1 Chronicles 17:10
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10 from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel, and I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I declare to you that the Lord will build you a house.(A)
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2 Samuel 7:11
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11 from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel, and I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, the Lord declares to you that the Lord will make you a house.(A)
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1 Corinthians 15:25
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25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.(A)
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Psalm 89:23
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23 I will crush his foes before him
and strike down those who hate him.(A)
Psalm 21:8-9
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8 Your hand will find out all your enemies;
your right hand will find out those who hate you.(A)
9 You will make them like a fiery furnace
when you appear.
The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath,
and fire will consume them.(B)
Psalm 18:40-50
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40 You made my enemies turn their backs to me,
and those who hated me I destroyed.(A)
41 They cried for help, but there was no one to save them;
they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.(B)
42 I beat them fine, like dust before the wind;
I cast them out like the mire of the streets.(C)
43 You delivered me from strife with the peoples;[a]
you made me head of the nations;
people whom I had not known served me.(D)
44 As soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me;
foreigners came cringing to me.
45 Foreigners lost heart
and came trembling out of their strongholds.(E)
46 The Lord lives! Blessed be my rock,
and exalted be the God of my salvation,(F)
47 the God who gave me vengeance
and subdued peoples under me,(G)
48 who delivered me from my enemies;
indeed, you exalted me above my adversaries;
you delivered me from the violent.(H)
49 For this I will extol you, O Lord, among the nations
and sing praises to your name.(I)
50 Great triumphs he gives to his king
and shows steadfast love to his anointed,
to David and his descendants forever.(J)
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- 18.43 Gk Tg: Heb people
Judges 4:3
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3 Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron and had oppressed the Israelites cruelly twenty years.(A)
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Judges 2:14-18
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14 So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers who plundered them, and he sold them into the power of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.(A) 15 Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them to bring misfortune, as the Lord had warned them and sworn to them, and they were in great distress.
16 Then the Lord raised up judges who delivered them out of the power of those who plundered them.(B) 17 Yet they did not listen even to their judges, for they lusted after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their ancestors had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord; they did not follow their example.(C) 18 Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge, and he delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge, for the Lord would be moved to pity by their groaning because of those who persecuted and oppressed them.
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Exodus 1:21
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21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.(A)
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1 Samuel 13:19-20
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19 Now there was no smith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “The Hebrews must not make swords or spears for themselves,”(A) 20 so all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, or sickles.[a]
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- 13.20 Gk: Heb plowshare
Psalm 127:1
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Psalm 127
God’s Blessings in the Home
A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon.
1 Unless the Lord builds the house,
those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the Lord guards the city,
the guard keeps watch in vain.(A)
Psalm 110:1
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Psalm 110
Assurance of Victory for God’s Priest-King
Of David. A Psalm.
1 The Lord says to my lord,
“Sit at my right hand
until I make your enemies your footstool.”(A)
1 Samuel 13:5-6
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5 The Philistines mustered to fight with Israel: thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude; they came up and encamped at Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.(A) 6 When the Israelites saw that they were in distress (for the troops were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns.(B)
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Judges 6:3-6
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3 For whenever the Israelites put in seed, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east would come up against them.(A) 4 They would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the land, as far as the neighborhood of Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel, nor any sheep or ox or donkey.(B) 5 For they and their livestock would come up, and they would even bring their tents, as thick as locusts; neither they nor their camels could be counted, so they wasted the land as they came in.(C) 6 Thus Israel was greatly impoverished because of Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help.(D)
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Judges 3:8
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8 Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of King Cushan-rishathaim of Aram-naharaim, and the Israelites served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.
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