clothed with worms and scabs, my skin is broken and festering.

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Job 7:6 - “My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.

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Job 7:8 - The eye that now sees me will see me no longer; you will look for me, but I will be no more.

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Job 7:11 - “Therefore I will not keep silent; I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

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Job 7:14 - even then you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

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Job 7:19 - Will you never look away from me, or let me alone even for an instant?

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Job 8:4 - When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.

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Job 8:17 - it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks and looks for a place among the stones.

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Job 9:23 - When a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks the despair of the innocent.

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Job 9:31 - you would plunge me into a slime pit so that even my clothes would detest me.

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Job 10:13 - “But this is what you concealed in your heart, and I know that this was in your mind:

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Job 11:3 - Will your idle talk reduce others to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you mock?

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Job 11:8 - They are higher than the heavens above—what can you do? They are deeper than the depths below—what can you know?

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Job 11:14 - if you put away the sin that is in your hand and allow no evil to dwell in your tent,

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Job 12:9 - Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?

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Job 12:10 - In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.

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Job 12:12 - Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?

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Job 13:14 - Why do I put myself in jeopardy and take my life in my hands?

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Job 13:27 - You fasten my feet in shackles; you keep close watch on all my paths by putting marks on the soles of my feet.

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Job 14:3 - Do you fix your eye on them? Will you bring them[fn] before you for judgment?

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Job 14:8 - Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil,

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Job 14:13 - “If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set me a time and then remember me!

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Job 14:17 - My offenses will be sealed up in a bag; you will cover over my sin.

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Job 15:3 - Would they argue with useless words, with speeches that have no value?

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Job 15:10 - The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.

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Job 15:20 - All his days the wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.

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Job 15:21 - Terrifying sounds fill his ears; when all seems well, marauders attack him.

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Job 15:23 - He wanders about for food like a vulture; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

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Job 15:26 - defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield.

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Job 15:27 - “Though his face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh,

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Job 15:35 - They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb fashions deceit.”

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Job 16:5 - But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.

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Job 16:8 - You have shriveled me up—and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.

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Job 16:15 - “I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust.

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Job 16:17 - yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure.

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Job 16:19 - Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.

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Job 17:6 - “God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.

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Job 17:10 - “But come on, all of you, try again! I will not find a wise man among you.

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Job 17:11 - My days have passed, my plans are shattered. Yet the desires of my heart

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Job 17:13 - If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,

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Job 18:6 - The light in his tent becomes dark; the lamp beside him goes out.

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Job 18:8 - His feet thrust him into a net; he wanders into its mesh.

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Job 18:10 - A noose is hidden for him on the ground; a trap lies in his path.

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Job 18:11 - Terrors startle him on every side and dog his every step.

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Job 18:15 - Fire resides[fn] in his tent; burning sulfur is scattered over his dwelling.

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Job 18:19 - He has no offspring or descendants among his people, no survivor where once he lived.

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Job 19:20 - I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.[fn]

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Job 19:23 - “Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll,

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Job 19:24 - that they were inscribed with an iron tool on[fn] lead, or engraved in rock forever!

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Job 19:27 - I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!

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Job 19:28 - “If you say, ‘How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him,[fn]'

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Job 20:12 - “Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,

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Job 20:13 - though he cannot bear to let it go and lets it linger in his mouth,

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Job 20:14 - yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him.

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Job 20:20 - “Surely he will have no respite from his craving; he cannot save himself by his treasure.

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Job 20:25 - He pulls it out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver. Terrors will come over him;

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Job 21:7 - Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?

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Job 21:8 - They see their children established around them, their offspring before their eyes.

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Job 21:10 - Their bulls never fail to breed; their cows calve and do not miscarry.

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Job 21:13 - They spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.[fn]

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Job 21:16 - But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.

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Job 21:21 - For what do they care about the families they leave behind when their allotted months come to an end?

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Job 21:23 - One person dies in full vigor, completely secure and at ease,

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Job 22:21 - “Submit to God and be at peace with him; in this way prosperity will come to you.

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Job 22:22 - Accept instruction from his mouth and lay up his words in your heart.

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Job 22:24 - and assign your nuggets to the dust, your gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines,

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Job 22:30 - He will deliver even one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 23:6

Job 23:6 - Would he vigorously oppose me? No, he would not press charges against me.

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Job 23:11 - My feet have closely followed his steps; I have kept to his way without turning aside.

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Job 23:12 - I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:5

Job 24:5 - Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children.

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Job 24:11 - They crush olives among the terraces[fn]; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.

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Job 24:16 - In the dark, thieves break into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.

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Job 24:24 - For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 25:2

Job 25:2 - “Dominion and awe belong to God; he establishes order in the heights of heaven.

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Job 26:8 - He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.

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Job 26:14 - And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”

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Job 27:3 - as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,

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Job 27:11 - “I will teach you about the power of God; the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.

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Job 27:15 - The plague will bury those who survive him, and their widows will not weep for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 28:9

Job 28:9 - People assault the flinty rock with their hands and lay bare the roots of the mountains.

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Job 28:13 - No mortal comprehends its worth; it cannot be found in the land of the living.

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Job 28:14 - The deep says, “It is not in me”; the sea says, “It is not with me.”

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Job 28:16 - It cannot be bought with the gold of Ophir, with precious onyx or lapis lazuli.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 28:24

Job 28:24 - for he views the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.

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Job 28:26 - when he made a decree for the rain and a path for the thunderstorm,

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Job 29:3 - when his lamp shone on my head and by his light I walked through darkness!

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Job 29:7 - “When I went to the gate of the city and took my seat in the public square,

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Job 29:19 - My roots will reach to the water, and the dew will lie all night on my branches.

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Job 29:20 - My glory will not fade; the bow will be ever new in my hand.'

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Job 29:25 - I chose the way for them and sat as their chief; I dwelt as a king among his troops; I was like one who comforts mourners.

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Job 30:1 - “But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

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Job 30:3 - Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed[fn] the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.

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Job 30:14 - They advance as through a gaping breach; amid the ruins they come rolling in.

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Job 30:18 - In his great power God becomes like clothing to me[fn]; he binds me like the neck of my garment.

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Job 30:19 - He throws me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.

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Job 30:22 - You snatch me up and drive me before the wind; you toss me about in the storm.

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Job 30:25 - Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the poor?

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Job 30:28 - I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.

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Job 31:6 - let God weigh me in honest scales and he will know that I am blameless—

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Job 31:15 - Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?

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Job 32:5 - But when he saw that the three men had nothing more to say, his anger was aroused.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 32:7

Job 32:7 - I thought, ‘Age should speak; advanced years should teach wisdom.'

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Job 32:8 - But it is the spirit[fn] in a person, the breath of the Almighty, that gives them understanding.

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Job 33:8 - “But you have said in my hearing— I heard the very words—

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Job 33:11 - He fastens my feet in shackles; he keeps close watch on all my paths.'

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Job 33:14 - For God does speak—now one way, now another— though no one perceives it.

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Job 33:15 - In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds,

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Job 33:16 - he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings,

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Job 33:18 - to preserve them from the pit, their lives from perishing by the sword.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:19

Job 33:19 - “Or someone may be chastened on a bed of pain with constant distress in their bones,

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Job 33:22 - They draw near to the pit, and their life to the messengers of death.[fn]

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Job 33:25 - let their flesh be renewed like a child's; let them be restored as in the days of their youth'—

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Job 33:30 - to turn them back from the pit, that the light of life may shine on them.

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Job 34:11 - He repays everyone for what they have done; he brings on them what their conduct deserves.

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Job 34:35 - ‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words lack insight.'

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Job 35:2 - “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.'

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Job 35:16 - So Job opens his mouth with empty talk; without knowledge he multiplies words.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 36:2

Job 36:2 - “Bear with me a little longer and I will show you that there is more to be said in God's behalf.

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Job 36:8 - But if people are bound in chains, held fast by cords of affliction,

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Job 36:11 - If they obey and serve him, they will spend the rest of their days in prosperity and their years in contentment.

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Job 36:14 - They die in their youth, among male prostitutes of the shrines.

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Job 36:19 - Would your wealth or even all your mighty efforts sustain you so you would not be in distress?

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Job 36:22 - “God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

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Job 36:25 - All humanity has seen it; mortals gaze on it from afar.

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Job 36:31 - This is the way he governs[fn] the nations and provides food in abundance.

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Job 36:32 - He fills his hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:2

Job 37:2 - Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:4

Job 37:4 - After that comes the sound of his roar; he thunders with his majestic voice. When his voice resounds, he holds nothing back.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:5

Job 37:5 - God's voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:7

Job 37:7 - So that everyone he has made may know his work, he stops all people from their labor.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:12

Job 37:12 - At his direction they swirl around over the face of the whole earth to do whatever he commands them.

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Job 37:21 - Now no one can look at the sun, bright as it is in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:2

Job 38:2 - “Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge?

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Job 38:4 - “Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.

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Job 38:11 - when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt'?

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Job 38:16 - “Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?

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Job 38:26 - to water a land where no one lives, an uninhabited desert,

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Job 38:29 - From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens

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Job 38:32 - Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons[fn] or lead out the Bear[fn] with its cubs?

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Job 38:40 - when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in a thicket?

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Job 39:4 - Their young thrive and grow strong in the wilds; they leave and do not return.

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Job 39:10 - Can you hold it to the furrow with a harness? Will it till the valleys behind you?

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Job 39:17 - for God did not endow her with wisdom or give her a share of good sense.

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Job 39:18 - Yet when she spreads her feathers to run, she laughs at horse and rider.

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Job 39:21 - It paws fiercely, rejoicing in its strength, and charges into the fray.

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Job 39:30 - Its young ones feast on blood, and where the slain are, there it is.”

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Job 40:20 - The hills bring it their produce, and all the wild animals play nearby.

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Job 40:22 - The lotuses conceal it in their shadow; the poplars by the stream surround it.

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Job 40:24 - Can anyone capture it by the eyes, or trap it and pierce its nose?

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Job 41:1 - “Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope?

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Job 41:2 - Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?

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Job 41:5 - Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?

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Job 41:6 - Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?

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Job 41:7 - Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?

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Job 41:8 - If you lay a hand on it, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!

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Job 41:18 - Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the rays of dawn.

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Job 41:22 - Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it.

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Job 41:34 - It looks down on all that are haughty; it is king over all that are proud.”

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Job 42:15 - Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.

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Job 42:17 - And so Job died, an old man and full of years.

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Psa 1:1 - Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers,

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Psa 1:2 - but whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on his law day and night.

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Psa 1:3 - That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers.

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Psa 1:5 - Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

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Psa 2:4 - The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them.

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Psa 2:5 - He rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,

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Psa 2:9 - You will break them with a rod of iron[fn]; you will dash them to pieces like pottery.”

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Psa 2:11 - Serve the LORD with fear and celebrate his rule with trembling.

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Psa 2:12 - Kiss his son, or he will be angry and your way will lead to your destruction, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

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Psa 3:2 - Many are saying of me, “God will not deliver him.”[fn]

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Psa 4:1 - [fn]For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm of David. Answer me when I call to you, my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress; have mercy on me and hear my prayer.

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Psa 4:3 - Know that the LORD has set apart his faithful servant for himself; the LORD hears when I call to him.

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Psa 4:4 - Tremble and[fn] do not sin; when you are on your beds, search your hearts and be silent.

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Psa 4:8 - In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, LORD, make me dwell in safety.

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Psa 5:7 - But I, by your great love, can come into your house; in reverence I bow down toward your holy temple.

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Psa 5:8 - Lead me, LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies— make your way straight before me.

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Psa 5:9 - Not a word from their mouth can be trusted; their heart is filled with malice. Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they tell lies.

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Psa 5:11 - But let all who take refuge in you be glad; let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may rejoice in you.

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Psa 6:1 - [fn]For the director of music. With stringed instruments. According to sheminith.[fn] A psalm of David. LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.

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Psa 6:5 - Among the dead no one proclaims your name. Who praises you from the grave?

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Psa 6:6 - I am worn out from my groaning. All night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

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Psa 6:7 - My eyes grow weak with sorrow; they fail because of all my foes.

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Psa 7:3 - LORD my God, if I have done this and there is guilt on my hands—

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Psa 7:6 - Arise, LORD, in your anger; rise up against the rage of my enemies. Awake, my God; decree justice.

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Psa 7:13 - He has prepared his deadly weapons; he makes ready his flaming arrows.

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Psa 8:1 - [fn]For the director of music. According to gittith.[fn] A psalm of David. LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens.

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Psa 8:9 - LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

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Psa 9:1 - [fn][fn]For the director of music. To the tune of “The Death of the Son.” A psalm of David. I will give thanks to you, LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.

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Psa 9:2 - I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.

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Psa 9:3 - My enemies turn back; they stumble and perish before you.

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Psa 9:7 - The LORD reigns forever; he has established his throne for judgment.

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Psa 9:8 - He rules the world in righteousness and judges the peoples with equity.

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Psa 9:9 - The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

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Psa 9:11 - Sing the praises of the LORD, enthroned in Zion; proclaim among the nations what he has done.

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Psa 9:14 - that I may declare your praises in the gates of Daughter Zion, and there rejoice in your salvation.

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Psa 9:15 - The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.

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Psa 9:16 - The LORD is known by his acts of justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.[fn]

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Psa 10:1 - [fn]Why, LORD, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

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Psa 10:2 - In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak, who are caught in the schemes he devises.

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Psa 10:3 - He boasts about the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.

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Psa 10:5 - His ways are always prosperous; your laws are rejected by[fn] him; he sneers at all his enemies.

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Psa 10:6 - He says to himself, “Nothing will ever shake me.” He swears, “No one will ever do me harm.”

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Psa 10:8 - He lies in wait near the villages; from ambush he murders the innocent. His eyes watch in secret for his victims;

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Psa 10:9 - like a lion in cover he lies in wait. He lies in wait to catch the helpless; he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.

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Psa 10:10 - His victims are crushed, they collapse; they fall under his strength.

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Psa 10:11 - He says to himself, “God will never notice; he covers his face and never sees.”

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Psa 10:13 - Why does the wicked man revile God? Why does he say to himself, “He won't call me to account”?

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Psa 11:2 - For look, the wicked bend their bows; they set their arrows against the strings to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.

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Psa 11:4 - The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD is on his heavenly throne. He observes everyone on earth; his eyes examine them.

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Psa 12:2 - Everyone lies to their neighbor; they flatter with their lips but harbor deception in their hearts.

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Psa 12:5 - “Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will protect them from those who malign them.”

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Psa 13:2 - How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me?

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Psa 14:1 - For the director of music. Of David. The fool[fn] says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.

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Psa 14:3 - All have turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.

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Psa 14:5 - But there they are, overwhelmed with dread, for God is present in the company of the righteous.

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Psa 14:7 - Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD restores his people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!

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Psa 15:1 - A psalm of David. LORD, who may dwell in your sacred tent? Who may live on your holy mountain?

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Psa 15:2 - The one whose walk is blameless, who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from their heart;

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Psa 15:3 - whose tongue utters no slander, who does no wrong to a neighbor, and casts no slur on others;

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Psa 16:3 - I say of the holy people who are in the land, “They are the noble ones in whom is all my delight.”

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Psa 16:6 - The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.

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Psa 16:11 - You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

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Psa 17:1 - A prayer of David. Hear me, LORD, my plea is just; listen to my cry. Hear my prayer— it does not rise from deceitful lips.

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Psa 17:3 - Though you probe my heart, though you examine me at night and test me, you will find that I have planned no evil; my mouth has not transgressed.

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Psa 17:5 - My steps have held to your paths; my feet have not stumbled.

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Psa 17:8 - Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings

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Psa 17:11 - They have tracked me down, they now surround me, with eyes alert, to throw me to the ground.

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Psa 17:12 - They are like a lion hungry for prey, like a fierce lion crouching in cover.

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Psa 17:14 - By your hand save me from such people, LORD, from those of this world whose reward is in this life. May what you have stored up for the wicked fill their bellies; may their children gorge themselves on it, and may there be leftovers for their little ones.

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Psa 17:15 - As for me, I will be vindicated and will see your face; when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness.

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Psa 18:1 - [fn]For the director of music. Of David the servant of the LORD. He sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love you, LORD, my strength.

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Psa 18:6 - In my distress I called to the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears.

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Psa 18:8 - Smoke rose from his nostrils; consuming fire came from his mouth, burning coals blazed out of it.

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Psa 18:11 - He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him— the dark rain clouds of the sky.

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Psa 18:18 - They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the LORD was my support.

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Psa 18:29 - With your help I can advance against a troop[fn]; with my God I can scale a wall.

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Psa 18:49 - Therefore I will praise you, LORD, among the nations; I will sing the praises of your name.

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Psa 19:4 - Yet their voice[fn] goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.

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Psa 19:11 - By them your servant is warned; in keeping them there is great reward.

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Psa 20:1 - [fn]For the director of music. A psalm of David. May the LORD answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.

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Psa 20:5 - May we shout for joy over your victory and lift up our banners in the name of our God. May the LORD grant all your requests.

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Psa 20:6 - Now this I know: The LORD gives victory to his anointed. He answers him from his heavenly sanctuary with the victorious power of his right hand.

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Psa 20:7 - Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

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Psa 20:9 - LORD, give victory to the king! Answer us when we call!

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Psa 21:1 - [fn]For the director of music. A psalm of David. The king rejoices in your strength, LORD. How great is his joy in the victories you give!

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Psa 21:3 - You came to greet him with rich blessings and placed a crown of pure gold on his head.

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Psa 21:5 - Through the victories you gave, his glory is great; you have bestowed on him splendor and majesty.

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Psa 21:6 - Surely you have granted him unending blessings and made him glad with the joy of your presence.

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Psa 21:7 - For the king trusts in the LORD; through the unfailing love of the Most High he will not be shaken.

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Psa 21:9 - When you appear for battle, you will burn them up as in a blazing furnace. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath, and his fire will consume them.

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Psa 21:12 - You will make them turn their backs when you aim at them with drawn bow.

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Psa 21:13 - Be exalted in your strength, LORD; we will sing and praise your might.

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Psa 22:3 - Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the one Israel praises.[fn]

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Psa 22:7 - All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads.

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Psa 22:14 - I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted within me.

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Psa 22:22 - I will declare your name to my people; in the assembly I will praise you.

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Psa 22:24 - For he has not despised or scorned the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.

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Psa 22:25 - From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly; before those who fear you[fn] I will fulfill my vows.

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Psa 23:4 - Even though I walk through the darkest valley,[fn] I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

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Psa 23:5 - You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

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Psa 23:6 - Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

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Psa 24:1 - Of David. A psalm. The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it;

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Psa 24:3 - Who may ascend the mountain of the LORD? Who may stand in his holy place?

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Psa 24:8 - Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.

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Psa 25:8 - Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.

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Psa 25:9 - He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.

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Psa 25:12 - Who, then, are those who fear the LORD? He will instruct them in the ways they should choose.[fn]

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Psa 25:13 - They will spend their days in prosperity, and their descendants will inherit the land.

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Psa 26:1 - Of David. Vindicate me, LORD, for I have led a blameless life; I have trusted in the LORD and have not faltered.

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Psa 26:3 - for I have always been mindful of your unfailing love and have lived in reliance on your faithfulness.

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Psa 26:6 - I wash my hands in innocence, and go about your altar, LORD,

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Psa 26:10 - in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.

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Psa 26:11 - I lead a blameless life; deliver me and be merciful to me.

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Psa 26:12 - My feet stand on level ground; in the great congregation I will praise the LORD.

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Psa 27:2 - When the wicked advance against me to devour[fn] me, it is my enemies and my foes who will stumble and fall.

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Psa 27:3 - Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear; though war break out against me, even then I will be confident.

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Psa 27:4 - One thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple.

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Psa 27:5 - For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent and set me high upon a rock.

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Psa 27:6 - Then my head will be exalted above the enemies who surround me; at his sacred tent I will sacrifice with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the LORD.

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Psa 27:9 - Do not hide your face from me, do not turn your servant away in anger; you have been my helper. Do not reject me or forsake me, God my Savior.

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Psa 27:11 - Teach me your way, LORD; lead me in a straight path because of my oppressors.

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Psa 27:13 - I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

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Psa 28:2 - Hear my cry for mercy as I call to you for help, as I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

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Psa 28:3 - Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who do evil, who speak cordially with their neighbors but harbor malice in their hearts.

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Psa 29:2 - Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of his[fn] holiness.

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Psa 29:4 - The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is majestic.

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Psa 29:9 - The voice of the LORD twists the oaks[fn] and strips the forests bare. And in his temple all cry, “Glory!”

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Psa 29:11 - The LORD gives strength to his people; the LORD blesses his people with peace.

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Psa 30:5 - For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.

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Psa 30:6 - When I felt secure, I said, “I will never be shaken.”

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Psa 30:7 - LORD, when you favored me, you made my royal mountain[fn] stand firm; but when you hid your face, I was dismayed.

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Psa 30:9 - “What is gained if I am silenced, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it proclaim your faithfulness?

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Psa 31:1 - [fn]For the director of music. A psalm of David. In you, LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in your righteousness.

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Psa 31:8 - You have not given me into the hands of the enemy but have set my feet in a spacious place.

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Psa 31:9 - Be merciful to me, LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and body with grief.

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Psa 31:10 - My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because of my affliction,[fn] and my bones grow weak.

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Psa 31:13 - For I hear many whispering, “Terror on every side!” They conspire against me and plot to take my life.

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Psa 31:15 - My times are in your hands; deliver me from the hands of my enemies, from those who pursue me.

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Psa 31:16 - Let your face shine on your servant; save me in your unfailing love.

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Psa 31:18 - Let their lying lips be silenced, for with pride and contempt they speak arrogantly against the righteous.

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Psa 31:20 - In the shelter of your presence you hide them from all human intrigues; you keep them safe in your dwelling from accusing tongues.

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Psa 31:21 - Praise be to the LORD, for he showed me the wonders of his love when I was in a city under siege.

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Psa 31:22 - In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from your sight!” Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help.

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Psa 32:2 - Blessed is the one whose sin the LORD does not count against them and in whose spirit is no deceit.

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Psa 32:4 - For day and night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.[fn]

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Psa 32:6 - Therefore let all the faithful pray to you while you may be found; surely the rising of the mighty waters will not reach them.

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Psa 32:8 - I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.

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Psa 32:9 - Do not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding but must be controlled by bit and bridle or they will not come to you.

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Psa 33:1 - Sing joyfully to the LORD, you righteous; it is fitting for the upright to praise him.

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Psa 33:2 - Praise the LORD with the harp; make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre.

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Psa 33:3 - Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy.

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Psa 33:4 - For the word of the LORD is right and true; he is faithful in all he does.

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Psa 33:7 - He gathers the waters of the sea into jars[fn]; he puts the deep into storehouses.

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Psa 33:16 - No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength.

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Psa 33:17 - A horse is a vain hope for deliverance; despite all its great strength it cannot save.

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Psa 33:19 - to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.

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Psa 33:21 - In him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name.

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Psa 34:1 - [fn][fn]Of David. When he pretended to be insane before Abimelek, who drove him away, and he left. I will extol the LORD at all times; his praise will always be on my lips.

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Psa 34:2 - I will glory in the LORD; let the afflicted hear and rejoice.

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Psa 35:8 - may ruin overtake them by surprise— may the net they hid entangle them, may they fall into the pit, to their ruin.

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Psa 35:13 - Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting. When my prayers returned to me unanswered,

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Psa 35:18 - I will give you thanks in the great assembly; among the throngs I will praise you.

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Psa 35:25 - Do not let them think, “Aha, just what we wanted!” or say, “We have swallowed him up.”

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Psa 36:1 - [fn]For the director of music. Of David the servant of the LORD. I have a message from God in my heart concerning the sinfulness of the wicked:[fn] There is no fear of God before their eyes.

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Psa 36:5 - Your love, LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies.

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Psa 36:7 - How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

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Psa 36:9 - For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.

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Psa 37:1 - [fn]Of David. Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong;

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Psa 37:7 - Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.

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Psa 37:19 - In times of disaster they will not wither; in days of famine they will enjoy plenty.

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Psa 37:31 - The law of their God is in their hearts; their feet do not slip.

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Psa 37:34 - Hope in the LORD and keep his way. He will exalt you to inherit the land; when the wicked are destroyed, you will see it.

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Psa 37:39 - The salvation of the righteous comes from the LORD; he is their stronghold in time of trouble.

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Psa 38:3 - Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.

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Psa 38:7 - My back is filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body.

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Psa 38:14 - I have become like one who does not hear, whose mouth can offer no reply.

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Psa 38:16 - For I said, “Do not let them gloat or exalt themselves over me when my feet slip.”

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Psa 39:1 - [fn]For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways and keep my tongue from sin; I will put a muzzle on my mouth while in the presence of the wicked.”

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Psa 39:3 - my heart grew hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:

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Psa 39:6 - “Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom; in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth without knowing whose it will finally be.

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Psa 39:11 - When you rebuke and discipline anyone for their sin, you consume their wealth like a moth— surely everyone is but a breath.

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Psa 40:7 - Then I said, “Here I am, I have come— it is written about me in the scroll.[fn]

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Psa 40:8 - I desire to do your will, my God; your law is within my heart.”

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Psa 40:9 - I proclaim your saving acts in the great assembly; I do not seal my lips, LORD, as you know.

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Psa 40:10 - I do not hide your righteousness in my heart; I speak of your faithfulness and your saving help. I do not conceal your love and your faithfulness from the great assembly.

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Psa 41:1 - [fn]For the director of music. A psalm of David. Blessed are those who have regard for the weak; the LORD delivers them in times of trouble.

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Psa 41:2 - The LORD protects and preserves them— they are counted among the blessed in the land— he does not give them over to the desire of their foes.

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Psa 41:3 - The LORD sustains them on their sickbed and restores them from their bed of illness.

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Psa 41:11 - I know that you are pleased with me, for my enemy does not triumph over me.

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Psa 42:3 - My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

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Psa 42:4 - These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One[fn] with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.

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Psa 42:9 - I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?”

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Psa 42:10 - My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

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Psa 43:2 - You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?

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Psa 43:4 - Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.

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Psa 44:1 - [fn]For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil.[fn] We have heard it with our ears, O God; our ancestors have told us what you did in their days, in days long ago.

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Psa 44:3 - It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory; it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them.

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Psa 44:5 - Through you we push back our enemies; through your name we trample our foes.

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Psa 44:8 - In God we make our boast all day long, and we will praise your name forever.[fn]

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Psa 44:9 - But now you have rejected and humbled us; you no longer go out with our armies.

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Psa 44:11 - You gave us up to be devoured like sheep and have scattered us among the nations.

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Psa 44:12 - You sold your people for a pittance, gaining nothing from their sale.

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Psa 44:14 - You have made us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.

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Psa 44:17 - All this came upon us, though we had not forgotten you; we had not been false to your covenant.

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Psa 44:19 - But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals; you covered us over with deep darkness.

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Psa 45:2 - You are the most excellent of men and your lips have been anointed with grace, since God has blessed you forever.

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Psa 45:5 - Let your sharp arrows pierce the hearts of the king's enemies; let the nations fall beneath your feet.

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Psa 45:9 - Daughters of kings are among your honored women; at your right hand is the royal bride in gold of Ophir.

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Psa 45:12 - The city of Tyre will come with a gift,[fn] people of wealth will seek your favor.

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Psa 45:13 - All glorious is the princess within her chamber; her gown is interwoven with gold.

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Psa 45:15 - Led in with joy and gladness, they enter the palace of the king.

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Psa 45:17 - I will perpetuate your memory through all generations; therefore the nations will praise you for ever and ever.

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Psa 46:1 - [fn]For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. According to alamoth.[fn] A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.

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Psa 46:2 - Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,

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Psa 46:3 - though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.[fn]

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Psa 46:5 - God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day.

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Psa 46:9 - He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth. He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the shields[fn] with fire.

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Psa 46:10 - He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

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Psa 47:1 - [fn]For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy.

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Psa 47:5 - God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the LORD amid the sounding of trumpets.

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Psa 48:1 - [fn]A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and most worthy of praise, in the city of our God, his holy mountain.

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Psa 48:3 - God is in her citadels; he has shown himself to be her fortress.

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Psa 48:7 - You destroyed them like ships of Tarshish shattered by an east wind.

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Psa 48:8 - As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD Almighty, in the city of our God: God makes her secure forever.[fn]

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Psa 48:9 - Within your temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing love.

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Psa 48:12 - Walk about Zion, go around her, count her towers,

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Psa 49:4 - I will turn my ear to a proverb; with the harp I will expound my riddle:

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Psa 49:5 - Why should I fear when evil days come, when wicked deceivers surround me—

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Psa 49:12 - People, despite their wealth, do not endure; they are like the beasts that perish.

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Psa 49:13 - This is the fate of those who trust in themselves, and of their followers, who approve their sayings.[fn]

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Psa 49:14 - They are like sheep and are destined to die; death will be their shepherd (but the upright will prevail over them in the morning). Their forms will decay in the grave, far from their princely mansions.

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Psa 49:17 - for they will take nothing with them when they die, their splendor will not descend with them.

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Psa 49:18 - Though while they live they count themselves blessed— and people praise you when you prosper—

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Psa 49:20 - People who have wealth but lack understanding are like the beasts that perish.

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Psa 50:10 - for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.

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Psa 50:15 - and call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

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Psa 51:1 - [fn]For the director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.

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Psa 51:4 - Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge.

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Psa 51:5 - Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

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Psa 51:10 - Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

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Psa 51:18 - May it please you to prosper Zion, to build up the walls of Jerusalem.

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Psa 52:1 - [fn]For the director of music. A maskil[fn] of David. When Doeg the Edomite had gone to Saul and told him: “David has gone to the house of Ahimelek.” Why do you boast of evil, you mighty hero? Why do you boast all day long, you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God?

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Psa 52:8 - But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God's unfailing love for ever and ever.

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Psa 53:1 - [fn]For the director of music. According to mahalath.[fn] A maskil[fn] of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and their ways are vile; there is no one who does good.

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Psa 53:6 - Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When God restores his people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!

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Psa 54:1 - [fn]For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A maskil[fn] of David. When the Ziphites had gone to Saul and said, “Is not David hiding among us?” Save me, O God, by your name; vindicate me by your might.

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Psa 54:5 - Let evil recoil on those who slander me; in your faithfulness destroy them.

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Psa 54:7 - You have delivered me from all my troubles, and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes.

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Psa 55:1 - [fn]For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A maskil[fn] of David. Listen to my prayer, O God, do not ignore my plea;

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Psa 55:2 - hear me and answer me. My thoughts trouble me and I am distraught

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Psa 55:3 - because of what my enemy is saying, because of the threats of the wicked; for they bring down suffering on me and assail me in their anger.

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Psa 55:4 - My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen on me.

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Psa 55:7 - I would flee far away and stay in the desert;[fn]

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Psa 55:9 - Lord, confuse the wicked, confound their words, for I see violence and strife in the city.

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Psa 55:10 - Day and night they prowl about on its walls; malice and abuse are within it.

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Psa 55:14 - with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship at the house of God, as we walked about among the worshipers.

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Psa 55:15 - Let death take my enemies by surprise; let them go down alive to the realm of the dead, for evil finds lodging among them.

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Psa 55:18 - He rescues me unharmed from the battle waged against me, even though many oppose me.

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Psa 55:20 - My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant.

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Psa 56:1 - [fn]For the director of music. To the tune of “A Dove on Distant Oaks.” Of David. A miktam.[fn] When the Philistines had seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, my God, for my enemies are in hot pursuit; all day long they press their attack.

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Psa 56:4 - In God, whose word I praise— in God I trust and am not afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?

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Psa 56:7 - Because of their wickedness do not[fn] let them escape; in your anger, God, bring the nations down.

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Psa 56:8 - Record my misery; list my tears on your scroll[fn]— are they not in your record?

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Psa 56:9 - Then my enemies will turn back when I call for help. By this I will know that God is for me.

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Psa 56:12 - I am under vows to you, my God; I will present my thank offerings to you.

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Psa 56:13 - For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.

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Psa 57:1 - [fn]For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” Of David. A miktam.[fn] When he had fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me, for in you I take refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed.

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Psa 57:9 - I will praise you, Lord, among the nations; I will sing of you among the peoples.

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Psa 58:2 - No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth.

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Psa 58:6 - Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; LORD, tear out the fangs of those lions!

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Psa 58:9 - Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns— whether they be green or dry—the wicked will be swept away.[fn]

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Psa 58:10 - The righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they dip their feet in the blood of the wicked.

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Psa 58:11 - Then people will say, “Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth.”

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Psa 59:7 - See what they spew from their mouths— the words from their lips are sharp as swords, and they think, “Who can hear us?”

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Psa 59:10 - my God on whom I can rely. God will go before me and will let me gloat over those who slander me.

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Psa 59:11 - But do not kill them, Lord our shield,[fn] or my people will forget. In your might uproot them and bring them down.

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Psa 59:12 - For the sins of their mouths, for the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride. For the curses and lies they utter,

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Psa 59:13 - consume them in your wrath, consume them till they are no more. Then it will be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob.

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Psa 59:16 - But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.

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Psa 60:6 - God has spoken from his sanctuary: “In triumph I will parcel out Shechem and measure off the Valley of Sukkoth.

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Psa 60:10 - Is it not you, God, you who have now rejected us and no longer go out with our armies?

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Psa 60:12 - With God we will gain the victory, and he will trample down our enemies.

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Psa 61:1 - [fn]For the director of music. With stringed instruments. Of David. Hear my cry, O God; listen to my prayer.

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Psa 61:2 - From the ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

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Psa 61:4 - I long to dwell in your tent forever and take refuge in the shelter of your wings.[fn]

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Psa 62:4 - Surely they intend to topple me from my lofty place; they take delight in lies. With their mouths they bless, but in their hearts they curse.[fn]

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Psa 62:9 - Surely the lowborn are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie. If weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath.

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Psa 63:1 - [fn]A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah. You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.

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Psa 63:2 - I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory.

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Psa 63:4 - I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands.

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Psa 63:6 - On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night.

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Psa 63:7 - Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings.

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Psa 63:11 - But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by God will glory in him, while the mouths of liars will be silenced.

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Psa 64:1 - [fn]For the director of music. A psalm of David. Hear me, my God, as I voice my complaint; protect my life from the threat of the enemy.

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Psa 64:4 - They shoot from ambush at the innocent; they shoot suddenly, without fear.

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Psa 65:1 - [fn]For the director of music. A psalm of David. A song. Praise awaits[fn] you, our God, in Zion; to you our vows will be fulfilled.

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Psa 65:4 - Blessed are those you choose and bring near to live in your courts! We are filled with the good things of your house, of your holy temple.

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Psa 65:5 - You answer us with awesome and righteous deeds, God our Savior, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas,

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Psa 65:6 - who formed the mountains by your power, having armed yourself with strength,

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Psa 65:10 - You drench its furrows and level its ridges; you soften it with showers and bless its crops.

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Psa 66:3 - Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds! So great is your power that your enemies cringe before you.

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Psa 66:5 - Come and see what God has done, his awesome deeds for mankind!

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Psa 66:6 - He turned the sea into dry land, they passed through the waters on foot— come, let us rejoice in him.

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Psa 66:7 - He rules forever by his power, his eyes watch the nations— let not the rebellious rise up against him.

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Psa 66:13 - I will come to your temple with burnt offerings and fulfill my vows to you—

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Psa 66:14 - vows my lips promised and my mouth spoke when I was in trouble.

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Psa 66:18 - If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened;

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Psa 67:1 - [fn]For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm. A song. May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine on us—[fn]

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Psa 67:2 - so that your ways may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations.

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Psa 67:4 - May the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you rule the peoples with equity and guide the nations of the earth.

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Psa 68:3 - But may the righteous be glad and rejoice before God; may they be happy and joyful.

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Psa 68:5 - A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.

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Psa 68:6 - God sets the lonely in families,[fn] he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.

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Psa 68:7 - When you, God, went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness,[fn]

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Psa 68:10 - Your people settled in it, and from your bounty, God, you provided for the poor.

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Psa 68:13 - Even while you sleep among the sheep pens,[fn] the wings of my dove are sheathed with silver, its feathers with shining gold.”

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Psa 68:14 - When the Almighty[fn] scattered the kings in the land, it was like snow fallen on Mount Zalmon.

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Psa 68:16 - why gaze in envy, you rugged mountain, at the mountain where God chooses to reign, where the LORD himself will dwell forever?

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Psa 68:17 - The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands; the Lord has come from Sinai into his sanctuary.[fn]

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Psa 68:18 - When you ascended on high, you took many captives; you received gifts from people, even from[fn] the rebellious— that you,[fn] LORD God, might dwell there.

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Psa 68:21 - Surely God will crush the heads of his enemies, the hairy crowns of those who go on in their sins.

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Psa 68:22 - The Lord says, “I will bring them from Bashan; I will bring them from the depths of the sea,

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Psa 68:23 - that your feet may wade in the blood of your foes, while the tongues of your dogs have their share.”

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Psa 68:24 - Your procession, God, has come into view, the procession of my God and King into the sanctuary.

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Psa 68:25 - In front are the singers, after them the musicians; with them are the young women playing the timbrels.

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Psa 68:26 - Praise God in the great congregation; praise the LORD in the assembly of Israel.

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Psa 68:27 - There is the little tribe of Benjamin, leading them, there the great throng of Judah's princes, and there the princes of Zebulun and of Naphtali.

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Psa 68:30 - Rebuke the beast among the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations. Humbled, may the beast bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.

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Psa 68:33 - to him who rides across the highest heavens, the ancient heavens, who thunders with mighty voice.

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Psa 68:34 - Proclaim the power of God, whose majesty is over Israel, whose power is in the heavens.

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Psa 68:35 - You, God, are awesome in your sanctuary; the God of Israel gives power and strength to his people. Praise be to God!

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Psa 69:10 - When I weep and fast, I must endure scorn;

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Psa 69:12 - Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of the drunkards.

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Psa 69:13 - But I pray to you, LORD, in the time of your favor; in your great love, O God, answer me with your sure salvation.

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Psa 69:25 - May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.

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Psa 69:27 - Charge them with crime upon crime; do not let them share in your salvation.

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Psa 69:30 - I will praise God's name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving.

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Psa 69:34 - Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and all that move in them,

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Psa 69:36 - the children of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will dwell there.

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Psa 71:2 - In your righteousness, rescue me and deliver me; turn your ear to me and save me.

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Psa 71:6 - From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother's womb. I will ever praise you.

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Psa 71:9 - Do not cast me away when I am old; do not forsake me when my strength is gone.

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Psa 71:16 - I will come and proclaim your mighty acts, Sovereign LORD; I will proclaim your righteous deeds, yours alone.

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Psa 71:22 - I will praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God; I will sing praise to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.

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Psa 72:2 - May he judge your people in righteousness, your afflicted ones with justice.

