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T-NSF (3074x)
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T-NSF

Occurrences: 3074 times in 2508 verses

Speech: Definite article

Parsing: Nominative Singular Feminine

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Gen 1:2 - The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

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Gen 1:9 - Then God said, “Let the waters beneath the sky flow together into one place, so dry ground may appear.” And that is what happened.

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Gen 1:11 - Then God said, “Let the land sprout with vegetation—every sort of seed-bearing plant, and trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. These seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came.” And that is what happened.

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Gen 1:12 - The land produced vegetation—all sorts of seed-bearing plants, and trees with seed-bearing fruit. Their seeds produced plants and trees of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.

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Gen 1:24 - Then God said, “Let the earth produce every sort of animal, each producing offspring of the same kind—livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and wild animals.” And that is what happened.

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Gen 2:1 - So the creation of the heavens and the earth and everything in them was completed.

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Gen 2:4 - This is the account of the creation of the heavens and the earth. When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

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Gen 2:25 - Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.

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Gen 3:2 - “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied.

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Gen 3:6 - The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too.

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Gen 3:8 - When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man[fn] and his wife heard the LORD God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the LORD God among the trees.

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Gen 3:12 - The man replied, “It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it.”

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Gen 3:13 - Then the LORD God asked the woman, “What have you done?”
“The serpent deceived me,” she replied. “That's why I ate it.”

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Gen 3:16 - Then he said to the woman,
“I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy,
and in pain you will give birth.
And you will desire to control your husband,
but he will rule over you.[fn]”

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Gen 3:17 - And to the man he said,
“Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree
whose fruit I commanded you not to eat,
the ground is cursed because of you.
All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.

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Gen 4:7 - You will be accepted if you do what is right. But if you refuse to do what is right, then watch out! Sin is crouching at the door, eager to control you. But you must subdue it and be its master.”

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Gen 4:13 - Cain replied to the LORD, “My punishment[fn] is too great for me to bear!

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Gen 5:1 - This is the written account of the descendants of Adam. When God created human beings,[fn] he made them to be like himself.

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Gen 6:11 - Now God saw that the earth had become corrupt and was filled with violence.

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Gen 6:13 - So God said to Noah, “I have decided to destroy all living creatures, for they have filled the earth with violence. Yes, I will wipe them all out along with the earth!

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Gen 6:18 - But I will confirm my covenant with you. So enter the boat—you and your wife and your sons and their wives.

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Gen 7:7 - He went on board the boat to escape the flood—he and his wife and his sons and their wives.

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Gen 7:13 - That very day Noah had gone into the boat with his wife and his sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and their wives.

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Gen 7:18 - As the waters rose higher and higher above the ground, the boat floated safely on the surface.

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Gen 8:4 - exactly five months from the time the flood began,[fn] the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

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Gen 8:9 - But the dove could find no place to land because the water still covered the ground. So it returned to the boat, and Noah held out his hand and drew the dove back inside.

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Gen 8:11 - This time the dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the floodwaters were almost gone.

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Gen 8:14 - Two more months went by,[fn] and at last the earth was dry!

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Gen 8:16 - “Leave the boat, all of you—you and your wife, and your sons and their wives.

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Gen 8:18 - So Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives left the boat.

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Gen 8:21 - And the LORD was pleased with the aroma of the sacrifice and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of the human race, even though everything they think or imagine is bent toward evil from childhood. I will never again destroy all living things.

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Gen 10:12 - and Resen (the great city located between Nineveh and Calah).

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Gen 10:25 - Eber had two sons. The first was named Peleg (which means “division”), for during his lifetime the people of the world were divided into different language groups. His brother's name was Joktan.

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Gen 10:30 - The territory they occupied extended from Mesha all the way to Sephar in the eastern mountains.

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Gen 11:1 - At one time all the people of the world spoke the same language and used the same words.

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Gen 11:3 - They began saying to each other, “Let's make bricks and harden them with fire.” (In this region bricks were used instead of stone, and tar was used for mortar.)

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Gen 11:4 - Then they said, “Come, let's build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:13

Gen 12:13 - So please tell them you are my sister. Then they will spare my life and treat me well because of their interest in you.”

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Gen 12:19 - Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,' and allow me to take her as my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and get out of here!”

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Gen 13:1 - So Abram left Egypt and traveled north into the Negev, along with his wife and Lot and all that they owned.

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Gen 13:3 - From the Negev, they continued traveling by stages toward Bethel, and they pitched their tents between Bethel and Ai, where they had camped before.

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Gen 13:6 - But the land could not support both Abram and Lot with all their flocks and herds living so close together.

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Gen 13:9 - The whole countryside is open to you. Take your choice of any section of the land you want, and we will separate. If you want the land to the left, then I'll take the land on the right. If you prefer the land on the right, then I'll go to the left.”

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Gen 13:10 - Lot took a long look at the fertile plains of the Jordan Valley in the direction of Zoar. The whole area was well watered everywhere, like the garden of the LORD or the beautiful land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

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Gen 14:3 - This second group of kings joined forces in Siddim Valley (that is, the valley of the Dead Sea[fn]).

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Gen 14:10 - As it happened, the valley of the Dead Sea was filled with tar pits. And as the army of the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into the tar pits, while the rest escaped into the mountains.

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Gen 16:1 - Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not been able to bear children for him. But she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.

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Gen 16:3 - So Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian servant and gave her to Abram as a wife. (This happened ten years after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan.)

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Gen 16:4 - So Abram had sexual relations with Hagar, and she became pregnant. But when Hagar knew she was pregnant, she began to treat her mistress, Sarai, with contempt.

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Gen 16:6 - Abram replied, “Look, she is your servant, so deal with her as you see fit.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she finally ran away.

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Gen 17:4 - “This is my covenant with you: I will make you the father of a multitude of nations!

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Gen 17:10 - This is the covenant that you and your descendants must keep: Each male among you must be circumcised.

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Gen 17:13 - All must be circumcised. Your bodies will bear the mark of my everlasting covenant.

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Gen 17:14 - Any male who fails to be circumcised will be cut off from the covenant family for breaking the covenant.”

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Gen 17:15 - Then God said to Abraham, “Regarding Sarai, your wife—her name will no longer be Sarai. From now on her name will be Sarah.[fn]

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Gen 17:19 - But God replied, “No—Sarah, your wife, will give birth to a son for you. You will name him Isaac,[fn] and I will confirm my covenant with him and his descendants as an everlasting covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:9

Gen 18:9 - “Where is Sarah, your wife?” the visitors asked.
“She's inside the tent,” Abraham replied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:10

Gen 18:10 - Then one of them said, “I will return to you about this time next year, and your wife, Sarah, will have a son!”
Sarah was listening to this conversation from the tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:13

Gen 19:13 - For we are about to destroy this city completely. The outcry against this place is so great it has reached the LORD, and he has sent us to destroy it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:20

Gen 19:20 - See, there is a small village nearby. Please let me go there instead; don't you see how small it is? Then my life will be saved.”

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Gen 19:26 - But Lot's wife looked back as she was following behind him, and she turned into a pillar of salt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:31

Gen 19:31 - One day the older daughter said to her sister, “There are no men left anywhere in this entire area, so we can't get married like everyone else. And our father will soon be too old to have children.

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Gen 19:33 - So that night they got him drunk with wine, and the older daughter went in and had intercourse with her father. He was unaware of her lying down or getting up again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:34

Gen 19:34 - The next morning the older daughter said to her younger sister, “I had sex with our father last night. Let's get him drunk with wine again tonight, and you go in and have sex with him. That way we will preserve our family line through our father.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:35

Gen 19:35 - So that night they got him drunk with wine again, and the younger daughter went in and had intercourse with him. As before, he was unaware of her lying down or getting up again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:37

Gen 19:37 - When the older daughter gave birth to a son, she named him Moab.[fn] He became the ancestor of the nation now known as the Moabites.

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Gen 19:38 - When the younger daughter gave birth to a son, she named him Ben-ammi.[fn] He became the ancestor of the nation now known as the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:15

Gen 20:15 - Then Abimelech said, “Look over my land and choose any place where you would like to live.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:21

Gen 21:21 - and he settled in the wilderness of Paran. His mother arranged for him to marry a woman from the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:24

Gen 22:24 - Nahor had four other children from his concubine Reumah. Their names were Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

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Gen 23:1 - When Sarah was 127 years old,

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Gen 24:5 - The servant asked, “But what if I can't find a young woman who is willing to travel so far from home? Should I then take Isaac there to live among your relatives in the land you came from?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:8

Gen 24:8 - If she is unwilling to come back with you, then you are free from this oath of mine. But under no circumstances are you to take my son there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:14

Gen 24:14 - This is my request. I will ask one of them, ‘Please give me a drink from your jug.' If she says, ‘Yes, have a drink, and I will water your camels, too!'—let her be the one you have selected as Isaac's wife. This is how I will know that you have shown unfailing love to my master.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:15

Gen 24:15 - Before he had finished praying, he saw a young woman named Rebekah coming out with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, who was the son of Abraham's brother Nahor and his wife, Milcah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:16

Gen 24:16 - Rebekah was very beautiful and old enough to be married, but she was still a virgin. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:18

Gen 24:18 - “Yes, my lord,” she answered, “have a drink.” And she quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and gave him a drink.

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Gen 24:28 - The young woman ran home to tell her family everything that had happened.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:36

Gen 24:36 - “When Sarah, my master's wife, was very old, she gave birth to my master's son, and my master has given him everything he owns.

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Gen 24:39 - “But I said to my master, ‘What if I can't find a young woman who is willing to go back with me?'

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Gen 24:43 - See, I am standing here beside this spring. This is my request. When a young woman comes to draw water, I will say to her, “Please give me a little drink of water from your jug.”

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Gen 24:44 - If she says, “Yes, have a drink, and I will draw water for your camels, too,” let her be the one you have selected to be the wife of my master's son.'

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Gen 24:47 - “Then I asked, ‘Whose daughter are you?' She replied, ‘I am the daughter of Bethuel, and my grandparents are Nahor and Milcah.' So I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her wrists.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:55

Gen 24:55 - “But we want Rebekah to stay with us at least ten days,” her brother and mother said. “Then she can go.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:58

Gen 24:58 - So they called Rebekah. “Are you willing to go with this man?” they asked her.
And she replied, “Yes, I will go.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:65

Gen 24:65 - “Who is that man walking through the fields to meet us?” she asked the servant.
And he replied, “It is my master.” So Rebekah covered her face with her veil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:12

Gen 25:12 - This is the account of the family of Ishmael, the son of Abraham through Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:21

Gen 25:21 - Isaac pleaded with the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was unable to have children. The LORD answered Isaac's prayer, and Rebekah became pregnant with twins.

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Gen 25:26 - Then the other twin was born with his hand grasping Esau's heel. So they named him Jacob.[fn] Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.

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Gen 25:28 - Isaac loved Esau because he enjoyed eating the wild game Esau brought home, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:4

Gen 27:4 - Prepare my favorite dish, and bring it here for me to eat. Then I will pronounce the blessing that belongs to you, my firstborn son, before I die.”

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Gen 27:13 - But his mother replied, “Then let the curse fall on me, my son! Just do what I tell you. Go out and get the goats for me!”

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Gen 27:14 - So Jacob went out and got the young goats for his mother. Rebekah took them and prepared a delicious meal, just the way Isaac liked it.

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Gen 27:19 - Jacob replied, “It's Esau, your firstborn son. I've done as you told me. Here is the wild game. Now sit up and eat it so you can give me your blessing.”

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Gen 27:22 - So Jacob went closer to his father, and Isaac touched him. “The voice is Jacob's, but the hands are Esau's,” Isaac said.

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Gen 27:25 - Then Isaac said, “Now, my son, bring me the wild game. Let me eat it, and then I will give you my blessing.” So Jacob took the food to his father, and Isaac ate it. He also drank the wine that Jacob served him.

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Gen 27:31 - Esau prepared a delicious meal and brought it to his father. Then he said, “Sit up, my father, and eat my wild game so you can give me your blessing.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:39

Gen 27:39 - Finally, his father, Isaac, said to him,
“You will live away from the richness of the earth,
and away from the dew of the heaven above.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:12

Gen 28:12 - As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down the stairway.

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Gen 28:13 - At the top of the stairway stood the LORD, and he said, “I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham, and the God of your father, Isaac. The ground you are lying on belongs to you. I am giving it to you and your descendants.

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Gen 28:14 - Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth! They will spread out in all directions—to the west and the east, to the north and the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.

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Gen 28:17 - But he was also afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! It is none other than the house of God, the very gateway to heaven!”

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Gen 29:6 - “Is he doing well?” Jacob asked.
“Yes, he's well,” they answered. “Look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the flock now.”

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Gen 29:9 - Jacob was still talking with them when Rachel arrived with her father's flock, for she was a shepherd.

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Gen 30:3 - Then Rachel told him, “Take my maid, Bilhah, and sleep with her. She will bear children for me,[fn] and through her I can have a family, too.”

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Gen 30:5 - Bilhah became pregnant and presented him with a son.

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Gen 30:7 - Then Bilhah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a second son.

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Gen 30:10 - Soon Zilpah presented him with a son.

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Gen 30:12 - Then Zilpah gave Jacob a second son.

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Gen 30:33 - In the future, when you check on the animals you have given me as my wages, you'll see that I have been honest. If you find in my flock any goats without speckles or spots, or any sheep that are not black, you will know that I have stolen them from you.”

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Gen 31:29 - I could destroy you, but the God of your father appeared to me last night and warned me, ‘Leave Jacob alone!'

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Gen 31:32 - But as for your gods, see if you can find them, and let the person who has taken them die! And if you find anything else that belongs to you, identify it before all these relatives of ours, and I will give it back!” But Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the household idols.

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Gen 31:48 - Then Laban declared, “This pile of stones will stand as a witness to remind us of the covenant we have made today.” This explains why it was called Galeed—“Witness Pile.”

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Gen 31:49 - But it was also called Mizpah (which means “watchtower”), for Laban said, “May the LORD keep watch between us to make sure that we keep this covenant when we are out of each other's sight.

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Gen 32:8 - He thought, “If Esau meets one group and attacks it, perhaps the other group can escape.”

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Gen 32:30 - Jacob named the place Peniel (which means “face of God”), for he said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been spared.”

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Gen 34:1 - One day Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, went to visit some of the young women who lived in the area.

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Gen 34:10 - And you may live among us; the land is open to you! Settle here and trade with us. And feel free to buy property in the area.”

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Gen 34:21 - “These men are our friends,” they said. “Let's invite them to live here among us and trade freely. Look, the land is large enough to hold them. We can take their daughters as wives and let them marry ours.

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Gen 35:8 - Soon after this, Rebekah's old nurse, Deborah, died. She was buried beneath the oak tree in the valley below Bethel. Ever since, the tree has been called Allon-bacuth (which means “oak of weeping”).

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Gen 35:17 - After a very hard delivery, the midwife finally exclaimed, “Don't be afraid—you have another son!”

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Gen 36:7 - There was not enough land to support them both because of all the livestock and possessions they had acquired.

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Gen 37:9 - Soon Joseph had another dream, and again he told his brothers about it. “Listen, I have had another dream,” he said. “The sun, moon, and eleven stars bowed low before me!”

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Gen 37:10 - This time he told the dream to his father as well as to his brothers, but his father scolded him. “What kind of dream is that?” he asked. “Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow to the ground before you?”

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Gen 38:12 - Some years later Judah's wife died. After the time of mourning was over, Judah and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to Timnah to supervise the shearing of his sheep.

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Gen 38:16 - So he stopped and propositioned her. “Let me have sex with you,” he said, not realizing that she was his own daughter-in-law.
“How much will you pay to have sex with me?” Tamar asked.

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Gen 38:17 - “I'll send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah promised.
“But what will you give me to guarantee that you will send the goat?” she asked.

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Gen 38:18 - “What kind of guarantee do you want?” he replied.
She answered, “Leave me your identification seal and its cord and the walking stick you are carrying.” So Judah gave them to her. Then he had intercourse with her, and she became pregnant.

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Gen 38:21 - So he asked the men who lived there, “Where can I find the shrine prostitute who was sitting beside the road at the entrance to Enaim?”
“We've never had a shrine prostitute here,” they replied.

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Gen 38:24 - About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has acted like a prostitute. And now, because of this, she's pregnant.”
“Bring her out, and let her be burned!” Judah demanded.

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Gen 38:25 - But as they were taking her out to kill her, she sent this message to her father-in-law: “The man who owns these things made me pregnant. Look closely. Whose seal and cord and walking stick are these?”

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Gen 38:28 - While she was in labor, one of the babies reached out his hand. The midwife grabbed it and tied a scarlet string around the child's wrist, announcing, “This one came out first.”

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Gen 38:29 - But then he pulled back his hand, and out came his brother! “What!” the midwife exclaimed. “How did you break out first?” So he was named Perez.[fn]

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Gen 39:7 - and Potiphar's wife soon began to look at him lustfully. “Come and sleep with me,” she demanded.

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Gen 40:8 - And they replied, “We both had dreams last night, but no one can tell us what they mean.”
“Interpreting dreams is God's business,” Joseph replied. “Go ahead and tell me your dreams.”

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Gen 40:12 - “This is what the dream means,” Joseph said. “The three branches represent three days.

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Gen 40:18 - “This is what the dream means,” Joseph told him. “The three baskets also represent three days.

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Gen 41:8 - The next morning Pharaoh was very disturbed by the dreams. So he called for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. When Pharaoh told them his dreams, not one of them could tell him what they meant.

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Gen 41:31 - This famine will be so severe that even the memory of the good years will be erased.

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Gen 41:36 - That way there will be enough to eat when the seven years of famine come to the land of Egypt. Otherwise this famine will destroy the land.”

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Gen 41:47 - As predicted, for seven years the land produced bumper crops.

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Gen 41:48 - During those years, Joseph gathered all the crops grown in Egypt and stored the grain from the surrounding fields in the cities.

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Gen 41:55 - Eventually, however, the famine spread throughout the land of Egypt as well. And when the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, he told them, “Go to Joseph, and do whatever he tells you.”

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Gen 42:21 - Speaking among themselves, they said, “Clearly we are being punished because of what we did to Joseph long ago. We saw his anguish when he pleaded for his life, but we wouldn't listen. That's why we're in this trouble.”

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Gen 42:28 - “Look!” he exclaimed to his brothers. “My money has been returned; it's here in my sack!” Then their hearts sank. Trembling, they said to each other, “What has God done to us?”

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Gen 43:8 - Judah said to his father, “Send the boy with me, and we will be on our way. Otherwise we will all die of starvation—and not only we, but you and our little ones.

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Gen 43:34 - And Joseph filled their plates with food from his own table, giving Benjamin five times as much as he gave the others. So they feasted and drank freely with him.

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Gen 44:27 - “Then my father said to us, ‘As you know, my wife had two sons,

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Gen 44:30 - “And now, my lord, I cannot go back to my father without the boy. Our father's life is bound up in the boy's life.

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Gen 45:16 - The news soon reached Pharaoh's palace: “Joseph's brothers have arrived!” Pharaoh and his officials were all delighted to hear this.

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Gen 45:26 - “Joseph is still alive!” they told him. “And he is governor of all the land of Egypt!” Jacob was stunned at the news—he couldn't believe it.

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Gen 46:20 - Joseph's sons, born in the land of Egypt, were Manasseh and Ephraim. Their mother was Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, the priest of On.[fn]

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Gen 47:6 - choose any place in the entire land of Egypt for them to live. Give them the best land of Egypt. Let them live in the region of Goshen. And if any of them have special skills, put them in charge of my livestock, too.”

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Gen 47:13 - Meanwhile, the famine became so severe that all the food was used up, and people were starving throughout the lands of Egypt and Canaan.

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Gen 47:18 - But that year ended, and the next year they came again and said, “We cannot hide the truth from you, my lord. Our money is gone, and all our livestock and cattle are yours. We have nothing left to give but our bodies and our land.

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Gen 47:19 - Why should we die before your very eyes? Buy us and our land in exchange for food; we offer our land and ourselves as slaves for Pharaoh. Just give us grain so we may live and not die, and so the land does not become empty and desolate.”

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Gen 47:20 - So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. All the Egyptians sold him their fields because the famine was so severe, and soon all the land belonged to Pharaoh.

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Gen 48:7 - “Long ago, as I was returning from Paddan-aram, Rachel died in the land of Canaan. We were still on the way, some distance from Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). So with great sorrow I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath.”

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Gen 49:6 - May I never join in their meetings;
may I never be a party to their plans.
For in their anger they murdered men,
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Gen 49:7 - A curse on their anger, for it is fierce;
a curse on their wrath, for it is cruel.
I will scatter them among the descendants of Jacob;
I will disperse them throughout Israel.

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Gen 50:8 - Joseph also took his entire household and his brothers and their households. But they left their little children and flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.

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Gen 50:9 - A great number of chariots and charioteers accompanied Joseph.

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Gen 50:22 - So Joseph and his brothers and their families continued to live in Egypt. Joseph lived to the age of 110.

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Exo 1:6 - In time, Joseph and all of his brothers died, ending that entire generation.

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Exo 1:7 - But their descendants, the Israelites, had many children and grandchildren. In fact, they multiplied so greatly that they became extremely powerful and filled the land.

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Exo 2:3 - But when she could no longer hide him, she got a basket made of papyrus reeds and waterproofed it with tar and pitch. She put the baby in the basket and laid it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile River.

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Exo 2:4 - The baby's sister then stood at a distance, watching to see what would happen to him.

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Exo 2:5 - Soon Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe in the river, and her attendants walked along the riverbank. When the princess saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maid to get it for her.

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Exo 2:6 - When the princess opened it, she saw the baby. The little boy was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This must be one of the Hebrew children,” she said.

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Exo 2:7 - Then the baby's sister approached the princess. “Should I go and find one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?” she asked.

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Exo 2:8 - “Yes, do!” the princess replied. So the girl went and called the baby's mother.

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Exo 2:9 - “Take this baby and nurse him for me,” the princess told the baby's mother. “I will pay you for your help.” So the woman took her baby home and nursed him.

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Exo 2:22 - Later she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,[fn] for he explained, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”

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Exo 2:23 - Years passed, and the king of Egypt died. But the Israelites continued to groan under their burden of slavery. They cried out for help, and their cry rose up to God.

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Exo 3:18 - “The elders of Israel will accept your message. Then you and the elders must go to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the LORD, our God.'

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Exo 4:6 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Now put your hand inside your cloak.” So Moses put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out again, his hand was white as snow with a severe skin disease.[fn]

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Exo 6:14 - These are the ancestors of some of the clans of Israel: The sons of Reuben, Israel's oldest son, were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. Their descendants became the clans of Reuben.

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Exo 7:12 - They threw down their staffs, which also became serpents! But then Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.

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Exo 7:13 - Pharaoh's heart, however, remained hard. He still refused to listen, just as the LORD had predicted.

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Exo 7:14 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh's heart is stubborn,[fn] and he still refuses to let the people go.

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Exo 7:22 - But again the magicians of Egypt used their magic, and they, too, turned water into blood. So Pharaoh's heart remained hard. He refused to listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had predicted.

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Exo 8:14 - The Egyptians piled them into great heaps, and a terrible stench filled the land.

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Exo 8:15 - But when Pharaoh saw that relief had come, he became stubborn.[fn] He refused to listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had predicted.

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Exo 8:19 - “This is the finger of God!” the magicians exclaimed to Pharaoh. But Pharaoh's heart remained hard. He wouldn't listen to them, just as the LORD had predicted.

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Exo 8:22 - But this time I will spare the region of Goshen, where my people live. No flies will be found there. Then you will know that I am the LORD and that I am present even in the heart of your land.

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Exo 8:24 - And the LORD did just as he had said. A thick swarm of flies filled Pharaoh's palace and the houses of his officials. The whole land of Egypt was thrown into chaos by the flies.

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Exo 8:29 - Moses answered, “As soon as I leave you, I will pray to the LORD, and tomorrow the swarms of flies will disappear from you and your officials and all your people. But I am warning you, Pharaoh, don't lie to us again and refuse to let the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.”

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Exo 9:7 - Pharaoh sent his officials to investigate, and they discovered that the Israelites had not lost a single animal! But even so, Pharaoh's heart remained stubborn,[fn] and he still refused to let the people go.

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Exo 9:19 - Quick! Order your livestock and servants to come in from the fields to find shelter. Any person or animal left outside will die when the hail falls.'”

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Exo 9:24 - Never in all the history of Egypt had there been a storm like that, with such devastating hail and continuous lightning.

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Exo 9:25 - It left all of Egypt in ruins. The hail struck down everything in the open field—people, animals, and plants alike. Even the trees were destroyed.

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Exo 9:26 - The only place without hail was the region of Goshen, where the people of Israel lived.

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Exo 9:29 - “All right,” Moses replied. “As soon as I leave the city, I will lift my hands and pray to the LORD. Then the thunder and hail will stop, and you will know that the earth belongs to the LORD.

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Exo 9:31 - (All the flax and barley were ruined by the hail, because the barley had formed heads and the flax was budding.

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Exo 9:32 - But the wheat and the emmer wheat were spared, because they had not yet sprouted from the ground.)

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Exo 9:33 - So Moses left Pharaoh's court and went out of the city. When he lifted his hands to the LORD, the thunder and hail stopped, and the downpour ceased.

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Exo 9:34 - But when Pharaoh saw that the rain, hail, and thunder had stopped, he and his officials sinned again, and Pharaoh again became stubborn.[fn]

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Exo 9:35 - Because his heart was hard, Pharaoh refused to let the people leave, just as the LORD had predicted through Moses.

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Exo 10:5 - They will cover the land so that you won't be able to see the ground. They will devour what little is left of your crops after the hailstorm, including all the trees growing in the fields.

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Exo 10:12 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Raise your hand over the land of Egypt to bring on the locusts. Let them cover the land and devour every plant that survived the hailstorm.”

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Exo 10:15 - For the locusts covered the whole country and darkened the land. They devoured every plant in the fields and all the fruit on the trees that had survived the hailstorm. Not a single leaf was left on the trees and plants throughout the land of Egypt.

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Exo 10:24 - Finally, Pharaoh called for Moses. “Go and worship the LORD,” he said. “But leave your flocks and herds here. You may even take your little ones with you.”

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Exo 12:14 - “This is a day to remember. Each year, from generation to generation, you must celebrate it as a special festival to the LORD. This is a law for all time.

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Exo 12:15 - For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast. On the first day of the festival, remove every trace of yeast from your homes. Anyone who eats bread made with yeast during the seven days of the festival will be cut off from the community of Israel.

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Exo 12:16 - On the first day of the festival and again on the seventh day, all the people must observe an official day for holy assembly. No work of any kind may be done on these days except in the preparation of food.

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Exo 12:19 - During those seven days, there must be no trace of yeast in your homes. Anyone who eats anything made with yeast during this week will be cut off from the community of Israel. These regulations apply both to the foreigners living among you and to the native-born Israelites.

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Exo 12:26 - Then your children will ask, ‘What does this ceremony mean?'

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Exo 12:40 - The people of Israel had lived in Egypt[fn] for 430 years.

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Exo 12:41 - In fact, it was on the last day of the 430th year that all the LORD's forces left the land.

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Exo 12:42 - On this night the LORD kept his promise to bring his people out of the land of Egypt. So this night belongs to him, and it must be commemorated every year by all the Israelites, from generation to generation.

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Exo 14:3 - Then Pharaoh will think, ‘The Israelites are confused. They are trapped in the wilderness!'

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Exo 14:5 - When word reached the king of Egypt that the Israelites had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds. “What have we done, letting all those Israelite slaves get away?” they asked.

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Exo 14:9 - The Egyptians chased after them with all the forces in Pharaoh's army—all his horses and chariots, his charioteers, and his troops. The Egyptians caught up with the people of Israel as they were camped beside the shore near Pi-hahiroth, across from Baal-zephon.

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Exo 14:20 - The cloud settled between the Egyptian and Israelite camps. As darkness fell, the cloud turned to fire, lighting up the night. But the Egyptians and Israelites did not approach each other all night.

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Exo 14:23 - Then the Egyptians—all of Pharaoh's horses, chariots, and charioteers—chased them into the middle of the sea.

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Exo 15:6 - “Your right hand, O LORD,
is glorious in power.
Your right hand, O LORD,
smashes the enemy.

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Exo 15:9 - “The enemy boasted, ‘I will chase them
and catch up with them.
I will plunder them
and consume them.
I will flash my sword;
my powerful hand will destroy them.'

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Exo 15:20 - Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron's sister, took a tambourine and led all the women as they played their tambourines and danced.

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Exo 16:10 - And as Aaron spoke to the whole community of Israel, they looked out toward the wilderness. There they could see the awesome glory of the LORD in the cloud.

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Exo 17:9 - Moses commanded Joshua, “Choose some men to go out and fight the army of Amalek for us. Tomorrow, I will stand at the top of the hill, holding the staff of God in my hand.”

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Exo 18:5 - Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, now came to visit Moses in the wilderness. He brought Moses' wife and two sons with him, and they arrived while Moses and the people were camped near the mountain of God.

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Exo 18:6 - Jethro had sent a message to Moses, saying, “I, Jethro, your father-in-law, am coming to see you with your wife and your two sons.”

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Exo 19:5 - Now if you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own special treasure from among all the peoples on earth; for all the earth belongs to me.

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Exo 19:13 - No hand may touch the person or animal that crosses the boundary; instead, stone them or shoot them with arrows. They must be put to death.' However, when the ram's horn sounds a long blast, then the people may go up on the mountain.[fn]”

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Exo 20:10 - but the seventh day is a Sabbath day of rest dedicated to the LORD your God. On that day no one in your household may do any work. This includes you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, your livestock, and any foreigners living among you.

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Exo 21:3 - If he was single when he became your slave, he shall leave single. But if he was married before he became a slave, then his wife must be freed with him.

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Exo 21:4 - “If his master gave him a wife while he was a slave and they had sons or daughters, then only the man will be free in the seventh year, but his wife and children will still belong to his master.

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Exo 22:9 - “Suppose there is a dispute between two people who both claim to own a particular ox, donkey, sheep, article of clothing, or any lost property. Both parties must come before God, and the person whom God declares[fn] guilty must pay double compensation to the other.

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Exo 22:17 - But if her father refuses to let him marry her, the man must still pay him an amount equal to the bride price of a virgin.

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Exo 23:22 - But if you are careful to obey him, following all my instructions, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will oppose those who oppose you.

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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 would multiply and threaten you.

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Exo 24:15 - Then Moses climbed up the mountain, and the cloud covered it.

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Exo 24:16 - And the glory of the LORD settled down on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day the LORD called to Moses from inside the cloud.

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Exo 25:3 - Here is a list of sacred offerings you may accept from them:
gold, silver, and bronze;

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Exo 25:28 - Make these poles from acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

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Exo 26:2 - These ten curtains must all be exactly the same size—42 feet long and 6 feet wide.[fn]

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Exo 26:3 - Join five of these curtains together to make one long curtain, then join the other five into a second long curtain.

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Exo 26:6 - Then make fifty gold clasps and fasten the long curtains together with the clasps. In this way, the Tabernacle will be made of one continuous piece.

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Exo 27:5 - Install the grating halfway down the side of the altar, under the ledge.

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Exo 27:19 - “All the articles used in the rituals of the Tabernacle, including all the tent pegs used to support the Tabernacle and the courtyard curtains, must be made of bronze.

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Exo 28:35 - Aaron will wear this robe whenever he ministers before the LORD, and the bells will tinkle as he goes in and out of the LORD's presence in the Holy Place. If he wears it, he will not die.

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Exo 29:21 - Then take some of the blood from the altar and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his sons and on their garments. In this way, they and their garments will be set apart as holy.

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Exo 29:29 - “Aaron's sacred garments must be preserved for his descendants who succeed him, and they will wear them when they are anointed and ordained.

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Exo 31:14 - You must keep the Sabbath day, for it is a holy day for you. Anyone who desecrates it must be put to death; anyone who works on that day will be cut off from the community.

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Exo 32:16 - These tablets were God's work; the words on them were written by God himself.

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Exo 33:22 - As my glorious presence passes by, I will hide you in the crevice of the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by.

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Exo 34:29 - When Moses came down Mount Sinai carrying the two stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant,[fn] he wasn't aware that his face had become radiant because he had spoken to the LORD.

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Exo 34:30 - So when Aaron and the people of Israel saw the radiance of Moses' face, they were afraid to come near him.

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Exo 35:21 - All whose hearts were stirred and whose spirits were moved came and brought their sacred offerings to the LORD. They brought all the materials needed for the Tabernacle,[fn] for the performance of its rituals, and for the sacred garments.

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Exo 35:29 - So the people of Israel—every man and woman who was eager to help in the work the LORD had given them through Moses—brought their gifts and gave them freely to the LORD.

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Exo 38:21 - This is an inventory of the materials used in building the Tabernacle of the Covenant.[fn] The Levites compiled the figures, as Moses directed, and Ithamar son of Aaron the priest served as recorder.

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

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Exo 40:34 - Then the cloud covered the Tabernacle, and the glory of the LORD filled the Tabernacle.

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Exo 40:35 - Moses could no longer enter the Tabernacle because the cloud had settled down over it, and the glory of the LORD filled the Tabernacle.

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Exo 40:36 - Now whenever the cloud lifted from the Tabernacle, the people of Israel would set out on their journey, following it.

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Exo 40:37 - But if the cloud did not rise, they remained where they were until it lifted.

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Lev 4:14 - When they become aware of their sin, the people must bring a young bull as an offering for their sin and present it before the Tabernacle.

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Lev 4:20 - just as he does with the bull offered as a sin offering for the high priest. Through this process, the priest will purify the people, making them right with the LORD,[fn] and they will be forgiven.

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Lev 4:23 - When he becomes aware of his sin, he must bring as his offering a male goat with no defects.

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Lev 4:28 - When they become aware of their sin, they must bring as an offering for their sin a female goat with no defects.

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Lev 5:4 - “Or suppose you make a foolish vow of any kind, whether its purpose is for good or for bad. When you realize its foolishness, you must admit your guilt.

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Lev 5:6 - Then you must bring to the LORD as the penalty for your sin a female from the flock, either a sheep or a goat. This is a sin offering with which the priest will purify you from your sin, making you right with the LORD.[fn]

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Lev 5:7 - “But if you cannot afford to bring a sheep, you may bring to the LORD two turtledoves or two young pigeons as the penalty for your sin. One of the birds will be for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

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Lev 5:11 - “If you cannot afford to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, you may bring two quarts[fn] of choice flour for your sin offering. Since it is an offering for sin, you must not moisten it with olive oil or put any frankincense on it.

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Lev 5:13 - Through this process, the priest will purify those who are guilty of any of these sins, making them right with the LORD, and they will be forgiven. The rest of the flour will belong to the priest, just as with the grain offering.”

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Lev 5:17 - “Suppose you sin by violating one of the LORD's commands. Even if you are unaware of what you have done, you are guilty and will be punished for your sin.

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Lev 6:9 - “Give Aaron and his sons the following instructions regarding the burnt offering. The burnt offering must be left on top of the altar until the next morning, and the fire on the altar must be kept burning all night.

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Lev 7:18 - If any of the meat from the peace offering is eaten on the third day, the person who presented it will not be accepted by the LORD. You will receive no credit for offering it. By then the meat will be contaminated; if you eat it, you will be punished for your sin.

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Lev 7:20 - If you are ceremonially unclean and you eat meat from a peace offering that was presented to the LORD, you will be cut off from the community.

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Lev 7:21 - If you touch anything that is unclean (whether it is human defilement or an unclean animal or any other unclean, detestable thing) and then eat meat from a peace offering presented to the LORD, you will be cut off from the community.”

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Lev 7:25 - Anyone who eats fat from an animal presented as a special gift to the LORD will be cut off from the community.

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Lev 7:27 - Anyone who consumes blood will be cut off from the community.”

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Lev 7:35 - This is their rightful share. The special gifts presented to the LORD have been reserved for Aaron and his descendants from the time they were set apart to serve the LORD as priests.

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Lev 9:23 - Then Moses and Aaron went into the Tabernacle, and when they came back out, they blessed the people again, and the glory of the LORD appeared to the whole community.

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Lev 11:29 - “Of the small animals that scurry along the ground, these are unclean for you: the mole rat, the rat, large lizards of all kinds,

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Lev 12:8 - “If a woman cannot afford to bring a lamb, she must bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons. One will be for the burnt offering and the other for the purification offering. The priest will sacrifice them to purify her, and she will be ceremonially clean.”

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Lev 13:3 - The priest will examine the affected area of the skin. If the hair in the affected area has turned white and the problem appears to be more than skin-deep, it is a serious skin disease, and the priest who examines it must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean.

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Lev 13:4 - “But if the affected area of the skin is only a white discoloration and does not appear to be more than skin-deep, and if the hair on the spot has not turned white, the priest will quarantine the person for seven days.

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Lev 13:5 - On the seventh day the priest will make another examination. If he finds the affected area has not changed and the problem has not spread on the skin, the priest will quarantine the person for seven more days.

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Lev 13:6 - On the seventh day the priest will make another examination. If he finds the affected area has faded and has not spread, the priest will pronounce the person ceremonially clean. It was only a rash. The person's clothing must be washed, and the person will be ceremonially clean.

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Lev 13:7 - But if the rash continues to spread after the person has been examined by the priest and has been pronounced clean, the infected person must return to be examined again.

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Lev 13:8 - If the priest finds that the rash has spread, he must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean, for it is indeed a skin disease.

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Lev 13:12 - “Now suppose the disease has spread all over the person's skin, covering the body from head to foot.

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Lev 13:13 - When the priest examines the infected person and finds that the disease covers the entire body, he will pronounce the person ceremonially clean. Since the skin has turned completely white, the person is clean.

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Lev 13:17 - for another examination. If the affected areas have indeed turned white, the priest will then pronounce the person ceremonially clean by declaring, ‘You are clean!'

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Lev 13:20 - If the priest examines it and finds it to be more than skin-deep, and if the hair in the affected area has turned white, the priest must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean. The boil has become a serious skin disease.

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Lev 13:25 - the priest must examine it. If he finds that the hair in the affected area has turned white and the problem appears to be more than skin-deep, a skin disease has broken out in the burn. The priest must then pronounce the person ceremonially unclean, for it is clearly a serious skin disease.

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Lev 13:28 - But if the affected area has not changed or spread on the skin and has faded, it is simply a swelling from the burn. The priest will then pronounce the person ceremonially clean, for it is only the scar from the burn.

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Lev 13:30 - the priest must examine it. If he finds it is more than skin-deep and has fine yellow hair on it, the priest must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean. It is a scabby sore of the head or chin.

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Lev 13:31 - If the priest examines the scabby sore and finds that it is only skin-deep but there is no black hair on it, he must quarantine the person for seven days.

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Lev 13:32 - On the seventh day the priest must examine the sore again. If he finds that the scabby sore has not spread, and there is no yellow hair on it, and it appears to be only skin-deep,

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Lev 13:34 - On the seventh day he will examine the sore again. If it has not spread and appears to be no more than skin-deep, the priest will pronounce the person ceremonially clean. The person's clothing must be washed, and the person will be ceremonially clean.

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Lev 13:40 - “If a man loses his hair and his head becomes bald, he is still ceremonially clean.

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Lev 13:41 - And if he loses hair on his forehead, he simply has a bald forehead; he is still clean.

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Lev 13:43 - The priest must examine him, and if he finds swelling around the reddish white sore anywhere on the man's head and it looks like a skin disease,

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Lev 13:44 - the man is indeed infected with a skin disease and is unclean. The priest must pronounce him ceremonially unclean because of the sore on his head.

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Lev 13:45 - “Those who suffer from a serious skin disease must tear their clothing and leave their hair uncombed.[fn] They must cover their mouth and call out, ‘Unclean! Unclean!'

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Lev 13:46 - As long as the serious disease lasts, they will be ceremonially unclean. They must live in isolation in their place outside the camp.

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Lev 13:49 - If the contaminated area in the clothing, the animal hide, the fabric, or the leather article has turned greenish or reddish, it is contaminated with mildew and must be shown to the priest.

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Lev 13:51 - On the seventh day the priest must inspect it again. If the contaminated area has spread, the clothing or fabric or leather is clearly contaminated by a serious mildew and is ceremonially unclean.

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Lev 13:52 - The priest must burn the item—the clothing, the woolen or linen fabric, or piece of leather—for it has been contaminated by a serious mildew. It must be completely destroyed by fire.

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Lev 13:53 - “But if the priest examines it and finds that the contaminated area has not spread in the clothing, the fabric, or the leather,

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Lev 13:54 - the priest will order the object to be washed and then quarantined for seven more days.

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Lev 13:55 - Then the priest must examine the object again. If he finds that the contaminated area has not changed color after being washed, even if it did not spread, the object is defiled. It must be completely burned up, whether the contaminated spot[fn] is on the inside or outside.

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Lev 13:56 - But if the priest examines it and finds that the contaminated area has faded after being washed, he must cut the spot from the clothing, the fabric, or the leather.

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Lev 13:57 - If the spot later reappears on the clothing, the fabric, or the leather article, the mildew is clearly spreading, and the contaminated object must be burned up.

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Lev 13:58 - But if the spot disappears from the clothing, the fabric, or the leather article after it has been washed, it must be washed again; then it will be ceremonially clean.

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Lev 14:3 - who will examine them at a place outside the camp. If the priest finds that someone has been healed of a serious skin disease,

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Lev 14:21 - “But anyone who is too poor and cannot afford these offerings may bring one male lamb for a guilt offering, to be lifted up as a special offering for purification. The person must also bring two quarts[fn] of choice flour moistened with olive oil for the grain offering and a cup of olive oil.

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Lev 14:22 - The offering must also include two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whichever the person can afford. One of the pair must be used for the sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

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Lev 14:30 - “Then the priest will offer the two turtledoves or the two young pigeons, whichever the person can afford.

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Lev 14:32 - These are the instructions for purification for those who have recovered from a serious skin disease but who cannot afford to bring the offerings normally required for the ceremony of purification.”

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Lev 14:35 - The owner of such a house must then go to the priest and say, ‘It appears that my house has some kind of mildew.'

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Lev 14:37 - Then the priest will go in and examine the mildew on the walls. If he finds greenish or reddish streaks and the contamination appears to go deeper than the wall's surface,

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Lev 14:39 - On the seventh day the priest must return for another inspection. If he finds that the mildew on the walls of the house has spread,

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Lev 14:40 - the priest must order that the stones from those areas be removed. The contaminated material will then be taken outside the town to an area designated as ceremonially unclean.

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Lev 14:44 - the priest must return and inspect the house again. If he finds that the mildew has spread, the walls are clearly contaminated with a serious mildew, and the house is defiled.

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Lev 14:48 - “But if the priest returns for his inspection and finds that the mildew has not reappeared in the house after the fresh plastering, he will pronounce it clean because the mildew is clearly gone.

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Lev 15:2 - “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel.
“Any man who has a bodily discharge is ceremonially unclean.

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Lev 15:3 - This defilement is caused by his discharge, whether the discharge continues or stops. In either case the man is unclean.

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Lev 15:19 - “Whenever a woman has her menstrual period, she will be ceremonially unclean for seven days. Anyone who touches her during that time will be unclean until evening.

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Lev 15:24 - If a man has sexual intercourse with her and her blood touches him, her menstrual impurity will be transmitted to him. He will remain unclean for seven days, and any bed on which he lies will be unclean.

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Lev 16:13 - There in the LORD's presence he will put the incense on the burning coals so that a cloud of incense will rise over the Ark's cover—the place of atonement—that rests on the Ark of the Covenant.[fn] If he follows these instructions, he will not die.

