Isaiah 41:2
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2 (A)Who stirred up one from the east
whom victory meets at every (B)step?[a]
(C)He gives up nations before him,
so that he tramples kings underfoot;
he makes them like dust with his sword,
(D)like driven stubble with his bow.
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- Isaiah 41:2 Or whom righteousness calls to follow?
Isaiah 45:1
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Cyrus, God's Instrument
45 Thus says the Lord to (A)his anointed, to Cyrus,
(B)whose right hand I have grasped,
to subdue nations before him
and (C)to loose the belts of kings,
to open doors before him
that gates may not be closed:
Isaiah 40:24
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24 Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,
scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,
when he blows on them, and they wither,
(A)and the tempest carries them off like stubble.
Isaiah 46:11
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11 (A)calling a bird of prey from the east,
the man of my counsel from a far country.
(B)I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass;
I have purposed, and I will do it.
Isaiah 41:25
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25 (A)I stirred up one from the north, and he has come,
(B)from the rising of the sun, (C)and he shall call upon my name;
he shall trample on rulers as on mortar,
as the potter treads clay.
Ezra 1:2
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2 “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and (A)he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
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2 Samuel 22:43
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43 I beat them fine (A)as the dust of the earth;
I crushed them and stamped them down (B)like the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 45:13
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13 (A)I have stirred him up in righteousness,
(B)and I will make all his ways level;
(C)he shall build my city
(D)and set my exiles free,
not for price or reward,”
says the Lord of hosts.
Hebrews 11:8-10
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8 By faith (A)Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place (B)that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he went to live in (C)the land of promise, as in a foreign land, (D)living in tents (E)with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he was looking forward to (F)the city that has (G)foundations, (H)whose designer and builder is God.
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Hebrews 7:1
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The Priestly Order of Melchizedek
7 For this (A)Melchizedek, king of (B)Salem, priest of (C)the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
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Isaiah 41:15-16
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15 (A)Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge,
new, sharp, and having teeth;
you shall thresh (B)the mountains and crush them,
and you shall make the hills like chaff;
16 (C)you shall winnow them, and (D)the wind shall carry them away,
and the tempest shall scatter them.
(E)And you shall rejoice in the Lord;
in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.
2 Chronicles 36:23
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23 “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may the Lord his God be with him. Let him go up.’”
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2 Kings 13:7
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7 For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust (A)at threshing.
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Genesis 17:1
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Abraham and the Covenant of Circumcision
17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty;[a] walk before me, and be (A)blameless,
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- Genesis 17:1 Hebrew El Shaddai
Genesis 14:14-15
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14 When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, (A)born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as (B)Dan. 15 And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.
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Genesis 12:1-3
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The Call of Abram
12 Now (A)the Lord said[a] to Abram, “Go from your country[b] and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. 2 (B)And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 (C)I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and (D)in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”[c]
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- Genesis 12:1 Or had said
- Genesis 12:1 Or land
- Genesis 12:3 Or by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves
Genesis 11:31
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31 Terah (A)took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together (B)from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
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