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Psa 72:3 - May the mountains bring prosperity to the people, the hills the fruit of righteousness.

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Psa 72:7 - In his days may the righteous flourish and prosperity abound till the moon is no more.

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Psa 72:16 - May grain abound throughout the land; on the tops of the hills may it sway. May the crops flourish like Lebanon and thrive[fn] like the grass of the field.

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Psa 72:17 - May his name endure forever; may it continue as long as the sun. Then all nations will be blessed through him,[fn] and they will call him blessed.

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Psa 73:4 - They have no struggles; their bodies are healthy and strong.[fn]

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Psa 73:5 - They are free from common human burdens; they are not plagued by human ills.

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Psa 73:8 - They scoff, and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.

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Psa 73:11 - They say, “How would God know? Does the Most High know anything?”

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Psa 73:13 - Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure and have washed my hands in innocence.

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Psa 73:18 - Surely you place them on slippery ground; you cast them down to ruin.

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Psa 73:20 - They are like a dream when one awakes; when you arise, Lord, you will despise them as fantasies.

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Psa 73:24 - You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory.

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Psa 73:25 - Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you.

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Psa 73:28 - But as for me, it is good to be near God. I have made the Sovereign LORD my refuge; I will tell of all your deeds.

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Psa 74:2 - Remember the nation you purchased long ago, the people of your inheritance, whom you redeemed— Mount Zion, where you dwelt.

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Psa 74:3 - Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins, all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary.

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Psa 74:4 - Your foes roared in the place where you met with us; they set up their standards as signs.

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Psa 74:6 - They smashed all the carved paneling with their axes and hatchets.

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Psa 74:7 - They burned your sanctuary to the ground; they defiled the dwelling place of your Name.

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Psa 74:8 - They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely!” They burned every place where God was worshiped in the land.

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Psa 74:12 - But God is my King from long ago; he brings salvation on the earth.

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Psa 74:13 - It was you who split open the sea by your power; you broke the heads of the monster in the waters.

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Psa 75:3 - When the earth and all its people quake, it is I who hold its pillars firm.[fn]

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Psa 75:8 - In the hand of the LORD is a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices; he pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to its very dregs.

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Psa 76:1 - [fn]For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph. A song. God is renowned in Judah; in Israel his name is great.

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Psa 76:2 - His tent is in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion.

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Psa 76:9 - when you, God, rose up to judge, to save all the afflicted of the land.

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Psa 77:2 - When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; at night I stretched out untiring hands, and I would not be comforted.

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Psa 77:9 - Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?”

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Psa 77:12 - I will consider all your works and meditate on all your mighty deeds.”

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Psa 77:13 - Your ways, God, are holy. What god is as great as our God?

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Psa 77:14 - You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples.

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Psa 77:15 - With your mighty arm you redeemed your people, the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.

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Psa 77:18 - Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind, your lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.

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Psa 77:19 - Your path led through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints were not seen.

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Psa 77:20 - You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

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Psa 78:2 - I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter hidden things, things from of old—

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Psa 78:5 - He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach their children,

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Psa 78:9 - The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle;

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Psa 78:10 - they did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by his law.

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Psa 78:12 - He did miracles in the sight of their ancestors in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.

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Psa 78:14 - He guided them with the cloud by day and with light from the fire all night.

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Psa 78:15 - He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them water as abundant as the seas;

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Psa 78:17 - But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the wilderness against the Most High.

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Psa 78:18 - They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved.

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Psa 78:19 - They spoke against God; they said, “Can God really spread a table in the wilderness?

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Psa 78:21 - When the LORD heard them, he was furious; his fire broke out against Jacob, and his wrath rose against Israel,

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Psa 78:22 - for they did not believe in God or trust in his deliverance.

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Psa 78:26 - He let loose the east wind from the heavens and by his power made the south wind blow.

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Psa 78:30 - But before they turned from what they craved, even while the food was still in their mouths,

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Psa 78:31 - God's anger rose against them; he put to death the sturdiest among them, cutting down the young men of Israel.

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Psa 78:32 - In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe.

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Psa 78:33 - So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.

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Psa 78:36 - But then they would flatter him with their mouths, lying to him with their tongues;

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Psa 78:37 - their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant.

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Psa 78:40 - How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the wasteland!

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Psa 78:43 - the day he displayed his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the region of Zoan.

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Psa 78:47 - He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

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Psa 78:51 - He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.

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Psa 78:52 - But he brought his people out like a flock; he led them like sheep through the wilderness.

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Psa 78:53 - He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies.

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Psa 78:55 - He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.

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Psa 78:58 - They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.

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Psa 78:60 - He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among humans.

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Psa 78:64 - their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep.

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Psa 78:69 - He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever.

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Psa 78:72 - And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them.

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Psa 79:10 - Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations that you avenge the outpoured blood of your servants.

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Psa 80:5 - You have fed them with the bread of tears; you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.

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Psa 81:3 - Sound the ram's horn at the New Moon, and when the moon is full, on the day of our festival;

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Psa 81:5 - When God went out against Egypt, he established it as a statute for Joseph. I heard an unknown voice say:

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Psa 81:6 - “I removed the burden from their shoulders; their hands were set free from the basket.

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Psa 81:7 - In your distress you called and I rescued you, I answered you out of a thundercloud; I tested you at the waters of Meribah.[fn]

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Psa 81:9 - You shall have no foreign god among you; you shall not worship any god other than me.

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Psa 81:12 - So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

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Psa 81:14 - how quickly I would subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes!

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Psa 82:1 - A psalm of Asaph. God presides in the great assembly; he renders judgment among the “gods”:

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Psa 82:5 - “The ‘gods' know nothing, they understand nothing. They walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

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Psa 82:8 - Rise up, O God, judge the earth, for all the nations are your inheritance.

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Psa 83:5 - With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you—

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Psa 83:9 - Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,

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Psa 83:10 - who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.

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Psa 83:15 - so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.

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Psa 84:4 - Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever praising you.[fn]

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Psa 84:5 - Blessed are those whose strength is in you, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.

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Psa 84:6 - As they pass through the Valley of Baka, they make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools.[fn]

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Psa 84:7 - They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion.

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Psa 84:10 - Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

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Psa 84:11 - For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.

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Psa 85:8 - I will listen to what God the LORD says; he promises peace to his people, his faithful servants— but let them not turn to folly.

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Psa 85:9 - Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that his glory may dwell in our land.

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Psa 86:7 - When I am in distress, I call to you, because you answer me.

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Psa 86:8 - Among the gods there is none like you, Lord; no deeds can compare with yours.

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Psa 86:11 - Teach me your way, LORD, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.

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Psa 86:12 - I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever.

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Psa 87:1 - Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. A song. He has founded his city on the holy mountain.

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Psa 87:5 - Indeed, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one were born in her, and the Most High himself will establish her.”

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Psa 87:6 - The LORD will write in the register of the peoples: “This one was born in Zion.”

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Psa 87:7 - As they make music they will sing, “All my fountains are in you.”

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Psa 88:1 - [fn]A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. For the director of music. According to mahalath leannoth.[fn] A maskil[fn] of Heman the Ezrahite. LORD, you are the God who saves me; day and night I cry out to you.

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Psa 88:4 - I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like one without strength.

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Psa 88:5 - I am set apart with the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, who are cut off from your care.

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Psa 88:6 - You have put me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

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Psa 88:11 - Is your love declared in the grave, your faithfulness in Destruction[fn]?

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Psa 88:12 - Are your wonders known in the place of darkness, or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?

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Psa 88:15 - From my youth I have suffered and been close to death; I have borne your terrors and am in despair.

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Psa 89:1 - [fn]A maskil[fn] of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the LORD's great love forever; with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through all generations.

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Psa 89:2 - I will declare that your love stands firm forever, that you have established your faithfulness in heaven itself.

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Psa 89:5 - The heavens praise your wonders, LORD, your faithfulness too, in the assembly of the holy ones.

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Psa 89:6 - For who in the skies above can compare with the LORD? Who is like the LORD among the heavenly beings?

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Psa 89:7 - In the council of the holy ones God is greatly feared; he is more awesome than all who surround him.

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Psa 89:10 - You crushed Rahab like one of the slain; with your strong arm you scattered your enemies.

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Psa 89:12 - You created the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon sing for joy at your name.

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Psa 89:15 - Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, LORD.

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Psa 89:16 - They rejoice in your name all day long; they celebrate your righteousness.

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Psa 89:17 - For you are their glory and strength, and by your favor you exalt our horn.[fn]

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Psa 89:19 - Once you spoke in a vision, to your faithful people you said: “I have bestowed strength on a warrior; I have raised up a young man from among the people.

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Psa 89:20 - I have found David my servant; with my sacred oil I have anointed him.

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Psa 89:22 - The enemy will not get the better of him; the wicked will not oppress him.

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Psa 89:24 - My faithful love will be with him, and through my name his horn[fn] will be exalted.

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Psa 89:25 - I will set his hand over the sea, his right hand over the rivers.

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Psa 89:32 - I will punish their sin with the rod, their iniquity with flogging;

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Psa 89:33 - but I will not take my love from him, nor will I ever betray my faithfulness.

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Psa 89:35 - Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness— and I will not lie to David—

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Psa 89:37 - it will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.”

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Psa 89:43 - Indeed, you have turned back the edge of his sword and have not supported him in battle.

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Psa 89:49 - Lord, where is your former great love, which in your faithfulness you swore to David?

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Psa 89:50 - Remember, Lord, how your servant has[fn] been mocked, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the nations,

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Psa 90:1 - A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.

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Psa 90:4 - A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.

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Psa 90:7 - We are consumed by your anger and terrified by your indignation.

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Psa 90:9 - All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a moan.

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Psa 90:10 - Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

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Psa 90:12 - Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

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Psa 90:14 - Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

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Psa 91:1 - Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.[fn]

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Psa 91:4 - He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.

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Psa 91:6 - nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.

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Psa 91:11 - For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways;

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Psa 91:15 - He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him.

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Psa 92:3 - to the music of the ten-stringed lyre and the melody of the harp.

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Psa 92:4 - For you make me glad by your deeds, LORD; I sing for joy at what your hands have done.

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Psa 92:7 - that though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

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Psa 92:10 - You have exalted my horn[fn] like that of a wild ox; fine oils have been poured on me.

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Psa 92:11 - My eyes have seen the defeat of my adversaries; my ears have heard the rout of my wicked foes.

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Psa 92:12 - The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;

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Psa 92:13 - planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.

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Psa 92:14 - They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green,

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Psa 92:15 - proclaiming, “The LORD is upright; he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him.”

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Psa 93:4 - Mightier than the thunder of the great waters, mightier than the breakers of the sea— the LORD on high is mighty.

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Psa 94:8 - Take notice, you senseless ones among the people; you fools, when will you become wise?

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Psa 94:19 - When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy.

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Psa 95:2 - Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.

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Psa 95:4 - In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him.

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Psa 95:8 - “Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,[fn] as you did that day at Massah[fn] in the wilderness,

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Psa 95:11 - So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.' ”

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Psa 96:3 - Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples.

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Psa 96:6 - Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and glory are in his sanctuary.

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Psa 96:9 - Worship the LORD in the splendor of his[fn] holiness; tremble before him, all the earth.

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Psa 96:10 - Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns.” The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity.

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Psa 96:12 - Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them; let all the trees of the forest sing for joy.

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Psa 96:13 - Let all creation rejoice before the LORD, for he comes, he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his faithfulness.

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Psa 97:7 - All who worship images are put to shame, those who boast in idols— worship him, all you gods!

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Psa 98:5 - make music to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and the sound of singing,

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Psa 98:6 - with trumpets and the blast of the ram's horn— shout for joy before the LORD, the King.

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Psa 98:7 - Let the sea resound, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.

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Psa 98:9 - let them sing before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples with equity.

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Psa 99:2 - Great is the LORD in Zion; he is exalted over all the nations.

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Psa 99:4 - The King is mighty, he loves justice— you have established equity; in Jacob you have done what is just and right.

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Psa 99:6 - Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel was among those who called on his name; they called on the LORD and he answered them.

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Psa 99:7 - He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept his statutes and the decrees he gave them.

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Psa 100:2 - Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.

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Psa 100:4 - Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.

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Psa 101:2 - I will be careful to lead a blameless life— when will you come to me? I will conduct the affairs of my house with a blameless heart.

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Psa 101:6 - My eyes will be on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me; the one whose walk is blameless will minister to me.

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Psa 101:7 - No one who practices deceit will dwell in my house; no one who speaks falsely will stand in my presence.

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Psa 102:2 - Do not hide your face from me when I am in distress. Turn your ear to me; when I call, answer me quickly.

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Psa 102:6 - I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.

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Psa 102:16 - For the LORD will rebuild Zion and appear in his glory.

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Psa 102:21 - So the name of the LORD will be declared in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem

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Psa 102:22 - when the peoples and the kingdoms assemble to worship the LORD.

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Psa 102:23 - In the course of my life[fn] he broke my strength; he cut short my days.

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Psa 102:24 - So I said: “Do not take me away, my God, in the midst of my days; your years go on through all generations.

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Psa 103:4 - who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion,

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Psa 103:5 - who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

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Psa 103:16 - the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.

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Psa 103:19 - The LORD has established his throne in heaven, and his kingdom rules over all.

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Psa 103:22 - Praise the LORD, all his works everywhere in his dominion. Praise the LORD, my soul.

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Psa 104:3 - and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters. He makes the clouds his chariot and rides on the wings of the wind.

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Psa 104:10 - He makes springs pour water into the ravines; it flows between the mountains.

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Psa 104:15 - wine that gladdens human hearts, oil to make their faces shine, and bread that sustains their hearts.

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Psa 104:20 - You bring darkness, it becomes night, and all the beasts of the forest prowl.

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Psa 104:22 - The sun rises, and they steal away; they return and lie down in their dens.

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Psa 104:24 - How many are your works, LORD! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

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Psa 104:33 - I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.

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Psa 105:1 - Give praise to the LORD, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done.

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Psa 105:3 - Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

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Psa 105:7 - He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.

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Psa 105:12 - When they were but few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it,

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Psa 105:15 - “Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm.”

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Psa 105:18 - They bruised his feet with shackles, his neck was put in irons,

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Psa 105:23 - Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob resided as a foreigner in the land of Ham.

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Psa 105:25 - whose hearts he turned to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.

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Psa 105:27 - They performed his signs among them, his wonders in the land of Ham.

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Psa 105:30 - Their land teemed with frogs, which went up into the bedrooms of their rulers.

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Psa 105:31 - He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats throughout their country.

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Psa 105:32 - He turned their rain into hail, with lightning throughout their land;

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Psa 105:35 - they ate up every green thing in their land, ate up the produce of their soil.

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Psa 105:36 - Then he struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their manhood.

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Psa 105:37 - He brought out Israel, laden with silver and gold, and from among their tribes no one faltered.

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Psa 105:38 - Egypt was glad when they left, because dread of Israel had fallen on them.

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Psa 105:41 - He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.

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Psa 105:43 - He brought out his people with rejoicing, his chosen ones with shouts of joy;

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Psa 106:3 - Blessed are those who act justly, who always do what is right.

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Psa 106:4 - Remember me, LORD, when you show favor to your people, come to my aid when you save them,

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Psa 106:5 - that I may enjoy the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may share in the joy of your nation and join your inheritance in giving praise.

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Psa 106:7 - When our ancestors were in Egypt, they gave no thought to your miracles; they did not remember your many kindnesses, and they rebelled by the sea, the Red Sea.[fn]

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Psa 106:9 - He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; he led them through the depths as through a desert.

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Psa 106:12 - Then they believed his promises and sang his praise.

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Psa 106:14 - In the desert they gave in to their craving; in the wilderness they put God to the test.

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Psa 106:16 - In the camp they grew envious of Moses and of Aaron, who was consecrated to the LORD.

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Psa 106:18 - Fire blazed among their followers; a flame consumed the wicked.

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Psa 106:19 - At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped an idol cast from metal.

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Psa 106:20 - They exchanged their glorious God for an image of a bull, which eats grass.

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Psa 106:21 - They forgot the God who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,

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Psa 106:22 - miracles in the land of Ham and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

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Psa 106:23 - So he said he would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him to keep his wrath from destroying them.

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Psa 106:25 - They grumbled in their tents and did not obey the LORD.

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Psa 106:26 - So he swore to them with uplifted hand that he would make them fall in the wilderness,

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Psa 106:27 - make their descendants fall among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

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Psa 106:29 - they aroused the LORD's anger by their wicked deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

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Psa 106:33 - for they rebelled against the Spirit of God, and rash words came from Moses' lips.[fn]

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Psa 106:35 - but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.

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Psa 106:38 - They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was desecrated by their blood.

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Psa 106:39 - They defiled themselves by what they did; by their deeds they prostituted themselves.

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Psa 106:43 - Many times he delivered them, but they were bent on rebellion and they wasted away in their sin.

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Psa 106:44 - Yet he took note of their distress when he heard their cry;

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Psa 106:47 - Save us, LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.

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Psa 107:4 - Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no way to a city where they could settle.

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Psa 107:5 - They were hungry and thirsty, and their lives ebbed away.

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Psa 107:6 - Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.

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Psa 107:10 - Some sat in darkness, in utter darkness, prisoners suffering in iron chains,

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Psa 107:12 - So he subjected them to bitter labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

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Psa 107:13 - Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress.

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Psa 107:19 - Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress.

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Psa 107:22 - Let them sacrifice thank offerings and tell of his works with songs of joy.

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Psa 107:23 - Some went out on the sea in ships; they were merchants on the mighty waters.

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Psa 107:24 - They saw the works of the LORD, his wonderful deeds in the deep.

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Psa 107:26 - They mounted up to the heavens and went down to the depths; in their peril their courage melted away.

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Psa 107:28 - Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he brought them out of their distress.

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Psa 107:32 - Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people and praise him in the council of the elders.

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Psa 107:34 - and fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who lived there.

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Psa 107:40 - he who pours contempt on nobles made them wander in a trackless waste.

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Psa 108:1 - [fn]A song. A psalm of David. My heart, O God, is steadfast; I will sing and make music with all my soul.

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Psa 108:3 - I will praise you, LORD, among the nations; I will sing of you among the peoples.

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Psa 108:7 - God has spoken from his sanctuary: “In triumph I will parcel out Shechem and measure off the Valley of Sukkoth.

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Psa 108:11 - Is it not you, God, you who have rejected us and no longer go out with our armies?

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Psa 108:13 - With God we will gain the victory, and he will trample down our enemies.

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Psa 109:7 - When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayers condemn him.

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Psa 109:13 - May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation.

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Psa 109:18 - He wore cursing as his garment; it entered into his body like water, into his bones like oil.

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Psa 109:23 - I fade away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

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Psa 109:30 - With my mouth I will greatly extol the LORD; in the great throng of worshipers I will praise him.

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Psa 110:2 - The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, saying, “Rule in the midst of your enemies!”

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Psa 110:3 - Your troops will be willing on your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, your young men will come to you like dew from the morning's womb.[fn]

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Psa 110:5 - The Lord is at your right hand[fn]; he will crush kings on the day of his wrath.

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Psa 110:6 - He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.

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Psa 110:7 - He will drink from a brook along the way,[fn] and so he will lift his head high.

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Psa 111:1 - [fn]Praise the LORD.[fn] I will extol the LORD with all my heart in the council of the upright and in the assembly.

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Psa 111:8 - They are established for ever and ever, enacted in faithfulness and uprightness.

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Psa 112:1 - [fn]Praise the LORD.[fn] Blessed are those who fear the LORD, who find great delight in his commands.

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Psa 112:2 - Their children will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.

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Psa 112:3 - Wealth and riches are in their houses, and their righteousness endures forever.

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Psa 112:4 - Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, for those who are gracious and compassionate and righteous.

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Psa 112:5 - Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely, who conduct their affairs with justice.

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Psa 112:9 - They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor, their righteousness endures forever; their horn[fn] will be lifted high in honor.

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Psa 113:5 - Who is like the LORD our God, the One who sits enthroned on high,

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Psa 113:6 - who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth?

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Psa 113:9 - He settles the childless woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD.

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Psa 114:1 - When Israel came out of Egypt, Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

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Psa 115:3 - Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him.

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Psa 115:7 - They have hands, but cannot feel, feet, but cannot walk, nor can they utter a sound with their throats.

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Psa 116:2 - Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live.

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Psa 116:9 - that I may walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

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Psa 116:11 - in my alarm I said, “Everyone is a liar.”

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Psa 116:19 - in the courts of the house of the LORD— in your midst, Jerusalem. Praise the LORD.[fn]

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Psa 118:5 - When hard pressed, I cried to the LORD; he brought me into a spacious place.

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Psa 118:12 - They swarmed around me like bees, but they were consumed as quickly as burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them down.

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Psa 118:15 - Shouts of joy and victory resound in the tents of the righteous: “The LORD's right hand has done mighty things!

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Psa 118:19 - Open for me the gates of the righteous; I will enter and give thanks to the LORD.

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Psa 118:20 - This is the gate of the LORD through which the righteous may enter.

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Psa 118:23 - the LORD has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes.

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Psa 118:24 - The LORD has done it this very day; let us rejoice today and be glad.

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Psa 118:26 - Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD. From the house of the LORD we bless you.[fn]

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Psa 118:27 - The LORD is God, and he has made his light shine on us. With boughs in hand, join in the festal procession up[fn] to the horns of the altar.

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Psa 119:1 - [fn]Aleph Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the LORD.

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Psa 119:2 - Blessed are those who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart—

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Psa 119:3 - they do no wrong but follow his ways.

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Psa 119:6 - Then I would not be put to shame when I consider all your commands.

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Psa 119:7 - I will praise you with an upright heart as I learn your righteous laws.

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Psa 119:9 - Beth How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word.

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Psa 119:10 - I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands.

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Psa 119:11 - I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.

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Psa 119:13 - With my lips I recount all the laws that come from your mouth.

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Psa 119:14 - I rejoice in following your statutes as one rejoices in great riches.

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Psa 119:15 - I meditate on your precepts and consider your ways.

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Psa 119:16 - I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your word.

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Psa 119:19 - I am a stranger on earth; do not hide your commands from me.

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Psa 119:20 - My soul is consumed with longing for your laws at all times.

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Psa 119:23 - Though rulers sit together and slander me, your servant will meditate on your decrees.

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Psa 119:27 - Cause me to understand the way of your precepts, that I may meditate on your wonderful deeds.

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Psa 119:28 - My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word.

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Psa 119:34 - Give me understanding, so that I may keep your law and obey it with all my heart.

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Psa 119:35 - Direct me in the path of your commands, for there I find delight.

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Psa 119:37 - Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word.[fn]

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Psa 119:40 - How I long for your precepts! In your righteousness preserve my life.

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Psa 119:45 - I will walk about in freedom, for I have sought out your precepts.

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Psa 119:46 - I will speak of your statutes before kings and will not be put to shame,

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Psa 119:47 - for I delight in your commands because I love them.

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Psa 119:48 - I reach out for your commands, which I love, that I may meditate on your decrees.

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Psa 119:50 - My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life.

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Psa 119:54 - Your decrees are the theme of my song wherever I lodge.

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Psa 119:55 - In the night, LORD, I remember your name, that I may keep your law.

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Psa 119:58 - I have sought your face with all my heart; be gracious to me according to your promise.

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Psa 119:68 - You are good, and what you do is good; teach me your decrees.

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Psa 119:69 - Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep your precepts with all my heart.

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Psa 119:78 - May the arrogant be put to shame for wronging me without cause; but I will meditate on your precepts.

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Psa 119:80 - May I wholeheartedly follow your decrees, that I may not be put to shame.

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Psa 119:83 - Though I am like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget your decrees.

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Psa 119:87 - They almost wiped me from the earth, but I have not forsaken your precepts.

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Psa 119:89 - Lamedh Your word, LORD, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens.

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Psa 119:92 - If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

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Psa 119:93 - I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have preserved my life.

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Psa 119:109 - Though I constantly take my life in my hands, I will not forget your law.

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Psa 119:117 - Uphold me, and I will be delivered; I will always have regard for your decrees.

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Psa 119:145 - Qoph I call with all my heart; answer me, LORD, and I will obey your decrees.

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Psa 119:147 - I rise before dawn and cry for help; I have put my hope in your word.

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Psa 119:159 - See how I love your precepts; preserve my life, LORD, in accordance with your love.

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Psa 120:1 - A song of ascents. I call on the LORD in my distress, and he answers me.

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Psa 122:2 - Our feet are standing in your gates, Jerusalem.

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Psa 122:7 - May there be peace within your walls and security within your citadels.”

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Psa 123:1 - A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to you, to you who sit enthroned in heaven.

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Psa 124:1 - A song of ascents. Of David. If the LORD had not been on our side— let Israel say—

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Psa 124:2 - if the LORD had not been on our side when people attacked us,

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Psa 124:3 - they would have swallowed us alive when their anger flared against us;

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Psa 124:8 - Our help is in the name of the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.

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Psa 125:3 - The scepter of the wicked will not remain over the land allotted to the righteous, for then the righteous might use their hands to do evil.

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Psa 126:1 - A song of ascents. When the LORD restored the fortunes of[fn] Zion, we were like those who dreamed.[fn]

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Psa 126:2 - Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”

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Psa 126:4 - Restore our fortunes,[fn] LORD, like streams in the Negev.

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Psa 126:5 - Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy.

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Psa 126:6 - Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them.

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Psa 127:4 - Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one's youth.

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Psa 127:5 - Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court.

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Psa 128:1 - A song of ascents. Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in obedience to him.

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Psa 128:3 - Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

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Psa 129:8 - May those who pass by not say to them, “The blessing of the LORD be on you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.”

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Psa 131:1 - A song of ascents. Of David. My heart is not proud, LORD, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me.

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Psa 132:6 - We heard it in Ephrathah, we came upon it in the fields of Jaar:[fn]

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Psa 134:1 - A song of ascents. Praise the LORD, all you servants of the LORD who minister by night in the house of the LORD.

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Psa 134:2 - Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the LORD.

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Psa 135:2 - you who minister in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God.

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Psa 135:6 - The LORD does whatever pleases him, in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all their depths.

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Psa 135:9 - He sent his signs and wonders into your midst, Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his servants.

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Psa 135:17 - They have ears, but cannot hear, nor is there breath in their mouths.

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Psa 136:5 - who by his understanding made the heavens,

His love endures forever.

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Psa 136:12 - with a mighty hand and outstretched arm;

His love endures forever.

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Psa 136:16 - to him who led his people through the wilderness;

His love endures forever.

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Psa 136:23 - He remembered us in our low estate

His love endures forever.

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Psa 137:1 - By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

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Psa 137:2 - There on the poplars we hung our harps,

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Psa 137:6 - May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.

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Psa 137:7 - Remember, LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. “Tear it down,” they cried, “tear it down to its foundations!”

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Psa 138:1 - Of David. I will praise you, LORD, with all my heart; before the “gods” I will sing your praise.

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Psa 138:3 - When I called, you answered me; you greatly emboldened me.

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Psa 138:5 - May they sing of the ways of the LORD, for the glory of the LORD is great.

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Psa 138:7 - Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life. You stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes; with your right hand you save me.

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Psa 139:4 - Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely.

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Psa 139:11 - If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”

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Psa 139:15 - My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

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Psa 139:16 - Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

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Psa 139:24 - See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

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Psa 140:2 - who devise evil plans in their hearts and stir up war every day.

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Psa 140:7 - Sovereign LORD, my strong deliverer, you shield my head in the day of battle.

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Psa 140:10 - May burning coals fall on them; may they be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, never to rise.

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Psa 141:1 - A psalm of David. I call to you, LORD, come quickly to me; hear me when I call to you.

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Psa 141:4 - Do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil so that I take part in wicked deeds along with those who are evildoers; do not let me eat their delicacies.

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Psa 141:5 - Let a righteous man strike me—that is a kindness; let him rebuke me—that is oil on my head. My head will not refuse it, for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers.

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Psa 141:10 - Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.

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Psa 142:1 - [fn]A maskil[fn] of David. When he was in the cave. A prayer. I cry aloud to the LORD; I lift up my voice to the LORD for mercy.

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Psa 142:3 - When my spirit grows faint within me, it is you who watch over my way. In the path where I walk people have hidden a snare for me.

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Psa 142:5 - I cry to you, LORD; I say, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

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Psa 143:1 - A psalm of David. LORD, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and righteousness come to my relief.

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Psa 143:3 - The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes me dwell in the darkness like those long dead.

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Psa 143:4 - So my spirit grows faint within me; my heart within me is dismayed.

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Psa 143:5 - I remember the days of long ago; I meditate on all your works and consider what your hands have done.

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Psa 143:8 - Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.

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Psa 143:10 - Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

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Psa 143:11 - For your name's sake, LORD, preserve my life; in your righteousness, bring me out of trouble.

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Psa 143:12 - In your unfailing love, silence my enemies; destroy all my foes, for I am your servant.

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Psa 144:9 - I will sing a new song to you, my God; on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,

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Psa 144:12 - Then our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

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Psa 144:13 - Our barns will be filled with every kind of provision. Our sheep will increase by thousands, by tens of thousands in our fields;

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Psa 144:14 - our oxen will draw heavy loads.[fn] There will be no breaching of walls, no going into captivity, no cry of distress in our streets.

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Psa 145:13 - Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures through all generations. The LORD is trustworthy in all he promises and faithful in all he does.[fn]

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Psa 145:15 - The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food at the proper time.

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Psa 145:17 - The LORD is righteous in all his ways and faithful in all he does.

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Psa 145:18 - The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

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Psa 146:2 - I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.

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Psa 146:4 - When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing.

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Psa 146:6 - He is the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them— he remains faithful forever.

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Psa 147:7 - Sing to the LORD with grateful praise; make music to our God on the harp.

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Psa 147:8 - He covers the sky with clouds; he supplies the earth with rain and makes grass grow on the hills.

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Psa 147:10 - His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse, nor his delight in the legs of the warrior;

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Psa 147:11 - the LORD delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love.

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Psa 147:13 - He strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses your people within you.

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Psa 148:1 - Praise the LORD.[fn] Praise the LORD from the heavens; praise him in the heights above.

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Psa 149:1 - Praise the LORD.[fn] Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of his faithful people.

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Psa 149:3 - Let them praise his name with dancing and make music to him with timbrel and harp.

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Psa 149:4 - For the LORD takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with victory.

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Psa 149:5 - Let his faithful people rejoice in this honor and sing for joy on their beds.

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Psa 149:6 - May the praise of God be in their mouths and a double-edged sword in their hands,

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Psa 149:7 - to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,

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Psa 149:8 - to bind their kings with fetters, their nobles with shackles of iron,

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Psa 149:9 - to carry out the sentence written against them— this is the glory of all his faithful people. Praise the LORD.

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Psa 150:1 - Praise the LORD.[fn] Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens.

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Psa 150:3 - Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre,

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Psa 150:4 - praise him with timbrel and dancing, praise him with the strings and pipe,

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Psa 150:5 - praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals.

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Pro 1:1 - The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:

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Pro 1:4 - for giving prudence to those who are simple,[fn] knowledge and discretion to the young—

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Pro 1:5 - let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance—

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Pro 1:6 - for understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.[fn]

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Pro 1:14 - cast lots with us; we will all share the loot”—

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Pro 1:15 - my son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths;

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Pro 1:20 - Out in the open wisdom calls aloud, she raises her voice in the public square;

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Pro 2:13 - who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways,

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Pro 2:19 - None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.

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Pro 2:21 - For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;

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Pro 3:5 - Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;

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Pro 3:6 - in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.[fn]

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Pro 3:16 - Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.

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Pro 3:17 - Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace.

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Pro 3:19 - By wisdom the LORD laid the earth's foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place;

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Pro 3:20 - by his knowledge the watery depths were divided, and the clouds let drop the dew.

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Pro 3:23 - Then you will go on your way in safety, and your foot will not stumble.

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Pro 3:32 - For the LORD detests the perverse but takes the upright into his confidence.

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Pro 3:33 - The LORD's curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous.

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Pro 4:3 - For I too was a son to my father, still tender, and cherished by my mother.

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Pro 4:15 - Avoid it, do not travel on it; turn from it and go on your way.

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Pro 4:21 - Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart;

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Pro 4:27 - Do not turn to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil.

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Pro 5:14 - And I was soon in serious trouble in the assembly of God's people.”

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Pro 5:19 - A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love.

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Pro 6:8 - yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.

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Pro 6:14 - who plots evil with deceit in his heart— he always stirs up conflict.

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Pro 6:27 - Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?

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Pro 6:34 - For jealousy arouses a husband's fury, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.

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Pro 7:8 - He was going down the street near her corner, walking along in the direction of her house

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Pro 7:9 - at twilight, as the day was fading, as the dark of night set in.

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Pro 7:11 - (She is unruly and defiant, her feet never stay at home;

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Pro 7:12 - now in the street, now in the squares, at every corner she lurks.)

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Pro 7:19 - My husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.

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Pro 7:20 - He took his purse filled with money and will not be home till full moon.”

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Pro 8:3 - beside the gate leading into the city, at the entrance, she cries aloud:

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Pro 8:8 - All the words of my mouth are just; none of them is crooked or perverse.

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Pro 8:20 - I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice,

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Pro 8:23 - I was formed long ages ago, at the very beginning, when the world came to be.

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Pro 8:30 - Then I was constantly[fn] at his side. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence,

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Pro 8:31 - rejoicing in his whole world and delighting in mankind.

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Pro 9:6 - Leave your simple ways and you will live; walk in the way of insight.”

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Pro 9:12 - If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer.

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Pro 9:14 - She sits at the door of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city,

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Pro 9:15 - calling out to those who pass by, who go straight on their way,

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Pro 9:18 - But little do they know that the dead are there, that her guests are deep in the realm of the dead.

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Pro 10:5 - He who gathers crops in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.

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Pro 10:11 - The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

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Pro 10:21 - The lips of the righteous nourish many, but fools die for lack of sense.

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Pro 10:22 - The blessing of the LORD brings wealth, without painful toil for it.

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Pro 10:23 - A fool finds pleasure in wicked schemes, but a person of understanding delights in wisdom.

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Pro 10:24 - What the wicked dread will overtake them; what the righteous desire will be granted.

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Pro 11:9 - With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors, but through knowledge the righteous escape.

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Pro 11:10 - When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices; when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.

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Pro 11:13 - A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy person keeps a secret.

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Pro 11:14 - For lack of guidance a nation falls, but victory is won through many advisers.

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Pro 11:20 - The LORD detests those whose hearts are perverse, but he delights in those whose ways are blameless.

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Pro 11:22 - Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion.

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Pro 12:4 - A wife of noble character is her husband's crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.

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Pro 12:9 - Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant than pretend to be somebody and have no food.

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Pro 12:11 - Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies have no sense.

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Pro 12:12 - The wicked desire the stronghold of evildoers, but the root of the righteous endures.

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Pro 12:13 - Evildoers are trapped by their sinful talk, and so the innocent escape trouble.

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Pro 12:20 - Deceit is in the hearts of those who plot evil, but those who promote peace have joy.

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Pro 12:28 - In the way of righteousness there is life; along that path is immortality.

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Pro 13:1 - A wise son heeds his father's instruction, but a mocker does not respond to rebukes.

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Pro 13:4 - A sluggard's appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.

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Pro 13:7 - One person pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

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Pro 13:9 - The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

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Pro 13:15 - Good judgment wins favor, but the way of the unfaithful leads to their destruction.[fn]

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Pro 13:23 - An unplowed field produces food for the poor, but injustice sweeps it away.

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Pro 14:8 - The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to their ways, but the folly of fools is deception.

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Pro 14:13 - Even in laughter the heart may ache, and rejoicing may end in grief.

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Pro 14:23 - All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

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Pro 14:26 - Whoever fears the LORD has a secure fortress, and for their children it will be a refuge.

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Pro 14:28 - A large population is a king's glory, but without subjects a prince is ruined.

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Pro 14:29 - Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly.

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Pro 14:32 - When calamity comes, the wicked are brought down, but even in death the righteous seek refuge in God.

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Pro 14:33 - Wisdom reposes in the heart of the discerning and even among fools she lets herself be known.[fn]

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Pro 15:3 - The eyes of the LORD are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good.

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Pro 15:6 - The house of the righteous contains great treasure, but the income of the wicked brings ruin.

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Pro 15:13 - A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit.

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Pro 15:22 - Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.

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Pro 16:2 - All a person's ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the LORD.

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Pro 16:10 - The lips of a king speak as an oracle, and his mouth does not betray justice.

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Pro 16:15 - When a king's face brightens, it means life; his favor is like a rain cloud in spring.

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Pro 16:17 - The highway of the upright avoids evil; those who guard their ways preserve their lives.

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Pro 16:20 - Whoever gives heed to instruction prospers,[fn] and blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD.

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Pro 16:21 - The wise in heart are called discerning, and gracious words promote instruction.[fn]

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Pro 16:26 - The appetite of laborers works for them; their hunger drives them on.

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Pro 16:31 - Gray hair is a crown of splendor; it is attained in the way of righteousness.

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Pro 17:1 - Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife.

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Pro 17:2 - A prudent servant will rule over a disgraceful son and will share the inheritance as one of the family.

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Pro 17:3 - The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the heart.

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Pro 17:17 - A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.

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Pro 17:23 - The wicked accept bribes in secret to pervert the course of justice.

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Pro 18:1 - An unfriendly person pursues selfish ends and against all sound judgment starts quarrels.

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Pro 18:4 - The words of the mouth are deep waters, but the fountain of wisdom is a rushing stream.

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Pro 18:5 - It is not good to be partial to the wicked and so deprive the innocent of justice.

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Pro 18:9 - One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.

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Pro 18:17 - In a lawsuit the first to speak seems right, until someone comes forward and cross-examines.

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Pro 18:18 - Casting the lot settles disputes and keeps strong opponents apart.

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Pro 18:21 - The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

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Pro 19:21 - Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails.

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Pro 19:23 - The fear of the LORD leads to life; then one rests content, untouched by trouble.

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Pro 20:4 - Sluggards do not plow in season; so at harvest time they look but find nothing.

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Pro 20:5 - The purposes of a person's heart are deep waters, but one who has insight draws them out.

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Pro 20:7 - The righteous lead blameless lives; blessed are their children after them.

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Pro 20:8 - When a king sits on his throne to judge, he winnows out all evil with his eyes.

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Pro 20:11 - Even small children are known by their actions, so is their conduct really pure and upright?

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Pro 20:21 - An inheritance claimed too soon will not be blessed at the end.

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Pro 20:28 - Love and faithfulness keep a king safe; through love his throne is made secure.

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Pro 21:1 - In the LORD's hand the king's heart is a stream of water that he channels toward all who please him.

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Pro 21:9 - Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

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Pro 21:12 - The Righteous One[fn] takes note of the house of the wicked and brings the wicked to ruin.

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Pro 21:16 - Whoever strays from the path of prudence comes to rest in the company of the dead.

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Pro 21:19 - Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife.