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Lev 17:4 - instead of bringing it to the entrance of the Tabernacle[fn] to present it as an offering to the LORD, that person will be as guilty as a murderer.[fn] Such a person has shed blood and will be cut off from the community.

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Lev 17:11 - for the life of the body is in its blood. I have given you the blood on the altar to purify you, making you right with the LORD.[fn] It is the blood, given in exchange for a life, that makes purification possible.

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Lev 17:14 - The life of every creature is in its blood. That is why I have said to the people of Israel, ‘You must never eat or drink blood, for the life of any creature is in its blood.' So whoever consumes blood will be cut off from the community.

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Lev 18:25 - Because the entire land has become defiled, I am punishing the people who live there. I will cause the land to vomit them out.

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Lev 18:27 - “All these detestable activities are practiced by the people of the land where I am taking you, and this is how the land has become defiled.

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Lev 18:28 - So do not defile the land and give it a reason to vomit you out, as it will vomit out the people who live there now.

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Lev 19:18 - “Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against a fellow Israelite, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

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Lev 19:22 - The priest will then purify him[fn] before the LORD with the ram of the guilt offering, and the man's sin will be forgiven.

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Lev 19:29 - “Do not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be filled with prostitution and wickedness.

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Lev 20:10 - “If a man commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, both the man and the woman who have committed adultery must be put to death.

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Lev 20:22 - “You must keep all my decrees and regulations by putting them into practice; otherwise the land to which I am bringing you as your new home will vomit you out.

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Lev 22:3 - Give them the following instructions.
“In all future generations, if any of your descendants is ceremonially unclean when he approaches the sacred offerings that the people of Israel consecrate to the LORD, he must be cut off from my presence. I am the LORD.

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Lev 23:7 - On the first day of the festival, all the people must stop their ordinary work and observe an official day for holy assembly.

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Lev 23:8 - For seven days you must present special gifts to the LORD. On the seventh day the people must again stop all their ordinary work to observe an official day for holy assembly.”

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Lev 23:30 - And I will destroy anyone among you who does any work on that day.

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Lev 23:35 - On the first day of the festival you must proclaim an official day for holy assembly, when you do no ordinary work.

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Lev 23:36 - For seven days you must present special gifts to the LORD. The eighth day is another holy day on which you present your special gifts to the LORD. This will be a solemn occasion, and no ordinary work may be done that day.

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Lev 24:14 - “Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and tell all those who heard the curse to lay their hands on his head. Then let the entire community stone him to death.

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Lev 25:2 - “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. When you have entered the land I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath rest before the LORD every seventh year.

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Lev 25:19 - Then the land will yield large crops, and you will eat your fill and live securely in it.

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Lev 25:23 - “The land must never be sold on a permanent basis, for the land belongs to me. You are only foreigners and tenant farmers working for me.

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Lev 25:28 - But if the original owner cannot afford to buy back the land, it will remain with the new owner until the next Year of Jubilee. In the jubilee year, the land must be returned to the original owners so they can return to their family land.

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Lev 25:29 - “Anyone who sells a house inside a walled town has the right to buy it back for a full year after its sale. During that year, the seller retains the right to buy it back.

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Lev 25:30 - But if it is not bought back within a year, the sale of the house within the walled town cannot be reversed. It will become the permanent property of the buyer. It will not be returned to the original owner in the Year of Jubilee.

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Lev 25:33 - And any property that is sold by the Levites—all houses within the Levitical towns—must be returned in the Year of Jubilee. After all, the houses in the towns reserved for the Levites are the only property they own in all Israel.

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Lev 25:47 - “Suppose a foreigner or temporary resident becomes rich while living among you. If any of your fellow Israelites fall into poverty and are forced to sell themselves to such a foreigner or to a member of his family,

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Lev 26:4 - I will send you the seasonal rains. The land will then yield its crops, and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.

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Lev 26:11 - I will live among you, and I will not despise you.

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Lev 26:15 - and if you break my covenant by rejecting my decrees, treating my regulations with contempt, and refusing to obey my commands,

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Lev 26:20 - All your work will be for nothing, for your land will yield no crops, and your trees will bear no fruit.

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Lev 26:30 - I will destroy your pagan shrines and knock down your places of worship. I will leave your lifeless corpses piled on top of your lifeless idols,[fn] and I will despise you.

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Lev 26:33 - I will scatter you among the nations and bring out my sword against you. Your land will become desolate, and your cities will lie in ruins.

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Lev 26:34 - Then at last the land will enjoy its neglected Sabbath years as it lies desolate while you are in exile in the land of your enemies. Then the land will finally rest and enjoy the Sabbaths it missed.

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Lev 26:38 - You will die among the foreign nations and be devoured in the land of your enemies.

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Lev 26:41 - When I have turned their hostility back on them and brought them to the land of their enemies, then at last their stubborn hearts will be humbled, and they will pay for their sins.

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Lev 26:43 - For the land must be abandoned to enjoy its years of Sabbath rest as it lies deserted. At last the people will pay for their sins, for they have continually rejected my regulations and despised my decrees.

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Lev 27:3 - here is the scale of values to be used. A man between the ages of twenty and sixty is valued at fifty shekels[fn] of silver, as measured by the sanctuary shekel.

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Lev 27:4 - A woman of that age is valued at thirty shekels[fn] of silver.

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Lev 27:5 - A boy between the ages of five and twenty is valued at twenty shekels of silver; a girl of that age is valued at ten shekels[fn] of silver.

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Lev 27:6 - A boy between the ages of one month and five years is valued at five shekels of silver; a girl of that age is valued at three shekels[fn] of silver.

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Lev 27:7 - A man older than sixty is valued at fifteen shekels of silver; a woman of that age is valued at ten shekels[fn] of silver.

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Lev 27:8 - If you desire to make such a vow but cannot afford to pay the required amount, take the person to the priest. He will determine the amount for you to pay based on what you can afford.

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Lev 27:16 - “If someone dedicates to the LORD a piece of his family property, its value will be assessed according to the amount of seed required to plant it—fifty shekels of silver for a field planted with five bushels of barley seed.[fn]

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Lev 27:21 - When the field is released in the Year of Jubilee, it will be holy, a field specially set apart[fn] for the LORD. It will become the property of the priests.

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Lev 27:24 - In the Year of Jubilee the field must be returned to the person from whom he purchased it, the one who inherited it as family property.

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Num 1:21 - This is the number of men twenty years old or older who were able to go to war, as their names were listed in the records of their clans and families[fn]:

Tribe	Number
Reuben (Jacob's[fn] oldest son)	46,500

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Simeon

59,300

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Gad

45,650

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Judah

74,600

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Issachar

54,400

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Zebulun

57,400

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Ephraim son of Joseph

40,500

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Manasseh son of Joseph

32,200

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Benjamin

35,400

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Dan

62,700

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Asher

41,500

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Naphtali

53,400

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Num 1:44 - These were the men registered by Moses and Aaron and the twelve leaders of Israel, all listed according to their ancestral descent.

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Num 1:45 - They were registered by families—all the men of Israel who were twenty years old or older and able to go to war.

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Num 2:17 - “Then the Tabernacle, carried by the Levites, will set out from the middle of the camp. All the tribes are to travel in the same order that they camp, each in position under the appropriate family banner.

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Num 2:32 - In summary, the troops of Israel listed by their families totaled 603,550.

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Num 3:22 - There were 7,500 males one month old or older among these Gershonite clans.

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Num 3:25 - These two clans were responsible to care for the Tabernacle, including the sacred tent with its layers of coverings, the curtain at its entrance,

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Num 3:31 - These four clans were responsible for the care of the Ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the various articles used in the sanctuary, the inner curtain, and all the equipment related to their use.

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Num 3:34 - There were 6,200 males one month old or older among these Merarite clans.

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Num 3:36 - These two clans were responsible for the care of the frames supporting the Tabernacle, the crossbars, the pillars, the bases, and all the equipment related to their use.

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Num 3:39 - When Moses and Aaron counted the Levite clans at the LORD's command, the total number was 22,000 males one month old or older.

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Num 4:5 - When the camp moves, Aaron and his sons must enter the Tabernacle first to take down the inner curtain and cover the Ark of the Covenant[fn] with it.

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Num 4:16 - “Eleazar son of Aaron the priest will be responsible for the oil of the lampstand, the fragrant incense, the daily grain offering, and the anointing oil. In fact, Eleazar will be responsible for the entire Tabernacle and everything in it, including the sanctuary and its furnishings.”

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Num 4:24 - “These Gershonite clans will be responsible for general service and carrying loads.

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Num 4:27 - Aaron and his sons will direct the Gershonites regarding all their duties, whether it involves moving the equipment or doing other work. They must assign the Gershonites responsibility for the loads they are to carry.

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Num 4:28 - So these are the duties assigned to the Gershonite clans at the Tabernacle. They will be directly responsible to Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

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Num 4:33 - So these are the duties of the Merarite clans at the Tabernacle. They are directly responsible to Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.”

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Num 4:36 - and the total number came to 2,750.

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Num 4:37 - So this was the total of all those from the Kohathite clans who were eligible to serve at the Tabernacle. Moses and Aaron listed them, just as the LORD had commanded through Moses.

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Num 4:40 - and the total number came to 2,630.

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Num 4:41 - So this was the total of all those from the Gershonite clans who were eligible to serve at the Tabernacle. Moses and Aaron listed them, just as the LORD had commanded.

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Num 4:44 - and the total number came to 3,200.

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Num 4:45 - So this was the total of all those from the Merarite clans who were eligible for service. Moses and Aaron listed them, just as the LORD had commanded through Moses.

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Num 5:6 - “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel: If any of the people—men or women—betray the LORD by doing wrong to another person, they are guilty.

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Num 5:12 - “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel.
“Suppose a man's wife goes astray, and she is unfaithful to her husband

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Num 5:22 - Now may this water that brings the curse enter your body and cause your abdomen to swell and your womb to shrivel.[fn]' And the woman will be required to say, ‘Yes, let it be so.'

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Num 5:27 - If she has defiled herself by being unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings on the curse will cause bitter suffering. Her abdomen will swell and her womb will shrink,[fn] and her name will become a curse among her people.

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Num 5:28 - But if she has not defiled herself and is pure, then she will be unharmed and will still be able to have children.

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Num 5:29 - “This is the ritual law for dealing with suspicion. If a woman goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband's authority,

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Num 5:31 - The husband will be innocent of any guilt in this matter, but his wife will be held accountable for her sin.”

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Num 6:9 - “If someone falls dead beside them, the hair they have dedicated will be defiled. They must wait for seven days and then shave their heads. Then they will be cleansed from their defilement.

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Num 6:21 - “This is the ritual law of the Nazirites, who vow to bring these offerings to the LORD. They may also bring additional offerings if they can afford it. And they must be careful to do whatever they vowed when they set themselves apart as Nazirites.”

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Num 7:85 - Each silver platter weighed 3¼ pounds, and each silver basin weighed 1¾ pounds. The total weight of the silver was 60 pounds[fn] (as measured by the weight of the sanctuary shekel).

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Num 7:88 - Twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty male goats, and sixty one-year-old male lambs were donated for the peace offerings. This was the dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed.

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Num 8:4 - The entire lampstand, from its base to its decorative blossoms, was made of beaten gold. It was built according to the exact design the LORD had shown Moses.

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Num 9:13 - “But those who neglect to celebrate the Passover at the regular time, even though they are ceremonially clean and not away on a trip, will be cut off from the community of Israel. If they fail to present the LORD's offering at the proper time, they will suffer the consequences of their guilt.

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Num 9:15 - On the day the Tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered it.[fn] But from evening until morning the cloud over the Tabernacle looked like a pillar of fire.

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Num 9:16 - This was the regular pattern—at night the cloud that covered the Tabernacle had the appearance of fire.

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Num 9:17 - Whenever the cloud lifted from over the sacred tent, the people of Israel would break camp and follow it. And wherever the cloud settled, the people of Israel would set up camp.

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Num 9:18 - In this way, they traveled and camped at the LORD's command wherever he told them to go. Then they remained in their camp as long as the cloud stayed over the Tabernacle.

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Num 9:19 - If the cloud remained over the Tabernacle for a long time, the Israelites stayed and performed their duty to the LORD.

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Num 9:20 - Sometimes the cloud would stay over the Tabernacle for only a few days, so the people would stay for only a few days, as the LORD commanded. Then at the LORD's command they would break camp and move on.

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Num 9:21 - Sometimes the cloud stayed only overnight and lifted the next morning. But day or night, when the cloud lifted, the people broke camp and moved on.

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Num 10:3 - When both trumpets are blown, everyone must gather before you at the entrance of the Tabernacle.[fn]

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Num 10:11 - In the second year after Israel's departure from Egypt—on the twentieth day of the second month[fn]—the cloud lifted from the Tabernacle of the Covenant.[fn]

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Num 10:12 - So the Israelites set out from the wilderness of Sinai and traveled on from place to place until the cloud stopped in the wilderness of Paran.

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Num 10:33 - They marched for three days after leaving the mountain of the LORD, with the Ark of the LORD's Covenant moving ahead of them to show them where to stop and rest.

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Num 10:34 - As they moved on each day, the cloud of the LORD hovered over them.

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Num 11:6 - But now our appetites are gone. All we ever see is this manna!”

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Num 11:8 - The people would go out and gather it from the ground. They made flour by grinding it with hand mills or pounding it in mortars. Then they boiled it in a pot and made it into flat cakes. These cakes tasted like pastries baked with olive oil.

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Num 11:9 - The manna came down on the camp with the dew during the night.

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Num 12:10 - As the cloud moved from above the Tabernacle, there stood Miriam, her skin as white as snow from leprosy.[fn] When Aaron saw what had happened to her,

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Num 13:19 - See what kind of land they live in. Is it good or bad? Do their towns have walls, or are they unprotected like open camps?

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Num 13:20 - Is the soil fertile or poor? Are there many trees? Do your best to bring back samples of the crops you see.” (It happened to be the season for harvesting the first ripe grapes.)

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Num 14:1 - Then the whole community began weeping aloud, and they cried all night.

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Num 14:2 - Their voices rose in a great chorus of protest against Moses and Aaron. “If only we had died in Egypt, or even here in the wilderness!” they complained.

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Num 14:7 - They said to all the people of Israel, “The land we traveled through and explored is a wonderful land!

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Num 14:10 - But the whole community began to talk about stoning Joshua and Caleb. Then the glorious presence of the LORD appeared to all the Israelites at the Tabernacle.[fn]

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Num 14:14 - Now if you destroy them, the Egyptians will send a report to the inhabitants of this land, who have already heard that you live among your people. They know, LORD, that you have appeared to your people face to face and that your pillar of cloud hovers over them. They know that you go before them in the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night.

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Num 14:17 - “Please, Lord, prove that your power is as great as you have claimed. For you said,

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Num 14:21 - But as surely as I live, and as surely as the earth is filled with the LORD's glory,

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Num 14:29 - You will all drop dead in this wilderness! Because you complained against me, every one of you who is twenty years old or older and was included in the registration will die.

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Num 14:44 - But the people defiantly pushed ahead toward the hill country, even though neither Moses nor the Ark of the LORD's Covenant left the camp.

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Num 15:14 - And if any foreigners visit you or live among you and want to present a special gift as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, they must follow these same procedures.

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Num 15:24 - If the mistake was made unintentionally, and the community was unaware of it, the whole community must present a young bull for a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD. It must be offered along with its prescribed grain offering and liquid offering and with one male goat for a sin offering.

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Num 15:30 - “But those who brazenly violate the LORD's will, whether native-born Israelites or foreigners, have blasphemed the LORD, and they must be cut off from the community.

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Num 15:31 - Since they have treated the LORD's word with contempt and deliberately disobeyed his command, they must be completely cut off and suffer the punishment for their guilt.”

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Num 15:35 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “The man must be put to death! The whole community must stone him outside the camp.”

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Num 15:36 - So the whole community took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Num 16:3 - They united against Moses and Aaron and said, “You have gone too far! The whole community of Israel has been set apart by the LORD, and he is with all of us. What right do you have to act as though you are greater than the rest of the LORD's people?”

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Num 16:6 - Korah, you and all your followers must prepare your incense burners.

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Num 16:11 - The LORD is the one you and your followers are really revolting against! For who is Aaron that you are complaining about him?”

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Num 16:19 - Meanwhile, Korah had stirred up the entire community against Moses and Aaron, and they all gathered at the Tabernacle entrance. Then the glorious presence of the LORD appeared to the whole community,

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Num 16:27 - So all the people stood back from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Then Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the entrances of their tents, together with their wives and children and little ones.

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Num 16:30 - But if the LORD does something entirely new and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them and all their belongings, and they go down alive into the grave,[fn] then you will know that these men have shown contempt for the LORD.”

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Num 16:31 - He had hardly finished speaking the words when the ground suddenly split open beneath them.

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Num 16:32 - The earth opened its mouth and swallowed the men, along with their households and all their followers who were standing with them, and everything they owned.

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Num 16:33 - So they went down alive into the grave, along with all their belongings. The earth closed over them, and they all vanished from among the people of Israel.

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Num 16:34 - All the people around them fled when they heard their screams. “The earth will swallow us, too!” they cried.

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Num 16:40 - This would warn the Israelites that no unauthorized person—no one who was not a descendant of Aaron—should ever enter the LORD's presence to burn incense. If anyone did, the same thing would happen to him as happened to Korah and his followers. So the LORD's instructions to Moses were carried out.

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Num 16:42 - As the community gathered to protest against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the Tabernacle and saw that the cloud had covered it, and the glorious presence of the LORD appeared.

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Num 16:47 - Aaron did as Moses told him and ran out among the people. The plague had already begun to strike down the people, but Aaron burned the incense and purified[fn] the people.

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Num 16:48 - He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague stopped.

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Num 16:50 - Then because the plague had stopped, Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the Tabernacle.

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Num 17:5 - Buds will sprout on the staff belonging to the man I choose. Then I will finally put an end to the people's murmuring and complaining against you.”

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Num 17:6 - So Moses gave the instructions to the people of Israel, and each of the twelve tribal leaders, including Aaron, brought Moses a staff.

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Num 17:8 - When he went into the Tabernacle of the Covenant the next day, he found that Aaron's staff, representing the tribe of Levi, had sprouted, budded, blossomed, and produced ripe almonds!

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Num 18:16 - Redeem them when they are one month old. The redemption price is five pieces of silver[fn] (as measured by the weight of the sanctuary shekel, which equals twenty gerahs).

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Num 19:2 - “Here is another legal requirement commanded by the LORD: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer, a perfect animal that has no defects and has never been yoked to a plow.

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Num 19:13 - All those who touch a dead body and do not purify themselves in the proper way defile the LORD's Tabernacle, and they will be cut off from the community of Israel. Since the water of purification was not sprinkled on them, their defilement continues.

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Num 19:20 - “But those who become defiled and do not purify themselves will be cut off from the community, for they have defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. Since the water of purification has not been sprinkled on them, they remain defiled.

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Num 19:22 - Anything and anyone that a defiled person touches will be ceremonially unclean until evening.”

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Num 20:1 - In the first month of the year,[fn] the whole community of Israel arrived in the wilderness of Zin and camped at Kadesh. While they were there, Miriam died and was buried.

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Num 20:6 - Moses and Aaron turned away from the people and went to the entrance of the Tabernacle,[fn] where they fell face down on the ground. Then the glorious presence of the LORD appeared to them,

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Num 20:11 - Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with the staff, and water gushed out. So the entire community and their livestock drank their fill.

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Num 20:22 - The whole community of Israel left Kadesh and arrived at Mount Hor.

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Num 20:29 - When the people realized that Aaron had died, all Israel mourned for him thirty days.

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Num 21:5 - and they began to speak against God and Moses. “Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die here in the wilderness?” they complained. “There is nothing to eat here and nothing to drink. And we hate this horrible manna!”

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Num 22:4 - The king of Moab said to the elders of Midian, “This mob will devour everything in sight, like an ox devours grass in the field!”
So Balak, king of Moab,

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Num 22:7 - Balak's messengers, who were elders of Moab and Midian, set out with money to pay Balaam to place a curse upon Israel.[fn] They went to Balaam and delivered Balak's message to him.

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Num 22:23 - Balaam's donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand. The donkey bolted off the road into a field, but Balaam beat it and turned it back onto the road.

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Num 22:25 - When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, it tried to squeeze by and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall. So Balaam beat the donkey again.

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Num 22:27 - This time when the donkey saw the angel, it lay down under Balaam. In a fit of rage Balaam beat the animal again with his staff.

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Num 22:30 - “But I am the same donkey you have ridden all your life,” the donkey answered. “Have I ever done anything like this before?”
“No,” Balaam admitted.

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Num 22:32 - “Why did you beat your donkey those three times?” the angel of the LORD demanded. “Look, I have come to block your way because you are stubbornly resisting me.

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Num 22:33 - Three times the donkey saw me and shied away; otherwise, I would certainly have killed you by now and spared the donkey.”

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Num 23:10 - Who can count Jacob's descendants, as numerous as dust?
Who can count even a fourth of Israel's people?
Let me die like the righteous;
let my life end like theirs.”

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Num 24:7 - Water will flow from their buckets;
their offspring have all they need.
Their king will be greater than Agag;
their kingdom will be exalted.

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Num 24:21 - Then he looked over toward the Kenites and delivered this message:
“Your home is secure;
your nest is set in the rocks.

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Num 25:8 - and rushed after the man into his tent. Phinehas thrust the spear all the way through the man's body and into the woman's stomach. So the plague against the Israelites was stopped,

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Num 26:7 - These were the clans of Reuben. Their registered troops numbered 43,730.

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Num 26:10 - But the earth opened up its mouth and swallowed them with Korah, and fire devoured 250 of their followers. This served as a warning to the entire nation of Israel.

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Num 26:51 - In summary, the registered troops of all Israel numbered 601,730.

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Num 26:53 - “Divide the land among the tribes, and distribute the grants of land in proportion to the tribes' populations, as indicated by the number of names on the list.

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Num 26:54 - Give the larger tribes more land and the smaller tribes less land, each group receiving a grant in proportion to the size of its population.

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Num 26:55 - But you must assign the land by lot, and give land to each ancestral tribe according to the number of names on the list.

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Num 26:63 - So these are the results of the registration of the people of Israel as conducted by Moses and Eleazar the priest on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho.

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Num 27:17 - Give them someone who will guide them wherever they go and will lead them into battle, so the community of the LORD will not be like sheep without a shepherd.”

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Num 27:21 - When direction from the LORD is needed, Joshua will stand before Eleazar the priest, who will use the Urim—one of the sacred lots cast before the LORD—to determine his will. This is how Joshua and the rest of the community of Israel will determine everything they should do.”

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Num 28:6 - This is the regular burnt offering instituted at Mount Sinai as a special gift, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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Num 28:14 - You must also present a liquid offering with each sacrifice: two quarts[fn] of wine for each bull, a third of a gallon[fn] for the ram, and one quart[fn] for each lamb. Present this monthly burnt offering on the first day of each month throughout the year.

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Num 28:15 - “On the first day of each month, you must also offer one male goat for a sin offering to the LORD. This is in addition to the regular burnt offering and its accompanying liquid offering.

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Num 28:18 - The first day of the festival will be an official day for holy assembly, and no ordinary work may be done on that day.

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Num 28:20 - These will be accompanied by grain offerings of choice flour moistened with olive oil—six quarts with each bull, four quarts with the ram,

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Num 28:25 - The seventh day of the festival will be another official day for holy assembly, and no ordinary work may be done on that day.

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Num 28:28 - These will be accompanied by grain offerings of choice flour moistened with olive oil—six quarts with each bull, four quarts with the ram,

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Num 29:3 - These must be accompanied by grain offerings of choice flour moistened with olive oil—six quarts[fn] with the bull, four quarts[fn] with the ram,

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Num 29:9 - These offerings must be accompanied by the prescribed grain offerings of choice flour moistened with olive oil—six quarts of choice flour with the bull, four quarts of choice flour with the ram,

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Num 29:11 - You must also sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering. This is in addition to the sin offering of atonement and the regular daily burnt offering with its grain offering, and their accompanying liquid offerings.

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Num 29:18 - Each of these offerings of bulls, rams, and lambs must be accompanied by its prescribed grain offering and liquid offering.

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Num 29:21 - Each of these offerings of bulls, rams, and lambs must be accompanied by its prescribed grain offering and liquid offering.

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Num 30:10 - “But suppose a woman is married and living in her husband's home when she makes a vow or binds herself with a pledge.

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Num 31:16 - “These are the very ones who followed Balaam's advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel against the LORD at Mount Peor. They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the LORD's people.

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Num 31:19 - And all of you who have killed anyone or touched a dead body must stay outside the camp for seven days. You must purify yourselves and your captives on the third and seventh days.

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Num 31:36 - Half of the plunder was given to the fighting men. It totaled 337,500 sheep and goats,

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Num 32:5 - If we have found favor with you, please let us have this land as our property instead of giving us land across the Jordan River.”

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Num 32:13 - “The LORD was angry with Israel and made them wander in the wilderness for forty years until the entire generation that sinned in the LORD's sight had died.

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Num 32:17 - Then we will arm ourselves and lead our fellow Israelites into battle until we have brought them safely to their land. Meanwhile, our families will stay in the fortified towns we build here, so they will be safe from any attacks by the local people.

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Num 32:22 - then you may return when the LORD has conquered the land. You will have fulfilled your duty to the LORD and to the rest of the people of Israel. And the land on the east side of the Jordan will be your property from the LORD.

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Num 32:26 - Our children, wives, flocks, and cattle will stay here in the towns of Gilead.

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Num 34:4 - It will then run south past Scorpion Pass[fn] in the direction of Zin. Its southernmost point will be Kadesh-barnea, from which it will go to Hazar-addar, and on to Azmon.

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Num 34:5 - From Azmon the boundary will turn toward the Brook of Egypt and end at the Mediterranean Sea.[fn]

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Num 34:6 - “Your western boundary will be the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea.

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Num 34:8 - then to Lebo-hamath, and on through Zedad

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Num 34:9 - and Ziphron to Hazar-enan. This will be your northern boundary.

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Num 34:12 - and then along the Jordan River to the Dead Sea. These are the boundaries of your land.”

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Num 34:13 - Then Moses told the Israelites, “This territory is the homeland you are to divide among yourselves by sacred lot. The LORD has commanded that the land be divided among the nine and a half remaining tribes.

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Num 35:5 - Measure off 3,000 feet[fn] outside the town walls in every direction—east, south, west, north—with the town at the center. This area will serve as the larger pastureland for the towns.

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Num 35:24 - If this should happen, the community must follow these regulations in making a judgment between the slayer and the avenger, the victim's nearest relative:

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Num 35:25 - The community must protect the slayer from the avenger and must escort the slayer back to live in the city of refuge to which he fled. There he must remain until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the sacred oil.

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Num 35:33 - This will ensure that the land where you live will not be polluted, for murder pollutes the land. And no sacrifice except the execution of the murderer can purify the land from murder.[fn]

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Num 36:4 - Then when the Year of Jubilee comes, their portion of land will be added to that of the new tribe, causing it to be lost forever to our ancestral tribe.”

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Num 36:12 - They married into the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. Thus, their inheritance of land remained within their ancestral tribe.

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Deu 1:17 - and impartial in your judgments. Hear the cases of those who are poor as well as those who are rich. Don't be afraid of anyone's anger, for the decision you make is God's decision. Bring me any cases that are too difficult for you, and I will handle them.'

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Deu 1:25 - They picked some of its fruit and brought it back to us. And they reported, ‘The land the LORD our God has given us is indeed a good land.'

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Deu 2:15 - The LORD struck them down until they had all been eliminated from the community.

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Deu 3:11 - (King Og of Bashan was the last survivor of the giant Rephaites. His bed was made of iron and was more than thirteen feet long and six feet wide.[fn] It can still be seen in the Ammonite city of Rabbah.)

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Deu 3:17 - They also received the Jordan Valley, all the way from the Sea of Galilee down to the Dead Sea,[fn] with the Jordan River serving as the western boundary. To the east were the slopes of Pisgah.

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Deu 4:6 - Obey them completely, and you will display your wisdom and intelligence among the surrounding nations. When they hear all these decrees, they will exclaim, ‘How wise and prudent are the people of this great nation!'

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Deu 4:36 - He let you hear his voice from heaven so he could instruct you. He let you see his great fire here on earth so he could speak to you from it.

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Deu 5:14 - but the seventh day is a Sabbath day of rest dedicated to the LORD your God. On that day no one in your household may do any work. This includes you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, your oxen and donkeys and other livestock, and any foreigners living among you. All your male and female servants must rest as you do.

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Deu 5:23 - “But when you heard the voice from the heart of the darkness, while the mountain was blazing with fire, all your tribal leaders and elders came to me.

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Deu 7:22 - The LORD your God will drive those nations out ahead of you little by little. You will not clear them away all at once, otherwise the wild animals would multiply too quickly for you.

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Deu 8:17 - He did all this so you would never say to yourself, ‘I have achieved this wealth with my own strength and energy.'

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Deu 10:14 - “Look, the highest heavens and the earth and everything in it all belong to the LORD your God.

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Deu 11:6 - They didn't see what he did to Dathan and Abiram (the sons of Eliab, a descendant of Reuben) when the earth opened its mouth in the Israelite camp and swallowed them, along with their households and tents and every living thing that belonged to them.

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Deu 11:10 - For the land you are about to enter and take over is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you planted your seed and made irrigation ditches with your foot as in a vegetable garden.

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Deu 11:11 - Rather, the land you will soon take over is a land of hills and valleys with plenty of rain—

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Deu 11:16 - “But be careful. Don't let your heart be deceived so that you turn away from the LORD and serve and worship other gods.

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Deu 11:17 - If you do, the LORD's anger will burn against you. He will shut up the sky and hold back the rain, and the ground will fail to produce its harvests. Then you will quickly die in that good land the LORD is giving you.

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Deu 12:18 - You must eat these in the presence of the LORD your God at the place he will choose. Eat them there with your children, your servants, and the Levites who live in your towns, celebrating in the presence of the LORD your God in all you do.

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Deu 12:20 - “When the LORD your God expands your territory as he has promised, and you have the urge to eat meat, you may freely eat meat whenever you want.

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Deu 12:22 - Anyone, whether ceremonially clean or unclean, may eat that meat, just as you do now with gazelle and deer.

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Deu 12:23 - But never consume the blood, for the blood is the life, and you must not consume the lifeblood with the meat.

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Deu 13:6 - “Suppose someone secretly entices you—even your brother, your son or daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend—and says, ‘Let us go worship other gods'—gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known.

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Deu 14:24 - “Now when the LORD your God blesses you with a good harvest, the place of worship he chooses for his name to be honored might be too far for you to bring the tithe.

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Deu 14:26 - When you arrive, you may use the money to buy any kind of food you want—cattle, sheep, goats, wine, or other alcoholic drink. Then feast there in the presence of the LORD your God and celebrate with your household.

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Deu 14:29 - Give it to the Levites, who will receive no allotment of land among you, as well as to the foreigners living among you, the orphans, and the widows in your towns, so they can eat and be satisfied. Then the LORD your God will bless you in all your work.

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Deu 15:12 - “If a fellow Hebrew sells himself or herself to be your servant[fn] and serves you for six years, in the seventh year you must set that servant free.

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Deu 16:10 - Then celebrate the Festival of Harvest[fn] to honor the LORD your God. Bring him a voluntary offering in proportion to the blessings you have received from him.

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Deu 16:11 - This is a time to celebrate before the LORD your God at the designated place of worship he will choose for his name to be honored. Celebrate with your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites from your towns, and the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live among you.

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Deu 16:14 - This festival will be a happy time of celebrating with your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows from your towns.

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Deu 17:7 - The witnesses must throw the first stones, and then all the people may join in. In this way, you will purge the evil from among you.

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Deu 17:17 - The king must not take many wives for himself, because they will turn his heart away from the LORD. And he must not accumulate large amounts of wealth in silver and gold for himself.

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Deu 17:20 - This regular reading will prevent him from becoming proud and acting as if he is above his fellow citizens. It will also prevent him from turning away from these commands in the smallest way. And it will ensure that he and his descendants will reign for many generations in Israel.

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Deu 18:3 - “These are the parts the priests may claim as their share from the cattle, sheep, and goats that the people bring as offerings: the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach.

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Deu 18:6 - “Suppose a Levite chooses to move from his town in Israel, wherever he is living, to the place the LORD chooses for worship.

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Deu 19:5 - For example, suppose someone goes into the forest with a neighbor to cut wood. And suppose one of them swings an ax to chop down a tree, and the ax head flies off the handle, killing the other person. In such cases, the slayer may flee to one of the cities of refuge to live in safety.

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Deu 19:6 - “If the distance to the nearest city of refuge is too far, an enraged avenger might be able to chase down and kill the person who caused the death. Then the slayer would die unfairly, since he had never shown hostility toward the person who died.

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Deu 19:12 - In that case, the elders of the murderer's hometown must send agents to the city of refuge to bring him back and hand him over to the dead person's avenger to be put to death.

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Deu 19:17 - then both the accuser and accused must appear before the LORD by coming to the priests and judges in office at that time.

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Deu 20:3 - He will say to them, ‘Listen to me, all you men of Israel! Do not be afraid as you go out to fight your enemies today! Do not lose heart or panic or tremble before them.

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Deu 20:8 - “Then the officers will also say, ‘Is anyone here afraid or worried? If you are, you may go home before you frighten anyone else.'

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Deu 21:2 - In such a case, your elders and judges must measure the distance from the site of the crime to the nearby towns.

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Deu 21:3 - When the nearest town has been determined, that town's elders must select from the herd a young cow that has never been trained or yoked to a plow.

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Deu 21:4 - They must lead it down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted and that has a stream running through it. There in the valley they must break the young cow's neck.

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Deu 21:6 - “The elders of the town must wash their hands over the young cow whose neck was broken.

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Deu 21:15 - “Suppose a man has two wives, but he loves one and not the other, and both have given him sons. And suppose the firstborn son is the son of the wife he does not love.

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Deu 21:19 - In such a case, the father and mother must take the son to the elders as they hold court at the town gate.

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Deu 22:6 - “If you happen to find a bird's nest in a tree or on the ground, and there are young ones or eggs in it with the mother sitting in the nest, do not take the mother with the young.

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Deu 22:15 - Then the woman's father and mother must bring the proof of her virginity to the elders as they hold court at the town gate.

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Deu 22:18 - The elders must then take the man and punish him.

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Deu 22:27 - Since the man raped her out in the country, it must be assumed that she screamed, but there was no one to rescue her.

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Deu 23:14 - The camp must be holy, for the LORD your God moves around in your camp to protect you and to defeat your enemies. He must not see any shameful thing among you, or he will turn away from you.

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Deu 25:5 - “If two brothers are living together on the same property and one of them dies without a son, his widow may not be married to anyone from outside the family. Instead, her husband's brother should marry her and have intercourse with her to fulfill the duties of a brother-in-law.

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Deu 25:7 - “But if the man refuses to marry his brother's widow, she must go to the town gate and say to the elders assembled there, ‘My husband's brother refuses to preserve his brother's name in Israel—he refuses to fulfill the duties of a brother-in-law by marrying me.'

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Deu 25:8 - The elders of the town will then summon him and talk with him. If he still refuses and says, ‘I don't want to marry her,'

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Deu 25:9 - the widow must walk over to him in the presence of the elders, pull his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. Then she must declare, ‘This is what happens to a man who refuses to provide his brother with children.'

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Deu 27:1 - Then Moses and the leaders of Israel gave this charge to the people: “Obey all these commands that I am giving you today.

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Deu 28:23 - The skies above will be as unyielding as bronze, and the earth beneath will be as hard as iron.

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Deu 28:32 - You will watch as your sons and daughters are taken away as slaves. Your heart will break for them, but you won't be able to help them.

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Deu 28:38 - “You will plant much but harvest little, for locusts will eat your crops.

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Deu 28:40 - You will grow olive trees throughout your land, but you will never use the olive oil, for the fruit will drop before it ripens.

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Deu 28:42 - Swarms of insects will destroy your trees and crops.

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Deu 28:56 - The most tender and delicate woman among you—so delicate she would not so much as touch the ground with her foot—will be selfish toward the husband she loves and toward her own son or daughter.

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Deu 28:66 - Your life will constantly hang in the balance. You will live night and day in fear, unsure if you will survive.

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Deu 29:10 - All of you—tribal leaders, elders, officers, all the men of Israel—are standing today in the presence of the LORD your God.

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Deu 29:18 - I am making this covenant with you so that no one among you—no man, woman, clan, or tribe—will turn away from the LORD our God to worship these gods of other nations, and so that no root among you bears bitter and poisonous fruit.

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Deu 29:22 - “Then the generations to come, both your own descendants and the foreigners who come from distant lands, will see the devastation of the land and the diseases the LORD inflicts on it.

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Deu 29:23 - They will exclaim, ‘The whole land is devastated by sulfur and salt. It is a wasteland with nothing planted and nothing growing, not even a blade of grass. It is like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his intense anger.'

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Deu 30:1 - “In the future, when you experience all these blessings and curses I have listed for you, and when you are living among the nations to which the LORD your God has exiled you, take to heart all these instructions.

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Deu 30:4 - Even though you are banished to the ends of the earth, the LORD your God will gather you from there and bring you back again.

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Deu 30:11 - “This command I am giving you today is not too difficult for you to understand, and it is not beyond your reach.

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Deu 30:17 - “But if your heart turns away and you refuse to listen, and if you are drawn away to serve and worship other gods,

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Deu 30:20 - You can make this choice by loving the LORD your God, obeying him, and committing yourself firmly to him. This[fn] is the key to your life. And if you love and obey the LORD, you will live long in the land the LORD swore to give your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

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Deu 31:19 - “So write down the words of this song, and teach it to the people of Israel. Help them learn it, so it may serve as a witness for me against them.

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Deu 31:21 - And when great disasters come down on them, this song will stand as evidence against them, for it will never be forgotten by their descendants. I know the intentions of these people, even now before they have entered the land I swore to give them.”

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Deu 32:27 - But I feared the taunt of Israel's enemy,
who might misunderstand and say,
“Our own power has triumphed!
The LORD had nothing to do with this!”'

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Deu 32:32 - Their vine grows from the vine of Sodom,
from the vineyards of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are poison,
and their clusters are bitter.

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Deu 32:41 - when I sharpen my flashing sword
and begin to carry out justice,
I will take revenge on my enemies
and repay those who reject me.

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Deu 32:42 - I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
and my sword will devour flesh—
the blood of the slaughtered and the captives,
and the heads of the enemy leaders.”'

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Deu 32:47 - These instructions are not empty words—they are your life! By obeying them you will enjoy a long life in the land you will occupy when you cross the Jordan River.”

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Deu 33:1 - This is the blessing that Moses, the man of God, gave to the people of Israel before his death:

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Deu 33:13 - Moses said this about the tribes of Joseph:
“May their land be blessed by the LORD
with the precious gift of dew from the heavens
and water from beneath the earth;

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Deu 33:25 - May the bolts of your gates be of iron and bronze;
may you be secure all your days.”

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Deu 33:29 - How blessed you are, O Israel!
Who else is like you, a people saved by the LORD?
He is your protecting shield
and your triumphant sword!
Your enemies will cringe before you,
and you will stomp on their backs!”

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Deu 34:4 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.' I have now allowed you to see it with your own eyes, but you will not enter the land.”

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Jos 1:8 - Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do.

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Jos 2:4 - Rahab had hidden the two men, but she replied, “Yes, the men were here earlier, but I didn't know where they were from.

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Jos 2:5 - They left the town at dusk, as the gates were about to close. I don't know where they went. If you hurry, you can probably catch up with them.”

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Jos 2:7 - So the king's men went looking for the spies along the road leading to the shallow crossings of the Jordan River. And as soon as the king's men had left, the gate of Jericho was shut.

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Jos 2:14 - “We offer our own lives as a guarantee for your safety,” the men agreed. “If you don't betray us, we will keep our promise and be kind to you when the LORD gives us the land.”

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Jos 3:11 - Look, the Ark of the Covenant, which belongs to the Lord of the whole earth, will lead you across the Jordan River!

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Jos 4:11 - And when everyone was safely on the other side, the priests crossed over with the Ark of the LORD as the people watched.

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Jos 4:24 - He did this so all the nations of the earth might know that the LORD's hand is powerful, and so you might fear the LORD your God forever.”

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Jos 5:13 - When Joshua was near the town of Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with sword in hand. Joshua went up to him and demanded, “Are you friend or foe?”

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Jos 6:8 - After Joshua spoke to the people, the seven priests with the rams' horns started marching in the presence of the LORD, blowing the horns as they marched. And the Ark of the LORD's Covenant followed behind them.

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Jos 6:11 - So the Ark of the LORD was carried around the town once that day, and then everyone returned to spend the night in the camp.

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Jos 6:17 - Jericho and everything in it must be completely destroyed[fn] as an offering to the LORD. Only Rahab the prostitute and the others in her house will be spared, for she protected our spies.

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Jos 6:24 - Then the Israelites burned the town and everything in it. Only the things made from silver, gold, bronze, or iron were kept for the treasury of the LORD's house.

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Jos 7:5 - chased the Israelites from the town gate as far as the quarries,[fn] and they killed about thirty-six who were retreating down the slope. The Israelites were paralyzed with fear at this turn of events, and their courage melted away.

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Jos 7:14 - “In the morning you must present yourselves by tribes, and the LORD will point out the tribe to which the guilty man belongs. That tribe must come forward with its clans, and the LORD will point out the guilty clan. That clan will then come forward, and the LORD will point out the guilty family. Finally, each member of the guilty family must come forward one by one.

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Jos 7:16 - Early the next morning Joshua brought the tribes of Israel before the LORD, and the tribe of Judah was singled out.

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Jos 9:18 - But the Israelites did not attack the towns, for the Israelite leaders had made a vow to them in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
The people of Israel grumbled against their leaders because of the treaty.

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Jos 10:12 - On the day the LORD gave the Israelites victory over the Amorites, Joshua prayed to the LORD in front of all the people of Israel. He said,
“Let the sun stand still over Gibeon,
and the moon over the valley of Aijalon.”

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Jos 10:13 - So the sun stood still and the moon stayed in place until the nation of Israel had defeated its enemies.
Is this event not recorded in The Book of Jashar[fn]? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and it did not set as on a normal day.[fn]

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Jos 11:4 - All these kings came out to fight. Their combined armies formed a vast horde. And with all their horses and chariots, they covered the landscape like the sand on the seashore.

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Jos 11:23 - So Joshua took control of the entire land, just as the LORD had instructed Moses. He gave it to the people of Israel as their special possession, dividing the land among the tribes. So the land finally had rest from war.

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Jos 13:1 - When Joshua was an old man, the LORD said to him, “You are growing old, and much land remains to be conquered.

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Jos 13:2 - This is the territory that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and the Geshurites,

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Jos 13:7 - Include all this territory as Israel's possession when you divide this land among the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”

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Jos 13:16 - Their territory extended from Aroer on the edge of the Arnon Gorge (including the town in the middle of the gorge) to the plain beyond Medeba.

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Jos 13:23 - The Jordan River marked the western boundary for the tribe of Reuben. The towns and their surrounding villages in this area were given as a homeland to the clans of the tribe of Reuben.

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Jos 13:28 - The towns and their surrounding villages in this area were given as a homeland to the clans of the tribe of Gad.

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Jos 14:9 - So that day Moses solemnly promised me, ‘The land of Canaan on which you were just walking will be your grant of land and that of your descendants forever, because you wholeheartedly followed the LORD my God.'

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Jos 14:14 - Hebron still belongs to the descendants of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite because he wholeheartedly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.

