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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ecc 9:14 — [ There was] a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
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2Sa 20:15 |
And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that [were] with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down. |
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2Sa 20:16 |
Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee. |
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2Sa 20:17 |
And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, [Art] thou Joab? And he answered, I [am he]. Then she said unto him, Hear the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear. |
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2Sa 20:18 |
Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask [counsel] at Abel: and so they ended [the matter]. |
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2Sa 20:19 |
I [am one of them that are] peaceable [and] faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD? |
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2Ki 6:24 |
And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. |
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2Ki 6:25 |
And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was [sold] for fourscore [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five [pieces] of silver. |
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2Ki 6:26 |
And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. |
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2Ki 6:27 |
And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? |
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2Ki 6:28 |
And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. |
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2Ki 7:1 |
Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time [shall] a measure of fine flour [be sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria. |
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2Ki 7:2 |
Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, [if] the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see [it] with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof. |
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2Ki 7:3 |
And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? |
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2Ki 7:4 |
If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine [is] in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die. |
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2Ki 7:5 |
And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, [there was] no man there. |
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Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Ecclesiastes 9:14," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Ecc/9/14.html>.
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