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Pro 22:5 - In the paths of the wicked are snares and pitfalls, but those who would preserve their life stay far from them.

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Pro 22:10 - Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife; quarrels and insults are ended.

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Pro 22:13 - The sluggard says, “There's a lion outside! I'll be killed in the public square!”

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Pro 22:22 - Do not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court,

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Pro 22:29 - Do you see someone skilled in their work? They will serve before kings; they will not serve before officials of low rank.

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Pro 23:17 - Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous for the fear of the LORD.

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Pro 23:30 - Those who linger over wine, who go to sample bowls of mixed wine.

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Pro 23:31 - Do not gaze at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly!

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Pro 23:34 - You will be like one sleeping on the high seas, lying on top of the rigging.

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Pro 24:7 - Wisdom is too high for fools; in the assembly at the gate they must not open their mouths.

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Pro 24:8 - Whoever plots evil will be known as a schemer.

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Pro 24:9 - The schemes of folly are sin, and people detest a mocker.

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Pro 24:10 - If you falter in a time of trouble, how small is your strength!

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Pro 24:16 - for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.

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Pro 24:17 - Do not gloat when your enemy falls; when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice,

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Pro 24:23 - These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judging is not good:

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Pro 25:5 - remove wicked officials from the king's presence, and his throne will be established through righteousness.

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Pro 25:6 - Do not exalt yourself in the king's presence, and do not claim a place among his great men;

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Pro 25:7 - it is better for him to say to you, “Come up here,” than for him to humiliate you before his nobles. What you have seen with your eyes

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Pro 25:11 - Like apples[fn] of gold in settings of silver is a ruling rightly given.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 25:13

Pro 25:13 - Like a snow-cooled drink at harvest time is a trustworthy messenger to the one who sends him; he refreshes the spirit of his master.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 25:15

Pro 25:15 - Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 25:19

Pro 25:19 - Like a broken tooth or a lame foot is reliance on the unfaithful in a time of trouble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 25:20

Pro 25:20 - Like one who takes away a garment on a cold day, or like vinegar poured on a wound, is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 25:24

Pro 25:24 - Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:1

Pro 26:1 - Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, honor is not fitting for a fool.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:8

Pro 26:8 - Like tying a stone in a sling is the giving of honor to a fool.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:9

Pro 26:9 - Like a thornbush in a drunkard's hand is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:13

Pro 26:13 - A sluggard says, “There's a lion in the road, a fierce lion roaming the streets!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:15

Pro 26:15 - A sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:16

Pro 26:16 - A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven people who answer discreetly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:20

Pro 26:20 - Without wood a fire goes out; without a gossip a quarrel dies down.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:24

Pro 26:24 - Enemies disguise themselves with their lips, but in their hearts they harbor deceit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:25

Pro 26:25 - Though their speech is charming, do not believe them, for seven abominations fill their hearts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:26

Pro 26:26 - Their malice may be concealed by deception, but their wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:7

Pro 27:7 - One who is full loathes honey from the comb, but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:15

Pro 27:15 - A quarrelsome wife is like the dripping of a leaky roof in a rainstorm;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:22

Pro 27:22 - Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:25

Pro 27:25 - When the hay is removed and new growth appears and the grass from the hills is gathered in,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 28:3

Pro 28:3 - A ruler[fn] who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no crops.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 28:5

Pro 28:5 - Evildoers do not understand what is right, but those who seek the LORD understand it fully.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 28:6

Pro 28:6 - Better the poor whose walk is blameless than the rich whose ways are perverse.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 28:10

Pro 28:10 - Whoever leads the upright along an evil path will fall into their own trap, but the blameless will receive a good inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 28:12

Pro 28:12 - When the righteous triumph, there is great elation; but when the wicked rise to power, people go into hiding.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 28:17

Pro 28:17 - Anyone tormented by the guilt of murder will seek refuge in the grave; let no one hold them back.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 28:25

Pro 28:25 - The greedy stir up conflict, but those who trust in the LORD will prosper.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 28:27

Pro 28:27 - Those who give to the poor will lack nothing, but those who close their eyes to them receive many curses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 28:28

Pro 28:28 - When the wicked rise to power, people go into hiding; but when the wicked perish, the righteous thrive.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 29:6

Pro 29:6 - Evildoers are snared by their own sin, but the righteous shout for joy and are glad.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 29:14

Pro 29:14 - If a king judges the poor with fairness, his throne will be established forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 29:20

Pro 29:20 - Do you see someone who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:2

Pro 30:2 - Surely I am only a brute, not a man; I do not have human understanding.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:4

Pro 30:4 - Who has gone up to heaven and come down? Whose hands have gathered up the wind? Who has wrapped up the waters in a cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is the name of his son? Surely you know!

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:19

Pro 30:19 - the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a young woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:26

Pro 30:26 - hyraxes are creatures of little power, yet they make their home in the crags;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:28

Pro 30:28 - a lizard can be caught with the hand, yet it is found in kings' palaces.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:31

Pro 30:31 - a strutting rooster, a he-goat, and a king secure against revolt.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:6

Pro 31:6 - Let beer be for those who are perishing, wine for those who are in anguish!

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:21

Pro 31:21 - When it snows, she has no fear for her household; for all of them are clothed in scarlet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:23

Pro 31:23 - Her husband is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:26

Pro 31:26 - She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:31

Pro 31:31 - Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 1:1

Ecc 1:1 - The words of the Teacher,[fn] son of David, king in Jerusalem:

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 1:3

Ecc 1:3 - What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 1:10

Ecc 1:10 - Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 1:12

Ecc 1:12 - I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 1:13

Ecc 1:13 - I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind!

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 1:16

Ecc 1:16 - I said to myself, “Look, I have increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me; I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 1:18

Ecc 1:18 - For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:1

Ecc 2:1 - I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good.” But that also proved to be meaningless.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:3

Ecc 2:3 - I tried cheering myself with wine, and embracing folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was good for people to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:5

Ecc 2:5 - I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:7

Ecc 2:7 - I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:9

Ecc 2:9 - I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before me. In all this my wisdom stayed with me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:10

Ecc 2:10 - I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor, and this was the reward for all my toil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:11

Ecc 2:11 - Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:14

Ecc 2:14 - The wise have eyes in their heads, while the fool walks in the darkness; but I came to realize that the same fate overtakes them both.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:15

Ecc 2:15 - Then I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will overtake me also. What then do I gain by being wise?” I said to myself, “This too is meaningless.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:19

Ecc 2:19 - And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:21

Ecc 2:21 - For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:22

Ecc 2:22 - What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:23

Ecc 2:23 - All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:24

Ecc 2:24 - A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:9

Ecc 3:9 - What do workers gain from their toil?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:10

Ecc 3:10 - I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:11

Ecc 3:11 - He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[fn] no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:12

Ecc 3:12 - I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:13

Ecc 3:13 - That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:17

Ecc 3:17 - I said to myself, “God will bring into judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time to judge every deed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:18

Ecc 3:18 - I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:22

Ecc 3:22 - So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:9

Ecc 4:9 - Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor:

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:14

Ecc 4:14 - The youth may have come from prison to the kingship, or he may have been born in poverty within his kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:16

Ecc 4:16 - There was no end to all the people who were before them. But those who came later were not pleased with the successor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:1

Ecc 5:1 - Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:2

Ecc 5:2 - Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:3

Ecc 5:3 - A dream comes when there are many cares, and many words mark the speech of a fool.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:4

Ecc 5:4 - When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:7

Ecc 5:7 - Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore fear God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:8

Ecc 5:8 - If you see the poor oppressed in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and over them both are others higher still.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:9

Ecc 5:9 - The increase from the land is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:10

Ecc 5:10 - Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:11

Ecc 5:11 - As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:14

Ecc 5:14 - or wealth lost through some misfortune, so that when they have children there is nothing left for them to inherit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:15

Ecc 5:15 - Everyone comes naked from their mother's womb, and as everyone comes, so they depart. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:17

Ecc 5:17 - All their days they eat in darkness, with great frustration, affliction and anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:18

Ecc 5:18 - This is what I have observed to be good: that it is appropriate for a person to eat, to drink and to find satisfaction in their toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given them—for this is their lot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:19

Ecc 5:19 - Moreover, when God gives someone wealth and possessions, and the ability to enjoy them, to accept their lot and be happy in their toil—this is a gift of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:20

Ecc 5:20 - They seldom reflect on the days of their life, because God keeps them occupied with gladness of heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 6:4

Ecc 6:4 - It comes without meaning, it departs in darkness, and in darkness its name is shrouded.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 6:12

Ecc 6:12 - For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow? Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:3

Ecc 7:3 - Frustration is better than laughter, because a sad face is good for the heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:4

Ecc 7:4 - The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:9

Ecc 7:9 - Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:10

Ecc 7:10 - Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:12

Ecc 7:12 - Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: Wisdom preserves those who have it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:14

Ecc 7:14 - When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about their future.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:15

Ecc 7:15 - In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these: the righteous perishing in their righteousness, and the wicked living long in their wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:17

Ecc 7:17 - Do not be overwicked, and do not be a fool— why die before your time?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:18

Ecc 7:18 - It is good to grasp the one and not let go of the other. Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:19

Ecc 7:19 - Wisdom makes one wise person more powerful than ten rulers in a city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:20

Ecc 7:20 - Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous, no one who does what is right and never sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:23

Ecc 7:23 - All this I tested by wisdom and I said, “I am determined to be wise”— but this was beyond me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:26

Ecc 7:26 - I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:28

Ecc 7:28 - while I was still searching but not finding— I found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:3

Ecc 8:3 - Do not be in a hurry to leave the king's presence. Do not stand up for a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:8

Ecc 8:8 - As no one has power over the wind to contain it, so[fn] no one has power over the time of their death. As no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:9

Ecc 8:9 - All this I saw, as I applied my mind to everything done under the sun. There is a time when a man lords it over others to his own[fn] hurt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:10

Ecc 8:10 - Then too, I saw the wicked buried—those who used to come and go from the holy place and receive praise[fn] in the city where they did this. This too is meaningless.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:11

Ecc 8:11 - When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people's hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:13

Ecc 8:13 - Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:15

Ecc 8:15 - So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:16

Ecc 8:16 - When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth—people getting no sleep day or night—

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:1

Ecc 9:1 - So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God's hands, but no one knows whether love or hate awaits them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:2

Ecc 9:2 - All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad,[fn] the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. As it is with the good, so with the sinful; as it is with those who take oaths, so with those who are afraid to take them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:3

Ecc 9:3 - This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:6

Ecc 9:6 - Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:7

Ecc 9:7 - Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:8

Ecc 9:8 - Always be clothed in white, and always anoint your head with oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:9

Ecc 9:9 - Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun—all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:10

Ecc 9:10 - Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:12

Ecc 9:12 - Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:14

Ecc 9:14 - There was once a small city with only a few people in it. And a powerful king came against it, surrounded it and built huge siege works against it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:15

Ecc 9:15 - Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:17

Ecc 9:17 - The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler of fools.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:3

Ecc 10:3 - Even as fools walk along the road, they lack sense and show everyone how stupid they are.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:6

Ecc 10:6 - Fools are put in many high positions, while the rich occupy the low ones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:8

Ecc 10:8 - Whoever digs a pit may fall into it; whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:9

Ecc 10:9 - Whoever quarries stones may be injured by them; whoever splits logs may be endangered by them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:11

Ecc 10:11 - If a snake bites before it is charmed, the charmer receives no fee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:16

Ecc 10:16 - Woe to the land whose king was a servant[fn] and whose princes feast in the morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:17

Ecc 10:17 - Blessed is the land whose king is of noble birth and whose princes eat at a proper time— for strength and not for drunkenness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:18

Ecc 10:18 - Through laziness, the rafters sag; because of idle hands, the house leaks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:20

Ecc 10:20 - Do not revile the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich in your bedroom, because a bird in the sky may carry your words, and a bird on the wing may report what you say.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:1

Ecc 11:1 - Ship your grain across the sea; after many days you may receive a return.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:3

Ecc 11:3 - If clouds are full of water, they pour rain on the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:4

Ecc 11:4 - Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:5

Ecc 11:5 - As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed[fn] in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:6

Ecc 11:6 - Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:8

Ecc 11:8 - However many years anyone may live, let them enjoy them all. But let them remember the days of darkness, for there will be many. Everything to come is meaningless.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:9

Ecc 11:9 - You who are young, be happy while you are young, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 12:1

Ecc 12:1 - Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them”—

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 12:3

Ecc 12:3 - when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men stoop, when the grinders cease because they are few, and those looking through the windows grow dim;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 12:4

Ecc 12:4 - when the doors to the street are closed and the sound of grinding fades; when people rise up at the sound of birds, but all their songs grow faint;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 12:5

Ecc 12:5 - when people are afraid of heights and of dangers in the streets; when the almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper drags itself along and desire no longer is stirred. Then people go to their eternal home and mourners go about the streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 12:14

Ecc 12:14 - For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 1:4

Sng 1:4 - Take me away with you—let us hurry! Let the king bring me into his chambers. Friends: We rejoice and delight in you[fn]; we will praise your love more than wine. She: How right they are to adore you!

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 1:6

Sng 1:6 - Do not stare at me because I am dark, because I am darkened by the sun. My mother's sons were angry with me and made me take care of the vineyards; my own vineyard I had to neglect.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 1:7

Sng 1:7 - Tell me, you whom I love, where you graze your flock and where you rest your sheep at midday. Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your friends?

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 1:8

Sng 1:8 - Friends: If you do not know, most beautiful of women, follow the tracks of the sheep and graze your young goats by the tents of the shepherds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 1:9

Sng 1:9 - He: I liken you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh's chariot horses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 1:12

Sng 1:12 - She: While the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 1:14

Sng 1:14 - My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:2

Sng 2:2 - He: Like a lily among thorns is my darling among the young women.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:3

Sng 2:3 - She: Like an apple[fn] tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:5

Sng 2:5 - Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:7

Sng 2:7 - Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:12

Sng 2:12 - Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:14

Sng 2:14 - He: My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:16

Sng 2:16 - She: My beloved is mine and I am his; he browses among the lilies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:1

Sng 3:1 - All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves; I looked for him but did not find him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:2

Sng 3:2 - I will get up now and go about the city, through its streets and squares; I will search for the one my heart loves. So I looked for him but did not find him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:3

Sng 3:3 - The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. “Have you seen the one my heart loves?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:5

Sng 3:5 - Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:8

Sng 3:8 - all of them wearing the sword, all experienced in battle, each with his sword at his side, prepared for the terrors of the night.

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Sng 3:11 - come out, and look, you daughters of Zion. Look[fn] on King Solomon wearing a crown, the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, the day his heart rejoiced.

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Sng 4:2 - Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn, coming up from the washing. Each has its twin; not one of them is alone.

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Sng 4:5 - Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle that browse among the lilies.

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Sng 4:7 - You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you.

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Sng 4:9 - You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.

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Sng 5:6 - I opened for my beloved, but my beloved had left; he was gone. My heart sank at his departure.[fn] I looked for him but did not find him. I called him but he did not answer.

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Sng 5:7 - The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. They beat me, they bruised me; they took away my cloak, those watchmen of the walls!

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Sng 5:8 - Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you— if you find my beloved, what will you tell him? Tell him I am faint with love.

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Sng 5:9 - Friends: How is your beloved better than others, most beautiful of women? How is your beloved better than others, that you so charge us?

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Sng 5:12 - His eyes are like doves by the water streams, washed in milk, mounted like jewels.

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Sng 6:1 - Friends: Where has your beloved gone, most beautiful of women? Which way did your beloved turn, that we may look for him with you?

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Sng 6:2 - She: My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to browse in the gardens and to gather lilies.

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Sng 6:3 - I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine; he browses among the lilies.

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Sng 6:6 - Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing. Each has its twin, not one of them is missing.

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Sng 6:11 - He: I went down to the grove of nut trees to look at the new growth in the valley, to see if the vines had budded or the pomegranates were in bloom.

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Sng 6:13 - Friends: Come back, come back, O Shulammite; come back, come back, that we may gaze on you! He: Why would you gaze on the Shulammite as on the dance of Mahanaim?[fn]

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Sng 7:1 - How beautiful your sandaled feet, O prince's daughter! Your graceful legs are like jewels, the work of an artist's hands.

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Sng 7:2 - Your navel is a rounded goblet that never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by lilies.

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Sng 7:4 - Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon looking toward Damascus.

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Sng 7:5 - Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. Your hair is like royal tapestry; the king is held captive by its tresses.

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Sng 7:6 - How beautiful you are and how pleasing, my love, with your delights!

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Sng 7:8 - I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples,

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Sng 7:11 - Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside, let us spend the night in the villages.[fn]

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Sng 8:4 - Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.

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Sng 8:7 - Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If one were to give all the wealth of one's house for love, it[fn] would be utterly scorned.

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Sng 8:8 - Friends: We have a little sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister on the day she is spoken for?

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Sng 8:10 - She: I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. Thus I have become in his eyes like one bringing contentment.

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Sng 8:11 - Solomon had a vineyard in Baal Hamon; he let out his vineyard to tenants. Each was to bring for its fruit a thousand shekels[fn] of silver.

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Sng 8:13 - He: You who dwell in the gardens with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice!

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Isa 1:1 - The vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

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Isa 1:8 - Daughter Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a city under siege.

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Isa 1:21 - See how the faithful city has become a prostitute! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her— but now murderers!

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Isa 1:24 - Therefore the Lord, the LORD Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: “Ah! I will vent my wrath on my foes and avenge myself on my enemies.

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Isa 2:2 - In the last days the mountain of the LORD's temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.

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Isa 2:3 - Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.” The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

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Isa 2:11 - The eyes of the arrogant will be humbled and human pride brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

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Isa 2:17 - The arrogance of man will be brought low and human pride humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,

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Isa 3:7 - But in that day he will cry out, “I have no remedy. I have no food or clothing in my house; do not make me the leader of the people.”

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Isa 3:14 - The LORD enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of his people: “It is you who have ruined my vineyard; the plunder from the poor is in your houses.

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Isa 3:16 - The LORD says, “The women of Zion are haughty, walking along with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, strutting along with swaying hips, with ornaments jingling on their ankles.

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Isa 3:18 - In that day the Lord will snatch away their finery: the bangles and headbands and crescent necklaces,

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Isa 4:2 - In that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel.

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Isa 4:3 - Those who are left in Zion, who remain in Jerusalem, will be called holy, all who are recorded among the living in Jerusalem.

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Isa 4:4 - The Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion; he will cleanse the bloodstains from Jerusalem by a spirit[fn] of judgment and a spirit[fn] of fire.

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Isa 4:6 - It will be a shelter and shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and rain.

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Isa 5:1 - I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.

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Isa 5:2 - He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well. Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit.

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Isa 5:3 - “Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.

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Isa 5:9 - The LORD Almighty has declared in my hearing: “Surely the great houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left without occupants.

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Isa 5:16 - But the LORD Almighty will be exalted by his justice, and the holy God will be proved holy by his righteous acts.

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Isa 5:21 - Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.

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Isa 5:25 - Therefore the LORD's anger burns against his people; his hand is raised and he strikes them down. The mountains shake, and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

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Isa 5:26 - He lifts up a banner for the distant nations, he whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Here they come, swiftly and speedily!

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Isa 5:30 - In that day they will roar over it like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks at the land, there is only darkness and distress; even the sun will be darkened by clouds.

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Isa 6:5 - “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.”

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Isa 6:6 - Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.

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Isa 7:1 - When Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it.

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Isa 7:2 - Now the house of David was told, “Aram has allied itself with[fn] Ephraim”; so the hearts of Ahaz and his people were shaken, as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind.

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Isa 7:14 - Therefore the Lord himself will give you[fn] a sign: The virgin[fn] will conceive and give birth to a son, and[fn] will call him Immanuel.[fn]

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Isa 7:18 - In that day the LORD will whistle for flies from the Nile delta in Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.

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Isa 7:19 - They will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the crevices in the rocks, on all the thornbushes and at all the water holes.

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Isa 7:20 - In that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria—to shave your heads and private parts, and to cut off your beards also.

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Isa 7:21 - In that day, a person will keep alive a young cow and two goats.

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Isa 7:23 - In that day, in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels,[fn] there will be only briers and thorns.

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Isa 8:3 - Then I made love to the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. And the LORD said to me, “Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.

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Isa 8:14 - He will be a holy place; for both Israel and Judah he will be a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare.

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Isa 8:15 - Many of them will stumble; they will fall and be broken, they will be snared and captured.”

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Isa 8:18 - Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.

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Isa 9:1 - Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the nations, by the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan—

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Isa 9:2 - The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.

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Isa 9:3 - You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy; they rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest, as warriors rejoice when dividing the plunder.

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Isa 9:7 - Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.

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Isa 9:9 - All the people will know it— Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria— who say with pride and arrogance of heart,

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Isa 9:14 - So the LORD will cut off from Israel both head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day;

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Isa 9:18 - Surely wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns, it sets the forest thickets ablaze, so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.

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Isa 10:3 - What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?

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Isa 10:5 - “Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath!

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Isa 10:10 - As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols, kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria—

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Isa 10:12 - When the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes.

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Isa 10:15 - Does the ax raise itself above the person who swings it, or the saw boast against the one who uses it? As if a rod were to wield the person who lifts it up, or a club brandish the one who is not wood!

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Isa 10:17 - The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One a flame; in a single day it will burn and consume his thorns and his briers.

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Isa 10:20 - In that day the remnant of Israel, the survivors of Jacob, will no longer rely on him who struck them down but will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

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Isa 10:22 - Though your people be like the sand by the sea, Israel, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overwhelming and righteous.

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Isa 10:23 - The Lord, the LORD Almighty, will carry out the destruction decreed upon the whole land.

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Isa 10:24 - Therefore this is what the Lord, the LORD Almighty, says: “My people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrians, who beat you with a rod and lift up a club against you, as Egypt did.

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Isa 10:26 - The LORD Almighty will lash them with a whip, as when he struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb; and he will raise his staff over the waters, as he did in Egypt.

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Isa 10:27 - In that day their burden will be lifted from your shoulders, their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be broken because you have grown so fat.[fn]

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Isa 10:28 - They enter Aiath; they pass through Migron; they store supplies at Mikmash.

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Isa 10:32 - This day they will halt at Nob; they will shake their fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.

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Isa 11:4 - but with righteousness he will judge the needy, with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.

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Isa 11:10 - In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his resting place will be glorious.

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Isa 11:14 - They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia to the west; together they will plunder the people to the east. They will subdue Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.

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Isa 11:15 - The LORD will dry up the gulf of the Egyptian sea; with a scorching wind he will sweep his hand over the Euphrates River. He will break it up into seven streams so that anyone can cross over in sandals.

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Isa 11:16 - There will be a highway for the remnant of his people that is left from Assyria, as there was for Israel when they came up from Egypt.

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Isa 12:1 - In that day you will say: “I will praise you, LORD. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me.

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Isa 12:2 - Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD himself, is my strength and my defense[fn]; he has become my salvation.”

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Isa 12:4 - In that day you will say: “Give praise to the LORD, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted.

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Isa 12:5 - Sing to the LORD, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world.

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Isa 12:6 - Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.”

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Isa 13:20 - She will never be inhabited or lived in through all generations; there no nomads will pitch their tents, there no shepherds will rest their flocks.

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Isa 13:22 - Hyenas will inhabit her strongholds, jackals her luxurious palaces. Her time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.

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Isa 14:3 - On the day the LORD gives you relief from your suffering and turmoil and from the harsh labor forced on you,

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Isa 14:4 - you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has come to an end! How his fury[fn] has ended!

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Isa 14:10 - They will all respond, they will say to you, “You also have become weak, as we are; you have become like us.”

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Isa 14:13 - You said in your heart, “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon.[fn]

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Isa 14:17 - the man who made the world a wilderness, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home?”

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Isa 14:18 - All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb.

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Isa 14:19 - But you are cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch; you are covered with the slain, with those pierced by the sword, those who descend to the stones of the pit. Like a corpse trampled underfoot,

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Isa 15:3 - In the streets they wear sackcloth; on the roofs and in the public squares they all wail, prostrate with weeping.

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Isa 15:5 - My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath Shelishiyah. They go up the hill to Luhith, weeping as they go; on the road to Horonaim they lament their destruction.

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Isa 16:3 - “Make up your mind,” Moab says. “Render a decision. Make your shadow like night— at high noon. Hide the fugitives, do not betray the refugees.

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Isa 16:5 - In love a throne will be established; in faithfulness a man will sit on it— one from the house[fn] of David— one who in judging seeks justice and speeds the cause of righteousness.

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Isa 16:7 - Therefore the Moabites wail, they wail together for Moab. Lament and grieve for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth.

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Isa 16:10 - Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards; no one treads out wine at the presses, for I have put an end to the shouting.

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Isa 16:14 - But now the LORD says: “Within three years, as a servant bound by contract would count them, Moab's splendor and all her many people will be despised, and her survivors will be very few and feeble.”

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Isa 17:3 - The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, and royal power from Damascus; the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the Israelites,”

declares the LORD Almighty.

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Isa 17:4 - “In that day the glory of Jacob will fade; the fat of his body will waste away.

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Isa 17:5 - It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain, gathering the grain in their arms— as when someone gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

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Isa 17:6 - Yet some gleanings will remain, as when an olive tree is beaten, leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches, four or five on the fruitful boughs,”

declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

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Isa 18:2 - which sends envoys by sea in papyrus boats over the water. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.

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Isa 18:4 - This is what the LORD says to me: “I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

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Isa 18:7 - At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD Almighty from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers— the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD Almighty.

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Isa 19:1 - A prophecy against Egypt: See, the LORD rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt tremble before him, and the hearts of the Egyptians melt with fear.

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Isa 19:3 - The Egyptians will lose heart, and I will bring their plans to nothing; they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead, the mediums and the spiritists.

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Isa 19:6 - The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up. The reeds and rushes will wither,

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Isa 19:10 - The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the wage earners will be sick at heart.

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Isa 19:14 - The LORD has poured into them a spirit of dizziness; they make Egypt stagger in all that she does, as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.

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Isa 19:16 - In that day the Egyptians will become weaklings. They will shudder with fear at the uplifted hand that the LORD Almighty raises against them.

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Isa 19:18 - In that day five cities in Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD Almighty. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.[fn]

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Isa 19:19 - In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the heart of Egypt, and a monument to the LORD at its border.

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Isa 19:20 - It will be a sign and witness to the LORD Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them.

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Isa 19:21 - So the LORD will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge the LORD. They will worship with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the LORD and keep them.

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Isa 19:24 - In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing[fn] on the earth.

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Isa 19:25 - The LORD Almighty will bless them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, and Israel my inheritance.”

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Isa 20:6 - In that day the people who live on this coast will say, ‘See what has happened to those we relied on, those we fled to for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?' ”

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Isa 21:13 - A prophecy against Arabia: You caravans of Dedanites, who camp in the thickets of Arabia,

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Isa 21:14 - bring water for the thirsty; you who live in Tema, bring food for the fugitives.

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Isa 21:15 - They flee from the sword, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow and from the heat of battle.

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Isa 22:3 - All your leaders have fled together; they have been captured without using the bow. All you who were caught were taken prisoner together, having fled while the enemy was still far away.

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Isa 22:5 - The Lord, the LORD Almighty, has a day of tumult and trampling and terror in the Valley of Vision, a day of battering down walls and of crying out to the mountains.

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Isa 22:12 - The Lord, the LORD Almighty, called you on that day to weep and to wail, to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.

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Isa 22:14 - The LORD Almighty has revealed this in my hearing: “Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned for,” says the Lord, the LORD Almighty.

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Isa 22:16 - What are you doing here and who gave you permission to cut out a grave for yourself here, hewing your grave on the height and chiseling your resting place in the rock?

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Isa 22:20 - “In that day I will summon my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah.

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Isa 22:21 - I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash around him and hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah.

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Isa 22:23 - I will drive him like a peg into a firm place; he will become a seat[fn] of honor for the house of his father.

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Isa 22:24 - All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots—all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.

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Isa 22:25 - “In that day,” declares the LORD Almighty, “the peg driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down.” The LORD has spoken.

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Isa 23:2 - Be silent, you people of the island and you merchants of Sidon, whom the seafarers have enriched.

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Isa 23:3 - On the great waters came the grain of the Shihor; the harvest of the Nile[fn] was the revenue of Tyre, and she became the marketplace of the nations.

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Isa 23:6 - Cross over to Tarshish; wail, you people of the island.

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Isa 23:15 - At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king's life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

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Isa 24:1 - See, the LORD is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it; he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants—

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Isa 24:6 - Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth's inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left.

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Isa 24:13 - So will it be on the earth and among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest.

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Isa 24:15 - Therefore in the east give glory to the LORD; exalt the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea.

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Isa 24:23 - The moon will be dismayed, the sun ashamed; for the LORD Almighty will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before its elders—with great glory.

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Isa 25:5 - and like the heat of the desert. You silence the uproar of foreigners; as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is stilled.

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Isa 25:7 - On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations;

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Isa 25:10 - The hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain; but Moab will be trampled in their land as straw is trampled down in the manure.

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Isa 26:5 - He humbles those who dwell on high, he lays the lofty city low; he levels it to the ground and casts it down to the dust.

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Isa 26:16 - LORD, they came to you in their distress; when you disciplined them, they could barely whisper a prayer.[fn]

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Isa 26:18 - We were with child, we writhed in labor, but we gave birth to wind. We have not brought salvation to the earth, and the people of the world have not come to life.

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Isa 26:19 - But your dead will live, LORD; their bodies will rise— let those who dwell in the dust wake up and shout for joy— your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.

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Isa 27:4 - I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me! I would march against them in battle; I would set them all on fire.

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Isa 27:5 - Or else let them come to me for refuge; let them make peace with me, yes, let them make peace with me.”

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Isa 27:11 - When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For this is a people without understanding; so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

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Isa 27:12 - In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one.

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Isa 27:13 - And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

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Isa 28:14 - Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.

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Isa 28:19 - As often as it comes it will carry you away; morning after morning, by day and by night, it will sweep through.” The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror.

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Isa 28:21 - The LORD will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon— to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task.

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Isa 28:25 - When he has leveled the surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? Does he not plant wheat in its place,[fn] barley in its plot,[fn] and spelt in its field?

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Isa 29:7 - Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Ariel, that attack her and her fortress and besiege her, will be as it is with a dream, with a vision in the night—

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Isa 29:8 - as when a hungry person dreams of eating, but awakens hungry still; as when a thirsty person dreams of drinking, but awakens faint and thirsty still. So will it be with the hordes of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion.

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Isa 29:15 - Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think, “Who sees us? Who will know?”

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Isa 29:18 - In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

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Isa 29:19 - Once more the humble will rejoice in the LORD; the needy will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

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Isa 29:21 - those who with a word make someone out to be guilty, who ensnare the defender in court and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice.

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Isa 30:4 - Though they have officials in Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,

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Isa 30:6 - A prophecy concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lions and lionesses, of adders and darting snakes, the envoys carry their riches on donkeys' backs, their treasures on the humps of camels, to that unprofitable nation,

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Isa 30:14 - It will break in pieces like pottery, shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found for taking coals from a hearth or scooping water out of a cistern.”

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Isa 30:18 - Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!

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Isa 30:19 - People of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you.

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Isa 30:21 - Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”

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Isa 30:24 - The oxen and donkeys that work the soil will eat fodder and mash, spread out with fork and shovel.

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Isa 30:25 - In the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall, streams of water will flow on every high mountain and every lofty hill.

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Isa 30:26 - The moon will shine like the sun, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days, when the LORD binds up the bruises of his people and heals the wounds he inflicted.

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Isa 30:28 - His breath is like a rushing torrent, rising up to the neck. He shakes the nations in the sieve of destruction; he places in the jaws of the peoples a bit that leads them astray.

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Isa 31:9 - Their stronghold will fall because of terror; at the sight of the battle standard their commanders will panic,” declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

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Isa 32:2 - Each one will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land.

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Isa 32:7 - Scoundrels use wicked methods, they make up evil schemes to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.

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Isa 32:9 - You women who are so complacent, rise up and listen to me; you daughters who feel secure, hear what I have to say!

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Isa 32:10 - In little more than a year you who feel secure will tremble; the grape harvest will fail, and the harvest of fruit will not come.

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Isa 32:16 - The LORD's justice will dwell in the desert, his righteousness live in the fertile field.

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Isa 32:18 - My people will live in peaceful dwelling places, in secure homes, in undisturbed places of rest.

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Isa 32:19 - Though hail flattens the forest and the city is leveled completely,

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Isa 33:2 - LORD, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress.

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Isa 33:5 - The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with his justice and righteousness.

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Isa 33:6 - He will be the sure foundation for your times, a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is the key to this treasure.[fn]

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Isa 33:7 - Look, their brave men cry aloud in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.

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Isa 33:12 - The peoples will be burned to ashes; like cut thornbushes they will be set ablaze.”

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Isa 33:14 - The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling grips the godless: “Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?”

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Isa 33:15 - Those who walk righteously and speak what is right, who reject gain from extortion and keep their hands from accepting bribes, who stop their ears against plots of murder and shut their eyes against contemplating evil—

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Isa 33:16 - they are the ones who will dwell on the heights, whose refuge will be the mountain fortress. Their bread will be supplied, and water will not fail them.

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Isa 33:24 - No one living in Zion will say, “I am ill”; and the sins of those who dwell there will be forgiven.

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Isa 34:1 - Come near, you nations, and listen; pay attention, you peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world, and all that comes out of it!

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Isa 34:5 - My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; see, it descends in judgment on Edom, the people I have totally destroyed.

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Isa 34:6 - The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood, it is covered with fat— the blood of lambs and goats, fat from the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

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Isa 34:11 - The desert owl[fn] and screech owl[fn] will possess it; the great owl[fn] and the raven will nest there. God will stretch out over Edom the measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of desolation.

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Isa 35:6 - Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.

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Isa 35:9 - No lion will be there, nor any ravenous beast; they will not be found there. But only the redeemed will walk there,

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Isa 36:2 - Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. When the commander stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer's Field,

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Isa 36:5 - You say you have counsel and might for war—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me?

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Isa 36:15 - Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'

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Isa 37:1 - When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the LORD.

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Isa 37:7 - Listen! When he hears a certain report, I will make him want to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.' ”

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Isa 37:12 - Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors deliver them—the gods of Gozan, Harran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar?

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Isa 37:26 - “Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it. In days of old I planned it; now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of stone.

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Isa 37:29 - Because you rage against me and because your insolence has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will make you return by the way you came.

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Isa 37:31 - Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah will take root below and bear fruit above.

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Isa 37:34 - By the way that he came he will return; he will not enter this city,”

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Isa 37:37 - So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

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Isa 37:38 - One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.

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Isa 38:1 - In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”

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Isa 38:3 - “Remember, LORD, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

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Isa 38:10 - I said, “In the prime of my life must I go through the gates of death and be robbed of the rest of my years?”

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Isa 38:12 - Like a shepherd's tent my house has been pulled down and taken from me. Like a weaver I have rolled up my life, and he has cut me off from the loom; day and night you made an end of me.

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Isa 38:18 - For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot sing your praise; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

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Isa 39:1 - At that time Marduk-Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent Hezekiah letters and a gift, because he had heard of his illness and recovery.

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Isa 39:2 - Hezekiah received the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his storehouses—the silver, the gold, the spices, the fine olive oil—his entire armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.

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Isa 39:4 - The prophet asked, “What did they see in your palace?” “They saw everything in my palace,” Hezekiah said. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”

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Isa 39:6 - The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.

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Isa 39:7 - And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

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Isa 39:8 - “The word of the LORD you have spoken is good,” Hezekiah replied. For he thought, “There will be peace and security in my lifetime.”

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Isa 40:3 - A voice of one calling: “In the wilderness prepare the way for the LORD[fn]; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.[fn]

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Isa 40:11 - He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young.

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Isa 40:22 - He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

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Isa 40:26 - Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

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Isa 41:3 - He pursues them and moves on unscathed, by a path his feet have not traveled before.

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Isa 41:7 - The metalworker encourages the goldsmith, and the one who smooths with the hammer spurs on the one who strikes the anvil. One says of the welding, “It is good.” The other nails down the idol so it will not topple.

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Isa 41:16 - You will winnow them, the wind will pick them up, and a gale will blow them away. But you will rejoice in the LORD and glory in the Holy One of Israel.

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Isa 41:18 - I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.

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Isa 42:5 - This is what God the LORD says— the Creator of the heavens, who stretches them out, who spreads out the earth with all that springs from it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it:

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Isa 42:6 - “I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles,

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Isa 42:7 - to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.

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Isa 42:12 - Let them give glory to the LORD and proclaim his praise in the islands.

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Isa 42:16 - I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.

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Isa 42:22 - But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder, with no one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no one to say, “Send them back.”

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Isa 42:23 - Which of you will listen to this or pay close attention in time to come?

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Isa 42:24 - Who handed Jacob over to become loot, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? For they would not follow his ways; they did not obey his law.

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Isa 43:7 - everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”

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Isa 43:12 - I have revealed and saved and proclaimed— I, and not some foreign god among you. You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “that I am God.

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Isa 43:14 - This is what the LORD says— your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake I will send to Babylon and bring down as fugitives all the Babylonians,[fn] in the ships in which they took pride.

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Isa 43:16 - This is what the LORD says— he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters,

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Isa 43:19 - See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

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Isa 43:20 - The wild animals honor me, the jackals and the owls, because I provide water in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen,

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Isa 43:23 - You have not brought me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with grain offerings nor wearied you with demands for incense.

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Isa 43:24 - You have not bought any fragrant calamus for me, or lavished on me the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins and wearied me with your offenses.

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Isa 44:3 - For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.

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Isa 44:12 - The blacksmith takes a tool and works with it in the coals; he shapes an idol with hammers, he forges it with the might of his arm. He gets hungry and loses his strength; he drinks no water and grows faint.

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Isa 44:13 - The carpenter measures with a line and makes an outline with a marker; he roughs it out with chisels and marks it with compasses. He shapes it in human form, human form in all its glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.

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Isa 44:16 - Half of the wood he burns in the fire; over it he prepares his meal, he roasts his meat and eats his fill. He also warms himself and says, “Ah! I am warm; I see the fire.”

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Isa 44:19 - No one stops to think, no one has the knowledge or understanding to say, “Half of it I used for fuel; I even baked bread over its coals, I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make a detestable thing from what is left? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”

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Isa 44:20 - Such a person feeds on ashes; a deluded heart misleads him; he cannot save himself, or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

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Isa 44:23 - Sing for joy, you heavens, for the LORD has done this; shout aloud, you earth beneath. Burst into song, you mountains, you forests and all your trees, for the LORD has redeemed Jacob, he displays his glory in Israel.

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Isa 45:14 - This is what the LORD says: “The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,[fn] and those tall Sabeans— they will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge behind you, coming over to you in chains. They will bow down before you and plead with you, saying, ‘Surely God is with you, and there is no other; there is no other god.' ”

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Isa 45:16 - All the makers of idols will be put to shame and disgraced; they will go off into disgrace together.