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Jos 14:15 - (Previously Hebron had been called Kiriath-arba. It had been named after Arba, a great hero of the descendants of Anak.)
And the land had rest from war.

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Jos 15:4 - From there it passed to Azmon until it finally reached the Brook of Egypt, which it followed to the Mediterranean Sea.[fn] This was their[fn] southern boundary.

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Jos 15:5 - The eastern boundary extended along the Dead Sea to the mouth of the Jordan River. The northern boundary began at the bay where the Jordan River empties into the Dead Sea,

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Jos 15:7 - From that point it went through the valley of Achor to Debir, turning north toward Gilgal, which is across from the slopes of Adummim on the south side of the valley. From there the boundary extended to the springs at En-shemesh and on to En-rogel.

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Jos 15:11 - The boundary then proceeded to the slope of the hill north of Ekron, where it turned toward Shikkeron and Mount Baalah. It passed Jabneel and ended at the Mediterranean Sea.

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Jos 15:12 - The western boundary was the shoreline of the Mediterranean Sea.[fn] These are the boundaries for the clans of the tribe of Judah.

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Jos 15:20 - This was the homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Judah.

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Jos 15:47 - It also included Ashdod with its surrounding settlements and villages and Gaza with its settlements and villages, as far as the Brook of Egypt and along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

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Jos 15:60 - There were also Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim) and Rabbah—two towns with their surrounding villages.

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Jos 16:3 - Then it descended westward to the territory of the Japhletites as far as Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer and over to the Mediterranean Sea.[fn]

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Jos 16:8 - From Tappuah the boundary extended westward, following the Kanah Ravine to the Mediterranean Sea. This is the homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Ephraim.

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Jos 17:6 - because the female descendants of Manasseh received a grant of land along with the male descendants. (The land of Gilead was given to the rest of the male descendants of Manasseh.)

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Jos 17:9 - From the spring of Tappuah, the boundary of Manasseh followed the Kanah Ravine to the Mediterranean Sea.[fn] Several towns south of the ravine were inside Manasseh's territory, but they actually belonged to the tribe of Ephraim.

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Jos 17:10 - In general, however, the land south of the ravine belonged to Ephraim, and the land north of the ravine belonged to Manasseh. Manasseh's boundary ran along the northern side of the ravine and ended at the Mediterranean Sea. North of Manasseh was the territory of Asher, and to the east was the territory of Issachar.

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Jos 18:1 - Now that the land was under Israelite control, the entire community of Israel gathered at Shiloh and set up the Tabernacle.[fn]

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Jos 18:12 - The northern boundary of Benjamin's land began at the Jordan River, went north of the slope of Jericho, then west through the hill country and the wilderness of Beth-aven.

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Jos 18:13 - From there the boundary went south to Luz (that is, Bethel) and proceeded down to Ataroth-addar on the hill that lies south of Lower Beth-horon.

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Jos 18:14 - The boundary then made a turn and swung south along the western edge of the hill facing Beth-horon, ending at the village of Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a town belonging to the tribe of Judah. This was the western boundary.

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Jos 18:19 - ran past the north slope of Beth-hoglah, and ended at the north bay of the Dead Sea,[fn] which is the southern end of the Jordan River. This was the southern boundary.

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Jos 18:20 - The eastern boundary was the Jordan River. These were the boundaries of the homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.

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Jos 18:28 - Zela, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath[fn]—fourteen towns with their surrounding villages. This was the homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.

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Jos 19:1 - The second allotment of land went to the clans of the tribe of Simeon. Their homeland was surrounded by Judah's territory.

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Jos 19:8 - including all the surrounding villages as far south as Baalath-beer (also known as Ramah of the Negev). This was the homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Simeon.

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Jos 19:9 - Their allocation of land came from part of what had been given to Judah because Judah's territory was too large for them. So the tribe of Simeon received an allocation within the territory of Judah.

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Jos 19:11 - From there it went west, going past Maralah, touching Dabbesheth, and proceeding to the brook east of Jokneam.

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Jos 19:14 - The northern boundary of Zebulun passed Hannathon and ended at the valley of Iphtah-el.

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Jos 19:16 - The homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Zebulun included these towns and their surrounding villages.

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Jos 19:22 - The boundary also touched Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh, ending at the Jordan River—sixteen towns with their surrounding villages.

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Jos 19:23 - The homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Issachar included these towns and their surrounding villages.

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Jos 19:29 - Then the boundary turned toward Ramah and the fortress of Tyre, where it turned toward Hosah and came to the Mediterranean Sea.[fn] The territory also included Mehebel, Aczib,

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Jos 19:31 - The homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Asher included these towns and their surrounding villages.

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Jos 19:39 - The homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Naphtali included these towns and their surrounding villages.

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Jos 19:47 - But the tribe of Dan had trouble taking possession of their land,[fn] so they attacked the town of Laish.[fn] They captured it, slaughtered its people, and settled there. They renamed the town Dan after their ancestor.

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Jos 19:48 - The homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Dan included these towns and their surrounding villages.

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Jos 21:9 - The Israelites gave the following towns from the tribes of Judah and Simeon

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Jos 22:16 - “The whole community of the LORD demands to know why you are betraying the God of Israel. How could you turn away from the LORD and build an altar for yourselves in rebellion against him?

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Jos 22:18 - And yet today you are turning away from following the LORD. If you rebel against the LORD today, he will be angry with all of us tomorrow.

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Jos 22:19 - “If you need the altar because the land you possess is defiled, then join us in the LORD's land, where the Tabernacle of the LORD is situated, and share our land with us. But do not rebel against the LORD or against us by building an altar other than the one true altar of the LORD our God.

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Jos 24:15 - But if you refuse to serve the LORD, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me and my family, we will serve the LORD.”

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Jdg 1:35 - The Amorites were determined to stay in Mount Heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim, but when the descendants of Joseph became stronger, they forced the Amorites to work as slaves.

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Jdg 2:10 - After that generation died, another generation grew up who did not acknowledge the LORD or remember the mighty things he had done for Israel.

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Jdg 3:10 - The Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he became Israel's judge. He went to war against King Cushan-rishathaim of Aram, and the LORD gave Othniel victory over him.

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Jdg 3:11 - So there was peace in the land for forty years. Then Othniel son of Kenaz died.

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Jdg 3:30 - So Moab was conquered by Israel that day, and there was peace in the land for eighty years.

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Jdg 4:14 - Then Deborah said to Barak, “Get ready! This is the day the LORD will give you victory over Sisera, for the LORD is marching ahead of you.” So Barak led his 10,000 warriors down the slopes of Mount Tabor into battle.

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Jdg 4:16 - Then Barak chased the chariots and the enemy army all the way to Harosheth-haggoyim, killing all of Sisera's warriors. Not a single one was left alive.

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Jdg 5:9 - My heart is with the commanders of Israel,
with those who volunteered for war.
Praise the LORD!

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Jdg 5:13 - “Down from Tabor marched the few against the nobles.
The people of the LORD marched down against mighty warriors.

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Jdg 5:28 - “From the window Sisera's mother looked out.
Through the window she watched for his return, saying,
‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?
Why don't we hear the sound of chariot wheels?'

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Jdg 5:31 - “LORD, may all your enemies die like Sisera!
But may those who love you rise like the sun in all its power!” Then there was peace in the land for forty years.

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Jdg 6:15 - “But Lord,” Gideon replied, “how can I rescue Israel? My clan is the weakest in the whole tribe of Manasseh, and I am the least in my entire family!”

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Jdg 6:38 - And that is just what happened. When Gideon got up early the next morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung out a whole bowlful of water.

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Jdg 7:2 - The LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many warriors with you. If I let all of you fight the Midianites, the Israelites will boast to me that they saved themselves by their own strength.

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Jdg 7:8 - So Gideon collected the provisions and rams' horns of the other warriors and sent them home. But he kept the 300 men with him.
The Midianite camp was in the valley just below Gideon.

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Jdg 7:12 - The armies of Midian, Amalek, and the people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts. Their camels were like grains of sand on the seashore—too many to count!

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Jdg 7:13 - Gideon crept up just as a man was telling his companion about a dream. The man said, “I had this dream, and in my dream a loaf of barley bread came tumbling down into the Midianite camp. It hit a tent, turned it over, and knocked it flat!”

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Jdg 7:21 - Each man stood at his position around the camp and watched as all the Midianites rushed around in a panic, shouting as they ran to escape.

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Jdg 7:22 - When the 300 Israelites blew their rams' horns, the LORD caused the warriors in the camp to fight against each other with their swords. Those who were not killed fled to places as far away as Beth-shittah near Zererah and to the border of Abel-meholah near Tabbath.

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Jdg 8:10 - By this time Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with 15,000 warriors—all that remained of the allied armies of the east, for 120,000 had already been killed.

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Jdg 8:11 - Gideon circled around by the caravan route east of Nobah and Jogbehah, taking the Midianite army by surprise.

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Jdg 8:21 - Then Zebah and Zalmunna said to Gideon, “Be a man! Kill us yourself!” So Gideon killed them both and took the royal ornaments from the necks of their camels.

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Jdg 8:28 - That is the story of how the people of Israel defeated Midian, which never recovered. Throughout the rest of Gideon's lifetime—about forty years—there was peace in the land.

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Jdg 8:31 - He also had a concubine in Shechem, who gave birth to a son, whom he named Abimelech.

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Jdg 9:9 - But the olive tree refused, saying,
‘Should I quit producing the olive oil
that blesses both God and people,
just to wave back and forth over the trees?'

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Jdg 9:11 - But the fig tree also refused, saying,
‘Should I quit producing my sweet fruit
just to wave back and forth over the trees?'

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Jdg 9:13 - But the grapevine also refused, saying,
‘Should I quit producing the wine
that cheers both God and people,
just to wave back and forth over the trees?'

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Jdg 9:15 - And the thornbush replied to the trees,
‘If you truly want to make me your king,
come and take shelter in my shade.
If not, let fire come out from me
and devour the cedars of Lebanon.'”

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Jdg 9:33 - In the morning, as soon as it is daylight, attack the city. When Gaal and those who are with him come out against you, you can do with them as you wish.”

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Jdg 9:57 - God also punished the men of Shechem for all their evil. So the curse of Jotham son of Gideon was fulfilled.

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Jdg 11:2 - Gilead's wife also had several sons, and when these half brothers grew up, they chased Jephthah off the land. “You will not get any of our father's inheritance,” they said, “for you are the son of a prostitute.”

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Jdg 11:34 - When Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, his daughter came out to meet him, playing on a tambourine and dancing for joy. She was his one and only child; he had no other sons or daughters.

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Jdg 13:2 - In those days a man named Manoah from the tribe of Dan lived in the town of Zorah. His wife was unable to become pregnant, and they had no children.

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Jdg 13:6 - The woman ran and told her husband, “A man of God appeared to me! He looked like one of God's angels, terrifying to see. I didn't ask where he was from, and he didn't tell me his name.

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Jdg 13:10 - So she quickly ran and told her husband, “The man who appeared to me the other day is here again!”

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Jdg 13:19 - Then Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered it on a rock as a sacrifice to the LORD. And as Manoah and his wife watched, the LORD did an amazing thing.

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Jdg 13:20 - As the flames from the altar shot up toward the sky, the angel of the LORD ascended in the fire. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell with their faces to the ground.

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Jdg 13:23 - But his wife said, “If the LORD were going to kill us, he wouldn't have accepted our burnt offering and grain offering. He wouldn't have appeared to us and told us this wonderful thing and done these miracles.”

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Jdg 13:24 - When her son was born, she named him Samson. And the LORD blessed him as he grew up.

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Jdg 14:3 - His father and mother objected. “Isn't there even one woman in our tribe or among all the Israelites you could marry?” they asked. “Why must you go to the pagan Philistines to find a wife?”
But Samson told his father, “Get her for me! She looks good to me.”

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Jdg 14:4 - His father and mother didn't realize the LORD was at work in this, creating an opportunity to work against the Philistines, who ruled over Israel at that time.

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Jdg 14:5 - As Samson and his parents were going down to Timnah, a young lion suddenly attacked Samson near the vineyards of Timnah.

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Jdg 14:16 - So Samson's wife came to him in tears and said, “You don't love me; you hate me! You have given my people a riddle, but you haven't told me the answer.”
“I haven't even given the answer to my father or mother,” he replied. “Why should I tell you?”

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Jdg 14:20 - So his wife was given in marriage to the man who had been Samson's best man at the wedding.

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Jdg 15:2 - “I truly thought you must hate her,” her father explained, “so I gave her in marriage to your best man. But look, her younger sister is even more beautiful than she is. Marry her instead.”

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Jdg 16:5 - The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice Samson to tell you what makes him so strong and how he can be overpowered and tied up securely. Then each of us will give you 1,100 pieces[fn] of silver.”

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Jdg 16:6 - So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me what makes you so strong and what it would take to tie you up securely.”

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Jdg 16:9 - She had hidden some men in one of the inner rooms of her house, and she cried out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” But Samson snapped the bowstrings as a piece of string snaps when it is burned by a fire. So the secret of his strength was not discovered.

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Jdg 16:14 - Then she tightened it with the loom shuttle.[fn] Again she cried out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” But Samson woke up, pulled back the loom shuttle, and yanked his hair away from the loom and the fabric.

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Jdg 16:15 - Then Delilah pouted, “How can you tell me, ‘I love you,' when you don't share your secrets with me? You've made fun of me three times now, and you still haven't told me what makes you so strong!”

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Jdg 16:17 - Finally, Samson shared his secret with her. “My hair has never been cut,” he confessed, “for I was dedicated to God as a Nazirite from birth. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as anyone else.”

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Jdg 16:19 - Delilah lulled Samson to sleep with his head in her lap, and then she called in a man to shave off the seven locks of his hair. In this way she began to bring him down,[fn] and his strength left him.

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Jdg 16:22 - But before long, his hair began to grow back.

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Jdg 16:25 - Half drunk by now, the people demanded, “Bring out Samson so he can amuse us!” So he was brought from the prison to amuse them, and they had him stand between the pillars supporting the roof.

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Jdg 16:30 - he prayed, “Let me die with the Philistines.” And the temple crashed down on the Philistine rulers and all the people. So he killed more people when he died than he had during his entire lifetime.

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Jdg 17:2 - One day he said to his mother, “I heard you place a curse on the person who stole 1,100 pieces[fn] of silver from you. Well, I have the money. I was the one who took it.”
“The LORD bless you for admitting it,” his mother replied.

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Jdg 17:3 - He returned the money to her, and she said, “I now dedicate these silver coins to the LORD. In honor of my son, I will have an image carved and an idol cast.”

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Jdg 17:4 - So when he returned the money to his mother, she took 200 silver coins and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into an image and an idol. And these were placed in Micah's house.

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Jdg 18:1 - Now in those days Israel had no king. And the tribe of Dan was trying to find a place where they could settle, for they had not yet moved into the land assigned to them when the land was divided among the tribes of Israel.

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Jdg 18:5 - Then they said, “Ask God whether or not our journey will be successful.”

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Jdg 18:6 - “Go in peace,” the priest replied. “For the LORD is watching over your journey.”

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Jdg 18:10 - When you get there, you will find the people living carefree lives. God has given us a spacious and fertile land, lacking in nothing!”

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Jdg 18:20 - The young priest was quite happy to go with them, so he took along the sacred ephod, the household idols, and the carved image.

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Jdg 18:25 - The men of Dan said, “Watch what you say! There are some short-tempered men around here who might get angry and kill you and your family.”

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Jdg 19:2 - But she became angry with him[fn] and returned to her father's home in Bethlehem.
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Jdg 19:6 - So the two men sat down together and had something to eat and drink. Then the woman's father said, “Please stay another night and enjoy yourself.”

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Jdg 19:8 - On the morning of the fifth day he was up early again, ready to leave, and again the woman's father said, “Have something to eat; then you can leave later this afternoon.” So they had another day of feasting.

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Jdg 19:9 - Later, as the man and his concubine and servant were preparing to leave, his father-in-law said, “Look, it's almost evening. Stay the night and enjoy yourself. Tomorrow you can get up early and be on your way.”

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Jdg 19:10 - But this time the man was determined to leave. So he took his two saddled donkeys and his concubine and headed in the direction of Jebus (that is, Jerusalem).

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Jdg 19:11 - It was late in the day when they neared Jebus, and the man's servant said to him, “Let's stop at this Jebusite town and spend the night there.”

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Jdg 19:24 - Here, take my virgin daughter and this man's concubine. I will bring them out to you, and you can abuse them and do whatever you like. But don't do such a shameful thing to this man.”

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Jdg 19:26 - At daybreak the woman returned to the house where her husband was staying. She collapsed at the door of the house and lay there until it was light.

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Jdg 19:27 - When her husband opened the door to leave, there lay his concubine with her hands on the threshold.

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Jdg 20:1 - Then all the Israelites were united as one man, from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south, including those from across the Jordan in the land of Gilead. The entire community assembled in the presence of the LORD at Mizpah.

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Jdg 20:3 - (Word soon reached the land of Benjamin that the other tribes had gone up to Mizpah.) The Israelites then asked how this terrible crime had happened.

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Jdg 20:4 - The Levite, the husband of the woman who had been murdered, said, “My concubine and I came to spend the night in Gibeah, a town that belongs to the people of Benjamin.

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Jdg 20:12 - The Israelites sent messengers to the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What a terrible thing has been done among you!

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Jdg 20:27 - The Israelites went up seeking direction from the LORD. (In those days the Ark of the Covenant of God was in Bethel,

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Jdg 20:34 - There were 10,000 elite Israelite troops who advanced against Gibeah. The fighting was so heavy that Benjamin didn't realize the impending disaster.

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Jdg 20:38 - They had arranged to send up a large cloud of smoke from the town as a signal.

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Jdg 20:41 - the men of Israel turned and attacked. At this point the men of Benjamin became terrified, because they realized disaster was close at hand.

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Jdg 21:10 - So the assembly sent 12,000 of their best warriors to Jabesh-gilead with orders to kill everyone there, including women and children.

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Jdg 21:13 - The Israelite assembly sent a peace delegation to the remaining people of Benjamin who were living at the rock of Rimmon.

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Rth 1:1 - In the days when the judges ruled in Israel, a severe famine came upon the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah left his home and went to live in the country of Moab, taking his wife and two sons with him.

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Rth 1:5 - both Mahlon and Kilion died. This left Naomi alone, without her two sons or her husband.

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Rth 1:15 - “Look,” Naomi said to her, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods. You should do the same.”

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Rth 1:19 - So the two of them continued on their journey. When they came to Bethlehem, the entire town was excited by their arrival. “Is it really Naomi?” the women asked.

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Rth 1:22 - So Naomi returned from Moab, accompanied by her daughter-in-law Ruth, the young Moabite woman. They arrived in Bethlehem in late spring, at the beginning of the barley harvest.

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Rth 2:2 - One day Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go out into the harvest fields to pick up the stalks of grain left behind by anyone who is kind enough to let me do it.”
Naomi replied, “All right, my daughter, go ahead.”

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Rth 2:5 - Then Boaz asked his foreman, “Who is that young woman over there? Who does she belong to?”

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Rth 2:6 - And the foreman replied, “She is the young woman from Moab who came back with Naomi.

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Rth 2:13 - “I hope I continue to please you, sir,” she replied. “You have comforted me by speaking so kindly to me, even though I am not one of your workers.”

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Rth 2:18 - She carried it back into town and showed it to her mother-in-law. Ruth also gave her the roasted grain that was left over from her meal.

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Rth 2:19 - “Where did you gather all this grain today?” Naomi asked. “Where did you work? May the LORD bless the one who helped you!”
So Ruth told her mother-in-law about the man in whose field she had worked. She said, “The man I worked with today is named Boaz.”

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Rth 3:1 - One day Naomi said to Ruth, “My daughter, it's time that I found a permanent home for you, so that you will be provided for.

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Rth 3:6 - So she went down to the threshing floor that night and followed the instructions of her mother-in-law.

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Rth 3:7 - After Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits, he lay down at the far end of the pile of grain and went to sleep. Then Ruth came quietly, uncovered his feet, and lay down.

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Rth 3:9 - “Who are you?” he asked.
“I am your servant Ruth,” she replied. “Spread the corner of your covering over me, for you are my family redeemer.”

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Rth 3:14 - So Ruth lay at Boaz's feet until the morning, but she got up before it was light enough for people to recognize each other. For Boaz had said, “No one must know that a woman was here at the threshing floor.”

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Rth 3:16 - When Ruth went back to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, “What happened, my daughter?”
Ruth told Naomi everything Boaz had done for her,

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Rth 3:18 - Then Naomi said to her, “Just be patient, my daughter, until we hear what happens. The man won't rest until he has settled things today.”

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Rth 4:15 - May he restore your youth and care for you in your old age. For he is the son of your daughter-in-law who loves you and has been better to you than seven sons!”

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1Sa 1:8 - “Why are you crying, Hannah?” Elkanah would ask. “Why aren't you eating? Why be downhearted just because you have no children? You have me—isn't that better than having ten sons?”

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1Sa 1:18 - “Oh, thank you, sir!” she exclaimed. Then she went back and began to eat again, and she was no longer sad.

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1Sa 1:23 - “Whatever you think is best,” Elkanah agreed. “Stay here for now, and may the LORD help you keep your promise.” So she stayed home and nursed the boy until he was weaned.

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1Sa 1:25 - After sacrificing the bull, they brought the boy to Eli.

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1Sa 1:26 - “Sir, do you remember me?” Hannah asked. “I am the woman who stood here several years ago praying to the LORD.

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1Sa 2:1 - Then Hannah prayed:
“My heart rejoices in the LORD!
The LORD has made me strong.[fn]
Now I have an answer for my enemies;
I rejoice because you rescued me.

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1Sa 2:5 - Those who were well fed are now starving,
and those who were starving are now full.
The childless woman now has seven children,
and the woman with many children wastes away.

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1Sa 2:16 - The man offering the sacrifice might reply, “Take as much as you want, but the fat must be burned first.” Then the servant would demand, “No, give it to me now, or I'll take it by force.”

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1Sa 2:17 - So the sin of these young men was very serious in the LORD's sight, for they treated the LORD's offerings with contempt.

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1Sa 2:19 - Each year his mother made a small coat for him and brought it to him when she came with her husband for the sacrifice.

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1Sa 2:24 - You must stop, my sons! The reports I hear among the LORD's people are not good.

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1Sa 3:3 - The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was sleeping in the Tabernacle[fn] near the Ark of God.

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1Sa 3:21 - The LORD continued to appear at Shiloh and gave messages to Samuel there at the Tabernacle.

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1Sa 4:5 - When all the Israelites saw the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD coming into the camp, their shout of joy was so loud it made the ground shake!

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1Sa 4:6 - “What's going on?” the Philistines asked. “What's all the shouting about in the Hebrew camp?” When they were told it was because the Ark of the LORD had arrived,

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1Sa 4:13 - Eli was waiting beside the road to hear the news of the battle, for his heart trembled for the safety of the Ark of God. When the messenger arrived and told what had happened, an outcry resounded throughout the town.

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1Sa 4:14 - “What is all the noise about?” Eli asked.
The messenger rushed over to Eli,

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1Sa 4:15 - who was ninety-eight years old and blind.

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1Sa 4:17 - “Israel has been defeated by the Philistines,” the messenger replied. “The people have been slaughtered, and your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were also killed. And the Ark of God has been captured.”

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1Sa 4:19 - Eli's daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and near her time of delivery. When she heard that the Ark of God had been captured and that her father-in-law and husband were dead, she went into labor and gave birth.

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1Sa 4:20 - She died in childbirth, but before she passed away the midwives tried to encourage her. “Don't be afraid,” they said. “You have a baby boy!” But she did not answer or pay attention to them.

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1Sa 5:4 - But the next morning the same thing happened—Dagon had fallen face down before the Ark of the LORD again. This time his head and hands had broken off and were lying in the doorway. Only the trunk of his body was left intact.

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1Sa 5:12 - Those who didn't die were afflicted with tumors; and the cry from the town rose to heaven.

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1Sa 6:1 - The Ark of the LORD remained in Philistine territory seven months in all.

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1Sa 6:3 - “Send the Ark of the God of Israel back with a gift,” they were told. “Send a guilt offering so the plague will stop. Then, if you are healed, you will know it was his hand that caused the plague.”

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1Sa 6:14 - The cart came into the field of a man named Joshua and stopped beside a large rock. So the people broke up the wood of the cart for a fire and killed the cows and sacrificed them to the LORD as a burnt offering.

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1Sa 7:2 - The Ark remained in Kiriath-jearim for a long time—twenty years in all. During that time all Israel mourned because it seemed the LORD had abandoned them.

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1Sa 7:17 - Then he would return to his home at Ramah, and he would hear cases there, too. And Samuel built an altar to the LORD at Ramah.

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1Sa 10:7 - After these signs take place, do what must be done, for God is with you.

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1Sa 11:9 - So Saul sent the messengers back to Jabesh-gilead to say, “We will rescue you by noontime tomorrow!” There was great joy throughout the town when that message arrived!

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1Sa 11:11 - But before dawn the next morning, Saul arrived, having divided his army into three detachments. He launched a surprise attack against the Ammonites and slaughtered them the whole morning. The remnant of their army was so badly scattered that no two of them were left together.

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1Sa 12:17 - You know that it does not rain at this time of the year during the wheat harvest. I will ask the LORD to send thunder and rain today. Then you will realize how wicked you have been in asking the LORD for a king!”

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1Sa 13:5 - The Philistines mustered a mighty army of 3,000[fn] chariots, 6,000 charioteers, and as many warriors as the grains of sand on the seashore! They camped at Micmash east of Beth-aven.

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1Sa 13:14 - But now your kingdom must end, for the LORD has sought out a man after his own heart. The LORD has already appointed him to be the leader of his people, because you have not kept the LORD's command.”

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1Sa 13:17 - Three raiding parties soon left the camp of the Philistines. One went north toward Ophrah in the land of Shual,

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1Sa 13:18 - another went west to Beth-horon, and the third moved toward the border above the valley of Zeboim near the wilderness.

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1Sa 13:21 - (The charges were as follows: a quarter of an ounce of silver[fn] for sharpening a plowshare or a pick, and an eighth of an ounce[fn] for sharpening an ax, a sickle, or an ox goad.)

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1Sa 14:5 - The cliff on the north was in front of Micmash, and the one on the south was in front of Geba.

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1Sa 14:7 - “Do what you think is best,” the armor bearer replied. “I'm with you completely, whatever you decide.”

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1Sa 14:14 - They killed some twenty men in all, and their bodies were scattered over about half an acre.[fn]

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1Sa 14:15 - Suddenly, panic broke out in the Philistine army, both in the camp and in the field, including even the outposts and raiding parties. And just then an earthquake struck, and everyone was terrified.

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1Sa 14:16 - Saul's lookouts in Gibeah of Benjamin saw a strange sight—the vast army of Philistines began to melt away in every direction.

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1Sa 14:25 - even though they had all found honeycomb on the ground in the forest.

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1Sa 14:30 - If the men had been allowed to eat freely from the food they found among our enemies, think how many more Philistines we could have killed!”

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1Sa 14:36 - Then Saul said, “Let's chase the Philistines all night and plunder them until sunrise. Let's destroy every last one of them.”
His men replied, “We'll do whatever you think is best.”
But the priest said, “Let's ask God first.”

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1Sa 14:38 - Then Saul said to the leaders, “Something's wrong! I want all my army commanders to come here. We must find out what sin was committed today.

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1Sa 14:41 - Then Saul prayed, “O LORD, God of Israel, please show us who is guilty and who is innocent.[fn]” Then they cast sacred lots, and Jonathan and Saul were chosen as the guilty ones, and the people were declared innocent.

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1Sa 15:14 - “Then what is all the bleating of sheep and goats and the lowing of cattle I hear?” Samuel demanded.

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1Sa 15:22 - But Samuel replied,
“What is more pleasing to the LORD:
your burnt offerings and sacrifices
or your obedience to his voice?
Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice,
and submission is better than offering the fat of rams.

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1Sa 15:33 - But Samuel said, “As your sword has killed the sons of many mothers, now your mother will be childless.” And Samuel cut Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.

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1Sa 16:4 - So Samuel did as the LORD instructed. When he arrived at Bethlehem, the elders of the town came trembling to meet him. “What's wrong?” they asked. “Do you come in peace?”

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1Sa 17:7 - The shaft of his spear was as heavy and thick as a weaver's beam, tipped with an iron spearhead that weighed 15 pounds.[fn] His armor bearer walked ahead of him carrying a shield.

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1Sa 17:32 - “Don't worry about this Philistine,” David told Saul. “I'll go fight him!”

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1Sa 17:34 - But David persisted. “I have been taking care of my father's sheep and goats,” he said. “When a lion or a bear comes to steal a lamb from the flock,

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1Sa 17:46 - Today the LORD will conquer you, and I will kill you and cut off your head. And then I will give the dead bodies of your men to the birds and wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel!

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1Sa 17:47 - And everyone assembled here will know that the LORD rescues his people, but not with sword and spear. This is the LORD's battle, and he will give you to us!”

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1Sa 18:20 - In the meantime, Saul's daughter Michal had fallen in love with David, and Saul was delighted when he heard about it.

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1Sa 19:11 - Then Saul sent troops to watch David's house. They were told to kill David when he came out the next morning. But Michal, David's wife, warned him, “If you don't escape tonight, you will be dead by morning.”

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1Sa 19:12 - So she helped him climb out through a window, and he fled and escaped.

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1Sa 19:13 - Then she took an idol[fn] and put it in his bed, covered it with blankets, and put a cushion of goat's hair at its head.

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1Sa 20:3 - Then David took an oath before Jonathan and said, “Your father knows perfectly well about our friendship, so he has said to himself, ‘I won't tell Jonathan—why should I hurt him?' But I swear to you that I am only a step away from death! I swear it by the LORD and by your own soul!”

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1Sa 20:4 - “Tell me what I can do to help you,” Jonathan exclaimed.

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1Sa 20:7 - If he says, ‘Fine!' you will know all is well. But if he is angry and loses his temper, you will know he is determined to kill me.

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1Sa 20:9 - “Never!” Jonathan exclaimed. “You know that if I had the slightest notion my father was planning to kill you, I would tell you at once.”

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1Sa 20:21 - Then I will send a boy to bring the arrows back. If you hear me tell him, ‘They're on this side,' then you will know, as surely as the LORD lives, that all is well, and there is no trouble.

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1Sa 20:22 - But if I tell him, ‘Go farther—the arrows are still ahead of you,' then it will mean that you must leave immediately, for the LORD is sending you away.

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1Sa 20:31 - As long as that son of Jesse is alive, you'll never be king. Now go and get him so I can kill him!”

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1Sa 20:33 - Then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan, intending to kill him. So at last Jonathan realized that his father was really determined to kill David.

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1Sa 20:37 - When the boy had almost reached the arrow, Jonathan shouted, “The arrow is still ahead of you.

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1Sa 21:5 - “Don't worry,” David replied. “I never allow my men to be with women when they are on a campaign. And since they stay clean even on ordinary trips, how much more on this one!”

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1Sa 21:9 - “I only have the sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah,” the priest replied. “It is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. Take that if you want it, for there is nothing else here.”
“There is nothing like it!” David replied. “Give it to me!”

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1Sa 22:3 - Later David went to Mizpeh in Moab, where he asked the king, “Please allow my father and mother to live here with you until I know what God is going to do for me.”

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1Sa 22:8 - Is that why you have conspired against me? For not one of you told me when my own son made a solemn pact with the son of Jesse. You're not even sorry for me. Think of it! My own son—encouraging him to kill me, as he is trying to do this very day!”

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1Sa 22:13 - “Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me?” Saul demanded. “Why did you give him food and a sword? Why have you consulted God for him? Why have you encouraged him to kill me, as he is trying to do this very day?”

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1Sa 22:17 - And he ordered his bodyguards, “Kill these priests of the LORD, for they are allies and conspirators with David! They knew he was running away from me, but they didn't tell me!” But Saul's men refused to kill the LORD's priests.

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1Sa 23:17 - “Don't be afraid,” Jonathan reassured him. “My father will never find you! You are going to be the king of Israel, and I will be next to you, as my father, Saul, is well aware.”

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1Sa 23:28 - So Saul quit chasing David and returned to fight the Philistines. Ever since that time, the place where David was camped has been called the Rock of Escape.[fn]

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1Sa 24:4 - “Now's your opportunity!” David's men whispered to him. “Today the LORD is telling you, ‘I will certainly put your enemy into your power, to do with as you wish.'” So David crept forward and cut off a piece of the hem of Saul's robe.

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1Sa 24:12 - “May the LORD judge between us. Perhaps the LORD will punish you for what you are trying to do to me, but I will never harm you.

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1Sa 24:13 - As that old proverb says, ‘From evil people come evil deeds.' So you can be sure I will never harm you.

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1Sa 25:3 - This man's name was Nabal, and his wife, Abigail, was a sensible and beautiful woman. But Nabal, a descendant of Caleb, was crude and mean in all his dealings.

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1Sa 25:8 - Ask your own men, and they will tell you this is true. So would you be kind to us, since we have come at a time of celebration? Please share any provisions you might have on hand with us and with your friend David.”

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1Sa 25:17 - You need to know this and figure out what to do, for there is going to be trouble for our master and his whole family. He's so ill-tempered that no one can even talk to him!”

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1Sa 25:24 - She fell at his feet and said, “I accept all blame in this matter, my lord. Please listen to what I have to say.

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1Sa 25:25 - I know Nabal is a wicked and ill-tempered man; please don't pay any attention to him. He is a fool, just as his name suggests.[fn] But I never even saw the young men you sent.

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1Sa 25:26 - “Now, my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and you yourself live, since the LORD has kept you from murdering and taking vengeance into your own hands, let all your enemies and those who try to harm you be as cursed as Nabal is.

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1Sa 25:27 - And here is a present that I, your servant, have brought to you and your young men.

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1Sa 25:29 - “Even when you are chased by those who seek to kill you, your life is safe in the care of the LORD your God, secure in his treasure pouch! But the lives of your enemies will disappear like stones shot from a sling!

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1Sa 25:33 - Thank God for your good sense! Bless you for keeping me from murder and from carrying out vengeance with my own hands.

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1Sa 25:36 - When Abigail arrived home, she found that Nabal was throwing a big party and was celebrating like a king. He was very drunk, so she didn't tell him anything about her meeting with David until dawn the next day.

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1Sa 25:37 - In the morning when Nabal was sober, his wife told him what had happened. As a result he had a stroke,[fn] and he lay paralyzed on his bed like a stone.

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1Sa 25:41 - She bowed low to the ground and responded, “I, your servant, would be happy to marry David. I would even be willing to become a slave, washing the feet of his servants!”

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1Sa 26:10 - Surely the LORD will strike Saul down someday, or he will die of old age or in battle.

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1Sa 26:13 - David climbed the hill opposite the camp until he was at a safe distance.

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1Sa 26:24 - Now may the LORD value my life, even as I have valued yours today. May he rescue me from all my troubles.”

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1Sa 27:3 - David and his men and their families settled there with Achish at Gath. David brought his two wives along with him—Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail, Nabal's widow from Carmel.

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1Sa 27:8 - David and his men spent their time raiding the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites—people who had lived near Shur, toward the land of Egypt, since ancient times.

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1Sa 28:5 - When Saul saw the vast Philistine army, he became frantic with fear.

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1Sa 28:9 - “Are you trying to get me killed?” the woman demanded. “You know that Saul has outlawed all the mediums and all who consult the spirits of the dead. Why are you setting a trap for me?”

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1Sa 28:11 - Finally, the woman said, “Well, whose spirit do you want me to call up?”
“Call up Samuel,” Saul replied.

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1Sa 28:12 - When the woman saw Samuel, she screamed, “You've deceived me! You are Saul!”

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1Sa 28:21 - When the woman saw how distraught he was, she said, “Sir, I obeyed your command at the risk of my life.

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1Sa 28:23 - But Saul refused to eat anything. Then his advisers joined the woman in urging him to eat, so he finally yielded and got up from the ground and sat on the couch.

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1Sa 29:6 - So Achish finally summoned David and said to him, “I swear by the LORD that you have been a trustworthy ally. I think you should go with me into battle, for I've never found a single flaw in you from the day you arrived until today. But the other Philistine rulers won't hear of it.

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1Sa 30:5 - David's two wives, Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal from Carmel, were among those captured.

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1Sa 30:24 - Who will listen when you talk like this? We share and share alike—those who go to battle and those who guard the equipment.”

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2Sa 1:9 - “Then he begged me, ‘Come over here and put me out of my misery, for I am in terrible pain and want to die.'

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2Sa 1:26 - How I weep for you, my brother Jonathan!
Oh, how much I loved you!
And your love for me was deep,
deeper than the love of women!

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2Sa 2:2 - David's two wives were Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal from Carmel. So David and his wives

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2Sa 2:26 - Abner shouted down to Joab, “Must we always be killing each other? Don't you realize that bitterness is the only result? When will you call off your men from chasing their Israelite brothers?”

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2Sa 3:12 - Then Abner sent messengers to David, saying, “Doesn't the entire land belong to you? Make a solemn pact with me, and I will help turn over all of Israel to you.”

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2Sa 3:21 - Then Abner said to David, “Let me go and call an assembly of all Israel to support my lord the king. They will make a covenant with you to make you their king, and you will rule over everything your heart desires.” So David sent Abner safely on his way.

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2Sa 3:23 - When Joab arrived, he was told that Abner had just been there visiting the king and had been sent away in safety.

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2Sa 3:28 - When David heard about it, he declared, “I vow by the LORD that I and my kingdom are forever innocent of this crime against Abner son of Ner.

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2Sa 4:4 - (Saul's son Jonathan had a son named Mephibosheth,[fn] who was crippled as a child. He was five years old when the report came from Jezreel that Saul and Jonathan had been killed in battle. When the child's nurse heard the news, she picked him up and fled. But as she hurried away, she dropped him, and he became crippled.)

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2Sa 4:6 - The doorkeeper, who had been sifting wheat, became drowsy and fell asleep. So Recab and Baanah slipped past her.[fn]

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2Sa 4:8 - When they arrived at Hebron, they presented Ishbosheth's head to David. “Look!” they exclaimed to the king. “Here is the head of Ishbosheth, the son of your enemy Saul who tried to kill you. Today the LORD has given my lord the king revenge on Saul and his entire family!”

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2Sa 5:7 - But David captured the fortress of Zion, which is now called the City of David.

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2Sa 5:9 - So David made the fortress his home, and he called it the City of David. He extended the city, starting at the supporting terraces[fn] and working inward.

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2Sa 5:12 - And David realized that the LORD had confirmed him as king over Israel and had blessed his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.

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2Sa 6:9 - David was now afraid of the LORD, and he asked, “How can I ever bring the Ark of the LORD back into my care?”

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2Sa 6:11 - The Ark of the LORD remained there in Obed-edom's house for three months, and the LORD blessed Obed-edom and his entire household.

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2Sa 6:16 - But as the Ark of the LORD entered the City of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, looked down from her window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, she was filled with contempt for him.

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2Sa 6:20 - When David returned home to bless his own family, Michal, the daughter of Saul, came out to meet him. She said in disgust, “How distinguished the king of Israel looked today, shamelessly exposing himself to the servant girls like any vulgar person might do!”

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2Sa 7:2 - the king summoned Nathan the prophet. “Look,” David said, “I am living in a beautiful cedar palace,[fn] but the Ark of God is out there in a tent!”

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2Sa 7:14 - I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he sins, I will correct and discipline him with the rod, like any father would do.

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2Sa 7:16 - Your house and your kingdom will continue before me[fn] for all time, and your throne will be secure forever.'”

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2Sa 9:12 - Mephibosheth had a young son named Mica. From then on, all the members of Ziba's household were Mephibosheth's servants.

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2Sa 11:2 - Late one afternoon, after his midday rest, David got out of bed and was walking on the roof of the palace. As he looked out over the city, he noticed a woman of unusual beauty taking a bath.

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2Sa 11:5 - Later, when Bathsheba discovered that she was pregnant, she sent David a message, saying, “I'm pregnant.”

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2Sa 11:11 - Uriah replied, “The Ark and the armies of Israel and Judah are living in tents,[fn] and Joab and my master's men are camping in the open fields. How could I go home to wine and dine and sleep with my wife? I swear that I would never do such a thing.”

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2Sa 11:25 - “Well, tell Joab not to be discouraged,” David said. “The sword devours this one today and that one tomorrow! Fight harder next time, and conquer the city!”

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2Sa 11:26 - When Uriah's wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.

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2Sa 12:15 - After Nathan returned to his home, the LORD sent a deadly illness to the child of David and Uriah's wife.

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2Sa 13:5 - “Well,” Jonadab said, “I'll tell you what to do. Go back to bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, ask him to let Tamar come and prepare some food for you. Tell him you'll feel better if she prepares it as you watch and feeds you with her own hands.”

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2Sa 13:6 - So Amnon lay down and pretended to be sick. And when the king came to see him, Amnon asked him, “Please let my sister Tamar come and cook my favorite dish[fn] as I watch. Then I can eat it from her own hands.”

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2Sa 13:16 - “No, no!” Tamar cried. “Sending me away now is worse than what you've already done to me.”
But Amnon wouldn't listen to her.

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2Sa 13:28 - Absalom told his men, “Wait until Amnon gets drunk; then at my signal, kill him! Don't be afraid. I'm the one who has given the command. Take courage and do it!”

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2Sa 13:30 - As they were on the way back to Jerusalem, this report reached David: “Absalom has killed all the king's sons; not one is left alive!”

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2Sa 14:1 - Joab realized how much the king longed to see Absalom.

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2Sa 14:4 - When the woman from Tekoa approached the king, she bowed with her face to the ground in deep respect and cried out, “O king! Help me!”

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2Sa 14:5 - “What's the trouble?” the king asked.
“Alas, I am a widow!” she replied. “My husband is dead.

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2Sa 14:7 - Now the rest of the family is demanding, ‘Let us have your son. We will execute him for murdering his brother. He doesn't deserve to inherit his family's property.' They want to extinguish the only coal I have left, and my husband's name and family will disappear from the face of the earth.”

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2Sa 14:9 - “Oh, thank you, my lord the king,” the woman from Tekoa replied. “If you are criticized for helping me, let the blame fall on me and on my father's house, and let the king and his throne be innocent.”

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2Sa 14:12 - “Please allow me to ask one more thing of my lord the king,” she said.
“Go ahead and speak,” he responded.

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2Sa 14:13 - She replied, “Why don't you do as much for the people of God as you have promised to do for me? You have convicted yourself in making this decision, because you have refused to bring home your own banished son.

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2Sa 14:15 - “I have come to plead with my lord the king because people have threatened me. I said to myself, ‘Perhaps the king will listen to me

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2Sa 14:17 - Yes, my lord the king will give us peace of mind again.' I know that you are like an angel of God in discerning good from evil. May the LORD your God be with you.”

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2Sa 14:18 - “I must know one thing,” the king replied, “and tell me the truth.”
“Yes, my lord the king,” she responded.

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2Sa 14:19 - “Did Joab put you up to this?”
And the woman replied, “My lord the king, how can I deny it? Nobody can hide anything from you. Yes, Joab sent me and told me what to say.

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2Sa 14:30 - So Absalom said to his servants, “Go and set fire to Joab's barley field, the field next to mine.” So they set his field on fire, as Absalom had commanded.

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2Sa 15:13 - A messenger soon arrived in Jerusalem to tell David, “All Israel has joined Absalom in a conspiracy against you!”

