but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house and the houses of your servants. And it shall be, that whatever is [a]pleasant in your eyes, they will put it in their hands and take it.’ ”

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  1. 1 Kings 20:6 pleasing

But about this time tomorrow I am going to send my officials to search your palace and the houses of your officials. They will seize everything you value and carry it away.’”

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Because you have taken My silver and My gold,
And have carried into your temples My [a]prized possessions.

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  1. Joel 3:5 Lit. precious good things

For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.[a](A)

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  1. Joel 3:5 Or palaces

15 Though he is fruitful among his brethren,
(A)An east wind shall come;
The wind of the Lord shall come up from the wilderness.
Then his spring shall become dry,
And his fountain shall be dried up.
He shall plunder the treasury of every desirable prize.

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15     even though he thrives(A) among his brothers.
An east wind(B) from the Lord will come,
    blowing in from the desert;
his spring will fail
    and his well dry up.(C)
His storehouse will be plundered(D)
    of all its treasures.

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10 The adversary has spread his hand
Over all her [a]pleasant things;
For she has seen (A)the nations enter her [b]sanctuary,
Those whom You commanded
(B)Not to enter Your assembly.

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  1. Lamentations 1:10 desirable
  2. Lamentations 1:10 holy place, the temple

10 The enemy laid hands
    on all her treasures;(A)
she saw pagan nations
    enter her sanctuary(B)
those you had forbidden(C)
    to enter your assembly.

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In the days of her affliction and roaming,
Jerusalem (A)remembers all her pleasant things
That she had in the days of old.
When her people fell into the hand of the enemy,
With no one to help her,
The adversaries saw her
And mocked at her [a]downfall.

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  1. Lamentations 1:7 Vg. Sabbaths

In the days of her affliction and wandering
    Jerusalem remembers all the treasures
    that were hers in days of old.
When her people fell into enemy hands,
    there was no one to help her.(A)
Her enemies looked at her
    and laughed(B) at her destruction.

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34 “Wail,(A) shepherds, and cry!
Roll about in the ashes,
You leaders of the flock!
For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions are fulfilled;
You shall fall like a precious vessel.

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34 Weep and wail, you shepherds;(A)
    roll(B) in the dust, you leaders of the flock.
For your time to be slaughtered(C) has come;
    you will fall like the best of the rams.[a](D)

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  1. Jeremiah 25:34 Septuagint; Hebrew fall and be shattered like fine pottery

Idolatry Is Foolishness

(A)Those who make an image, all of them are useless,
And their precious things shall not profit;
They are their own witnesses;
(B)They neither see nor know, that they may be ashamed.

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All who make idols(A) are nothing,
    and the things they treasure are worthless.(B)
Those who would speak up for them are blind;(C)
    they are ignorant, to their own shame.(D)

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27 twenty gold basins worth a thousand drachmas, and two vessels of fine polished bronze, precious as gold.

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27 20 bowls of gold valued at 1,000 darics,[a] and two fine articles of polished bronze, as precious as gold.

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  1. Ezra 8:27 That is, about 19 pounds or about 8.4 kilograms

31 Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: ‘Make peace with me [a]by a present and come out to me; and every one of you eat from his own (A)vine and every one from his own fig tree, and every one of you drink the waters of his own cistern; 32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, (B)a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive groves and honey, that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, lest he persuade you, saying, “The Lord will deliver us.”

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  1. 2 Kings 18:31 By paying tribute

31 “Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree(A) and drink water from your own cistern,(B) 32 until I come and take you to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Choose life(C) and not death!

“Do not listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’

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14 And David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Please let us fall into the hand of the Lord, (A)for His mercies are great; but (B)do not let me fall into the hand of man.”

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14 David said to Gad, “I am in deep distress. Let us fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercy(A) is great; but do not let me fall into human hands.”

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19 Now (A)there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make swords or spears.” 20 But all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen each man’s plowshare, his mattock, his ax, and his sickle; 21 and the charge for a sharpening was a [a]pim for the plowshares, the mattocks, the forks, and the axes, and to set the points of the goads.

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  1. 1 Samuel 13:21 About two-thirds shekel weight

19 Not a blacksmith(A) could be found in the whole land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears!(B) 20 So all Israel went down to the Philistines to have their plow points, mattocks, axes and sickles[a] sharpened. 21 The price was two-thirds of a shekel[b] for sharpening plow points and mattocks, and a third of a shekel[c] for sharpening forks and axes and for repointing goads.

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  1. 1 Samuel 13:20 Septuagint; Hebrew plow points
  2. 1 Samuel 13:21 That is, about 1/4 ounce or about 8 grams
  3. 1 Samuel 13:21 That is, about 1/8 ounce or about 4 grams

15 Then Rebekah took (A)the choice clothes of her elder son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.

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15 Then Rebekah took the best clothes(A) of Esau her older son,(B) which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.

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