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Isa 45:19 - I have not spoken in secret, from somewhere in a land of darkness; I have not said to Jacob's descendants, ‘Seek me in vain.' I, the LORD, speak the truth; I declare what is right.

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Isa 45:25 - But all the descendants of Israel will find deliverance in the LORD and will make their boast in him.

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Isa 46:6 - Some pour out gold from their bags and weigh out silver on the scales; they hire a goldsmith to make it into a god, and they bow down and worship it.

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Isa 46:13 - I am bringing my righteousness near, it is not far away; and my salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion, my splendor to Israel.

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Isa 47:7 - You said, ‘I am forever— the eternal queen!' But you did not consider these things or reflect on what might happen.

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Isa 47:8 - “Now then, listen, you lover of pleasure, lounging in your security and saying to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children.'

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Isa 47:9 - Both of these will overtake you in a moment, on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and all your potent spells.

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Isa 47:12 - “Keep on, then, with your magic spells and with your many sorceries, which you have labored at since childhood. Perhaps you will succeed, perhaps you will cause terror.

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Isa 47:13 - All the counsel you have received has only worn you out! Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you.

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Isa 47:15 - That is all they are to you— these you have dealt with and labored with since childhood. All of them go on in their error; there is not one that can save you.

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Isa 48:16 - “Come near me and listen to this: “From the first announcement I have not spoken in secret; at the time it happens, I am there.” And now the Sovereign LORD has sent me, endowed with his Spirit.

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Isa 48:17 - This is what the LORD says— your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go.

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Isa 49:2 - He made my mouth like a sharpened sword, in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me into a polished arrow and concealed me in his quiver.

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Isa 49:3 - He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.”

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Isa 49:8 - This is what the LORD says: “In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances,

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Isa 49:9 - to say to the captives, ‘Come out,' and to those in darkness, ‘Be free!' “They will feed beside the roads and find pasture on every barren hill.

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Isa 49:21 - Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who bore me these? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. Who brought these up? I was left all alone, but these—where have they come from?' ”

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Isa 49:22 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “See, I will beckon to the nations, I will lift up my banner to the peoples; they will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their hips.

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Isa 50:2 - When I came, why was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Was my arm too short to deliver you? Do I lack the strength to rescue you? By a mere rebuke I dry up the sea, I turn rivers into a desert; their fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.

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Isa 50:4 - The Sovereign LORD has given me a well-instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.

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Isa 50:10 - Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the word of his servant? Let the one who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the LORD and rely on their God.

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Isa 50:11 - But now, all you who light fires and provide yourselves with flaming torches, go, walk in the light of your fires and of the torches you have set ablaze. This is what you shall receive from my hand: You will lie down in torment.

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Isa 51:3 - The LORD will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.

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Isa 51:7 - “Hear me, you who know what is right, you people who have taken my instruction to heart: Do not fear the reproach of mere mortals or be terrified by their insults.

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Isa 51:9 - Awake, awake, arm of the LORD, clothe yourself with strength! Awake, as in days gone by, as in generations of old. Was it not you who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced that monster through?

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Isa 51:14 - The cowering prisoners will soon be set free; they will not die in their dungeon, nor will they lack bread.

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Isa 51:16 - I have put my words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of my hand— I who set the heavens in place, who laid the foundations of the earth, and who say to Zion, ‘You are my people.' ”

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Isa 52:5 - “And now what do I have here?” declares the LORD. “For my people have been taken away for nothing, and those who rule them mock,[fn]”

declares the LORD.

“And all day long my name is constantly blasphemed.

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Isa 52:6 - Therefore my people will know my name; therefore in that day they will know that it is I who foretold it. Yes, it is I.”

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Isa 53:2 - He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.

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Isa 53:3 - He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

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Isa 53:4 - Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.

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Isa 53:8 - By oppression[fn] and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished.[fn]

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Isa 53:9 - He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

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Isa 53:12 - Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,[fn] and he will divide the spoils with the strong,[fn] because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

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Isa 54:8 - In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.

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Isa 54:9 - “To me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So now I have sworn not to be angry with you, never to rebuke you again.

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Isa 54:13 - All your children will be taught by the LORD, and great will be their peace.

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Isa 54:14 - In righteousness you will be established: Tyranny will be far from you; you will have nothing to fear. Terror will be far removed; it will not come near you.

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Isa 54:17 - no weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and this is their vindication from me,”

declares the LORD.

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Isa 55:2 - Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare.

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Isa 55:3 - Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.

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Isa 55:4 - See, I have made him a witness to the peoples, a ruler and commander of the peoples.

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Isa 55:6 - Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near.

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Isa 55:12 - You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

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Isa 56:5 - to them I will give within my temple and its walls a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will endure forever.

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Isa 56:7 - these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.”

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Isa 56:11 - They are dogs with mighty appetites; they never have enough. They are shepherds who lack understanding; they all turn to their own way, they seek their own gain.

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Isa 57:2 - Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.

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Isa 57:4 - Who are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not a brood of rebels, the offspring of liars?

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Isa 57:5 - You burn with lust among the oaks and under every spreading tree; you sacrifice your children in the ravines and under the overhanging crags.

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Isa 57:13 - When you cry out for help, let your collection of idols save you! The wind will carry all of them off, a mere breath will blow them away. But whoever takes refuge in me will inherit the land and possess my holy mountain.”

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Isa 57:15 - For this is what the high and exalted One says— he who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.

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Isa 57:17 - I was enraged by their sinful greed; I punished them, and hid my face in anger, yet they kept on in their willful ways.

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Isa 58:1 - “Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their rebellion and to the descendants of Jacob their sins.

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Isa 58:3 - ‘Why have we fasted,' they say, ‘and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?' “Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers.

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Isa 58:4 - Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high.

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Isa 58:6 - “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?

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Isa 58:10 - and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.

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Isa 58:13 - “If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the LORD's holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words,

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Isa 59:3 - For your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsely, and your tongue mutters wicked things.

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Isa 59:5 - They hatch the eggs of vipers and spin a spider's web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, and when one is broken, an adder is hatched.

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Isa 59:7 - Their feet rush into sin; they are swift to shed innocent blood. They pursue evil schemes; acts of violence mark their ways.

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Isa 59:8 - The way of peace they do not know; there is no justice in their paths. They have turned them into crooked roads; no one who walks along them will know peace.

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Isa 59:9 - So justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light, but all is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.

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Isa 59:10 - Like the blind we grope along the wall, feeling our way like people without eyes. At midday we stumble as if it were twilight; among the strong, we are like the dead.

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Isa 59:12 - For our offenses are many in your sight, and our sins testify against us. Our offenses are ever with us, and we acknowledge our iniquities:

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Isa 59:14 - So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter.

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Isa 60:9 - Surely the islands look to me; in the lead are the ships of Tarshish,[fn] bringing your children from afar, with their silver and gold, to the honor of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has endowed you with splendor.

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Isa 60:13 - “The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the juniper, the fir and the cypress together, to adorn my sanctuary; and I will glorify the place for my feet.

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Isa 60:17 - Instead of bronze I will bring you gold, and silver in place of iron. Instead of wood I will bring you bronze, and iron in place of stones. I will make peace your governor and well-being your ruler.

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Isa 60:18 - No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders, but you will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.

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Isa 61:6 - And you will be called priests of the LORD, you will be named ministers of our God. You will feed on the wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast.

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Isa 61:9 - Their descendants will be known among the nations and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the LORD has blessed.”

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Isa 62:3 - You will be a crown of splendor in the LORD's hand, a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

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Isa 62:9 - but those who harvest it will eat it and praise the LORD, and those who gather the grapes will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”

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Isa 63:1 - Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah, with his garments stained crimson? Who is this, robed in splendor, striding forward in the greatness of his strength? “It is I, proclaiming victory, mighty to save.”

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Isa 63:3 - “I have trodden the winepress alone; from the nations no one was with me. I trampled them in my anger and trod them down in my wrath; their blood spattered my garments, and I stained all my clothing.

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Isa 63:7 - I will tell of the kindnesses of the LORD, the deeds for which he is to be praised, according to all the LORD has done for us— yes, the many good things he has done for Israel, according to his compassion and many kindnesses.

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Isa 63:11 - Then his people recalled[fn] the days of old, the days of Moses and his people— where is he who brought them through the sea, with the shepherd of his flock? Where is he who set his Holy Spirit among them,

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Isa 64:2 - As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you!

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Isa 64:9 - Do not be angry beyond measure, LORD; do not remember our sins forever. Oh, look on us, we pray, for we are all your people.

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Isa 65:3 - a people who continually provoke me to my very face, offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on altars of brick;

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Isa 65:4 - who sit among the graves and spend their nights keeping secret vigil; who eat the flesh of pigs, and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;

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Isa 65:5 - who say, ‘Keep away; don't come near me, for I am too sacred for you!' Such people are smoke in my nostrils, a fire that keeps burning all day.

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Isa 65:8 - This is what the LORD says: “As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes and people say, ‘Don't destroy it, there is still a blessing in it,' so will I do in behalf of my servants; I will not destroy them all.

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Isa 65:10 - Sharon will become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds, for my people who seek me.

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Isa 65:12 - I will destine you for the sword, and all of you will fall in the slaughter; for I called but you did not answer, I spoke but you did not listen. You did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me.”

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Isa 65:14 - My servants will sing out of the joy of their hearts, but you will cry out from anguish of heart and wail in brokenness of spirit.

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Isa 65:18 - But be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy.

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Isa 65:19 - I will rejoice over Jerusalem and take delight in my people; the sound of weeping and of crying will be heard in it no more.

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Isa 66:5 - Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at his word: “Your own people who hate you, and exclude you because of my name, have said, ‘Let the LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy!' Yet they will be put to shame.

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Isa 66:8 - Who has ever heard of such things? Who has ever seen things like this? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment? Yet no sooner is Zion in labor than she gives birth to her children.

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Isa 66:10 - “Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice greatly with her, all you who mourn over her.

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Isa 66:13 - As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.”

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Isa 66:15 - See, the LORD is coming with fire, and his chariots are like a whirlwind; he will bring down his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

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Isa 66:16 - For with fire and with his sword the LORD will execute judgment on all people, and many will be those slain by the LORD.

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Isa 66:17 - “Those who consecrate and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one who is among those who eat the flesh of pigs, rats and other unclean things—they will meet their end together with the one they follow,” declares the LORD.

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Isa 66:19 - “I will set a sign among them, and I will send some of those who survive to the nations—to Tarshish, to the Libyans[fn] and Lydians (famous as archers), to Tubal and Greece, and to the distant islands that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory. They will proclaim my glory among the nations.

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Isa 66:20 - And they will bring all your people, from all the nations, to my holy mountain in Jerusalem as an offering to the LORD—on horses, in chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,” says the LORD. “They will bring them, as the Israelites bring their grain offerings, to the temple of the LORD in ceremonially clean vessels.

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Isa 66:23 - From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me,” says the LORD.

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Isa 66:24 - “And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”

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Jer 1:1 - The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.

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Jer 1:2 - The word of the LORD came to him in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah,

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Jer 1:3 - and through the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, down to the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile.

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Jer 1:5 - “Before I formed you in the womb I knew[fn] you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

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Jer 1:18 - Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar and a bronze wall to stand against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests and the people of the land.

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Jer 2:5 - This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your ancestors find in me, that they strayed so far from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves.

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Jer 2:6 - They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD, who brought us up out of Egypt and led us through the barren wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, a land of drought and utter darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?'

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Jer 2:20 - “Long ago you broke off your yoke and tore off your bonds; you said, ‘I will not serve you!' Indeed, on every high hill and under every spreading tree you lay down as a prostitute.

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Jer 2:22 - Although you wash yourself with soap and use an abundance of cleansing powder, the stain of your guilt is still before me,”

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Jer 2:23 - “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals'? See how you behaved in the valley; consider what you have done. You are a swift she-camel running here and there,

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Jer 2:24 - a wild donkey accustomed to the desert, sniffing the wind in her craving— in her heat who can restrain her? Any males that pursue her need not tire themselves; at mating time they will find her.

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Jer 2:27 - They say to wood, ‘You are my father,' and to stone, ‘You gave me birth.' They have turned their backs to me and not their faces; yet when they are in trouble, they say, ‘Come and save us!'

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Jer 2:28 - Where then are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them come if they can save you when you are in trouble! For you, Judah, have as many gods as you have towns.

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Jer 2:33 - How skilled you are at pursuing love! Even the worst of women can learn from your ways.

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Jer 2:34 - On your clothes is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor, though you did not catch them breaking in. Yet in spite of all this

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Jer 2:35 - you say, ‘I am innocent; he is not angry with me.' But I will pass judgment on you because you say, ‘I have not sinned.'

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Jer 2:37 - You will also leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not be helped by them.

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Jer 3:1 - “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, should he return to her again? Would not the land be completely defiled? But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers— would you now return to me?”

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Jer 3:2 - “Look up to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been ravished? By the roadside you sat waiting for lovers, sat like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

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Jer 3:6 - During the reign of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there.

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Jer 3:8 - I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery.

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Jer 3:10 - In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.

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Jer 3:16 - In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land,” declares the LORD, “people will no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of the LORD.' It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made.

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Jer 3:17 - At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the LORD, and all nations will gather in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. No longer will they follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.

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Jer 3:18 - In those days the people of Judah will join the people of Israel, and together they will come from a northern land to the land I gave your ancestors as an inheritance.

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Jer 3:21 - A cry is heard on the barren heights, the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel, because they have perverted their ways and have forgotten the LORD their God.

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Jer 3:25 - Let us lie down in our shame, and let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our ancestors; from our youth till this day we have not obeyed the LORD our God.”

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Jer 4:2 - and if in a truthful, just and righteous way you swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,' then the nations will invoke blessings by him and in him they will boast.”

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Jer 4:5 - “Announce in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem and say: ‘Sound the trumpet throughout the land!' Cry aloud and say: ‘Gather together! Let us flee to the fortified cities!'

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Jer 4:9 - “In that day,” declares the LORD, “the king and the officials will lose heart, the priests will be horrified, and the prophets will be appalled.”

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Jer 4:11 - At that time this people and Jerusalem will be told, “A scorching wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward my people, but not to winnow or cleanse;

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Jer 4:14 - Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart and be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts?

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Jer 4:16 - “Tell this to the nations, proclaim concerning Jerusalem: ‘A besieging army is coming from a distant land, raising a war cry against the cities of Judah.

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Jer 4:29 - At the sound of horsemen and archers every town takes to flight. Some go into the thickets; some climb up among the rocks. All the towns are deserted; no one lives in them.

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Jer 5:1 - “Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem, look around and consider, search through her squares. If you can find but one person who deals honestly and seeks the truth, I will forgive this city.

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Jer 5:6 - Therefore a lion from the forest will attack them, a wolf from the desert will ravage them, a leopard will lie in wait near their towns to tear to pieces any who venture out, for their rebellion is great and their backslidings many.

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Jer 5:7 - “Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I supplied all their needs, yet they committed adultery and thronged to the houses of prostitutes.

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Jer 5:9 - Should I not punish them for this?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?

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Jer 5:13 - The prophets are but wind and the word is not in them; so let what they say be done to them.”

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Jer 5:17 - They will devour your harvests and food, devour your sons and daughters; they will devour your flocks and herds, devour your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.

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Jer 5:18 - “Yet even in those days,” declares the LORD, “I will not destroy you completely.

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Jer 5:19 - And when the people ask, ‘Why has the LORD our God done all this to us?' you will tell them, ‘As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your own land, so now you will serve foreigners in a land not your own.'

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Jer 5:20 - “Announce this to the descendants of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah:

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Jer 5:24 - They do not say to themselves, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives autumn and spring rains in season, who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.'

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Jer 5:26 - “Among my people are the wicked who lie in wait like men who snare birds and like those who set traps to catch people.

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Jer 5:29 - Should I not punish them for this?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?

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Jer 6:1 - “Flee for safety, people of Benjamin! Flee from Jerusalem! Sound the trumpet in Tekoa! Raise the signal over Beth Hakkerem! For disaster looms out of the north, even terrible destruction.

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Jer 6:5 - So arise, let us attack at night and destroy her fortresses!”

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Jer 6:6 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Cut down the trees and build siege ramps against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; it is filled with oppression.

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Jer 6:7 - As a well pours out its water, so she pours out her wickedness. Violence and destruction resound in her; her sickness and wounds are ever before me.

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Jer 6:15 - Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when I punish them,”

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Jer 6:16 - This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.'

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Jer 6:21 - Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I will put obstacles before this people. Parents and children alike will stumble over them; neighbors and friends will perish.”

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Jer 6:25 - Do not go out to the fields or walk on the roads, for the enemy has a sword, and there is terror on every side.

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Jer 6:26 - Put on sackcloth, my people, and roll in ashes; mourn with bitter wailing as for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

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Jer 6:27 - “I have made you a tester of metals and my people the ore, that you may observe and test their ways.

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Jer 7:3 - This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place.

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Jer 7:6 - if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm,

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Jer 7:7 - then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever.

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Jer 7:10 - and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, “We are safe”—safe to do all these detestable things?

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Jer 7:12 - “ ‘Go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for my Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.

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Jer 7:17 - Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

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Jer 7:22 - For when I brought your ancestors out of Egypt and spoke to them, I did not just give them commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices,

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Jer 7:23 - but I gave them this command: Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in obedience to all I command you, that it may go well with you.

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Jer 7:24 - But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.

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Jer 7:30 - “ ‘The people of Judah have done evil in my eyes, declares the LORD. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my Name and have defiled it.

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Jer 7:31 - They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind.

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Jer 7:32 - So beware, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when people will no longer call it Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter, for they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.

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Jer 8:1 - “ ‘At that time, declares the LORD, the bones of the kings and officials of Judah, the bones of the priests and prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.

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Jer 8:3 - Wherever I banish them, all the survivors of this evil nation will prefer death to life, declares the LORD Almighty.'

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Jer 8:5 - Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.

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Jer 8:6 - I have listened attentively, but they do not say what is right. None of them repent of their wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Each pursues their own course like a horse charging into battle.

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Jer 8:7 - Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, and the dove, the swift and the thrush observe the time of their migration. But my people do not know the requirements of the LORD.

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Jer 8:9 - The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what kind of wisdom do they have?

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Jer 8:13 - “ ‘I will take away their harvest,

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There will be no grapes on the vine. There will be no figs on the tree, and their leaves will wither. What I have given them will be taken from them.[fn]' ”

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Jer 8:16 - The snorting of the enemy's horses is heard from Dan; at the neighing of their stallions the whole land trembles. They have come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who live there.

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Jer 8:19 - Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they aroused my anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?”

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Jer 8:22 - Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people?

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Jer 9:2 - Oh, that I had in the desert a lodging place for travelers, so that I might leave my people and go away from them; for they are all adulterers, a crowd of unfaithful people.

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Jer 9:8 - Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully. With their mouths they all speak cordially to their neighbors, but in their hearts they set traps for them.

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Jer 9:9 - Should I not punish them for this?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?”

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Jer 9:16 - I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I will pursue them with the sword until I have made an end of them.”

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Jer 9:19 - The sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How ruined we are! How great is our shame! We must leave our land because our houses are in ruins.' ”

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Jer 9:23 - This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches,

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Jer 9:24 - but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,”

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Jer 9:26 - Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab and all who live in the wilderness in distant places.[fn] For all these nations are really uncircumcised, and even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”

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Jer 10:4 - They adorn it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so it will not totter.

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Jer 10:5 - Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field, their idols cannot speak; they must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them; they can do no harm nor can they do any good.”

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Jer 10:12 - But God made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

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Jer 10:13 - When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

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Jer 10:14 - Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by his idols. The images he makes are a fraud; they have no breath in them.

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Jer 10:15 - They are worthless, the objects of mockery; when their judgment comes, they will perish.

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Jer 10:17 - Gather up your belongings to leave the land, you who live under siege.

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Jer 10:18 - For this is what the LORD says: “At this time I will hurl out those who live in this land; I will bring distress on them so that they may be captured.”

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Jer 10:24 - Discipline me, LORD, but only in due measure— not in your anger, or you will reduce me to nothing.

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Jer 11:4 - the terms I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the iron-smelting furnace.' I said, ‘Obey me and do everything I command you, and you will be my people, and I will be your God.

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Jer 11:6 - The LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: ‘Listen to the terms of this covenant and follow them.

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Jer 11:9 - Then the LORD said to me, “There is a conspiracy among the people of Judah and those who live in Jerusalem.

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Jer 11:12 - The towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they will not help them at all when disaster strikes.

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Jer 11:14 - “Do not pray for this people or offer any plea or petition for them, because I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their distress.

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Jer 11:15 - “What is my beloved doing in my temple as she, with many others, works out her evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your punishment? When you engage in your wickedness, then you rejoice.[fn]”

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Jer 11:17 - The LORD Almighty, who planted you, has decreed disaster for you, because the people of both Israel and Judah have done evil and aroused my anger by burning incense to Baal.

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Jer 11:21 - Therefore this is what the LORD says about the people of Anathoth who are threatening to kill you, saying, “Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD or you will die by our hands”—

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Jer 11:22 - therefore this is what the LORD Almighty says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.

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Jer 11:23 - Not even a remnant will be left to them, because I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.”

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Jer 12:4 - How long will the land lie parched and the grass in every field be withered? Because those who live in it are wicked, the animals and birds have perished. Moreover, the people are saying, “He will not see what happens to us.”

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Jer 12:5 - “If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble[fn] in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by[fn] the Jordan?

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Jer 12:6 - Your relatives, members of your own family— even they have betrayed you; they have raised a loud cry against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.

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Jer 12:8 - My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest. She roars at me; therefore I hate her.

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Jer 12:11 - It will be made a wasteland, parched and desolate before me; the whole land will be laid waste because there is no one who cares.

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Jer 12:12 - Over all the barren heights in the desert destroyers will swarm, for the sword of the LORD will devour from one end of the land to the other; no one will be safe.

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Jer 12:16 - And if they learn well the ways of my people and swear by my name, saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives'—even as they once taught my people to swear by Baal—then they will be established among my people.

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Jer 13:1 - This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy a linen belt and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.”

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Jer 13:4 - “Take the belt you bought and are wearing around your waist, and go now to Perath[fn] and hide it there in a crevice in the rocks.”

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Jer 13:5 - So I went and hid it at Perath, as the LORD told me.

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Jer 13:14 - I will smash them one against the other, parents and children alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no pity or mercy or compassion to keep me from destroying them.' ”

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Jer 13:22 - And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?”— it is because of your many sins that your skirts have been torn off and your body mistreated.

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Jer 13:27 - your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution! I have seen your detestable acts on the hills and in the fields. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How long will you be unclean?”

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Jer 14:5 - Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.

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Jer 14:8 - You who are the hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are you like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays only a night?

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Jer 14:9 - Why are you like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? You are among us, LORD, and we bear your name; do not forsake us!

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Jer 14:10 - This is what the LORD says about this people: “They greatly love to wander; they do not restrain their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; he will now remember their wickedness and punish them for their sins.”

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Jer 14:12 - Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry; though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword, famine and plague.”

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Jer 14:13 - But I said, “Alas, Sovereign LORD! The prophets keep telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine. Indeed, I will give you lasting peace in this place.' ”

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Jer 14:15 - Therefore this is what the LORD says about the prophets who are prophesying in my name: I did not send them, yet they are saying, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.' Those same prophets will perish by sword and famine.

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Jer 14:16 - And the people they are prophesying to will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them, their wives, their sons and their daughters. I will pour out on them the calamity they deserve.

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Jer 14:22 - Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies themselves send down showers? No, it is you, LORD our God. Therefore our hope is in you, for you are the one who does all this.

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Jer 15:4 - I will make them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.

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Jer 15:7 - I will winnow them with a winnowing fork at the city gates of the land. I will bring bereavement and destruction on my people, for they have not changed their ways.

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Jer 15:8 - I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. At midday I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men; suddenly I will bring down on them anguish and terror.

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Jer 15:10 - Alas, my mother, that you gave me birth, a man with whom the whole land strives and contends! I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

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Jer 15:11 - The LORD said, “Surely I will deliver you for a good purpose; surely I will make your enemies plead with you in times of disaster and times of distress.

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Jer 15:13 - “Your wealth and your treasures I will give as plunder, without charge, because of all your sins throughout your country.

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Jer 15:14 - I will enslave you to your enemies in[fn] a land you do not know, for my anger will kindle a fire that will burn against you.”

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Jer 15:17 - I never sat in the company of revelers, never made merry with them; I sat alone because your hand was on me and you had filled me with indignation.

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Jer 16:2 - “You must not marry and have sons or daughters in this place.”

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Jer 16:3 - For this is what the LORD says about the sons and daughters born in this land and about the women who are their mothers and the men who are their fathers:

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Jer 16:4 - “They will die of deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like dung lying on the ground. They will perish by sword and famine, and their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.”

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Jer 16:7 - No one will offer food to comfort those who mourn for the dead—not even for a father or a mother—nor will anyone give them a drink to console them.

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Jer 16:9 - For this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Before your eyes and in your days I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in this place.

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Jer 16:18 - I will repay them double for their wickedness and their sin, because they have defiled my land with the lifeless forms of their vile images and have filled my inheritance with their detestable idols.”

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Jer 16:19 - LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in time of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and say, “Our ancestors possessed nothing but false gods, worthless idols that did them no good.

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Jer 16:21 - “Therefore I will teach them— this time I will teach them my power and might. Then they will know that my name is the LORD.

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Jer 17:6 - That person will be like a bush in the wastelands; they will not see prosperity when it comes. They will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

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Jer 17:8 - They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”

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Jer 17:11 - Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay are those who gain riches by unjust means. When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them, and in the end they will prove to be fools.

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Jer 17:17 - Do not be a terror to me; you are my refuge in the day of disaster.

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Jer 17:19 - This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and stand at the Gate of the People,[fn] through which the kings of Judah go in and out; stand also at all the other gates of Jerusalem.

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Jer 17:20 - Say to them, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, you kings of Judah and all people of Judah and everyone living in Jerusalem who come through these gates.

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Jer 17:21 - This is what the LORD says: Be careful not to carry a load on the Sabbath day or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem.

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Jer 17:22 - Do not bring a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your ancestors.

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Jer 17:24 - But if you are careful to obey me, declares the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy by not doing any work on it,

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Jer 17:27 - But if you do not obey me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying any load as you come through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in the gates of Jerusalem that will consume her fortresses.' ”

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Jer 18:4 - But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.

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Jer 18:6 - He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the LORD. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel.

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Jer 18:13 - Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard anything like this? A most horrible thing has been done by Virgin Israel.

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Jer 18:15 - Yet my people have forgotten me; they burn incense to worthless idols, which made them stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths. They made them walk in byways, on roads not built up.

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Jer 18:18 - They said, “Come, let's make plans against Jeremiah; for the teaching of the law by the priest will not cease, nor will counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets. So come, let's attack him with our tongues and pay no attention to anything he says.”

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Jer 18:21 - So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives be made childless and widows; let their men be put to death, their young men slain by the sword in battle.

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Jer 18:22 - Let a cry be heard from their houses when you suddenly bring invaders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.

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Jer 18:23 - But you, LORD, know all their plots to kill me. Do not forgive their crimes or blot out their sins from your sight. Let them be overthrown before you; deal with them in the time of your anger.

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Jer 19:3 - and say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, you kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Listen! I am going to bring a disaster on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle.

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Jer 19:4 - For they have forsaken me and made this a place of foreign gods; they have burned incense in it to gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.

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Jer 19:5 - They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind.

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Jer 19:7 - “ ‘In this place I will ruin[fn] the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hands of those who want to kill them, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds and the wild animals.

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Jer 19:9 - I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh because their enemies will press the siege so hard against them to destroy them.'

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Jer 19:12 - This is what I will do to this place and to those who live here, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.

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Jer 19:13 - The houses in Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be defiled like this place, Topheth—all the houses where they burned incense on the roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.' ”

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Jer 19:14 - Jeremiah then returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and stood in the court of the LORD's temple and said to all the people,

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Jer 20:2 - he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin at the LORD's temple.

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Jer 20:4 - For this is what the LORD says: ‘I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends; with your own eyes you will see them fall by the sword of their enemies. I will give all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, who will carry them away to Babylon or put them to the sword.

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Jer 20:6 - And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house will go into exile to Babylon. There you will die and be buried, you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied lies.' ”

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Jer 20:9 - But if I say, “I will not mention his word or speak anymore in his name,” his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.

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Jer 20:12 - LORD Almighty, you who examine the righteous and probe the heart and mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for to you I have committed my cause.

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Jer 20:14 - Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me not be blessed!

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Jer 20:16 - May that man be like the towns the LORD overthrew without pity. May he hear wailing in the morning, a battle cry at noon.

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Jer 20:17 - For he did not kill me in the womb, with my mother as my grave, her womb enlarged forever.

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Jer 20:18 - Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?

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Jer 21:4 - ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I am about to turn against you the weapons of war that are in your hands, which you are using to fight the king of Babylon and the Babylonians[fn] who are outside the wall besieging you. And I will gather them inside this city.

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Jer 21:5 - I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm in furious anger and in great wrath.

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Jer 21:6 - I will strike down those who live in this city—both man and beast—and they will die of a terrible plague.

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Jer 21:7 - After that, declares the LORD, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials and the people in this city who survive the plague, sword and famine, into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who want to kill them. He will put them to the sword; he will show them no mercy or pity or compassion.'

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Jer 21:9 - Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine or plague. But whoever goes out and surrenders to the Babylonians who are besieging you will live; they will escape with their lives.

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Jer 21:10 - I have determined to do this city harm and not good, declares the LORD. It will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will destroy it with fire.'

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Jer 21:14 - I will punish you as your deeds deserve, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in your forests that will consume everything around you.' ”

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Jer 22:3 - This is what the LORD says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.

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Jer 22:4 - For if you are careful to carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David's throne will come through the gates of this palace, riding in chariots and on horses, accompanied by their officials and their people.

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Jer 22:12 - He will die in the place where they have led him captive; he will not see this land again.”

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Jer 22:13 - “Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, his upper rooms by injustice, making his own people work for nothing, not paying them for their labor.

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Jer 22:14 - He says, ‘I will build myself a great palace with spacious upper rooms.' So he makes large windows in it, panels it with cedar and decorates it in red.

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Jer 22:15 - “Does it make you a king to have more and more cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He did what was right and just, so all went well with him.

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Jer 22:21 - I warned you when you felt secure, but you said, ‘I will not listen!' This has been your way from your youth; you have not obeyed me.

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Jer 22:22 - The wind will drive all your shepherds away, and your allies will go into exile. Then you will be ashamed and disgraced because of all your wickedness.

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Jer 22:23 - You who live in ‘Lebanon,[fn]' who are nestled in cedar buildings, how you will groan when pangs come upon you, pain like that of a woman in labor!

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Jer 22:30 - This is what the LORD says: “Record this man as if childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offspring will prosper, none will sit on the throne of David or rule anymore in Judah.”

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Jer 23:6 - In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which he will be called: The LORD Our Righteous Savior.

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Jer 23:9 - Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me; all my bones tremble. I am like a drunken man, like a strong man overcome by wine, because of the LORD and his holy words.

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Jer 23:11 - “Both prophet and priest are godless; even in my temple I find their wickedness,”

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Jer 23:12 - “Therefore their path will become slippery; they will be banished to darkness and there they will fall. I will bring disaster on them in the year they are punished,”

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Jer 23:13 - “Among the prophets of Samaria I saw this repulsive thing: They prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.

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Jer 23:14 - And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen something horrible: They commit adultery and live a lie. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that not one of them turns from their wickedness. They are all like Sodom to me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”

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Jer 23:18 - But which of them has stood in the council of the LORD to see or to hear his word? Who has listened and heard his word?

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Jer 23:22 - But if they had stood in my council, they would have proclaimed my words to my people and would have turned them from their evil ways and from their evil deeds.

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Jer 23:24 - Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?”

declares the LORD.

“Do not I fill heaven and earth?”

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Jer 23:26 - How long will this continue in the hearts of these lying prophets, who prophesy the delusions of their own minds?

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Jer 23:27 - They think the dreams they tell one another will make my people forget my name, just as their ancestors forgot my name through Baal worship.

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Jer 23:28 - Let the prophet who has a dream recount the dream, but let the one who has my word speak it faithfully. For what has straw to do with grain?” declares the LORD.

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Jer 23:32 - Indeed, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” declares the LORD. “They tell them and lead my people astray with their reckless lies, yet I did not send or appoint them. They do not benefit these people in the least,” declares the LORD.

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Jer 24:8 - “ ‘But like the bad figs, which are so bad they cannot be eaten,' says the LORD, ‘so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials and the survivors from Jerusalem, whether they remain in this land or live in Egypt.

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Jer 24:9 - I will make them abhorrent and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword, a curse[fn] and an object of ridicule, wherever I banish them.

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Jer 25:1 - The word came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

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Jer 25:3 - For twenty-three years—from the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—the word of the LORD has come to me and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.

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Jer 25:6 - Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them; do not arouse my anger with what your hands have made. Then I will not harm you.”

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Jer 25:11 - This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

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Jer 25:12 - “But when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation, the land of the Babylonians,[fn] for their guilt,” declares the LORD, “and will make it desolate forever.

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Jer 25:13 - I will bring on that land all the things I have spoken against it, all that are written in this book and prophesied by Jeremiah against all the nations.

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Jer 25:22 - all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea;

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Jer 25:24 - all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the foreign people who live in the wilderness;

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Jer 25:29 - See, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears my Name, and will you indeed go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword on all who live on the earth, declares the LORD Almighty.'

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Jer 25:31 - The tumult will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD will bring charges against the nations; he will bring judgment on all mankind and put the wicked to the sword,' ”

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Jer 25:33 - At that time those slain by the LORD will be everywhere—from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned or gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground.

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Jer 26:1 - Early in the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came from the LORD:

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Jer 26:2 - “This is what the LORD says: Stand in the courtyard of the LORD's house and speak to all the people of the towns of Judah who come to worship in the house of the LORD. Tell them everything I command you; do not omit a word.

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Jer 26:4 - Say to them, ‘This is what the LORD says: If you do not listen to me and follow my law, which I have set before you,

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Jer 26:7 - The priests, the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speak these words in the house of the LORD.

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Jer 26:9 - Why do you prophesy in the LORD's name that this house will be like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted?” And all the people crowded around Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

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Jer 26:10 - When the officials of Judah heard about these things, they went up from the royal palace to the house of the LORD and took their places at the entrance of the New Gate of the LORD's house.

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Jer 26:11 - Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and all the people, “This man should be sentenced to death because he has prophesied against this city. You have heard it with your own ears!”

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Jer 26:14 - As for me, I am in your hands; do with me whatever you think is good and right.

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Jer 26:15 - Be assured, however, that if you put me to death, you will bring the guilt of innocent blood on yourselves and on this city and on those who live in it, for in truth the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.”

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Jer 26:18 - “Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. He told all the people of Judah, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty says: “ ‘Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.'[fn]

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Jer 26:23 - They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him struck down with a sword and his body thrown into the burial place of the common people.)

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Jer 27:3 - Then send word to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre and Sidon through the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

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Jer 27:5 - With my great power and outstretched arm I made the earth and its people and the animals that are on it, and I give it to anyone I please.

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Jer 27:8 - “ ‘ “If, however, any nation or kingdom will not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon or bow its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation with the sword, famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I destroy it by his hand.

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Jer 27:11 - But if any nation will bow its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let that nation remain in its own land to till it and to live there, declares the LORD.” ' ”

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Jer 27:18 - If they are prophets and have the word of the LORD, let them plead with the LORD Almighty that the articles remaining in the house of the LORD and in the palace of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem not be taken to Babylon.

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Jer 28:1 - In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, early in the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:

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Jer 28:5 - Then the prophet Jeremiah replied to the prophet Hananiah before the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the LORD.

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Jer 28:9 - But the prophet who prophesies peace will be recognized as one truly sent by the LORD only if his prediction comes true.”

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Jer 28:10 - Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and broke it,

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Jer 28:17 - In the seventh month of that same year, Hananiah the prophet died.

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Jer 29:3 - He entrusted the letter to Elasah son of Shaphan and to Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to King Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. It said:

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Jer 29:7 - Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.”

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Jer 29:8 - Yes, this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have.

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Jer 29:13 - You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

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Jer 29:15 - You may say, “The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,”

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Jer 29:22 - Because of them, all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD treat you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon burned in the fire.'

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Jer 29:23 - For they have done outrageous things in Israel; they have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and in my name they have uttered lies—which I did not authorize. I know it and am a witness to it,” declares the LORD.

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Jer 29:26 - ‘The LORD has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada to be in charge of the house of the LORD; you should put any maniac who acts like a prophet into the stocks and neck-irons.

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Jer 29:32 - this is what the LORD says: I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good things I will do for my people, declares the LORD, because he has preached rebellion against me.' ”

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Jer 30:6 - Ask and see: Can a man bear children? Then why do I see every strong man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor, every face turned deathly pale?

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Jer 30:8 - “ ‘In that day,' declares the LORD Almighty, ‘I will break the yoke off their necks and will tear off their bonds; no longer will foreigners enslave them.

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Jer 31:1 - “At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”

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Jer 31:2 - This is what the LORD says: “The people who survive the sword will find favor in the wilderness; I will come to give rest to Israel.”

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Jer 31:5 - Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant them and enjoy their fruit.

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Jer 31:6 - There will be a day when watchmen cry out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Come, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God.' ”

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Jer 31:8 - See, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the ends of the earth. Among them will be the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor; a great throng will return.

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Jer 31:9 - They will come with weeping; they will pray as I bring them back. I will lead them beside streams of water on a level path where they will not stumble, because I am Israel's father, and Ephraim is my firstborn son.

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Jer 31:12 - They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will rejoice in the bounty of the LORD— the grain, the new wine and the olive oil, the young of the flocks and herds. They will be like a well-watered garden, and they will sorrow no more.

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Jer 31:13 - Then young women will dance and be glad, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into gladness; I will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow.

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Jer 31:15 - This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

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Jer 31:20 - Is not Ephraim my dear son, the child in whom I delight? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,”

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Jer 31:22 - How long will you wander, unfaithful Daughter Israel? The LORD will create a new thing on earth— the woman will return to[fn] the man.”

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Jer 31:23 - This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “When I bring them back from captivity,[fn] the people in the land of Judah and in its towns will once again use these words: ‘The LORD bless you, you prosperous city, you sacred mountain.'

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Jer 31:24 - People will live together in Judah and all its towns—farmers and those who move about with their flocks.

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Jer 31:29 - “In those days people will no longer say, ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'

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Jer 31:30 - Instead, everyone will die for their own sin; whoever eats sour grapes—their own teeth will be set on edge.