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2Sa 15:20 - You arrived only recently, and should I force you today to wander with us? I don't even know where we will go. Go on back and take your kinsmen with you, and may the LORD show you his unfailing love and faithfulness.[fn]”

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2Sa 15:23 - Everyone cried loudly as the king and his followers passed by. They crossed the Kidron Valley and then went out toward the wilderness.

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2Sa 16:23 - Absalom followed Ahithophel's advice, just as David had done. For every word Ahithophel spoke seemed as wise as though it had come directly from the mouth of God.

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2Sa 17:3 - and I will bring all the people back to you as a bride returns to her husband. After all, it is only one man's life that you seek.[fn] Then you will be at peace with all the people.”

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2Sa 17:7 - “Well,” Hushai replied to Absalom, “this time Ahithophel has made a mistake.

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2Sa 17:10 - Then even the bravest soldiers, though they have the heart of a lion, will be paralyzed with fear. For all Israel knows what a mighty warrior your father is and how courageous his men are.

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2Sa 17:11 - “I recommend that you mobilize the entire army of Israel, bringing them from as far away as Dan in the north and Beersheba in the south. That way you will have an army as numerous as the sand on the seashore. And I advise that you personally lead the troops.

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2Sa 17:12 - When we find David, we'll fall on him like dew that falls on the ground. Then neither he nor any of his men will be left alive.

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2Sa 17:14 - Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “Hushai's advice is better than Ahithophel's.” For the LORD had determined to defeat the counsel of Ahithophel, which really was the better plan, so that he could bring disaster on Absalom!

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2Sa 17:17 - Jonathan and Ahimaaz had been staying at En-rogel so as not to be seen entering and leaving the city. Arrangements had been made for a servant girl to bring them the message they were to take to King David.

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2Sa 17:19 - The man's wife put a cloth over the top of the well and scattered grain on it to dry in the sun; so no one suspected they were there.

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2Sa 17:20 - When Absalom's men arrived, they asked her, “Have you seen Ahimaaz and Jonathan?”
The woman replied, “They were here, but they crossed over the brook.” Absalom's men looked for them without success and returned to Jerusalem.

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2Sa 17:23 - When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey, went to his hometown, set his affairs in order, and hanged himself. He died there and was buried in the family tomb.

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2Sa 18:7 - and the Israelite troops were beaten back by David's men. There was a great slaughter that day, and 20,000 men laid down their lives.

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2Sa 18:8 - The battle raged all across the countryside, and more men died because of the forest than were killed by the sword.

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2Sa 18:9 - During the battle, Absalom happened to come upon some of David's men. He tried to escape on his mule, but as he rode beneath the thick branches of a great tree, his hair[fn] got caught in the tree. His mule kept going and left him dangling in the air.

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2Sa 19:2 - As all the people heard of the king's deep grief for his son, the joy of that day's victory was turned into deep sadness.

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2Sa 19:18 - They crossed the shallows of the Jordan to bring the king's household across the river, helping him in every way they could. As the king was about to cross the river, Shimei fell down before him.

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2Sa 20:8 - As they arrived at the great stone in Gibeon, Amasa met them. Joab was wearing his military tunic with a dagger strapped to his belt. As he stepped forward to greet Amasa, he slipped the dagger from its sheath.[fn]

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2Sa 20:9 - “How are you, my cousin?” Joab said and took him by the beard with his right hand as though to kiss him.

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2Sa 20:10 - Amasa didn't notice the dagger in his left hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach with it so that his insides gushed out onto the ground. Joab did not need to strike again, and Amasa soon died. Joab and his brother Abishai left him lying there and continued after Sheba.

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2Sa 20:17 - As he approached, the woman asked, “Are you Joab?”
“I am,” he replied.
So she said, “Listen carefully to your servant.”
“I'm listening,” he said.

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2Sa 20:21 - That's not my purpose. All I want is a man named Sheba son of Bicri from the hill country of Ephraim, who has revolted against King David. If you hand over this one man to me, I will leave the town in peace.”
“All right,” the woman replied, “we will throw his head over the wall to you.”

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2Sa 20:22 - Then the woman went to all the people with her wise advice, and they cut off Sheba's head and threw it out to Joab. So he blew the ram's horn and called his troops back from the attack. They all returned to their homes, and Joab returned to the king at Jerusalem.

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2Sa 22:7 - But in my distress I cried out to the LORD;
yes, I cried to my God for help.
He heard me from his sanctuary;
my cry reached his ears.

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2Sa 22:8 - “Then the earth quaked and trembled.
The foundations of the heavens shook;
they quaked because of his anger.

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2Sa 22:12 - He shrouded himself in darkness,
veiling his approach with dense rain clouds.

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2Sa 22:31 - “God's way is perfect.
All the LORD's promises prove true.
He is a shield for all who look to him for protection.

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2Sa 22:36 - You have given me your shield of victory;
your help[fn] has made me great.

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2Sa 23:10 - He killed Philistines until his hand was too tired to lift his sword, and the LORD gave him a great victory that day. The rest of the army did not return until it was time to collect the plunder!

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2Sa 24:15 - So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel that morning, and it lasted for three days.[fn] A total of 70,000 people died throughout the nation, from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south.

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2Sa 24:17 - When David saw the angel, he said to the LORD, “I am the one who has sinned and done wrong! But these people are as innocent as sheep—what have they done? Let your anger fall against me and my family.”

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2Sa 24:21 - “Why have you come, my lord the king?” Araunah asked.
David replied, “I have come to buy your threshing floor and to build an altar to the LORD there, so that he will stop the plague.”

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2Sa 24:25 - David built an altar there to the LORD and sacrificed burnt offerings and peace offerings. And the LORD answered his prayer for the land, and the plague on Israel was stopped.

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1Ki 1:4 - The girl was very beautiful, and she looked after the king and took care of him. But the king had no sexual relations with her.

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1Ki 1:15 - So Bathsheba went into the king's bedroom. (He was very old now, and Abishag was taking care of him.)

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1Ki 1:17 - She replied, “My lord, you made a vow before the LORD your God when you said to me, ‘Your son Solomon will surely be the next king and will sit on my throne.'

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1Ki 1:40 - And all the people followed Solomon into Jerusalem, playing flutes and shouting for joy. The celebration was so joyous and noisy that the earth shook with the sound.

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1Ki 1:41 - Adonijah and his guests heard the celebrating and shouting just as they were finishing their banquet. When Joab heard the sound of the ram's horn, he asked, “What's going on? Why is the city in such an uproar?”

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1Ki 1:45 - and Zadok and Nathan have anointed him at Gihon Spring as the new king. They have just returned, and the whole city is celebrating and rejoicing. That's what all the noise is about.

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1Ki 2:12 - Solomon became king and sat on the throne of David his father, and his kingdom was firmly established.

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1Ki 2:13 - One day Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith, came to see Bathsheba, Solomon's mother. “Have you come with peaceful intentions?” she asked him.
“Yes,” he said, “I come in peace.

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1Ki 2:15 - He replied, “As you know, the kingdom was rightfully mine; all Israel wanted me to be the next king. But the tables were turned, and the kingdom went to my brother instead; for that is the way the LORD wanted it.

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1Ki 2:21 - “Then let your brother Adonijah marry Abishag, the girl from Shunem,” she replied.

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1Ki 2:28 - Joab had not joined Absalom's earlier rebellion, but he had joined Adonijah's rebellion. So when Joab heard about Adonijah's death, he ran to the sacred tent of the LORD and grabbed on to the horns of the altar.

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1Ki 2:35 - Then the king appointed Benaiah to command the army in place of Joab, and he installed Zadok the priest to take the place of Abiathar.

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1Ki 2:44 - The king also said to Shimei, “You certainly remember all the wicked things you did to my father, David. May the LORD now bring that evil on your own head.

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1Ki 3:6 - Solomon replied, “You showed faithful love to your servant my father, David, because he was honest and true and faithful to you. And you have continued your faithful love to him today by giving him a son to sit on his throne.

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1Ki 3:17 - “Please, my lord,” one of them began, “this woman and I live in the same house. I gave birth to a baby while she was with me in the house.

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1Ki 3:18 - Three days later this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there were only two of us in the house.

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1Ki 3:22 - Then the other woman interrupted, “It certainly was your son, and the living child is mine.”
“No,” the first woman said, “the living child is mine, and the dead one is yours.” And so they argued back and forth before the king.

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1Ki 3:26 - Then the woman who was the real mother of the living child, and who loved him very much, cried out, “Oh no, my lord! Give her the child—please do not kill him!”
But the other woman said, “All right, he will be neither yours nor mine; divide him between us!”

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1Ki 3:27 - Then the king said, “Do not kill the child, but give him to the woman who wants him to live, for she is his mother!”

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1Ki 4:29 - God gave Solomon very great wisdom and understanding, and knowledge as vast as the sands of the seashore.

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1Ki 6:6 - The complex was three stories high, the bottom floor being 7½ feet wide, the second floor 9 feet wide, and the top floor 10½ feet wide.[fn] The rooms were connected to the walls of the Temple by beams resting on ledges built out from the wall. So the beams were not inserted into the walls themselves.

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1Ki 6:34 - There were two folding doors of cypress wood, and each door was hinged to fold back upon itself.

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1Ki 7:25 - The Sea was placed on a base of twelve bronze oxen,[fn] all facing outward. Three faced north, three faced west, three faced south, and three faced east, and the Sea rested on them.

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1Ki 7:33 - and were similar to chariot wheels. The axles, spokes, rims, and hubs were all cast from molten bronze.

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1Ki 7:39 - He set five water carts on the south side of the Temple and five on the north side. The great bronze basin called the Sea was placed near the southeast corner of the Temple.

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1Ki 8:10 - When the priests came out of the Holy Place, a thick cloud filled the Temple of the LORD.

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1Ki 8:24 - You have kept your promise to your servant David, my father. You made that promise with your own mouth, and with your own hands you have fulfilled it today.

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1Ki 8:61 - And may you be completely faithful to the LORD our God. May you always obey his decrees and commands, just as you are doing today.”

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1Ki 9:3 - The LORD said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your petition. I have set this Temple apart to be holy—this place you have built where my name will be honored forever. I will always watch over it, for it is dear to my heart.

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1Ki 9:15 - This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon conscripted to build the LORD's Temple, the royal palace, the supporting terraces,[fn] the wall of Jerusalem, and the cities of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

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1Ki 10:11 - (In addition, Hiram's ships brought gold from Ophir, and they also brought rich cargoes of red sandalwood[fn] and precious jewels.

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1Ki 10:28 - Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt[fn] and from Cilicia[fn]; the king's traders acquired them from Cilicia at the standard price.

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1Ki 10:29 - At that time chariots from Egypt could be purchased for 600 pieces of silver,[fn] and horses for 150 pieces of silver.[fn] They were then exported to the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.

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1Ki 11:4 - In Solomon's old age, they turned his heart to worship other gods instead of being completely faithful to the LORD his God, as his father, David, had been.

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1Ki 11:20 - She bore him a son named Genubath. Tahpenes raised him[fn] in Pharaoh's palace among Pharaoh's own sons.

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1Ki 11:25 - Rezon was Israel's bitter adversary for the rest of Solomon's reign, and he made trouble, just as Hadad did. Rezon hated Israel intensely and continued to reign in Aram.

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1Ki 11:37 - And I will place you on the throne of Israel, and you will rule over all that your heart desires.

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1Ki 12:10 - The young men replied, “This is what you should tell those complainers who want a lighter burden: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father's waist!

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1Ki 12:26 - Jeroboam thought to himself, “Unless I am careful, the kingdom will return to the dynasty of David.

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1Ki 13:3 - That same day the man of God gave a sign to prove his message. He said, “The LORD has promised to give this sign: This altar will split apart, and its ashes will be poured out on the ground.”

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1Ki 13:4 - When King Jeroboam heard the man of God speaking against the altar at Bethel, he pointed at him and shouted, “Seize that man!” But instantly the king's hand became paralyzed in that position, and he couldn't pull it back.

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1Ki 13:5 - At the same time a wide crack appeared in the altar, and the ashes poured out, just as the man of God had predicted in his message from the LORD.

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1Ki 13:6 - The king cried out to the man of God, “Please ask the LORD your God to restore my hand again!” So the man of God prayed to the LORD, and the king's hand was restored and he could move it again.

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1Ki 14:21 - Meanwhile, 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 from among all the tribes of Israel as the place to honor his name. Rehoboam's mother was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.

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1Ki 15:3 - He committed the same sins as his father before him, and he was not faithful to the LORD his God, as his ancestor David had been.

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1Ki 15:14 - Although the pagan shrines were not removed, Asa's heart remained completely faithful to the LORD throughout his life.

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1Ki 15:23 - The rest of the events in Asa's reign—the extent of his power, everything he did, and the names of the cities he built—are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah. In his old age his feet became diseased.

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1Ki 16:15 - Zimri began to rule over Israel in the twenty-seventh year of King Asa's reign in Judah, but his reign in Tirzah lasted only seven days. The army of Israel was then attacking the Philistine town of Gibbethon.

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1Ki 16:18 - When Zimri saw that the city had been taken, he went into the citadel of the palace and burned it down over himself and died in the flames.

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1Ki 16:27 - The rest of the events in Omri's reign, the extent of his power, and everything he did are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.

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1Ki 16:28 - When Omri died, he was buried in Samaria. Then his son Ahab became the next king.

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1Ki 17:12 - But she said, “I swear by the LORD your God that I don't have a single piece of bread in the house. And I have only a handful of flour left in the jar and a little cooking oil in the bottom of the jug. I was just gathering a few sticks to cook this last meal, and then my son and I will die.”

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1Ki 17:14 - For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: There will always be flour and olive oil left in your containers until the time when the LORD sends rain and the crops grow again!”

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1Ki 17:15 - So she did as Elijah said, and she and Elijah and her family continued to eat for many days.

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1Ki 17:16 - There was always enough flour and olive oil left in the containers, just as the LORD had promised through Elijah.

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1Ki 17:17 - Some time later the woman's son became sick. He grew worse and worse, and finally he died.

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1Ki 17:21 - And he stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, please let this child's life return to him.”

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1Ki 17:24 - Then the woman told Elijah, “Now I know for sure that you are a man of God, and that the LORD truly speaks through you.”

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1Ki 18:2 - So Elijah went to appear before Ahab.
Meanwhile, the famine had become very severe in Samaria.

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1Ki 19:7 - Then the angel of the LORD came again and touched him and said, “Get up and eat some more, or the journey ahead will be too much for you.”

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1Ki 20:19 - But Ahab's provincial commanders and the entire army had now come out to fight.

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1Ki 20:32 - So they put on burlap and ropes, and they went to the king of Israel and begged, “Your servant Ben-hadad says, ‘Please let me live!'”
The king of Israel responded, “Is he still alive? He is my brother!”

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1Ki 20:39 - As the king passed by, the prophet called out to him, “Sir, I was in the thick of battle, and suddenly a man brought me a prisoner. He said, ‘Guard this man; if for any reason he gets away, you will either die or pay a fine of seventy-five pounds[fn] of silver!'

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1Ki 20:42 - The prophet said to him, “This is what the LORD says: Because you have spared the man I said must be destroyed,[fn] now you must die in his place, and your people will die instead of his people.”

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1Ki 21:5 - “What's the matter?” his wife Jezebel asked him. “What's made you so upset that you're not eating?”

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1Ki 21:7 - “Are you the king of Israel or not?” Jezebel demanded. “Get up and eat something, and don't worry about it. I'll get you Naboth's vineyard!”

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1Ki 21:25 - (No one else so completely sold himself to what was evil in the LORD's sight as Ahab did under the influence of his wife Jezebel.

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1Ki 22:19 - Then Micaiah continued, “Listen to what the LORD says! I saw the LORD sitting on his throne with all the armies of heaven around him, on his right and on his left.

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2Ki 1:4 - Now, therefore, this is what the LORD says: You will never leave the bed you are lying on; you will surely die.'” So Elijah went to deliver the message.

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2Ki 1:6 - They replied, “A man came up to us and told us to go back to the king and give him this message. ‘This is what the LORD says: Is there no God in Israel? Why are you sending men to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether you will recover? Therefore, because you have done this, you will never leave the bed you are lying on; you will surely die.'”

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2Ki 1:7 - “What sort of man was he?” the king demanded. “What did he look like?”

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2Ki 1:13 - Once more the king sent a third captain with fifty men. But this time the captain went up the hill and fell to his knees before Elijah. He pleaded with him, “O man of God, please spare my life and the lives of these, your fifty servants.

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2Ki 1:14 - See how the fire from heaven came down and destroyed the first two groups. But now please spare my life!”

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2Ki 1:16 - And Elijah said to the king, “This is what the LORD says: Why did you send messengers to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether you will recover? Is there no God in Israel to answer your question? Therefore, because you have done this, you will never leave the bed you are lying on; you will surely die.”

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2Ki 1:18 - The rest of the events in Ahaziah's reign are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.

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2Ki 2:2 - And Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here, for the LORD has told me to go to Bethel.”
But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and you yourself live, I will never leave you!” So they went down together to Bethel.

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2Ki 2:4 - Then Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here, for the LORD has told me to go to Jericho.”
But Elisha replied again, “As surely as the LORD lives and you yourself live, I will never leave you.” So they went on together to Jericho.

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2Ki 2:6 - Then Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here, for the LORD has told me to go to the Jordan River.”
But again Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and you yourself live, I will never leave you.” So they went on together.

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2Ki 2:19 - One day the leaders of the town of Jericho visited Elisha. “We have a problem, my lord,” they told him. “This town is located in pleasant surroundings, as you can see. But the water is bad, and the land is unproductive.”

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2Ki 3:2 - He did what was evil in the LORD's sight, but not to the same extent as his father and mother. He at least tore down the sacred pillar of Baal that his father had set up.

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2Ki 3:20 - The next day at about the time when the morning sacrifice was offered, water suddenly appeared! It was flowing from the direction of Edom, and soon there was water everywhere.

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2Ki 4:2 - “What can I do to help you?” Elisha asked. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?”
“Nothing at all, except a flask of olive oil,” she replied.

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2Ki 4:9 - She said to her husband, “I am sure this man who stops in from time to time is a holy man of God.

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2Ki 4:13 - Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tell her, ‘We appreciate the kind concern you have shown us. What can we do for you? Can we put in a good word for you to the king or to the commander of the army?'”
“No,” she replied, “my family takes good care of me.”

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2Ki 4:16 - “Next year at this time you will be holding a son in your arms!”
“No, my lord!” she cried. “O man of God, don't deceive me and get my hopes up like that.”

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2Ki 4:17 - But sure enough, the woman soon became pregnant. And at that time the following year she had a son, just as Elisha had said.

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2Ki 4:23 - “Why go today?” he asked. “It is neither a new moon festival nor a Sabbath.”
But she said, “It will be all right.”

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2Ki 4:25 - As she approached the man of God at Mount Carmel, Elisha saw her in the distance. He said to Gehazi, “Look, the woman from Shunem is coming.

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2Ki 4:26 - Run out to meet her and ask her, ‘Is everything all right with you, your husband, and your child?'”
“Yes,” the woman told Gehazi, “everything is fine.”

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2Ki 4:27 - But when she came to the man of God at the mountain, she fell to the ground before him and caught hold of his feet. Gehazi began to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone. She is deeply troubled, but the LORD has not told me what it is.”

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2Ki 4:28 - Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? And didn't I say, ‘Don't deceive me and get my hopes up'?”

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2Ki 4:30 - But the boy's mother said, “As surely as the LORD lives and you yourself live, I won't go home unless you go with me.” So Elisha returned with her.

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2Ki 4:34 - Then he lay down on the child's body, placing his mouth on the child's mouth, his eyes on the child's eyes, and his hands on the child's hands. And as he stretched out on him, the child's body began to grow warm again!

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2Ki 4:37 - She fell at his feet and bowed before him, overwhelmed with gratitude. Then she took her son in her arms and carried him downstairs.

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2Ki 5:3 - One day the girl said to her mistress, “I wish my master would go to see the prophet in Samaria. He would heal him of his leprosy.”

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2Ki 5:4 - So Naaman told the king what the young girl from Israel had said.

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2Ki 5:10 - But Elisha sent a messenger out to him with this message: “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan River. Then your skin will be restored, and you will be healed of your leprosy.”

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2Ki 5:14 - So Naaman went down to the Jordan River and dipped himself seven times, as the man of God had instructed him. And his skin became as healthy as the skin of a young child's, and he was healed!

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2Ki 5:15 - Then Naaman and his entire party went back to find the man of God. They stood before him, and Naaman 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 5:26 - But Elisha asked him, “Don't you realize that I was there in spirit when Naaman stepped down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to receive money and clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and cattle, and male and female servants?

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2Ki 5:27 - Because you have done this, you and your descendants will suffer from Naaman's leprosy forever.” When Gehazi left the room, he was covered with leprosy; his skin was white as snow.

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2Ki 6:11 - The king of Aram became very upset over this. He called his officers together and demanded, “Which of you is the traitor? Who has been informing the king of Israel of my plans?”

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2Ki 6:19 - Then Elisha went out and told them, “You have come the wrong way! This isn't the right city! Follow me, and I will take you to the man you are looking for.” And he led them to the city of Samaria.

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2Ki 6:28 - But then the king asked, “What is the matter?”
She replied, “This woman said to me: ‘Come on, let's eat your son today, then we will eat my son tomorrow.'

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2Ki 6:31 - “May God strike me and even kill me if I don't separate Elisha's head from his shoulders this very day,” the king vowed.

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2Ki 6:33 - While Elisha was still saying this, the messenger arrived. And the king[fn] said, “All this misery is from the LORD! Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?”

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2Ki 7:1 - Elisha replied, “Listen to this message from the LORD! This is what the LORD says: By this time tomorrow in the markets of Samaria, five quarts of choice flour will cost only one piece of silver,[fn] and ten quarts of barley grain will cost only one piece of silver.[fn]”

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2Ki 7:9 - Finally, they said to each other, “This is not right. This is a day of good news, and we aren't sharing it with anyone! If we wait until morning, some calamity will certainly fall upon us. Come on, let's go back and tell the people at the palace.”

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2Ki 7:15 - They went all the way to the Jordan River, following a trail of clothing and equipment that the Arameans had thrown away in their mad rush to escape. The scouts returned and told the king about it.

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2Ki 7:18 - The man of God had said to the king, “By this time tomorrow in the markets of Samaria, five quarts of choice flour will cost one piece of silver, and ten quarts of barley grain will cost one piece of silver.”

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2Ki 8:2 - So the woman did as the man of God instructed. She took her family and settled in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

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2Ki 8:3 - After the famine ended she returned from the land of the Philistines, and she went to see the king about getting back her house and land.

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2Ki 8:5 - And Gehazi was telling the king about the time Elisha had brought a boy back to life. At that very moment, the mother of the boy walked in to make her appeal to the king about her house and land.
“Look, my lord the king!” Gehazi exclaimed. “Here is the woman now, and this is her son—the very one Elisha brought back to life!”

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2Ki 9:15 - But King Joram[fn] was wounded in the fighting and returned to Jezreel to recover from his wounds.) So Jehu told the men with him, “If you want me to be king, don't let anyone leave town and go to Jezreel to report what we have done.”

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2Ki 10:6 - Jehu responded with a second letter: “If you are on my side and are going to obey me, bring the heads of your master's sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the seventy sons of the king were being cared for by the leaders of Samaria, where they had been raised since childhood.

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2Ki 10:15 - When Jehu left there, he met Jehonadab son of Recab, who was coming to meet him. After they had greeted each other, Jehu said to him, “Are you as loyal to me as I am to you?”
“Yes, I am,” Jehonadab replied.
“If you are,” Jehu said, “then give me your hand.” So Jehonadab put out his hand, and Jehu helped him into the chariot.

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2Ki 10:24 - So they were all inside the temple to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty of his men outside the building and had warned them, “If you let anyone escape, you will pay for it with your own life.”

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2Ki 10:34 - The rest of the events in Jehu's reign—everything he did and all his achievements—are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.

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2Ki 11:1 - When Athaliah, the mother of King Ahaziah of Judah, learned that her son was dead, she began to destroy the rest of the royal family.

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2Ki 11:20 - So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was peaceful because Athaliah had been killed at the king's palace.

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2Ki 14:5 - When Amaziah was well established as king, he executed the officials who had assassinated his father.

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2Ki 14:10 - “You have indeed defeated Edom, and you are very proud of it. But be content with your victory and stay at home! Why stir up trouble that will only bring disaster on you and the people of Judah?”

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2Ki 15:15 - The rest of the events in Shallum's reign, including his conspiracy, are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.

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2Ki 18:19 - Then the Assyrian king's chief of staff told them to give this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the great king of Assyria says: What are you trusting in that makes you so confident?

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2Ki 18:30 - Don't let him fool you into trusting in the LORD by saying, ‘The LORD will surely rescue us. This city will never fall into the hands of the Assyrian king!'

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2Ki 19:3 - They told him, “This is what King Hezekiah says: Today is a day of trouble, insults, and disgrace. It is like when a child is ready to be born, but the mother has no strength to deliver the baby.

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2Ki 20:9 - Isaiah replied, “This is the sign from the LORD to prove that he will do as he promised. Would you like the shadow on the sundial to go forward ten steps or backward ten steps?[fn]”

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2Ki 20:10 - “The shadow always moves forward,” Hezekiah replied, “so that would be easy. Make it go ten steps backward instead.”

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2Ki 20:11 - So Isaiah the prophet asked the LORD to do this, and he caused the shadow to move ten steps backward on the sundial[fn] of Ahaz!

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2Ki 20:20 - The rest of the events in Hezekiah's reign, including the extent of his power and how he built a pool and dug a tunnel[fn] to bring water into the city, are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.

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2Ki 21:17 - The rest of the events in Manasseh's reign and everything he did, including the sins he committed, are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.

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2Ki 22:13 - “Go to the Temple and speak to the LORD for me and for the people and for all Judah. Inquire about the words written in this scroll that has been found. For the LORD's great anger is burning against us because our ancestors have not obeyed the words in this scroll. We have not been doing everything it says we must do.”

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2Ki 22:19 - You were sorry and humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I said against this city and its people—that this land would be cursed and become desolate. You tore your clothing in despair and wept before me in repentance. And I have indeed heard you, says the LORD.

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2Ki 24:10 - During Jehoiachin's reign, the officers of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came up against Jerusalem and besieged it.

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2Ki 24:12 - Then King Jehoiachin, along with the queen mother, his advisers, his commanders, and his officials, surrendered to the Babylonians.
In the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, he took Jehoiachin prisoner.

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2Ki 25:1 - So on January 15,[fn] during the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon led his entire army against Jerusalem. They surrounded the city and built siege ramps against its walls.

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2Ki 25:2 - Jerusalem was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah's reign.

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2Ki 25:4 - Then a section of the city wall was broken down, and all the soldiers fled. Since the city was surrounded by the Babylonians,[fn] they waited for nightfall. Then they slipped through the gate between the two walls behind the king's garden and headed toward the Jordan Valley.[fn]

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2Ki 25:5 - But the Babylonian[fn] troops chased the king and caught him on the plains of Jericho, for his men had all deserted him and scattered.

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2Ki 25:16 - The weight of the bronze from the two pillars, the Sea, and the water carts was too great to be measured. These things had been made for the LORD's Temple in the days of King Solomon.

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2Ki 25:30 - So the Babylonian king gave him a regular food allowance as long as he lived.

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1Ch 2:4 - Later Judah had twin sons from Tamar, his widowed daughter-in-law. Their names were Perez and Zerah. So Judah had five sons in all.

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1Ch 2:24 - Soon after Hezron died in the town of Caleb-ephrathah, his wife Abijah gave birth to a son named Ashhur (the father of[fn] Tekoa).

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1Ch 2:46 - Caleb's concubine Ephah gave birth to Haran, Moza, and Gazez. Haran was the father of Gazez.

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1Ch 2:48 - Another of Caleb's concubines, Maacah, gave birth to Sheber and Tirhanah.

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1Ch 4:9 - There was a man named Jabez who was more honorable than any of his brothers. His mother named him Jabez[fn] because his birth had been so painful.

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1Ch 4:10 - He was the one who prayed to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and expand my territory! Please be with me in all that I do, and keep me from all trouble and pain!” And God granted him his request.

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1Ch 4:18 - He married a woman from Judah, who became the mother of Jered (the father of Gedor), Heber (the father of Soco), and Jekuthiel (the father of Zanoah). Mered also married Bithia, a daughter of Pharaoh, and she bore him children.

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1Ch 4:33 - and their surrounding villages as far away as Baalath.[fn] This was their territory, and these names are listed in their genealogical records.

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1Ch 4:40 - They found lush pastures there, and the land was quiet and peaceful.
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1Ch 5:2 - The descendants of Judah became the most powerful tribe and provided a ruler for the nation,[fn] but the birthright belonged to Joseph.

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1Ch 7:14 - The descendants of Manasseh through his Aramean concubine included Asriel. She also bore Makir, the father of Gilead.

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1Ch 7:18 - Makir's sister Hammoleketh gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.

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1Ch 11:5 - The people of Jebus taunted David, saying, “You'll never get in here!” But David captured the fortress of Zion, which is now called the City of David.

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1Ch 13:4 - The whole assembly agreed to this, for the people could see it was the right thing to do.

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1Ch 13:14 - The Ark of God remained there in Obed-edom's house for three months, and the LORD blessed the household of Obed-edom and everything he owned.

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1Ch 14:2 - And David realized that the LORD had confirmed him as king over Israel and had greatly blessed his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.

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1Ch 16:23 - Let the whole earth sing to the LORD!
Each day proclaim the good news that he saves.

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1Ch 16:30 - Let all the earth tremble before him.
The world stands firm and cannot be shaken.

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1Ch 16:31 - Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice!
Tell all the nations, “The LORD reigns!”

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1Ch 16:32 - Let the sea and everything in it shout his praise!
Let the fields and their crops burst out with joy!

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1Ch 17:1 - When David was settled in his palace, he summoned Nathan the prophet. “Look,” David said, “I am living in a beautiful cedar palace,[fn] but the Ark of the LORD's Covenant is out there under a tent!”

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1Ch 21:16 - David looked up and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth with his sword drawn, reaching out over Jerusalem. So David and the leaders of Israel put on burlap to show their deep distress and fell face down on the ground.

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1Ch 21:17 - And David said to God, “I am the one who called for the census! I am the one who has sinned and done wrong! But these people are as innocent as sheep—what have they done? O LORD my God, let your anger fall against me and my family, but do not destroy your people.”

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1Ch 21:22 - David said to Araunah, “Let me buy this threshing floor from you at its full price. Then I will build an altar to the LORD there, so that he will stop the plague.”

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1Ch 22:18 - “The LORD your God is with you,” he declared. “He has given you peace with the surrounding nations. He has handed them over to me, and they are now subject to the LORD and his people.

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1Ch 24:19 - Each group carried out its appointed duties in the house of the LORD according to the procedures established by their ancestor Aaron in obedience to the commands of the LORD, the God of Israel.

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1Ch 28:7 - And if he continues to obey my commands and regulations as he does now, I will make his kingdom last forever.'

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1Ch 29:1 - Then King David turned to the entire assembly and said, “My son Solomon, whom God has clearly chosen as the next king of Israel, is still young and inexperienced. The work ahead of him is enormous, for the Temple he will build is not for mere mortals—it is for the LORD God himself!

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1Ch 29:11 - Yours, O LORD, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty. Everything in the heavens and on earth is yours, O LORD, and this is your kingdom. We adore you as the one who is over all things.

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1Ch 29:12 - Wealth and honor come from you alone, for you rule over everything. Power and might are in your hand, and at your discretion people are made great and given strength.

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1Ch 29:20 - Then David said to the whole assembly, “Give praise to the LORD your God!” And the entire assembly praised the LORD, the God of their ancestors, and they bowed low and knelt before the LORD and the king.

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2Ch 1:3 - Then he led the entire assembly to the place of worship in Gibeon, for God's Tabernacle[fn] was located there. (This was the Tabernacle that Moses, the LORD's servant, had made in the wilderness.)

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2Ch 1:5 - But the bronze altar made by Bezalel son of Uri and grandson of Hur was there[fn] at Gibeon in front of the Tabernacle of the LORD. So Solomon and the people gathered in front of it to consult the LORD.[fn]

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2Ch 1:16 - Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt[fn] and from Cilicia[fn]; the king's traders acquired them from Cilicia at the standard price.

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2Ch 2:14 - His mother is from the tribe of Dan in Israel, and his father is from Tyre. He is skillful at making things from gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and he also works with stone and wood. He can work with purple, blue, and scarlet cloth and fine linen. He is also an engraver and can follow any design given to him. He will work with your craftsmen and those appointed by my lord David, your father.

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2Ch 3:3 - These are the dimensions Solomon used for the foundation of the Temple of God (using the old standard of measurement).[fn] It was 90 feet long and 30 feet wide.[fn]

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2Ch 3:11 - The total wingspan of the two cherubim standing side by side was 30 feet. One wing of the first figure was 7½ feet[fn] long, and it touched the Temple wall. The other wing, also 7½ feet long, touched one of the wings of the second figure.

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2Ch 3:12 - In the same way, the second figure had one wing 7½ feet long that touched the opposite wall. The other wing, also 7½ feet long, touched the wing of the first figure.

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2Ch 4:4 - The Sea was placed on a base of twelve bronze oxen, all facing outward. Three faced north, three faced west, three faced south, and three faced east, and the Sea rested on them.

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2Ch 4:6 - He also made ten smaller basins for washing the utensils for the burnt offerings. He set five on the south side and five on the north. But the priests washed themselves in the Sea.

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2Ch 4:22 - the lamp snuffers, bowls, dishes, and incense burners—all of solid gold;
the doors for the entrances to the Most Holy Place and the main room of the Temple, overlaid with gold.

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2Ch 5:1 - So Solomon finished all his work on the Temple of the LORD. Then he brought all the gifts his father, David, had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the various articles—and he stored them in the treasuries of the Temple of God.

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2Ch 6:15 - You have kept your promise to your servant David, my father. You made that promise with your own mouth, and with your own hands you have fulfilled it today.

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2Ch 6:41 - “And now arise, O LORD God, and enter your resting place, along with the Ark, the symbol of your power. May your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation; may your loyal servants rejoice in your goodness.

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2Ch 7:3 - When all the people of Israel saw the fire coming down and the glorious presence of the LORD filling the Temple, they fell face down on the ground and worshiped and praised the LORD, saying,
“He is good!
His faithful love endures forever!”

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2Ch 7:16 - For I have chosen this Temple and set it apart to be holy—a place where my name will be honored forever. I will always watch over it, for it is dear to my heart.

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2Ch 8:11 - Solomon moved his wife, Pharaoh's daughter, from the City of David to the new palace he had built for her. He said, “My wife must not live in King David's palace, for the Ark of the LORD has been there, and it is holy ground.”

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2Ch 8:16 - So Solomon made sure that all the work related to building the Temple of the LORD was carried out, from the day its foundation was laid to the day of its completion.

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2Ch 9:28 - Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt[fn] and many other countries.

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2Ch 10:3 - The leaders of Israel summoned him, and Jeroboam and all Israel went to speak with Rehoboam.

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2Ch 12:1 - But when Rehoboam was firmly established and strong, he abandoned the Law of the LORD, and all Israel followed him in this sin.

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2Ch 12:13 - King Rehoboam firmly established himself in Jerusalem and continued to rule. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from among all the tribes of Israel as the place to honor his name. Rehoboam's mother was Naamah, a woman from Ammon.

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2Ch 13:11 - They present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD every morning and evening. They place the Bread of the Presence on the holy table, and they light the gold lampstand every evening. We are following the instructions of the LORD our God, but you have abandoned him.

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2Ch 14:1 - [fn]When Abijah died, he was buried in the City of David. Then his son Asa became the next king. There was peace in the land for ten years.

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2Ch 14:6 - During those peaceful years, he was able to build up the fortified towns throughout Judah. No one tried to make war against him at this time, for the LORD was giving him rest from his enemies.

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2Ch 20:15 - He said, “Listen, all you people of Judah and Jerusalem! Listen, King Jehoshaphat! This is what the LORD says: Do not be afraid! Don't be discouraged by this mighty army, for the battle is not yours, but God's.

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2Ch 20:30 - So Jehoshaphat's kingdom was at peace, for his God had given him rest on every side.

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2Ch 21:9 - So Jehoram went out with his full army and all his chariots. The Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, but he went out at night and attacked them[fn] under cover of darkness.

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2Ch 21:15 - You yourself will suffer with a severe intestinal disease that will get worse each day until your bowels come out.”

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2Ch 21:19 - The disease grew worse and worse, and at the end of two years it caused his bowels to come out, and he died in agony. His people did not build a great funeral fire to honor him as they had done for his ancestors.

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2Ch 22:10 - When Athaliah, the mother of King Ahaziah of Judah, learned that her son was dead, she began to destroy the rest of Judah's royal family.

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2Ch 22:11 - But Ahaziah's sister Jehosheba,[fn] the daughter of King Jehoram, took Ahaziah's infant son, Joash, and stole him away from among the rest of the king's children, who were about to be killed. She put Joash and his nurse in a bedroom. In this way, Jehosheba, wife of Jehoiada the priest and sister of Ahaziah, hid the child so that Athaliah could not murder him.

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2Ch 23:21 - So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was peaceful because Athaliah had been killed.

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2Ch 24:7 - Over the years the followers of wicked Athaliah had broken into the Temple of God, and they had used all the dedicated things from the Temple of the LORD to worship the images of Baal.

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2Ch 25:3 - When Amaziah was well established as king, he executed the officials who had assassinated his father.

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2Ch 25:19 - “You are saying, ‘I have defeated Edom,' and you are very proud of it. But my advice is to stay at home. Why stir up trouble that will only bring disaster on you and the people of Judah?”

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2Ch 26:15 - And he built structures on the walls of Jerusalem, designed by experts to protect those who shot arrows and hurled large stones[fn] from the towers and the corners of the wall. His fame spread far and wide, for the LORD gave him marvelous help, and he became very powerful.

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2Ch 26:16 - But when he had become powerful, he also became proud, which led to his downfall. He sinned against the LORD his God by entering the sanctuary of the LORD's Temple and personally burning incense on the incense altar.

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2Ch 26:19 - Uzziah, who was holding an incense burner, became furious. But as he was standing there raging at the priests before the incense altar in the LORD's Temple, leprosy[fn] suddenly broke out on his forehead.

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2Ch 28:13 - “You must not bring the prisoners here!” they declared. “We cannot afford to add to our sins and guilt. Our guilt is already great, and the LORD's fierce anger is already turned against Israel.”

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2Ch 29:24 - The priests then killed the goats as a sin offering and sprinkled their blood on the altar to make atonement for the sins of all Israel. The king had specifically commanded that this burnt offering and sin offering should be made for all Israel.

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2Ch 29:28 - The entire assembly worshiped the LORD as the singers sang and the trumpets blew, until all the burnt offerings were finished.

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2Ch 29:31 - Then Hezekiah declared, “Now that you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD, bring your sacrifices and thanksgiving offerings to the Temple of the LORD.” So the people brought their sacrifices and thanksgiving offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings, too.

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2Ch 29:32 - The people brought to the LORD 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 male lambs for burnt offerings.

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2Ch 29:35 - There was an abundance of burnt offerings, along with the usual liquid offerings, and a great deal of fat from the many peace offerings.
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2Ch 30:2 - The king, his officials, and all the community of Jerusalem decided to celebrate Passover a month later than usual.[fn]

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2Ch 30:23 - The entire assembly then decided to continue the festival another seven days, so they celebrated joyfully for another week.

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2Ch 30:25 - The entire assembly of Judah rejoiced, including the priests, the Levites, all who came from the land of Israel, the foreigners who came to the festival, and all those who lived in Judah.

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2Ch 30:27 - Then the priests and Levites stood and blessed the people, and God heard their prayer from his holy dwelling in heaven.

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2Ch 31:10 - And Azariah the high priest, from the family of Zadok, replied, “Since the people began bringing their gifts to the LORD's Temple, we have had enough to eat and plenty to spare. The LORD has blessed his people, and all this is left over.”

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2Ch 32:9 - While King Sennacherib of Assyria was still besieging the town of Lachish, he sent his officers to Jerusalem with this message for Hezekiah and all the people in the city:

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2Ch 32:25 - But Hezekiah did not respond appropriately to the kindness shown him, and he became proud. So the LORD's anger came against him and against Judah and Jerusalem.

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2Ch 33:18 - The rest of the events of Manasseh's reign, his prayer to God, and the words the seers spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, are recorded in The Book of the Kings of Israel.

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2Ch 34:27 - You were sorry and humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this city and its people. You humbled yourself and tore your clothing in despair and wept before me in repentance. And I have indeed heard you, says the LORD.

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2Ch 35:10 - When everything was ready for the Passover celebration, the priests and the Levites took their places, organized by their divisions, as the king had commanded.

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2Ch 35:16 - The entire ceremony for the LORD's Passover was completed that day. All the burnt offerings were sacrificed on the altar of the LORD, as King Josiah had commanded.

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2Ch 35:26 - The rest of the events of Josiah's reign and his acts of devotion (carried out according to what was written in the Law of the LORD),

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2Ch 36:4 - The king of Egypt then installed Eliakim, the brother of Jehoahaz, as the next king of Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim. Then Neco took Jehoahaz to Egypt as a prisoner.

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Ezr 2:64 - So a total of 42,360 people returned to Judah,

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Ezr 2:69 - and each leader gave as much as he could. The total of their gifts came to 61,000 gold coins,[fn] 6,250 pounds[fn] of silver, and 100 robes for the priests.

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Ezr 3:4 - They celebrated the Festival of Shelters as prescribed in the Law, sacrificing the number of burnt offerings specified for each day of the festival.

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Ezr 3:13 - The joyful shouting and weeping mingled together in a loud noise that could be heard far in the distance.

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Ezr 4:11 - This is a copy of their letter: “To King Artaxerxes, from your loyal subjects in the province west of the Euphrates River.

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Ezr 4:13 - And the king should know that if this city is rebuilt and its walls are completed, it will be much to your disadvantage, for the Jews will then refuse to pay their tribute, customs, and tolls to you.

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Ezr 4:15 - We suggest that a search be made in your ancestors' records, where you will discover what a rebellious city this has been in the past. In fact, it was destroyed because of its long and troublesome history of revolt against the kings and countries who controlled it.

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Ezr 4:16 - We declare to the king that if this city is rebuilt and its walls are completed, the province west of the Euphrates River will be lost to you.”

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Ezr 4:19 - I ordered a search of the records and have found that Jerusalem has indeed been a hotbed of insurrection against many kings. In fact, rebellion and revolt are normal there!

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Ezr 4:21 - Therefore, issue orders to have these men stop their work. That city must not be rebuilt except at my express command.

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Ezr 6:1 - So King Darius issued orders that a search be made in the Babylonian archives, which were stored in the treasury.

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Ezr 6:4 - Every three layers of specially prepared stones will be topped by a layer of timber. All expenses will be paid by the royal treasury.

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Ezr 7:11 - King Artaxerxes had given a copy of the following letter to Ezra, the priest and scribe who studied and taught the commands and decrees of the LORD to Israel:

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Ezr 7:12 - [fn]“From Artaxerxes, the king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the teacher of the law of the God of heaven. Greetings.

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Ezr 7:25 - “And you, Ezra, are to use the wisdom your God has given you to appoint magistrates and judges who know your God's laws to govern all the people in the province west of the Euphrates River. Teach the law to anyone who does not know it.

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Ezr 7:28 - And praise him for demonstrating such unfailing love to me by honoring me before the king, his council, and all his mighty nobles! I felt encouraged because the gracious hand of the LORD my God was on me. And I gathered some of the leaders of Israel to return with me to Jerusalem.

