44 Then it came to pass the seventh time, that he said, “There is a cloud, as small as a man’s hand, rising out of the sea!” So he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, [a]‘Prepare your chariot, and go down before the rain stops you.’ ”

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  1. 1 Kings 18:44 Lit. Bind or Harness

44 The seventh time(A) the servant reported, “A cloud(B) as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea.”

So Elijah said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”

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Discern the Time(A)

54 Then He also said to the multitudes, (B)“Whenever you see a cloud rising out of the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming’; and so it is.

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Interpreting the Times

54 He said to the crowd: “When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, ‘It’s going to rain,’ and it does.(A)

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Though your beginning was small,
Yet your latter end would (A)increase abundantly.

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Your beginnings will seem humble,
    so prosperous(A) will your future be.(B)

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10 For who has despised the day of (A)small things?
For these seven rejoice to see
The [a]plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.
(B)They are the eyes of the Lord,
Which scan to and fro throughout the whole earth.”

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  1. Zechariah 4:10 Lit. plummet stone

10 “Who dares despise the day(A) of small things,(B) since the seven eyes(C) of the Lord that range throughout the earth will rejoice when they see the chosen capstone[a] in the hand of Zerubbabel?”(D)

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  1. Zechariah 4:10 Or the plumb line

13 O inhabitant of (A)Lachish,
Harness the chariot to the swift steeds
(She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion),
For the transgressions of Israel were (B)found in you.

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13 You who live in Lachish,(A)
    harness fast horses to the chariot.
You are where the sin of Daughter Zion(B) began,
    for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

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10 Then the men did so; they took two milk cows and hitched them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.

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10 So they did this. They took two such cows and hitched them to the cart and penned up their calves.

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Now therefore, make (A)a new cart, take two milk cows (B)which have never been yoked, and hitch the cows to the cart; and take their calves home, away from them.

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“Now then, get a new cart(A) ready, with two cows that have calved and have never been yoked.(B) Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up.

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