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Jer 31:32 - It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to[fn] them,[fn]”

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Jer 31:35 - This is what the LORD says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the LORD Almighty is his name:

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Jer 32:1 - This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

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Jer 32:2 - The army of the king of Babylon was then besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard in the royal palace of Judah.

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Jer 32:3 - Now Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him there, saying, “Why do you prophesy as you do? You say, ‘This is what the LORD says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.

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Jer 32:7 - Hanamel son of Shallum your uncle is going to come to you and say, ‘Buy my field at Anathoth, because as nearest relative it is your right and duty to buy it.'

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Jer 32:8 - “Then, just as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and said, ‘Buy my field at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. Since it is your right to redeem it and possess it, buy it for yourself.' “I knew that this was the word of the LORD;

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Jer 32:10 - I signed and sealed the deed, had it witnessed, and weighed out the silver on the scales.

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Jer 32:12 - and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of my cousin Hanamel and of the witnesses who had signed the deed and of all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.

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Jer 32:15 - For this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land.'

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Jer 32:20 - You performed signs and wonders in Egypt and have continued them to this day, in Israel and among all mankind, and have gained the renown that is still yours.

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Jer 32:21 - You brought your people Israel out of Egypt with signs and wonders, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror.

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Jer 32:23 - They came in and took possession of it, but they did not obey you or follow your law; they did not do what you commanded them to do. So you brought all this disaster on them.

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Jer 32:29 - The Babylonians who are attacking this city will come in and set it on fire; they will burn it down, along with the houses where the people aroused my anger by burning incense on the roofs to Baal and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods.

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Jer 32:34 - They set up their vile images in the house that bears my Name and defiled it.

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Jer 32:35 - They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molek, though I never commanded—nor did it enter my mind—that they should do such a detestable thing and so make Judah sin.

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Jer 32:36 - “You are saying about this city, ‘By the sword, famine and plague it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon'; but this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:

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Jer 32:37 - I will surely gather them from all the lands where I banish them in my furious anger and great wrath; I will bring them back to this place and let them live in safety.

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Jer 32:41 - I will rejoice in doing them good and will assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart and soul.

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Jer 32:43 - Once more fields will be bought in this land of which you say, ‘It is a desolate waste, without people or animals, for it has been given into the hands of the Babylonians.'

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Jer 32:44 - Fields will be bought for silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed and witnessed in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem, in the towns of Judah and in the towns of the hill country, of the western foothills and of the Negev, because I will restore their fortunes,[fn] declares the LORD.”

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Jer 33:1 - While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time:

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Jer 33:5 - in the fight with the Babylonians[fn]: ‘They will be filled with the dead bodies of the people I will slay in my anger and wrath. I will hide my face from this city because of all its wickedness.

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Jer 33:10 - “This is what the LORD says: ‘You say about this place, “It is a desolate waste, without people or animals.” Yet in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted, inhabited by neither people nor animals, there will be heard once more

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Jer 33:12 - “This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘In this place, desolate and without people or animals—in all its towns there will again be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.

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Jer 33:13 - In the towns of the hill country, of the western foothills and of the Negev, in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah, flocks will again pass under the hand of the one who counts them,' says the LORD.

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Jer 34:2 - “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Go to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him, ‘This is what the LORD says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.

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Jer 34:5 - you will die peacefully. As people made a funeral fire in honor of your predecessors, the kings who ruled before you, so they will make a fire in your honor and lament, “Alas, master!” I myself make this promise, declares the LORD.' ”

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Jer 34:6 - Then Jeremiah the prophet told all this to Zedekiah king of Judah, in Jerusalem,

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Jer 34:7 - while the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah that were still holding out—Lachish and Azekah. These were the only fortified cities left in Judah.

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Jer 34:10 - So all the officials and people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their male and female slaves and no longer hold them in bondage. They agreed, and set them free.

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Jer 34:13 - “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. I said,

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Jer 34:15 - Recently you repented and did what is right in my sight: Each of you proclaimed freedom to your own people. You even made a covenant before me in the house that bears my Name.

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Jer 34:22 - I am going to give the order, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, take it and burn it down. And I will lay waste the towns of Judah so no one can live there.”

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Jer 35:1 - This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD during the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:

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Jer 35:7 - Also you must never build houses, sow seed or plant vineyards; you must never have any of these things, but must always live in tents. Then you will live a long time in the land where you are nomads.'

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Jer 35:10 - We have lived in tents and have fully obeyed everything our forefather Jehonadab commanded us.

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Jer 36:1 - In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

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Jer 36:6 - So you go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting and read to the people from the scroll the words of the LORD that you wrote as I dictated. Read them to all the people of Judah who come in from their towns.

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Jer 36:8 - Baruch son of Neriah did everything Jeremiah the prophet told him to do; at the LORD's temple he read the words of the LORD from the scroll.

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Jer 36:9 - In the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a time of fasting before the LORD was proclaimed for all the people in Jerusalem and those who had come from the towns of Judah.

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Jer 36:10 - From the room of Gemariah son of Shaphan the secretary, which was in the upper courtyard at the entrance of the New Gate of the temple, Baruch read to all the people at the LORD's temple the words of Jeremiah from the scroll.

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Jer 36:14 - all the officials sent Jehudi son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to say to Baruch, “Bring the scroll from which you have read to the people and come.” So Baruch son of Neriah went to them with the scroll in his hand.

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Jer 36:18 - “Yes,” Baruch replied, “he dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them in ink on the scroll.”

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Jer 36:20 - After they put the scroll in the room of Elishama the secretary, they went to the king in the courtyard and reported everything to him.

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Jer 36:22 - It was the ninth month and the king was sitting in the winter apartment, with a fire burning in the firepot in front of him.

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Jer 36:30 - Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on the throne of David; his body will be thrown out and exposed to the heat by day and the frost by night.

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Jer 37:2 - Neither he nor his attendants nor the people of the land paid any attention to the words the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.

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Jer 37:8 - Then the Babylonians will return and attack this city; they will capture it and burn it down.'

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Jer 37:10 - Even if you were to defeat the entire Babylonian[fn] army that is attacking you and only wounded men were left in their tents, they would come out and burn this city down.”

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Jer 37:12 - Jeremiah started to leave the city to go to the territory of Benjamin to get his share of the property among the people there.

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Jer 37:13 - But when he reached the Benjamin Gate, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, arrested him and said, “You are deserting to the Babylonians!”

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Jer 37:21 - King Zedekiah then gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread from the street of the bakers each day until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.

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Jer 38:2 - “This is what the LORD says: ‘Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine or plague, but whoever goes over to the Babylonians[fn] will live. They will escape with their lives; they will live.'

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Jer 38:4 - Then the officials said to the king, “This man should be put to death. He is discouraging the soldiers who are left in this city, as well as all the people, by the things he is saying to them. This man is not seeking the good of these people but their ruin.”

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Jer 38:5 - “He is in your hands,” King Zedekiah answered. “The king can do nothing to oppose you.”

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Jer 38:6 - So they took Jeremiah and put him into the cistern of Malkijah, the king's son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah by ropes into the cistern; it had no water in it, only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

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Jer 38:7 - But Ebed-Melek, a Cushite,[fn] an official[fn] in the royal palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. While the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate,

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Jer 38:9 - “My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have thrown him into a cistern, where he will starve to death when there is no longer any bread in the city.”

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Jer 38:13 - and they pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.

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Jer 38:14 - Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and had him brought to the third entrance to the temple of the LORD. “I am going to ask you something,” the king said to Jeremiah. “Do not hide anything from me.”

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Jer 38:17 - Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, your life will be spared and this city will not be burned down; you and your family will live.

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Jer 38:18 - But if you will not surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, this city will be given into the hands of the Babylonians and they will burn it down; you yourself will not escape from them.' ”

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Jer 38:22 - All the women left in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon. Those women will say to you: “ ‘They misled you and overcame you— those trusted friends of yours. Your feet are sunk in the mud; your friends have deserted you.'

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Jer 38:23 - “All your wives and children will be brought out to the Babylonians. You yourself will not escape from their hands but will be captured by the king of Babylon; and this city will[fn] be burned down.”

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Jer 38:28 - And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured. This is how Jerusalem was taken:

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Jer 39:1 - In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army and laid siege to it.

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Jer 39:2 - And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year, the city wall was broken through.

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Jer 39:3 - Then all the officials of the king of Babylon came and took seats in the Middle Gate: Nergal-Sharezer of Samgar, Nebo-Sarsekim a chief officer, Nergal-Sharezer a high official and all the other officials of the king of Babylon.

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Jer 39:14 - sent and had Jeremiah taken out of the courtyard of the guard. They turned him over to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him back to his home. So he remained among his own people.

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Jer 39:15 - While Jeremiah had been confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him:

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Jer 39:17 - But I will rescue you on that day, declares the LORD; you will not be given into the hands of those you fear.

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Jer 39:18 - I will save you; you will not fall by the sword but will escape with your life, because you trust in me, declares the LORD.' ”

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Jer 40:1 - The word came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard had released him at Ramah. He had found Jeremiah bound in chains among all the captives from Jerusalem and Judah who were being carried into exile to Babylon.

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Jer 40:5 - However, before Jeremiah turned to go,[fn] Nebuzaradan added, “Go back to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the towns of Judah, and live with him among the people, or go anywhere else you please.” Then the commander gave him provisions and a present and let him go.

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Jer 40:6 - So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah and stayed with him among the people who were left behind in the land.

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Jer 40:7 - When all the army officers and their men who were still in the open country heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam as governor over the land and had put him in charge of the men, women and children who were the poorest in the land and who had not been carried into exile to Babylon,

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Jer 40:9 - Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, took an oath to reassure them and their men. “Do not be afraid to serve the Babylonians,[fn]” he said. “Settle down in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.

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Jer 40:10 - I myself will stay at Mizpah to represent you before the Babylonians who come to us, but you are to harvest the wine, summer fruit and olive oil, and put them in your storage jars, and live in the towns you have taken over.”

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Jer 40:11 - When all the Jews in Moab, Ammon, Edom and all the other countries heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, as governor over them,

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Jer 40:13 - Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers still in the open country came to Gedaliah at Mizpah

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Jer 40:15 - Then Johanan son of Kareah said privately to Gedaliah in Mizpah, “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it. Why should he take your life and cause all the Jews who are gathered around you to be scattered and the remnant of Judah to perish?”

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Jer 41:3 - Ishmael also killed all the men of Judah who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, as well as the Babylonian[fn] soldiers who were there.

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Jer 41:5 - eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh and Samaria, bringing grain offerings and incense with them to the house of the LORD.

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Jer 41:8 - But ten of them said to Ishmael, “Don't kill us! We have wheat and barley, olive oil and honey, hidden in a field.” So he let them alone and did not kill them with the others.

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Jer 41:12 - they took all their men and went to fight Ishmael son of Nethaniah. They caught up with him near the great pool in Gibeon.

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Jer 41:16 - Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers who were with him led away all the people of Mizpah who had survived, whom Johanan had recovered from Ishmael son of Nethaniah after Ishmael had assassinated Gedaliah son of Ahikam—the soldiers, women, children and court officials he had recovered from Gibeon.

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Jer 41:17 - And they went on, stopping at Geruth Kimham near Bethlehem on their way to Egypt

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Jer 41:18 - to escape the Babylonians.[fn] They were afraid of them because Ishmael son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed as governor over the land.

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Jer 42:3 - Pray that the LORD your God will tell us where we should go and what we should do.”

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Jer 42:5 - Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act in accordance with everything the LORD your God sends you to tell us.

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Jer 42:10 - ‘If you stay in this land, I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I have relented concerning the disaster I have inflicted on you.

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Jer 42:13 - “However, if you say, ‘We will not stay in this land,' and so disobey the LORD your God,

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Jer 42:14 - and if you say, ‘No, we will go and live in Egypt, where we will not see war or hear the trumpet or be hungry for bread,'

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Jer 42:16 - then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow you into Egypt, and there you will die.

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Jer 42:17 - Indeed, all who are determined to go to Egypt to settle there will die by the sword, famine and plague; not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring on them.'

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Jer 42:20 - that you made a fatal mistake when you sent me to the LORD your God and said, ‘Pray to the LORD our God for us; tell us everything he says and we will do it.'

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Jer 42:22 - So now, be sure of this: You will die by the sword, famine and plague in the place where you want to go to settle.”

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Jer 43:4 - So Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers and all the people disobeyed the LORD's command to stay in the land of Judah.

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Jer 43:5 - Instead, Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers led away all the remnant of Judah who had come back to live in the land of Judah from all the nations where they had been scattered.

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Jer 43:8 - In Tahpanhes the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

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Jer 43:9 - “While the Jews are watching, take some large stones with you and bury them in clay in the brick pavement at the entrance to Pharaoh's palace in Tahpanhes.

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Jer 43:12 - He will set fire to the temples of the gods of Egypt; he will burn their temples and take their gods captive. As a shepherd picks his garment clean of lice, so he will pick Egypt clean and depart.

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Jer 43:13 - There in the temple of the sun[fn] in Egypt he will demolish the sacred pillars and will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.' ”

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Jer 44:1 - This word came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews living in Lower Egypt—in Migdol, Tahpanhes and Memphis—and in Upper Egypt:

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Jer 44:6 - Therefore, my fierce anger was poured out; it raged against the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem and made them the desolate ruins they are today.

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Jer 44:8 - Why arouse my anger with what your hands have made, burning incense to other gods in Egypt, where you have come to live? You will destroy yourselves and make yourselves a curse[fn] and an object of reproach among all the nations on earth.

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Jer 44:9 - Have you forgotten the wickedness committed by your ancestors and by the kings and queens of Judah and the wickedness committed by you and your wives in the land of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem?

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Jer 44:12 - I will take away the remnant of Judah who were determined to go to Egypt to settle there. They will all perish in Egypt; they will fall by the sword or die from famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine. They will become a curse and an object of horror, a curse and an object of reproach.

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Jer 44:13 - I will punish those who live in Egypt with the sword, famine and plague, as I punished Jerusalem.

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Jer 44:14 - None of the remnant of Judah who have gone to live in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, to which they long to return and live; none will return except a few fugitives.”

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Jer 44:15 - Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, along with all the women who were present—a large assembly—and all the people living in Lower and Upper Egypt, said to Jeremiah,

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Jer 44:17 - We will certainly do everything we said we would: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and will pour out drink offerings to her just as we and our ancestors, our kings and our officials did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and were well off and suffered no harm.

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Jer 44:18 - But ever since we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have had nothing and have been perishing by sword and famine.”

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Jer 44:21 - “Did not the LORD remember and call to mind the incense burned in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem by you and your ancestors, your kings and your officials and the people of the land?

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Jer 44:22 - When the LORD could no longer endure your wicked actions and the detestable things you did, your land became a curse and a desolate waste without inhabitants, as it is today.

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Jer 44:23 - Because you have burned incense and have sinned against the LORD and have not obeyed him or followed his law or his decrees or his stipulations, this disaster has come upon you, as you now see.”

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Jer 44:26 - But hear the word of the LORD, all you Jews living in Egypt: ‘I swear by my great name,' says the LORD, ‘that no one from Judah living anywhere in Egypt will ever again invoke my name or swear, “As surely as the Sovereign LORD lives.”

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Jer 44:27 - For I am watching over them for harm, not for good; the Jews in Egypt will perish by sword and famine until they are all destroyed.

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Jer 44:28 - Those who escape the sword and return to the land of Judah from Egypt will be very few. Then the whole remnant of Judah who came to live in Egypt will know whose word will stand—mine or theirs.

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Jer 45:1 - When Baruch son of Neriah wrote on a scroll the words Jeremiah the prophet dictated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, Jeremiah said this to Baruch:

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Jer 45:3 - You said, ‘Woe to me! The LORD has added sorrow to my pain; I am worn out with groaning and find no rest.'

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Jer 45:5 - Should you then seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them. For I will bring disaster on all people, declares the LORD, but wherever you go I will let you escape with your life.' ”

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Jer 46:2 - Concerning Egypt: This is the message against the army of Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:

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Jer 46:4 - Harness the horses, mount the steeds! Take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears, put on your armor!

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Jer 46:8 - Egypt rises like the Nile, like rivers of surging waters. She says, ‘I will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy cities and their people.'

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Jer 46:13 - This is the message the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to attack Egypt:

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Jer 46:18 - “As surely as I live,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD Almighty, “one will come who is like Tabor among the mountains, like Carmel by the sea.

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Jer 46:19 - Pack your belongings for exile, you who live in Egypt, for Memphis will be laid waste and lie in ruins without inhabitant.

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Jer 46:21 - The mercenaries in her ranks are like fattened calves. They too will turn and flee together, they will not stand their ground, for the day of disaster is coming upon them, the time for them to be punished.

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Jer 46:22 - Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent as the enemy advances in force; they will come against her with axes, like men who cut down trees.

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Jer 46:28 - Do not be afraid, Jacob my servant, for I am with you,” declares the LORD. “Though I completely destroy all the nations among which I scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you but only in due measure; I will not let you go entirely unpunished.”

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Jer 47:2 - This is what the LORD says: “See how the waters are rising in the north; they will become an overflowing torrent. They will overflow the land and everything in it, the towns and those who live in them. The people will cry out; all who dwell in the land will wail

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Jer 47:4 - For the day has come to destroy all the Philistines and to remove all survivors who could help Tyre and Sidon. The LORD is about to destroy the Philistines, the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.[fn]

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Jer 48:2 - Moab will be praised no more; in Heshbon[fn] people will plot her downfall: ‘Come, let us put an end to that nation.' You, the people of Madmen,[fn] will also be silenced; the sword will pursue you.

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Jer 48:5 - They go up the hill to Luhith, weeping bitterly as they go; on the road down to Horonaim anguished cries over the destruction are heard.

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Jer 48:6 - Flee! Run for your lives; become like a bush[fn] in the desert.

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Jer 48:7 - Since you trust in your deeds and riches, you too will be taken captive, and Chemosh will go into exile, together with his priests and officials.

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Jer 48:11 - “Moab has been at rest from youth, like wine left on its dregs, not poured from one jar to another— she has not gone into exile. So she tastes as she did, and her aroma is unchanged.

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Jer 48:18 - “Come down from your glory and sit on the parched ground, you inhabitants of Daughter Dibon, for the one who destroys Moab will come up against you and ruin your fortified cities.

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Jer 48:19 - Stand by the road and watch, you who live in Aroer. Ask the man fleeing and the woman escaping, ask them, ‘What has happened?'

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Jer 48:20 - Moab is disgraced, for she is shattered. Wail and cry out! Announce by the Arnon that Moab is destroyed.

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Jer 48:26 - “Make her drunk, for she has defied the LORD. Let Moab wallow in her vomit; let her be an object of ridicule.

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Jer 48:27 - Was not Israel the object of your ridicule? Was she caught among thieves, that you shake your head in scorn whenever you speak of her?

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Jer 48:28 - Abandon your towns and dwell among the rocks, you who live in Moab. Be like a dove that makes its nest at the mouth of a cave.

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Jer 48:37 - Every head is shaved and every beard cut off; every hand is slashed and every waist is covered with sackcloth.

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Jer 48:44 - “Whoever flees from the terror will fall into a pit, whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in a snare; for I will bring on Moab the year of her punishment,”

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Jer 49:1 - Concerning the Ammonites: This is what the LORD says: “Has Israel no sons? Has Israel no heir? Why then has Molek[fn] taken possession of Gad? Why do his people live in its towns?

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Jer 49:2 - But the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites; it will become a mound of ruins, and its surrounding villages will be set on fire. Then Israel will drive out those who drove her out,”

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Jer 49:3 - “Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is destroyed! Cry out, you inhabitants of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; rush here and there inside the walls, for Molek will go into exile, together with his priests and officials.

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Jer 49:4 - Why do you boast of your valleys, boast of your valleys so fruitful? Unfaithful Daughter Ammon, you trust in your riches and say, ‘Who will attack me?'

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Jer 49:7 - Concerning Edom: This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?

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Jer 49:8 - Turn and flee, hide in deep caves, you who live in Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time when I punish him.

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Jer 49:9 - If grape pickers came to you, would they not leave a few grapes? If thieves came during the night, would they not steal only as much as they wanted?

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Jer 49:13 - I swear by myself,” declares the LORD, “that Bozrah will become a ruin and a curse,[fn] an object of horror and reproach; and all its towns will be in ruins forever.”

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Jer 49:15 - “Now I will make you small among the nations, despised by mankind.

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Jer 49:21 - At the sound of their fall the earth will tremble; their cry will resound to the Red Sea.[fn]

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Jer 49:22 - Look! An eagle will soar and swoop down, spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom's warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.

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Jer 49:26 - Surely, her young men will fall in the streets; all her soldiers will be silenced in that day,”

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Jer 49:27 - “I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortresses of Ben-Hadad.”

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Jer 49:30 - “Flee quickly away! Stay in deep caves, you who live in Hazor,”

declares the LORD.

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has plotted against you; he has devised a plan against you.

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Jer 49:34 - This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, early in the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah:

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Jer 49:36 - I will bring against Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven; I will scatter them to the four winds, and there will not be a nation where Elam's exiles do not go.

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Jer 49:38 - I will set my throne in Elam and destroy her king and officials,”

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Jer 50:2 - “Announce and proclaim among the nations, lift up a banner and proclaim it; keep nothing back, but say, ‘Babylon will be captured; Bel will be put to shame, Marduk filled with terror. Her images will be put to shame and her idols filled with terror.'

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Jer 50:3 - A nation from the north will attack her and lay waste her land. No one will live in it; both people and animals will flee away.

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Jer 50:4 - “In those days, at that time,” declares the LORD, “the people of Israel and the people of Judah together will go in tears to seek the LORD their God.

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Jer 50:11 - “Because you rejoice and are glad, you who pillage my inheritance, because you frolic like a heifer threshing grain and neigh like stallions,

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Jer 50:16 - Cut off from Babylon the sower, and the reaper with his sickle at harvest. Because of the sword of the oppressor let everyone return to their own people, let everyone flee to their own land.

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Jer 50:19 - But I will bring Israel back to their own pasture, and they will graze on Carmel and Bashan; their appetite will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and Gilead.

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Jer 50:20 - In those days, at that time,” declares the LORD, “search will be made for Israel's guilt, but there will be none, and for the sins of Judah, but none will be found, for I will forgive the remnant I spare.

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Jer 50:22 - The noise of battle is in the land, the noise of great destruction!

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Jer 50:23 - How broken and shattered is the hammer of the whole earth! How desolate is Babylon among the nations!

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Jer 50:25 - The LORD has opened his arsenal and brought out the weapons of his wrath, for the Sovereign LORD Almighty has work to do in the land of the Babylonians.

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Jer 50:30 - Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets; all her soldiers will be silenced in that day,”

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Jer 50:32 - The arrogant one will stumble and fall and no one will help her up; I will kindle a fire in her towns that will consume all who are around her.”

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Jer 50:37 - A sword against her horses and chariots and all the foreigners in her ranks! They will become weaklings. A sword against her treasures! They will be plundered.

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Jer 50:38 - A drought on[fn] her waters! They will dry up. For it is a land of idols, idols that will go mad with terror.

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Jer 50:39 - “So desert creatures and hyenas will live there, and there the owl will dwell. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.

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Jer 50:46 - At the sound of Babylon's capture the earth will tremble; its cry will resound among the nations.

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Jer 51:2 - I will send foreigners to Babylon to winnow her and to devastate her land; they will oppose her on every side in the day of her disaster.

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Jer 51:4 - They will fall down slain in Babylon,[fn] fatally wounded in her streets.

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Jer 51:6 - “Flee from Babylon! Run for your lives! Do not be destroyed because of her sins. It is time for the LORD's vengeance; he will repay her what she deserves.

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Jer 51:7 - Babylon was a gold cup in the LORD's hand; she made the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore they have now gone mad.

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Jer 51:15 - “He made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

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Jer 51:16 - When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

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Jer 51:17 - “Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by his idols. The images he makes are a fraud; they have no breath in them.

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Jer 51:18 - They are worthless, the objects of mockery; when their judgment comes, they will perish.

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Jer 51:20 - “You are my war club, my weapon for battle— with you I shatter nations, with you I destroy kingdoms,

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Jer 51:21 - with you I shatter horse and rider, with you I shatter chariot and driver,

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Jer 51:22 - with you I shatter man and woman, with you I shatter old man and youth, with you I shatter young man and young woman,

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Jer 51:23 - with you I shatter shepherd and flock, with you I shatter farmer and oxen, with you I shatter governors and officials.

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Jer 51:27 - “Lift up a banner in the land! Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations for battle against her; summon against her these kingdoms: Ararat, Minni and Ashkenaz. Appoint a commander against her; send up horses like a swarm of locusts.

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Jer 51:30 - Babylon's warriors have stopped fighting; they remain in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become weaklings. Her dwellings are set on fire; the bars of her gates are broken.

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Jer 51:32 - the river crossings seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers terrified.”

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Jer 51:39 - But while they are aroused, I will set out a feast for them and make them drunk, so that they shout with laughter— then sleep forever and not awake,”

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Jer 51:41 - “How Sheshak[fn] will be captured, the boast of the whole earth seized! How desolate Babylon will be among the nations!

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Jer 51:42 - The sea will rise over Babylon; its roaring waves will cover her.

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Jer 51:43 - Her towns will be desolate, a dry and desert land, a land where no one lives, through which no one travels.

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Jer 51:49 - “Babylon must fall because of Israel's slain, just as the slain in all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.

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Jer 51:52 - “But days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.

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Jer 51:54 - “The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Babylonians.[fn]

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Jer 51:58 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Babylon's thick wall will be leveled and her high gates set on fire; the peoples exhaust themselves for nothing, the nations' labor is only fuel for the flames.”

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Jer 51:59 - This is the message Jeremiah the prophet gave to the staff officer Seraiah son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with Zedekiah king of Judah in the fourth year of his reign.

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Jer 51:60 - Jeremiah had written on a scroll about all the disasters that would come upon Babylon—all that had been recorded concerning Babylon.

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Jer 51:62 - Then say, ‘LORD, you have said you will destroy this place, so that neither people nor animals will live in it; it will be desolate forever.'

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Jer 52:1 - Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

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Jer 52:4 - So in the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. They encamped outside the city and built siege works all around it.

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Jer 52:6 - By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.

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Jer 52:8 - but the Babylonian[fn] army pursued King Zedekiah and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered,

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Jer 52:10 - There at Riblah the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; he also killed all the officials of Judah.

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Jer 52:11 - Then he put out Zedekiah's eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon, where he put him in prison till the day of his death.

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Jer 52:12 - On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, who served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

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Jer 52:13 - He set fire to the temple of the LORD, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.

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Jer 52:17 - The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea that were at the temple of the LORD and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.

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Jer 52:18 - They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and all the bronze articles used in the temple service.

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Jer 52:25 - Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men, and seven royal advisers. He also took the secretary who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land, sixty of whom were found in the city.

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Jer 52:27 - There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed. So Judah went into captivity, away from her land.

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Jer 52:31 - In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the year Awel-Marduk became king of Babylon, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, he released Jehoiachin king of Judah and freed him from prison.

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Jer 52:32 - He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat of honor higher than those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

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Lam 1:1 - How deserted lies the city, once so full of people! How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations! She who was queen among the provinces has now become a slave.

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Lam 1:2 - Bitterly she weeps at night, tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

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Lam 1:3 - After affliction and harsh labor, Judah has gone into exile. She dwells among the nations; she finds no resting place. All who pursue her have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

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Lam 1:4 - The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed festivals. All her gateways are desolate, her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she is in bitter anguish.

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Lam 1:5 - Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. The LORD has brought her grief because of her many sins. Her children have gone into exile, captive before the foe.

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Lam 1:6 - All the splendor has departed from Daughter Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; in weakness they have fled before the pursuer.

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Lam 1:7 - In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands, there was no one to help her. Her enemies looked at her and laughed at her destruction.

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Lam 1:11 - All her people groan as they search for bread; they barter their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. “Look, LORD, and consider, for I am despised.”

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Lam 1:12 - “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see. Is any suffering like my suffering that was inflicted on me, that the LORD brought on me in the day of his fierce anger?

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Lam 1:13 - “From on high he sent fire, sent it down into my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

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Lam 1:14 - “My sins have been bound into a yoke[fn]; by his hands they were woven together. They have been hung on my neck, and the Lord has sapped my strength. He has given me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.

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Lam 1:18 - “The LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against his command. Listen, all you peoples; look on my suffering. My young men and young women have gone into exile.

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Lam 1:19 - “I called to my allies but they betrayed me. My priests and my elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.

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Lam 1:20 - “See, LORD, how distressed I am! I am in torment within, and in my heart I am disturbed, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is only death.

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Lam 2:1 - How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion with the cloud of his anger[fn]! He has hurled down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

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Lam 2:2 - Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob; in his wrath he has torn down the strongholds of Daughter Judah. He has brought her kingdom and its princes down to the ground in dishonor.

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Lam 2:3 - In fierce anger he has cut off every horn[fn][fn] of Israel. He has withdrawn his right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.

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Lam 2:4 - Like an enemy he has strung his bow; his right hand is ready. Like a foe he has slain all who were pleasing to the eye; he has poured out his wrath like fire on the tent of Daughter Zion.

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Lam 2:6 - He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden; he has destroyed his place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths; in his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.

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Lam 2:7 - The Lord has rejected his altar and abandoned his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hands of the enemy; they have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed festival.

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Lam 2:9 - Her gates have sunk into the ground; their bars he has broken and destroyed. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and her prophets no longer find visions from the LORD.

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Lam 2:10 - The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have sprinkled dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

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Lam 2:11 - My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

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Lam 2:12 - They say to their mothers, “Where is bread and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives ebb away in their mothers' arms.

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Lam 2:19 - Arise, cry out in the night, as the watches of the night begin; pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint from hunger at every street corner.

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Lam 2:20 - “Look, LORD, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the children they have cared for? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

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Lam 2:21 - “Young and old lie together in the dust of the streets; my young men and young women have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered them without pity.

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Lam 2:22 - “As you summon to a feast day, so you summoned against me terrors on every side. In the day of the LORD's anger no one escaped or survived; those I cared for and reared my enemy has destroyed.”

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Lam 3:1 - I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of the LORD's wrath.

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Lam 3:3 - indeed, he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long.

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Lam 3:6 - He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.

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Lam 3:10 - Like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding,

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Lam 3:27 - It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young.

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Lam 3:36 - to deprive them of justice— would not the Lord see such things?

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Lam 3:41 - Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say:

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Lam 3:43 - “You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity.

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Lam 3:45 - You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

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Lam 3:53 - They tried to end my life in a pit and threw stones at me;

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Lam 3:57 - You came near when I called you, and you said, “Do not fear.”

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Lam 3:60 - You have seen the depth of their vengeance, all their plots against me.

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Lam 3:66 - Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.

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Lam 4:2 - How the precious children of Zion, once worth their weight in gold, are now considered as pots of clay, the work of a potter's hands!

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Lam 4:3 - Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but my people have become heartless like ostriches in the desert.

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Lam 4:4 - Because of thirst the infant's tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth; the children beg for bread, but no one gives it to them.

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Lam 4:5 - Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets. Those brought up in royal purple now lie on ash heaps.

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Lam 4:6 - The punishment of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment without a hand turned to help her.

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Lam 4:8 - But now they are blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.

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Lam 4:10 - With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were destroyed.

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Lam 4:11 - The LORD has given full vent to his wrath; he has poured out his fierce anger. He kindled a fire in Zion that consumed her foundations.

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Lam 4:13 - But it happened because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed within her the blood of the righteous.

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Lam 4:14 - Now they grope through the streets as if they were blind. They are so defiled with blood that no one dares to touch their garments.

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Lam 4:15 - “Go away! You are unclean!” people cry to them. “Away! Away! Don't touch us!” When they flee and wander about, people among the nations say, “They can stay here no longer.”

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Lam 4:18 - People stalked us at every step, so we could not walk in our streets. Our end was near, our days were numbered, for our end had come.

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Lam 4:19 - Our pursuers were swifter than eagles in the sky; they chased us over the mountains and lay in wait for us in the desert.

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Lam 4:20 - The LORD's anointed, our very life breath, was caught in their traps. We thought that under his shadow we would live among the nations.

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Lam 5:4 - We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only at a price.

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Lam 5:9 - We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.

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Lam 5:11 - Women have been violated in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.

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Lam 5:12 - Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.

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Lam 5:13 - Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

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Lam 5:18 - for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, with jackals prowling over it.

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Eze 1:1 - In my thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.

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Eze 1:3 - the word of the LORD came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, by the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians.[fn] There the hand of the LORD was on him.

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Eze 1:4 - I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north—an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal,

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Eze 1:5 - and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was human,

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Eze 1:9 - and the wings of one touched the wings of another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved.

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Eze 1:13 - The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches. Fire moved back and forth among the creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.

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Eze 1:16 - This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel.

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Eze 1:17 - As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not change direction as the creatures went.

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Eze 1:19 - When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose.

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Eze 1:20 - Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

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Eze 1:21 - When the creatures moved, they also moved; when the creatures stood still, they also stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

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Eze 1:24 - When the creatures moved, I heard the sound of their wings, like the roar of rushing waters, like the voice of the Almighty,[fn] like the tumult of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings.

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Eze 1:28 - Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. When I saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice of one speaking.

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Eze 2:5 - And whether they listen or fail to listen—for they are a rebellious people—they will know that a prophet has been among them.

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Eze 2:6 - And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns are all around you and you live among scorpions. Do not be afraid of what they say or be terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people.

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Eze 2:9 - Then I looked, and I saw a hand stretched out to me. In it was a scroll,

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Eze 2:10 - which he unrolled before me. On both sides of it were written words of lament and mourning and woe.

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Eze 3:3 - Then he said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it.” So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.

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Eze 3:14 - The Spirit then lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD on me.

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Eze 3:15 - I came to the exiles who lived at Tel Aviv near the Kebar River. And there, where they were living, I sat among them for seven days—deeply distressed.

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Eze 3:18 - When I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,' and you do not warn them or speak out to dissuade them from their evil ways in order to save their life, that wicked person will die for[fn] their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood.

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Eze 3:19 - But if you do warn the wicked person and they do not turn from their wickedness or from their evil ways, they will die for their sin; but you will have saved yourself.

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Eze 3:20 - “Again, when a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil, and I put a stumbling block before them, they will die. Since you did not warn them, they will die for their sin. The righteous things that person did will not be remembered, and I will hold you accountable for their blood.

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Eze 3:24 - Then the Spirit came into me and raised me to my feet. He spoke to me and said: “Go, shut yourself inside your house.

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Eze 3:25 - And you, son of man, they will tie with ropes; you will be bound so that you cannot go out among the people.

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Eze 3:27 - But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you shall say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says.' Whoever will listen let them listen, and whoever will refuse let them refuse; for they are a rebellious people.

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Eze 4:3 - Then take an iron pan, place it as an iron wall between you and the city and turn your face toward it. It will be under siege, and you shall besiege it. This will be a sign to the people of Israel.

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Eze 4:10 - Weigh out twenty shekels[fn] of food to eat each day and eat it at set times.

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Eze 4:11 - Also measure out a sixth of a hin[fn] of water and drink it at set times.

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Eze 4:12 - Eat the food as you would a loaf of barley bread; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel.”

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Eze 4:13 - The LORD said, “In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them.”

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Eze 4:14 - Then I said, “Not so, Sovereign LORD! I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead or torn by wild animals. No impure meat has ever entered my mouth.”

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Eze 4:16 - He then said to me: “Son of man, I am about to cut off the food supply in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair,

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Eze 4:17 - for food and water will be scarce. They will be appalled at the sight of each other and will waste away because of[fn] their sin.

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Eze 5:2 - When the days of your siege come to an end, burn a third of the hair inside the city. Take a third and strike it with the sword all around the city. And scatter a third to the wind. For I will pursue them with drawn sword.

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Eze 5:3 - But take a few hairs and tuck them away in the folds of your garment.

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Eze 5:4 - Again, take a few of these and throw them into the fire and burn them up. A fire will spread from there to all Israel.

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Eze 5:5 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

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Eze 5:6 - Yet in her wickedness she has rebelled against my laws and decrees more than the nations and countries around her. She has rejected my laws and has not followed my decrees.

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Eze 5:7 - “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: You have been more unruly than the nations around you and have not followed my decrees or kept my laws. You have not even[fn] conformed to the standards of the nations around you.

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Eze 5:8 - “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will inflict punishment on you in the sight of the nations.

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Eze 5:9 - Because of all your detestable idols, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again.

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Eze 5:10 - Therefore in your midst parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your survivors to the winds.

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Eze 5:11 - Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your vile images and detestable practices, I myself will shave you; I will not look on you with pity or spare you.

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Eze 5:12 - A third of your people will die of the plague or perish by famine inside you; a third will fall by the sword outside your walls; and a third I will scatter to the winds and pursue with drawn sword.

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Eze 5:13 - “Then my anger will cease and my wrath against them will subside, and I will be avenged. And when I have spent my wrath on them, they will know that I the LORD have spoken in my zeal.

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Eze 5:15 - You will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and an object of horror to the nations around you when I inflict punishment on you in anger and in wrath and with stinging rebuke. I the LORD have spoken.

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Eze 5:16 - When I shoot at you with my deadly and destructive arrows of famine, I will shoot to destroy you. I will bring more and more famine upon you and cut off your supply of food.

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Eze 6:6 - Wherever you live, the towns will be laid waste and the high places demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and devastated, your idols smashed and ruined, your incense altars broken down, and what you have made wiped out.

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Eze 6:7 - Your people will fall slain among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.

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Eze 6:8 - “ ‘But I will spare some, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the lands and nations.

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Eze 6:9 - Then in the nations where they have been carried captive, those who escape will remember me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts, which have turned away from me, and by their eyes, which have lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their detestable practices.

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Eze 6:11 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Strike your hands together and stamp your feet and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked and detestable practices of the people of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine and plague.

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Eze 6:12 - One who is far away will die of the plague, and one who is near will fall by the sword, and anyone who survives and is spared will die of famine. So will I pour out my wrath on them.

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Eze 6:13 - And they will know that I am the LORD, when their people lie slain among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak—places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.

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Eze 7:3 - The end is now upon you, and I will unleash my anger against you. I will judge you according to your conduct and repay you for all your detestable practices.

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Eze 7:4 - I will not look on you with pity; I will not spare you. I will surely repay you for your conduct and for the detestable practices among you. “ ‘Then you will know that I am the LORD.'

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Eze 7:8 - I am about to pour out my wrath on you and spend my anger against you. I will judge you according to your conduct and repay you for all your detestable practices.

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Eze 7:9 - I will not look on you with pity; I will not spare you. I will repay you for your conduct and for the detestable practices among you. “ ‘Then you will know that it is I the LORD who strikes you.