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Ezr 9:7 - From the days of our ancestors until now, we have been steeped in sin. That is why we and our kings and our priests have been at the mercy of the pagan kings of the land. We have been killed, captured, robbed, and disgraced, just as we are today.

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Ezr 9:11 - Your servants the prophets warned us when they said, ‘The land you are entering to possess is totally defiled by the detestable practices of the people living there. From one end to the other, the land is filled with corruption.

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Ezr 9:15 - O LORD, God of Israel, you are just. We come before you in our guilt as nothing but an escaped remnant, though in such a condition none of us can stand in your presence.”

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Ezr 10:8 - Those who failed to come within three days would, if the leaders and elders so decided, forfeit all their property and be expelled from the assembly of the exiles.

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Ezr 10:12 - Then the whole assembly raised their voices and answered, “Yes, you are right; we must do as you say!”

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Neh 1:9 - But if you return to me and obey my commands and live by them, then even if you are exiled to the ends of the earth, I will bring you back to the place I have chosen for my name to be honored.'

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Neh 2:3 - but I replied, “Long live the king! How can I not be sad? For the city where my ancestors are buried is in ruins, and the gates have been destroyed by fire.”

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Neh 2:6 - The king, with the queen sitting beside him, asked, “How long will you be gone? When will you return?” After I told him how long I would be gone, the king agreed to my request.

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Neh 2:8 - And please give me a letter addressed to Asaph, the manager of the king's forest, instructing him to give me timber. I will need it to make beams for the gates of the Temple fortress, for the city walls, and for a house for myself.” And the king granted these requests, because the gracious hand of God was on me.

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Neh 4:2 - saying in front of his friends and the Samarian army officers, “What does this bunch of poor, feeble Jews think they're doing? Do they think they can build the wall in a single day by just offering a few sacrifices?[fn] Do they actually think they can make something of stones from a rubbish heap—and charred ones at that?”

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Neh 4:10 - Then the people of Judah began to complain, “The workers are getting tired, and there is so much rubble to be moved. We will never be able to build the wall by ourselves.”

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Neh 4:22 - I also told everyone living outside the walls to stay in Jerusalem. That way they and their servants could help with guard duty at night and work during the day.

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Neh 5:13 - I shook out the folds of my robe and said, “If you fail to keep your promise, may God shake you like this from your homes and from your property!”
The whole assembly responded, “Amen,” and they praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.

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Neh 5:18 - The provisions I paid for each day included one ox, six choice sheep or goats, and a large number of poultry. And every ten days we needed a large supply of all kinds of wine. Yet I refused to claim the governor's food allowance because the people already carried a heavy burden.

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Neh 6:12 - I realized that God had not spoken to him, but that he had uttered this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

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Neh 7:4 - At that time the city was large and spacious, but the population was small, and none of the houses had been rebuilt.

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Neh 7:66 - So a total of 42,360 people returned to Judah,

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Neh 8:9 - Then Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were interpreting for the people said to them, “Don't mourn or weep on such a day as this! For today is a sacred day before the LORD your God.” For the people had all been weeping as they listened to the words of the Law.

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Neh 8:10 - And Nehemiah[fn] continued, “Go and celebrate with a feast of rich foods and sweet drinks, and share gifts of food with people who have nothing prepared. This is a sacred day before our Lord. Don't be dejected and sad, for the joy of the LORD is your strength!”

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Neh 8:11 - And the Levites, too, quieted the people, telling them, “Hush! Don't weep! For this is a sacred day.”

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Neh 8:17 - So everyone who had returned from captivity lived in these shelters during the festival, and they were all filled with great joy! The Israelites had not celebrated like this since the days of Joshua[fn] son of Nun.

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Neh 9:10 - You displayed miraculous signs and wonders against Pharaoh, his officials, and all his people, for you knew how arrogantly they were treating our ancestors. You have a glorious reputation that has never been forgotten.

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Neh 9:36 - “So now today we are slaves in the land of plenty that you gave our ancestors for their enjoyment! We are slaves here in this good land.

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Neh 12:38 - The second choir giving thanks went northward[fn] around the other way to meet them. I followed them, together with the other half of the people, along the top of the wall past the Tower of the Ovens to the Broad Wall,

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Neh 12:43 - Many sacrifices were offered on that joyous day, for God had given the people cause for great joy. The women and children also participated in the celebration, and the joy of the people of Jerusalem could be heard far away.

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Est 1:9 - At the same time, Queen Vashti gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.

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Est 1:12 - But when they conveyed the king's order to Queen Vashti, she refused to come. This made the king furious, and he burned with anger.

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Est 1:16 - Memucan answered the king and his nobles, “Queen Vashti has wronged not only the king but also every noble and citizen throughout your empire.

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Est 1:19 - “So if it please the king, we suggest that you issue a written decree, a law of the Persians and Medes that cannot be revoked. It should order that Queen Vashti be forever banished from the presence of King Xerxes, and that the king should choose another queen more worthy than she.

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Est 2:3 - Let the king appoint agents in each province to bring these beautiful young women into the royal harem at the fortress of Susa. Hegai, the king's eunuch in charge of the harem, will see that they are all given beauty treatments.

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Est 2:4 - After that, the young woman who most pleases the king will be made queen instead of Vashti.” This advice was very appealing to the king, so he put the plan into effect.

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Est 2:20 - Esther continued to keep her family background and nationality a secret. She was still following Mordecai's directions, just as she did when she lived in his home.

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Est 3:15 - At the king's command, the decree went out by swift messengers, and it was also proclaimed in the fortress of Susa. Then the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa fell into confusion.

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Est 4:5 - Then Esther sent for Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs who had been appointed as her attendant. She ordered him to go to Mordecai and find out what was troubling him and why he was in mourning.

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Est 5:1 - On the third day of the fast, Esther put on her royal robes and entered the inner court of the palace, just across from the king's hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne, facing the entrance.

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Est 5:2 - When he saw Queen Esther standing there in the inner court, he welcomed her and held out the gold scepter to her. So Esther approached and touched the end of the scepter.

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Est 5:12 - Then Haman added, “And that's not all! Queen Esther invited only me and the king himself to the banquet she prepared for us. And she has invited me to dine with her and the king again tomorrow!”

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Est 5:14 - So Haman's wife, Zeresh, and all his friends suggested, “Set up a sharpened pole that stands seventy-five feet[fn] tall, and in the morning ask the king to impale Mordecai on it. When this is done, you can go on your merry way to the banquet with the king.” This pleased Haman, and he ordered the pole set up.

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Est 6:13 - When Haman told his wife, Zeresh, and all his friends what had happened, his wise advisers and his wife said, “Since Mordecai—this man who has humiliated you—is of Jewish birth, you will never succeed in your plans against him. It will be fatal to continue opposing him.”

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Est 7:3 - Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor with the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my request, I ask that my life and the lives of my people will be spared.

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Est 9:29 - Then Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote another letter putting the queen's full authority behind Mordecai's letter to establish the Festival of Purim.

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Est 9:31 - These letters established the Festival of Purim—an annual celebration of these days at the appointed time, decreed by both Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther. (The people decided to observe this festival, just as they had decided for themselves and their descendants to establish the times of fasting and mourning.)

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Job 1:6 - One day the members of the heavenly court[fn] came to present themselves before the LORD, and the Accuser, Satan,[fn] came with them.

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Job 1:13 - One day when Job's sons and daughters were feasting at the oldest brother's house,

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Job 1:19 - Suddenly, a powerful wind swept in from the wilderness and hit the house on all sides. The house collapsed, and all your children are dead. I am the only one who escaped to tell you.”

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Job 2:1 - One day the members of the heavenly court[fn] came again to present themselves before the LORD, and the Accuser, Satan,[fn] came with them.

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Job 2:9 - His wife said to him, “Are you still trying to maintain your integrity? Curse God and die.”

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Job 3:3 - “Let the day of my birth be erased,
and the night I was conceived.

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Job 3:4 - Let that day be turned to darkness.
Let it be lost even to God on high,
and let no light shine on it.

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Job 3:6 - Let that night be blotted off the calendar,
never again to be counted among the days of the year,
never again to appear among the months.

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Job 3:7 - Let that night be childless.
Let it have no joy.

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Job 4:6 - Doesn't your reverence for God give you confidence?
Doesn't your life of integrity give you hope?

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Job 5:3 - I have seen that fools may be successful for the moment,
but then comes sudden disaster.

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Job 5:5 - The hungry devour their harvest,
even when it is guarded by brambles.[fn]
The thirsty pant after their wealth.

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Job 5:24 - You will know that your home is safe.
When you survey your possessions, nothing will be missing.

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Job 6:7 - My appetite disappears when I look at it;
I gag at the thought of eating it!

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Job 6:8 - “Oh, that I might have my request,
that God would grant my desire.

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Job 6:11 - But I don't have the strength to endure.
I have nothing to live for.

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Job 6:12 - Do I have the strength of a stone?
Is my body made of bronze?

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Job 7:1 - “Is not all human life a struggle?
Our lives are like that of a hired hand,

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Job 7:7 - O God, remember that my life is but a breath,
and I will never again feel happiness.

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Job 7:13 - I think, ‘My bed will comfort me,
and sleep will ease my misery,'

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Job 8:14 - Their confidence hangs by a thread.
They are leaning on a spider's web.

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Job 9:21 - “I am innocent,
but it makes no difference to me—
I despise my life.

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Job 9:31 - you would plunge me into a muddy ditch,
and my own filthy clothing would hate me.

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Job 10:12 - You gave me life and showed me your unfailing love.
My life was preserved by your care.

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Job 11:17 - Your life will be brighter than the noonday.
Even darkness will be as bright as morning.

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Job 11:20 - But the wicked will be blinded.
They will have no escape.
Their only hope is death.”

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Job 14:8 - Though its roots have grown old in the earth
and its stump decays,

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Job 14:13 - “I wish you would hide me in the grave[fn]
and forget me there until your anger has passed.
But mark your calendar to think of me again!

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Job 14:22 - They suffer painfully;
their life is full of trouble.”

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Job 15:12 - What has taken away your reason?
What has weakened your vision,[fn]

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Job 15:19 - from those to whom the land was given
long before any foreigners arrived.

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Job 15:21 - The sound of terror rings in their ears,
and even on good days they fear the attack of the destroyer.

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Job 15:32 - Like trees, they will be cut down in the prime of life;
their branches will never again be green.

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Job 15:35 - They conceive trouble and give birth to evil.
Their womb produces deceit.”

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Job 16:4 - I could say the same things if you were in my place.
I could spout off criticism and shake my head at you.

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Job 16:16 - My eyes are red with weeping;
dark shadows circle my eyes.

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Job 16:20 - My friends scorn me,
but I pour out my tears to God.

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Job 17:13 - What if I go to the grave[fn]
and make my bed in darkness?

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Job 17:15 - Where then is my hope?
Can anyone find it?

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Job 18:4 - You may tear out your hair in anger,
but will that destroy the earth?
Will it make the rocks tremble?

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Job 18:5 - “Surely the light of the wicked will be snuffed out.
The sparks of their fire will not glow.

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Job 18:7 - The confident stride of the wicked will be shortened.
Their own schemes will be their downfall.

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Job 18:10 - A noose lies hidden on the ground.
A rope is stretched across their path.

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Job 19:21 - “Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,
for the hand of God has struck me.

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Job 19:29 - You should fear punishment yourselves,
for your attitude deserves punishment.
Then you will know that there is indeed a judgment.”

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Job 20:6 - Though the pride of the godless reaches to the heavens
and their heads touch the clouds,

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Job 20:29 - This is the reward that God gives the wicked.
It is the inheritance decreed by God.”

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Job 21:2 - “Listen closely to what I am saying.
That's one consolation you can give me.

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Job 21:4 - “My complaint is with God, not with people.
I have good reason to be so impatient.

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Job 21:10 - Their bulls never fail to breed.
Their cows bear calves and never miscarry.

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Job 21:17 - “Yet the light of the wicked never seems to be extinguished.
Do they ever have trouble?
Does God distribute sorrows to them in anger?

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Job 21:28 - You will tell me of rich and wicked people
whose houses have vanished because of their sins.

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Job 22:5 - No, it's because of your wickedness!
There's no limit to your sins.

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Job 22:20 - They will say, ‘See how our enemies have been destroyed.
The last of them have been consumed in the fire.'

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Job 23:2 - “My complaint today is still a bitter one,
and I try hard not to groan aloud.

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Job 24:18 - “But they disappear like foam down a river.
Everything they own is cursed,
and they are afraid to enter their own vineyards.

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Job 24:20 - Their own mothers will forget them.
Maggots will find them sweet to eat.
No one will remember them.
Wicked people are broken like a tree in the storm.

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Job 26:4 - Where have you gotten all these wise sayings?
Whose spirit speaks through you?

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Job 27:4 - my lips will speak no evil,
and my tongue will speak no lies.

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Job 27:7 - “May my enemy be punished like the wicked,
my adversary like those who do evil.

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Job 27:13 - “This is what the wicked will receive from God;
this is their inheritance from the Almighty.

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Job 28:12 - “But do people know where to find wisdom?
Where can they find understanding?

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Job 28:20 - “But do people know where to find wisdom?
Where can they find understanding?

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Job 28:22 - Destruction[fn] and Death say,
‘We've heard only rumors of where wisdom can be found.'

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Job 28:28 - And this is what he says to all humanity:
‘The fear of the Lord is true wisdom;
to forsake evil is real understanding.'”

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Job 29:18 - “I thought, ‘Surely I will die surrounded by my family
after a long, good life.[fn]

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Job 29:19 - For I am like a tree whose roots reach the water,
whose branches are refreshed with the dew.

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Job 29:20 - New honors are constantly bestowed on me,
and my strength is continually renewed.'

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Job 30:15 - I live in terror now.
My honor has blown away in the wind,
and my prosperity has vanished like a cloud.

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Job 30:16 - “And now my life seeps away.
Depression haunts my days.

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Job 30:19 - He has thrown me into the mud.
I'm nothing more than dust and ashes.

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Job 30:27 - My heart is troubled and restless.
Days of suffering torment me.

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Job 30:31 - My harp plays sad music,
and my flute accompanies those who weep.

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Job 31:7 - If I have strayed from his pathway,
or if my heart has lusted for what my eyes have seen,
or if I am guilty of any other sin,

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Job 31:9 - “If my heart has been seduced by a woman,
or if I have lusted for my neighbor's wife,

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Job 31:10 - then let my wife belong to[fn] another man;
let other men sleep with her.

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Job 31:27 - and been secretly enticed in my heart
to throw kisses at them in worship?

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Job 31:28 - If so, I should be punished by the judges,
for it would mean I had denied the God of heaven.

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Job 31:29 - “Have I ever rejoiced when disaster struck my enemies,
or become excited when harm came their way?

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Job 31:32 - I have never turned away a stranger
but have opened my doors to everyone.

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Job 31:38 - “If my land accuses me
and all its furrows cry out together,

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Job 32:8 - But there is a spirit[fn] within people,
the breath of the Almighty within them,
that makes them intelligent.

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Job 32:19 - I am like a cask of wine without a vent,
like a new wineskin ready to burst!

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Job 33:2 - Now that I have begun to speak,
let me continue.

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Job 33:3 - I speak with all sincerity;
I speak the truth.

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Job 33:4 - For the Spirit of God has made me,
and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

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Job 33:7 - So you don't need to be afraid of me.
I won't come down hard on you.

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Job 33:20 - They lose their appetite
for even the most delicious food.

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Job 33:22 - They are at death's door;
the angels of death wait for them.

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Job 33:28 - God rescued me from the grave,
and now my life is filled with light.'

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Job 33:30 - He rescues them from the grave
so they may enjoy the light of life.

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Job 35:8 - No, your sins affect only people like yourself,
and your good deeds also affect only humans.

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Job 36:14 - They die when they are young,
after wasting their lives in immoral living.

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Job 36:28 - The rain pours down from the clouds,
and everyone benefits.

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Job 37:1 - “My heart pounds as I think of this.
It trembles within me.

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Job 37:17 - When you are sweltering in your clothes
and the south wind dies down and everything is still,

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Job 37:22 - So also, golden splendor comes from the mountain of God.[fn]
He is clothed in dazzling splendor.

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Job 39:11 - Given its strength, can you trust it?
Can you leave and trust the ox to do your work?

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Job 40:14 - Then even I would praise you,
for your own strength would save you.

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Job 40:16 - See its powerful loins
and the muscles of its belly.

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Job 40:18 - Its bones are tubes of bronze.
Its limbs are bars of iron.

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Job 41:11 - Who has given me anything that I need to pay back?
Everything under heaven is mine.

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Job 41:21 - Its breath would kindle coals,
for flames shoot from its mouth.

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Job 41:24 - Its heart is hard as rock,
hard as a millstone.

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Job 41:30 - Its belly is covered with scales as sharp as glass.
It plows up the ground as it drags through the mud.

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Psa 3:8 - Victory comes from you, O LORD.
May you bless your people.
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Psa 5:9 - My enemies cannot speak a truthful word.
Their deepest desire is to destroy others.
Their talk is foul, like the stench from an open grave.
Their tongues are filled with flattery.[fn]

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Psa 6:3 - I am sick at heart.
How long, O LORD, until you restore me?

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Psa 7:10 - God is my shield,
saving those whose hearts are true and right.

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Psa 7:16 - The trouble they make for others backfires on them.
The violence they plan falls on their own heads.

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Psa 8:1 - For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument.[fn]

O LORD, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!
Your glory is higher than the heavens.

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Psa 9:18 - But the needy will not be ignored forever;
the hopes of the poor will not always be crushed.

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Psa 10:12 - Arise, O LORD!
Punish the wicked, O God!
Do not ignore the helpless!

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Psa 10:15 - Break the arms of these wicked, evil people!
Go after them until the last one is destroyed.

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Psa 11:6 - He will rain down blazing coals and burning sulfur on the wicked,
punishing them with scorching winds.

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Psa 13:5 - But I trust in your unfailing love.
I will rejoice because you have rescued me.

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Psa 16:5 - LORD, you alone are my inheritance, my cup of blessing.
You guard all that is mine.

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Psa 16:6 - The land you have given me is a pleasant land.
What a wonderful inheritance!

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Psa 16:9 - No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice.[fn]
My body rests in safety.

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Psa 17:14 - By the power of your hand, O LORD,
destroy those who look to this world for their reward.
But satisfy the hunger of your treasured ones.
May their children have plenty,
leaving an inheritance for their descendants.

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Psa 18:1 - For the choir director: A psalm of David, the servant of the LORD. He sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD rescued him from all his enemies and from Saul. He sang:

I love you, LORD;
you are my strength.

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Psa 18:6 - But in my distress I cried out to the LORD;
yes, I prayed to my God for help.
He heard me from his sanctuary;
my cry to him reached his ears.

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Psa 18:7 - Then the earth quaked and trembled.
The foundations of the mountains shook;
they quaked because of his anger.

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Psa 18:11 - He shrouded himself in darkness,
veiling his approach with dark rain clouds.

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Psa 18:30 - God's way is perfect.
All the LORD's promises prove true.
He is a shield for all who look to him for protection.

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Psa 18:35 - You have given me your shield of victory.
Your right hand supports me;
your help has made me great.

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Psa 19:6 - The sun rises at one end of the heavens
and follows its course to the other end.
Nothing can hide from its heat.

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Psa 19:7 - The instructions of the LORD are perfect,
reviving the soul.
The decrees of the LORD are trustworthy,
making wise the simple.

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Psa 19:8 - The commandments of the LORD are right,
bringing joy to the heart.
The commands of the LORD are clear,
giving insight for living.

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Psa 19:14 - May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be pleasing to you,
O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.

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Psa 20:6 - Now I know that the LORD rescues his anointed king.
He will answer him from his holy heaven
and rescue him by his great power.

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Psa 21:5 - Your victory brings him great honor,
and you have clothed him with splendor and majesty.

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Psa 21:8 - You will capture all your enemies.
Your strong right hand will seize all who hate you.

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Psa 22:9 - Yet you brought me safely from my mother's womb
and led me to trust you at my mother's breast.

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Psa 22:14 - My life is poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint.
My heart is like wax,
melting within me.

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Psa 22:15 - My strength has dried up like sunbaked clay.
My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
You have laid me in the dust and left me for dead.

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Psa 22:28 - For royal power belongs to the LORD.
He rules all the nations.

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Psa 22:29 - Let the rich of the earth feast and worship.
Bow before him, all who are mortal,
all whose lives will end as dust.

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Psa 22:30 - Our children will also serve him.
Future generations will hear about the wonders of the Lord.

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Psa 23:4 - Even when I walk
through the darkest valley,[fn]
I will not be afraid,
for you are close beside me.
Your rod and your staff
protect and comfort me.

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Psa 24:1 - A psalm of David.

The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it.
The world and all its people belong to him.

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Psa 24:6 - Such people may seek you
and worship in your presence, O God of Jacob.
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Psa 25:13 - They will live in prosperity,
and their children will inherit the land.

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Psa 25:14 - The LORD is a friend to those who fear him.
He teaches them his covenant.

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Psa 26:10 - Their hands are dirty with evil schemes,
and they constantly take bribes.

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Psa 27:3 - Though a mighty army surrounds me,
my heart will not be afraid.
Even if I am attacked,
I will remain confident.

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Psa 27:8 - My heart has heard you say, “Come and talk with me.”
And my heart responds, “LORD, I am coming.”

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Psa 27:10 - Even if my father and mother abandon me,
the LORD will hold me close.

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Psa 27:12 - Do not let me fall into their hands.
For they accuse me of things I've never done;
with every breath they threaten me with violence.

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Psa 27:14 - Wait patiently for the LORD.
Be brave and courageous.
Yes, wait patiently for the LORD.

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Psa 28:7 - The LORD is my strength and shield.
I trust him with all my heart.
He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy.
I burst out in songs of thanksgiving.

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Psa 30:12 - that I might sing praises to you and not be silent.
O LORD my God, I will give you thanks forever!

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Psa 31:9 - Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress.
Tears blur my eyes.
My body and soul are withering away.

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Psa 31:10 - I am dying from grief;
my years are shortened by sadness.
Sin has drained my strength;
I am wasting away from within.

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Psa 31:24 - So be strong and courageous,
all you who put your hope in the LORD!

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Psa 32:4 - Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me.
My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat.
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Psa 33:5 - He loves whatever is just and good;
the unfailing love of the LORD fills the earth.

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Psa 33:6 - The LORD merely spoke,
and the heavens were created.
He breathed the word,
and all the stars were born.

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Psa 33:8 - Let the whole world fear the LORD,
and let everyone stand in awe of him.

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Psa 33:11 - But the LORD's plans stand firm forever;
his intentions can never be shaken.

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Psa 33:20 - We put our hope in the LORD.
He is our help and our shield.

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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 - A psalm of David, regarding the time he pretended to be insane in front of Abimelech, who sent him away.

I will praise the LORD at all times.
I will constantly speak his praises.

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Psa 34:2 - I will boast only in the LORD;
let all who are helpless take heart.

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Psa 35:6 - Make their path dark and slippery,
with the angel of the LORD pursuing them.

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Psa 35:8 - So let sudden ruin come upon them!
Let them be caught in the trap they set for me!
Let them be destroyed in the pit they dug for me.

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Psa 35:9 - Then I will rejoice in the LORD.
I will be glad because he rescues me.

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Psa 35:13 - Yet when they were ill, I grieved for them.
I denied myself by fasting for them,
but my prayers returned unanswered.

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Psa 35:28 - Then I will proclaim your justice,
and I will praise you all day long.

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Psa 36:5 - Your unfailing love, O LORD, is as vast as the heavens;
your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds.

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Psa 36:6 - Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains,
your justice like the ocean depths.
You care for people and animals alike, O LORD.

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Psa 37:13 - But the Lord just laughs,
for he sees their day of judgment coming.

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Psa 37:15 - But their swords will stab their own hearts,
and their bows will be broken.

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Psa 37:18 - Day by day the LORD takes care of the innocent,
and they will receive an inheritance that lasts forever.

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Psa 37:30 - The godly offer good counsel;
they teach right from wrong.

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Psa 38:9 - You know what I long for, Lord;
you hear my every sigh.

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Psa 38:10 - My heart beats wildly, my strength fails,
and I am going blind.

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Psa 38:17 - I am on the verge of collapse,
facing constant pain.

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Psa 39:3 - The more I thought about it,
the hotter I got,
igniting a fire of words:

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Psa 39:5 - You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand.
My entire lifetime is just a moment to you;
at best, each of us is but a breath.”
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Psa 39:7 - And so, Lord, where do I put my hope?
My only hope is in you.

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Psa 40:11 - LORD, don't hold back your tender mercies from me.
Let your unfailing love and faithfulness always protect me.

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Psa 40:12 - For troubles surround me—
too many to count!
My sins pile up so high
I can't see my way out.
They outnumber the hairs on my head.
I have lost all courage.

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Psa 41:6 - They visit me as if they were my friends,
but all the while they gather gossip,
and when they leave, they spread it everywhere.

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Psa 42:1 - For the choir director: A psalm[fn] of the descendants of Korah.

As the deer longs for streams of water,
so I long for you, O God.

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Psa 42:2 - I thirst for God, the living God.
When can I go and stand before him?

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Psa 42:6 - my God!
Now I am deeply discouraged,
but I will remember you—
even from distant Mount Hermon, the source of the Jordan,
from the land of Mount Mizar.

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Psa 42:11 - Why am I discouraged?
Why is my heart so sad?
I will put my hope in God!
I will praise him again—
my Savior and my God!

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Psa 44:2 - You drove out the pagan nations by your power
and gave all the land to our ancestors.
You crushed their enemies
and set our ancestors free.

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Psa 44:3 - They did not conquer the land with their swords;
it was not their own strong arm that gave them victory.
It was your right hand and strong arm
and the blinding light from your face that helped them,
for you loved them.

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Psa 44:6 - I do not trust in my bow;
I do not count on my sword to save me.

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Psa 44:15 - We can't escape the constant humiliation;
shame is written across our faces.

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Psa 44:18 - Our hearts have not deserted you.
We have not strayed from your path.

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Psa 44:25 - We collapse in the dust,
lying face down in the dirt.

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Psa 45:1 - For the choir director: A love song to be sung to the tune “Lilies.” A psalm[fn] of the descendants of Korah.

Beautiful words stir my heart.
I will recite a lovely poem about the king,
for my tongue is like the pen of a skillful poet.

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Psa 45:4 - In your majesty, ride out to victory,
defending truth, humility, and justice.
Go forth to perform awe-inspiring deeds!

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Psa 45:6 - Your throne, O God,[fn] endures forever and ever.
You rule with a scepter of justice.

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Psa 45:9 - Kings' daughters are among your noble women.
At your right side stands the queen,
wearing jewelry of finest gold from Ophir!

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Psa 45:13 - The bride, a princess, looks glorious
in her golden gown.

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Psa 46:6 - The nations are in chaos,
and their kingdoms crumble!
God's voice thunders,
and the earth melts!

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Psa 48:2 - It is high and magnificent;
the whole earth rejoices to see it!
Mount Zion, the holy mountain,[fn]
is the city of the great King!

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Psa 48:10 - As your name deserves, O God,
you will be praised to the ends of the earth.
Your strong right hand is filled with victory.

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Psa 49:3 - For my words are wise,
and my thoughts are filled with insight.

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Psa 49:5 - Why should I fear when trouble comes,
when enemies surround me?

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Psa 49:13 - This is the fate of fools,
though they are remembered as being wise.[fn]
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Psa 49:14 - Like sheep, they are led to the grave,[fn]
where death will be their shepherd.
In the morning the godly will rule over them.
Their bodies will rot in the grave,
far from their grand estates.

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Psa 49:16 - So don't be dismayed when the wicked grow rich
and their homes become ever more splendid.

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Psa 49:17 - For when they die, they take nothing with them.
Their wealth will not follow them into the grave.

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Psa 49:18 - In this life they consider themselves fortunate
and are applauded for their success.

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Psa 50:2 - From Mount Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God shines in glorious radiance.

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Psa 50:12 - If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for all the world is mine and everything in it.

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Psa 50:19 - Your mouth is filled with wickedness,
and your tongue is full of lies.

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Psa 51:3 - For I recognize my rebellion;
it haunts me day and night.

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Psa 51:5 - For I was born a sinner—
yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.

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Psa 51:14 - Forgive me for shedding blood, O God who saves;
then I will joyfully sing of your forgiveness.

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Psa 52:2 - All day long you plot destruction.
Your tongue cuts like a sharp razor;
you're an expert at telling lies.

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Psa 55:4 - My heart pounds in my chest.
The terror of death assaults me.

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Psa 55:21 - His words are as smooth as butter,
but in his heart is war.
His words are as soothing as lotion,
but underneath are daggers!

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Psa 57:1 - For the choir director: A psalm[fn] of David, regarding the time he fled from Saul and went into the cave. To be sung to the tune “Do Not Destroy!”

Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy!
I look to you for protection.
I will hide beneath the shadow of your wings
until the danger passes by.

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Psa 57:4 - I am surrounded by fierce lions
who greedily devour human prey—
whose teeth pierce like spears and arrows,
and whose tongues cut like swords.

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Psa 57:5 - Be exalted, O God, above the highest heavens!
May your glory shine over all the earth.

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Psa 57:7 - My heart is confident in you, O God;
my heart is confident.
No wonder I can sing your praises!

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Psa 57:8 - Wake up, my heart!
Wake up, O lyre and harp!
I will wake the dawn with my song.

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Psa 57:10 - For your unfailing love is as high as the heavens.
Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

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Psa 57:11 - Be exalted, O God, above the highest heavens.
May your glory shine over all the earth.

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Psa 59:3 - They have set an ambush for me.
Fierce enemies are out there waiting, LORD,
though I have not sinned or offended them.

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Psa 62:1 - For Jeduthun, the choir director: A psalm of David.

I wait quietly before God,
for my victory comes from him.

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Psa 62:5 - Let all that I am wait quietly before God,
for my hope is in him.

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Psa 62:7 - My victory and honor come from God alone.
He is my refuge, a rock where no enemy can reach me.

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Psa 63:1 - A psalm of David, regarding a time when David was in the wilderness of Judah.

O God, you are my God;
I earnestly search for you.
My soul thirsts for you;
my whole body longs for you
in this parched and weary land
where there is no water.

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Psa 63:5 - You satisfy me more than the richest feast.
I will praise you with songs of joy.

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Psa 63:8 - I cling to you;
your strong right hand holds me securely.

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Psa 65:5 - You faithfully answer our prayers with awesome deeds,
O God our savior.
You are the hope of everyone on earth,
even those who sail on distant seas.

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Psa 65:9 - You take care of the earth and water it,
making it rich and fertile.
The river of God has plenty of water;
it provides a bountiful harvest of grain,
for you have ordered it so.

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Psa 66:1 - For the choir director: A song. A psalm.

Shout joyful praises to God, all the earth!

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Psa 66:4 - Everything on earth will worship you;
they will sing your praises,
shouting your name in glorious songs.”
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Psa 68:23 - You, my people, will wash your feet in their blood,
and even your dogs will get their share!”

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Psa 68:30 - Rebuke these enemy nations—
these wild animals lurking in the reeds,
this herd of bulls among the weaker calves.
Make them bring bars of silver in humble tribute.
Scatter the nations that delight in war.

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Psa 68:34 - Tell everyone about God's power.
His majesty shines down on Israel;
his strength is mighty in the heavens.

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Psa 69:20 - Their insults have broken my heart,
and I am in despair.
If only one person would show some pity;
if only one would turn and comfort me.

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Psa 69:22 - Let the bountiful table set before them become a snare
and their prosperity become a trap.[fn]

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Psa 69:25 - Let their homes become desolate
and their tents be deserted.

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Psa 69:29 - I am suffering and in pain.
Rescue me, O God, by your saving power.

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Psa 69:32 - The humble will see their God at work and be glad.
Let all who seek God's help be encouraged.

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Psa 69:34 - Praise him, O heaven and earth,
the seas and all that move in them.

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Psa 71:5 - O Lord, you alone are my hope.
I've trusted you, O LORD, from childhood.

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Psa 71:6 - Yes, you have been with me from birth;
from my mother's womb you have cared for me.
No wonder I am always praising you!

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Psa 71:23 - I will shout for joy and sing your praises,
for you have ransomed me.

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Psa 71:24 - I will tell about your righteous deeds
all day long,
for everyone who tried to hurt me
has been shamed and humiliated.

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Psa 72:7 - May all the godly flourish during his reign.
May there be abundant prosperity until the moon is no more.

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Psa 72:19 - Praise his glorious name forever!
Let the whole earth be filled with his glory.
Amen and amen!

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Psa 73:6 - They wear pride like a jeweled necklace
and clothe themselves with cruelty.

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Psa 73:7 - These fat cats have everything
their hearts could ever wish for!

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Psa 73:9 - They boast against the very heavens,
and their words strut throughout the earth.

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Psa 73:21 - Then I realized that my heart was bitter,
and I was all torn up inside.

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Psa 73:26 - My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak,
but God remains the strength of my heart;
he is mine forever.

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Psa 74:8 - Then they thought, “Let's destroy everything!”
So they burned down all the places where God was worshiped.

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Psa 74:16 - Both day and night belong to you;
you made the starlight[fn] and the sun.

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Psa 74:23 - Don't overlook what your enemies have said
or their growing uproar.

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Psa 75:3 - When the earth quakes and its people live in turmoil,
I am the one who keeps its foundations firm.
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Psa 76:7 - No wonder you are greatly feared!
Who can stand before you when your anger explodes?

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Psa 77:2 - When I was in deep trouble,
I searched for the Lord.
All night long I prayed, with hands lifted toward heaven,
but my soul was not comforted.

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Psa 77:10 - And I said, “This is my fate;
the Most High has turned his hand against me.”

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Psa 77:13 - O God, your ways are holy.
Is there any god as mighty as you?

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Psa 77:18 - Your thunder roared from the whirlwind;
the lightning lit up the world!
The earth trembled and shook.

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Psa 77:19 - Your road led through the sea,
your pathway through the mighty waters—
a pathway no one knew was there!

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Psa 78:37 - Their hearts were not loyal to him.
They did not keep his covenant.

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Psa 78:54 - He brought them to the border of his holy land,
to this land of hills he had won for them.

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Psa 79:10 - Why should pagan nations be allowed to scoff,
asking, “Where is their God?”
Show us your vengeance against the nations,
for they have spilled the blood of your servants.

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Psa 80:9 - You cleared the ground for us,
and we took root and filled the land.

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Psa 80:10 - Our shade covered the mountains;
our branches covered the mighty cedars.

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Psa 80:15 - that you yourself have planted,
this son you have raised for yourself.

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Psa 80:17 - Strengthen the man you love,
the son of your choice.

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Psa 84:2 - I long, yes, I faint with longing
to enter the courts of the LORD.
With my whole being, body and soul,
I will shout joyfully to the living God.

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Psa 84:5 - What joy for those whose strength comes from the LORD,
who have set their minds on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

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Psa 85:12 - Yes, the LORD pours down his blessings.
Our land will yield its bountiful harvest.

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Psa 86:11 - Teach me your ways, O LORD,
that I may live according to your truth!
Grant me purity of heart,
so that I may honor you.

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Psa 87:3 - O city of God,
what glorious things are said of you!
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Psa 87:7 - The people will play flutes[fn] and sing,
“The source of my life springs from Jerusalem!”

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Psa 88:2 - Now hear my prayer;
listen to my cry.

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Psa 88:3 - For my life is full of troubles,
and death[fn] draws near.

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Psa 88:12 - Can the darkness speak of your wonderful deeds?
Can anyone in the land of forgetfulness talk about your righteousness?

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Psa 88:13 - O LORD, I cry out to you.
I will keep on pleading day by day.

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Psa 89:2 - Your unfailing love will last forever.
Your faithfulness is as enduring as the heavens.

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Psa 89:8 - O LORD God of Heaven's Armies!
Where is there anyone as mighty as you, O LORD?
You are entirely faithful.

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Psa 89:11 - The heavens are yours, and the earth is yours;
everything in the world is yours—you created it all.

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Psa 89:13 - Powerful is your arm!
Strong is your hand!
Your right hand is lifted high in glorious strength.

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Psa 89:18 - Yes, our protection comes from the LORD,
and he, the Holy One of Israel, has given us our king.

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Psa 89:21 - I will steady him with my hand;
with my powerful arm I will make him strong.

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Psa 89:24 - My faithfulness and unfailing love will be with him,
and by my authority he will grow in power.

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Psa 89:28 - I will love him and be kind to him forever;
my covenant with him will never end.

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Psa 89:37 - It will be as eternal as the moon,
my faithful witness in the sky!”
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Psa 89:46 - O LORD, how long will this go on?
Will you hide yourself forever?
How long will your anger burn like fire?

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Psa 89:47 - Remember how short my life is,
how empty and futile this human existence!

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Psa 90:4 - For you, a thousand years are as a passing day,
as brief as a few night hours.

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Psa 90:17 - And may the Lord our God show us his approval
and make our efforts successful.
Yes, make our efforts successful!

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Psa 91:4 - He will cover you with his feathers.
He will shelter you with his wings.
His faithful promises are your armor and protection.

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Psa 91:9 - If you make the LORD your refuge,
if you make the Most High your shelter,

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Psa 92:12 - But the godly will flourish like palm trees
and grow strong like the cedars of Lebanon.

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Psa 93:1 - The LORD is king! He is robed in majesty.
Indeed, the LORD is robed in majesty and armed with strength.
The world stands firm
and cannot be shaken.

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Psa 94:17 - Unless the LORD had helped me,
I would soon have settled in the silence of the grave.

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Psa 95:5 - The sea belongs to him, for he made it.
His hands formed the dry land, too.

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Psa 96:1 - Sing a new song to the LORD!
Let the whole earth sing to the LORD!

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Psa 96:9 - Worship the LORD in all his holy splendor.
Let all the earth tremble before him.

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Psa 96:11 - Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice!
Let the sea and everything in it shout his praise!

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Psa 97:1 - The LORD is king!
Let the earth rejoice!
Let the farthest coastlands be glad.

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Psa 97:4 - His lightning flashes out across the world.
The earth sees and trembles.

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Psa 98:1 - A psalm.

Sing a new song to the LORD,
for he has done wonderful deeds.
His right hand has won a mighty victory;
his holy arm has shown his saving power!

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Psa 98:4 - Shout to the LORD, all the earth;
break out in praise and sing for joy!

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Psa 98:7 - Let the sea and everything in it shout his praise!
Let the earth and all living things join in.

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Psa 99:1 - The LORD is king!
Let the nations tremble!
He sits on his throne between the cherubim.
Let the whole earth quake!

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Psa 100:1 - A psalm of thanksgiving.

Shout with joy to the LORD, all the earth!

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Psa 100:5 - For the LORD is good.
His unfailing love continues forever,
and his faithfulness continues to each generation.

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Psa 102:1 - A prayer of one overwhelmed with trouble, pouring out problems before the LORD.

LORD, hear my prayer!
Listen to my plea!

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Psa 102:4 - My heart is sick, withered like grass,
and I have lost my appetite.

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Psa 103:1 - A psalm of David.

Let all that I am praise the LORD;
with my whole heart, I will praise his holy name.

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Psa 103:2 - Let all that I am praise the LORD;
may I never forget the good things he does for me.

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Psa 103:5 - He fills my life with good things.
My youth is renewed like the eagle's!

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Psa 103:17 - But the love of the LORD remains forever
with those who fear him.
His salvation extends to the children's children

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Psa 103:19 - The LORD has made the heavens his throne;
from there he rules over everything.

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Psa 103:22 - Praise the LORD, everything he has created,
everything in all his kingdom.
Let all that I am praise the LORD.

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Psa 104:1 - Let all that I am praise the LORD.
O LORD my God, how great you are!
You are robed with honor and majesty.

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Psa 104:13 - You send rain on the mountains from your heavenly home,
and you fill the earth with the fruit of your labor.

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Psa 104:17 - There the birds make their nests,
and the storks make their homes in the cypresses.

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Psa 104:24 - O LORD, what a variety of things you have made!
In wisdom you have made them all.
The earth is full of your creatures.

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Psa 104:25 - Here is the ocean, vast and wide,
teeming with life of every kind,
both large and small.

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Psa 104:31 - May the glory of the LORD continue forever!
The LORD takes pleasure in all he has made!

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Psa 104:34 - May all my thoughts be pleasing to him,
for I rejoice in the LORD.

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Psa 104:35 - Let all sinners vanish from the face of the earth;
let the wicked disappear forever.
Let all that I am praise the LORD.
Praise the LORD!

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Psa 105:18 - They bruised his feet with fetters
and placed his neck in an iron collar.

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Psa 105:30 - Then frogs overran the land
and even invaded the king's bedrooms.

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Psa 106:17 - Because of this, the earth opened up;
it swallowed Dathan
and buried Abiram and the other rebels.

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Psa 106:29 - They angered the LORD with all these things,
so a plague broke out among them.

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Psa 106:30 - But Phinehas had the courage to intervene,
and the plague was stopped.

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Psa 106:38 - They shed innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters.
By sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan,
they polluted the land with murder.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:5

Psa 107:5 - Hungry and thirsty,
they nearly died.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:12

Psa 107:12 - That is why he broke them with hard labor;
they fell, and no one was there to help them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:18

Psa 107:18 - They couldn't stand the thought of food,
and they were knocking on death's door.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:26

Psa 107:26 - Their ships were tossed to the heavens
and plunged again to the depths;
the sailors cringed in terror.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:27

Psa 107:27 - They reeled and staggered like drunkards
and were at their wits' end.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 108:1

Psa 108:1 - A song. A psalm of David.

