Micah 1:14
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14 Therefore you shall give parting gifts[a]
to (A)Moresheth-gath;
the houses of (B)Achzib shall be a deceitful thing
to the kings of Israel.
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- Micah 1:14 Or give dowry
Joshua 15:44
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44 (A)Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities with their villages.
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2 Kings 16:8
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8 Ahaz also (A)took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasures of the king's house and sent a present to the king of Assyria.
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Jeremiah 15:18
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18 Why is my pain unceasing,
(A)my wound incurable,
refusing to be healed?
Will you be to me (B)like a deceitful brook,
like waters that fail?
Isaiah 30:6
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6 An (A)oracle on (B)the beasts of (C)the Negeb.
Through a land of trouble and anguish,
from where come the lioness and the lion,
the adder and the (D)flying fiery serpent,
they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys,
and their treasures on the humps of camels,
to a people that cannot profit them.
Psalm 146:3-4
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3 (A)Put not your trust in princes,
(B)in a son of man, in whom there is (C)no salvation.
4 When (D)his breath departs, he returns to the earth;
on that very day his plans perish.
Psalm 118:8-9
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8 (A)It is better to take refuge in the Lord
(B)than to trust in man.
9 It is better to take refuge in the Lord
(C)than to trust in princes.
Psalm 62:9
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9 (A)Those of low estate are but a breath;
those of high estate (B)are a delusion;
in the balances they go up;
(C)they are together lighter than a breath.
2 Chronicles 16:1-3
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Asa's Last Years
16 (A)In the (B)thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, (C)that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. 2 Then Asa took silver and gold from the treasures of the house of the Lord and the king's house and sent them to Ben-hadad king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying, 3 “There is a covenant[a] between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I am sending to you silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.”
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- 2 Chronicles 16:3 Or treaty; twice in this verse
2 Kings 18:14-16
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14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you impose on me I will bear.” (A)And the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents[a] of silver and thirty talents of gold. 15 And Hezekiah (B)gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king's house. 16 At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord and from the doorposts that Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.
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- 2 Kings 18:14 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
2 Samuel 8:2
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2 (A)And he defeated Moab and he measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground. Two lines he measured to be put to death, and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites (B)became servants to David and (C)brought tribute.
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