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Eze 7:13 - The seller will not recover the property that was sold— as long as both buyer and seller live. For the vision concerning the whole crowd will not be reversed. Because of their sins, not one of them will preserve their life.

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Eze 7:14 - “ ‘They have blown the trumpet, they have made all things ready, but no one will go into battle, for my wrath is on the whole crowd.

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Eze 7:15 - Outside is the sword; inside are plague and famine. Those in the country will die by the sword; those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.

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Eze 7:16 - The fugitives who escape will flee to the mountains. Like doves of the valleys, they will all moan, each for their own sins.

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Eze 7:19 - “ ‘They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be treated as a thing unclean. Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath. It will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs, for it has caused them to stumble into sin.

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Eze 7:27 - The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and by their own standards I will judge them. “ ‘Then they will know that I am the LORD.' ”

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Eze 8:1 - In the sixth year, in the sixth month on the fifth day, while I was sitting in my house and the elders of Judah were sitting before me, the hand of the Sovereign LORD came on me there.

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Eze 8:3 - He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. The Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and in visions of God he took me to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes to jealousy stood.

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Eze 8:4 - And there before me was the glory of the God of Israel, as in the vision I had seen in the plain.

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Eze 8:11 - In front of them stood seventy elders of Israel, and Jaazaniah son of Shaphan was standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.

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Eze 8:12 - He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? They say, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.' ”

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Eze 9:1 - Then I heard him call out in a loud voice, “Bring near those who are appointed to execute judgment on the city, each with a weapon in his hand.”

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Eze 9:2 - And I saw six men coming from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with a deadly weapon in his hand. With them was a man clothed in linen who had a writing kit at his side. They came in and stood beside the bronze altar.

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Eze 9:4 - and said to him, “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things that are done in it.”

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Eze 9:6 - Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, the mothers and children, but do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the old men who were in front of the temple.

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Eze 9:8 - While they were killing and I was left alone, I fell facedown, crying out, “Alas, Sovereign LORD! Are you going to destroy the entire remnant of Israel in this outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem?”

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Eze 10:3 - Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.

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Eze 10:6 - When the LORD commanded the man in linen, “Take fire from among the wheels, from among the cherubim,” the man went in and stood beside a wheel.

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Eze 10:7 - Then one of the cherubim reached out his hand to the fire that was among them. He took up some of it and put it into the hands of the man in linen, who took it and went out.

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Eze 10:10 - As for their appearance, the four of them looked alike; each was like a wheel intersecting a wheel.

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Eze 10:11 - As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the cherubim faced; the wheels did not turn about[fn] as the cherubim went. The cherubim went in whatever direction the head faced, without turning as they went.

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Eze 10:16 - When the cherubim moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the cherubim spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not leave their side.

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Eze 10:17 - When the cherubim stood still, they also stood still; and when the cherubim rose, they rose with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in them.

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Eze 10:19 - While I watched, the cherubim spread their wings and rose from the ground, and as they went, the wheels went with them. They stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the LORD's house, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.

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Eze 11:1 - Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. There at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men, and I saw among them Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, leaders of the people.

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Eze 11:2 - The LORD said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who are plotting evil and giving wicked advice in this city.

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Eze 11:6 - You have killed many people in this city and filled its streets with the dead.

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Eze 11:7 - “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: The bodies you have thrown there are the meat and this city is the pot, but I will drive you out of it.

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Eze 11:9 - I will drive you out of the city and deliver you into the hands of foreigners and inflict punishment on you.

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Eze 11:10 - You will fall by the sword, and I will execute judgment on you at the borders of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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Eze 11:11 - This city will not be a pot for you, nor will you be the meat in it; I will execute judgment on you at the borders of Israel.

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Eze 11:13 - Now as I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out in a loud voice, “Alas, Sovereign LORD! Will you completely destroy the remnant of Israel?”

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Eze 11:16 - “Therefore say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries where they have gone.'

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Eze 11:17 - “Therefore say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will gather you from the nations and bring you back from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you back the land of Israel again.'

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Eze 11:19 - I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh.

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Eze 11:20 - Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

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Eze 11:24 - The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the exiles in Babylonia[fn] in the vision given by the Spirit of God. Then the vision I had seen went up from me,

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Eze 12:2 - “Son of man, you are living among a rebellious people. They have eyes to see but do not see and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious people.

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Eze 12:10 - “Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: This prophecy concerns the prince in Jerusalem and all the Israelites who are there.'

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Eze 12:11 - Say to them, ‘I am a sign to you.' “As I have done, so it will be done to them. They will go into exile as captives.

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Eze 12:12 - “The prince among them will put his things on his shoulder at dusk and leave, and a hole will be dug in the wall for him to go through. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land.

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Eze 12:13 - I will spread my net for him, and he will be caught in my snare; I will bring him to Babylonia, the land of the Chaldeans, but he will not see it, and there he will die.

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Eze 12:15 - “They will know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries.

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Eze 12:16 - But I will spare a few of them from the sword, famine and plague, so that in the nations where they go they may acknowledge all their detestable practices. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

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Eze 12:19 - Say to the people of the land: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: They will eat their food in anxiety and drink their water in despair, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who live there.

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Eze 12:24 - For there will be no more false visions or flattering divinations among the people of Israel.

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Eze 12:25 - But I the LORD will speak what I will, and it shall be fulfilled without delay. For in your days, you rebellious people, I will fulfill whatever I say, declares the Sovereign LORD.' ”

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Eze 13:4 - Your prophets, Israel, are like jackals among ruins.

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Eze 13:5 - You have not gone up to the breaches in the wall to repair it for the people of Israel so that it will stand firm in the battle on the day of the LORD.

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Eze 13:9 - My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of my people or be listed in the records of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.

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Eze 13:13 - “ ‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: In my wrath I will unleash a violent wind, and in my anger hailstones and torrents of rain will fall with destructive fury.

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Eze 13:19 - You have profaned me among my people for a few handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to my people, who listen to lies, you have killed those who should not have died and have spared those who should not live.

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Eze 13:21 - I will tear off your veils and save my people from your hands, and they will no longer fall prey to your power. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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Eze 14:4 - Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When any of the Israelites set up idols in their hearts and put a wicked stumbling block before their faces and then go to a prophet, I the LORD will answer them myself in keeping with their great idolatry.

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Eze 14:5 - I will do this to recapture the hearts of the people of Israel, who have all deserted me for their idols.'

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Eze 14:7 - “ ‘When any of the Israelites or any foreigner residing in Israel separate themselves from me and set up idols in their hearts and put a wicked stumbling block before their faces and then go to a prophet to inquire of me, I the LORD will answer them myself.

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Eze 14:11 - Then the people of Israel will no longer stray from me, nor will they defile themselves anymore with all their sins. They will be my people, and I will be their God, declares the Sovereign LORD.' ”

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Eze 14:14 - even if these three men—Noah, Daniel[fn] and Job—were in it, they could save only themselves by their righteousness, declares the Sovereign LORD.

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Eze 14:16 - as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, even if these three men were in it, they could not save their own sons or daughters. They alone would be saved, but the land would be desolate.

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Eze 14:18 - as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, even if these three men were in it, they could not save their own sons or daughters. They alone would be saved.

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Eze 14:19 - “Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out my wrath on it through bloodshed, killing its people and their animals,

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Eze 14:20 - as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, even if Noah, Daniel and Job were in it, they could save neither son nor daughter. They would save only themselves by their righteousness.

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Eze 14:22 - Yet there will be some survivors—sons and daughters who will be brought out of it. They will come to you, and when you see their conduct and their actions, you will be consoled regarding the disaster I have brought on Jerusalem—every disaster I have brought on it.

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Eze 14:23 - You will be consoled when you see their conduct and their actions, for you will know that I have done nothing in it without cause, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

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Eze 15:2 - “Son of man, how is the wood of a vine different from that of a branch from any of the trees in the forest?

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Eze 15:6 - “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: As I have given the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest as fuel for the fire, so will I treat the people living in Jerusalem.

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Eze 15:7 - I will set my face against them. Although they have come out of the fire, the fire will yet consume them. And when I set my face against them, you will know that I am the LORD.

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Eze 16:4 - On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.

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Eze 16:5 - No one looked on you with pity or had compassion enough to do any of these things for you. Rather, you were thrown out into the open field, for on the day you were born you were despised.

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Eze 16:6 - “ ‘Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, “Live!”[fn]

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Eze 16:8 - “ ‘Later I passed by, and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for love, I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your naked body. I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Sovereign LORD, and you became mine.

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Eze 16:9 - “ ‘I bathed you with water and washed the blood from you and put ointments on you.

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Eze 16:14 - And your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, because the splendor I had given you made your beauty perfect, declares the Sovereign LORD.

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Eze 16:15 - “ ‘But you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to become a prostitute. You lavished your favors on anyone who passed by and your beauty became his.

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Eze 16:17 - You also took the fine jewelry I gave you, the jewelry made of my gold and silver, and you made for yourself male idols and engaged in prostitution with them.

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Eze 16:21 - You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.

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Eze 16:22 - In all your detestable practices and your prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, kicking about in your blood.

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Eze 16:24 - you built a mound for yourself and made a lofty shrine in every public square.

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Eze 16:29 - Then you increased your promiscuity to include Babylonia,[fn] a land of merchants, but even with this you were not satisfied.

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Eze 16:30 - “ ‘I am filled with fury against you,[fn] declares the Sovereign LORD, when you do all these things, acting like a brazen prostitute!

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Eze 16:31 - When you built your mounds at every street corner and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were unlike a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

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Eze 16:33 - All prostitutes receive gifts, but you give gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.

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Eze 16:34 - So in your prostitution you are the opposite of others; no one runs after you for your favors. You are the very opposite, for you give payment and none is given to you.

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Eze 16:36 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you poured out your lust and exposed your naked body in your promiscuity with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because you gave them your children's blood,

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Eze 16:37 - therefore I am going to gather all your lovers, with whom you found pleasure, those you loved as well as those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and will strip you in front of them, and they will see you stark naked.

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Eze 16:38 - I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and who shed blood; I will bring on you the blood vengeance of my wrath and jealous anger.

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Eze 16:40 - They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and hack you to pieces with their swords.

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Eze 16:41 - They will burn down your houses and inflict punishment on you in the sight of many women. I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer pay your lovers.

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Eze 16:43 - “ ‘Because you did not remember the days of your youth but enraged me with all these things, I will surely bring down on your head what you have done, declares the Sovereign LORD. Did you not add lewdness to all your other detestable practices?

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Eze 16:44 - “ ‘Everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: “Like mother, like daughter.”

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Eze 16:47 - You not only followed their ways and copied their detestable practices, but in all your ways you soon became more depraved than they.

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Eze 16:49 - “ ‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.

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Eze 16:51 - Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have done more detestable things than they, and have made your sisters seem righteous by all these things you have done.

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Eze 16:52 - Bear your disgrace, for you have furnished some justification for your sisters. Because your sins were more vile than theirs, they appear more righteous than you. So then, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.

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Eze 16:53 - “ ‘However, I will restore the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters and of Samaria and her daughters, and your fortunes along with them,

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Eze 16:54 - so that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you have done in giving them comfort.

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Eze 16:56 - You would not even mention your sister Sodom in the day of your pride,

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Eze 16:59 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will deal with you as you deserve, because you have despised my oath by breaking the covenant.

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Eze 16:60 - Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

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Eze 16:61 - Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both those who are older than you and those who are younger. I will give them to you as daughters, but not on the basis of my covenant with you.

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Eze 16:63 - Then, when I make atonement for you for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your humiliation, declares the Sovereign LORD.' ”

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Eze 17:9 - “Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Will it thrive? Will it not be uprooted and stripped of its fruit so that it withers? All its new growth will wither. It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it up by the roots.

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Eze 17:13 - Then he took a member of the royal family and made a treaty with him, putting him under oath. He also carried away the leading men of the land,

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Eze 17:16 - “ ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, he shall die in Babylon, in the land of the king who put him on the throne, whose oath he despised and whose treaty he broke.

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Eze 17:17 - Pharaoh with his mighty army and great horde will be of no help to him in war, when ramps are built and siege works erected to destroy many lives.

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Eze 17:20 - I will spread my net for him, and he will be caught in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment on him there because he was unfaithful to me.

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Eze 17:21 - All his choice troops will fall by the sword, and the survivors will be scattered to the winds. Then you will know that I the LORD have spoken.

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Eze 17:23 - On the mountain heights of Israel I will plant it; it will produce branches and bear fruit and become a splendid cedar. Birds of every kind will nest in it; they will find shelter in the shade of its branches.

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Eze 18:2 - “What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: “ ‘The parents eat sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge'?

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Eze 18:3 - “As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel.

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Eze 18:6 - He does not eat at the mountain shrines or look to the idols of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor's wife or have sexual relations with a woman during her period.

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Eze 18:11 - (though the father has done none of them): “He eats at the mountain shrines. He defiles his neighbor's wife.

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Eze 18:17 - He withholds his hand from mistreating the poor and takes no interest or profit from them. He keeps my laws and follows my decrees. He will not die for his father's sin; he will surely live.

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Eze 18:18 - But his father will die for his own sin, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother and did what was wrong among his people.

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Eze 18:22 - None of the offenses they have committed will be remembered against them. Because of the righteous things they have done, they will live.

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Eze 18:24 - “But if a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits sin and does the same detestable things the wicked person does, will they live? None of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness they are guilty of and because of the sins they have committed, they will die.

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Eze 18:26 - If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits sin, they will die for it; because of the sin they have committed they will die.

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Eze 18:27 - But if a wicked person turns away from the wickedness they have committed and does what is just and right, they will save their life.

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Eze 19:2 - and say: “ ‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay down among them and reared her cubs.

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Eze 19:4 - The nations heard about him, and he was trapped in their pit. They led him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

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Eze 19:6 - He prowled among the lions, for he was now a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he became a man-eater.

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Eze 19:8 - Then the nations came against him, those from regions round about. They spread their net for him, and he was trapped in their pit.

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Eze 19:9 - With hooks they pulled him into a cage and brought him to the king of Babylon. They put him in prison, so his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.

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Eze 19:10 - “ ‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard[fn] planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of abundant water.

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Eze 19:11 - Its branches were strong, fit for a ruler's scepter. It towered high above the thick foliage, conspicuous for its height and for its many branches.

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Eze 19:12 - But it was uprooted in fury and thrown to the ground. The east wind made it shrivel, it was stripped of its fruit; its strong branches withered and fire consumed them.

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Eze 19:13 - Now it is planted in the desert, in a dry and thirsty land.

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Eze 19:14 - Fire spread from one of its main[fn] branches and consumed its fruit. No strong branch is left on it fit for a ruler's scepter.' “This is a lament and is to be used as a lament.”

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Eze 20:1 - In the seventh year, in the fifth month on the tenth day, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and they sat down in front of me.

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Eze 20:5 - and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore with uplifted hand to the descendants of Jacob and revealed myself to them in Egypt. With uplifted hand I said to them, “I am the LORD your God.”

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Eze 20:6 - On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of Egypt into a land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

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Eze 20:7 - And I said to them, “Each of you, get rid of the vile images you have set your eyes on, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.”

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Eze 20:8 - “ ‘But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; they did not get rid of the vile images they had set their eyes on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger against them in Egypt.

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Eze 20:9 - But for the sake of my name, I brought them out of Egypt. I did it to keep my name from being profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they lived and in whose sight I had revealed myself to the Israelites.

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Eze 20:11 - I gave them my decrees and made known to them my laws, by which the person who obeys them will live.

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Eze 20:13 - “ ‘Yet the people of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my decrees but rejected my laws—by which the person who obeys them will live—and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and destroy them in the wilderness.

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Eze 20:15 - Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands—

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Eze 20:16 - because they rejected my laws and did not follow my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths. For their hearts were devoted to their idols.

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Eze 20:17 - Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or put an end to them in the wilderness.

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Eze 20:18 - I said to their children in the wilderness, “Do not follow the statutes of your parents or keep their laws or defile yourselves with their idols.

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Eze 20:19 - I am the LORD your God; follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

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Eze 20:21 - “ ‘But the children rebelled against me: They did not follow my decrees, they were not careful to keep my laws, of which I said, “The person who obeys them will live by them,” and they desecrated my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.

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Eze 20:23 - Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries,

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Eze 20:25 - So I gave them other statutes that were not good and laws through which they could not live;

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Eze 20:26 - I defiled them through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn—that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the LORD.'

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Eze 20:27 - “Therefore, son of man, speak to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: In this also your ancestors blasphemed me by being unfaithful to me:

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Eze 20:30 - “Therefore say to the Israelites: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your ancestors did and lust after their vile images?

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Eze 20:31 - When you offer your gifts—the sacrifice of your children in the fire—you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. Am I to let you inquire of me, you Israelites? As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will not let you inquire of me.

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Eze 20:33 - As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will reign over you with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with outpoured wrath.

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Eze 20:34 - I will bring you from the nations and gather you from the countries where you have been scattered—with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with outpoured wrath.

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Eze 20:36 - As I judged your ancestors in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will judge you, declares the Sovereign LORD.

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Eze 20:37 - I will take note of you as you pass under my rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

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Eze 20:39 - “ ‘As for you, people of Israel, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you! But afterward you will surely listen to me and no longer profane my holy name with your gifts and idols.

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Eze 20:40 - For on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD, there in the land all the people of Israel will serve me, and there I will accept them. There I will require your offerings and your choice gifts,[fn] along with all your holy sacrifices.

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Eze 20:41 - I will accept you as fragrant incense when I bring you out from the nations and gather you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will be proved holy through you in the sight of the nations.

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Eze 20:42 - Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the land I had sworn with uplifted hand to give to your ancestors.

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Eze 20:43 - There you will remember your conduct and all the actions by which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evil you have done.

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Eze 20:44 - You will know that I am the LORD, when I deal with you for my name's sake and not according to your evil ways and your corrupt practices, you people of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD.' ”

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Eze 20:47 - Say to the southern forest: ‘Hear the word of the LORD. This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am about to set fire to you, and it will consume all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and every face from south to north will be scorched by it.

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Eze 21:6 - “Therefore groan, son of man! Groan before them with broken heart and bitter grief.

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Eze 21:12 - Cry out and wail, son of man, for it is against my people; it is against all the princes of Israel. They are thrown to the sword along with my people. Therefore beat your breast.

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Eze 21:19 - “Son of man, mark out two roads for the sword of the king of Babylon to take, both starting from the same country. Make a signpost where the road branches off to the city.

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Eze 21:20 - Mark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites and another against Judah and fortified Jerusalem.

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Eze 21:21 - For the king of Babylon will stop at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He will cast lots with arrows, he will consult his idols, he will examine the liver.

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Eze 21:22 - Into his right hand will come the lot for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to give the command to slaughter, to sound the battle cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp and to erect siege works.

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Eze 21:24 - “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: ‘Because you people have brought to mind your guilt by your open rebellion, revealing your sins in all that you do—because you have done this, you will be taken captive.

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Eze 21:25 - “ ‘You profane and wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, whose time of punishment has reached its climax,

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Eze 21:29 - Despite false visions concerning you and lying divinations about you, it will be laid on the necks of the wicked who are to be slain, whose day has come, whose time of punishment has reached its climax.

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Eze 21:30 - “ ‘Let the sword return to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your ancestry, I will judge you.

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Eze 21:31 - I will pour out my wrath on you and breathe out my fiery anger against you; I will deliver you into the hands of brutal men, men skilled in destruction.

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Eze 21:32 - You will be fuel for the fire, your blood will be shed in your land, you will be remembered no more; for I the LORD have spoken.' ”

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Eze 22:3 - and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You city that brings on herself doom by shedding blood in her midst and defiles herself by making idols,

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Eze 22:4 - you have become guilty because of the blood you have shed and have become defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close, and the end of your years has come. Therefore I will make you an object of scorn to the nations and a laughingstock to all the countries.

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Eze 22:5 - Those who are near and those who are far away will mock you, you infamous city, full of turmoil.

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Eze 22:6 - “ ‘See how each of the princes of Israel who are in you uses his power to shed blood.

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Eze 22:7 - In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the foreigner and mistreated the fatherless and the widow.

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Eze 22:8 - You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths.

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Eze 22:9 - In you are slanderers who are bent on shedding blood; in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines and commit lewd acts.

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Eze 22:10 - In you are those who dishonor their father's bed; in you are those who violate women during their period, when they are ceremonially unclean.

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Eze 22:11 - In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor's wife, another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law, and another violates his sister, his own father's daughter.

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Eze 22:12 - In you are people who accept bribes to shed blood; you take interest and make a profit from the poor. You extort unjust gain from your neighbors. And you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.

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Eze 22:13 - “ ‘I will surely strike my hands together at the unjust gain you have made and at the blood you have shed in your midst.

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Eze 22:14 - Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.

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Eze 22:15 - I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you through the countries; and I will put an end to your uncleanness.

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Eze 22:16 - When you have been defiled[fn] in the eyes of the nations, you will know that I am the LORD.' ”

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Eze 22:18 - “Son of man, the people of Israel have become dross to me; all of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead left inside a furnace. They are but the dross of silver.

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Eze 22:20 - As silver, copper, iron, lead and tin are gathered into a furnace to be melted with a fiery blast, so will I gather you in my anger and my wrath and put you inside the city and melt you.

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Eze 22:21 - I will gather you and I will blow on you with my fiery wrath, and you will be melted inside her.

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Eze 22:22 - As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted inside her, and you will know that I the LORD have poured out my wrath on you.' ”

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Eze 22:24 - “Son of man, say to the land, ‘You are a land that has not been cleansed or rained on in the day of wrath.'

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Eze 22:25 - There is a conspiracy of her princes[fn] within her like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they devour people, take treasures and precious things and make many widows within her.

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Eze 22:26 - Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean; and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

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Eze 22:27 - Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain.

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Eze 22:30 - “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.

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Eze 22:31 - So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger, bringing down on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

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Eze 23:3 - They became prostitutes in Egypt, engaging in prostitution from their youth. In that land their breasts were fondled and their virgin bosoms caressed.

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Eze 23:7 - She gave herself as a prostitute to all the elite of the Assyrians and defiled herself with all the idols of everyone she lusted after.

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Eze 23:8 - She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.

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Eze 23:10 - They stripped her naked, took away her sons and daughters and killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women, and punishment was inflicted on her.

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Eze 23:14 - “But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans[fn] portrayed in red,

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Eze 23:17 - Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.

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Eze 23:19 - Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.

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Eze 23:21 - So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.[fn]

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Eze 23:24 - They will come against you with weapons,[fn] chariots and wagons and with a throng of people; they will take up positions against you on every side with large and small shields and with helmets. I will turn you over to them for punishment, and they will punish you according to their standards.

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Eze 23:25 - I will direct my jealous anger against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will cut off your noses and your ears, and those of you who are left will fall by the sword. They will take away your sons and daughters, and those of you who are left will be consumed by fire.

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Eze 23:29 - They will deal with you in hatred and take away everything you have worked for. They will leave you stark naked, and the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your lewdness and promiscuity

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Eze 23:30 - have brought this on you, because you lusted after the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.

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Eze 23:31 - You have gone the way of your sister; so I will put her cup into your hand.

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Eze 23:37 - for they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, as food for them.

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Eze 23:39 - On the very day they sacrificed their children to their idols, they entered my sanctuary and desecrated it. That is what they did in my house.

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Eze 23:41 - You sat on an elegant couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed the incense and olive oil that belonged to me.

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Eze 23:43 - Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, ‘Now let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is.'

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Eze 23:45 - But righteous judges will sentence them to the punishment of women who commit adultery and shed blood, because they are adulterous and blood is on their hands.

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Eze 23:46 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Bring a mob against them and give them over to terror and plunder.

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Eze 23:47 - The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.

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Eze 24:1 - In the ninth year, in the tenth month on the tenth day, the word of the LORD came to me:

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Eze 24:5 - take the pick of the flock. Pile wood beneath it for the bones; bring it to a boil and cook the bones in it.

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Eze 24:6 - “ ‘For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “ ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed, to the pot now encrusted, whose deposit will not go away! Take the meat out piece by piece in whatever order it comes.

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Eze 24:7 - “ ‘For the blood she shed is in her midst: She poured it on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground, where the dust would cover it.

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Eze 24:11 - Then set the empty pot on the coals till it becomes hot and its copper glows, so that its impurities may be melted and its deposit burned away.

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Eze 24:16 - “Son of man, with one blow I am about to take away from you the delight of your eyes. Yet do not lament or weep or shed any tears.

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Eze 24:17 - Groan quietly; do not mourn for the dead. Keep your turban fastened and your sandals on your feet; do not cover your mustache and beard or eat the customary food of mourners.”

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Eze 24:21 - Say to the people of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am about to desecrate my sanctuary—the stronghold in which you take pride, the delight of your eyes, the object of your affection. The sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.

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Eze 24:23 - You will keep your turbans on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep but will waste away because of[fn] your sins and groan among yourselves.

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Eze 24:25 - “And you, son of man, on the day I take away their stronghold, their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes, their heart's desire, and their sons and daughters as well—

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Eze 24:26 - on that day a fugitive will come to tell you the news.

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Eze 24:27 - At that time your mouth will be opened; you will speak with him and will no longer be silent. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the LORD.”

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Eze 25:3 - Say to them, ‘Hear the word of the Sovereign LORD. This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you said “Aha!” over my sanctuary when it was desecrated and over the land of Israel when it was laid waste and over the people of Judah when they went into exile,

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Eze 25:4 - therefore I am going to give you to the people of the East as a possession. They will set up their camps and pitch their tents among you; they will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

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Eze 25:7 - therefore I will stretch out my hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will wipe you out from among the nations and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am the LORD.' ”

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Eze 25:12 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: ‘Because Edom took revenge on Judah and became very guilty by doing so,

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Eze 25:13 - therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom and kill both man and beast. I will lay it waste, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

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Eze 25:14 - I will take vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they will deal with Edom in accordance with my anger and my wrath; they will know my vengeance, declares the Sovereign LORD.' ”

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Eze 25:15 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: ‘Because the Philistines acted in vengeance and took revenge with malice in their hearts, and with ancient hostility sought to destroy Judah,

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Eze 25:17 - I will carry out great vengeance on them and punish them in my wrath. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I take vengeance on them.' ”

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Eze 26:1 - In the eleventh month of the twelfth[fn] year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

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Eze 26:5 - Out in the sea she will become a place to spread fishnets, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD. She will become plunder for the nations,

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Eze 26:6 - and her settlements on the mainland will be ravaged by the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

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Eze 26:8 - He will ravage your settlements on the mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works against you, build a ramp up to your walls and raise his shields against you.

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Eze 26:9 - He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and demolish your towers with his weapons.

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Eze 26:11 - The hooves of his horses will trample all your streets; he will kill your people with the sword, and your strong pillars will fall to the ground.

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Eze 26:15 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Tyre: Will not the coastlands tremble at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan and the slaughter takes place in you?

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Eze 26:19 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When I make you a desolate city, like cities no longer inhabited, and when I bring the ocean depths over you and its vast waters cover you,

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Eze 27:4 - Your domain was on the high seas; your builders brought your beauty to perfection.

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Eze 27:8 - Men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen; your skilled men, Tyre, were aboard as your sailors.

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Eze 27:9 - Veteran craftsmen of Byblos were on board as shipwrights to caulk your seams. All the ships of the sea and their sailors came alongside to trade for your wares.

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Eze 27:10 - “ ‘Men of Persia, Lydia and Put served as soldiers in your army. They hung their shields and helmets on your walls, bringing you splendor.

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Eze 27:11 - Men of Arvad and Helek guarded your walls on every side; men of Gammad were in your towers. They hung their shields around your walls; they brought your beauty to perfection.

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Eze 27:13 - “ ‘Greece, Tubal and Meshek did business with you; they traded human beings and articles of bronze for your wares.

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Eze 27:17 - “ ‘Judah and Israel traded with you; they exchanged wheat from Minnith and confections,[fn] honey, olive oil and balm for your wares.

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Eze 27:19 - and casks of wine from Izal in exchange for your wares: wrought iron, cassia and calamus.

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Eze 27:21 - “ ‘Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your customers; they did business with you in lambs, rams and goats.

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Eze 27:25 - “ ‘The ships of Tarshish serve as carriers for your wares. You are filled with heavy cargo as you sail the sea.

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Eze 27:26 - Your oarsmen take you out to the high seas. But the east wind will break you to pieces far out at sea.

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Eze 27:27 - Your wealth, merchandise and wares, your mariners, sailors and shipwrights, your merchants and all your soldiers, and everyone else on board will sink into the heart of the sea on the day of your shipwreck.

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Eze 27:34 - Now you are shattered by the sea in the depths of the waters; your wares and all your company have gone down with you.

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Eze 28:2 - “Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “ ‘In the pride of your heart you say, “I am a god; I sit on the throne of a god in the heart of the seas.” But you are a mere mortal and not a god, though you think you are as wise as a god.

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Eze 28:4 - By your wisdom and understanding you have gained wealth for yourself and amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.

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Eze 28:5 - By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, and because of your wealth your heart has grown proud.

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Eze 28:8 - They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.

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Eze 28:9 - Will you then say, “I am a god,” in the presence of those who kill you? You will be but a mortal, not a god, in the hands of those who slay you.

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Eze 28:10 - You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.' ”

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Eze 28:13 - You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: carnelian, chrysolite and emerald, topaz, onyx and jasper, lapis lazuli, turquoise and beryl.[fn] Your settings and mountings[fn] were made of gold; on the day you were created they were prepared.

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Eze 28:14 - You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You were on the holy mount of God; you walked among the fiery stones.

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Eze 28:15 - You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you.

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Eze 28:19 - All the nations who knew you are appalled at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.' ”

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Eze 28:22 - and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “ ‘I am against you, Sidon, and among you I will display my glory. You will know that I am the LORD, when I inflict punishment on you and within you am proved to be holy.

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Eze 28:23 - I will send a plague upon you and make blood flow in your streets. The slain will fall within you, with the sword against you on every side. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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Eze 28:25 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When I gather the people of Israel from the nations where they have been scattered, I will be proved holy through them in the sight of the nations. Then they will live in their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob.

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Eze 28:26 - They will live there in safety and will build houses and plant vineyards; they will live in safety when I inflict punishment on all their neighbors who maligned them. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.' ”

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Eze 29:1 - In the tenth year, in the tenth month on the twelfth day, the word of the LORD came to me:

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Eze 29:3 - Speak to him and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “ ‘I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, you great monster lying among your streams. You say, “The Nile belongs to me; I made it for myself.”

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Eze 29:5 - I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and not be gathered or picked up. I will give you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the sky.

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Eze 29:11 - The foot of neither man nor beast will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years.

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Eze 29:12 - I will make the land of Egypt desolate among devastated lands, and her cities will lie desolate forty years among ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries.

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Eze 29:14 - I will bring them back from captivity and return them to Upper Egypt, the land of their ancestry. There they will be a lowly kingdom.

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Eze 29:15 - It will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will never again exalt itself above the other nations. I will make it so weak that it will never again rule over the nations.

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Eze 29:16 - Egypt will no longer be a source of confidence for the people of Israel but will be a reminder of their sin in turning to her for help. Then they will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.' ”

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Eze 29:17 - In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month on the first day, the word of the LORD came to me:

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Eze 29:21 - “On that day I will make a horn[fn] grow for the Israelites, and I will open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

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Eze 30:4 - A sword will come against Egypt, and anguish will come upon Cush.[fn] When the slain fall in Egypt, her wealth will be carried away and her foundations torn down.

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Eze 30:5 - Cush and Libya, Lydia and all Arabia, Kub and the people of the covenant land will fall by the sword along with Egypt.

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Eze 30:6 - “ ‘This is what the LORD says: “ ‘The allies of Egypt will fall and her proud strength will fail. From Migdol to Aswan they will fall by the sword within her,

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Eze 30:7 - “ ‘They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie among ruined cities.

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Eze 30:9 - “ ‘On that day messengers will go out from me in ships to frighten Cush out of her complacency. Anguish will take hold of them on the day of Egypt's doom, for it is sure to come.

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Eze 30:12 - I will dry up the waters of the Nile and sell the land to an evil nation; by the hand of foreigners I will lay waste the land and everything in it. I the LORD have spoken.

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Eze 30:14 - I will lay waste Upper Egypt, set fire to Zoan and inflict punishment on Thebes.

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Eze 30:16 - I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium will writhe in agony. Thebes will be taken by storm; Memphis will be in constant distress.

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Eze 30:17 - The young men of Heliopolis and Bubastis will fall by the sword, and the cities themselves will go into captivity.

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Eze 30:18 - Dark will be the day at Tahpanhes when I break the yoke of Egypt; there her proud strength will come to an end. She will be covered with clouds, and her villages will go into captivity.

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Eze 30:19 - So I will inflict punishment on Egypt, and they will know that I am the LORD.' ”

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Eze 30:20 - In the eleventh year, in the first month on the seventh day, the word of the LORD came to me:

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Eze 30:25 - I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall limp. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he brandishes it against Egypt.

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Eze 31:1 - In the eleventh year, in the third month on the first day, the word of the LORD came to me:

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Eze 31:2 - “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes: “ ‘Who can be compared with you in majesty?

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Eze 31:3 - Consider Assyria, once a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches overshadowing the forest; it towered on high, its top above the thick foliage.

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Eze 31:6 - All the birds of the sky nested in its boughs, all the animals of the wild gave birth under its branches; all the great nations lived in its shade.

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Eze 31:7 - It was majestic in beauty, with its spreading boughs, for its roots went down to abundant waters.

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Eze 31:8 - The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor could the junipers equal its boughs, nor could the plane trees compare with its branches— no tree in the garden of God could match its beauty.

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Eze 31:10 - “ ‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because the great cedar towered over the thick foliage, and because it was proud of its height,

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Eze 31:12 - and the most ruthless of foreign nations cut it down and left it. Its boughs fell on the mountains and in all the valleys; its branches lay broken in all the ravines of the land. All the nations of the earth came out from under its shade and left it.

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Eze 31:14 - Therefore no other trees by the waters are ever to tower proudly on high, lifting their tops above the thick foliage. No other trees so well-watered are ever to reach such a height; they are all destined for death, for the earth below, among mortals who go down to the realm of the dead.

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Eze 31:15 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On the day it was brought down to the realm of the dead I covered the deep springs with mourning for it; I held back its streams, and its abundant waters were restrained. Because of it I clothed Lebanon with gloom, and all the trees of the field withered away.

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Eze 31:16 - I made the nations tremble at the sound of its fall when I brought it down to the realm of the dead to be with those who go down to the pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below.

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Eze 31:17 - They too, like the great cedar, had gone down to the realm of the dead, to those killed by the sword, along with the armed men who lived in its shade among the nations.

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Eze 31:18 - “ ‘Which of the trees of Eden can be compared with you in splendor and majesty? Yet you, too, will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth below; you will lie among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword. “ ‘This is Pharaoh and all his hordes, declares the Sovereign LORD.' ”

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Eze 32:1 - In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month on the first day, the word of the LORD came to me:

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Eze 32:2 - “Son of man, take up a lament concerning Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: “ ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas thrashing about in your streams, churning the water with your feet and muddying the streams.

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Eze 32:3 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “ ‘With a great throng of people I will cast my net over you, and they will haul you up in my net.

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Eze 32:7 - When I snuff you out, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.

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Eze 32:8 - All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you; I will bring darkness over your land,

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Eze 32:10 - I will cause many peoples to be appalled at you, and their kings will shudder with horror because of you when I brandish my sword before them. On the day of your downfall each of them will tremble every moment for his life.

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Eze 32:12 - I will cause your hordes to fall by the swords of mighty men— the most ruthless of all nations. They will shatter the pride of Egypt, and all her hordes will be overthrown.

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Eze 32:15 - When I make Egypt desolate and strip the land of everything in it, when I strike down all who live there, then they will know that I am the LORD.'

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Eze 32:17 - In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

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Eze 32:20 - They will fall among those killed by the sword. The sword is drawn; let her be dragged off with all her hordes.

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Eze 32:21 - From within the realm of the dead the mighty leaders will say of Egypt and her allies, ‘They have come down and they lie with the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword.'

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Eze 32:22 - “Assyria is there with her whole army; she is surrounded by the graves of all her slain, all who have fallen by the sword.

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Eze 32:25 - A bed is made for her among the slain, with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword. Because their terror had spread in the land of the living, they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit; they are laid among the slain.

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Eze 32:27 - But they do not lie with the fallen warriors of old,[fn] who went down to the realm of the dead with their weapons of war—their swords placed under their heads and their shields[fn] resting on their bones—though these warriors also had terrorized the land of the living.

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Eze 32:28 - “You too, Pharaoh, will be broken and will lie among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword.

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Eze 32:32 - Although I had him spread terror in the land of the living, Pharaoh and all his hordes will be laid among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

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Eze 33:8 - When I say to the wicked, ‘You wicked person, you will surely die,' and you do not speak out to dissuade them from their ways, that wicked person will die for[fn] their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood.

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Eze 33:10 - “Son of man, say to the Israelites, ‘This is what you are saying: “Our offenses and sins weigh us down, and we are wasting away because of[fn] them. How then can we live?” '

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Eze 33:12 - “Therefore, son of man, say to your people, ‘If someone who is righteous disobeys, that person's former righteousness will count for nothing. And if someone who is wicked repents, that person's former wickedness will not bring condemnation. The righteous person who sins will not be allowed to live even though they were formerly righteous.'

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Eze 33:13 - If I tell a righteous person that they will surely live, but then they trust in their righteousness and do evil, none of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered; they will die for the evil they have done.

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Eze 33:14 - And if I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,' but they then turn away from their sin and do what is just and right—

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Eze 33:15 - if they give back what they took in pledge for a loan, return what they have stolen, follow the decrees that give life, and do no evil—that person will surely live; they will not die.

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Eze 33:16 - None of the sins that person has committed will be remembered against them. They have done what is just and right; they will surely live.

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Eze 33:18 - If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil, they will die for it.

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Eze 33:19 - And if a wicked person turns away from their wickedness and does what is just and right, they will live by doing so.

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Eze 33:20 - Yet you Israelites say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.' But I will judge each of you according to your own ways.”

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Eze 33:21 - In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month on the fifth day, a man who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has fallen!”

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Eze 33:27 - “Say this to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: As surely as I live, those who are left in the ruins will fall by the sword, those out in the country I will give to the wild animals to be devoured, and those in strongholds and caves will die of a plague.

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Eze 33:30 - “As for you, son of man, your people are talking together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, saying to each other, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD.'

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Eze 33:31 - My people come to you, as they usually do, and sit before you to hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. Their mouths speak of love, but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain.

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Eze 33:33 - “When all this comes true—and it surely will—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”

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Eze 34:6 - My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. They were scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.

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Eze 34:12 - As a shepherd looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.

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Eze 34:13 - I will bring them out from the nations and gather them from the countries, and I will bring them into their own land. I will pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines and in all the settlements in the land.