My heart is confident in you, O God;
no wonder I can sing your praises with all my heart!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 108:4

Psa 108:4 - For your unfailing love is higher than the heavens.
Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 108:5

Psa 108:5 - Be exalted, O God, above the highest heavens.
May your glory shine over all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:7

Psa 109:7 - When his case comes up for judgment,
let him be pronounced guilty.
Count his prayers as sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:9

Psa 109:9 - May his children become fatherless,
and his wife a widow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:14

Psa 109:14 - May the LORD never forget the sins of his fathers;
may his mother's sins never be erased from the record.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:22

Psa 109:22 - For I am poor and needy,
and my heart is full of pain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:24

Psa 109:24 - My knees are weak from fasting,
and I am skin and bones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 109:27

Psa 109:27 - Let them see that this is your doing,
that you yourself have done it, LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 110:3

Psa 110:3 - When you go to war,
your people will serve you willingly.
You are arrayed in holy garments,
and your strength will be renewed each day like the morning dew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 111:3

Psa 111:3 - Everything he does reveals his glory and majesty.
His righteousness never fails.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 111:10

Psa 111:10 - Fear of the LORD is the foundation of true wisdom.
All who obey his commandments will grow in wisdom.
Praise him forever!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 112:3

Psa 112:3 - They themselves will be wealthy,
and their good deeds will last forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 112:7

Psa 112:7 - They do not fear bad news;
they confidently trust the LORD to care for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 112:8

Psa 112:8 - They are confident and fearless
and can face their foes triumphantly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 112:9

Psa 112:9 - They share freely and give generously to those in need.
Their good deeds will be remembered forever.
They will have influence and honor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 113:4

Psa 113:4 - For the LORD is high above the nations;
his glory is higher than the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 114:3

Psa 114:3 - The Red Sea[fn] saw them coming and hurried out of their way!
The water of the Jordan River turned away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 114:7

Psa 114:7 - Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 116:7

Psa 116:7 - Let my soul be at rest again,
for the LORD has been good to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 117:2

Psa 117:2 - For he loves us with unfailing love;
the LORD's faithfulness endures forever.
Praise the LORD!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 118:20

Psa 118:20 - These gates lead to the presence of the LORD,
and the godly enter there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 118:24

Psa 118:24 - This is the day the LORD has made.
We will rejoice and be glad in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:20

Psa 119:20 - I am always overwhelmed
with a desire for your regulations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:25

Psa 119:25 - Daleth
I lie in the dust;
revive me by your word.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:28

Psa 119:28 - I weep with sorrow;
encourage me by your word.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:64

Psa 119:64 - O LORD, your unfailing love fills the earth;
teach me your decrees.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:70

Psa 119:70 - Their hearts are dull and stupid,
but I delight in your instructions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:80

Psa 119:80 - May I be blameless in keeping your decrees;
then I will never be ashamed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:81

Psa 119:81 - Kaph
I am worn out waiting for your rescue,
but I have put my hope in your word.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:90

Psa 119:90 - Your faithfulness extends to every generation,
as enduring as the earth you created.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:91

Psa 119:91 - Your regulations remain true to this day,
for everything serves your plans.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:96

Psa 119:96 - Even perfection has its limits,
but your commands have no limit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:109

Psa 119:109 - My life constantly hangs in the balance,
but I will not stop obeying your instructions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:129

Psa 119:129 - Pe
Your laws are wonderful.
No wonder I obey them!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:130

Psa 119:130 - The teaching of your word gives light,
so even the simple can understand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:137

Psa 119:137 - Tsadhe
O LORD, you are righteous,
and your regulations are fair.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:142

Psa 119:142 - Your justice is eternal,
and your instructions are perfectly true.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:161

Psa 119:161 - Shin
Powerful people harass me without cause,
but my heart trembles only at your word.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:167

Psa 119:167 - I have obeyed your laws,
for I love them very much.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:169

Psa 119:169 - Taw
O LORD, listen to my cry;
give me the discerning mind you promised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:172

Psa 119:172 - Let my tongue sing about your word,
for all your commands are right.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:173

Psa 119:173 - Give me a helping hand,
for I have chosen to follow your commandments.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:175

Psa 119:175 - Let me live so I can praise you,
and may your regulations help me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 120:5

Psa 120:5 - How I suffer in far-off Meshech.
It pains me to live in distant Kedar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 120:6

Psa 120:6 - I am tired of living
among people who hate peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 121:1

Psa 121:1 - A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem.

I look up to the mountains—
does my help come from there?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 121:2

Psa 121:2 - My help comes from the LORD,
who made heaven and earth!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 121:6

Psa 121:6 - The sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon at night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 122:3

Psa 122:3 - Jerusalem is a well-built city;
its seamless walls cannot be breached.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 123:4

Psa 123:4 - We have had more than our fill of the scoffing of the proud
and the contempt of the arrogant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 124:4

Psa 124:4 - The waters would have engulfed us;
a torrent would have overwhelmed us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 124:5

Psa 124:5 - Yes, the raging waters of their fury
would have overwhelmed our very lives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 124:7

Psa 124:7 - We escaped like a bird from a hunter's trap.
The trap is broken, and we are free!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 124:8

Psa 124:8 - Our help is from the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 126:2

Psa 126:2 - We were filled with laughter,
and we sang for joy.
And the other nations said,
“What amazing things the LORD has done for them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 127:3

Psa 127:3 - Children are a gift from the LORD;
they are a reward from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 128:3

Psa 128:3 - Your wife will be like a fruitful grapevine,
flourishing within your home.
Your children will be like vigorous young olive trees
as they sit around your table.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 130:5

Psa 130:5 - I am counting on the LORD;
yes, I am counting on him.
I have put my hope in his word.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 130:6

Psa 130:6 - I long for the Lord
more than sentries long for the dawn,
yes, more than sentries long for the dawn.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 131:1

Psa 131:1 - A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem. A psalm of David.

LORD, my heart is not proud;
my eyes are not haughty.
I don't concern myself with matters too great
or too awesome for me to grasp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 132:8

Psa 132:8 - Arise, O LORD, and enter your resting place,
along with the Ark, the symbol of your power.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 132:14

Psa 132:14 - “This is my resting place forever,” he said.
“I will live here, for this is the home I desired.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 133:3

Psa 133:3 - Harmony is as refreshing as the dew from Mount Hermon
that falls on the mountains of Zion.
And there the LORD has pronounced his blessing,
even life everlasting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 137:5

Psa 137:5 - If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
let my right hand forget how to play the harp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 137:6

Psa 137:6 - May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth
if I fail to remember you,
if I don't make Jerusalem my greatest joy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 137:8

Psa 137:8 - O Babylon, you will be destroyed.
Happy is the one who pays you back
for what you have done to us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 138:5

Psa 138:5 - Yes, they will sing about the LORD's ways,
for the glory of the LORD is very great.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 138:7

Psa 138:7 - Though I am surrounded by troubles,
you will protect me from the anger of my enemies.
You reach out your hand,
and the power of your right hand saves me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 139:6

Psa 139:6 - Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too great for me to understand!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 139:10

Psa 139:10 - even there your hand will guide me,
and your strength will support me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 139:14

Psa 139:14 - Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 139:15

Psa 139:15 - You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 140:9

Psa 140:9 - Let my enemies be destroyed
by the very evil they have planned for me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 141:2

Psa 141:2 - Accept my prayer as incense offered to you,
and my upraised hands as an evening offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 141:5

Psa 141:5 - Let the godly strike me!
It will be a kindness!
If they correct me, it is soothing medicine.
Don't let me refuse it.
But I pray constantly
against the wicked and their deeds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 142:5

Psa 142:5 - Then I pray to you, O LORD.
I say, “You are my place of refuge.
You are all I really want in life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 143:4

Psa 143:4 - I am losing all hope;
I am paralyzed with fear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 143:6

Psa 143:6 - I lift my hands to you in prayer.
I thirst for you as parched land thirsts for rain.
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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 144:8

Psa 144:8 - Their mouths are full of lies;
they swear to tell the truth, but they lie instead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 144:11

Psa 144:11 - Save me!
Rescue me from the power of my enemies.
Their mouths are full of lies;
they swear to tell the truth, but they lie instead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 145:13

Psa 145:13 - For your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.
You rule throughout all generations.
The LORD always keeps his promises;
he is gracious in all he does.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 146:1

Psa 146:1 - Praise the LORD!
Let all that I am praise the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 146:5

Psa 146:5 - But joyful are those who have the God of Israel[fn] as their helper,
whose hope is in the LORD their God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 147:5

Psa 147:5 - How great is our Lord! His power is absolute!
His understanding is beyond comprehension!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 148:13

Psa 148:13 - Let them all praise the name of the LORD.
For his name is very great;
his glory towers over the earth and heaven!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 149:1

Psa 149:1 - Praise the LORD!
Sing to the LORD a new song.
Sing his praises in the assembly of the faithful.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 1:18

Pro 1:18 - But these people set an ambush for themselves;
they are trying to get themselves killed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 1:27

Pro 1:27 - when calamity overtakes you like a storm,
when disaster engulfs you like a cyclone,
and anguish and distress overwhelm you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 2:10

Pro 2:10 - For wisdom will enter your heart,
and knowledge will fill you with joy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 2:17

Pro 2:17 - She has abandoned her husband
and ignores the covenant she made before God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 3:22

Pro 3:22 - for they will refresh your soul.
They are like jewels on a necklace.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 3:27

Pro 3:27 - Do not withhold good from those who deserve it
when it's in your power to help them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 3:28

Pro 3:28 - If you can help your neighbor now, don't say,
“Come back tomorrow, and then I'll help you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 4:18

Pro 4:18 - The way of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn,
which shines ever brighter until the full light of day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:12

Pro 5:12 - You will say, “How I hated discipline!
If only I had not ignored all the warnings!

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:18

Pro 5:18 - Let your wife be a fountain of blessing for you.
Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:19

Pro 5:19 - She is a loving deer, a graceful doe.
Let her breasts satisfy you always.
May you always be captivated by her love.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:11

Pro 6:11 - then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit;
scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:15

Pro 6:15 - But they will be destroyed suddenly,
broken in an instant beyond all hope of healing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 7:10

Pro 7:10 - The woman approached him,
seductively dressed and sly of heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 7:25

Pro 7:25 - Don't let your hearts stray away toward her.
Don't wander down her wayward path.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:12

Pro 8:12 - “I, Wisdom, live together with good judgment.
I know where to discover knowledge and discernment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 9:1

Pro 9:1 - Wisdom has built her house;
she has carved its seven columns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 10:23

Pro 10:23 - Doing wrong is fun for a fool,
but living wisely brings pleasure to the sensible.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:26

Pro 12:26 - The godly give good advice to their friends;[fn]
the wicked lead them astray.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 13:13

Pro 13:13 - People who despise advice are asking for trouble;
those who respect a command will succeed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 14:1

Pro 14:1 - A wise woman builds her home,
but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 14:24

Pro 14:24 - Wealth is a crown for the wise;
the effort of fools yields only foolishness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 17:8

Pro 17:8 - A bribe is like a lucky charm;
whoever gives one will prosper!

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 18:11

Pro 18:11 - The rich think of their wealth as a strong defense;
they imagine it to be a high wall of safety.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 19:21

Pro 19:21 - You can make many plans,
but the LORD's purpose will prevail.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:11

Pro 20:11 - Even children are known by the way they act,
whether their conduct is pure, and whether it is right.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 21:31

Pro 21:31 - The horse is prepared for the day of battle,
but the victory belongs to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 22:19

Pro 22:19 - I am teaching you today—yes, you—
so you will trust in the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:15

Pro 23:15 - My child,[fn] if your heart is wise,
my own heart will rejoice!

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:17

Pro 23:17 - Don't envy sinners,
but always continue to fear the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:18

Pro 23:18 - You will be rewarded for this;
your hope will not be disappointed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:22

Pro 23:22 - Listen to your father, who gave you life,
and don't despise your mother when she is old.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:24

Pro 23:24 - The father of godly children has cause for joy.
What a pleasure to have children who are wise.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:25

Pro 23:25 - So give your father and mother joy!
May she who gave you birth be happy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 24:2

Pro 24:2 - For their hearts plot violence,
and their words always stir up trouble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 24:14

Pro 24:14 - In the same way, wisdom is sweet to your soul.
If you find it, you will have a bright future,
and your hopes will not be cut short.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 24:34

Pro 24:34 - then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit;
scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 25:10

Pro 25:10 - Others may accuse you of gossip,
and you will never regain your good reputation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:10

Pro 26:10 - An employer who hires a fool or a bystander
is like an archer who shoots at random.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:1

Pro 27:1 - Don't brag about tomorrow,
since you don't know what the day will bring.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:11

Pro 27:11 - Be wise, my child,[fn] and make my heart glad.
Then I will be able to answer my critics.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:15

Pro 30:15 - The leech has two suckers
that cry out, “More, more!”[fn]
There are three things that are never satisfied—
no, four that never say, “Enough!”:

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:21

Pro 30:21 - There are three things that make the earth tremble—
no, four it cannot endure:

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:27

Pro 30:27 - Locusts—they have no king,
but they march in formation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:1

Pro 31:1 - The sayings of King Lemuel contain this message,[fn] which his mother taught him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:10

Pro 31:10 - [fn]Who can find a virtuous and capable wife?
She is more precious than rubies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:11

Pro 31:11 - Her husband can trust her,
and she will greatly enrich his life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:28

Pro 31:28 - Her children stand and bless her.
Her husband praises her:

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 1:4

Ecc 1:4 - Generations come and generations go, but the earth never changes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 1:7

Ecc 1:7 - Rivers run into the sea, but the sea is never full. Then the water returns again to the rivers and flows out again to the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:23

Ecc 2:23 - Their days of labor are filled with pain and grief; even at night their minds cannot rest. It is all meaningless.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 6:7

Ecc 6:7 - All people spend their lives scratching for food, but they never seem to have enough.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:7

Ecc 7:7 - Extortion turns wise people into fools,
and bribes corrupt the heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:12

Ecc 7:12 - Wisdom and money can get you almost anything,
but only wisdom can save your life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:19

Ecc 7:19 - One wise person is stronger than ten leading citizens of a town!

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:25

Ecc 7:25 - I searched everywhere, determined to find wisdom and to understand the reason for things. I was determined to prove to myself that wickedness is stupid and that foolishness is madness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:28

Ecc 7:28 - Though I have searched repeatedly, I have not found what I was looking for. Only one out of a thousand men is virtuous, but not one woman!

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:5

Ecc 9:5 - The living at least know they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, nor are they remembered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:10

Ecc 9:10 - Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave,[fn] there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:18

Ecc 10:18 - Laziness leads to a sagging roof;
idleness leads to a leaky house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:5

Ecc 11:5 - Just as you cannot understand the path of the wind or the mystery of a tiny baby growing in its mother's womb,[fn] so you cannot understand the activity of God, who does all things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:6

Ecc 11:6 - Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don't know if profit will come from one activity or another—or maybe both.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:9

Ecc 11:9 - Young people,[fn] it's wonderful to be young! Enjoy every minute of it. Do everything you want to do; take it all in. But remember that you must give an account to God for everything you do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:10

Ecc 11:10 - So refuse to worry, and keep your body healthy. But remember that youth, with a whole life before you, is meaningless.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 12:2

Ecc 12:2 - Remember him before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is dim to your old eyes, and rain clouds continually darken your sky.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 12:5

Ecc 12:5 - Remember him before you become fearful of falling and worry about danger in the streets; before your hair turns white like an almond tree in bloom, and you drag along without energy like a dying grasshopper, and the caperberry no longer inspires sexual desire. Remember him before you near the grave, your everlasting home, when the mourners will weep at your funeral.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 1:7

Sng 1:7 - Tell me, my love, where are you leading your flock today?
Where will you rest your sheep at noon?
For why should I wander like a prostitute[fn]
among your friends and their flocks?

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:2

Sng 2:2 - Young Man
Like a lily among thistles
is my darling among young women.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:6

Sng 2:6 - His left arm is under my head,
and his right arm embraces me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:13

Sng 2:13 - The fig trees are forming young fruit,
and the fragrant grapevines are blossoming.
Rise up, my darling!
Come away with me, my fair one!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:14

Sng 2:14 - Young Man
My dove is hiding behind the rocks,
behind an outcrop on the cliff.
Let me see your face;
let me hear your voice.
For your voice is pleasant,
and your face is lovely.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:17

Sng 2:17 - Before the dawn breezes blow
and the night shadows flee,
return to me, my love, like a gazelle
or a young stag on the rugged mountains.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:1

Sng 3:1 - Young Woman
One night as I lay in bed, I yearned for my lover.
I yearned for him, but he did not come.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:2

Sng 3:2 - So I said to myself, “I will get up and roam the city,
searching in all its streets and squares.
I will search for the one I love.”
So I searched everywhere but did not find him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:3

Sng 3:3 - The watchmen stopped me as they made their rounds,
and I asked, “Have you seen the one I love?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:4

Sng 3:4 - Then scarcely had I left them
when I found my love!
I caught and held him tightly,
then I brought him to my mother's house,
into my mother's bed, where I had been conceived.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:6

Sng 3:6 - Young Women of Jerusalem
Who is this sweeping in from the wilderness
like a cloud of smoke?
Who is it, fragrant with myrrh and frankincense
and every kind of spice?

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:7

Sng 3:7 - Look, it is Solomon's carriage,
surrounded by sixty heroic men,
the best of Israel's soldiers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:11

Sng 3:11 - Young Woman
Come out to see King Solomon,
young women of Jerusalem.[fn]
He wears the crown his mother gave him on his wedding day,
his most joyous day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:3

Sng 4:3 - Your lips are like scarlet ribbon;
your mouth is inviting.
Your cheeks are like rosy pomegranates
behind your veil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:6

Sng 4:6 - Before the dawn breezes blow
and the night shadows flee,
I will hurry to the mountain of myrrh
and to the hill of frankincense.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 5:2

Sng 5:2 - Young Woman
I slept, but my heart was awake,
when I heard my lover knocking and calling:
“Open to me, my treasure, my darling,
my dove, my perfect one.
My head is drenched with dew,
my hair with the dampness of the night.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 5:4

Sng 5:4 - My lover tried to unlatch the door,
and my heart thrilled within me.

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Sng 6:7 - Your cheeks are like rosy pomegranates
behind your veil.

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Sng 6:10 - “Who is this, arising like the dawn,
as fair as the moon,
as bright as the sun,
as majestic as an army with billowing banners?”

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Sng 6:11 - Young Woman
I went down to the grove of walnut trees
and out to the valley to see the new spring growth,
to see whether the grapevines had budded
or the pomegranates were in bloom.

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Sng 6:12 - Before I realized it,
my strong desires had taken me to the chariot of a noble man.[fn]

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Sng 6:13 - Young Women of Jerusalem
[fn]Return, return to us, O maid of Shulam.
Come back, come back, that we may see you again.

Young Man
Why do you stare at this young woman of Shulam,
as she moves so gracefully between two lines of dancers?[fn]

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Sng 7:10 - Young Woman
I am my lover's,
and he claims me as his own.

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Sng 7:12 - Let us get up early and go to the vineyards
to see if the grapevines have budded,
if the blossoms have opened,
and if the pomegranates have bloomed.
There I will give you my love.

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Sng 8:3 - Your left arm would be under my head,
and your right arm would embrace me.

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Sng 8:5 - Young Women of Jerusalem
Who is this sweeping in from the desert,
leaning on her lover?

Young Woman
I aroused you under the apple tree,
where your mother gave you birth,
where in great pain she delivered you.

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Isa 1:7 - Your country lies in ruins,
and your towns are burned.
Foreigners plunder your fields before your eyes
and destroy everything they see.

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Isa 1:8 - Beautiful Jerusalem[fn] stands abandoned
like a watchman's shelter in a vineyard,
like a lean-to in a cucumber field after the harvest,
like a helpless city under siege.

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Isa 1:14 - I hate your new moon celebrations and your annual festivals.
They are a burden to me. I cannot stand them!

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Isa 1:27 - Zion will be restored by justice;
those who repent will be revived by righteousness.

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Isa 1:31 - The strongest among you will disappear like straw;
their evil deeds will be the spark that sets it on fire.
They and their evil works will burn up together,
and no one will be able to put out the fire.

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Isa 2:6 - For the LORD has rejected his people,
the descendants of Jacob,
because they have filled their land with practices from the East
and with sorcerers, as the Philistines do.
They have made alliances with pagans.

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Isa 2:7 - Israel is full of silver and gold;
there is no end to its treasures.
Their land is full of warhorses;
there is no end to its chariots.

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Isa 2:8 - Their land is full of idols;
the people worship things they have made
with their own hands.

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Isa 3:8 - For Jerusalem will stumble,
and Judah will fall,
because they speak out against the LORD and refuse to obey him.
They provoke him to his face.

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Isa 3:9 - The very look on their faces gives them away.
They display their sin like the people of Sodom
and don't even try to hide it.
They are doomed!
They have brought destruction upon themselves.

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Isa 3:14 - The LORD comes forward to pronounce judgment
on the elders and rulers of his people:
“You have ruined Israel, my vineyard.
Your houses are filled with things stolen from the poor.

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Isa 5:19 - They even mock God and say,
“Hurry up and do something!
We want to see what you can do.
Let the Holy One of Israel carry out his plan,
for we want to know what it is.”

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Isa 5:24 - Therefore, just as fire licks up stubble
and dry grass shrivels in the flame,
so their roots will rot
and their flowers wither.
For they have rejected the law of the LORD of Heaven's Armies;
they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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Isa 5:25 - That is why the LORD's anger burns against his people,
and why he has raised his fist to crush them.
The mountains tremble,
and the corpses of his people litter the streets like garbage.
But even then the LORD's anger is not satisfied.
His fist is still poised to strike!

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Isa 6:3 - They were calling out to each other,
“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Heaven's Armies!
The whole earth is filled with his glory!”

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Isa 6:10 - Harden the hearts of these people.
Plug their ears and shut their eyes.
That way, they will not see with their eyes,
nor hear with their ears,
nor understand with their hearts
and turn to me for healing.”[fn]

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Isa 6:11 - Then I said, “Lord, how long will this go on?”
And he replied,
“Until their towns are empty,
their houses are deserted,
and the whole country is a wasteland;

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Isa 7:2 - The news had come to the royal court of Judah: “Syria is allied with Israel[fn] against us!” So the hearts of the king and his people trembled with fear, like trees shaking in a storm.

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Isa 7:4 - Tell him to stop worrying. Tell him he doesn't need to fear the fierce anger of those two burned-out embers, King Rezin of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah.

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Isa 7:7 - But this is what the Sovereign LORD says:
“This invasion will never happen;
it will never take place;

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Isa 7:8 - for Syria is no stronger than its capital, Damascus,
and Damascus is no stronger than its king, Rezin.
As for Israel, within sixty-five years
it will be crushed and completely destroyed.

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Isa 7:9 - Israel is no stronger than its capital, Samaria,
and Samaria is no stronger than its king, Pekah son of Remaliah.
Unless your faith is firm,
I cannot make you stand firm.”

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Isa 7:14 - All right then, the Lord himself will give you the sign. Look! The virgin[fn] will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel (which means ‘God is with us').

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Isa 7:16 - For before the child is that old, the lands of the two kings you fear so much will both be deserted.

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Isa 7:24 - The entire land will become a vast expanse of briers and thorns, a hunting ground overrun by wildlife.

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Isa 8:8 - and sweep into Judah until it is chin deep. It will spread its wings, submerging your land from one end to the other, O Immanuel.

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Isa 9:1 - [fn]Nevertheless, that time of darkness and despair will not go on forever. The land of Zebulun and Naphtali will be humbled, but there will be a time in the future when Galilee of the Gentiles, which lies along the road that runs between the Jordan and the sea, will be filled with glory.

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Isa 9:4 - For you will break the yoke of their slavery
and lift the heavy burden from their shoulders.
You will break the oppressor's rod,
just as you did when you destroyed the army of Midian.

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Isa 9:6 - For a child is born to us,
a son is given to us.
The government will rest on his shoulders.
And he will be called:
Wonderful Counselor,[fn] Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

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Isa 9:7 - His government and its peace
will never end.
He will rule with fairness and justice from the throne of his ancestor David
for all eternity.
The passionate commitment of the LORD of Heaven's Armies
will make this happen!

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Isa 9:12 - The Syrians[fn] from the east and the Philistines from the west
will bare their fangs and devour Israel.
But even then the LORD's anger will not be satisfied.
His fist is still poised to strike.

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Isa 9:15 - The leaders of Israel are the head,
and the lying prophets are the tail.

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Isa 9:17 - That is why the Lord takes no pleasure in the young men
and shows no mercy even to the widows and orphans.
For they are all wicked hypocrites,
and they all speak foolishness.
But even then the LORD's anger will not be satisfied.
His fist is still poised to strike.

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Isa 9:18 - This wickedness is like a brushfire.
It burns not only briers and thorns
but also sets the forests ablaze.
Its burning sends up clouds of smoke.

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Isa 9:19 - The land will be blackened
by the fury of the LORD of Heaven's Armies.
The people will be fuel for the fire,
and no one will spare even his own brother.

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Isa 9:21 - Manasseh will feed on Ephraim,
Ephraim will feed on Manasseh,
and both will devour Judah.
But even then the LORD's anger will not be satisfied.
His fist is still poised to strike.

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Isa 10:3 - What will you do when I punish you,
when I send disaster upon you from a distant land?
To whom will you turn for help?
Where will your treasures be safe?

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Isa 10:4 - You will stumble along as prisoners
or lie among the dead.
But even then the LORD's anger will not be satisfied.
His fist is still poised to strike.

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Isa 10:5 - “What sorrow awaits Assyria, the rod of my anger.
I use it as a club to express my anger.

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Isa 10:22 - But though the people of Israel are as numerous
as the sand of the seashore,
only a remnant of them will return.
The LORD has rightly decided to destroy his people.

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Isa 10:25 - In a little while my anger against you will end, and then my anger will rise up to destroy them.”

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Isa 10:30 - Scream in terror,
you people of Gallim!
Shout out a warning to Laishah.
Oh, poor Anathoth!

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Isa 11:9 - Nothing will hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain,
for as the waters fill the sea,
so the earth will be filled with people who know the LORD.

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Isa 11:10 - In that day the heir to David's throne[fn]
will be a banner of salvation to all the world.
The nations will rally to him,
and the land where he lives will be a glorious place.[fn]

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Isa 11:16 - He will make a highway for the remnant of his people,
the remnant coming from Assyria,
just as he did for Israel long ago
when they returned from Egypt.

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Isa 12:2 - See, God has come to save me.
I will trust in him and not be afraid.
The LORD GOD is my strength and my song;
he has given me victory.”

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Isa 13:6 - Scream in terror, for the day of the LORD has arrived—
the time for the Almighty to destroy.

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Isa 13:10 - The heavens will be black above them;
the stars will give no light.
The sun will be dark when it rises,
and the moon will provide no light.

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Isa 13:13 - For I will shake the heavens.
The earth will move from its place
when the LORD of Heaven's Armies displays his wrath
in the day of his fierce anger.”

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Isa 14:7 - But finally the earth is at rest and quiet.
Now it can sing again!

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Isa 14:8 - Even the trees of the forest—
the cypress trees and the cedars of Lebanon—
sing out this joyous song:
‘Since you have been cut down,
no one will come now to cut us down!'

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Isa 14:11 - Your might and power were buried with you.[fn]
The sound of the harp in your palace has ceased.
Now maggots are your sheet,
and worms your blanket.'

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Isa 14:26 - I have a plan for the whole earth,
a hand of judgment upon all the nations.

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Isa 15:1 - This message came to me concerning Moab:
In one night the town of Ar will be leveled,
and the city of Kir will be destroyed.

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Isa 15:4 - The people of Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out;
their voices will be heard as far away as Jahaz!
The bravest warriors of Moab will cry out in utter terror.
They will be helpless with fear.

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Isa 15:5 - My heart weeps for Moab.
Its people flee to Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah.
Weeping, they climb the road to Luhith.
Their cries of distress can be heard all along the road to Horonaim.

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Isa 15:8 - A cry of distress echoes through the land of Moab
from one end to the other—
from Eglaim to Beer-elim.

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Isa 16:4 - Let our refugees stay among you.
Hide them from our enemies until the terror is past.”
When oppression and destruction have ended
and enemy raiders have disappeared,

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Isa 16:6 - We have heard about proud Moab—
about its pride and arrogance and rage.
But all that boasting has disappeared.

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Isa 16:11 - My heart's cry for Moab is like a lament on a harp.
I am filled with anguish for Kir-hareseth.[fn]

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Isa 16:14 - But now the LORD says, “Within three years, counting each day,[fn] the glory of Moab will be ended. From its great population, only a few of its people will be left alive.”

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Isa 17:14 - In the evening Israel waits in terror,
but by dawn its enemies are dead.
This is the just reward of those who plunder us,
a fitting end for those who destroy us.

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Isa 18:3 - All you people of the world,
everyone who lives on the earth—
when I raise my battle flag on the mountain, look!
When I blow the ram's horn, listen!

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Isa 19:1 - This message came to me concerning Egypt:
Look! The LORD is advancing against Egypt,
riding on a swift cloud.
The idols of Egypt tremble.
The hearts of the Egyptians melt with fear.

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Isa 19:11 - What fools are the officials of Zoan!
Their best counsel to the king of Egypt is stupid and wrong.
Will they still boast to Pharaoh of their wisdom?
Will they dare brag about all their wise ancestors?

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Isa 19:17 - Just to speak the name of Israel will terrorize them, for the LORD of Heaven's Armies has laid out his plans against them.

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Isa 19:18 - In that day five of Egypt's cities will follow the LORD of Heaven's Armies. They will even begin to speak Hebrew, the language of Canaan. One of these cities will be Heliopolis, the City of the Sun.[fn]

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Isa 19:25 - For the LORD of Heaven's Armies will say, “Blessed be Egypt, my people. Blessed be Assyria, the land I have made. Blessed be Israel, my special possession!”

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Isa 21:3 - My stomach aches and burns with pain.
Sharp pangs of anguish are upon me,
like those of a woman in labor.
I grow faint when I hear what God is planning;
I am too afraid to look.

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Isa 21:4 - My mind reels and my heart races.
I longed for evening to come,
but now I am terrified of the dark.

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Isa 21:16 - The Lord said to me, “Within a year, counting each day,[fn] all the glory of Kedar will come to an end.

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Isa 22:2 - The whole city is in a terrible uproar.
What do I see in this reveling city?
Bodies are lying everywhere,
killed not in battle but by famine and disease.

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Isa 22:14 - The LORD of Heaven's Armies has revealed this to me: “Till the day you die, you will never be forgiven for this sin.” That is the judgment of the Lord, the LORD of Heaven's Armies.

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Isa 22:25 - But the LORD of Heaven's Armies also says: “The time will come when I will pull out the nail that seemed so firm. It will come out and fall to the ground. Everything it supports will fall with it. I, the LORD, have spoken!”

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Isa 23:4 - But now you are put to shame, city of Sidon,
for Tyre, the fortress of the sea, says,
“Now I am childless;
I have no sons or daughters.”

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Isa 23:7 - Is this silent ruin all that is left of your once joyous city?
What a long history was yours!
Think of all the colonists you sent to distant places.

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Isa 23:11 - The LORD held out his hand over the sea
and shook the kingdoms of the earth.
He has spoken out against Phoenicia,[fn]
ordering that her fortresses be destroyed.

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Isa 23:18 - But in the end her profits will be given to the LORD. Her wealth will not be hoarded but will provide good food and fine clothing for the LORD's priests.

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Isa 24:2 - Priests and laypeople,
servants and masters,
maids and mistresses,
buyers and sellers,
lenders and borrowers,
bankers and debtors—none will be spared.

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Isa 24:3 - The earth will be completely emptied and looted.
The LORD has spoken!

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Isa 24:4 - The earth mourns and dries up,
and the crops waste away and wither.
Even the greatest people on earth waste away.

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Isa 24:5 - The earth suffers for the sins of its people,
for they have twisted God's instructions,
violated his laws,
and broken his everlasting covenant.

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Isa 24:15 - In eastern lands, give glory to the LORD.
In the lands beyond the sea, praise the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

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Isa 24:19 - The earth has broken up.
It has utterly collapsed;
it is violently shaken.

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Isa 24:20 - The earth staggers like a drunk.
It trembles like a tent in a storm.
It falls and will not rise again,
for the guilt of its rebellion is very heavy.

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Isa 24:23 - Then the glory of the moon will wane,
and the brightness of the sun will fade,
for the LORD of Heaven's Armies will rule on Mount Zion.
He will rule in great glory in Jerusalem,
in the sight of all the leaders of his people.

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Isa 25:7 - There he will remove the cloud of gloom,
the shadow of death that hangs over the earth.

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Isa 25:10 - For the LORD's hand of blessing will rest on Jerusalem.
But Moab will be crushed.
It will be like straw trampled down and left to rot.

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Isa 26:7 - But for those who are righteous,
the way is not steep and rough.
You are a God who does what is right,
and you smooth out the path ahead of them.

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Isa 26:8 - LORD, we show our trust in you by obeying your laws;
our heart's desire is to glorify your name.

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Isa 26:9 - All night long I search for you;
in the morning I earnestly seek for God.
For only when you come to judge the earth
will people learn what is right.

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Isa 26:16 - LORD, in distress we searched for you.
We prayed beneath the burden of your discipline.

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Isa 26:17 - Just as a pregnant woman
writhes and cries out in pain as she gives birth,
so were we in your presence, LORD.

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Isa 26:19 - But those who die in the LORD will live;
their bodies will rise again!
Those who sleep in the earth
will rise up and sing for joy!
For your life-giving light will fall like dew
on your people in the place of the dead!

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Isa 26:20 - Go home, my people,
and lock your doors!
Hide yourselves for a little while
until the LORD's anger has passed.

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Isa 26:21 - Look! The LORD is coming from heaven
to punish the people of the earth for their sins.
The earth will no longer hide those who have been killed.
They will be brought out for all to see.

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Isa 27:6 - The time is coming when Jacob's descendants will take root.
Israel will bud and blossom
and fill the whole earth with fruit!

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Isa 27:9 - The LORD did this to purge Israel's[fn] wickedness,
to take away all her sin.
As a result, all the pagan altars will be crushed to dust.
No Asherah pole or pagan shrine will be left standing.

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Isa 28:8 - Their tables are covered with vomit;
filth is everywhere.

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Isa 28:17 - I will test you with the measuring line of justice
and the plumb line of righteousness.
Since your refuge is made of lies,
a hailstorm will knock it down.
Since it is made of deception,
a flood will sweep it away.

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Isa 28:18 - I will cancel the bargain you made to cheat death,
and I will overturn your deal to dodge the grave.
When the terrible enemy sweeps through,
you will be trampled into the ground.

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Isa 28:21 - The LORD will come as he did against the Philistines at Mount Perazim
and against the Amorites at Gibeon.
He will come to do a strange thing;
he will come to do an unusual deed:

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Isa 29:2 - Yet I will bring disaster upon you,
and there will be much weeping and sorrow.
For Jerusalem will become what her name Ariel means—
an altar covered with blood.

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Isa 29:4 - Then deep from the earth you will speak;
from low in the dust your words will come.
Your voice will whisper from the ground
like a ghost conjured up from the grave.

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Isa 29:8 - A hungry person dreams of eating
but wakes up still hungry.
A thirsty person dreams of drinking
but is still faint from thirst when morning comes.
So it will be with your enemies,
with those who attack Mount Zion.”

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Isa 29:13 - And so the Lord says,
“These people say they are mine.
They honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
And their worship of me
is nothing but man-made rules learned by rote.[fn]

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Isa 30:3 - But by trusting Pharaoh, you will be humiliated,
and by depending on him, you will be disgraced.

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Isa 30:6 - This message came to me concerning the animals in the Negev:
The caravan moves slowly
across the terrible desert to Egypt—
donkeys weighed down with riches
and camels loaded with treasure—
all to pay for Egypt's protection.
They travel through the wilderness,
a place of lionesses and lions,
a place where vipers and poisonous snakes live.
All this, and Egypt will give you nothing in return.

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Isa 30:7 - Egypt's promises are worthless!
Therefore, I call her Rahab—
the Harmless Dragon.[fn]

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Isa 30:13 - calamity will come upon you suddenly—
like a bulging wall that bursts and falls.
In an instant it will collapse
and come crashing down.

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Isa 30:15 - This is what the Sovereign LORD,
the Holy One of Israel, says:
“Only in returning to me
and resting in me will you be saved.
In quietness and confidence is your strength.
But you would have none of it.

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Isa 30:21 - Your own ears will hear him.
Right behind you a voice will say,
“This is the way you should go,”
whether to the right or to the left.

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Isa 30:27 - Look! The LORD is coming from far away,
burning with anger,
surrounded by thick, rising smoke.
His lips are filled with fury;
his words consume like fire.

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Isa 30:32 - And as the LORD strikes them with his rod of punishment,
his people will celebrate with tambourines and harps.
Lifting his mighty arm, he will fight the Assyrians.

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Isa 32:4 - Even the hotheads will be full of sense and understanding.
Those who stammer will speak out plainly.

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Isa 32:6 - For fools speak foolishness
and make evil plans.
They practice ungodliness
and spread false teachings about the LORD.
They deprive the hungry of food
and give no water to the thirsty.

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Isa 32:7 - The smooth tricks of scoundrels are evil.
They plot crooked schemes.
They lie to convict the poor,
even when the cause of the poor is just.

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Isa 32:8 - But generous people plan to do what is generous,
and they stand firm in their generosity.

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Isa 32:13 - For your land will be overgrown with thorns and briers.
Your joyful homes and happy towns will be gone.

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Isa 32:17 - And this righteousness will bring peace.
Yes, it will bring quietness and confidence forever.

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Isa 32:19 - Even if the forest should be destroyed
and the city torn down,

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Isa 33:2 - But LORD, be merciful to us,
for we have waited for you.
Be our strong arm each day
and our salvation in times of trouble.

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Isa 33:6 - In that day he will be your sure foundation,
providing a rich store of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
The fear of the LORD will be your treasure.

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Isa 33:8 - Your roads are deserted;
no one travels them anymore.
The Assyrians have broken their peace treaty
and care nothing for the promises they made before witnesses.[fn]
They have no respect for anyone.

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Isa 33:9 - The land of Israel wilts in mourning.
Lebanon withers with shame.
The plain of Sharon is now a wilderness.
Bashan and Carmel have been plundered.

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Isa 33:11 - You Assyrians produce nothing but dry grass and stubble.
Your own breath will turn to fire and consume you.

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Isa 33:18 - You will think back to this time of terror, asking,
“Where are the Assyrian officers
who counted our towers?
Where are the bookkeepers
who recorded the plunder taken from our fallen city?”

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Isa 33:20 - Instead, you will see Zion as a place of holy festivals.
You will see Jerusalem, a city quiet and secure.
It will be like a tent whose ropes are taut
and whose stakes are firmly fixed.

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Isa 33:24 - The people of Israel will no longer say,
“We are sick and helpless,”
for the LORD will forgive their sins.

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Isa 34:1 - Come here and listen, O nations of the earth.
Let the world and everything in it hear my words.

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Isa 34:3 - Their dead will be left unburied,
and the stench of rotting bodies will fill the land.
The mountains will flow with their blood.

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Isa 34:5 - And when my sword has finished its work in the heavens,
it will fall upon Edom,
the nation I have marked for destruction.

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Isa 34:6 - The sword of the LORD is drenched with blood
and covered with fat—
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of rams prepared for sacrifice.
Yes, the LORD will offer a sacrifice in the city of Bozrah.
He will make a mighty slaughter in Edom.

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Isa 34:7 - Even men as strong as wild oxen will die—
the young men alongside the veterans.
The land will be soaked with blood
and the soil enriched with fat.

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Isa 34:9 - The streams of Edom will be filled with burning pitch,
and the ground will be covered with fire.

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Isa 34:15 - There the owl will make her nest and lay her eggs.
She will hatch her young and cover them with her wings.
And the buzzards will come,
each one with its mate.

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Isa 34:17 - He has surveyed and divided the land
and deeded it over to those creatures.
They will possess it forever,
from generation to generation.

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Isa 35:2 - Yes, there will be an abundance of flowers
and singing and joy!
The deserts will become as green as the mountains of Lebanon,
as lovely as Mount Carmel or the plain of Sharon.
There the LORD will display his glory,
the splendor of our God.

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Isa 35:7 - The parched ground will become a pool,
and springs of water will satisfy the thirsty land.
Marsh grass and reeds and rushes will flourish
where desert jackals once lived.

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Isa 36:15 - Don't let him fool you into trusting in the LORD by saying, ‘The LORD will surely rescue us. This city will never fall into the hands of the Assyrian king!'

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Isa 36:17 - Then I will arrange to take you to another land like this one—a land of grain and new wine, bread and vineyards.

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Isa 37:3 - They told him, “This is what King Hezekiah says: Today is a day of trouble, insults, and disgrace. It is like when a child is ready to be born, but the mother has no strength to deliver the baby.

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Isa 37:29 - And because of your raging against me
and your arrogance, which I have heard for myself,
I will put my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth.
I will make you return
by the same road on which you came.”

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Isa 38:8 - I will cause the sun's shadow to move ten steps backward on the sundial[fn] of Ahaz!'” So the shadow on the sundial moved backward ten steps.

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Isa 40:2 - “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem.
Tell her that her sad days are gone
and her sins are pardoned.
Yes, the LORD has punished her twice over
for all her sins.”

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Isa 40:4 - Fill in the valleys,
and level the mountains and hills.
Straighten the curves,
and smooth out the rough places.

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Isa 40:5 - Then the glory of the LORD will be revealed,
and all people will see it together.
The LORD has spoken!”[fn]

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Isa 40:24 - They hardly get started, barely taking root,
when he blows on them and they wither.
The wind carries them off like chaff.

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Isa 40:27 - O Jacob, how can you say the LORD does not see your troubles?
O Israel, how can you say God ignores your rights?

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Isa 41:3 - He chases them away and goes on safely,
though he is walking over unfamiliar ground.

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Isa 41:17 - “When the poor and needy search for water and there is none,
and their tongues are parched from thirst,
then I, the LORD, will answer them.
I, the God of Israel, will never abandon them.

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Isa 41:21 - “Present the case for your idols,”
says the LORD.
“Let them show what they can do,”
says the King of Israel.[fn]

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Isa 41:24 - But no! You are less than nothing and can do nothing at all.
Those who choose you pollute themselves.

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Isa 42:1 - “Look at my servant, whom I strengthen.
He is my chosen one, who pleases me.
I have put my Spirit upon him.
He will bring justice to the nations.

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Isa 42:2 - He will not shout
or raise his voice in public.

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Isa 42:10 - Sing a new song to the LORD!
Sing his praises from the ends of the earth!
Sing, all you who sail the seas,
all you who live in distant coastlands.

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Isa 42:14 - He will say, “I have long been silent;
yes, I have restrained myself.
But now, like a woman in labor,
I will cry and groan and pant.

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Isa 42:22 - But his own people have been robbed and plundered,
enslaved, imprisoned, and trapped.
They are fair game for anyone
and have no one to protect them,
no one to take them back home.

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Isa 44:20 - The poor, deluded fool feeds on ashes.
He trusts something that can't help him at all.
Yet he cannot bring himself to ask,
“Is this idol that I'm holding in my hand a lie?”

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Isa 45:8 - “Open up, O heavens,
and pour out your righteousness.
Let the earth open wide
so salvation and righteousness can sprout up together.
I, the LORD, created them.

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Isa 46:10 - Only I can tell you the future
before it even happens.
Everything I plan will come to pass,
for I do whatever I wish.

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Isa 47:3 - You will be naked and burdened with shame.
I will take vengeance against you without pity.”

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Isa 47:8 - “Listen to this, you pleasure-loving kingdom,
living at ease and feeling secure.
You say, ‘I am the only one, and there is no other.
I will never be a widow or lose my children.'

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Isa 47:10 - “You felt secure in your wickedness.
‘No one sees me,' you said.
But your ‘wisdom' and ‘knowledge' have led you astray,
and you said, ‘I am the only one, and there is no other.'

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Isa 48:13 - It was my hand that laid the foundations of the earth,
my right hand that spread out the heavens above.
When I call out the stars,
they all appear in order.”

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Isa 48:18 - Oh, that you had listened to my commands!
Then you would have had peace flowing like a gentle river
and righteousness rolling over you like waves in the sea.

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Isa 48:19 - Your descendants would have been like the sands along the seashore—
too many to count!
There would have been no need for your destruction,
or for cutting off your family name.”

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Isa 49:4 - I replied, “But my work seems so useless!
I have spent my strength for nothing and to no purpose.
Yet I leave it all in the LORD's hand;
I will trust God for my reward.”

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Isa 49:9 - I will say to the prisoners, ‘Come out in freedom,'
and to those in darkness, ‘Come into the light.'
They will be my sheep, grazing in green pastures
and on hills that were previously bare.

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Isa 49:13 - Sing for joy, O heavens!
Rejoice, O earth!
Burst into song, O mountains!
For the LORD has comforted his people
and will have compassion on them in their suffering.

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Isa 50:2 - Why was no one there when I came?
Why didn't anyone answer when I called?
Is it because I have no power to rescue?
No, that is not the reason!
For I can speak to the sea and make it dry up!
I can turn rivers into deserts covered with dying fish.

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Isa 50:5 - The Sovereign LORD has spoken to me,
and I have listened.
I have not rebelled or turned away.

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Isa 51:4 - “Listen to me, my people.
Hear me, Israel,
for my law will be proclaimed,
and my justice will become a light to the nations.

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Isa 51:5 - My mercy and justice are coming soon.
My salvation is on the way.
My strong arm will bring justice to the nations.
All distant lands will look to me
and wait in hope for my powerful arm.

