10 since the time that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. Also I will subdue all your enemies. Furthermore I tell you that the Lord will build you a [a]house.

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  1. 1 Chronicles 17:10 Royal dynasty

11 (A)since the time that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel, and have caused you to rest from all your enemies. Also the Lord [a]tells you (B)that He will make you a [b]house.

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  1. 2 Samuel 7:11 declares to you
  2. 2 Samuel 7:11 Royal dynasty

25 For He must reign (A)till He has put all enemies under His feet.

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23 I will beat down his foes before his face,
And plague those who hate him.

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Your hand will find all Your enemies;
Your right hand will find those who hate You.
You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of Your anger;
The Lord shall swallow them up in His wrath,
And the fire shall devour them.

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40 You have also given me the necks of my enemies,
So that I destroyed those who hated me.
41 They cried out, but there was none to save;
(A)Even to the Lord, but He did not answer them.
42 Then I beat them as fine as the dust before the wind;
I (B)cast them out like dirt in the streets.

43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people;
(C)You have made me the head of the [a]nations;
(D)A people I have not known shall serve me.
44 As soon as they hear of me they obey me;
The foreigners [b]submit to me.
45 (E)The foreigners fade away,
And come frightened from their hideouts.

46 The Lord lives!
Blessed be my Rock!
Let the God of my salvation be exalted.
47 It is God who avenges me,
(F)And subdues the peoples under me;
48 He delivers me from my enemies.
(G)You also lift me up above those who rise against me;
You have delivered me from the violent man.
49 (H)Therefore I will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the [c]Gentiles,
And sing praises to Your name.

50 (I)Great deliverance He gives to His king,
And shows mercy to His anointed,
To David and his [d]descendants forevermore.

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  1. Psalm 18:43 Gentiles
  2. Psalm 18:44 feign submission
  3. Psalm 18:49 nations
  4. Psalm 18:50 Lit. seed

And the children of Israel cried out to the Lord; for Jabin had nine hundred (A)chariots of iron, and for twenty years (B)he had harshly oppressed the children of Israel.

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14 (A)And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel. So He (B)delivered them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them; and (C)He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they (D)could no longer stand before their enemies. 15 Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for calamity, as the Lord had said, and as the Lord had (E)sworn to them. And they were greatly distressed.

16 Nevertheless, (F)the Lord raised up judges who delivered them out of the hand of those who plundered them. 17 Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they (G)played the harlot with other gods, and bowed down to them. They turned quickly from the way in which their fathers walked, in obeying the commandments of the Lord; they did not do so. 18 And when the Lord raised up judges for them, (H)the Lord was with the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; (I)for the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed them and harassed them.

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21 And so it was, because the midwives feared God, (A)that He [a]provided households for them.

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  1. Exodus 1:21 gave them families

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;

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Laboring and Prospering with the Lord

A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon.

127 Unless the Lord builds the house,
They labor in vain who build it;
Unless (A)the Lord guards the city,
The watchman stays awake in vain.

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Announcement of the Messiah’s Reign(A)

A Psalm of David.

110 The (B)Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your (C)footstool.”

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Then the Philistines gathered together to fight with Israel, [a]thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people (A)as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. And they came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of (B)Beth Aven. When the men of Israel saw that they were in danger (for the people were distressed), then the people (C)hid in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in holes, and in pits.

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  1. 1 Samuel 13:5 So with MT, LXX, Tg., Vg.; Syr. and some mss. of LXX three thousand

So it was, whenever Israel had sown, Midianites would come up; also Amalekites and the (A)people of the East would come up against them. Then they would encamp against them and (B)destroy the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep nor ox nor (C)donkey. For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, coming in as numerous as locusts; both they and their camels were [a]without number; and they would enter the land to destroy it. So Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites, and the children of Israel (D)cried out to the Lord.

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  1. Judges 6:5 innumerable

Therefore the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and He (A)sold them into the hand of (B)Cushan-Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel served Cushan-Rishathaim eight years.

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