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Eze 34:14 - I will tend them in a good pasture, and the mountain heights of Israel will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in good grazing land, and there they will feed in a rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.

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Eze 34:24 - I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them. I the LORD have spoken.

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Eze 34:25 - “ ‘I will make a covenant of peace with them and rid the land of savage beasts so that they may live in the wilderness and sleep in the forests in safety.

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Eze 34:27 - The trees will yield their fruit and the ground will yield its crops; the people will be secure in their land. They will know that I am the LORD, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved them.

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Eze 34:28 - They will no longer be plundered by the nations, nor will wild animals devour them. They will live in safety, and no one will make them afraid.

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Eze 35:5 - “ ‘Because you harbored an ancient hostility and delivered the Israelites over to the sword at the time of their calamity, the time their punishment reached its climax,

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Eze 35:8 - I will fill your mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines.

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Eze 35:14 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

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Eze 36:5 - this is what the Sovereign LORD says: In my burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, for with glee and with malice in their hearts they made my land their own possession so that they might plunder its pastureland.'

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Eze 36:6 - Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I speak in my jealous wrath because you have suffered the scorn of the nations.

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Eze 36:11 - I will increase the number of people and animals living on you, and they will be fruitful and become numerous. I will settle people on you as in the past and will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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Eze 36:17 - “Son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own land, they defiled it by their conduct and their actions. Their conduct was like a woman's monthly uncleanness in my sight.

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Eze 36:20 - And wherever they went among the nations they profaned my holy name, for it was said of them, ‘These are the LORD's people, and yet they had to leave his land.'

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Eze 36:21 - I had concern for my holy name, which the people of Israel profaned among the nations where they had gone.

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Eze 36:22 - “Therefore say to the Israelites, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: It is not for your sake, people of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone.

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Eze 36:23 - I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Sovereign LORD, when I am proved holy through you before their eyes.

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Eze 36:26 - I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

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Eze 36:27 - And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

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Eze 36:30 - I will increase the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field, so that you will no longer suffer disgrace among the nations because of famine.

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Eze 36:31 - Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your sins and detestable practices.

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Eze 36:33 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will resettle your towns, and the ruins will be rebuilt.

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Eze 36:38 - as numerous as the flocks for offerings at Jerusalem during her appointed festivals. So will the ruined cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

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Eze 37:1 - The hand of the LORD was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones.

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Eze 37:7 - So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone.

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Eze 37:8 - I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.

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Eze 37:13 - Then you, my people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.

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Eze 37:17 - Join them together into one stick so that they will become one in your hand.

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Eze 37:19 - say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am going to take the stick of Joseph—which is in Ephraim's hand—and of the Israelite tribes associated with him, and join it to Judah's stick. I will make them into a single stick of wood, and they will become one in my hand.'

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Eze 37:20 - Hold before their eyes the sticks you have written on

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Eze 37:22 - I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms.

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Eze 37:23 - They will no longer defile themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding,[fn] and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

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Eze 37:24 - “ ‘My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd. They will follow my laws and be careful to keep my decrees.

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Eze 37:26 - I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and increase their numbers, and I will put my sanctuary among them forever.

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Eze 37:27 - My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.

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Eze 37:28 - Then the nations will know that I the LORD make Israel holy, when my sanctuary is among them forever.' ”

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Eze 38:10 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil scheme.

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Eze 38:11 - You will say, “I will invade a land of unwalled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people—all of them living without walls and without gates and bars.

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Eze 38:14 - “Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: In that day, when my people Israel are living in safety, will you not take notice of it?

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Eze 38:16 - You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud that covers the land. In days to come, Gog, I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me when I am proved holy through you before their eyes.

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Eze 38:17 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You are the one I spoke of in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel. At that time they prophesied for years that I would bring you against them.

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Eze 38:18 - This is what will happen in that day: When Gog attacks the land of Israel, my hot anger will be aroused, declares the Sovereign LORD.

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Eze 38:19 - In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare that at that time there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.

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Eze 39:7 - “ ‘I will make known my holy name among my people Israel. I will no longer let my holy name be profaned, and the nations will know that I the LORD am the Holy One in Israel.

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Eze 39:8 - It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign LORD. This is the day I have spoken of.

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Eze 39:9 - “ ‘Then those who live in the towns of Israel will go out and use the weapons for fuel and burn them up—the small and large shields, the bows and arrows, the war clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel.

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Eze 39:11 - “ ‘On that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, in the valley of those who travel east of the Sea. It will block the way of travelers, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon Gog.[fn]

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Eze 39:12 - “ ‘For seven months the Israelites will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.

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Eze 39:21 - “I will display my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the punishment I inflict and the hand I lay on them.

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Eze 39:26 - They will forget their shame and all the unfaithfulness they showed toward me when they lived in safety in their land with no one to make them afraid.

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Eze 39:27 - When I have brought them back from the nations and have gathered them from the countries of their enemies, I will be proved holy through them in the sight of many nations.

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Eze 39:28 - Then they will know that I am the LORD their God, for though I sent them into exile among the nations, I will gather them to their own land, not leaving any behind.

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Eze 40:1 - In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the fall of the city—on that very day the hand of the LORD was on me and he took me there.

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Eze 40:2 - In visions of God he took me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, on whose south side were some buildings that looked like a city.

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Eze 40:3 - He took me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze; he was standing in the gateway with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand.

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Eze 40:4 - The man said to me, “Son of man, look carefully and listen closely and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for that is why you have been brought here. Tell the people of Israel everything you see.”

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Eze 40:5 - I saw a wall completely surrounding the temple area. The length of the measuring rod in the man's hand was six long cubits,[fn] each of which was a cubit and a handbreadth. He measured the wall; it was one measuring rod thick and one rod high.

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Eze 40:6 - Then he went to the east gate. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate; it was one rod deep.

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Eze 40:17 - Then he brought me into the outer court. There I saw some rooms and a pavement that had been constructed all around the court; there were thirty rooms along the pavement.

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Eze 40:22 - Its openings, its portico and its palm tree decorations had the same measurements as those of the gate facing east. Seven steps led up to it, with its portico opposite them.

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Eze 40:39 - In the portico of the gateway were two tables on each side, on which the burnt offerings, sin offerings[fn] and guilt offerings were slaughtered.

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Eze 40:42 - There were also four tables of dressed stone for the burnt offerings, each a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit high.[fn] On them were placed the utensils for slaughtering the burnt offerings and the other sacrifices.

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Eze 40:44 - Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, were two rooms, one[fn] at the side of the north gate and facing south, and another at the side of the south[fn] gate and facing north.

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Eze 41:6 - The side rooms were on three levels, one above another, thirty on each level. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports were not inserted into the wall of the temple.

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Eze 41:17 - In the space above the outside of the entrance to the inner sanctuary and on the walls at regular intervals all around the inner and outer sanctuary

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Eze 42:10 - On the south side[fn] along the length of the wall of the outer court, adjoining the temple courtyard and opposite the outer wall, were rooms

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Eze 42:13 - Then he said to me, “The north and south rooms facing the temple courtyard are the priests' rooms, where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will put the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings[fn] and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy.

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Eze 42:14 - Once the priests enter the holy precincts, they are not to go into the outer court until they leave behind the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they go near the places that are for the people.”

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Eze 42:15 - When he had finished measuring what was inside the temple area, he led me out by the east gate and measured the area all around:

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Eze 42:16 - He measured the east side with the measuring rod; it was five hundred cubits.[fn][fn]

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Eze 42:17 - He measured the north side; it was five hundred cubits[fn] by the measuring rod.

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Eze 42:18 - He measured the south side; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.

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Eze 42:19 - Then he turned to the west side and measured; it was five hundred cubits by the measuring rod.

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Eze 42:20 - So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall around it, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.

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Eze 43:7 - He said: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live among the Israelites forever. The people of Israel will never again defile my holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and the funeral offerings[fn] for their kings at their death.[fn]

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Eze 43:8 - When they placed their threshold next to my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with only a wall between me and them, they defiled my holy name by their detestable practices. So I destroyed them in my anger.

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Eze 43:9 - Now let them put away from me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will live among them forever.

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Eze 43:13 - “These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits,[fn] that cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth: Its gutter is a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span[fn] around the edge. And this is the height of the altar:

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Eze 43:18 - Then he said to me, “Son of man, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: These will be the regulations for sacrificing burnt offerings and splashing blood against the altar when it is built:

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Eze 43:21 - You are to take the bull for the sin offering and burn it in the designated part of the temple area outside the sanctuary.

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Eze 43:22 - “On the second day you are to offer a male goat without defect for a sin offering, and the altar is to be purified as it was purified with the bull.

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Eze 44:3 - The prince himself is the only one who may sit inside the gateway to eat in the presence of the LORD. He is to enter by way of the portico of the gateway and go out the same way.”

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Eze 44:5 - The LORD said to me, “Son of man, look carefully, listen closely and give attention to everything I tell you concerning all the regulations and instructions regarding the temple of the LORD. Give attention to the entrance to the temple and all the exits of the sanctuary.

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Eze 44:7 - In addition to all your other detestable practices, you brought foreigners uncircumcised in heart and flesh into my sanctuary, desecrating my temple while you offered me food, fat and blood, and you broke my covenant.

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Eze 44:8 - Instead of carrying out your duty in regard to my holy things, you put others in charge of my sanctuary.

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Eze 44:9 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh is to enter my sanctuary, not even the foreigners who live among the Israelites.

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Eze 44:10 - “ ‘The Levites who went far from me when Israel went astray and who wandered from me after their idols must bear the consequences of their sin.

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Eze 44:11 - They may serve in my sanctuary, having charge of the gates of the temple and serving in it; they may slaughter the burnt offerings and sacrifices for the people and stand before the people and serve them.

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Eze 44:13 - They are not to come near to serve me as priests or come near any of my holy things or my most holy offerings; they must bear the shame of their detestable practices.

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Eze 44:15 - “ ‘But the Levitical priests, who are descendants of Zadok and who guarded my sanctuary when the Israelites went astray from me, are to come near to minister before me; they are to stand before me to offer sacrifices of fat and blood, declares the Sovereign LORD.

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Eze 44:17 - “ ‘When they enter the gates of the inner court, they are to wear linen clothes; they must not wear any woolen garment while ministering at the gates of the inner court or inside the temple.

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Eze 44:19 - When they go out into the outer court where the people are, they are to take off the clothes they have been ministering in and are to leave them in the sacred rooms, and put on other clothes, so that the people are not consecrated through contact with their garments.

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Eze 44:21 - No priest is to drink wine when he enters the inner court.

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Eze 44:24 - “ ‘In any dispute, the priests are to serve as judges and decide it according to my ordinances. They are to keep my laws and my decrees for all my appointed festivals, and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy.

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Eze 44:27 - On the day he goes into the inner court of the sanctuary to minister in the sanctuary, he is to offer a sin offering[fn] for himself, declares the Sovereign LORD.

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Eze 44:28 - “ ‘I am to be the only inheritance the priests have. You are to give them no possession in Israel; I will be their possession.

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Eze 44:29 - They will eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings and the guilt offerings; and everything in Israel devoted[fn] to the LORD will belong to them.

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Eze 45:1 - “ ‘When you allot the land as an inheritance, you are to present to the LORD a portion of the land as a sacred district, 25,000 cubits[fn] long and 20,000[fn] cubits[fn] wide; the entire area will be holy.

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Eze 45:3 - In the sacred district, measure off a section 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits[fn] wide. In it will be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.

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Eze 45:4 - It will be the sacred portion of the land for the priests, who minister in the sanctuary and who draw near to minister before the LORD. It will be a place for their houses as well as a holy place for the sanctuary.

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Eze 45:8 - This land will be his possession in Israel. And my princes will no longer oppress my people but will allow the people of Israel to possess the land according to their tribes.

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Eze 45:17 - It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings and drink offerings at the festivals, the New Moons and the Sabbaths—at all the appointed festivals of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings,[fn] grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the Israelites.

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Eze 45:18 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: In the first month on the first day you are to take a young bull without defect and purify the sanctuary.

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Eze 45:20 - You are to do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins unintentionally or through ignorance; so you are to make atonement for the temple.

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Eze 45:21 - “ ‘In the first month on the fourteenth day you are to observe the Passover, a festival lasting seven days, during which you shall eat bread made without yeast.

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Eze 45:22 - On that day the prince is to provide a bull as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land.

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Eze 45:25 - “ ‘During the seven days of the festival, which begins in the seventh month on the fifteenth day, he is to make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings and oil.

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Eze 46:1 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The gate of the inner court facing east is to be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon it is to be opened.

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Eze 46:3 - On the Sabbaths and New Moons the people of the land are to worship in the presence of the LORD at the entrance of that gateway.

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Eze 46:4 - The burnt offering the prince brings to the LORD on the Sabbath day is to be six male lambs and a ram, all without defect.

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Eze 46:6 - On the day of the New Moon he is to offer a young bull, six lambs and a ram, all without defect.

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Eze 46:8 - When the prince enters, he is to go in through the portico of the gateway, and he is to come out the same way.

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Eze 46:9 - “ ‘When the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed festivals, whoever enters by the north gate to worship is to go out the south gate; and whoever enters by the south gate is to go out the north gate. No one is to return through the gate by which they entered, but each is to go out the opposite gate.

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Eze 46:10 - The prince is to be among them, going in when they go in and going out when they go out.

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Eze 46:11 - At the feasts and the appointed festivals, the grain offering is to be an ephah with a bull, an ephah with a ram, and with the lambs as much as he pleases, along with a hin of oil for each ephah.

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Eze 46:12 - “ ‘When the prince provides a freewill offering to the LORD—whether a burnt offering or fellowship offerings—the gate facing east is to be opened for him. He shall offer his burnt offering or his fellowship offerings as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out, the gate will be shut.

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Eze 46:16 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: If the prince makes a gift from his inheritance to one of his sons, it will also belong to his descendants; it is to be their property by inheritance.

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Eze 46:23 - Around the inside of each of the four courts was a ledge of stone, with places for fire built all around under the ledge.

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Eze 47:3 - As the man went eastward with a measuring line in his hand, he measured off a thousand cubits[fn] and then led me through water that was ankle-deep.

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Eze 47:4 - He measured off another thousand cubits and led me through water that was knee-deep. He measured off another thousand and led me through water that was up to the waist.

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Eze 47:7 - When I arrived there, I saw a great number of trees on each side of the river.

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Eze 47:11 - But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.

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Eze 47:14 - You are to divide it equally among them. Because I swore with uplifted hand to give it to your ancestors, this land will become your inheritance.

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Eze 47:22 - You are to allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners residing among you and who have children. You are to consider them as native-born Israelites; along with you they are to be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.

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Eze 47:23 - In whatever tribe a foreigner resides, there you are to give them their inheritance,” declares the Sovereign LORD.

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Eze 48:8 - “Bordering the territory of Judah from east to west will be the portion you are to present as a special gift. It will be 25,000 cubits[fn] wide, and its length from east to west will equal one of the tribal portions; the sanctuary will be in the center of it.

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Eze 48:10 - This will be the sacred portion for the priests. It will be 25,000 cubits long on the north side, 10,000 cubits wide on the west side, 10,000 cubits wide on the east side and 25,000 cubits long on the south side. In the center of it will be the sanctuary of the LORD.

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Eze 48:11 - This will be for the consecrated priests, the Zadokites, who were faithful in serving me and did not go astray as the Levites did when the Israelites went astray.

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Eze 48:15 - “The remaining area, 5,000 cubits[fn] wide and 25,000 cubits long, will be for the common use of the city, for houses and for pastureland. The city will be in the center of it

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Eze 48:21 - “What remains on both sides of the area formed by the sacred portion and the property of the city will belong to the prince. It will extend eastward from the 25,000 cubits of the sacred portion to the eastern border, and westward from the 25,000 cubits to the western border. Both these areas running the length of the tribal portions will belong to the prince, and the sacred portion with the temple sanctuary will be in the center of them.

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Eze 48:22 - So the property of the Levites and the property of the city will lie in the center of the area that belongs to the prince. The area belonging to the prince will lie between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin.

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Eze 48:29 - “This is the land you are to allot as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel, and these will be their portions,” declares the Sovereign LORD.

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Dan 1:1 - In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.

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Dan 1:2 - And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles from the temple of God. These he carried off to the temple of his god in Babylonia[fn] and put in the treasure house of his god.

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Dan 1:4 - young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king's palace. He was to teach them the language and literature of the Babylonians.[fn]

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Dan 1:6 - Among those who were chosen were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.

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Dan 1:8 - But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way.

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Dan 1:17 - To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds.

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Dan 1:20 - In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king questioned them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom.

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Dan 2:1 - In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; his mind was troubled and he could not sleep.

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Dan 2:12 - This made the king so angry and furious that he ordered the execution of all the wise men of Babylon.

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Dan 2:19 - During the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision. Then Daniel praised the God of heaven

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Dan 2:22 - He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him.

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Dan 2:25 - Arioch took Daniel to the king at once and said, “I have found a man among the exiles from Judah who can tell the king what his dream means.”

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Dan 2:28 - but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries. He has shown King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in days to come. Your dream and the visions that passed through your mind as you were lying in bed are these:

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Dan 2:30 - As for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because I have greater wisdom than anyone else alive, but so that Your Majesty may know the interpretation and that you may understand what went through your mind.

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Dan 2:38 - in your hands he has placed all mankind and the beasts of the field and the birds in the sky. Wherever they live, he has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.

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Dan 2:41 - Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay.

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Dan 2:43 - And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.

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Dan 2:44 - “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.

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Dan 2:49 - Moreover, at Daniel's request the king appointed Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego administrators over the province of Babylon, while Daniel himself remained at the royal court.

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Dan 3:1 - King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide,[fn] and set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.

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Dan 3:4 - Then the herald loudly proclaimed, “Nations and peoples of every language, this is what you are commanded to do:

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Dan 3:13 - Furious with rage, Nebuchadnezzar summoned Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. So these men were brought before the king,

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Dan 3:23 - and these three men, firmly tied, fell into the blazing furnace.

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Dan 3:24 - Then King Nebuchadnezzar leaped to his feet in amazement and asked his advisers, “Weren't there three men that we tied up and threw into the fire?” They replied, “Certainly, Your Majesty.”

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Dan 3:25 - He said, “Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.”

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Dan 3:27 - and the satraps, prefects, governors and royal advisers crowded around them. They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them.

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Dan 3:30 - Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the province of Babylon.

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Dan 4:1 - King Nebuchadnezzar, To the nations and peoples of every language, who live in all the earth: May you prosper greatly!

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Dan 4:4 - I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at home in my palace, contented and prosperous.

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Dan 4:8 - Finally, Daniel came into my presence and I told him the dream. (He is called Belteshazzar, after the name of my god, and the spirit of the holy gods is in him.)

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Dan 4:9 - I said, “Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no mystery is too difficult for you. Here is my dream; interpret it for me.

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Dan 4:10 - These are the visions I saw while lying in bed: I looked, and there before me stood a tree in the middle of the land. Its height was enormous.

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Dan 4:12 - Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit abundant, and on it was food for all. Under it the wild animals found shelter, and the birds lived in its branches; from it every creature was fed.

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Dan 4:13 - “In the visions I saw while lying in bed, I looked, and there before me was a holy one, a messenger,[fn] coming down from heaven.

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Dan 4:14 - He called in a loud voice: ‘Cut down the tree and trim off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the animals flee from under it and the birds from its branches.

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Dan 4:15 - But let the stump and its roots, bound with iron and bronze, remain in the ground, in the grass of the field. “ ‘Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and let him live with the animals among the plants of the earth.

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Dan 4:18 - “This is the dream that I, King Nebuchadnezzar, had. Now, Belteshazzar, tell me what it means, for none of the wise men in my kingdom can interpret it for me. But you can, because the spirit of the holy gods is in you.”

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Dan 4:21 - with beautiful leaves and abundant fruit, providing food for all, giving shelter to the wild animals, and having nesting places in its branches for the birds—

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Dan 4:23 - “Your Majesty saw a holy one, a messenger, coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump, bound with iron and bronze, in the grass of the field, while its roots remain in the ground. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven; let him live with the wild animals, until seven times pass by for him.'

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Dan 4:27 - Therefore, Your Majesty, be pleased to accept my advice: Renounce your sins by doing what is right, and your wickedness by being kind to the oppressed. It may be that then your prosperity will continue.”

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Dan 4:29 - Twelve months later, as the king was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon,

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Dan 4:30 - he said, “Is not this the great Babylon I have built as the royal residence, by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty?”

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Dan 4:31 - Even as the words were on his lips, a voice came from heaven, “This is what is decreed for you, King Nebuchadnezzar: Your royal authority has been taken from you.

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Dan 4:35 - All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his hand or say to him: “What have you done?”

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Dan 4:37 - Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because everything he does is right and all his ways are just. And those who walk in pride he is able to humble.

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Dan 5:2 - While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar his father[fn] had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them.

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Dan 5:3 - So they brought in the gold goblets that had been taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them.

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Dan 5:5 - Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote.

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Dan 5:7 - The king summoned the enchanters, astrologers[fn] and diviners. Then he said to these wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing and tells me what it means will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”

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Dan 5:11 - There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. In the time of your father he was found to have insight and intelligence and wisdom like that of the gods. Your father, King Nebuchadnezzar, appointed him chief of the magicians, enchanters, astrologers and diviners.

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Dan 5:12 - He did this because Daniel, whom the king called Belteshazzar, was found to have a keen mind and knowledge and understanding, and also the ability to interpret dreams, explain riddles and solve difficult problems. Call for Daniel, and he will tell you what the writing means.”

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Dan 5:14 - I have heard that the spirit of the gods is in you and that you have insight, intelligence and outstanding wisdom.

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Dan 5:16 - Now I have heard that you are able to give interpretations and to solve difficult problems. If you can read this writing and tell me what it means, you will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around your neck, and you will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”

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Dan 5:23 - Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways.

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Dan 5:27 - Tekel[fn]: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.

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Dan 5:29 - Then at Belshazzar's command, Daniel was clothed in purple, a gold chain was placed around his neck, and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom.

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Dan 5:30 - That very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians,[fn] was slain,

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Dan 6:1 - It pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to rule throughout the kingdom,

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Dan 6:3 - Now Daniel so distinguished himself among the administrators and the satraps by his exceptional qualities that the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom.

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Dan 6:5 - Finally these men said, “We will never find any basis for charges against this man Daniel unless it has something to do with the law of his God.”

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Dan 6:10 - Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before.

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Dan 6:17 - A stone was brought and placed over the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the rings of his nobles, so that Daniel's situation might not be changed.

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Dan 6:19 - At the first light of dawn, the king got up and hurried to the lions' den.

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Dan 6:20 - When he came near the den, he called to Daniel in an anguished voice, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to rescue you from the lions?”

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Dan 6:23 - The king was overjoyed and gave orders to lift Daniel out of the den. And when Daniel was lifted from the den, no wound was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.

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Dan 6:25 - Then King Darius wrote to all the nations and peoples of every language in all the earth: “May you prosper greatly!

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Dan 6:26 - “I issue a decree that in every part of my kingdom people must fear and reverence the God of Daniel. “For he is the living God and he endures forever; his kingdom will not be destroyed, his dominion will never end.

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Dan 6:27 - He rescues and he saves; he performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth. He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”

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Dan 6:28 - So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus[fn] the Persian.

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Dan 7:1 - In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions passed through his mind as he was lying in bed. He wrote down the substance of his dream.

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Dan 7:2 - Daniel said: “In my vision at night I looked, and there before me were the four winds of heaven churning up the great sea.

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Dan 7:5 - “And there before me was a second beast, which looked like a bear. It was raised up on one of its sides, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. It was told, ‘Get up and eat your fill of flesh!'

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Dan 7:8 - “While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn, a little one, which came up among them; and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like the eyes of a human being and a mouth that spoke boastfully.

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Dan 7:13 - “In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man,[fn] coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence.

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Dan 7:15 - “I, Daniel, was troubled in spirit, and the visions that passed through my mind disturbed me.

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Dan 7:20 - I also wanted to know about the ten horns on its head and about the other horn that came up, before which three of them fell—the horn that looked more imposing than the others and that had eyes and a mouth that spoke boastfully.

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Dan 7:23 - “He gave me this explanation: ‘The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on earth. It will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it.

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Dan 7:25 - He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws. The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time.[fn]

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Dan 7:28 - “This is the end of the matter. I, Daniel, was deeply troubled by my thoughts, and my face turned pale, but I kept the matter to myself.”

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Dan 8:1 - In the third year of King Belshazzar's reign, I, Daniel, had a vision, after the one that had already appeared to me.

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Dan 8:2 - In my vision I saw myself in the citadel of Susa in the province of Elam; in the vision I was beside the Ulai Canal.

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Dan 8:6 - It came toward the two-horned ram I had seen standing beside the canal and charged at it in great rage.

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Dan 8:8 - The goat became very great, but at the height of its power the large horn was broken off, and in its place four prominent horns grew up toward the four winds of heaven.

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Dan 8:15 - While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there before me stood one who looked like a man.

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Dan 8:17 - As he came near the place where I was standing, I was terrified and fell prostrate. “Son of man,”[fn] he said to me, “understand that the vision concerns the time of the end.”

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Dan 8:18 - While he was speaking to me, I was in a deep sleep, with my face to the ground. Then he touched me and raised me to my feet.

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Dan 8:22 - The four horns that replaced the one that was broken off represent four kingdoms that will emerge from his nation but will not have the same power.

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Dan 8:24 - He will become very strong, but not by his own power. He will cause astounding devastation and will succeed in whatever he does. He will destroy those who are mighty, the holy people.

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Dan 8:25 - He will cause deceit to prosper, and he will consider himself superior. When they feel secure, he will destroy many and take his stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be destroyed, but not by human power.

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Dan 9:1 - In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes[fn] (a Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian[fn] kingdom—

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Dan 9:2 - in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the LORD given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.

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Dan 9:3 - So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.

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Dan 9:6 - We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes and our ancestors, and to all the people of the land.

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Dan 9:7 - “Lord, you are righteous, but this day we are covered with shame—the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far, in all the countries where you have scattered us because of our unfaithfulness to you.

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Dan 9:10 - we have not obeyed the LORD our God or kept the laws he gave us through his servants the prophets.

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Dan 9:11 - All Israel has transgressed your law and turned away, refusing to obey you. “Therefore the curses and sworn judgments written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against you.

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Dan 9:12 - You have fulfilled the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing on us great disaster. Under the whole heaven nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.

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Dan 9:13 - Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come on us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our sins and giving attention to your truth.

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Dan 9:15 - “Now, Lord our God, who brought your people out of Egypt with a mighty hand and who made for yourself a name that endures to this day, we have sinned, we have done wrong.

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Dan 9:16 - Lord, in keeping with all your righteous acts, turn away your anger and your wrath from Jerusalem, your city, your holy hill. Our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors have made Jerusalem and your people an object of scorn to all those around us.

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Dan 9:21 - while I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.

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Dan 9:23 - As soon as you began to pray, a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision:

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Dan 9:26 - After the sixty-two ‘sevens,' the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing.[fn] The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.

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Dan 9:27 - He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.'[fn] In the middle of the ‘seven'[fn] he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple[fn] he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.[fn]”[fn]

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Dan 10:1 - In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, a revelation was given to Daniel (who was called Belteshazzar). Its message was true and it concerned a great war.[fn] The understanding of the message came to him in a vision.

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Dan 10:2 - At that time I, Daniel, mourned for three weeks.

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Dan 10:4 - On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris,

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Dan 10:5 - I looked up and there before me was a man dressed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist.

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Dan 10:7 - I, Daniel, was the only one who saw the vision; those who were with me did not see it, but such terror overwhelmed them that they fled and hid themselves.

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Dan 10:8 - So I was left alone, gazing at this great vision; I had no strength left, my face turned deathly pale and I was helpless.

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Dan 10:9 - Then I heard him speaking, and as I listened to him, I fell into a deep sleep, my face to the ground.

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Dan 10:11 - He said, “Daniel, you who are highly esteemed, consider carefully the words I am about to speak to you, and stand up, for I have now been sent to you.” And when he said this to me, I stood up trembling.

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Dan 10:12 - Then he continued, “Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them.

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Dan 10:15 - While he was saying this to me, I bowed with my face toward the ground and was speechless.

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Dan 10:16 - Then one who looked like a man[fn] touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and began to speak. I said to the one standing before me, “I am overcome with anguish because of the vision, my lord, and I feel very weak.

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Dan 10:17 - How can I, your servant, talk with you, my lord? My strength is gone and I can hardly breathe.”

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Dan 10:19 - “Do not be afraid, you who are highly esteemed,” he said. “Peace! Be strong now; be strong.” When he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, “Speak, my lord, since you have given me strength.”

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Dan 10:21 - but first I will tell you what is written in the Book of Truth. (No one supports me against them except Michael, your prince.

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Dan 11:1 - And in the first year of Darius the Mede, I took my stand to support and protect him.)

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Dan 11:2 - “Now then, I tell you the truth: Three more kings will arise in Persia, and then a fourth, who will be far richer than all the others. When he has gained power by his wealth, he will stir up everyone against the kingdom of Greece.

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Dan 11:6 - After some years, they will become allies. The daughter of the king of the South will go to the king of the North to make an alliance, but she will not retain her power, and he and his power[fn] will not last. In those days she will be betrayed, together with her royal escort and her father[fn] and the one who supported her.

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Dan 11:7 - “One from her family line will arise to take her place. He will attack the forces of the king of the North and enter his fortress; he will fight against them and be victorious.

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Dan 11:11 - “Then the king of the South will march out in a rage and fight against the king of the North, who will raise a large army, but it will be defeated.

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Dan 11:13 - For the king of the North will muster another army, larger than the first; and after several years, he will advance with a huge army fully equipped.

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Dan 11:14 - “In those times many will rise against the king of the South. Those who are violent among your own people will rebel in fulfillment of the vision, but without success.

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Dan 11:16 - The invader will do as he pleases; no one will be able to stand against him. He will establish himself in the Beautiful Land and will have the power to destroy it.

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Dan 11:17 - He will determine to come with the might of his entire kingdom and will make an alliance with the king of the South. And he will give him a daughter in marriage in order to overthrow the kingdom, but his plans[fn] will not succeed or help him.

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Dan 11:20 - “His successor will send out a tax collector to maintain the royal splendor. In a few years, however, he will be destroyed, yet not in anger or in battle.

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Dan 11:21 - “He will be succeeded by a contemptible person who has not been given the honor of royalty. He will invade the kingdom when its people feel secure, and he will seize it through intrigue.

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Dan 11:23 - After coming to an agreement with him, he will act deceitfully, and with only a few people he will rise to power.

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Dan 11:24 - When the richest provinces feel secure, he will invade them and will achieve what neither his fathers nor his forefathers did. He will distribute plunder, loot and wealth among his followers. He will plot the overthrow of fortresses—but only for a time.

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Dan 11:25 - “With a large army he will stir up his strength and courage against the king of the South. The king of the South will wage war with a large and very powerful army, but he will not be able to stand because of the plots devised against him.

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Dan 11:28 - The king of the North will return to his own country with great wealth, but his heart will be set against the holy covenant. He will take action against it and then return to his own country.

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Dan 11:29 - “At the appointed time he will invade the South again, but this time the outcome will be different from what it was before.

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Dan 11:30 - Ships of the western coastlands will oppose him, and he will lose heart. Then he will turn back and vent his fury against the holy covenant. He will return and show favor to those who forsake the holy covenant.

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Dan 11:32 - With flattery he will corrupt those who have violated the covenant, but the people who know their God will firmly resist him.

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Dan 11:33 - “Those who are wise will instruct many, though for a time they will fall by the sword or be burned or captured or plundered.

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Dan 11:34 - When they fall, they will receive a little help, and many who are not sincere will join them.

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Dan 11:38 - Instead of them, he will honor a god of fortresses; a god unknown to his ancestors he will honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts.

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Dan 11:39 - He will attack the mightiest fortresses with the help of a foreign god and will greatly honor those who acknowledge him. He will make them rulers over many people and will distribute the land at a price.[fn]

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Dan 11:40 - “At the time of the end the king of the South will engage him in battle, and the king of the North will storm out against him with chariots and cavalry and a great fleet of ships. He will invade many countries and sweep through them like a flood.

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Dan 11:43 - He will gain control of the treasures of gold and silver and all the riches of Egypt, with the Libyans and Cushites[fn] in submission.

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Dan 11:44 - But reports from the east and the north will alarm him, and he will set out in a great rage to destroy and annihilate many.

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Dan 12:1 - “At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered.

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Dan 12:2 - Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.

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Dan 12:7 - The man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, lifted his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, times and half a time.[fn] When the power of the holy people has been finally broken, all these things will be completed.”

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Hos 1:1 - The word of the LORD that came to Hosea son of Beeri during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the reign of Jeroboam son of Jehoash[fn] king of Israel:

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Hos 1:5 - In that day I will break Israel's bow in the Valley of Jezreel.”

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Hos 1:7 - Yet I will show love to Judah; and I will save them—not by bow, sword or battle, or by horses and horsemen, but I, the LORD their God, will save them.”

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Hos 1:10 - “Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,' they will be called ‘children of the living God.'

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Hos 2:3 - Otherwise I will strip her naked and make her as bare as on the day she was born; I will make her like a desert, turn her into a parched land, and slay her with thirst.

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Hos 2:6 - Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.

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Hos 2:9 - “Therefore I will take away my grain when it ripens, and my new wine when it is ready. I will take back my wool and my linen, intended to cover her naked body.

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Hos 2:13 - I will punish her for the days she burned incense to the Baals; she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but me she forgot,”

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Hos 2:16 - “In that day,” declares the LORD, “you will call me ‘my husband'; you will no longer call me ‘my master.[fn]'

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Hos 2:18 - In that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky and the creatures that move along the ground. Bow and sword and battle I will abolish from the land, so that all may lie down in safety.

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Hos 2:19 - I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you in[fn] righteousness and justice, in[fn] love and compassion.

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Hos 2:20 - I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will acknowledge the LORD.

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Hos 2:21 - “In that day I will respond,” declares the LORD— “I will respond to the skies, and they will respond to the earth;

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Hos 4:8 - They feed on the sins of my people and relish their wickedness.

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Hos 4:12 - My people consult a wooden idol, and a diviner's rod speaks to them. A spirit of prostitution leads them astray; they are unfaithful to their God.

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Hos 4:16 - The Israelites are stubborn, like a stubborn heifer. How then can the LORD pasture them like lambs in a meadow?

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Hos 4:19 - A whirlwind will sweep them away, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.

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Hos 5:4 - “Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. A spirit of prostitution is in their heart; they do not acknowledge the LORD.

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Hos 5:5 - Israel's arrogance testifies against them; the Israelites, even Ephraim, stumble in their sin; Judah also stumbles with them.

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Hos 5:8 - “Sound the trumpet in Gibeah, the horn in Ramah. Raise the battle cry in Beth Aven[fn]; lead on, Benjamin.

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Hos 5:9 - Ephraim will be laid waste on the day of reckoning. Among the tribes of Israel I proclaim what is certain.

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Hos 5:15 - Then I will return to my lair until they have borne their guilt and seek my face— in their misery they will earnestly seek me.”

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Hos 6:2 - After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence.

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Hos 6:5 - Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets, I killed you with the words of my mouth— then my judgments go forth like the sun.[fn]

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Hos 6:10 - I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: There Ephraim is given to prostitution, Israel is defiled.

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Hos 6:11 - “Also for you, Judah, a harvest is appointed. “Whenever I would restore the fortunes of my people,

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Hos 7:1 - whenever I would heal Israel, the sins of Ephraim are exposed and the crimes of Samaria revealed. They practice deceit, thieves break into houses, bandits rob in the streets;

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Hos 7:3 - “They delight the king with their wickedness, the princes with their lies.

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Hos 7:6 - Their hearts are like an oven; they approach him with intrigue. Their passion smolders all night; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

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Hos 7:7 - All of them are hot as an oven; they devour their rulers. All their kings fall, and none of them calls on me.

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Hos 7:8 - “Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is a flat loaf not turned over.

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Hos 7:10 - Israel's arrogance testifies against him, but despite all this he does not return to the LORD his God or search for him.

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Hos 7:12 - When they go, I will throw my net over them; I will pull them down like the birds in the sky. When I hear them flocking together, I will catch them.

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Hos 7:14 - They do not cry out to me from their hearts but wail on their beds. They slash themselves,[fn] appealing to their gods for grain and new wine, but they turn away from me.

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Hos 7:16 - They do not turn to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because of their insolent words. For this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.

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Hos 8:6 - They are from Israel! This calf—a metalworker has made it; it is not God. It will be broken in pieces, that calf of Samaria.

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Hos 8:8 - Israel is swallowed up; now she is among the nations like something no one wants.

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Hos 8:10 - Although they have sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them together. They will begin to waste away under the oppression of the mighty king.

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Hos 8:13 - Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD is not pleased with them. Now he will remember their wickedness and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.

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Hos 9:3 - They will not remain in the LORD's land; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.

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Hos 9:5 - What will you do on the day of your appointed festivals, on the feast days of the LORD?

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Hos 9:6 - Even if they escape from destruction, Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. Their treasures of silver will be taken over by briers, and thorns will overrun their tents.

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Hos 9:8 - The prophet, along with my God, is the watchman over Ephraim,[fn] yet snares await him on all his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

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Hos 9:10 - “When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the desert; when I saw your ancestors, it was like seeing the early fruit on the fig tree. But when they came to Baal Peor, they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol and became as vile as the thing they loved.

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Hos 9:17 - My God will reject them because they have not obeyed him; they will be wanderers among the nations.

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Hos 10:6 - It will be carried to Assyria as tribute for the great king. Ephraim will be disgraced; Israel will be ashamed of its foreign alliances.

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Hos 10:9 - “Since the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, Israel, and there you have remained.[fn] Will not war again overtake the evildoers in Gibeah?

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Hos 10:10 - When I please, I will punish them; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bonds for their double sin.

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Hos 10:13 - But you have planted wickedness, you have reaped evil, you have eaten the fruit of deception. Because you have depended on your own strength and on your many warriors,

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Hos 10:14 - the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be devastated— as Shalman devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.

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Hos 11:4 - I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love. To them I was like one who lifts a little child to the cheek, and I bent down to feed them.

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Hos 11:5 - “Will they not return to Egypt and will not Assyria rule over them because they refuse to repent?

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Hos 11:6 - A sword will flash in their cities; it will devour their false prophets and put an end to their plans.

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Hos 11:8 - “How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboyim? My heart is changed within me; all my compassion is aroused.

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Hos 11:9 - I will not carry out my fierce anger, nor will I devastate Ephraim again. For I am God, and not a man— the Holy One among you. I will not come against their cities.

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Hos 11:12 - Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, Israel with deceit. And Judah is unruly against God, even against the faithful Holy One.[fn]

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Hos 12:3 - In the womb he grasped his brother's heel; as a man he struggled with God.