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Isa 51:6 - Look up to the skies above,
and gaze down on the earth below.
For the skies will disappear like smoke,
and the earth will wear out like a piece of clothing.
The people of the earth will die like flies,
but my salvation lasts forever.
My righteous rule will never end!

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Isa 51:8 - For the moth will devour them as it devours clothing.
The worm will eat at them as it eats wool.
But my righteousness will last forever.
My salvation will continue from generation to generation.”

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Isa 51:10 - Are you not the same today,
the one who dried up the sea,
making a path of escape through the depths
so that your people could cross over?

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Isa 51:17 - Wake up, wake up, O Jerusalem!
You have drunk the cup of the LORD's fury.
You have drunk the cup of terror,
tipping out its last drops.

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Isa 52:1 - Wake up, wake up, O Zion!
Clothe yourself with strength.
Put on your beautiful clothes, O holy city of Jerusalem,
for unclean and godless people will enter your gates no longer.

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Isa 52:2 - Rise from the dust, O Jerusalem.
Sit in a place of honor.
Remove the chains of slavery from your neck,
O captive daughter of Zion.

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Isa 52:14 - But many were amazed when they saw him.[fn]
His face was so disfigured he seemed hardly human,
and from his appearance, one would scarcely know he was a man.

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Isa 53:8 - Unjustly condemned,
he was led away.[fn]
No one cared that he died without descendants,
that his life was cut short in midstream.[fn]
But he was struck down
for the rebellion of my people.

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Isa 53:10 - But it was the LORD's good plan to crush him
and cause him grief.
Yet when his life is made an offering for sin,
he will have many descendants.
He will enjoy a long life,
and the LORD's good plan will prosper in his hands.

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Isa 53:12 - I will give him the honors of a victorious soldier,
because he exposed himself to death.
He was counted among the rebels.
He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels.

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Isa 54:1 - “Sing, O childless woman,
you who have never given birth!
Break into loud and joyful song, O Jerusalem,
you who have never been in labor.
For the desolate woman now has more children
than the woman who lives with her husband,”
says the LORD.

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Isa 54:10 - For the mountains may move
and the hills disappear,
but even then my faithful love for you will remain.
My covenant of blessing will never be broken,”
says the LORD, who has mercy on you.

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Isa 55:2 - Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength?
Why pay for food that does you no good?
Listen to me, and you will eat what is good.
You will enjoy the finest food.

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Isa 55:3 - “Come to me with your ears wide open.
Listen, and you will find life.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you.
I will give you all the unfailing love I promised to David.

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Isa 55:9 - For just as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so my ways are higher than your ways
and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.

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Isa 57:2 - For those who follow godly paths
will rest in peace when they die.

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Isa 57:6 - Your gods are the smooth stones in the valleys.
You worship them with liquid offerings and grain offerings.
They, not I, are your inheritance.
Do you think all this makes me happy?

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Isa 57:7 - You have committed adultery on every high mountain.
There you have worshiped idols
and have been unfaithful to me.

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Isa 58:8 - “Then your salvation will come like the dawn,
and your wounds will quickly heal.
Your godliness will lead you forward,
and the glory of the LORD will protect you from behind.

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Isa 58:11 - The LORD will guide you continually,
giving you water when you are dry
and restoring your strength.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like an ever-flowing spring.

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Isa 59:1 - Listen! The LORD's arm is not too weak to save you,
nor is his ear too deaf to hear you call.

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Isa 59:3 - Your hands are the hands of murderers,
and your fingers are filthy with sin.
Your lips are full of lies,
and your mouth spews corruption.

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Isa 59:9 - So there is no justice among us,
and we know nothing about right living.
We look for light but find only darkness.
We look for bright skies but walk in gloom.

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Isa 59:12 - For our sins are piled up before God
and testify against us.
Yes, we know what sinners we are.

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Isa 59:14 - Our courts oppose the righteous,
and justice is nowhere to be found.
Truth stumbles in the streets,
and honesty has been outlawed.

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Isa 59:15 - Yes, truth is gone,
and anyone who renounces evil is attacked.
The LORD looked and was displeased
to find there was no justice.

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Isa 59:19 - In the west, people will respect the name of the LORD;
in the east, they will glorify him.
For he will come like a raging flood tide
driven by the breath of the LORD.[fn]

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Isa 59:21 - “And this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not leave them, and neither will these words I have given you. They will be on your lips and on the lips of your children and your children's children forever. I, the LORD, have spoken!

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Isa 60:1 - “Arise, Jerusalem! Let your light shine for all to see.
For the glory of the LORD rises to shine on you.

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Isa 60:2 - Darkness as black as night covers all the nations of the earth,
but the glory of the LORD rises and appears over you.

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Isa 60:13 - “The glory of Lebanon will be yours—
the forests of cypress, fir, and pine—
to beautify my sanctuary.
My Temple will be glorious!

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Isa 60:20 - Your sun will never set;
your moon will not go down.
For the LORD will be your everlasting light.
Your days of mourning will come to an end.

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Isa 61:10 - I am overwhelmed with joy in the LORD my God!
For he has dressed me with the clothing of salvation
and draped me in a robe of righteousness.
I am like a bridegroom in his wedding suit
or a bride with her jewels.

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Isa 62:1 - Because I love Zion,
I will not keep still.
Because my heart yearns for Jerusalem,
I cannot remain silent.
I will not stop praying for her
until her righteousness shines like the dawn,
and her salvation blazes like a burning torch.

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Isa 62:4 - Never again will you be called “The Forsaken City”[fn]
or “The Desolate Land.”[fn]
Your new name will be “The City of God's Delight”[fn]
and “The Bride of God,”[fn]
for the LORD delights in you
and will claim you as his bride.

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Isa 63:15 - LORD, look down from heaven;
look from your holy, glorious home, and see us.
Where is the passion and the might
you used to show on our behalf?
Where are your mercy and compassion now?

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Isa 64:6 - We are all infected and impure with sin.
When we display our righteous deeds,
they are nothing but filthy rags.
Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall,
and our sins sweep us away like the wind.

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Isa 64:11 - The holy and beautiful Temple
where our ancestors praised you
has been burned down,
and all the things of beauty are destroyed.

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Isa 65:17 - “Look! I am creating new heavens and a new earth,
and no one will even think about the old ones anymore.

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Isa 66:1 - This is what the LORD says:
“Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool.
Could you build me a temple as good as that?
Could you build me such a resting place?

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Isa 66:2 - My hands have made both heaven and earth;
they and everything in them are mine.[fn]
I, the LORD, have spoken!
“I will bless those who have humble and contrite hearts,
who tremble at my word.

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Isa 66:3 - But those who choose their own ways—
delighting in their detestable sins—
will not have their offerings accepted.
When such people sacrifice a bull,
it is no more acceptable than a human sacrifice.
When they sacrifice a lamb,
it's as though they had sacrificed a dog!
When they bring an offering of grain,
they might as well offer the blood of a pig.
When they burn frankincense,
it's as if they had blessed an idol.

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Isa 66:14 - When you see these things, your heart will rejoice.
You will flourish like the grass!
Everyone will see the LORD's hand of blessing on his servants—
and his anger against his enemies.

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Isa 66:16 - The LORD will punish the world by fire
and by his sword.
He will judge the earth,
and many will be killed by him.

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Isa 66:22 - “As surely as my new heavens and earth will remain,
so will you always be my people,
with a name that will never disappear,”
says the LORD.

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Jer 2:19 - Your wickedness will bring its own punishment.
Your turning from me will shame you.
You will see what an evil, bitter thing it is
to abandon the LORD your God and not to fear him.
I, the Lord, the LORD of Heaven's Armies, have spoken!

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Jer 2:21 - But I was the one who planted you,
choosing a vine of the purest stock—the very best.
How did you grow into this corrupt wild vine?

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Jer 2:25 - When will you stop running?
When will you stop panting after other gods?
But you say, ‘Save your breath.
I'm in love with these foreign gods,
and I can't stop loving them now!'

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Jer 3:1 - “If a man divorces a woman
and she goes and marries someone else,
he will not take her back again,
for that would surely corrupt the land.
But you have prostituted yourself with many lovers,
so why are you trying to come back to me?”
says the LORD.

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Jer 3:6 - During the reign of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what fickle Israel has done? Like a wife who commits adultery, Israel has worshiped other gods on every hill and under every green tree.

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Jer 3:7 - I thought, ‘After she has done all this, she will return to me.' But she did not return, and her faithless sister Judah saw this.

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Jer 3:8 - She saw that I divorced faithless Israel because of her adultery. But that treacherous sister Judah had no fear, and now she, too, has left me and given herself to prostitution.

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Jer 3:9 - Israel treated it all so lightly—she thought nothing of committing adultery by worshiping idols made of wood and stone. So now the land has been polluted.

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Jer 3:10 - But despite all this, her faithless sister Judah has never sincerely returned to me. She has only pretended to be sorry. I, the LORD, have spoken!”

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Jer 3:12 - Therefore, go and give this message to Israel.[fn] This is what the LORD says:
“O Israel, my faithless people,
come home to me again,
for I am merciful.
I will not be angry with you forever.

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Jer 3:23 - Our worship of idols on the hills
and our religious orgies on the mountains
are a delusion.
Only in the LORD our God
will Israel ever find salvation.

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Jer 3:24 - From childhood we have watched
as everything our ancestors worked for—
their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters—
was squandered on a delusion.

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Jer 3:25 - Let us now lie down in shame
and cover ourselves with dishonor,
for we and our ancestors have sinned
against the LORD our God.
From our childhood to this day
we have never obeyed him.”

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Jer 4:9 - “In that day,” says the LORD,
“the king and the officials will tremble in fear.
The priests will be struck with horror,
and the prophets will be appalled.”

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Jer 4:10 - Then I said, “O Sovereign LORD,
the people have been deceived by what you said,
for you promised peace for Jerusalem.
But the sword is held at their throats!”

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Jer 4:18 - “Your own actions have brought this upon you.
This punishment is bitter, piercing you to the heart!”

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Jer 4:19 - My heart, my heart—I writhe in pain!
My heart pounds within me! I cannot be still.
For I have heard the blast of enemy trumpets
and the roar of their battle cries.

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Jer 4:20 - Waves of destruction roll over the land,
until it lies in complete desolation.
Suddenly my tents are destroyed;
in a moment my shelters are crushed.

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Jer 4:27 - This is what the LORD says:
“The whole land will be ruined,
but I will not destroy it completely.

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Jer 4:28 - The earth will mourn
and the heavens will be draped in black
because of my decree against my people.
I have made up my mind and will not change it.”

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Jer 4:31 - I hear a cry, like that of a woman in labor,
the groans of a woman giving birth to her first child.
It is beautiful Jerusalem[fn]
gasping for breath and crying out,
“Help! I'm being murdered!”

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Jer 5:9 - Should I not punish them for this?” says the LORD.
“Should I not avenge myself against such a nation?

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Jer 5:29 - Should I not punish them for this?” says the LORD.
“Should I not avenge myself against such a nation?

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Jer 6:4 - They shout, ‘Prepare for battle!
Attack at noon!'
‘No, it's too late; the day is fading,
and the evening shadows are falling.'

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Jer 6:8 - Listen to this warning, Jerusalem,
or I will turn from you in disgust.
Listen, or I will turn you into a heap of ruins,
a land where no one lives.”

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Jer 6:16 - This is what the LORD says:
“Stop at the crossroads and look around.
Ask for the old, godly way, and walk in it.
Travel its path, and you will find rest for your souls.
But you reply, ‘No, that's not the road we want!'

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Jer 7:2 - “Go to the entrance of the LORD's Temple, and give this message to the people: ‘O Judah, listen to this message from the LORD! Listen to it, all of you who worship here!

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Jer 7:27 - “Tell them all this, but do not expect them to listen. Shout out your warnings, but do not expect them to respond.

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Jer 7:34 - I will put an end to the happy singing and laughter in the streets of Jerusalem. The joyful voices of bridegrooms and brides will no longer be heard in the towns of Judah. The land will lie in complete desolation.

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Jer 8:7 - Even the stork that flies across the sky
knows the time of her migration,
as do the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane.[fn]
They all return at the proper time each year.
But not my people!
They do not know the LORD's laws.

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Jer 8:16 - “The snorting of the enemies' warhorses can be heard
all the way from the land of Dan in the north!
The neighing of their stallions makes the whole land tremble.
They are coming to devour the land and everything in it—
cities and people alike.

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Jer 9:5 - They all fool and defraud each other;
no one tells the truth.
With practiced tongues they tell lies;
they wear themselves out with all their sinning.

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Jer 9:8 - For their tongues shoot lies like poisoned arrows.
They speak friendly words to their neighbors
while scheming in their heart to kill them.

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Jer 9:9 - Should I not punish them for this?” says the LORD.
“Should I not avenge myself against such a nation?”

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Jer 9:12 - Who is wise enough to understand all this? Who has been instructed by the LORD and can explain it to others? Why has the land been so ruined that no one dares to travel through it?

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Jer 10:18 - For this is what the LORD says:
“Suddenly, I will fling out
all you who live in this land.
I will pour great troubles upon you,
and at last you will feel my anger.”

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Jer 10:19 - My wound is severe,
and my grief is great.
My sickness is incurable,
but I must bear it.

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Jer 10:20 - My home is gone,
and no one is left to help me rebuild it.
My children have been taken away,
and I will never see them again.

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Jer 10:21 - The shepherds of my people have lost their senses.
They no longer seek wisdom from the LORD.
Therefore, they fail completely,
and their flocks are scattered.

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Jer 10:23 - I know, LORD, that our lives are not our own.
We are not able to plan our own course.

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Jer 11:5 - I said this so I could keep my promise to your ancestors to give you a land flowing with milk and honey—the land you live in today.'”
Then I replied, “Amen, LORD! May it be so.”

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Jer 11:15 - “What right do my beloved people have to come to my Temple,
when they have done so many immoral things?
Can their vows and sacrifices prevent their destruction?
They actually rejoice in doing evil!

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Jer 11:16 - I, the LORD, once called them a thriving olive tree,
beautiful to see and full of good fruit.
But now I have sent the fury of their enemies
to burn them with fire,
leaving them charred and broken.

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Jer 12:4 - How long must this land mourn?
Even the grass in the fields has withered.
The wild animals and birds have disappeared
because of the evil in the land.
For the people have said,
“The LORD doesn't see what's ahead for us!”

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Jer 12:8 - My chosen people have roared at me like a lion of the forest,
so I have treated them with contempt.

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Jer 12:9 - My chosen people act like speckled vultures,[fn]
but they themselves are surrounded by vultures.
Bring on the wild animals to pick their corpses clean!

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Jer 12:11 - They have made it an empty wasteland;
I hear its mournful cry.
The whole land is desolate,
and no one even cares.

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Jer 13:17 - And if you still refuse to listen,
I will weep alone because of your pride.
My eyes will overflow with tears,
because the LORD's flock will be led away into exile.

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Jer 13:26 - I myself will strip you
and expose you to shame.

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Jer 13:27 - I have seen your adultery and lust,
and your disgusting idol worship out in the fields and on the hills.
What sorrow awaits you, Jerusalem!
How long before you are pure?”

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Jer 14:2 - “Judah wilts;
commerce at the city gates grinds to a halt.
All the people sit on the ground in mourning,
and a great cry rises from Jerusalem.

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Jer 14:19 - LORD, have you completely rejected Judah?
Do you really hate Jerusalem?[fn]
Why have you wounded us past all hope of healing?
We hoped for peace, but no peace came.
We hoped for a time of healing, but found only terror.

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Jer 15:1 - Then the LORD said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I wouldn't help them. Away with them! Get them out of my sight!

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Jer 15:9 - The mother of seven grows faint and gasps for breath;
her sun has gone down while it is still day.
She sits childless now,
disgraced and humiliated.
And I will hand over those who are left
to be killed by the enemy.
I, the LORD, have spoken!”

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Jer 15:10 - Then I said,
“What sorrow is mine, my mother.
Oh, that I had died at birth!
I am hated everywhere I go.
I am neither a lender who threatens to foreclose
nor a borrower who refuses to pay—
yet they all curse me.”

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Jer 15:13 - At no cost to them,
I will hand over your wealth and treasures
as plunder to your enemies,
for sin runs rampant in your land.

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Jer 15:18 - Why then does my suffering continue?
Why is my wound so incurable?
Your help seems as uncertain as a seasonal brook,
like a spring that has gone dry.”

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Jer 16:10 - “When you tell the people all these things, they will ask, ‘Why has the LORD decreed such terrible things against us? What have we done to deserve such treatment? What is our sin against the LORD our God?'

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Jer 17:5 - This is what the LORD says:
“Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans,
who rely on human strength
and turn their hearts away from the LORD.

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Jer 17:6 - They are like stunted shrubs in the desert,
with no hope for the future.
They will live in the barren wilderness,
in an uninhabited salty land.

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Jer 17:9 - “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things,
and desperately wicked.
Who really knows how bad it is?

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Jer 17:25 - then kings and their officials will go in and out of these gates forever. There will always be a descendant of David sitting on the throne here in Jerusalem. Kings and their officials will always ride in and out among the people of Judah in chariots and on horses, and this city will remain forever.

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Jer 18:23 - LORD, you know all about their murderous plots against me.
Don't forgive their crimes and blot out their sins.
Let them die before you.
Deal with them in your anger.

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Jer 20:14 - Yet I curse the day I was born!
May no one celebrate the day of my birth.

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Jer 20:17 - because he did not kill me at birth.
Oh, that I had died in my mother's womb,
that her body had been my grave!

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Jer 21:9 - Everyone who stays in Jerusalem will die from war, famine, or disease, but those who go out and surrender to the Babylonians will live. Their reward will be life!

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Jer 21:12 - This is what the LORD says to the dynasty of David:
“‘Give justice each morning to the people you judge!
Help those who have been robbed;
rescue them from their oppressors.
Otherwise, my anger will burn like an unquenchable fire
because of all your sins.

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Jer 22:17 - “But you! You have eyes only for greed and dishonesty!
You murder the innocent,
oppress the poor, and reign ruthlessly.”

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Jer 22:21 - I warned you when you were prosperous,
but you replied, ‘Don't bother me.'
You have been that way since childhood—
you simply will not obey me!

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Jer 23:9 - My heart is broken because of the false prophets,
and my bones tremble.
I stagger like a drunkard,
like someone overcome by wine,
because of the holy words
the LORD has spoken against them.

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Jer 23:10 - For the land is full of adultery,
and it lies under a curse.
The land itself is in mourning—
its wilderness pastures are dried up.
For they all do evil
and abuse what power they have.

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Jer 23:12 - “Therefore, the paths they take
will become slippery.
They will be chased through the dark,
and there they will fall.
For I will bring disaster upon them
at the time fixed for their punishment.
I, the LORD, have spoken!

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Jer 25:11 - This entire land will become a desolate wasteland. Israel and her neighboring lands will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

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Jer 25:38 - He has left his den like a strong lion seeking its prey,
and their land will be made desolate
by the sword of the enemy
and the LORD's fierce anger.

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Jer 26:9 - “What right do you have to prophesy in the LORD's name that this Temple will be destroyed like Shiloh? What do you mean, saying that Jerusalem will be destroyed and left with no inhabitants?” And all the people threatened him as he stood in front of the Temple.

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Jer 27:8 - So you must submit to Babylon's king and serve him; put your neck under Babylon's yoke! I will punish any nation that refuses to be his slave, says the LORD. I will send war, famine, and disease upon that nation until Babylon has conquered it.

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Jer 30:7 - In all history there has never been such a time of terror.
It will be a time of trouble for my people Israel.[fn]
Yet in the end they will be saved!

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Jer 30:12 - This is what the LORD says:
“Your injury is incurable—
a terrible wound.

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Jer 31:12 - They will come home and sing songs of joy on the heights of Jerusalem.
They will be radiant because of the LORD's good gifts—
the abundant crops of grain, new wine, and olive oil,
and the healthy flocks and herds.
Their life will be like a watered garden,
and all their sorrows will be gone.

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Jer 31:16 - But now this is what the LORD says:
“Do not weep any longer,
for I will reward you,” says the LORD.
“Your children will come back to you
from the distant land of the enemy.

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Jer 31:33 - “But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel on that day,” says the LORD. “I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

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Jer 31:39 - A measuring line will be stretched out over the hill of Gareb and across to Goah.

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Jer 32:20 - You performed miraculous signs and wonders in the land of Egypt—things still remembered to this day! And you have continued to do great miracles in Israel and all around the world. You have made your name famous to this day.

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Jer 32:24 - “See how the siege ramps have been built against the city walls! Through war, famine, and disease, the city will be handed over to the Babylonians, who will conquer it. Everything has happened just as you said.

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Jer 32:25 - And yet, O Sovereign LORD, you have told me to buy the field—paying good money for it before these witnesses—even though the city will soon be handed over to the Babylonians.”

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Jer 32:28 - Therefore, this is what the LORD says: I will hand this city over to the Babylonians and to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and he will capture it.

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Jer 32:31 - “From the time this city was built until now, it has done nothing but anger me, so I am determined to get rid of it.

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Jer 34:1 - King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came with all the armies from the kingdoms he ruled, and he fought against Jerusalem and the towns of Judah. At that time this message came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

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Jer 34:2 - “Go to King Zedekiah of Judah, and tell him, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I am about to hand this city over to the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.

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Jer 34:7 - At this time the Babylonian army was besieging Jerusalem, Lachish, and Azekah—the only fortified cities of Judah not yet captured.

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Jer 36:7 - Perhaps even yet they will turn from their evil ways and ask the LORD's forgiveness before it is too late. For the LORD has threatened them with his terrible anger.”

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Jer 37:7 - “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: The king of Judah sent you to ask me what is going to happen. Tell him, ‘Pharaoh's army is about to return to Egypt, though he came here to help you.

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Jer 37:11 - When the Babylonian army left Jerusalem because of Pharaoh's approaching army,

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Jer 38:2 - “This is what the LORD says: ‘Everyone who stays in Jerusalem will die from war, famine, or disease, but those who surrender to the Babylonians[fn] will live. Their reward will be life. They will live!'

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Jer 38:3 - The LORD also says: ‘The city of Jerusalem will certainly be handed over to the army of the king of Babylon, who will capture it.'”

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Jer 38:17 - Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you surrender to the Babylonian officers, you and your family will live, and the city will not be burned down.

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Jer 38:18 - But if you refuse to surrender, you will not escape! This city will be handed over to the Babylonians, and they will burn it to the ground.'”

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Jer 38:20 - Jeremiah replied, “You won't be handed over to them if you choose to obey the LORD. Your life will be spared, and all will go well for you.

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Jer 38:23 - All your wives and children will be led out to the Babylonians, and you will not escape. You will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down.”

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Jer 39:1 - In January[fn] of the ninth year of King Zedekiah's reign, King Nebuchadnezzar[fn] came with his army to besiege Jerusalem.

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Jer 39:2 - Two and a half years later, on July 18[fn] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah's reign, the Babylonians broke through the wall, and the city fell.

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Jer 39:18 - Because you trusted me, I will give you your life as a reward. I will rescue you and keep you safe. I, the LORD, have spoken!'”

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Jer 42:16 - the very war and famine you fear will catch up to you, and you will die there.

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Jer 44:6 - And so my fury boiled over and fell like fire on the towns of Judah and into the streets of Jerusalem, and they are still a desolate ruin today.

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Jer 44:22 - It was because the LORD could no longer bear all the disgusting things you were doing that he made your land an object of cursing—a desolate ruin without inhabitants—as it is today.

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Jer 46:10 - For this is the day of the Lord, the LORD of Heaven's Armies,
a day of vengeance on his enemies.
The sword will devour until it is satisfied,
yes, until it is drunk with your blood!
The Lord, the LORD of Heaven's Armies, will receive a sacrifice today
in the north country beside the Euphrates River.

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Jer 46:12 - The nations have heard of your shame.
The earth is filled with your cries of despair.
Your mightiest warriors will run into each other
and fall down together.”

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Jer 47:6 - “Now, O sword of the LORD,
when will you be at rest again?
Go back into your sheath;
rest and be still.

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Jer 48:8 - “All the towns will be destroyed,
and no one will escape—
either on the plateaus or in the valleys,
for the LORD has spoken.

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Jer 48:29 - We have all heard of the pride of Moab,
for his pride is very great.
We know of his lofty pride,
his arrogance, and his haughty heart.

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Jer 49:4 - You are proud of your fertile valleys,
but they will soon be ruined.
You trusted in your wealth,
you rebellious daughter,
and thought no one could ever harm you.

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Jer 49:16 - You have been deceived
by the fear you inspire in others
and by your own pride.
You live in a rock fortress
and control the mountain heights.
But even if you make your nest among the peaks with the eagles,
I will bring you crashing down,”
says the LORD.

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Jer 49:17 - “Edom will be an object of horror.
All who pass by will be appalled
and will gasp at the destruction they see there.

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Jer 49:21 - The earth will shake with the noise of Edom's fall,
and its cry of despair will be heard all the way to the Red Sea.[fn]

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Jer 49:22 - Look! The enemy swoops down like an eagle,
spreading his wings over Bozrah.
Even the mightiest warriors will be in anguish
like a woman in labor.

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Jer 49:33 - “Hazor will be inhabited by jackals,
and it will be desolate forever.
No one will live there;
no one will inhabit it.”

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Jer 50:2 - This is what the LORD says:
“Tell the whole world,
and keep nothing back.
Raise a signal flag
to tell everyone that Babylon will fall!
Her images and idols[fn] will be shattered.
Her gods Bel and Marduk will be utterly disgraced.

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Jer 50:10 - Babylonia[fn] will be looted
until the attackers are glutted with loot.
I, the LORD, have spoken!

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Jer 50:12 - But your homeland[fn] will be overwhelmed
with shame and disgrace.
You will become the least of nations—
a wilderness, a dry and desolate land.

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Jer 50:19 - And I will bring Israel home again to its own land,
to feed in the fields of Carmel and Bashan,
and to be satisfied once more
in the hill country of Ephraim and Gilead.

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Jer 50:23 - Babylon, the mightiest hammer in all the earth,
lies broken and shattered.
Babylon is desolate among the nations!

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Jer 50:27 - Destroy even her young bulls—
it will be terrible for them, too!
Slaughter them all!
For Babylon's day of reckoning has come.

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Jer 50:31 - “See, I am your enemy, you arrogant people,”
says the Lord, the LORD of Heaven's Armies.
“Your day of reckoning has arrived—
the day when I will punish you.

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Jer 50:32 - O land of arrogance, you will stumble and fall,
and no one will raise you up.
For I will light a fire in the cities of Babylon
that will burn up everything around them.”

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Jer 50:46 - The earth will shake with the shout, “Babylon has been taken!”
and its cry of despair will be heard around the world.

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Jer 51:5 - For the LORD of Heaven's Armies
has not abandoned Israel and Judah.
He is still their God,
even though their land was filled with sin
against the Holy One of Israel.”

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Jer 51:11 - Sharpen the arrows!
Lift up the shields![fn]
For the LORD has inspired the kings of the Medes
to march against Babylon and destroy her.
This is his vengeance against those
who desecrated his Temple.

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Jer 51:29 - The earth trembles and writhes in pain,
for everything the LORD has planned against Babylon stands unchanged.
Babylon will be left desolate without a single inhabitant.

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Jer 51:30 - Her mightiest warriors no longer fight.
They stay in their barracks, their courage gone.
They have become like women.
The invaders have burned the houses
and broken down the city gates.

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Jer 51:31 - The news is passed from one runner to the next
as the messengers hurry to tell the king
that his city has been captured.

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Jer 51:42 - The sea has risen over Babylon;
she is covered by its crashing waves.

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Jer 52:4 - So on January 15,[fn] during the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, King Nebuchadnezzar[fn] of Babylon led his entire army against Jerusalem. They surrounded the city and built siege ramps against its walls.

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Jer 52:5 - Jerusalem was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah's reign.

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Jer 52:7 - Then a section of the city wall was broken down, and all the soldiers fled. Since the city was surrounded by the Babylonians,[fn] they waited for nightfall. Then they slipped through the gate between the two walls behind the king's garden and headed toward the Jordan Valley.[fn]

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Jer 52:8 - But the Babylonian troops chased King Zedekiah and caught him on the plains of Jericho, for his men had all deserted him and scattered.

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Jer 52:14 - Then he supervised the entire Babylonian[fn] army as they tore down the walls of Jerusalem on every side.

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Jer 52:20 - The weight of the bronze from the two pillars, the Sea with the twelve bronze oxen beneath it, and the water carts was too great to be measured. These things had been made for the LORD's Temple in the days of King Solomon.

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Jer 52:34 - So the Babylonian king gave him a regular food allowance as long as he lived. This continued until the day of his death.

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Lam 1:1 - Jerusalem, once so full of people,
is now deserted.
She who was once great among the nations
now sits alone like a widow.
Once the queen of all the earth,
she is now a slave.

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Lam 1:3 - Judah has been led away into captivity,
oppressed with cruel slavery.
She lives among foreign nations
and has no place of rest.
Her enemies have chased her down,
and she has nowhere to turn.

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Lam 1:6 - All the majesty of beautiful Jerusalem[fn]
has been stripped away.
Her princes are like starving deer
searching for pasture.
They are too weak to run
from the pursuing enemy.

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Lam 1:14 - “He wove my sins into ropes
to hitch me to a yoke of captivity.
The Lord sapped my strength and turned me over to my enemies;
I am helpless in their hands.

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Lam 1:20 - “LORD, see my anguish!
My heart is broken
and my soul despairs,
for I have rebelled against you.
In the streets the sword kills,
and at home there is only death.

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Lam 1:22 - “Look at all their evil deeds, LORD.
Punish them,
as you have punished me
for all my sins.
My groans are many,
and I am sick at heart.”

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Lam 2:11 - I have cried until the tears no longer come;
my heart is broken.
My spirit is poured out in agony
as I see the desperate plight of my people.
Little children and tiny babies
are fainting and dying in the streets.

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Lam 2:15 - All who pass by jeer at you.
They scoff and insult beautiful Jerusalem,[fn] saying,
“Is this the city called ‘Most Beautiful in All the World'
and ‘Joy of All the Earth'?”

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Lam 2:16 - All your enemies mock you.
They scoff and snarl and say,
“We have destroyed her at last!
We have long waited for this day,
and it is finally here!”

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Lam 3:18 - I cry out, “My splendor is gone!
Everything I had hoped for from the LORD is lost!”

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Lam 3:20 - I will never forget this awful time,
as I grieve over my loss.

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Lam 3:40 - Instead, let us test and examine our ways.
Let us turn back to the LORD.

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Lam 4:4 - The parched tongues of their little ones
stick to the roofs of their mouths in thirst.
The children cry for bread,
but no one has any to give them.

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Lam 4:21 - Are you rejoicing in the land of Uz,
O people of Edom?
But you, too, must drink from the cup of the LORD's anger.
You, too, will be stripped naked in your drunkenness.

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Lam 4:22 - O beautiful Jerusalem,[fn] your punishment will end;
you will soon return from exile.
But Edom, your punishment is just beginning;
soon your many sins will be exposed.

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Lam 5:17 - Our hearts are sick and weary,
and our eyes grow dim with tears.

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Eze 1:5 - From the center of the cloud came four living beings that looked human,

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Eze 1:20 - The spirit of the living beings was in the wheels. So wherever the spirit went, the wheels and the living beings also went.

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Eze 1:28 - All around him was a glowing halo, like a rainbow shining in the clouds on a rainy day. This is what the glory of the LORD looked like to me. When I saw it, I fell face down on the ground, and I heard someone's voice speaking to me.

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Eze 3:3 - “Fill your stomach with this,” he said. And when I ate it, it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.

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Eze 3:12 - Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a loud rumbling sound behind me. (May the glory of the LORD be praised in his place!)[fn]

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Eze 3:23 - So I got up and went, and there I saw the glory of the LORD, just as I had seen in my first vision by the Kebar River. And I fell face down on the ground.

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Eze 4:14 - Then I said, “O Sovereign LORD, must I be defiled by using human dung? For I have never been defiled before. From the time I was a child until now I have never eaten any animal that died of sickness or was killed by other animals. I have never eaten any meat forbidden by the law.”

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Eze 5:5 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: This is an illustration of what will happen to Jerusalem. I placed her at the center of the nations,

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Eze 5:7 - “Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: You people have behaved worse than your neighbors and have refused to obey my decrees and regulations. You have not even lived up to the standards of the nations around you.

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Eze 5:13 - Then at last my anger will be spent, and I will be satisfied. And when my fury against them has subsided, all Israel will know that I, the LORD, have spoken to them in my jealous anger.

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Eze 7:7 - O people of Israel, the day of your destruction is dawning.
The time has come; the day of trouble is near.
Shouts of anguish will be heard on the mountains,
not shouts of joy.

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Eze 7:10 - “The day of judgment is here;
your destruction awaits!
The people's wickedness and pride
have blossomed to full flower.

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Eze 7:12 - Yes, the time has come;
the day is here!
Buyers should not rejoice over bargains,
nor sellers grieve over losses,
for all of them will fall
under my terrible anger.

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Eze 7:23 - “Prepare chains for my people,
for the land is bloodied by terrible crimes.
Jerusalem is filled with violence.

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Eze 8:3 - He reached out what seemed to be a hand and took me by the hair. Then the Spirit lifted me up into the sky and transported me to Jerusalem in a vision from God. I was taken to the north gate of the inner courtyard of the Temple, where there is a large idol that has made the LORD very jealous.

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Eze 8:11 - Seventy leaders of Israel were standing there with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan in the center. Each of them held an incense burner, from which a cloud of incense rose above their heads.

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Eze 9:1 - Then the LORD thundered, “Bring on the men appointed to punish the city! Tell them to bring their weapons with them!”

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Eze 9:3 - Then the glory of the God of Israel rose up from between the cherubim, where it had rested, and moved to the entrance of the Temple. And the LORD called to the man dressed in linen who was carrying the writer's case.

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Eze 9:9 - Then he said to me, “The sins of the people of Israel and Judah are very, very great. The entire land is full of murder; the city is filled with injustice. They are saying, ‘The LORD doesn't see it! The LORD has abandoned the land!'

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Eze 10:3 - The cherubim were standing at the south end of the Temple when the man went in, and the cloud of glory filled the inner courtyard.

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Eze 10:4 - Then the glory of the LORD rose up from above the cherubim and went over to the door of the Temple. The Temple was filled with this cloud of glory, and the courtyard glowed brightly with the glory of the LORD.

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Eze 10:9 - I looked, and each of the four cherubim had a wheel beside him, and the wheels sparkled like beryl.

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Eze 10:10 - All four wheels looked alike and were made the same; each wheel had a second wheel turning crosswise within it.

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Eze 10:11 - The cherubim could move in any of the four directions they faced, without turning as they moved. They went straight in the direction they faced, never turning aside.

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Eze 11:15 - “Son of man, the people still left in Jerusalem are talking about you and your relatives and all the people of Israel who are in exile. They are saying, ‘Those people are far away from the LORD, so now he has given their land to us!'

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Eze 11:21 - But as for those who long for vile images and detestable idols, I will repay them fully for their sins. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!”

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Eze 11:22 - Then the cherubim lifted their wings and rose into the air with their wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.

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Eze 11:23 - Then the glory of the LORD went up from the city and stopped above the mountain to the east.

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Eze 12:19 - Tell the people, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says concerning those living in Israel and Jerusalem: They will eat their food with trembling and sip their water in despair, for their land will be stripped bare because of their violence.

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Eze 12:20 - The cities will be destroyed and the farmland made desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.'”

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Eze 12:22 - “Son of man, you've heard that proverb they quote in Israel: ‘Time passes, and prophecies come to nothing.'

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Eze 12:27 - “Son of man, the people of Israel are saying, ‘He's talking about the distant future. His visions won't come true for a long, long time.'

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Eze 13:12 - And when the wall falls, the people will cry out, ‘What happened to your whitewash?'

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Eze 14:4 - Tell them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The people of Israel have set up idols in their hearts and fallen into sin, and then they go to a prophet asking for a message. So I, the LORD, will give them the kind of answer their great idolatry deserves.

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Eze 14:16 - As surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, even if those three men were there, they wouldn't be able to save their own sons or daughters. They alone would be saved, but the land would be made desolate.

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Eze 16:3 - Give her this message from the Sovereign LORD: You are nothing but a Canaanite! Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

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Eze 16:4 - On the day you were born, no one cared about you. Your umbilical cord was not cut, and you were never washed, rubbed with salt, and wrapped in cloth.

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Eze 16:7 - And I helped you to thrive like a plant in the field. You grew up and became a beautiful jewel. Your breasts became full, and your body hair grew, but you were still naked.

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Eze 16:32 - Yes, you are an adulterous wife who takes in strangers instead of her own husband.

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Eze 16:36 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you have poured out your lust and exposed yourself in prostitution to all your lovers, and because you have worshiped detestable idols,[fn] and because you have slaughtered your children as sacrifices to your gods,

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Eze 16:44 - Everyone who makes up proverbs will say of you, ‘Like mother, like daughter.'

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Eze 16:45 - For your mother loathed her husband and her children, and so do you. And you are exactly like your sisters, for they despised their husbands and their children. Truly your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

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Eze 16:46 - “Your older sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters in the north. Your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters in the south.

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Eze 16:48 - As surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, Sodom and her daughters were never as wicked as you and your daughters.

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Eze 16:55 - Yes, your sisters, Sodom and Samaria, and all their people will be restored, and at that time you also will be restored.

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Eze 16:56 - In your proud days you held Sodom in contempt.

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Eze 17:7 - But then another great eagle came
with broad wings and full plumage.
So the vine now sent its roots and branches
toward him for water,

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Eze 18:2 - “Why do you quote this proverb concerning the land of Israel: ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, but their children's mouths pucker at the taste'?

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Eze 18:3 - As surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, you will not quote this proverb anymore in Israel.

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Eze 18:4 - For all people are mine to judge—both parents and children alike. And this is my rule: The person who sins is the one who will die.

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Eze 18:20 - The person who sins is the one who will die. The child will not be punished for the parent's sins, and the parent will not be punished for the child's sins. Righteous people will be rewarded for their own righteous behavior, and wicked people will be punished for their own wickedness.

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Eze 18:25 - “Yet you say, ‘The Lord isn't doing what's right!' Listen to me, O people of Israel. Am I the one not doing what's right, or is it you?

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Eze 18:29 - And yet the people of Israel keep saying, ‘The Lord isn't doing what's right!' O people of Israel, it is you who are not doing what's right, not I.

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Eze 19:2 - “What is your mother?
A lioness among lions!
She lay down among the young lions
and reared her cubs.

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Eze 19:5 - “When the lioness saw
that her hopes for him were gone,
she took another of her cubs
and taught him to be a strong young lion.

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Eze 19:9 - With hooks, they dragged him into a cage
and brought him before the king of Babylon.
They held him in captivity,
so his voice could never again be heard
on the mountains of Israel.

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Eze 19:10 - “Your mother was like a vine
planted by the water's edge.
It had lush, green foliage
because of the abundant water.

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Eze 19:12 - But the vine was uprooted in fury
and thrown down to the ground.
The desert wind dried up its fruit
and tore off its strong branches,
so that it withered
and was destroyed by fire.

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Eze 20:47 - Tell the southern wilderness, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Hear the word of the LORD! I will set you on fire, and every tree, both green and dry, will be burned. The terrible flames will not be quenched and will scorch everything from south to north.

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Eze 21:14 - “Son of man, prophesy to them
and clap your hands.
Then take the sword and brandish it twice,
even three times,
to symbolize the great massacre,
the great massacre facing them on every side.

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Eze 21:15 - Let their hearts melt with terror,
for the sword glitters at every gate.
It flashes like lightning
and is polished for slaughter!

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Eze 21:25 - “O you corrupt and wicked prince of Israel, your final day of reckoning is here!

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Eze 21:29 - Your prophets have given false visions,
and your fortune-tellers have told lies.
The sword will fall on the necks of the wicked
for whom the day of final reckoning has come.

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Eze 22:5 - O infamous city, filled with confusion, you will be mocked by people far and near.

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Eze 22:14 - How strong and courageous will you be in my day of reckoning? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do what I said.

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Eze 22:15 - I will scatter you among the nations and purge you of your wickedness.

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Eze 22:24 - “Son of man, give the people of Israel this message: In the day of my indignation, you will be like a polluted land, a land without rain.

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Eze 23:4 - The older girl was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. I married them, and they bore me sons and daughters. I am speaking of Samaria and Jerusalem, for Oholah is Samaria and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

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Eze 23:5 - “Then Oholah lusted after other lovers instead of me, and she gave her love to the Assyrian officers.

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Eze 23:11 - “Yet even though Oholibah saw what had happened to Oholah, her sister, she followed right in her footsteps. And she was even more depraved, abandoning herself to her lust and prostitution.

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Eze 23:17 - So they came and committed adultery with her, defiling her in the bed of love. After being defiled, however, she rejected them in disgust.

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Eze 23:18 - “In the same way, I became disgusted with Oholibah and rejected her, just as I had rejected her sister, because she flaunted herself before them and gave herself to satisfy their lusts.

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Eze 23:22 - “Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will send your lovers against you from every direction—those very nations from which you turned away in disgust.

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Eze 23:28 - “For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will surely hand you over to your enemies, to those you loathe, those you rejected.

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Eze 23:29 - They will treat you with hatred and rob you of all you own, leaving you stark naked. The shame of your prostitution will be exposed to all the world.

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Eze 23:49 - You will be fully repaid for all your prostitution—your worship of idols. Yes, you will suffer the full penalty. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.”

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Eze 24:14 - “I, the LORD, have spoken! The time has come, and I won't hold back. I will not change my mind, and I will have no pity on you. You will be judged on the basis of all your wicked actions, says the Sovereign LORD.”

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Eze 24:18 - So I proclaimed this to the people the next morning, and in the evening my wife died. The next morning I did everything I had been told to do.

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Eze 25:12 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The people of Edom have sinned greatly by avenging themselves against the people of Judah.

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Eze 26:2 - “Son of man, Tyre has rejoiced over the fall of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Ha! She who was the gateway to the rich trade routes to the east has been broken, and I am the heir! Because she has been made desolate, I will become wealthy!'

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Eze 26:3 - “Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am your enemy, O Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the waves of the sea crashing against your shoreline.

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Eze 26:13 - I will stop the music of your songs. No more will the sound of harps be heard among your people.

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Eze 26:17 - Then they will wail for you, singing this funeral song:
“O famous island city,
once ruler of the sea,
how you have been destroyed!
Your people, with their naval power,
once spread fear around the world.

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Eze 27:11 - Men from Arvad and Helech stood on your walls. Your towers were manned by men from Gammad. Their shields hung on your walls, completing your beauty.

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Eze 27:13 - Merchants from Greece,[fn] Tubal, and Meshech brought slaves and articles of bronze to trade with you.

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Eze 27:21 - The Arabians and the princes of Kedar sent merchants to trade lambs and rams and male goats in exchange for your goods.

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Eze 27:27 - Everything is lost—
your riches and wares,
your sailors and pilots,
your ship builders, merchants, and warriors.
On the day of your ruin,
everyone on board sinks into the depths of the sea.

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Eze 27:34 - Now you are a wrecked ship,
broken at the bottom of the sea.
All your merchandise and crew
have gone down with you.

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Eze 28:2 - “Son of man, give the prince of Tyre this message from the Sovereign LORD:
“In your great pride you claim, ‘I am a god!
I sit on a divine throne in the heart of the sea.'
But you are only a man and not a god,
though you boast that you are a god.

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Eze 28:5 - Yes, your wisdom has made you very rich,
and your riches have made you very proud.