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Hos 12:4 - He struggled with the angel and overcame him; he wept and begged for his favor. He found him at Bethel and talked with him there—

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Hos 12:6 - But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and wait for your God always.

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Hos 12:7 - The merchant uses dishonest scales and loves to defraud.

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Hos 12:9 - “I have been the LORD your God ever since you came out of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again, as in the days of your appointed festivals.

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Hos 12:10 - I spoke to the prophets, gave them many visions and told parables through them.”

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Hos 12:11 - Is Gilead wicked? Its people are worthless! Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Their altars will be like piles of stones on a plowed field.

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Hos 12:12 - Jacob fled to the country of Aram[fn]; Israel served to get a wife, and to pay for her he tended sheep.

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Hos 12:13 - The LORD used a prophet to bring Israel up from Egypt, by a prophet he cared for him.

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Hos 13:1 - When Ephraim spoke, people trembled; he was exalted in Israel. But he became guilty of Baal worship and died.

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Hos 13:5 - I cared for you in the wilderness, in the land of burning heat.

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Hos 13:10 - Where is your king, that he may save you? Where are your rulers in all your towns, of whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes'?

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Hos 13:11 - So in my anger I gave you a king, and in my wrath I took him away.

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Hos 13:13 - Pains as of a woman in childbirth come to him, but he is a child without wisdom; when the time arrives, he doesn't have the sense to come out of the womb.

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Hos 13:16 - The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open.”[fn]

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Hos 14:1 - Return, Israel, to the LORD your God. Your sins have been your downfall!

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Hos 14:3 - Assyria cannot save us; we will not mount warhorses. We will never again say ‘Our gods' to what our own hands have made, for in you the fatherless find compassion.”

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Hos 14:9 - Who is wise? Let them realize these things. Who is discerning? Let them understand. The ways of the LORD are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.

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Joe 1:2 - Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors?

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Joe 1:13 - Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn; wail, you who minister before the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister before my God; for the grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

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Joe 2:1 - Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming. It is close at hand—

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Joe 2:7 - They charge like warriors; they scale walls like soldiers. They all march in line, not swerving from their course.

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Joe 2:8 - They do not jostle each other; each marches straight ahead. They plunge through defenses without breaking ranks.

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Joe 2:12 - “Even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.”

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Joe 2:15 - Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly.

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Joe 2:17 - Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, “Spare your people, LORD. Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?' ”

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Joe 2:19 - The LORD replied[fn] to them: “I am sending you grain, new wine and olive oil, enough to satisfy you fully; never again will I make you an object of scorn to the nations.

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Joe 2:27 - Then you will know that I am in Israel, that I am the LORD your God, and that there is no other; never again will my people be shamed.

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Joe 2:29 - Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.

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Joe 2:30 - I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke.

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Joe 2:32 - And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has said, even among the survivors whom the LORD calls.[fn]

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Joe 3:1 - “In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

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Joe 3:2 - I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.[fn] There I will put them on trial for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.

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Joe 3:9 - Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Rouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men draw near and attack.

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Joe 3:14 - Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

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Joe 3:17 - “Then you will know that I, the LORD your God, dwell in Zion, my holy hill. Jerusalem will be holy; never again will foreigners invade her.

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Joe 3:18 - “In that day the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills will flow with milk; all the ravines of Judah will run with water. A fountain will flow out of the LORD's house and will water the valley of acacias.[fn]

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Joe 3:19 - But Egypt will be desolate, Edom a desert waste, because of violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

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Joe 3:21 - Shall I leave their innocent blood unavenged? No, I will not.” The LORD dwells in Zion!

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Amo 1:1 - The words of Amos, one of the shepherds of Tekoa—the vision he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash[fn] was king of Israel.

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Amo 1:3 - This is what the LORD says: “For three sins of Damascus, even for four, I will not relent. Because she threshed Gilead with sledges having iron teeth,

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Amo 1:11 - This is what the LORD says: “For three sins of Edom, even for four, I will not relent. Because he pursued his brother with a sword and slaughtered the women of the land, because his anger raged continually and his fury flamed unchecked,

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Amo 1:13 - This is what the LORD says: “For three sins of Ammon, even for four, I will not relent. Because he ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to extend his borders,

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Amo 1:14 - I will set fire to the walls of Rabbah that will consume her fortresses amid war cries on the day of battle, amid violent winds on a stormy day.

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Amo 1:15 - Her king[fn] will go into exile, he and his officials together,”

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Amo 2:2 - I will send fire on Moab that will consume the fortresses of Kerioth.[fn] Moab will go down in great tumult amid war cries and the blast of the trumpet.

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Amo 2:8 - They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. In the house of their god they drink wine taken as fines.

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Amo 2:10 - I brought you up out of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness to give you the land of the Amorites.

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Amo 2:16 - Even the bravest warriors will flee naked on that day,”

declares the LORD.

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Amo 3:6 - When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble? When disaster comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?

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Amo 3:9 - Proclaim to the fortresses of Ashdod and to the fortresses of Egypt: “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria; see the great unrest within her and the oppression among her people.”

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Amo 3:10 - “They do not know how to do right,” declares the LORD, “who store up in their fortresses what they have plundered and looted.”

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Amo 3:12 - This is what the LORD says: “As a shepherd rescues from the lion's mouth only two leg bones or a piece of an ear, so will the Israelites living in Samaria be rescued, with only the head of a bed and a piece of fabric[fn] from a couch.[fn]”

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Amo 3:14 - “On the day I punish Israel for her sins, I will destroy the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.

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Amo 4:1 - Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy and say to your husbands, “Bring us some drinks!”

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Amo 4:2 - The Sovereign LORD has sworn by his holiness: “The time will surely come when you will be taken away with hooks, the last of you with fishhooks.[fn]

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Amo 4:6 - “I gave you empty stomachs in every city and lack of bread in every town, yet you have not returned to me,”

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Amo 4:9 - “Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards, destroying them with blight and mildew. Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you have not returned to me,”

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Amo 4:10 - “I sent plagues among you as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps, yet you have not returned to me,”

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Amo 5:10 - There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court and detest the one who tells the truth.

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Amo 5:11 - You levy a straw tax on the poor and impose a tax on their grain. Therefore, though you have built stone mansions, you will not live in them; though you have planted lush vineyards, you will not drink their wine.

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Amo 5:12 - For I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins. There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.

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Amo 5:13 - Therefore the prudent keep quiet in such times, for the times are evil.

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Amo 5:15 - Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the LORD God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

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Amo 5:16 - Therefore this is what the Lord, the LORD God Almighty, says: “There will be wailing in all the streets and cries of anguish in every public square. The farmers will be summoned to weep and the mourners to wail.

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Amo 5:17 - There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,”

says the LORD.

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Amo 5:21 - “I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me.

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Amo 5:25 - “Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?

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Amo 6:9 - If ten people are left in one house, they too will die.

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Amo 6:12 - Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow the sea[fn] with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness—

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Amo 6:13 - you who rejoice in the conquest of Lo Debar[fn] and say, “Did we not take Karnaim[fn] by our own strength?”

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Amo 7:4 - This is what the Sovereign LORD showed me: The Sovereign LORD was calling for judgment by fire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land.

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Amo 7:7 - This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb,[fn] with a plumb line[fn] in his hand.

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Amo 7:8 - And the LORD asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” “A plumb line,” I replied. Then the Lord said, “Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.

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Amo 7:9 - “The high places of Isaac will be destroyed and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined; with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam.”

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Amo 7:10 - Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel: “Amos is raising a conspiracy against you in the very heart of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words.

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Amo 7:11 - For this is what Amos is saying: “ ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their native land.' ”

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Amo 7:17 - “Therefore this is what the LORD says: “ ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be measured and divided up, and you yourself will die in a pagan[fn] country. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their native land.' ”

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Amo 8:3 - “In that day,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.[fn] Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!”

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Amo 8:6 - buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat.

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Amo 8:8 - “Will not the land tremble for this, and all who live in it mourn? The whole land will rise like the Nile; it will be stirred up and then sink like the river of Egypt.

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Amo 8:9 - “In that day,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.

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Amo 8:13 - “In that day “the lovely young women and strong young men will faint because of thirst.

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Amo 9:1 - I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Bring them down on the heads of all the people; those who are left I will kill with the sword. Not one will get away, none will escape.

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Amo 9:4 - Though they are driven into exile by their enemies, there I will command the sword to slay them. “I will keep my eye on them for harm and not for good.”

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Amo 9:9 - “For I will give the command, and I will shake the people of Israel among all the nations as grain is shaken in a sieve, and not a pebble will reach the ground.

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Amo 9:10 - All the sinners among my people will die by the sword, all those who say, ‘Disaster will not overtake or meet us.'

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Amo 9:11 - “In that day I will restore David's fallen shelter— I will repair its broken walls and restore its ruins— and will rebuild it as it used to be,

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Amo 9:13 - “The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman and the planter by the one treading grapes. New wine will drip from the mountains and flow from all the hills,

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Oba 1:2 - “See, I will make you small among the nations; you will be utterly despised.

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Oba 1:3 - The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks[fn] and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?'

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Oba 1:8 - “In that day,” declares the LORD, “will I not destroy the wise men of Edom, those of understanding in the mountains of Esau?

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Oba 1:11 - On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.

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Oba 1:12 - You should not gloat over your brother in the day of his misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast so much in the day of their trouble.

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Oba 1:13 - You should not march through the gates of my people in the day of their disaster, nor gloat over them in their calamity in the day of their disaster, nor seize their wealth in the day of their disaster.

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Oba 1:14 - You should not wait at the crossroads to cut down their fugitives, nor hand over their survivors in the day of their trouble.

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Oba 1:17 - But on Mount Zion will be deliverance; it will be holy, and Jacob will possess his inheritance.

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Oba 1:18 - Jacob will be a fire and Joseph a flame; Esau will be stubble, and they will set him on fire and destroy him. There will be no survivors from Esau.”

The LORD has spoken.

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Oba 1:19 - People from the Negev will occupy the mountains of Esau, and people from the foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead.

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Jon 1:2 - “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”

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Jon 1:4 - Then the LORD sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up.

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Jon 1:5 - All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone below deck, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.

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Jon 1:7 - Then the sailors said to each other, “Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity.” They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.

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Jon 1:8 - So they asked him, “Tell us, who is responsible for making all this trouble for us? What kind of work do you do? Where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?”

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Jon 1:17 - Now the LORD provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

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Jon 2:2 - He said: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me. From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help, and you listened to my cry.

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Jon 2:7 - “When my life was ebbing away, I remembered you, LORD, and my prayer rose to you, to your holy temple.

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Jon 3:2 - “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.”

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Jon 3:7 - This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.

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Jon 3:8 - But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence.

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Jon 4:2 - He prayed to the LORD, “Isn't this what I said, LORD, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.

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Jon 4:5 - Jonah had gone out and sat down at a place east of the city. There he made himself a shelter, sat in its shade and waited to see what would happen to the city.

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Jon 4:11 - And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”

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Mic 1:1 - The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah—the vision he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

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Mic 1:2 - Hear, you peoples, all of you, listen, earth and all who live in it, that the Sovereign LORD may bear witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

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Mic 1:4 - The mountains melt beneath him and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.

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Mic 1:7 - All her idols will be broken to pieces; all her temple gifts will be burned with fire; I will destroy all her images. Since she gathered her gifts from the wages of prostitutes, as the wages of prostitutes they will again be used.”

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Mic 1:10 - Tell it not in Gath[fn]; weep not at all. In Beth Ophrah[fn] roll in the dust.

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Mic 1:13 - You who live in Lachish, harness fast horses to the chariot. You are where the sin of Daughter Zion began, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

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Mic 2:1 - Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning's light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it.

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Mic 2:4 - In that day people will ridicule you; they will taunt you with this mournful song: ‘We are utterly ruined; my people's possession is divided up. He takes it from me! He assigns our fields to traitors.' ”

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Mic 2:5 - Therefore you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.

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Mic 2:12 - “I will surely gather all of you, Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture; the place will throng with people.

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Mic 3:4 - Then they will cry out to the LORD, but he will not answer them. At that time he will hide his face from them because of the evil they have done.

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Mic 3:5 - This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead my people astray, they proclaim ‘peace' if they have something to eat, but prepare to wage war against anyone who refuses to feed them.

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Mic 3:8 - But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, to Israel his sin.

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Mic 3:10 - who build Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with wickedness.

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Mic 3:11 - Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money. Yet they look for the LORD's support and say, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster will come upon us.”

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Mic 4:2 - Many nations will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.” The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

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Mic 4:5 - All the nations may walk in the name of their gods, but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.

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Mic 4:6 - “In that day,” declares the LORD, “I will gather the lame; I will assemble the exiles and those I have brought to grief.

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Mic 4:7 - I will make the lame my remnant, those driven away a strong nation. The LORD will rule over them in Mount Zion from that day and forever.

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Mic 4:10 - Writhe in agony, Daughter Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you must leave the city to camp in the open field. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued. There the LORD will redeem you out of the hand of your enemies.

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Mic 4:13 - “Rise and thresh, Daughter Zion, for I will give you horns of iron; I will give you hooves of bronze, and you will break to pieces many nations.” You will devote their ill-gotten gains to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

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Mic 5:1 - Marshal your troops now, city of troops, for a siege is laid against us. They will strike Israel's ruler on the cheek with a rod.

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Mic 5:2 - “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans[fn] of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.”

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Mic 5:4 - He will stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they will live securely, for then his greatness will reach to the ends of the earth.

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Mic 5:6 - who will rule[fn] the land of Assyria with the sword, the land of Nimrod with drawn sword.[fn] He will deliver us from the Assyrians when they invade our land and march across our borders.

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Mic 5:7 - The remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for anyone or depend on man.

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Mic 5:8 - The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which mauls and mangles as it goes, and no one can rescue.

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Mic 5:10 - “In that day,” declares the LORD, “I will destroy your horses from among you and demolish your chariots.

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Mic 5:12 - I will destroy your witchcraft and you will no longer cast spells.

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Mic 5:15 - I will take vengeance in anger and wrath on the nations that have not obeyed me.”

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Mic 6:6 - With what shall I come before the LORD and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

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Mic 6:7 - Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of olive oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

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Mic 6:11 - Shall I acquit someone with dishonest scales, with a bag of false weights?

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Mic 6:12 - Your rich people are violent; your inhabitants are liars and their tongues speak deceitfully.

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Mic 6:14 - You will eat but not be satisfied; your stomach will still be empty.[fn] You will store up but save nothing, because what you save[fn] I will give to the sword.

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Mic 6:16 - You have observed the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab's house; you have followed their traditions. Therefore I will give you over to ruin and your people to derision; you will bear the scorn of the nations.[fn]”

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Mic 7:1 - What misery is mine! I am like one who gathers summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster of grapes to eat, none of the early figs that I crave.

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Mic 7:2 - The faithful have been swept from the land; not one upright person remains. Everyone lies in wait to shed blood; they hunt each other with nets.

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Mic 7:4 - The best of them is like a brier, the most upright worse than a thorn hedge. The day God visits you has come, the day your watchmen sound the alarm. Now is the time of your confusion.

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Mic 7:5 - Do not trust a neighbor; put no confidence in a friend. Even with the woman who lies in your embrace guard the words of your lips.

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Mic 7:6 - For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises up against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law— a man's enemies are the members of his own household.

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Mic 7:8 - Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.

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Mic 7:10 - Then my enemy will see it and will be covered with shame, she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her downfall; even now she will be trampled underfoot like mire in the streets.

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Mic 7:14 - Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, which lives by itself in a forest, in fertile pasturelands.[fn] Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in days long ago.

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Mic 7:17 - They will lick dust like a snake, like creatures that crawl on the ground. They will come trembling out of their dens; they will turn in fear to the LORD our God and will be afraid of you.

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Nah 1:3 - The LORD is slow to anger but great in power; the LORD will not leave the guilty unpunished. His way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and clouds are the dust of his feet.

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Nah 1:5 - The mountains quake before him and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, the world and all who live in it.

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Nah 1:6 - Who can withstand his indignation? Who can endure his fierce anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; the rocks are shattered before him.

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Nah 1:7 - The LORD is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him,

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Nah 1:8 - but with an overwhelming flood he will make an end of Nineveh; he will pursue his foes into the realm of darkness.

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Nah 1:9 - Whatever they plot against the LORD he will bring[fn] to an end; trouble will not come a second time.

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Nah 2:3 - The shields of the soldiers are red; the warriors are clad in scarlet. The metal on the chariots flashes on the day they are made ready; the spears of juniper are brandished.[fn]

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Nah 2:4 - The chariots storm through the streets, rushing back and forth through the squares. They look like flaming torches; they dart about like lightning.

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Nah 2:5 - Nineveh summons her picked troops, yet they stumble on their way. They dash to the city wall; the protective shield is put in place.

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Nah 2:7 - It is decreed[fn] that Nineveh be exiled and carried away. Her female slaves moan like doves and beat on their breasts.

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Nah 2:13 - “I am against you,” declares the LORD Almighty. “I will burn up your chariots in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will leave you no prey on the earth. The voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”

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Nah 3:3 - Charging cavalry, flashing swords and glittering spears! Many casualties, piles of dead, bodies without number, people stumbling over the corpses—

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Nah 3:4 - all because of the wanton lust of a prostitute, alluring, the mistress of sorceries, who enslaved nations by her prostitution and peoples by her witchcraft.

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Nah 3:8 - Are you better than Thebes, situated on the Nile, with water around her? The river was her defense, the waters her wall.

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Nah 3:13 - Look at your troops— they are all weaklings. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has consumed the bars of your gates.

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Nah 3:14 - Draw water for the siege, strengthen your defenses! Work the clay, tread the mortar, repair the brickwork!

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Nah 3:17 - Your guards are like locusts, your officials like swarms of locusts that settle in the walls on a cold day— but when the sun appears they fly away, and no one knows where.

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Hab 1:5 - “Look at the nations and watch— and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.

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Hab 1:10 - They mock kings and scoff at rulers. They laugh at all fortified cities; by building earthen ramps they capture them.

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Hab 1:13 - Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

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Hab 1:15 - The wicked foe pulls all of them up with hooks, he catches them in his net, he gathers them up in his dragnet; and so he rejoices and is glad.

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Hab 1:16 - Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, for by his net he lives in luxury and enjoys the choicest food.

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Hab 2:1 - I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what he will say to me, and what answer I am to give to this complaint.[fn]

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Hab 2:4 - “See, the enemy is puffed up; his desires are not upright— but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness[fn]—

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Hab 2:12 - “Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by injustice!

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Hab 2:13 - Has not the LORD Almighty determined that the people's labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?

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Hab 2:19 - Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Come to life!' Or to lifeless stone, ‘Wake up!' Can it give guidance? It is covered with gold and silver; there is no breath in it.”

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Hab 2:20 - The LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him.

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Hab 3:2 - LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy.

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Hab 3:4 - His splendor was like the sunrise; rays flashed from his hand, where his power was hidden.

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Hab 3:5 - Plague went before him; pestilence followed his steps.

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Hab 3:8 - Were you angry with the rivers, LORD? Was your wrath against the streams? Did you rage against the sea when you rode your horses and your chariots to victory?

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Hab 3:11 - Sun and moon stood still in the heavens at the glint of your flying arrows, at the lightning of your flashing spear.

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Hab 3:12 - In wrath you strode through the earth and in anger you threshed the nations.

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Hab 3:14 - With his own spear you pierced his head when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though about to devour the wretched who were in hiding.

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Hab 3:16 - I heard and my heart pounded, my lips quivered at the sound; decay crept into my bones, and my legs trembled. Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come on the nation invading us.

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Hab 3:17 - Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls,

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Hab 3:18 - yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior.

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Hab 3:19 - The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.

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Zep 1:1 - The word of the LORD that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, during the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah:

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Zep 1:8 - “On the day of the LORD's sacrifice I will punish the officials and the king's sons and all those clad in foreign clothes.

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Zep 1:9 - On that day I will punish all who avoid stepping on the threshold,[fn] who fill the temple of their gods with violence and deceit.

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Zep 1:10 - “On that day,” declares the LORD, “a cry will go up from the Fish Gate, wailing from the New Quarter, and a loud crash from the hills.

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Zep 1:12 - At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish those who are complacent, who are like wine left on its dregs, who think, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.'

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Zep 1:13 - Their wealth will be plundered, their houses demolished. Though they build houses, they will not live in them; though they plant vineyards, they will not drink the wine.”

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Zep 1:18 - Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the LORD's wrath.” In the fire of his jealousy the whole earth will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live on the earth.

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Zep 2:3 - Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, you who do what he commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD's anger.

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Zep 2:7 - That land will belong to the remnant of the people of Judah; there they will find pasture. In the evening they will lie down in the houses of Ashkelon. The LORD their God will care for them; he will restore their fortunes.[fn]

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Zep 2:8 - “I have heard the insults of Moab and the taunts of the Ammonites, who insulted my people and made threats against their land.

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Zep 2:14 - Flocks and herds will lie down there, creatures of every kind. The desert owl and the screech owl will roost on her columns. Their hooting will echo through the windows, rubble will fill the doorways, the beams of cedar will be exposed.

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Zep 2:15 - This is the city of revelry that lived in safety. She said to herself, “I am the one! And there is none besides me.” What a ruin she has become, a lair for wild beasts! All who pass by her scoff and shake their fists.

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Zep 3:3 - Her officials within her are roaring lions; her rulers are evening wolves, who leave nothing for the morning.

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Zep 3:5 - The LORD within her is righteous; he does no wrong. Morning by morning he dispenses his justice, and every new day he does not fail, yet the unrighteous know no shame.

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Zep 3:6 - “I have destroyed nations; their strongholds are demolished. I have left their streets deserted, with no one passing through. Their cities are laid waste; they are deserted and empty.

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Zep 3:8 - Therefore wait for me,” declares the LORD, “for the day I will stand up to testify.[fn] I have decided to assemble the nations, to gather the kingdoms and to pour out my wrath on them— all my fierce anger. The whole world will be consumed by the fire of my jealous anger.

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Zep 3:11 - On that day you, Jerusalem, will not be put to shame for all the wrongs you have done to me, because I will remove from you your arrogant boasters. Never again will you be haughty on my holy hill.

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Zep 3:12 - But I will leave within you the meek and humble. The remnant of Israel will trust in the name of the LORD.

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Zep 3:13 - They will do no wrong; they will tell no lies. A deceitful tongue will not be found in their mouths. They will eat and lie down and no one will make them afraid.”

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Zep 3:15 - The LORD has taken away your punishment, he has turned back your enemy. The LORD, the King of Israel, is with you; never again will you fear any harm.

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Zep 3:16 - On that day they will say to Jerusalem, “Do not fear, Zion; do not let your hands hang limp.

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Zep 3:17 - The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”

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Zep 3:19 - At that time I will deal with all who oppressed you. I will rescue the lame; I will gather the exiles. I will give them praise and honor in every land where they have suffered shame.

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Zep 3:20 - At that time I will gather you; at that time I will bring you home. I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth when I restore your fortunes[fn] before your very eyes,”

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Hag 1:1 - In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jozadak,[fn] the high priest:

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Hag 1:3 - Then the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai:

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Hag 1:4 - “Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?”

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Hag 1:6 - You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”

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Hag 1:8 - Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build my house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored,” says the LORD.

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Hag 1:14 - So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant of the people. They came and began to work on the house of the LORD Almighty, their God,

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Hag 2:1 - on the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai:

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Hag 2:3 - ‘Who of you is left who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Does it not seem to you like nothing?

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Hag 2:5 - ‘This is what I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt. And my Spirit remains among you. Do not fear.'

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Hag 2:9 - ‘The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,' says the LORD Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant peace,' declares the LORD Almighty.”

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Hag 2:12 - If someone carries consecrated meat in the fold of their garment, and that fold touches some bread or stew, some wine, olive oil or other food, does it become consecrated?' ” The priests answered, “No.”

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Hag 2:14 - Then Haggai said, “ ‘So it is with this people and this nation in my sight,' declares the LORD. ‘Whatever they do and whatever they offer there is defiled.

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Hag 2:15 - “ ‘Now give careful thought to this from this day on[fn]—consider how things were before one stone was laid on another in the LORD's temple.

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Hag 2:17 - I struck all the work of your hands with blight, mildew and hail, yet you did not return to me,' declares the LORD.

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Hag 2:18 - ‘From this day on, from this twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, give careful thought to the day when the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid. Give careful thought:

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Hag 2:22 - I will overturn royal thrones and shatter the power of the foreign kingdoms. I will overthrow chariots and their drivers; horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his brother.

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Hag 2:23 - “ ‘On that day,' declares the LORD Almighty, ‘I will take you, my servant Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel,' declares the LORD, ‘and I will make you like my signet ring, for I have chosen you,' declares the LORD Almighty.”

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Zec 1:1 - In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo:

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Zec 1:6 - But did not my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your ancestors? “Then they repented and said, ‘The LORD Almighty has done to us what our ways and practices deserve, just as he determined to do.' ”

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Zec 1:7 - On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo.

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Zec 1:9 - I asked, “What are these, my lord?” The angel who was talking with me answered, “I will show you what they are.”

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Zec 1:13 - So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.

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Zec 1:14 - Then the angel who was speaking to me said, “Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion,

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Zec 1:16 - “Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there my house will be rebuilt. And the measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem,' declares the LORD Almighty.

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Zec 1:17 - “Proclaim further: This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘My towns will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.' ”

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Zec 1:19 - I asked the angel who was speaking to me, “What are these?” He answered me, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem.”

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Zec 2:1 - Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand.

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Zec 2:3 - While the angel who was speaking to me was leaving, another angel came to meet him

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Zec 2:4 - and said to him: “Run, tell that young man, ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the great number of people and animals in it.

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Zec 2:5 - And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,' declares the LORD, ‘and I will be its glory within.'

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Zec 2:10 - “Shout and be glad, Daughter Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you,” declares the LORD.

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Zec 2:11 - “Many nations will be joined with the LORD in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me to you.

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Zec 3:2 - The LORD said to Satan, “The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?”

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Zec 3:7 - “This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘If you will walk in obedience to me and keep my requirements, then you will govern my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you a place among these standing here.

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Zec 3:9 - See, the stone I have set in front of Joshua! There are seven eyes[fn] on that one stone, and I will engrave an inscription on it,' says the LORD Almighty, ‘and I will remove the sin of this land in a single day.

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Zec 3:10 - “ ‘In that day each of you will invite your neighbor to sit under your vine and fig tree,' declares the LORD Almighty.”

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Zec 4:1 - Then the angel who talked with me returned and woke me up, like someone awakened from sleep.

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Zec 4:4 - I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?”

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Zec 4:5 - He answered, “Do you not know what these are?” “No, my lord,” I replied.

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Zec 4:6 - So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the LORD Almighty.

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Zec 4:10 - “Who dares despise the day of small things, since the seven eyes of the LORD that range throughout the earth will rejoice when they see the chosen capstone[fn] in the hand of Zerubbabel?”

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Zec 4:12 - Again I asked him, “What are these two olive branches beside the two gold pipes that pour out golden oil?”

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Zec 5:4 - The LORD Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.' ”

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Zec 5:5 - Then the angel who was speaking to me came forward and said to me, “Look up and see what is appearing.”

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Zec 5:6 - I asked, “What is it?” He replied, “It is a basket.” And he added, “This is the iniquity[fn] of the people throughout the land.”

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Zec 5:7 - Then the cover of lead was raised, and there in the basket sat a woman!

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Zec 5:8 - He said, “This is wickedness,” and he pushed her back into the basket and pushed its lead cover down on it.

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Zec 5:9 - Then I looked up—and there before me were two women, with the wind in their wings! They had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.

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Zec 5:10 - “Where are they taking the basket?” I asked the angel who was speaking to me.

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Zec 5:11 - He replied, “To the country of Babylonia[fn] to build a house for it. When the house is ready, the basket will be set there in its place.”

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Zec 6:2 - The first chariot had red horses, the second black,

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Zec 6:3 - the third white, and the fourth dappled—all of them powerful.

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Zec 6:4 - I asked the angel who was speaking to me, “What are these, my lord?”

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Zec 6:5 - The angel answered me, “These are the four spirits[fn] of heaven, going out from standing in the presence of the Lord of the whole world.

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Zec 6:6 - The one with the black horses is going toward the north country, the one with the white horses toward the west,[fn] and the one with the dappled horses toward the south.”

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Zec 6:8 - Then he called to me, “Look, those going toward the north country have given my Spirit[fn] rest in the land of the north.”

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Zec 6:10 - “Take silver and gold from the exiles Heldai, Tobijah and Jedaiah, who have arrived from Babylon. Go the same day to the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah.

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Zec 6:14 - The crown will be given to Heldai,[fn] Tobijah, Jedaiah and Hen[fn] son of Zephaniah as a memorial in the temple of the LORD.

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Zec 6:15 - Those who are far away will come and help to build the temple of the LORD, and you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me to you. This will happen if you diligently obey the LORD your God.”

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Zec 7:1 - In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Kislev.

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Zec 7:3 - by asking the priests of the house of the LORD Almighty and the prophets, “Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”

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Zec 7:5 - “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted?

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Zec 7:7 - Are these not the words the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were at rest and prosperous, and the Negev and the western foothills were settled?' ”

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Zec 7:10 - Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.'

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Zec 7:12 - They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the LORD Almighty was very angry.

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Zec 8:3 - This is what the LORD says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the Faithful City, and the mountain of the LORD Almighty will be called the Holy Mountain.”

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Zec 8:4 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Once again men and women of ripe old age will sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each of them with cane in hand because of their age.

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Zec 8:5 - The city streets will be filled with boys and girls playing there.”

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Zec 8:6 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: “It may seem marvelous to the remnant of this people at that time, but will it seem marvelous to me?” declares the LORD Almighty.

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Zec 8:8 - I will bring them back to live in Jerusalem; they will be my people, and I will be faithful and righteous to them as their God.”

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Zec 8:9 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Now hear these words, ‘Let your hands be strong so that the temple may be built.' This is also what the prophets said who were present when the foundation was laid for the house of the LORD Almighty.

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Zec 8:13 - Just as you, Judah and Israel, have been a curse[fn] among the nations, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing.[fn] Do not be afraid, but let your hands be strong.”

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Zec 8:14 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Just as I had determined to bring disaster on you and showed no pity when your ancestors angered me,” says the LORD Almighty,

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Zec 8:15 - “so now I have determined to do good again to Jerusalem and Judah. Do not be afraid.

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Zec 8:16 - These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other, and render true and sound judgment in your courts;

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Zec 8:17 - do not plot evil against each other, and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the LORD.

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Zec 8:22 - And many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the LORD Almighty and to entreat him.”

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Zec 8:23 - This is what the LORD Almighty says: “In those days ten people from all languages and nations will take firm hold of one Jew by the hem of his robe and say, ‘Let us go with you, because we have heard that God is with you.' ”

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Zec 9:1 - A prophecy: The word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrak and will come to rest on Damascus— for the eyes of all people and all the tribes of Israel are on the LORD—[fn]

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Zec 9:2 - and on Hamath too, which borders on it, and on Tyre and Sidon, though they are very skillful.

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Zec 9:4 - But the Lord will take away her possessions and destroy her power on the sea, and she will be consumed by fire.

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Zec 9:6 - A mongrel people will occupy Ashdod, and I will put an end to the pride of the Philistines.

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Zec 9:7 - I will take the blood from their mouths, the forbidden food from between their teeth. Those who are left will belong to our God and become a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.

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Zec 9:8 - But I will encamp at my temple to guard it against marauding forces. Never again will an oppressor overrun my people, for now I am keeping watch.

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Zec 9:11 - As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit.

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Zec 9:12 - Return to your fortress, you prisoners of hope; even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you.

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Zec 9:14 - Then the LORD will appear over them; his arrow will flash like lightning. The Sovereign LORD will sound the trumpet; he will march in the storms of the south,

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Zec 9:15 - and the LORD Almighty will shield them. They will destroy and overcome with slingstones. They will drink and roar as with wine; they will be full like a bowl used for sprinkling[fn] the corners of the altar.

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Zec 9:16 - The LORD their God will save his people on that day as a shepherd saves his flock. They will sparkle in his land like jewels in a crown.

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Zec 10:1 - Ask the LORD for rain in the springtime; it is the LORD who sends the thunderstorms. He gives showers of rain to all people, and plants of the field to everyone.

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Zec 10:3 - “My anger burns against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; for the LORD Almighty will care for his flock, the people of Judah, and make them like a proud horse in battle.

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Zec 10:4 - From Judah will come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler.

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Zec 10:5 - Together they[fn] will be like warriors in battle trampling their enemy into the mud of the streets. They will fight because the LORD is with them, and they will put the enemy horsemen to shame.

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Zec 10:7 - The Ephraimites will become like warriors, and their hearts will be glad as with wine. Their children will see it and be joyful; their hearts will rejoice in the LORD.

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Zec 10:9 - Though I scatter them among the peoples, yet in distant lands they will remember me. They and their children will survive, and they will return.

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Zec 10:11 - They will pass through the sea of trouble; the surging sea will be subdued and all the depths of the Nile will dry up. Assyria's pride will be brought down and Egypt's scepter will pass away.

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Zec 10:12 - I will strengthen them in the LORD and in his name they will live securely,”

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Zec 11:8 - In one month I got rid of the three shepherds. The flock detested me, and I grew weary of them

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Zec 11:11 - It was revoked on that day, and so the oppressed of the flock who were watching me knew it was the word of the LORD.

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Zec 12:1 - A prophecy: The word of the LORD concerning Israel. The LORD, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the human spirit within a person, declares:

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Zec 12:2 - “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem.

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Zec 12:3 - On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves.

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Zec 12:4 - On that day I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness,” declares the LORD. “I will keep a watchful eye over Judah, but I will blind all the horses of the nations.

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Zec 12:5 - Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the LORD Almighty is their God.'

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Zec 12:6 - “On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume all the surrounding peoples right and left, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place.

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Zec 12:8 - On that day the LORD will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD going before them.

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Zec 12:9 - On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem.

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Zec 12:11 - On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be as great as the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

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Zec 13:1 - “On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.

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Zec 13:2 - “On that day, I will banish the names of the idols from the land, and they will be remembered no more,” declares the LORD Almighty. “I will remove both the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.

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Zec 13:3 - And if anyone still prophesies, their father and mother, to whom they were born, will say to them, ‘You must die, because you have told lies in the LORD's name.' Then their own parents will stab the one who prophesies.

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Zec 13:4 - “On that day every prophet will be ashamed of their prophetic vision. They will not put on a prophet's garment of hair in order to deceive.

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Zec 13:6 - If someone asks, ‘What are these wounds on your body[fn]?' they will answer, ‘The wounds I was given at the house of my friends.'

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Zec 13:8 - In the whole land,” declares the LORD, “two-thirds will be struck down and perish; yet one-third will be left in it.

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Zec 14:1 - A day of the LORD is coming, Jerusalem, when your possessions will be plundered and divided up within your very walls.

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Zec 14:2 - I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.

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Zec 14:3 - Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights on a day of battle.

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Zec 14:4 - On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south.

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Zec 14:5 - You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake[fn] in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.

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Zec 14:6 - On that day there will be neither sunlight nor cold, frosty darkness.

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Zec 14:8 - On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it east to the Dead Sea and half of it west to the Mediterranean Sea, in summer and in winter.

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Zec 14:9 - The LORD will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one LORD, and his name the only name.

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Zec 14:11 - It will be inhabited; never again will it be destroyed. Jerusalem will be secure.

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Zec 14:12 - This is the plague with which the LORD will strike all the nations that fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

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Zec 14:13 - On that day people will be stricken by the LORD with great panic. They will seize each other by the hand and attack one another.

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Zec 14:14 - Judah too will fight at Jerusalem. The wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected—great quantities of gold and silver and clothing.

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Zec 14:15 - A similar plague will strike the horses and mules, the camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.

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Zec 14:20 - On that day holy to the Lord will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the LORD's house will be like the sacred bowls in front of the altar.

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Zec 14:21 - Every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the LORD Almighty, and all who come to sacrifice will take some of the pots and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite[fn] in the house of the LORD Almighty.

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Mal 1:1 - A prophecy: The word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi.[fn]

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Mal 1:2 - “I have loved you,” says the LORD. “But you ask, ‘How have you loved us?' “Was not Esau Jacob's brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet I have loved Jacob,

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Mal 1:6 - “A son honors his father, and a slave his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the LORD Almighty. “It is you priests who show contempt for my name. “But you ask, ‘How have we shown contempt for your name?'

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Mal 1:7 - “By offering defiled food on my altar. “But you ask, ‘How have we defiled you?' “By saying that the LORD's table is contemptible.

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Mal 1:9 - “Now plead with God to be gracious to us. With such offerings from your hands, will he accept you?”—says the LORD Almighty.

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Mal 1:10 - “Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the LORD Almighty, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.

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Mal 1:11 - My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to me, because my name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD Almighty.

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Mal 1:12 - “But you profane it by saying, ‘The Lord's table is defiled,' and, ‘Its food is contemptible.'

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Mal 1:14 - “Cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but then sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I am a great king,” says the LORD Almighty, “and my name is to be feared among the nations.

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Mal 2:2 - If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name,” says the LORD Almighty, “I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me.

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Mal 2:5 - “My covenant was with him, a covenant of life and peace, and I gave them to him; this called for reverence and he revered me and stood in awe of my name.

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Mal 2:6 - True instruction was in his mouth and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many from sin.

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Mal 2:8 - But you have turned from the way and by your teaching have caused many to stumble; you have violated the covenant with Levi,” says the LORD Almighty.

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Mal 2:9 - “So I have caused you to be despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not followed my ways but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”

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Mal 2:11 - Judah has been unfaithful. A detestable thing has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem: Judah has desecrated the sanctuary the LORD loves by marrying women who worship a foreign god.

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Mal 2:15 - Has not the one God made you? You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring.[fn] So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.

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Mal 2:16 - “The man who hates and divorces his wife,” says the LORD, the God of Israel, “does violence to the one he should protect,”[fn] says the LORD Almighty. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful.

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Mal 2:17 - You have wearied the LORD with your words. “How have we wearied him?” you ask. By saying, “All who do evil are good in the eyes of the LORD, and he is pleased with them” or “Where is the God of justice?”

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Mal 3:2 - But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner's fire or a launderer's soap.

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Mal 3:3 - He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then the LORD will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness,

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Mal 3:5 - “So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the LORD Almighty.

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Mal 3:7 - Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD Almighty. “But you ask, ‘How are we to return?'

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Mal 3:8 - “Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?' “In tithes and offerings.

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Mal 3:10 - Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.

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Mal 3:11 - I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,” says the LORD Almighty.

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Mal 3:13 - “You have spoken arrogantly against me,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we said against you?'

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Mal 4:2 - But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves.

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Mal 4:3 - Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I act,” says the LORD Almighty.

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Mal 4:4 - “Remember the law of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel.

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