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Eze 28:17 - Your heart was filled with pride
because of all your beauty.
Your wisdom was corrupted
by your love of splendor.
So I threw you to the ground
and exposed you to the curious gaze of kings.

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Eze 29:9 - The land of Egypt will become a desolate wasteland, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.
“Because you said, ‘The Nile River is mine; I made it,'

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Eze 30:2 - “Son of man, prophesy and give this message from the Sovereign LORD:
“Weep and wail
for that day,

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Eze 30:3 - for the terrible day is almost here—
the day of the LORD!
It is a day of clouds and gloom,
a day of despair for the nations.

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Eze 30:6 - “For this is what the LORD says:
All of Egypt's allies will fall,
and the pride of her power will end.
From Migdol to Aswan[fn]
they will be slaughtered by the sword,
says the Sovereign LORD.

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Eze 30:11 - He and his armies—the most ruthless of all—
will be sent to demolish the land.
They will make war against Egypt
until slaughtered Egyptians cover the ground.

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Eze 30:18 - When I come to break the proud strength of Egypt,
it will be a dark day for Tahpanhes, too.
A dark cloud will cover Tahpanhes,
and its daughters will be led away as captives.

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Eze 31:3 - You are like mighty Assyria,
which was once like a cedar of Lebanon,
with beautiful branches that cast deep forest shade
and with its top high among the clouds.

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Eze 31:4 - Deep springs watered it
and helped it to grow tall and luxuriant.
The water flowed around it like a river,
streaming to all the trees nearby.

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Eze 31:15 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When Assyria went down to the grave,[fn] I made the deep springs mourn. I stopped its rivers and dried up its abundant water. I clothed Lebanon in black and caused the trees of the field to wilt.

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Eze 32:6 - I will drench the earth with your gushing blood
all the way to the mountains,
filling the ravines to the brim.

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Eze 32:12 - I will destroy your hordes with the swords of mighty warriors—
the terror of the nations.
They will shatter the pride of Egypt,
and all its hordes will be destroyed.

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Eze 32:15 - And when I destroy Egypt
and strip you of everything you own
and strike down all your people,
then you will know that I am the LORD.

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Eze 32:20 - The Egyptians will fall with the many who have died by the sword, for the sword is drawn against them. Egypt and its hordes will be dragged away to their judgment.

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Eze 32:22 - “Assyria lies there surrounded by the graves of its army, those who were slaughtered by the sword.

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Eze 32:24 - “Elam lies there surrounded by the graves of all its hordes, those who were slaughtered by the sword. They struck terror in the hearts of people everywhere, but now they have descended as outcasts to the world below. Now they lie in the pit and share the shame of those who have gone before them.

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Eze 32:26 - “Meshech and Tubal are there, surrounded by the graves of all their hordes. They once struck terror in the hearts of people everywhere. But now they are outcasts, all slaughtered by the sword.

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Eze 33:4 - Then if those who hear the alarm refuse to take action, it is their own fault if they die.

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Eze 33:6 - But if the watchman sees the enemy coming and doesn't sound the alarm to warn the people, he is responsible for their captivity. They will die in their sins, but I will hold the watchman responsible for their deaths.'

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Eze 33:17 - “Your people are saying, ‘The Lord isn't doing what's right,' but it is they who are not doing what's right.

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Eze 33:20 - O people of Israel, you are saying, ‘The Lord isn't doing what's right.' But I judge each of you according to your deeds.”

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Eze 33:21 - On January 8,[fn] during the twelfth year of our captivity, a survivor from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has fallen!”

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Eze 33:24 - “Son of man, the scattered remnants of Judah living among the ruined cities keep saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he gained possession of the entire land. We are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.'

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Eze 33:28 - I will completely destroy the land and demolish her pride. Her arrogant power will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will be so desolate that no one will even travel through them.

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Eze 33:31 - So my people come pretending to be sincere and sit before you. They listen to your words, but they have no intention of doing what you say. Their mouths are full of lustful words, and their hearts seek only after money.

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Eze 34:27 - The orchards and fields of my people will yield bumper crops, and everyone will live in safety. When I have broken their chains of slavery and rescued them from those who enslaved them, then they will know that I am the LORD.

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Eze 35:15 - You rejoiced at the desolation of Israel's territory. Now I will rejoice at yours! You will be wiped out, you people of Mount Seir and all who live in Edom! Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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Eze 36:10 - I will greatly increase the population of Israel, and the ruined cities will be rebuilt and filled with people.

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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 the evil way they lived. To me their conduct was as unclean as a woman's menstrual cloth.

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Eze 36:34 - The fields that used to lie empty and desolate in plain view of everyone will again be farmed.

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Eze 36:35 - And when I bring you back, people will say, ‘This former wasteland is now like the Garden of Eden! The abandoned and ruined cities now have strong walls and are filled with people!'

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Eze 37:11 - Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones represent the people of Israel. They are saying, ‘We have become old, dry bones—all hope is gone. Our nation is finished.'

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Eze 37:27 - I will make my home among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

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Eze 38:7 - “Get ready; be prepared! Keep all the armies around you mobilized, and take command of them.

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Eze 39:8 - That day of judgment will come, says the Sovereign LORD. Everything will happen just as I have declared it.

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Eze 39:12 - It will take seven months for the people of Israel to bury the bodies and cleanse the land.

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Eze 39:16 - (There will be a town there named Hamonah, which means ‘horde.') And so the land will finally be cleansed.

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Eze 40:3 - As he brought me nearer, I saw a man whose face shone like bronze standing beside a gateway entrance. He was holding in his hand a linen measuring cord and a measuring rod.

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Eze 40:22 - The windows, the entry room, and the palm tree decorations were identical to those in the east gateway. There were seven steps leading up to the gateway entrance, and the entry room was at the inner end of the gateway passage.

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Eze 40:45 - And the man said to me, “The room beside the north inner gate is for the priests who supervise the Temple maintenance.

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Eze 40:46 - The room beside the south inner gate is for the priests in charge of the altar—the descendants of Zadok—for they alone of all the Levites may approach the LORD to minister to him.”

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Eze 41:11 - Two doors opened from the side rooms into the terrace yard, which was 8¾ feet wide. One door faced north and the other south.

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Eze 41:22 - There was an altar made of wood, 5¼ feet high and 3½ feet across.[fn] Its corners, base, and sides were all made of wood. “This,” the man told me, “is the table that stands in the LORD's presence.”

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Eze 42:15 - When the man had finished measuring the inside of the Temple area, he led me out through the east gateway to measure the entire perimeter.

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Eze 43:2 - Suddenly, the glory of the God of Israel appeared from the east. The sound of his coming was like the roar of rushing waters, and the whole landscape shone with his glory.

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Eze 43:3 - This vision was just like the others I had seen, first by the Kebar River and then when he came to destroy Jerusalem. I fell face down on the ground.

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Eze 44:2 - And the LORD said to me, “This gate must remain closed; it will never again be opened. No one will ever open it and pass through, for the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered here. Therefore, it must always remain shut.

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Eze 45:6 - “Adjacent to the larger sacred area will be a section of land 8⅓ miles long and 1⅔ miles wide.[fn] This will be set aside for a city where anyone in Israel can live.

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Eze 45:11 - The homer[fn] will be your standard unit for measuring volume. The ephah and the bath[fn] will each measure one-tenth of a homer.

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Eze 45:12 - The standard unit for weight will be the silver shekel.[fn] One shekel will consist of twenty gerahs, and sixty shekels will be equal to one mina.[fn]

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Eze 45:13 - “You must give this tax to the prince: one bushel of wheat or barley for every 60[fn] you harvest,

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Eze 46:1 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The east gateway of the inner courtyard will be closed during the six workdays each week, but it will be open on Sabbath days and the days of new moon celebrations.

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Eze 46:2 - The prince will enter the entry room of the gateway from the outside. Then he will stand by the gatepost while the priest offers his burnt offering and peace offering. He will bow down in worship inside the gateway passage and then go back out the way he came. The gateway will not be closed until evening.

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Eze 46:7 - With the young bull he must bring a basket of choice flour for a grain offering. With the ram he must bring another basket of flour. And with each lamb he is to bring whatever amount of flour he chooses to give. With each basket of flour he must offer one gallon of olive oil.

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Eze 46:11 - “So at the special feasts and sacred festivals, the grain offering will be a basket of choice flour with each young bull, another basket of flour with each ram, and as much flour as the prince chooses to give with each lamb. Give one gallon of olive oil with each basket of flour.

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Eze 47:14 - Otherwise each tribe will receive an equal share. I took a solemn oath and swore that I would give this land to your ancestors, and it will now come to you as your possession.

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Eze 48:8 - “South of Judah is the land set aside for a special purpose. It will be 8⅓ miles[fn] wide and will extend as far east and west as the tribal territories, with the Temple at the center.

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Eze 48:10 - For the priests there will be a strip of land measuring 8⅓ miles long by 3⅓ miles wide,[fn] with the LORD's Temple at the center.

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Eze 48:12 - It will be their special portion when the land is distributed, the most sacred land of all. Next to the priests' territory will lie the land where the other Levites will live.

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Eze 48:15 - “An additional strip of land 8⅓ miles long by 1⅔ miles wide,[fn] south of the sacred Temple area, will be allotted for public use—homes, pasturelands, and common lands, with a city at the center.

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Eze 48:20 - This entire area—including the sacred lands and the city—is a square that measures 8⅓ miles[fn] on each side.

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Eze 48:21 - “The areas that remain, to the east and to the west of the sacred lands and the city, will belong to the prince. Each of these areas will be 8⅓ miles wide, extending in opposite directions to the eastern and western borders of Israel, with the sacred lands and the sanctuary of the Temple in the center.

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Eze 48:29 - “These are the allotments that will be set aside for each tribe's exclusive possession. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!

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Dan 2:11 - The king's demand is impossible. No one except the gods can tell you your dream, and they do not live here among people.”

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Dan 2:15 - He asked Arioch, “Why has the king issued such a harsh decree?” So Arioch told him all that had happened.

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Dan 2:20 - He said,
“Praise the name of God forever and ever,
for he has all wisdom and power.

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Dan 2:31 - “In your vision, Your Majesty, you saw standing before you a huge, shining statue of a man. It was a frightening sight.

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Dan 2:32 - The head of the statue was made of fine gold. Its chest and arms were silver, its belly and thighs were bronze,

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Dan 2:38 - He has made you the ruler over all the inhabited world and has put even the wild animals and birds under your control. You are the head of gold.

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Dan 2:44 - “During the reigns of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed or conquered. It will crush all these kingdoms into nothingness, and it will stand forever.

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Dan 2:45 - That is the meaning of the rock cut from the mountain, though not by human hands, that crushed to pieces the statue of iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold. The great God was showing the king what will happen in the future. The dream is true, and its meaning is certain.”

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Dan 3:19 - Nebuchadnezzar was so furious with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego that his face became distorted with rage. He commanded that the furnace be heated seven times hotter than usual.

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Dan 3:22 - And because the king, in his anger, had demanded such a hot fire in the furnace, the flames killed the soldiers as they threw the three men in.

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Dan 3:25 - “Look!” Nebuchadnezzar shouted. “I see four men, unbound, walking around in the fire unharmed! And the fourth looks like a god[fn]!”

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Dan 3:27 - Then the high officers, officials, governors, and advisers crowded around them and saw that the fire had not touched them. Not a hair on their heads was singed, and their clothing was not scorched. They didn't even smell of smoke!

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Dan 4:3 - How great are his signs, how powerful his wonders! His kingdom will last forever, his rule through all generations.

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Dan 4:15 - But leave the stump and the roots in the ground, bound with a band of iron and bronze and surrounded by tender grass. Now let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and let him live with the wild animals among the plants of the field.

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Dan 4:16 - For seven periods of time, let him have the mind of a wild animal instead of the mind of a human.

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Dan 4:19 - “Upon hearing this, Daniel (also known as Belteshazzar) was overcome for a time, frightened by the meaning of the dream. Then the king said to him, ‘Belteshazzar, don't be alarmed by the dream and what it means.' “Belteshazzar replied, ‘I wish the events foreshadowed in this dream would happen to your enemies, my lord, and not to you!

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Dan 4:22 - That tree, Your Majesty, is you. For you have grown strong and great; your greatness reaches up to heaven, and your rule to the ends of the earth.

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Dan 4:23 - “‘Then you saw a messenger, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, “Cut down the tree and destroy it. But leave the stump and the roots in the ground, bound with a band of iron and bronze and surrounded by tender grass. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven. Let him live with the animals of the field for seven periods of time.”

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Dan 4:24 - “‘This is what the dream means, Your Majesty, and what the Most High has declared will happen to my lord the king.

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Dan 4:25 - You will be driven from human society, and you will live in the fields with the wild animals. You will eat grass like a cow, and you will be drenched with the dew of heaven. Seven periods of time will pass while you live this way, until you learn that the Most High rules over the kingdoms of the world and gives them to anyone he chooses.

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Dan 4:26 - But the stump and roots of the tree were left in the ground. This means that you will receive your kingdom back again when you have learned that heaven rules.

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Dan 4:27 - “‘King Nebuchadnezzar, please accept my advice. Stop sinning and do what is right. Break from your wicked past and be merciful to the poor. Perhaps then you will continue to prosper.'

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Dan 4:30 - As he looked out across the city, he said, ‘Look at this great city of Babylon! By my own mighty power, I have built this beautiful city as my royal residence to display my majestic splendor.'

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Dan 4:31 - “While these words were still in his mouth, a voice called down from heaven, ‘O King Nebuchadnezzar, this message is for you! You are no longer ruler of this kingdom.

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Dan 4:32 - You will be driven from human society. You will live in the fields with the wild animals, and you will eat grass like a cow. Seven periods of time will pass while you live this way, until you learn that the Most High rules over the kingdoms of the world and gives them to anyone he chooses.'

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Dan 4:34 - “After this time had passed, I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven. My sanity returned, and I praised and worshiped the Most High and honored the one who lives forever. His rule is everlasting, and his kingdom is eternal.

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Dan 4:36 - “When my sanity returned to me, so did my honor and glory and kingdom. My advisers and nobles sought me out, and I was restored as head of my kingdom, with even greater honor than before.

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Dan 5:6 - and his face turned pale with fright. His knees knocked together in fear and his legs gave way beneath him.

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Dan 5:9 - So the king grew even more alarmed, and his face turned pale. His nobles, too, were shaken.

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Dan 5:10 - But when the queen mother heard what was happening, she hurried to the banquet hall. She said to Belshazzar, “Long live the king! Don't be so pale and frightened.

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Dan 5:20 - But when his heart and mind were puffed up with arrogance, he was brought down from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.

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Dan 5:21 - He was driven from human society. He was given the mind of a wild animal, and he lived among the wild donkeys. He ate grass like a cow, and he was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he learned that the Most High God rules over the kingdoms of the world and appoints anyone he desires to rule over them.

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Dan 5:23 - For you have proudly defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone—gods that neither see nor hear nor know anything at all. But you have not honored the God who gives you the breath of life and controls your destiny!

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Dan 5:25 - “This is the message that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, and PARSIN.

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Dan 5:28 - Parsin[fn] means ‘divided'—your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

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Dan 6:26 - “I decree that everyone throughout my kingdom should tremble with fear before the God of Daniel. For he is the living God, and he will endure forever. His kingdom will never be destroyed, and his rule will never end.

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Dan 7:9 - I watched as thrones were put in place
and the Ancient One[fn] sat down to judge.
His clothing was as white as snow,
his hair like purest wool.
He sat on a fiery throne
with wheels of blazing fire,

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Dan 7:12 - The other three beasts had their authority taken from them, but they were allowed to live a while longer.[fn]

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Dan 7:14 - He was given authority, honor, and sovereignty over all the nations of the world, so that people of every race and nation and language would obey him. His rule is eternal—it will never end. His kingdom will never be destroyed.

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Dan 7:20 - I also asked about the ten horns on the fourth beast's head and the little horn that came up afterward and destroyed three of the other horns. This horn had seemed greater than the others, and it had human eyes and a mouth that was boasting arrogantly.

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Dan 7:27 - Then the sovereignty, power, and greatness of all the kingdoms under heaven will be given to the holy people of the Most High. His kingdom will last forever, and all rulers will serve and obey him.”

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Dan 7:28 - That was the end of the vision. I, Daniel, was terrified by my thoughts and my face was pale with fear, but I kept these things to myself.

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Dan 8:12 - The army of heaven was restrained from responding to this rebellion. So the daily sacrifice was halted, and truth was overthrown. The horn succeeded in everything it did.[fn]

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Dan 8:13 - Then I heard two holy ones talking to each other. One of them asked, “How long will the events of this vision last? How long will the rebellion that causes desecration stop the daily sacrifices? How long will the Temple and heaven's army be trampled on?”

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Dan 8:17 - As Gabriel approached the place where I was standing, I became so terrified that I fell with my face to the ground. “Son of man,” he said, “you must understand that the events you have seen in your vision relate to the time of the end.”

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Dan 8:19 - Then he said, “I am here to tell you what will happen later in the time of wrath. What you have seen pertains to the very end of time.

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Dan 8:24 - He will become very strong, but not by his own power. He will cause a shocking amount of destruction and succeed in everything he does. He will destroy powerful leaders and devastate the holy people.

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Dan 8:26 - “This vision about the 2,300 evenings and mornings[fn] is true. But none of these things will happen for a long time, so keep this vision a secret.”

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Dan 9:7 - “Lord, you are in the right; but as you see, our faces are covered with shame. This is true of all of us, including the people of Judah and Jerusalem and all Israel, scattered near and far, wherever you have driven us because of our disloyalty to you.

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Dan 9:8 - O LORD, we and our kings, princes, and ancestors are covered with shame because we have sinned against you.

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Dan 9:11 - All Israel has disobeyed your instruction and turned away, refusing to listen to your voice. “So now the solemn curses and judgments written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured down on us because of our sin.

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Dan 9:15 - “O Lord our God, you brought lasting honor to your name by rescuing your people from Egypt in a great display of power. But we have sinned and are full of wickedness.

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Dan 9:16 - In view of all your faithful mercies, Lord, please turn your furious anger away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. All the neighboring nations mock Jerusalem and your people because of our sins and the sins of our ancestors.

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Dan 10:5 - I looked up and saw a man dressed in linen clothing, with a belt of pure gold around his waist.

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Dan 10:6 - His body looked like a precious gem. His face flashed like lightning, and his eyes flamed like torches. His arms and feet shone like polished bronze, and his voice roared like a vast multitude of people.

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Dan 10:8 - So I was left there all alone to see this amazing vision. My strength left me, my face grew deathly pale, and I felt very weak.

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Dan 10:14 - Now I am here to explain what will happen to your people in the future, for this vision concerns a time yet to come.”

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Dan 11:4 - But at the height of his power, his kingdom will be broken apart and divided into four parts. It will not be ruled by the king's descendants, nor will the kingdom hold the authority it once had. For his empire will be uprooted and given to others.

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Dan 11:6 - “Some years later an alliance will be formed between the king of the north and the king of the south. The daughter of the king of the south will be given in marriage to the king of the north to secure the alliance, but she will lose her influence over him, and so will her father. She will be abandoned along with her supporters.

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Dan 11:12 - After the enemy army is swept away, the king of the south will be filled with pride and will execute many thousands of his enemies. But his success will be short lived.

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Dan 11:25 - “Then he will stir up his courage and raise a great army against the king of the south. The king of the south will go to battle with a mighty army, but to no avail, for there will be plots against him.

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Dan 11:28 - “The king of the north will then return home with great riches. On the way he will set himself against the people of the holy covenant, doing much damage before continuing his journey.

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Dan 11:29 - “Then at the appointed time he will once again invade the south, but this time the result will be different.

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Dan 11:36 - “The king will do as he pleases, exalting himself and claiming to be greater than every god, even blaspheming the God of gods. He will succeed, but only until the time of wrath is completed. For what has been determined will surely take place.

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Dan 12:3 - Those who are wise will shine as bright as the sky, and those who lead many to righteousness will shine like the stars forever.

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Dan 12:4 - But you, Daniel, keep this prophecy a secret; seal up the book until the time of the end, when many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase.”

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Hos 1:2 - When the LORD first began speaking to Israel through Hosea, he said to him, “Go and marry a prostitute,[fn] so that some of her children will be conceived in prostitution. This will illustrate how Israel has acted like a prostitute by turning against the LORD and worshiping other gods.”

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Hos 1:10 - [fn]“Yet the time will come when Israel's people will be like the sands of the seashore—too many to count! Then, at the place where they were told, ‘You are not my people,' it will be said, ‘You are children of the living God.'

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Hos 1:11 - Then the people of Judah and Israel will unite together. They will choose one leader for themselves, and they will return from exile together. What a day that will be—the day of Jezreel[fn]—when God will again plant his people in his land.

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Hos 2:5 - Their mother is a shameless prostitute
and became pregnant in a shameful way.
She said, ‘I'll run after other lovers
and sell myself to them for food and water,
for clothing of wool and linen,
and for olive oil and drinks.'

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Hos 2:22 - Then the earth will answer the thirsty cries
of the grain, the grapevines, and the olive trees.
And they in turn will answer,
‘Jezreel'—‘God plants!'

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Hos 4:3 - That is why your land is in mourning,
and everyone is wasting away.
Even the wild animals, the birds of the sky,
and the fish of the sea are disappearing.

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Hos 5:5 - “The arrogance of Israel testifies against her;
Israel and Ephraim will stumble under their load of guilt.
Judah, too, will fall with them.

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Hos 5:7 - They have betrayed the honor of the LORD,
bearing children that are not his.
Now their false religion will devour them
along with their wealth.[fn]

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Hos 6:9 - Priests form bands of robbers,
waiting in ambush for their victims.
They murder travelers along the road to Shechem
and practice every kind of sin.

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Hos 7:1 - “I want to heal Israel,[fn] but its sins are too great.
Samaria is filled with liars.
Thieves are on the inside
and bandits on the outside!

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Hos 7:10 - Their arrogance testifies against them,
yet they don't return to the LORD their God
or even try to find him.

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Hos 8:7 - “They have planted the wind
and will harvest the whirlwind.
The stalks of grain wither
and produce nothing to eat.
And even if there is any grain,
foreigners will eat it.

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Hos 11:8 - “Oh, how can I give you up, Israel?
How can I let you go?
How can I destroy you like Admah
or demolish you like Zeboiim?
My heart is torn within me,
and my compassion overflows.

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Hos 13:12 - “Ephraim's guilt has been collected,
and his sin has been stored up for punishment.

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Hos 13:14 - “Should I ransom them from the grave[fn]?
Should I redeem them from death?
O death, bring on your terrors!
O grave, bring on your plagues![fn]
For I will not take pity on them.

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Hos 14:4 - The LORD says,
“Then I will heal you of your faithlessness;
my love will know no bounds,
for my anger will be gone forever.

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Hos 14:6 - Its branches will spread out like beautiful olive trees,
as fragrant as the cedars of Lebanon.

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Joe 1:4 - After the cutting locusts finished eating the crops,
the swarming locusts took what was left!
After them came the hopping locusts,
and then the stripping locusts,[fn] too!

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Joe 1:10 - The fields are ruined,
the land is stripped bare.
The grain is destroyed,
the grapes have shriveled,
and the olive oil is gone.

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Joe 1:12 - The grapevines have dried up,
and the fig trees have withered.
The pomegranate trees, palm trees, and apple trees—
all the fruit trees—have dried up.
And the people's joy has dried up with them.

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Joe 2:3 - Fire burns in front of them,
and flames follow after them.
Ahead of them the land lies
as beautiful as the Garden of Eden.
Behind them is nothing but desolation;
not one thing escapes.

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Joe 2:4 - They look like horses;
they charge forward like warhorses.[fn]

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Joe 2:10 - The earth quakes as they advance,
and the heavens tremble.
The sun and moon grow dark,
and the stars no longer shine.

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Joe 2:11 - The LORD is at the head of the column.
He leads them with a shout.
This is his mighty army,
and they follow his orders.
The day of the LORD is an awesome, terrible thing.
Who can possibly survive?

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Joe 2:20 - I will drive away these armies from the north.
I will send them into the parched wastelands.
Those in the front will be driven into the Dead Sea,
and those at the rear into the Mediterranean.[fn]
The stench of their rotting bodies will rise over the land.”
Surely the LORD has done great things!

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Joe 2:25 - The LORD says, “I will give you back what you lost
to the swarming locusts, the hopping locusts,
the stripping locusts, and the cutting locusts.[fn]
It was I who sent this great destroying army against you.

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Joe 2:31 - The sun will become dark,
and the moon will turn blood red
before that great and terrible[fn] day of the LORD arrives.

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Joe 3:13 - Swing the sickle,
for the harvest is ripe.[fn]
Come, tread the grapes,
for the winepress is full.
The storage vats are overflowing
with the wickedness of these people.”

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Joe 3:15 - The sun and moon will grow dark,
and the stars will no longer shine.

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Joe 3:16 - The LORD's voice will roar from Zion
and thunder from Jerusalem,
and the heavens and the earth will shake.
But the LORD will be a refuge for his people,
a strong fortress for the people of Israel.

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Joe 3:19 - But Egypt will become a wasteland
and Edom will become a wilderness,
because they attacked the people of Judah
and killed innocent people in their land.

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Joe 3:20 - “But Judah will be filled with people forever,
and Jerusalem will endure through all generations.

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Amo 1:2 - This is what he saw and heard:
“The LORD's voice will roar from Zion
and thunder from Jerusalem!
The lush pastures of the shepherds will dry up;
the grass on Mount Carmel will wither and die.”

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Amo 2:13 - “So I will make you groan
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Amo 3:11 - Therefore,” says the Sovereign LORD,
“an enemy is coming!
He will surround them and shatter their defenses.
Then he will plunder all their fortresses.”

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Amo 4:9 - “I struck your farms and vineyards with blight and mildew.
Locusts devoured all your fig and olive trees.
But still you would not return to me,”
says the LORD.

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Amo 5:3 - The Sovereign LORD says:
“When a city sends a thousand men to battle,
only a hundred will return.
When a town sends a hundred,
only ten will come back alive.”

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Amo 5:18 - What sorrow awaits you who say,
“If only the day of the LORD were here!”
You have no idea what you are wishing for.
That day will bring darkness, not light.

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Amo 5:19 - In that day you will be like a man who runs from a lion—
only to meet a bear.
Escaping from the bear, he leans his hand against a wall in his house—
and he's bitten by a snake.

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Amo 5:20 - Yes, the day of the LORD will be dark and hopeless,
without a ray of joy or hope.

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Amo 7:10 - Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent a message to Jeroboam, king of Israel: “Amos is hatching a plot against you right here on your very doorstep! What he is saying is intolerable.

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Amo 7:17 - But this is what the LORD says:
‘Your wife will become a prostitute in this city,
and your sons and daughters will be killed.
Your land will be divided up,
and you yourself will die in a foreign land.
And the people of Israel will certainly become captives in exile,
far from their homeland.'”

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Amo 8:8 - The earth will tremble for your deeds,
and everyone will mourn.
The ground will rise like the Nile River at floodtime;
it will heave up, then sink again.

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Amo 9:2 - “Even if they dig down to the place of the dead,[fn]
I will reach down and pull them up.
Even if they climb up into the heavens,
I will bring them down.

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Amo 9:13 - “The time will come,” says the LORD,
“when the grain and grapes will grow faster
than they can be harvested.
Then the terraced vineyards on the hills of Israel
will drip with sweet wine!

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Oba 1:17 - “But Jerusalem[fn] will become a refuge for those who escape;
it will be a holy place.
And the people of Israel[fn] will come back
to reclaim their inheritance.

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Oba 1:20 - The exiles of Israel will return to their land
and occupy the Phoenician coast as far north as Zarephath.
The captives from Jerusalem exiled in the north[fn]
will return home and resettle the towns of the Negev.

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Oba 1:21 - Those who have been rescued[fn] will go up to[fn] Mount Zion in Jerusalem
to rule over the mountains of Edom.
And the LORD himself will be king!”

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Jon 1:2 - “Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh. Announce my judgment against it because I have seen how wicked its people are.”

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Jon 1:7 - Then the crew cast lots to see which of them had offended the gods and caused the terrible storm. When they did this, the lots identified Jonah as the culprit.

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Jon 1:8 - “Why has this awful storm come down on us?” they demanded. “Who are you? What is your line of work? What country are you from? What is your nationality?”

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Jon 1:11 - And since the storm was getting worse all the time, they asked him, “What should we do to you to stop this storm?”

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Jon 1:12 - “Throw me into the sea,” Jonah said, “and it will become calm again. I know that this terrible storm is all my fault.”

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Jon 1:13 - Instead, the sailors rowed even harder to get the ship to the land. But the stormy sea was too violent for them, and they couldn't make it.

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Jon 1:15 - Then the sailors picked Jonah up and threw him into the raging sea, and the storm stopped at once!

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Jon 2:5 - “I sank beneath the waves,
and the waters closed over me.
Seaweed wrapped itself around my head.

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Jon 2:7 - As my life was slipping away,
I remembered the LORD.
And my earnest prayer went out to you
in your holy Temple.

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Jon 3:3 - This time Jonah obeyed the LORD's command and went to Nineveh, a city so large that it took three days to see it all.[fn]

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Mic 1:2 - Attention! Let all the people of the world listen!
Let the earth and everything in it hear.
The Sovereign LORD is making accusations against you;
the Lord speaks from his holy Temple.

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Mic 1:5 - And why is this happening?
Because of the rebellion of Israel[fn]—
yes, the sins of the whole nation.
Who is to blame for Israel's rebellion?
Samaria, its capital city!
Where is the center of idolatry in Judah?
In Jerusalem, its capital!

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Mic 1:9 - For my people's wound
is too deep to heal.
It has reached into Judah,
even to the gates of Jerusalem.

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Mic 1:15 - O people of Mareshah,[fn]
I will bring a conqueror to capture your town.
And the leaders[fn] of Israel
will go to Adullam.

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Mic 2:10 - Up! Begone!
This is no longer your land and home,
for you have filled it with sin
and ruined it completely.

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Mic 3:6 - Now the night will close around you,
cutting off all your visions.
Darkness will cover you,
putting an end to your predictions.
The sun will set for you prophets,
and your day will come to an end.

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Mic 4:8 - As for you, Jerusalem,
the citadel of God's people,[fn]
your royal might and power
will come back to you again.
The kingship will be restored
to my precious Jerusalem.

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Mic 4:9 - But why are you now screaming in terror?
Have you no king to lead you?
Have your wise people all died?
Pain has gripped you like a woman in childbirth.

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Mic 5:9 - The people of Israel will stand up to their foes,
and all their enemies will be wiped out.

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Mic 6:5 - Don't you remember, my people,
how King Balak of Moab tried to have you cursed
and how Balaam son of Beor blessed you instead?
And remember your journey from Acacia Grove[fn] to Gilgal,
when I, the LORD, did everything I could
to teach you about my faithfulness.”

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Mic 6:12 - The rich among you have become wealthy
through extortion and violence.
Your citizens are so used to lying
that their tongues can no longer tell the truth.

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Mic 7:8 - Do not gloat over me, my enemies!
For though I fall, I will rise again.
Though I sit in darkness,
the LORD will be my light.

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Mic 7:10 - Then my enemies will see that the LORD is on my side.
They will be ashamed that they taunted me, saying,
“So where is the LORD—
that God of yours?”
With my own eyes I will see their downfall;
they will be trampled like mud in the streets.

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Mic 7:11 - In that day, Israel, your cities will be rebuilt,
and your borders will be extended.

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Mic 7:12 - People from many lands will come and honor you—
from Assyria all the way to the towns of Egypt,
from Egypt all the way to the Euphrates River,[fn]
and from distant seas and mountains.

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Mic 7:13 - But the land[fn] will become empty and desolate
because of the wickedness of those who live there.

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Nah 1:3 - The LORD is slow to get angry, but his power is great,
and he never lets the guilty go unpunished.
He displays his power in the whirlwind and the storm.
The billowing clouds are the dust beneath his feet.

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Nah 1:4 - At his command the oceans dry up,
and the rivers disappear.
The lush pastures of Bashan and Carmel fade,
and the green forests of Lebanon wither.

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Nah 1:5 - In his presence the mountains quake,
and the hills melt away;
the earth trembles,
and its people are destroyed.

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Nah 1:12 - This is what the LORD says:
“Though the Assyrians have many allies,
they will be destroyed and disappear.
O my people, I have punished you before,
but I will not punish you again.

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Nah 2:4 - The chariots race recklessly along the streets
and rush wildly through the squares.
They flash like firelight
and move as swiftly as lightning.

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Nah 2:7 - Nineveh's exile has been decreed,
and all the servant girls mourn its capture.
They moan like doves
and beat their breasts in sorrow.

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Nah 2:11 - Where now is that great Nineveh,
that den filled with young lions?
It was a place where people—like lions and their cubs—
walked freely and without fear.

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Nah 3:4 - All this because Nineveh,
the beautiful and faithless city,
mistress of deadly charms,
enticed the nations with her beauty.
She taught them all her magic,
enchanting people everywhere.

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Nah 3:8 - Are you any better than the city of Thebes,[fn]
situated on the Nile River, surrounded by water?
She was protected by the river on all sides,
walled in by water.

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Nah 3:9 - Ethiopia[fn] and the land of Egypt
gave unlimited assistance.
The nations of Put and Libya
were among her allies.

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Nah 3:19 - There is no healing for your wound;
your injury is fatal.
All who hear of your destruction
will clap their hands for joy.
Where can anyone be found
who has not suffered from your continual cruelty?

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Hab 1:11 - They sweep past like the wind
and are gone.
But they are deeply guilty,
for their own strength is their god.”

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Hab 1:15 - Must we be strung up on their hooks
and caught in their nets while they rejoice and celebrate?

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Hab 2:4 - “Look at the proud!
They trust in themselves, and their lives are crooked.
But the righteous will live by their faithfulness to God.[fn]

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Hab 2:10 - But by the murders you committed,
you have shamed your name and forfeited your lives.

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Hab 2:14 - For as the waters fill the sea,
the earth will be filled with an awareness
of the glory of the LORD.

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Hab 2:20 - But the LORD is in his holy Temple.
Let all the earth be silent before him.”

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Hab 3:3 - I see God moving across the deserts from Edom,[fn]
the Holy One coming from Mount Paran.[fn]
His brilliant splendor fills the heavens,
and the earth is filled with his praise.

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Hab 3:6 - When he stops, the earth shakes.
When he looks, the nations tremble.
He shatters the everlasting mountains
and levels the eternal hills.
He is the Eternal One!

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Hab 3:8 - Was it in anger, LORD, that you struck the rivers
and parted the sea?
Were you displeased with them?
No, you were sending your chariots of salvation!

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Hab 3:10 - The mountains watched and trembled.
Onward swept the raging waters.
The mighty deep cried out,
lifting its hands to the LORD.

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Hab 3:11 - The sun and moon stood still in the sky
as your brilliant arrows flew
and your glittering spear flashed.

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Hab 3:16 - I trembled inside when I heard this;
my lips quivered with fear.
My legs gave way beneath me,[fn]
and I shook in terror.
I will wait quietly for the coming day
when disaster will strike the people who invade us.

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Zep 1:7 - Stand in silence in the presence of the Sovereign LORD,
for the awesome day of the LORD's judgment is near.
The LORD has prepared his people for a great slaughter
and has chosen their executioners.[fn]

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Zep 1:13 - So their property will be plundered,
their homes will be ransacked.
They will build new homes
but never live in them.
They will plant vineyards
but never drink wine from them.

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Zep 1:14 - “That terrible day of the LORD is near.
Swiftly it comes—
a day of bitter tears,
a day when even strong men will cry out.

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Zep 1:15 - It will be a day when the LORD's anger is poured out—
a day of terrible distress and anguish,
a day of ruin and desolation,
a day of darkness and gloom,
a day of clouds and blackness,

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Zep 1:18 - Your silver and gold will not save you
on that day of the LORD's anger.
For the whole land will be devoured
by the fire of his jealousy.
He will make a terrifying end
of all the people on earth.[fn]

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Zep 2:15 - This is the boisterous city,
once so secure.
“I am the greatest!” it boasted.
“No other city can compare with me!”
But now, look how it has become an utter ruin,
a haven for wild animals.
Everyone passing by will laugh in derision
and shake a defiant fist.

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Zep 3:1 - What sorrow awaits rebellious, polluted Jerusalem,
the city of violence and crime!

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Zep 3:7 - I thought, ‘Surely they will have reverence for me now!
Surely they will listen to my warnings.
Then I won't need to strike again,
destroying their homes.'
But no, they get up early
to continue their evil deeds.

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Zep 3:8 - Therefore, be patient,” says the LORD.
“Soon I will stand and accuse these evil nations.
For I have decided to gather the kingdoms of the earth
and pour out my fiercest anger and fury on them.
All the earth will be devoured
by the fire of my jealousy.

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Hag 1:10 - It's because of you that the heavens withhold the dew and the earth produces no crops.

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Hag 1:11 - I have called for a drought on your fields and hills—a drought to wither the grain and grapes and olive trees and all your other crops, a drought to starve you and your livestock and to ruin everything you have worked so hard to get.”

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Hag 2:9 - The future glory of this Temple will be greater than its past glory, says the LORD of Heaven's Armies. And in this place I will bring peace. I, the LORD of Heaven's Armies, have spoken!”

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Hag 2:19 - I am giving you a promise now while the seed is still in the barn.[fn] You have not yet harvested your grain, and your grapevines, fig trees, pomegranates, and olive trees have not yet produced their crops. But from this day onward I will bless you.”

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Zec 1:11 - Then the other riders reported to the angel of the LORD, who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have been patrolling the earth, and the whole earth is at peace.”

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Zec 5:3 - Then he said to me, “This scroll contains the curse that is going out over the entire land. One side of the scroll says that those who steal will be banished from the land; the other side says that those who swear falsely will be banished from the land.

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Zec 5:6 - “What is it?” I asked.
He replied, “It is a basket for measuring grain,[fn] and it's filled with the sins[fn] of everyone throughout the land.”

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Zec 5:8 - The angel said, “The woman's name is Wickedness,” and he pushed her back into the basket and closed the heavy lid again.

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Zec 7:7 - Isn't this the same message the LORD proclaimed through the prophets in years past when Jerusalem and the towns of Judah were bustling with people, and the Negev and the foothills of Judah[fn] were well populated?'”

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Zec 7:14 - As with a whirlwind, I scattered them among the distant nations, where they lived as strangers. Their land became so desolate that no one even traveled through it. They turned their pleasant land into a desert.”

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Zec 8:3 - “And now the LORD says: I am returning to Mount Zion, and I will live in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the Faithful City; the mountain of the LORD of Heaven's Armies will be called the Holy Mountain.

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Zec 8:12 - For I am planting seeds of peace and prosperity among you. The grapevines will be heavy with fruit. The earth will produce its crops, and the heavens will release the dew. Once more I will cause the remnant in Judah and Israel to inherit these blessings.

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Zec 8:19 - “This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies says: The traditional fasts and times of mourning you have kept in early summer, midsummer, autumn, and winter[fn] are now ended. They will become festivals of joy and celebration for the people of Judah. So love truth and peace.

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Zec 10:7 - The people of Israel[fn] will become like mighty warriors,
and their hearts will be made happy as if by wine.
Their children, too, will see it and be glad;
their hearts will rejoice in the LORD.

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Zec 11:3 - Listen to the wailing of the shepherds,
for their rich pastures are destroyed.
Hear the young lions roaring,
for their thickets in the Jordan Valley are ruined.

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Zec 11:8 - I got rid of their three evil shepherds in a single month.
But I became impatient with these sheep, and they hated me, too.

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Zec 12:12 - “All Israel will mourn, each clan by itself, and with the husbands separate from their wives. The clan of David will mourn alone, as will the clan of Nathan,

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Zec 13:3 - If anyone continues to prophesy, his own father and mother will tell him, ‘You must die, for you have prophesied lies in the name of the LORD.' And as he prophesies, his own father and mother will stab him.

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Zec 14:2 - I will gather all the nations to fight against Jerusalem. The city will be taken, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half the population will be taken into captivity, and the rest will be left among the ruins of the city.

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Zec 14:7 - yet there will be continuous day! Only the LORD knows how this could happen. There will be no normal day and night, for at evening time it will still be light.

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Zec 14:12 - And the LORD will send a plague on all the nations that fought against Jerusalem. Their people will become like walking corpses, their flesh rotting away. 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 they will be terrified, stricken by the LORD with great panic. They will fight their neighbors hand to hand.

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Zec 14:15 - This same plague will strike the horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all the other animals in the enemy camps.

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Zec 14:18 - If the people of Egypt refuse to attend the festival, the LORD will punish them with the same plague that he sends on the other nations who refuse to go.

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Zec 14:19 - Egypt and the other nations will all be punished if they don't go to celebrate the Festival of Shelters.

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Mal 1:4 - Esau's descendants in Edom may say, “We have been shattered, but we will rebuild the ruins.”
But the LORD of Heaven's Armies replies, “They may try to rebuild, but I will demolish them again. Their country will be known as ‘The Land of Wickedness,' and their people will be called ‘The People with Whom the LORD Is Forever Angry.'

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Mal 1:6 - The LORD of Heaven's Armies says to the priests: “A son honors his father, and a servant respects his master. If I am your father and master, where are the honor and respect I deserve? You have shown contempt for my name!
“But you ask, ‘How have we ever shown contempt for your name?'

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Mal 2:1 - “Listen, you priests—this command is for you!

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Mal 2:5 - “The purpose of my covenant with the Levites was to bring life and peace, and that is what I gave them. This required reverence from them, and they greatly revered me and stood in awe of my name.

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Mal 3:10 - Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,” says the LORD of Heaven's Armies, “I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won't have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test!

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Mal 3:11 - Your crops will be abundant, for I will guard them from insects and disease.[fn] Your grapes will not fall from the vine before they are ripe,” says the LORD of Heaven's Armies.

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Mal 4:1 - [fn]The LORD of Heaven's Armies says, “The day of judgment is coming, burning like a furnace. On that day the arrogant and the wicked will be burned up like straw. They will be consumed—roots, branches, and all.

T-VSF

Occurrences: 12 times in 12 verses

Speech: Definite article

Parsing: Vocative Singular Feminine

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Sng 1:8 - Young Man
If you don't know, O most beautiful woman,
follow the trail of my flock,
and graze your young goats by the shepherds' tents.

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Sng 1:9 - You are as exciting, my darling,
as a mare among Pharaoh's stallions.

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Sng 1:15 - Young Man
How beautiful you are, my darling,
how beautiful!
Your eyes are like doves.

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Sng 2:10 - My lover said to me,
“Rise up, my darling!
Come away with me, my fair one!

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Sng 2:13 - The fig trees are forming young fruit,
and the fragrant grapevines are blossoming.
Rise up, my darling!
Come away with me, my fair one!”

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Sng 4:1 - Young Man
You are beautiful, my darling,
beautiful beyond words.
Your eyes are like doves
behind your veil.
Your hair falls in waves,
like a flock of goats winding down the slopes of Gilead.

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Sng 4:7 - You are altogether beautiful, my darling,
beautiful in every way.

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Sng 5:9 - Young Women of Jerusalem
Why is your lover better than all others,
O woman of rare beauty?
What makes your lover so special
that we must promise this?

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Sng 6:1 - Young Women of Jerusalem
Where has your lover gone,
O woman of rare beauty?
Which way did he turn
so we can help you find him?

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Sng 6:4 - Young Man
You are beautiful, my darling,
like the lovely city of Tirzah.
Yes, as beautiful as Jerusalem,
as majestic as an army with billowing banners.

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